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Lesson 26 Hope of Israel Ministries BIBLE Correspondence Course 9

5. For HOW LONG is it promised -- ETERNAL INHERITANCE includes MUCH
FOREVER? Genesis 13:15. MORE!
COMMENT: The inheritance is to be an
ETERNAL inheritance, which of necessity Obedience Before Inheritance
involves and INCLUDES EVERLASTING
LIFE! In making this promise to Abraham,
6. If one inherits a piece of LAND, the YEHOVAH God conditioned it on OBEDI-
deed must describe the exact BOUNDARIES of ENCE. Abraham DID OBEY!
the property. What is the description of the land First, he LEFT his native land, his
we may hope to inherit? Genesis 15:18. friends and relatives, his old ways of life -- he
COMMENT: We have all seen enough FORSOOK ALL and followed where
maps to know that the boundaries here described YEHOVAH God led. Did YEHOVAH stop here
are NOT up in HEAVEN, but are the boundaries in testing Abraham, and CONFIRM this
of a LAND RIGHT HERE ON EARTH -- and priceless promise? OR, did YEHOVAH test
the promise THE PROMISE OF ETERNAL Abraham further before doing so? Let us
INHERITANCE -- is the LAND OF PALE- examine.
STINE, from the Nile to the Euphrates River, 1. How did YEHOVAH test Abraham?
HERE on this earth! May YEHOVAH God help Genesis 22:1, 2.
us to put our TRUST in the sure Word of COMMENT: The proper translation of
YEHOVAH -- NOT in the FABLES OF MEN! the word “tempt,” used here, is “try.” YEHO-
7. Was this promise EXPANDED until VAH tempts no man to cause him to fall. When
ultimately it included inheritance of the the King James Translation of the Bible was
WHOLE EARTH? Romans 4:13. made, the word “tempt” meant “try,” or to
COMMENT: Other scriptures to be “TEST.” Thus the translators used the word
studied in this lesson show that the promise of “tempt.”
2. Did Abraham, unlike the first time,
stop to reason it out,
The lush Jordan Valley in Palestine today -- part of the inheritance promised
or make excuse, or
to Abraham’s descendants.
rebel? Or did he
dutifully OBEY YE-
HOVAH -- even ris-
ing early in the
morning to do so?
Genesis 22:3.
3. Did YEHO-
VAH thus take
Abraham’s only son?
Genesis 22:10-12.
COMMENT:
YEHOVAH did not
take the son -- YE-
HOVAH merely
wanted Abraham’s
WILLINGNESS TO
OBEY, in and
through faith.

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