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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 28, 1868

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One of the weakest arguments we have seen of late in behalf of Judaistic theories, is one which claims that God has never perfectly fulfilled the promise of the land of Canaan to the literal descendants of Abraham, because if he had, “they would be there now, God’s faithful nation,” for it was to be “an everlasting possession.” Wonder if the writer ever read Neh. ix, 8; and Josh. xxiii, 14–16. God promised the literal seed the land of Canaan for an inheritance upon conditions; and the fact that they have been dispossessed of it for over 1800 years, proves beyond controversy, that it was never promised unconditionally for an everlasting possession; if so, God’s Word has failed. The “everlasting possession” is the world—Kosmos, the globe; and all who are Christ’s, are heirs to this promised possession. It will be given to those who are “Jews inwardly,” without regard to fleshly relation.—Voice of the West.