Nuggets from "Judgment Day: Islam, Israel, and the Nations" by Dave Hunt

Nuggets from "Judgment Day: Islam, Israel, and the Nations" by Dave Hunt

God made an everlasting covenant with Abraham, saying, "Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto...the river Euphrates..." (Gen:15:18In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:
See All...). At that very time, before either Ishmael or Isaac had been born, God identified which descendants of Abraham would inherit the land: "Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them [i.e., as slaves]; and they shall afflict them 400 years...and afterward shall they come out with great substance [and] shall come hither [to Canaan, the Promised Land] again]"

God could not have stated the fact more clearly that the true heirs were to be slaves in a foreign land for four hundred years before being led back into the Promised Land. Never did this happen to the Arabs. In fact, they were not even an identifiable people at this time but scattered nomads who would only take on their identity centuries later—and not in Canaan but in the Arabian Peninsula.

There were two reasons why the children of Israel had to remain for four hundred years in Egypt. First of all, during that time as slaves they did not intermarry with the Egyptians under whom they served—or with any other non-Jews. Thus they became an identifiable ethnic people who were led "en masse" into the Promised Land, and we know who they are today. [Ishmael's descendants, on the other hand, intermarried with Midianites, Edomites, and Hittites, among others.].

Secondly, God told Abraham, "The iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full" (Gen:15:16But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.
See All...). God was not going to wipe out the Canaanites simply to give their land to the Jews. He would do so only because of the wickedness of these people. In four hundered years, they would be so evil that the Lord would righteously be forced to destroy them as He had the people of Sodom and Gomorrah—and He would use His chosen people, delivered from Egyptian slavery, to execute His judgment. And so it happened.