Often, this conversation between God and Abraham is used for scriptural support of Israels' right to her land.
Gen. 13:14-18
14 The LORD said to Abram after Lot had parted from him, "Lift up your eyes from where you are and look north and south, east and west.
15 All the land that you see I will give to you and your offspring forever.
16 I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone could count the dust, then your offspring could be counted.
17 Go, walk through the length and breadth of the land, for I am giving it to you."
18 So Abram moved his tents and went to live near the great trees of Mamre at Hebron, where he built an altar to the LORD .
Sometimes, Israel was disobedient in following God's instructions. As judgment for this disobedience, God allowed others, on more than one occasion, to displace Israel and temporarily place the people of Israel into captivity.
Shortly after Israel's refusal to recognized Jesus as Messiah, God allowed the destruction of the second temple, and most of Israel was scattered out of their land. This event is referred to today as the diaspora. Interestingly, Israel was given Four Signs Of The Coming Destruction Of The Second Temple.
Israel has been displaced from her land for around 1900 years. But now, God is regathering the Jews back to their homeland.
Isaiah 11:11 prophesizes that is the final days, when the Messiah rules with full majesty from Jerusalem, that God will call back His
remnant to return to the land of Israel. With the establishment of the State of Israel in
1948, the opportunity now exists for Jews throughout the world to go to Israel
to live. Scholars consider this current regathering just a glimpse or shadow of
the regathering God will cause to happen when Messiah returns. It does show that
God is not finished with the people of Israel and that the promises and
prophecies that are still to come concerning Israel, both good and bad, are
still in Israel's future. Read more about the Prophetic Regathering Of Israel.
