GOD SAID, MY PEOPLE WILL RETURN TO THIS LAND AND WORSHIP ME THERE

Acts 7, Then the High Priest asked Stephen, “Are these accusations true?” This was Stephen’s lengthy reply: “The glorious God appeared to our ancestor Abraham in Iraq before he moved to Syria, and told him to leave his native land, to say good-bye to his relatives and to start out for a country that God would direct him to. So he left the land of the Chaldeans and lived in Haran, in Syria, until his father died. Then God brought him here to the land of Israel, but gave him no property of his own, not one little tract of land. “However, God promised that eventually the whole country would belong to him and his descendants though as yet he had no children! But God also told him that these descendants of his would leave the land and live in a foreign country and there become slaves for 400 years. ‘But I will punish the nation that enslaves them,’ God told him, ‘and afterwards my people will return to this land of Israel and worship me here.’ FRIENDS, GOD PROMISED ISRAEL, HE WOULD RETURN THEM ONE DAY BACK TO THEIR PROMISED LAND, ISRAEL AND IN THIS CENTURY, GOD FULFILLED HIS WORD. Deuteronomy 7:9 “Understand, therefore, that the Lord your God is the faithful God who for a thousand generations keeps his promises and constantly loves those who love him and who obey his commands.