EVERLASTING POSSESSION / GENESIS 17:8

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(KJV) Genesis 17:8

And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.

EVERLASTING POSSESSION / GENESIS 17:8

God promised to give Abraham and His biological descendants the land of Canaan (Genesis 12:7; Genesis 13:15; 15:7, 18-21). The covenant was “everlasting” from God’s point of view. It could be broken only by Abraham’s descendants (Isaiah 24:5; Jeremiah 31:32), meaning that their obedience to God was the condition upon which they would receive possession of the promised land (Genesis 17:1; Genesis 17:9).

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  1. TO BE YOUR GOD / GENESIS 17:6-7
  2. ABRAM … ABRAHAM / GENESIS 17:5
  3. MY COVENANT / GENESIS 17:2
  4. NINETY-NINE YEARS OLD / GENESIS 17:1
  5. AGAINST EVERYONE / GENESIS 16:12
  6. ISHMAEL / GENESIS 16:11
  7. THE ANGEL OF THE LORD / GENESIS 16:7
  8. THE LORD HAS KEPT ME FROM HAVING CHILDREN / GENESIS 16:2
  9. THE LORD MADE A COVENANT WITH ABRAM / GENESIS 15:17-21
  10. A COUNTRY NOT THEIR OWN / GENESIS 15:13
  11. HE BELIEVED … HE CREDITED IT TO HIM AS RIGHTEOUSNESS /GENESIS 15:6
  12. YOUR SHIELD, YOUR VERY GREAT REWARD / GENESIS 15:1
  13. I WILL ACCEPT NOTHING BELONGING TO YOU /GENESIS 14:22-23
  14. GAVE HIM A TENTH OF EVERYTHING / GENESIS 14:20
  15. MELCHIZEDEK KING OF SALEM / GENESIS 14:18
  16. CALLED OUT THE 318 TRAINED MEN / GENESIS 14:14
  17. PITCHED HIS TENTS NEAR SODOM / GENESIS 13:12
  18. LOT LOOKED UP AND SAW / GENESIS 13:10
  19. SAY YOU ARE MY SISTER / GENESIS 12:13
  20. A FAMINE IN THE LAND / GENESIS 12:10
  21. THE LORD APPEARED TO ABRAM / GENESIS 12:7
  22. ABRAM LEFT, AS THE LORD HAD TOLD HIM / GENESIS 12:4
  23. ALL PEOPLES ON EARTH WILL BE BLESSED THROUGH YOU / GENESIS 12:3
  24. LEAVE YOUR COUNTRY / GENESIS 12:1
  25. HIS SON ABRAM / GENESIS 11:31
  26. UR OF THE CHALDEANS / GENESIS 11:28
  27. LET US BUILD … THAT WE MAY MAKE A NAME / GENESIS 11:4
  28. A PLAIN IN SHINAR / GENESIS 11:1-2
  29. BORN TO SHEM / GENESIS 10:21-31
  30. THE SONS OF HAM / GENESIS 10:6-20
  31. THE SONS OF JEPHETH / GENESIS 10:2-5
  32. THE ACCOUNT OF SHEM, HAM AND JAPHETH / GENESIS 10:1
  33. CURSED BE CANAAN / GENESIS 9:25
  34. HAM / GENESIS 9:22
  35. DRANK SOME OF ITS WINE, HE BECAME DRUNK / GENESIS 9:21
  36. MY RAINBOW IN THE CLOUDS / GENESIS 9:13
  37. I NOW ESTABLISH MY COVENANT / GENESIS 9:9-17
  38. WHOEVER SHEDS THE BLOOD OF MAN, BY MAN SHALL HIS BLOOD BE SHED / GENESIS 9:6
  39. BUT GOD REMEMBERED NOAH / GENESIS 8:1
  40. EVERY LIVING THING … WAS WIPED OUT … ONLY NOAH WAS LEFT / GENESIS 7:23
  41. THE GREAT DEEP BURST FORTH / GENESIS 7:11-12
  42. THE FLOODWATERS CAME ON THE EARTH / GENESIS 7:6
  43. I WILL ESTABLISH MY COVENANT WITH YOU / GENESIS 6:18
  44. AN ARK / GENESIS 6:14
  45. NOAH WAS A RIGHTEOUS MAN, BLAMELESS AMONG THE PEOPLE / GENESIS 6:9
  46. THE LORD WAS GRIEVED / GENESIS 6:6
  47. GOD TOOK HIM/ GENESIS 5:24
  48. ENOCH WALKED WITH GOD / GENESIS 5:22
  49. SETH … FATHER OF ENOSH / GENESIS 5:6
  50. CALL ON THE NAME OF THE LORD / GENESIS 4:26
  51. MARRIED TWO WOMEN / GENESIS 4:19
  52. CAIN … HIS WIFE / GENESIS 4:17
  53. CAIN WENT OUT FROM THE LORD’S PRESENCE / GENESIS 4:16
  54. A MARK ON CAIN / GENESIS 4:15
  55. NOW YOU ARE UNDER A CURSE / GENENSIS 4:11
  56. YOUR BROTHER’S BLOOD CRIES OUT TO ME / GENESIS 4:10
  57. IT DESIRES TO HAVE YOU / GENESIS 4:7
  58. AN OFFERING TO THE LORD / GENESIS 4:3-5
  59. ADAM LAY WITH HIS WIFE / GENESIS 4:1
  60. HE DROVE THE MAN OUT / GENESIS 3:24
  61. HE WILL CRUSH YOUR HEAD, AND YOU WILL STRIKE HIS HEEL / GENESIS 3:15
  62. THE SERPENT DECEIVED ME / GENESIS 3:13
  63. THEY HID / GENESIS 3:8
  64. THEY REALIZED THEY WERE NAKED / GENEIS 3:7
  65. LEAVE HIS FATHER AND MOTHER / GENESIS 2:24
  66. HELPER SUITABLE FOR HIM / GENESIS 2:18
  67. THE LORD GOD COMMANDED THE MAN / GENESIS 2:16
  68. PUT HIM IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN / GENESIS 2:15
  69. TREE OF LIFE / GENESIS 2:9
  70. GARDEN IN THE EAST, IN EDEN / GENESIS 2:8
  71. A LIVING BEING / GENESIS 2:7
  72. THE ACCOUNT – THE LORD GOD / GENESIS 2:4
  73. GOD BLESSED THE SEVENTH DAY / GENESIS 2:3
  74. BE FRUITFUL AND INCREASE / GENESIS 1:28
  75. THERE WAS EVENING, AND THERE WAS MORNING – THE FIRST DAY / GENESIS 1:5
  76. IN THE BEGINNING GOD CREATED / GENESIS 1:1
  77. IT WAS GOOD / GENESIS 1:10
  78. HEART IS EVIL FROM CHILDHOOD / GENESIS 8:21
  79. THE SONS OF GOD / GENESIS 6:2
  80. HOW GREAT MAN’S WICKEDNESS /GENESIS 6:5
  81. ADAM LIVED 930 YEARS / GENESIS 5:5
  82. WRITTEN ACCOUNT OF ADAM’S LINE / GENESIS 5:1
  83. KNOWING GOOD AND EVIL / GENESIS 3:22
  84. GOD SAID LET US – LET US MAKE MAN / GENESIS 1:26
  85. I WILL GREATLY INCREASE YOUR PAINS / GENESIS 3:16-19
  86. SERVE AS SIGNS / GENESIS 1:14-15
  87. LET THERE BE LIGHT / GENESIS 1:8
  88. THE WOMAN … ATE IT … HER HUSBAND … WITH HER / GENESIS 3:6
  89. YOU WILL BE LIKE GOD / GENESIS 3:5
  90. YOU WILL NOT SURELY DIE / GENESIS 3:4
  91. THE SERPENT / GENESIS 3:1
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God promised to give Abraham and His biological descendants the land of Canaan (Genesis 12:7; Genesis 13:15; 15:7, 18-21).
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