Joshua 1

God’s Promise of Expansion

God’s Promise starts back in Genesis Chapter 15

God says to Abram do not be afraid I am your shield. Abram Say’s Lord what will you give me, seeing I go childless, and the heir of my house is my Eliezer of Damascus who is Abrams heir as long as he remains childless. God tells Abram that he will not remain childless and his heir shall come from his own body.

God’s 1st Promise to Abram

Look now toward heaven, and count the stars if you are able to number them.” And He said to him, “So shall your descendants be.”

Ge 15:5.

Paul says on Romans 4 about Abram and the promise

16 Therefore it is of faith that it might be according to grace, so that the promise might be sure to all the seed, not only to those who are of the law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all 17 (as it is written, “I have made you a father of many nations”) in the presence of Him whom he believed—God, who gives life to the dead and calls those things which do not exist as though they did; 18 who, contrary to hope, in hope believed, so that he became the father of many nations, according to what was spoken, “So shall your descendants be.” 19 And not being weak in faith, he did not consider his own body, already dead (since he was about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah’s womb. 20 He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God, 21 and being fully convinced that what He had promised He was also able to perform. 22 And therefore “it was accounted to him for righteousness.”

God’s 2nd Promise to Abram

18 On the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying: “To your descendants I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the River Euphrates—19 the Kenites, the Kenezzites, the Kadmonites, 20 the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, 21 the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.”