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a foreigner in the land of promise

Hebrews 11:8-10 (JDV)

Hebrews 11:8 By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed and set out for a place that he was going to receive as an inheritance. He went out, even though he did not know where he was going.
Hebrews 11:9 By faith he stayed as a foreigner in the land of promise, living in tents as did Isaac and Jacob, coheirs of the same promise.
Hebrews 11:10 You see, he was looking forward to the city that has foundations, whose architect and builder is God.

a foreigner in the land of promise

Abraham was a foreigner in the land of promise — the land that he was to inherit. The city he looked forward to would come down from the sky into the very land he walked as an immigrant.

His hope was coming from heaven, but his hope was not heaven itself. That is the blessed hope, the glorious appearing. We walk today in the land our Savior has promised to us,