When his people Israel kept his law during their wanderings in the Sinai wilderness, God empowered them to conquer the land he had promised their ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as a covenant blessing. On a par, just as Joshua led Israel’s conquest of the Promised Land, and as he vanquished the Amalekites in the Valley of Gibeon, so God’s end-time servant reconquers his people’s promised lands from their Assyrian overlords. On their return home, a millennial age begins and they inherit the earth.
Isaiah 28:21Jehovah will rise up
as he did on Mount Perazim,
and be stirred to anger,
as in the Valley of Gibeon.
Isaiah 41:12, 15Whoever wars against you
shall be reduced to nothing. . . .
I will make of you a sharp-toothed threshing sledge
of new design, full of spikes:
you shall thresh mountains to dust
and make chaff of hills.
Isaiah 11:13–14Ephraim’s jealousy shall pass away
and the hostile ones of Judah be cut off;
Ephraim will not envy Judah,
nor Judah resent Ephraim.
But they will swoop on the Philistine flank
toward the west,
and together plunder those to the east;
[they will take] Edom and Moab at hand’s reach,
and the Ammonites will obey them.
Isaiah 49:17Your sons shall hasten your ravagers away—
those who ruined you shall depart from you.
Isaiah 54:2–3Expand the site of your tent;
extend the canopies of your dwellings.
Do not hold back; lengthen your cords
and strengthen your stakes.
For you shall spread abroad
to the right and to the left;
your offspring shall dispossess the nations
and resettle the desolate cities.