The promise of land in Canaan was a first installment on something even better—an entirely new creation. Abraham seems to have some sense that God was doing something new and of cosmic importance through him. “By faith he made his home in the promised land like a stranger in a foreign country; he lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise. For he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God” (Heb. 11:9–10). We must remember that God isn’t a territorial deity. His people will fill his earth. The author of Hebrews
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