The state of Blessedness developed among the nations of the earth when they are thus ruled by Jesus and his brethren, has been the subject of promise from the earliest dealings of God with mankind, and will only be the realization of the purpose enunciated from the beginning. The reader will perceive this in the consideration of the covenant made with Abraham, and its bearing upon the future development of the divine purpose, This covenant guaranteed,

First - The ultimate blessing of all nations through him and his seed.

The LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee: And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed. (Genesis 12:1-3).

And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed. (Galatians 3:8).

Second - The everlasting, personal possession of the territory lying between the Euphrates and the Nile, known in the terms of modern geography as Syria and the Holy Land, and biblically as Palestine and Canaan.

The LORD said unto Abraham, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward: For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever. And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered. Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee. (Genesis 13:14-17; see also 12:7, 15:8-18; 17:8).