本文发表在 rolia.net 枫下论坛It's from a general understanding of what the Land means in the OT......ones salvation was linked to the land.....the land was the focus of the covenental promise....so to lose land is to lose ones name and salvation....in a roundabout way. The proud lost his house, the humble had their borders established.....Establishing the land boundaries...and other boundaries was part of the understanding of the soveriegnty of God......Here is some light research......
God reigns over the nations; God is seated on his holy throne. Psalms
And I will fix your boundaries from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea, and from the eastern wilderness to the Euphrates River. I will hand over to you the people now living in the land, and you will drive them out ahead of you. EX 23
http://www.crivoice.org/biblestudy/bbgen3.html
This idea of a world ordered by God who himself sets the limits and boundaries of his creation will become a fundamental principle for the Israelite conception of God and human relationship to God. The idea of boundaries and limits as part of the created order will provide the basis for the Israelites to develop concepts of law and morality that provide them with principles by which to live in God’s world as God’s people. Some of those later laws seem strange to us from a modern perspective. For example, the law codes in Deuteronomy prohibit sowing two kinds of seed in the same field, or wearing clothes made of two kinds of cloth (22:9-11) Yet those are very practical attempts to apply this fundamental principle that there are boundaries in the world that define human existence under God, that there are some boundaries that should not be crossed and some things that should not be mixed. That idea will play out in various ways in the rest of Scripture.
http://www.openbible.info/topics/promised_land_boundaries
Ezekiel 47:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
“On the west side, the Great Sea shall be the boundary to a point opposite Lebo-hamath. This shall be the west side.
but he will establish the border of the widow; whose advocate, judge, and defender he is; when men, rich, proud, and oppressive, attempt to remove the landmark of the widow's border, and so lessen her land and enlarge their own, God will not suffer it to be done, but will establish it in its place; that is, such who are weak and helpless, as widows are, and cannot defend themselves and their property, he will protect them and secure it for them. So the church of Christ, during the reign of antichrist, being obliged to flee into the wilderness, looks like a widow deprived of her husband, and has but "little strength" to support and defend herself, as is said of the church of Philadelphia, Revelation 3:8; yet the Lord will secure and preserve her, and firmly settle and establish her, yea, enlarge her borders, and make them of pleasant stones; spread the kingdom of Christ from sea to sea, and from the river to the ends of the earth. Frequent mention is made of the establishing of the church in the latter day, Psalm 48:8, Isaiah 2:2.
Scripture shows that God has a dispute with those who are involved in "dividing up My land" [Joel 3:1-2].
Thou hast set all the borders of the earth,.... Of the whole world, and each of the nations, as of the land of Canaan, so of others, Deuteronomy 32:8, and even has fixed and settled the bounds of every man's habitation, Acts 17:26,更多精彩文章及讨论，请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net