God made national promises concerning Israel in the Abrahamic covenant.. They are: to make a great nation of his descendents; to give land from the eastern most branch of the Nile delta called the river of Egypt to the Euphrates to his descendents forever; and to give the Abrahamic covenant to his descendents for ever (Genesis 17:19; 21; 26:2-4; Genesis 28:12-15). Finally, God made universal covenants to Abraham that would affect everybody on the earth. Genesis chapter thirty-four tells the story of the rape of Jacob’s daughter Dinah. In their condemnation of these events Jacob’s sons use the name Israel for the first time in reference to themselves as a nation and not just a family or an alternate name for Jacob. The emerging seeds of a nation are seen in this chapter. 70 of them went to Egypt and when they emerged from Egypt four hundred years later traveling back to Canaan in 1445 B.C they were a bonafide nation with a population of more than two million citizens. One major reason for the Tribulation is to break the power of the Jews in their unbelief in their Messiah. In fact, the first reference to the Tribulation is “The Time of Jacob’s Trouble”. Those who have believed are now considered to be part of the Church and they will leave the earth in the Rapture prior to the Tribulation.
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