Originally Posted by gregbed

Gal 3:16 Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He does not say, “And to seeds,” as referring to many, but rather to one, “And to your seed,” that is, Christ.
So if there is a physical land in view, then at the very least it could be said that noone is entitled to that land apart from Jesus.
Also, in Romans 4:13 Paul tells us that the inheritance of Abraham was actually the whole world.
(I'm a former dispensationalist who wrestles with this stuff a lot. I'm pretty sure the land in the OT functions the same way as the temple does in the OT. Not as a promise of the same thing only bigger, better, etc. But as a promise of something like it but different in very significant ways.)

Greg