“And I will send an angel before thee; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite:”
I will send an angel before you and drive out the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. The angel who goes before and the nations who will be driven out — the practical accomplishment of the covenant promise is still assured. The military success of the conquest is still guaranteed. But verse 3 will reveal what is missing from the guarantee: the personal presence of God Himself. The angel who guides is not the same as the God who dwells. The nations will be defeated; the land will be given. What God is withdrawing — or threatening to withdraw — is the intimacy of covenant fellowship, not the fulfillment of the covenant's external terms.
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