The Lord is awe-inspiring, fearsome, fascinating, intriguing, majestic, and full of splendor: breathtaking! Here is what I saw of him today and what came to my heart and mind in Numbers 34:2,
"Command the Israelites and say to them: 'When you enter Canaan, the land that will be allotted to you as an inheritance is to have these boundaries...'"
In this chapter the Lord tells Moses what the boundaries will be of the promised land that is to be divided among the tribes and clans of Israel, and also the roster, one from each tribe, of those who would help in the specific assignment of which portions to which tribe and clan.
The writer of Hebrews likens the entrance of the Israelites into the promised land as entering into the rest of the Lord when he rested on the seventh day of the creation week. Israel would now rest from their sojourn of forty years in the wilderness.
The writer of Hebrews also likens that entrance of the Israelites into the promised land to that of our entrance into the kingdom of God for those who embrace Jesus Christ in faith. He does it to demonstrate that just as those who disobeyed the Lord were not able to enter into the rest of the Lord, so people today who refuse the Lord are not able to enter into eternal life - all based on faith.
"Who were they who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt? And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies perished in the wilderness? And to whom did God swear that they would never enter his rest if not to those who disobeyed? So we see that they were not able to enter, because of their unbelief. Therefore, since the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us be careful that none of you be found to have fallen short of it. For we also have had the good news proclaimed to us, just as they did; but the message they heard was of no value to them, because they did not share the faith of those who obeyed." Hebrews 3:16-4:2.
Because of this simili by the writer of Hebrews (we don't know who the inspired person was that wrote Hebrews), as I read of the boundaries and allocation of the promised land in Numbers 34, it causes me to think of what will be our inheritance in the kingdom of heaven. What will the specifics of our existence be like? Just like everyone else, I don't have those details, but I do have an idea that it will be more than we can possibly imagine!
In thinking of life in the resurrection, David said, "Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices; my body also will rest secure, because you will not abandon me to the realm of the dead, nor will you let your faithful one see decay. You make known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence, with eternal pleasures at your right hand."
"Command the Israelites and say to them: 'When you enter Canaan, the land that will be allotted to you as an inheritance is to have these boundaries...'"
In this chapter the Lord tells Moses what the boundaries will be of the promised land that is to be divided among the tribes and clans of Israel, and also the roster, one from each tribe, of those who would help in the specific assignment of which portions to which tribe and clan.
The writer of Hebrews likens the entrance of the Israelites into the promised land as entering into the rest of the Lord when he rested on the seventh day of the creation week. Israel would now rest from their sojourn of forty years in the wilderness.
The writer of Hebrews also likens that entrance of the Israelites into the promised land to that of our entrance into the kingdom of God for those who embrace Jesus Christ in faith. He does it to demonstrate that just as those who disobeyed the Lord were not able to enter into the rest of the Lord, so people today who refuse the Lord are not able to enter into eternal life - all based on faith.
"Who were they who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt? And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies perished in the wilderness? And to whom did God swear that they would never enter his rest if not to those who disobeyed? So we see that they were not able to enter, because of their unbelief. Therefore, since the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us be careful that none of you be found to have fallen short of it. For we also have had the good news proclaimed to us, just as they did; but the message they heard was of no value to them, because they did not share the faith of those who obeyed." Hebrews 3:16-4:2.
Because of this simili by the writer of Hebrews (we don't know who the inspired person was that wrote Hebrews), as I read of the boundaries and allocation of the promised land in Numbers 34, it causes me to think of what will be our inheritance in the kingdom of heaven. What will the specifics of our existence be like? Just like everyone else, I don't have those details, but I do have an idea that it will be more than we can possibly imagine!
In thinking of life in the resurrection, David said, "Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices; my body also will rest secure, because you will not abandon me to the realm of the dead, nor will you let your faithful one see decay. You make known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence, with eternal pleasures at your right hand."
How wonderful is that?!
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