Corporate Pursuit of Deuteronomy: Week 2 – A Book Concerning Christ
This week in our corporate pursuit using the Life-study of Deuteronomy, we have part 2 of the review of the past of the children of Israel (message 4), an overview of Deuteronomy being a book concerning Christ (message 5), and part 1 of the rehearsal of the law (message 6). See introductory post. In previous […]
The Good Land – The Destruction of Jericho
When the children of Israel entered and took possession of the good land, the first city they took was Jericho. Prior to the destruction of this fortified city, Joshua saw a vision of the Captain of Jehovah’s army, the significance of which was discussed in a previous post (link to post). In this post, we […]
The Good Land – Christ as the Captain of Jehovah’s Army
As previously discussed, the good land was not gained by a single individual, but by a corporate people whom God raised up for the fulfillment of His purpose (link to post). In this post we will go on to see that God’s people were not formed into a leaderless army. Rather, they were led into […]
The Good Land – Taking Possession of the Land
In previous posts we saw that the good land is a type of the all-inclusive Christ (link to post), the goal of God’s calling for His people to enter the good land (link to post), and the way the children of Israel entered the good land by crossing the River Jordan (link to post). In […]
The Purpose of God’s Calling – To Bring God’s Chosen People into the Good Land
In a previous post we saw that the land God promised to Abraham in the book of Genesis (12:1, 7) is a type of the all-inclusive Christ (link to post). Before this promise was fulfilled, Abraham’s descendants, the children of Israel, were enslaved in Egypt under the rule of Pharaoh for four hundred years (15:13; […]
The Good Land as a Type of the All-Inclusive Christ
Genesis 12:1 and 7 say, “Now Jehovah said to Abram, Go from your land and from your relatives and from your father’s house to the land that I will show you…And Jehovah appeared to Abram and said, To your seed I will give this land.” The land that God promised to Abraham and his seed […]