THE PROMISE LAND
God called Abraham to go into a
city he would show him. Abraham obeyed and actually got their but the Bible
says when Abraham sojourned in the land of promise he still look for a city
[Hebrews 11: 8-10] so where is the promise land?
If Papa Abraham sojourned in the
land of promise [Canaan] and still look for another promise land meaning Canaan
is not the Promised Land.
CANAAN
WAS AM ALLEGORY
So if Canaan was not the Promised
Land, what was it then since the children of Israel looked forward to it as their
promise land? Also God referred to it several times as the land of promise,
which flowed with milk and honey.
For the children of Israel in the
Old Testament, Canaan was the land of promise, the land of their inheritance.
But it would do us good to always remember that Israel is also referred to in
the Bible as the “Church in the wilderness” [Acts 7:38] meaning that Israel in
the old Testament was a type of the church of Christ to come, which we are.
We are the spiritual Israel, and
the physical Israel came to typify the spiritual. Therefore, the whole story of
Israel from Abraham, to Isaac and Jacob, and unto the patriarchs; from their
movement to Egypt, and Exodus from Egypt towards Canaan is an allegory, glory
to God. This also implies that their promised land is at allegory of the real
one.
Hebrews 12:18-21
This is talking about Mount
Sinai, where the children of Israel came to worship God, The sight was very
terrible that Even Moses, the leader said “I exceedingly fear and quake it was
indeed a sight to behold. Read Exodus 19:16-19 and Exodus 20:18-26.
You see God presented himself to
them in a different way; a terrifying way of Canaan. But for us in the New
Testament it is completely different story altogether read Hebrews 12:22-24.
Glory to god we have finally arrived into that city that all those men in
Hebrews 11 are looking for. Read Hebrews 11:13-16