The Word of God - A Survey of the Bible - Part Seven - A Apr 29, 2018 by: John Herbert | Series: The Word of God - A Survey of the Bible Audio Study Notes PDF https://s3.amazonaws.com/cornerstonejax/sermonfiles/04-29-18_Part-7.mp3 Refresh A Recap from the Sermon De 1:1 ¶ These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel on this side of the Jordan in the wilderness, Today we will begin to look at events surrounding the second generation of Israel; to come out of Egypt. The full text of this message can be found by clicking the PDF button. Sunday April 29th 2018 The Word of God A Survey of the Bible – Part 7A ‘His Special People’ 1). Nu 14:26 And the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, 27 "How long shall I bear with this evil congregation who complain against Me? I have heard the complaints which the children of Israel make against Me. 28 "Say to them, 'As I live,' says the LORD, 'just as you have spoken in My hearing, so I will do to you: 29 'The carcasses of you who have complained against Me shall fall in this wilderness, all of you who were numbered, according to your entire number, from twenty years old and above. 30 'Except for Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun, you shall by no means enter the land which I swore I would make you dwell in. 31 'But your little ones, whom you said would be victims, I will bring in, and they shall know the land which you have despised. 32 'But as for you, your carcasses shall fall in this wilderness. 33 'And your sons shall be shepherds in the wilderness forty years, and bear the brunt of your infidelity, until your carcasses are consumed in the wilderness. 34 'According to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, forty days, for each day you shall bear your guilt one year, namely forty years, and you shall know My rejection. 35 'I the LORD have spoken this; I will surely do so to all this evil congregation who are gathered together against Me. In this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.'" We have seen in our previous weeks of study how the Lord had delivered Israel from Egypt by a ‘mighty hand and an outstretched arm’ and had taken them from the eastern bank of the Red Sea to the borders of the land of promise, at Kadesh Barnea. a). And we have seen how the events that took place at Kadesh formed a terminal point in the catalogue of unfaithfulness and disobedience that resulted in God’s pronounced judgment that we have just read. b). And in both the tone and the content of this judgment we can feel the anger of the Lord toward His disobedient son – And it would be prudent for us to note why God’s anger was so hotly aroused against them. c). To get a good overview of what God had done for Israel we can go to the words Moses spoke to the second generation at the end of their 40 years of wilderness wandering - De 4:32 "For ask now concerning the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and ask from one end of heaven to the other, whether any great thing like this has happened, or anything like it has been heard. 33 "Did any people ever hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and live? 34 "Or did God ever try to go and take for Himself a nation from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes? 35 "To you it was shown, that you might know that the LORD Himself is God; there is none other besides Him. 36 "Out of heaven He let you hear His voice, that He might instruct you; on earth He showed you His great fire, and you heard His words out of the midst of the fire. 37 "And because He loved your fathers, therefore He chose their descendants after them; and He brought you out of Egypt with His Presence, with His mighty power, 38 "driving out from before you nations greater and mightier than you, to bring you in, to give you their land as an inheritance, as it is this day. Now let’s add into this overall picture the fact that God had declared Israel to be His son, His firstborn, with the promise of inheritance and rulership, promises that we can take all the way back to Abraham in the first instance and then all the way back to the Garden and God’s purpose for creating Man. d). As we put all this together we can begin to see how significant and serious Israel’s disobedience and unfaithfulness was. e). And it is easy for us to bring this over into our own context by looking at Romans Chapter 11 where the very event we are looking at with Israel at Kadesh Barnea is referenced – Ro 11:22 Therefore consider the goodness and severity of God: on those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in His goodness. Otherwise you also will be cut off. And drawing from this same type the writer of Hebrews does not sugar coat his words - Heb 10:26 For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, 27 but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries. 28 Anyone who has rejected Moses' law dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. 29 Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace? 30 For we know Him who said, "Vengeance is Mine, I will repay," says the Lord. And again, "The LORD will judge His people." 31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. And this should not in any way be surprising to us considering the seriousness with which the Lord treated unfaithfulness and disobedience within Israel. f). And, from our own perspective we can add to what we have seen the death and shed blood of God in the person of Son to make this heavenly realm of the Kingdom available to us. g). The Lord in His infinite grace and mercy has made known to us the consequence of rejecting the Kingdom and of course the One who offers it. And we can receive this in the full knowledge that He will be faithful to His Word. h). None of this should be seen as a negative – just a statement of fact. 2). If we return now to the second generation of the Children of Israel to come out of Egypt at the end of their 40 years of wilderness wandering we will find Moses recounting the events of the past as well as re-giving the Law in anticipation of this generation entering the land under Joshua - De 1:1 ¶ These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel on this side of the Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain opposite Suph, between Paran, Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab. 2 It is eleven days' journey from Horeb by way of Mount Seir to Kadesh Barnea. 3 Now it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spoke to the children of Israel according to all that the LORD had given him as commandments to them, Now, what is intriguing in the re-giving of the Law to the second generation is the additional comments that Moses gave on this occasion that were not made to the first generation. a). So, let’s remember as we begin to read that the second generation had not yet entered the land and had not yet received their inheritance and had not yet had the opportunity to be faithful or unfaithful in the land. With this in mind look at what Moses told them - De 4:25 "When you beget children and grandchildren and have grown old in the land, and act corruptly and make a carved image in the form of anything, and do evil in the sight of the LORD your God to provoke Him to anger, 26 "I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that you will soon utterly perish from the land which you cross over the Jordan to possess; you will not prolong your days in it, but will be utterly destroyed. 27 "And the LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the LORD will drive you. 28 "And there you will serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell. 29 "But from there you will seek the LORD your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul. 30 "When you are in distress, and all these things come upon you in the latter days, when you turn to the LORD your God and obey His voice 31 '(for the LORD your God is a merciful God), He will not forsake you nor destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which He swore to them. In v27 we can see the Assyrian and Babylonian captivities, but it doesn’t end there - the phrase ‘in the latter days’ in v30 takes us prophetically to that time yet future the Tribulation and the Millennial Kingdom beyond – a phrase we have seen used many times - Mic 4:1 ¶ Now it shall come to pass in the latter days That the mountain of the LORD'S house Shall be established on the top of the mountains, And shall be exalted above the hills; And peoples shall flow to it. The latter days have to do with Israel’s restoration and repentance and the establishment of the Millennial Kingdom upon the earth when Messiah will rule from Jerusalem. b). And in conjunction with Deuteronomy Chapter 4 Moses uses this phrase again in - De 31:29 "For I know that after my death you will become utterly corrupt, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days, because you will do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke Him to anger through the work of your hands." That which Moses prophesied here is graphically portrayed in Revelation – Re 19:2 "For true and righteous are His judgments, because He has judged the great harlot who corrupted the earth with her fornication; and He has avenged on her the blood of His servants shed by her." c). Then to bring these prophetic pictures together we can go to the use of the phrase, ‘in the latter days’ again – not from the mouth of Moses this time but from the mouth of Balaam - Nu 24:12 So Balaam said to Balak, "Did I not also speak to your messengers whom you sent to me, saying, 13 'If Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not go beyond the word of the LORD, to do good or bad of my own will. What the LORD says, that I must speak'? 14 "And now, indeed, I am going to my people. Come, I will advise you what this people will do to your people in the latter days." 15 ¶ So he took up his oracle and said: "The utterance of Balaam the son of Beor, And the utterance of the man whose eyes are opened; 16 The utterance of him who hears the words of God, And has the knowledge of the Most High, Who sees the vision of the Almighty, Who falls down, with eyes wide open: 17 "I see Him, but not now; I behold Him, but not near; A Star shall come out of Jacob; A Scepter shall rise out of Israel, And batter the brow of Moab, And destroy all the sons of tumult. It is the ‘Star’ that would come out of Jacob that the wise men saw that led them to Jerusalem - Mt 2:1 ¶ Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem, 2 saying, "Where is He who has been born King of the Jews? For we have seen His star in the East and have come to worship Him." It is the Lord Jesus who is the ‘Scepter’ to rise out of Israel – the One who ultimately will ‘batter the brow of Moab, and destroy all the sons of tumult.’ And Moses spoke the words given to him by God concerning the One born, King of the Jews – De 18:17 "And the LORD said to me: 'What they have spoken is good. 18 'I will raise up for them a Prophet like you from among their brethren, and will put My words in His mouth, and He shall speak to them all that I command Him. 19 'And it shall be that whoever will not hear My words, which He speaks in My name, I will require it of him. This prophetic statement takes us initially to the Lord at His first advent – Joh 12:49 "For I have not spoken on My own authority; but the Father who sent Me gave Me a command, what I should say and what I should speak. Ac 3:19 "Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, 20 "and that He may send Jesus Christ, who was preached to you before, 21 "whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, which God has spoken by the mouth of all His holy prophets since the world began. 22 "For Moses truly said to the fathers, 'The LORD your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your brethren. Him you shall hear in all things, whatever He says to you. But, as we know, that spoken by Balaam and spoken by Moses and looked for by the wise men was not to be fulfilled at the Lord’s first advent – this was the time of Messiah Who came to suffer, not the time of Messiah Who came to rule and reign - Lu 24:26 "Ought not the Christ to have suffered these things and to enter into His glory?" That spoken by Balaam and Moses and looked for by the wise men still awaits a future time when Messiah will return to the earth, redeem His chosen people, overthrow Gentile world power and rule the nations with a rod of iron. d). So, given that we are looking to that time which remains yet future, let’s ask ourselves a question – ‘Why are these ‘end time’ prophecies presented within the context of the second generation of Israel to come out of Egypt, prior to them entering the land?’ e). If we stop and think about this for a moment, the answer will become obvious – it’s the typology. 3). We might remember from a previous study that we had seen the experience of Israel from leaving Egypt to entering the land at Jericho providing us with a broad, panoramic sweep, of Jewish history. a). We had seen that the Exodus to Kadesh Barnea had encompassed Jewish history from the time they left Egypt to the crucifixion of their King. b). And the time from Kadesh Barnea to Jericho, Jewish history from the crucifixion to Millennial Kingdom. Power Point – Slides 1-2 c). And so, that which we have just seen laid out prophetically is then enacted through the type of the second generation under Joshua entering the land to receive their inheritance, but what we see with the second generation is just the type, not the fulfillment - Jos 1:1 ¶ After the death of Moses the servant of the LORD, it came to pass that the LORD spoke to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' assistant, saying: 2 "Moses My servant is dead. Now therefore, arise, go over this Jordan, you and all this people, to the land which I am giving to them-the children of Israel. 3 "Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given you, as I said to Moses. 4 "From the wilderness and this Lebanon as far as the great river, the River Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and to the Great Sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your territory. 5 "No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life; as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not leave you nor forsake you. 6 "Be strong and of good courage, for to this people you shall divide as an inheritance the land which I swore to their fathers to give them. Perhaps we can say it this way – Moses forms a type of Christ at His first advent, whereas Joshua forms a type of Christ in resurrection at His second advent – the first generation forms a type of Israel at the Lord’s first advent and the second generation a type of Israel at the end of the Tribulation. d). And as we know, those Jews still alive at the end of the Tribulation who form the nation, will have been supernaturally protected through the greatest and most horrific persecution/judgment the Jewish people will ever have suffered. e). And the first generation whose bodies were scattered in the wilderness provide a type of this future persecution/judgment and the second generation, who pass over the Jordan on dry land, provide a type for those Jews who, through Divine protection of the nation, will pass through the Tribulation f). And God’s Divine protection for His people during the midst of the Tribulation can be seen pictured in the ark of the covenant going before the people into the Jordan before they cross over - Jos 3:11 "Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth is crossing over before you into the Jordan. 12 "Now therefore, take for yourselves twelve men from the tribes of Israel, one man from every tribe. 13 "And it shall come to pass, as soon as the soles of the feet of the priests who bear the ark of the LORD, the Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of the Jordan, that the waters of the Jordan shall be cut off, the waters that come down from upstream, and they shall stand as a heap." 14 ¶ So it was, when the people set out from their camp to cross over the Jordan, with the priests bearing the ark of the covenant before the people, 15 and as those who bore the ark came to the Jordan, and the feet of the priests who bore the ark dipped in the edge of the water (for the Jordan overflows all its banks during the whole time of harvest), 16 that the waters which came down from upstream stood still, and rose in a heap very far away at Adam, the city that is beside Zaretan. So the waters that went down into the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, failed, and were cut off; and the people crossed over opposite Jericho. 17 Then the priests who bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood firm on dry ground in the midst of the Jordan; and all Israel crossed over on dry ground, until all the people had crossed completely over the Jordan. Power Point – Slides 3-5 And that which we see with the second generation once they have crossed the Jordan on dry land, again pictures that which awaits Israel in that future day - Jos 5:2 At that time the LORD said to Joshua, "Make flint knives for yourself, and circumcise the sons of Israel again the second time." 3 So Joshua made flint knives for himself, and circumcised the sons of Israel at the hill of the foreskins. 4 And this is the reason why Joshua circumcised them: All the people who came out of Egypt who were males, all the men of war, had died in the wilderness on the way, after they had come out of Egypt. 5 For all the people who came out had been circumcised, but all the people born in the wilderness, on the way as they came out of Egypt, had not been circumcised. 6 For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people who were men of war, who came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they did not obey the voice of the LORD-to whom the LORD swore that He would not show them the land which the LORD had sworn to their fathers that He would give us, "a land flowing with milk and honey." 7 Then Joshua circumcised their sons whom He raised up in their place; for they were uncircumcised, because they had not been circumcised on the way. In their circumcision is a picture of Israel in repentance, who through the experience of the Great Tribulation will have had their hearts circumcised - Eze 36:24 "For I will take you from among the nations, gather you out of all countries, and bring you into your own land. 25 ¶ "Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols. 26 "I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. 27 "I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them. 28 "Then you shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; you shall be My people, and I will be your God. Php 3:3 For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh, Also, in their circumcision is the re-establishment of the covenant, pointing to the new covenant to be made with Israel yet future. g). And as we would expect, in conjunction with Israel’s future repentance and the establishment of the new covenant is the Passover – Jos 5:8 So it was, when they had finished circumcising all the people, that they stayed in their places in the camp till they were healed. 9 Then the LORD said to Joshua, "This day I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you." Therefore the name of the place is called Gilgal to this day. 10 ¶ Now the children of Israel camped in Gilgal, and kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month at twilight on the plains of Jericho. And as we have seen from our previous studies, the Passover must be fulfilled, as with the next 5 feasts, before Israel will rule at the head of the nations within the fulfillment of the 7th feast, Tabernacles, the Millennial Kingdom. h). Now, in the type, having crossed the Jordan, Israel was already in the land, and Israel being in the land is to direct us to see that the destruction of Jericho is another picture of the complete overthrow of Gentile world power leading into the 7th Day – and as we saw with the Egyptians overthrown in the Red Sea, so it was at Jericho – victory by the Divine hand - Jos 5:13 ¶ And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted his eyes and looked, and behold, a Man stood opposite him with His sword drawn in His hand. And Joshua went to Him and said to Him, "Are You for us or for our adversaries?" 14 So He said, "No, but as Commander of the army of the LORD I have now come." And Joshua fell on his face to the earth and worshiped, and said to Him, "What does my Lord say to His servant?" 15 Then the Commander of the LORD'S army said to Joshua, "Take your sandal off your foot, for the place where you stand is holy." And Joshua did so……….6:15 But it came to pass on the seventh day that they rose early, about the dawning of the day, and marched around the city seven times in the same manner. On that day only they marched around the city seven times. 16 And the seventh time it happened, when the priests blew the trumpets, that Joshua said to the people: "Shout, for the LORD has given you the city! 17 ¶ "Now the city shall be doomed by the LORD to destruction, it and all who are in it. Only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all who are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent. And what of Rahab? We will remember the sheep and goat judgment – Mt 25:40 "And the King will answer and say to them, 'Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me.' Mt 1:5 Salmon begot Boaz by Rahab, Boaz begot Obed by Ruth, Obed begot Jesse, 6 and Jesse begot David the king. We will continue with this next time – if the Lord is willing. The Word of God - A Survey of the Bible - Part Seven - A Apr 29, 2018 Speaker: John Herbert Series: The Word of God - A Survey of the Bible Category: Sunday Morning https://s3.amazonaws.com/cornerstonejax/sermonfiles/04-29-18_Part-7.mp3 Download Audio x
Refresh A Recap from the Sermon De 1:1 ¶ These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel on this side of the Jordan in the wilderness, Today we will begin to look at events surrounding the second generation of Israel; to come out of Egypt. The full text of this message can be found by clicking the PDF button. Sunday April 29th 2018 The Word of God A Survey of the Bible – Part 7A ‘His Special People’ 1). Nu 14:26 And the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, 27 "How long shall I bear with this evil congregation who complain against Me? I have heard the complaints which the children of Israel make against Me. 28 "Say to them, 'As I live,' says the LORD, 'just as you have spoken in My hearing, so I will do to you: 29 'The carcasses of you who have complained against Me shall fall in this wilderness, all of you who were numbered, according to your entire number, from twenty years old and above. 30 'Except for Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun, you shall by no means enter the land which I swore I would make you dwell in. 31 'But your little ones, whom you said would be victims, I will bring in, and they shall know the land which you have despised. 32 'But as for you, your carcasses shall fall in this wilderness. 33 'And your sons shall be shepherds in the wilderness forty years, and bear the brunt of your infidelity, until your carcasses are consumed in the wilderness. 34 'According to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, forty days, for each day you shall bear your guilt one year, namely forty years, and you shall know My rejection. 35 'I the LORD have spoken this; I will surely do so to all this evil congregation who are gathered together against Me. In this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.'" We have seen in our previous weeks of study how the Lord had delivered Israel from Egypt by a ‘mighty hand and an outstretched arm’ and had taken them from the eastern bank of the Red Sea to the borders of the land of promise, at Kadesh Barnea. a). And we have seen how the events that took place at Kadesh formed a terminal point in the catalogue of unfaithfulness and disobedience that resulted in God’s pronounced judgment that we have just read. b). And in both the tone and the content of this judgment we can feel the anger of the Lord toward His disobedient son – And it would be prudent for us to note why God’s anger was so hotly aroused against them. c). To get a good overview of what God had done for Israel we can go to the words Moses spoke to the second generation at the end of their 40 years of wilderness wandering - De 4:32 "For ask now concerning the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and ask from one end of heaven to the other, whether any great thing like this has happened, or anything like it has been heard. 33 "Did any people ever hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and live? 34 "Or did God ever try to go and take for Himself a nation from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes? 35 "To you it was shown, that you might know that the LORD Himself is God; there is none other besides Him. 36 "Out of heaven He let you hear His voice, that He might instruct you; on earth He showed you His great fire, and you heard His words out of the midst of the fire. 37 "And because He loved your fathers, therefore He chose their descendants after them; and He brought you out of Egypt with His Presence, with His mighty power, 38 "driving out from before you nations greater and mightier than you, to bring you in, to give you their land as an inheritance, as it is this day. Now let’s add into this overall picture the fact that God had declared Israel to be His son, His firstborn, with the promise of inheritance and rulership, promises that we can take all the way back to Abraham in the first instance and then all the way back to the Garden and God’s purpose for creating Man. d). As we put all this together we can begin to see how significant and serious Israel’s disobedience and unfaithfulness was. e). And it is easy for us to bring this over into our own context by looking at Romans Chapter 11 where the very event we are looking at with Israel at Kadesh Barnea is referenced – Ro 11:22 Therefore consider the goodness and severity of God: on those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in His goodness. Otherwise you also will be cut off. And drawing from this same type the writer of Hebrews does not sugar coat his words - Heb 10:26 For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, 27 but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries. 28 Anyone who has rejected Moses' law dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. 29 Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace? 30 For we know Him who said, "Vengeance is Mine, I will repay," says the Lord. And again, "The LORD will judge His people." 31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. And this should not in any way be surprising to us considering the seriousness with which the Lord treated unfaithfulness and disobedience within Israel. f). And, from our own perspective we can add to what we have seen the death and shed blood of God in the person of Son to make this heavenly realm of the Kingdom available to us. g). The Lord in His infinite grace and mercy has made known to us the consequence of rejecting the Kingdom and of course the One who offers it. And we can receive this in the full knowledge that He will be faithful to His Word. h). None of this should be seen as a negative – just a statement of fact. 2). If we return now to the second generation of the Children of Israel to come out of Egypt at the end of their 40 years of wilderness wandering we will find Moses recounting the events of the past as well as re-giving the Law in anticipation of this generation entering the land under Joshua - De 1:1 ¶ These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel on this side of the Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain opposite Suph, between Paran, Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab. 2 It is eleven days' journey from Horeb by way of Mount Seir to Kadesh Barnea. 3 Now it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spoke to the children of Israel according to all that the LORD had given him as commandments to them, Now, what is intriguing in the re-giving of the Law to the second generation is the additional comments that Moses gave on this occasion that were not made to the first generation. a). So, let’s remember as we begin to read that the second generation had not yet entered the land and had not yet received their inheritance and had not yet had the opportunity to be faithful or unfaithful in the land. With this in mind look at what Moses told them - De 4:25 "When you beget children and grandchildren and have grown old in the land, and act corruptly and make a carved image in the form of anything, and do evil in the sight of the LORD your God to provoke Him to anger, 26 "I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that you will soon utterly perish from the land which you cross over the Jordan to possess; you will not prolong your days in it, but will be utterly destroyed. 27 "And the LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the LORD will drive you. 28 "And there you will serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell. 29 "But from there you will seek the LORD your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul. 30 "When you are in distress, and all these things come upon you in the latter days, when you turn to the LORD your God and obey His voice 31 '(for the LORD your God is a merciful God), He will not forsake you nor destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which He swore to them. In v27 we can see the Assyrian and Babylonian captivities, but it doesn’t end there - the phrase ‘in the latter days’ in v30 takes us prophetically to that time yet future the Tribulation and the Millennial Kingdom beyond – a phrase we have seen used many times - Mic 4:1 ¶ Now it shall come to pass in the latter days That the mountain of the LORD'S house Shall be established on the top of the mountains, And shall be exalted above the hills; And peoples shall flow to it. The latter days have to do with Israel’s restoration and repentance and the establishment of the Millennial Kingdom upon the earth when Messiah will rule from Jerusalem. b). And in conjunction with Deuteronomy Chapter 4 Moses uses this phrase again in - De 31:29 "For I know that after my death you will become utterly corrupt, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days, because you will do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke Him to anger through the work of your hands." That which Moses prophesied here is graphically portrayed in Revelation – Re 19:2 "For true and righteous are His judgments, because He has judged the great harlot who corrupted the earth with her fornication; and He has avenged on her the blood of His servants shed by her." c). Then to bring these prophetic pictures together we can go to the use of the phrase, ‘in the latter days’ again – not from the mouth of Moses this time but from the mouth of Balaam - Nu 24:12 So Balaam said to Balak, "Did I not also speak to your messengers whom you sent to me, saying, 13 'If Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not go beyond the word of the LORD, to do good or bad of my own will. What the LORD says, that I must speak'? 14 "And now, indeed, I am going to my people. Come, I will advise you what this people will do to your people in the latter days." 15 ¶ So he took up his oracle and said: "The utterance of Balaam the son of Beor, And the utterance of the man whose eyes are opened; 16 The utterance of him who hears the words of God, And has the knowledge of the Most High, Who sees the vision of the Almighty, Who falls down, with eyes wide open: 17 "I see Him, but not now; I behold Him, but not near; A Star shall come out of Jacob; A Scepter shall rise out of Israel, And batter the brow of Moab, And destroy all the sons of tumult. It is the ‘Star’ that would come out of Jacob that the wise men saw that led them to Jerusalem - Mt 2:1 ¶ Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem, 2 saying, "Where is He who has been born King of the Jews? For we have seen His star in the East and have come to worship Him." It is the Lord Jesus who is the ‘Scepter’ to rise out of Israel – the One who ultimately will ‘batter the brow of Moab, and destroy all the sons of tumult.’ And Moses spoke the words given to him by God concerning the One born, King of the Jews – De 18:17 "And the LORD said to me: 'What they have spoken is good. 18 'I will raise up for them a Prophet like you from among their brethren, and will put My words in His mouth, and He shall speak to them all that I command Him. 19 'And it shall be that whoever will not hear My words, which He speaks in My name, I will require it of him. This prophetic statement takes us initially to the Lord at His first advent – Joh 12:49 "For I have not spoken on My own authority; but the Father who sent Me gave Me a command, what I should say and what I should speak. Ac 3:19 "Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, 20 "and that He may send Jesus Christ, who was preached to you before, 21 "whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, which God has spoken by the mouth of all His holy prophets since the world began. 22 "For Moses truly said to the fathers, 'The LORD your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your brethren. Him you shall hear in all things, whatever He says to you. But, as we know, that spoken by Balaam and spoken by Moses and looked for by the wise men was not to be fulfilled at the Lord’s first advent – this was the time of Messiah Who came to suffer, not the time of Messiah Who came to rule and reign - Lu 24:26 "Ought not the Christ to have suffered these things and to enter into His glory?" That spoken by Balaam and Moses and looked for by the wise men still awaits a future time when Messiah will return to the earth, redeem His chosen people, overthrow Gentile world power and rule the nations with a rod of iron. d). So, given that we are looking to that time which remains yet future, let’s ask ourselves a question – ‘Why are these ‘end time’ prophecies presented within the context of the second generation of Israel to come out of Egypt, prior to them entering the land?’ e). If we stop and think about this for a moment, the answer will become obvious – it’s the typology. 3). We might remember from a previous study that we had seen the experience of Israel from leaving Egypt to entering the land at Jericho providing us with a broad, panoramic sweep, of Jewish history. a). We had seen that the Exodus to Kadesh Barnea had encompassed Jewish history from the time they left Egypt to the crucifixion of their King. b). And the time from Kadesh Barnea to Jericho, Jewish history from the crucifixion to Millennial Kingdom. Power Point – Slides 1-2 c). And so, that which we have just seen laid out prophetically is then enacted through the type of the second generation under Joshua entering the land to receive their inheritance, but what we see with the second generation is just the type, not the fulfillment - Jos 1:1 ¶ After the death of Moses the servant of the LORD, it came to pass that the LORD spoke to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' assistant, saying: 2 "Moses My servant is dead. Now therefore, arise, go over this Jordan, you and all this people, to the land which I am giving to them-the children of Israel. 3 "Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given you, as I said to Moses. 4 "From the wilderness and this Lebanon as far as the great river, the River Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and to the Great Sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your territory. 5 "No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life; as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not leave you nor forsake you. 6 "Be strong and of good courage, for to this people you shall divide as an inheritance the land which I swore to their fathers to give them. Perhaps we can say it this way – Moses forms a type of Christ at His first advent, whereas Joshua forms a type of Christ in resurrection at His second advent – the first generation forms a type of Israel at the Lord’s first advent and the second generation a type of Israel at the end of the Tribulation. d). And as we know, those Jews still alive at the end of the Tribulation who form the nation, will have been supernaturally protected through the greatest and most horrific persecution/judgment the Jewish people will ever have suffered. e). And the first generation whose bodies were scattered in the wilderness provide a type of this future persecution/judgment and the second generation, who pass over the Jordan on dry land, provide a type for those Jews who, through Divine protection of the nation, will pass through the Tribulation f). And God’s Divine protection for His people during the midst of the Tribulation can be seen pictured in the ark of the covenant going before the people into the Jordan before they cross over - Jos 3:11 "Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth is crossing over before you into the Jordan. 12 "Now therefore, take for yourselves twelve men from the tribes of Israel, one man from every tribe. 13 "And it shall come to pass, as soon as the soles of the feet of the priests who bear the ark of the LORD, the Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of the Jordan, that the waters of the Jordan shall be cut off, the waters that come down from upstream, and they shall stand as a heap." 14 ¶ So it was, when the people set out from their camp to cross over the Jordan, with the priests bearing the ark of the covenant before the people, 15 and as those who bore the ark came to the Jordan, and the feet of the priests who bore the ark dipped in the edge of the water (for the Jordan overflows all its banks during the whole time of harvest), 16 that the waters which came down from upstream stood still, and rose in a heap very far away at Adam, the city that is beside Zaretan. So the waters that went down into the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, failed, and were cut off; and the people crossed over opposite Jericho. 17 Then the priests who bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood firm on dry ground in the midst of the Jordan; and all Israel crossed over on dry ground, until all the people had crossed completely over the Jordan. Power Point – Slides 3-5 And that which we see with the second generation once they have crossed the Jordan on dry land, again pictures that which awaits Israel in that future day - Jos 5:2 At that time the LORD said to Joshua, "Make flint knives for yourself, and circumcise the sons of Israel again the second time." 3 So Joshua made flint knives for himself, and circumcised the sons of Israel at the hill of the foreskins. 4 And this is the reason why Joshua circumcised them: All the people who came out of Egypt who were males, all the men of war, had died in the wilderness on the way, after they had come out of Egypt. 5 For all the people who came out had been circumcised, but all the people born in the wilderness, on the way as they came out of Egypt, had not been circumcised. 6 For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people who were men of war, who came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they did not obey the voice of the LORD-to whom the LORD swore that He would not show them the land which the LORD had sworn to their fathers that He would give us, "a land flowing with milk and honey." 7 Then Joshua circumcised their sons whom He raised up in their place; for they were uncircumcised, because they had not been circumcised on the way. In their circumcision is a picture of Israel in repentance, who through the experience of the Great Tribulation will have had their hearts circumcised - Eze 36:24 "For I will take you from among the nations, gather you out of all countries, and bring you into your own land. 25 ¶ "Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols. 26 "I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. 27 "I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them. 28 "Then you shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; you shall be My people, and I will be your God. Php 3:3 For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh, Also, in their circumcision is the re-establishment of the covenant, pointing to the new covenant to be made with Israel yet future. g). And as we would expect, in conjunction with Israel’s future repentance and the establishment of the new covenant is the Passover – Jos 5:8 So it was, when they had finished circumcising all the people, that they stayed in their places in the camp till they were healed. 9 Then the LORD said to Joshua, "This day I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you." Therefore the name of the place is called Gilgal to this day. 10 ¶ Now the children of Israel camped in Gilgal, and kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month at twilight on the plains of Jericho. And as we have seen from our previous studies, the Passover must be fulfilled, as with the next 5 feasts, before Israel will rule at the head of the nations within the fulfillment of the 7th feast, Tabernacles, the Millennial Kingdom. h). Now, in the type, having crossed the Jordan, Israel was already in the land, and Israel being in the land is to direct us to see that the destruction of Jericho is another picture of the complete overthrow of Gentile world power leading into the 7th Day – and as we saw with the Egyptians overthrown in the Red Sea, so it was at Jericho – victory by the Divine hand - Jos 5:13 ¶ And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted his eyes and looked, and behold, a Man stood opposite him with His sword drawn in His hand. And Joshua went to Him and said to Him, "Are You for us or for our adversaries?" 14 So He said, "No, but as Commander of the army of the LORD I have now come." And Joshua fell on his face to the earth and worshiped, and said to Him, "What does my Lord say to His servant?" 15 Then the Commander of the LORD'S army said to Joshua, "Take your sandal off your foot, for the place where you stand is holy." And Joshua did so……….6:15 But it came to pass on the seventh day that they rose early, about the dawning of the day, and marched around the city seven times in the same manner. On that day only they marched around the city seven times. 16 And the seventh time it happened, when the priests blew the trumpets, that Joshua said to the people: "Shout, for the LORD has given you the city! 17 ¶ "Now the city shall be doomed by the LORD to destruction, it and all who are in it. Only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all who are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent. And what of Rahab? We will remember the sheep and goat judgment – Mt 25:40 "And the King will answer and say to them, 'Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me.' Mt 1:5 Salmon begot Boaz by Rahab, Boaz begot Obed by Ruth, Obed begot Jesse, 6 and Jesse begot David the king. We will continue with this next time – if the Lord is willing.