The Word of God - A Survey of the Bible - Part Sixteen - M Jun 30, 2019 by: John Herbert | Series: The Word of God - A Survey of the Bible Audio Study Notes PDF https://s3.amazonaws.com/cornerstonejax/sermonfiles/T008_20190630.mp3 Refresh A Recap from the Sermon Hey 11:29 By faith they passed through the Red Sea as by dry land, whereas the Egyptians, attempting to do so, were drowned. Today we will look at Israel in resurrection. The full text of this message can be found by clicking the PDF button. Sunday June 30th 2019 The Word of God A Survey of the Bible – Lesson 16M ‘Let Us Go On’ 1). Heb 11:28 By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood, lest he who destroyed the firstborn should touch them. 29 By faith they passed through the Red Sea as by dry land, whereas the Egyptians, attempting to do so, were drowned. Hebrews Chapter 11 v28-29 deal with both the faith of Moses and the faith of the nation of Israel as a whole, with the latter being dependent upon the former as it is only through keeping the Passover and the ‘sprinkling of blood’ in relation to the death of the firstborn that the passage through the Red Sea was then possible. a). And we might ask ourselves why the faith to keep the Passover and to sprinkle the blood is attributed specifically to Moses in v28 when every Jewish household had to act with the same faith? b). And the answer to our question will be found in understanding that Moses forms a type of Christ here and that these verses are prophetic in their content. c). In that future Day, it will be because Christ ‘kept’ the Passover as Israel’s Passover Lamb, that His blood can be applied by those who will look on the One whom they pierced, making possible national repentance, and resurrection from the place of death where Israel has been for the last 2000 years. It is because one Man kept the Passover 2000 years ago that the whole nation will be raised from the place of death, will pass through the Red Sea. ‘A lamb for a household. d). And continuing prophetically, it will be following Israel’s national repentance and national resurrection, at the end of the Tribulation, that Gentile world power will be completely overthrown, which is shown to us at the end of v29 through the drowning of the Egyptians. e). So, all of this then sets out a broad prophetic timetable for the nation of Israel with respect to the events that will take place after God the Father sends back His Son to deliver Israel from the hands of the Assyrian Antichrist in the antitype of God having sent Moses back to deliver Israel from the hands of the Assyrian Pharaoh. Power Point – Slides 1-8 f). The Passover must be fulfilled through the appropriation of the blood of the Lamb slain 2000 years beforehand. And national Israel must be raised from the place of death, being removed from the Gentile nations where they will have been scattered, before Gentile world power and the angelic power that controls it will be overthrown. g). Now, Israel being raised from the place of death after this fashion had previously been established in foundational types – the first being seen on Day 3 in Genesis Chapter 1 – Ge 1:9 Then God said, “Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear”; and it was so. 10 And God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of the waters He called Seas. And God saw that it was good. 11 Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb that yields seed, and the fruit tree that yields fruit according to its kind, whose seed is in itself, on the earth”; and it was so. Here in the foundational type the ‘dry land’ pictures Israel and the seas as both the place of death and the Gentile nations, one being synonymous with the other in this context. Once removed from the ‘seas’ the ‘dry land’ becomes fruitful, which is exactly what Israel will become on the 3rd Day, following national resurrection. And God’s own commentary on this would suffice, ‘And God saw that it was good’. h). This same picture is repeated from a slightly different perspective in another foundational type seen through the flood of Noah, where Noah and his family picture the nation of Israel passing through the Tribulation and the worldwide flood that destroyed all living things, pictures both the utter devastation that the earth will experience during the time of the Tribulation and the destruction of Gentile world power that will follow its conclusion. i). And it is following the completion of God’s judgment on those who dwell on the earth, the water having now dried up, that Noah and his family walk on the dry ground – Ge 8:13 And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, that the waters were dried up from the earth; and Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and indeed the surface of the ground was dry………..18 So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him. 19 Every animal, every creeping thing, every bird, and whatever creeps on the earth, according to their families, went out of the ark…………9:1 So God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them: “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth. And although we won’t go into the details today, the same thing is seen again through Jonah being vomited onto ‘dry land’ on the 3rd day, following his repentance and subsequent resurrection – Jon 2:10 So the Lord spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land. And national resurrection for Israel is also seen in the account of the raising of Lazarus – Jn 11:6 So, when He heard that he was sick, He stayed two more days in the place where He was. 7 Then after this He said to the disciples, “Let us go to Judea again.”……….. 17 So when Jesus came, He found that he had already been in the tomb four days. When Jesus heard that Lazarus ‘was sick, He stayed two more days in the place where He was’. This means that the Lord returned to Judea to raise Lazarus on the 3rd day following. j). That which is pictured here should be very obvious. Israel is presently ‘sick’ and in the place of death and the Lord is spending 2 days, 2000 years, in the place where He is before He returns again to Judea to raise Israel. k). Then we see from the type of Lazarus, that Lazarus had ‘been in the tomb four days’, which, in the antitype, would put Israel in the place of death for 4 days, 4000 years, a time period that takes us all the way back to Abraham. Now we have already seen in Hebrews Chapter 11 that Abraham, Isaac and Jacob are commended for their faith and so these individuals cannot be seen as being in the place of death themselves. However, unfaithful, disobedient Israel was in the loins of their father Jacob, who was in the loins of Isaac, who was in the loins of Abraham the friend of God. And it is in this sense that Israel’s location in the place of death can be seen as lasting 4 days. l). The same picture seen through the account of Lazarus can be found earlier on in John’s Gospel, in Chapter 4 – Jn 4:40 So when the Samaritans had come to Him, they urged Him to stay with them; and He stayed there two days………..43 Now after the two days He departed from there and went to Galilee…………..46 So Jesus came again to Cana of Galilee where He had made the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman whose son was sick at Capernaum…………..50 Jesus said to him, “Go your way; your son lives.” The Lord spent 2 days in Samaria before returning to Cana of Galilee where a wedding had taken place and water had been turned into wine – the first of the 8 signs seen in John’s Gospel. m). And as we see from this account, on His return to Galilee after 2 days the Lord healed the son of ‘a certain nobleman’ who ‘was sick in Capernaum’. n). In John Chapter 4 then, upon the Lord’s return to Galilee after 2 days, the son of ‘a certain nobleman’ was healed and in John Chapter 11 upon the Lord’s return to Judea after 2 days, Lazarus was raised from the dead - Jn 11:43 Now when He had said these things, He cried with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come forth!” 44 And he who had died came out bound hand and foot with graveclothes, and his face was wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Loose him, and let him go.” Both of these events deal with exactly the same thing, the resurrection of national Israel and the healing of the nation’s spiritual sickness upon the Lord’s return to deliver His people after 2 days, 2000 years, separated from them. This is what is prefigured through the dry land coming from beneath the seas in Genesis Chapter 1, Noah and his family on dry land in Genesis Chapters 8-9 and Israel passing through the Red Sea on dry land in Exodus Chapter 14, and Jonah on the dry land in Chapter 2. Power Point – Slides 9-12 2). Heb 11:30 By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they were encircled for seven days. The end of Hebrews 11:29 deals with the Egyptians being drowned in the Red Sea which pictures the destruction of Gentile world power and Hebrews 11:30 also deals with the same destruction of Gentile world power pictured through the overthrow of Jericho, but within a different context. a). The foundational type for this has been set in the utter destruction of Egypt in the Red Sea. Gentile world power and the angelic rulers that control it will be utterly destroyed. Of this there can be no doubt. b). And let’s remember that the purpose for this destruction has to do with the exercise of the rights of the firstborn with respect to rulership and inheritance in the 7th Day - Ge 1:26 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion…………. Ge 22:17 blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies. Ex 4:22 Then you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says the Lord: “Israel is My son, My firstborn. Ga 3:9 So then those who are of faith are blessed with believing Abraham. And with respect to rulership and inheritance God’s adopted firstborn son in the first generation to come out of Egypt failed. That pictured through the Egyptians being overthrown in the Red Sea faltered at Kadesh Barnea. c). God had directed Moses to send 12 spies into the land to verify what God had said about it. And this they did – Nu 13:27 Then they told him, and said: “We went to the land where you sent us. It truly flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit. The nation, seeing the fruits of the land and having its abundance confirmed to them was then to believe what God had previously said about giving them the land and they were to enter the land by faith, knowing that God would deliver their enemies into their hands. Remember the Egyptians. d). However, 10 of the 12 spies gave an evil report concerning this causing the nation to turn away in unbelief – Nu 14:3 Why has the Lord brought us to this land to fall by the sword, that our wives and children should become victims? Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?” 4 So they said to one another, “Let us select a leader and return to Egypt.” The result of this, as we know, was the overthrow of that generation, except for Caleb and Joshua, in 40 years of wilderness wandering – Nu 14:29 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. At the end of the 40 years, the second generation led by Joshua returned again to the borders of the land with a view to entering the land and overthrowing its inhabitants. And as had happened with the previous generation, spies were sent into the land to assess it. e). Instead of 12 spies 2 were sent at this time, and rather than returning with an evil report, they returned with a report based entirely upon God’s promise to give the land to them – Jos 2:23 So the two men returned, descended from the mountain, and crossed over; and they came to Joshua the son of Nun, and told him all that had befallen them. 24 And they said to Joshua, “Truly the Lord has delivered all the land into our hands, for indeed all the inhabitants of the country are fainthearted because of us.” If we return to Hebrews 11:30 for a moment, we will remember that the walls of Jericho fell down by ‘by faith’. The second generation believed what God had said about the overthrow of this city and believed the report of the spies, acted in accordance with God’s instructions – Jos 6:1 Now Jericho was securely shut up because of the children of Israel; none went out, and none came in. 2 And the Lord said to Joshua: “See! I have given Jericho into your hand, its king, and the mighty men of valor. 3 You shall march around the city, all you men of war; you shall go all around the city once. This you shall do six days. 4 And seven priests shall bear seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark. But the seventh day you shall march around the city seven times, and the priests shall blow the trumpets. 5 It shall come to pass, when they make a long blast with the ram's horn, and when you hear the sound of the trumpet, that all the people shall shout with a great shout; then the wall of the city will fall down flat. And the people shall go up every man straight before him.” I am sure the use of the numbers 6 and 7 won’t have escaped our attention here. Israel was to march around the city once a day for 6 days. On the 7th day they would march around the city 7 times. Then as the 7 priests blew on the 7 trumpets and the people gave a great shout so the walls of the city would fall down flat. f). That seen here of course provides us with a prophetic type. So, let’s establish the setting for it - The first generation of Israel to come out of Egypt under Moses provides the picture for Israel at the Lord’s first advent. At this time Israel was being offered the heavenly realm of the Kingdom which would have given them the double portion of the Father’s estate. This of course was rejected and subsequently the heavenly realm of the Kingdom was taken from them to be given to the spiritual descendants of Abraham through faith. g). That seen through the second generation at Jericho under Joshua takes us to the generation of Jews who will survive the Great Tribulation, those who will experience the national resurrection and healing we have previously talked about. What will be in view for them of course is not the heavenly realm of the Kingdom, on offer at the Lord’s first advent, as this realm has been permanently taken from them. What is in view here is the earthly realm of the Kingdom covenanted to David and the establishment of God’s adopted firstborn son, Israel, in the place of Satan’s firstborn son and the Gentile nations under his control. h). From the type of Joshua at Jericho we can also draw a parallel application with regards to Abraham’s spiritual descendants, those to whom the Kingdom of the Heavens is presently being offered. i). From a prophetic standpoint the circuit around the city for 6 days points to the 6 days comprising Man’s Day. From the moment that light shone out of the darkness on day 1 in Genesis the march around the city began, so to speak. Satan’s kingdom was doomed. There has never been any other outcome possible. j). Then given what God has said about these six days – 2 Pe 3:8 But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. We may determine that we have almost completed the 6th circuit of the city and the 7 trumpets are about to sound. All that God has promised from the beginning of His revelation to us is about to be fulfilled. And the Day of the overthrow of our enemy is almost at hand. k). With regards to ourselves, that seen through the process of Israel marching around Jericho for 6 days, has to do with our faith and patient endurance, believing that which God has said and then properly engaging our enemy in the spiritual warfare in faithful obedience to God’s directions to us. l). Let us be quite clear that there is no victory in the spiritual warfare apart from faithfully following the Lord’s instructions concerning it. And no triumphant entry into the city apart from understanding what we are doing and why we are doing it; apart from seeing, understanding and believing all that God has said about His plans and purposes for Man with respect to Israel, the Church and the Gentile nations. The walls of Jericho in the type fell down ‘by faith’ and entrance into the heavenly realm of the Kingdom will only happen in like manner for those who exercise exactly the same type of faith seen in Hebrews Chapter 11 in the antitype. m). God has spoken, we can either believe Him or look for someone else to take us back to Egypt and perish in the wilderness. 3). Jos 4:22 then you shall let your children know, saying, ‘Israel crossed over this Jordan on dry land’; 23 for the Lord your God dried up the waters of the Jordan before you until you had crossed over, as the Lord your God did to the Red Sea, which He dried up before us until we had crossed over, 24 that all the peoples of the earth may know the hand of the Lord, that it is mighty, that you may fear the Lord your God forever.” With respect to the events at the end of the Tribulation with regards to Israel and the destruction of Gentile world power there are important details to be found in the account of Joshua at Jericho that we need to note. a). Firstly, we see that Israel crossed over the Jordan ‘on dry land’ providing a parallel to the first generation passing ‘on dry land’ through the Red Sea, to Noah on the dry land after the flood and to the dry land coming from beneath the seas on day 3 and Jonah on the dry land, also on the 3rd day. Power Point – Slides 13-14 b). As Israel crossed the Jordan under Joshua they entered into the land of their inheritance. And it is once Israel has returned to the land of their inheritance that Gentile world power, seen in Jericho, will be overthrown. c). In that future day then, Israel will have returned to the land promised to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob before Antichrist and his armies are destroyed – Re 19:19 And I saw the beast, the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against Him who sat on the horse and against His army. 20 Then the beast was captured, and with him the false prophet who worked signs in his presence, by which he deceived those who received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image. These two were cast alive into the lake of fire burning with brimstone. 21 And the rest were killed with the sword which proceeded from the mouth of Him who sat on the horse. And all the birds were filled with their flesh. And also, preceding the destruction of Jericho we see the second generation of Israel being circumcised – Jos 5:6 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. And we see them keeping the Passover – Jos 5:10 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. 11 And they ate of the produce of the land on the day after the Passover, unleavened bread and parched grain, on the very same day. 12 Then the manna ceased on the day after they had eaten the produce of the land; and the children of Israel no longer had manna, but they ate the food of the land of Canaan that year. And we know that in that future day Israel will fulfill the Passover prior to receiving their inheritance and prior to the destruction of Gentile world power. And through the second generation’s circumcision we find a twofold picture. The first pointing to the circumcision of the heart – 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. Ro 2:29 but he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the Spirit, not in the letter; whose praise is not from men but from God. Ro 4:11 And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while still uncircumcised, that he might be the father of all those who believe, though they are uncircumcised, that righteousness might be imputed to them also, 12 and the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of the faith which our father Abraham had while still uncircumcised. 13 For the promise that he would be the heir of the world was not to Abraham or to his seed through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. And the second picture we see through Israel’s future ‘circumcision’ has to do with covenant – Ge 17:1 When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am Almighty God; walk before Me and be blameless. 2 And I will make My covenant between Me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly.”…………… 10 This is My covenant which you shall keep, between Me and you and your descendants after you: Every male child among you shall be circumcised; 11 and you shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskins, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between Me and you. In that day, not only will God’s covenant with Abraham be fulfilled, but God will also give a new covenant to Israel to replace that given to the first generation to come out of Egypt at Sinai and the new covenant has a direct connection with the circumcision of the heart – Jer 31:31 “Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah— 32 not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, though I was a husband to them, says the Lord. 33 But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. We will need to continue with this next time though – If the Lord is willing. The Word of God - A Survey of the Bible - Part Sixteen - M Jun 30, 2019 Speaker: John Herbert Series: The Word of God - A Survey of the Bible Category: Sunday Morning https://s3.amazonaws.com/cornerstonejax/sermonfiles/T008_20190630.mp3 Download Audio x
Refresh A Recap from the Sermon Hey 11:29 By faith they passed through the Red Sea as by dry land, whereas the Egyptians, attempting to do so, were drowned. Today we will look at Israel in resurrection. The full text of this message can be found by clicking the PDF button. Sunday June 30th 2019 The Word of God A Survey of the Bible – Lesson 16M ‘Let Us Go On’ 1). Heb 11:28 By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood, lest he who destroyed the firstborn should touch them. 29 By faith they passed through the Red Sea as by dry land, whereas the Egyptians, attempting to do so, were drowned. Hebrews Chapter 11 v28-29 deal with both the faith of Moses and the faith of the nation of Israel as a whole, with the latter being dependent upon the former as it is only through keeping the Passover and the ‘sprinkling of blood’ in relation to the death of the firstborn that the passage through the Red Sea was then possible. a). And we might ask ourselves why the faith to keep the Passover and to sprinkle the blood is attributed specifically to Moses in v28 when every Jewish household had to act with the same faith? b). And the answer to our question will be found in understanding that Moses forms a type of Christ here and that these verses are prophetic in their content. c). In that future Day, it will be because Christ ‘kept’ the Passover as Israel’s Passover Lamb, that His blood can be applied by those who will look on the One whom they pierced, making possible national repentance, and resurrection from the place of death where Israel has been for the last 2000 years. It is because one Man kept the Passover 2000 years ago that the whole nation will be raised from the place of death, will pass through the Red Sea. ‘A lamb for a household. d). And continuing prophetically, it will be following Israel’s national repentance and national resurrection, at the end of the Tribulation, that Gentile world power will be completely overthrown, which is shown to us at the end of v29 through the drowning of the Egyptians. e). So, all of this then sets out a broad prophetic timetable for the nation of Israel with respect to the events that will take place after God the Father sends back His Son to deliver Israel from the hands of the Assyrian Antichrist in the antitype of God having sent Moses back to deliver Israel from the hands of the Assyrian Pharaoh. Power Point – Slides 1-8 f). The Passover must be fulfilled through the appropriation of the blood of the Lamb slain 2000 years beforehand. And national Israel must be raised from the place of death, being removed from the Gentile nations where they will have been scattered, before Gentile world power and the angelic power that controls it will be overthrown. g). Now, Israel being raised from the place of death after this fashion had previously been established in foundational types – the first being seen on Day 3 in Genesis Chapter 1 – Ge 1:9 Then God said, “Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear”; and it was so. 10 And God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of the waters He called Seas. And God saw that it was good. 11 Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb that yields seed, and the fruit tree that yields fruit according to its kind, whose seed is in itself, on the earth”; and it was so. Here in the foundational type the ‘dry land’ pictures Israel and the seas as both the place of death and the Gentile nations, one being synonymous with the other in this context. Once removed from the ‘seas’ the ‘dry land’ becomes fruitful, which is exactly what Israel will become on the 3rd Day, following national resurrection. And God’s own commentary on this would suffice, ‘And God saw that it was good’. h). This same picture is repeated from a slightly different perspective in another foundational type seen through the flood of Noah, where Noah and his family picture the nation of Israel passing through the Tribulation and the worldwide flood that destroyed all living things, pictures both the utter devastation that the earth will experience during the time of the Tribulation and the destruction of Gentile world power that will follow its conclusion. i). And it is following the completion of God’s judgment on those who dwell on the earth, the water having now dried up, that Noah and his family walk on the dry ground – Ge 8:13 And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, that the waters were dried up from the earth; and Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and indeed the surface of the ground was dry………..18 So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him. 19 Every animal, every creeping thing, every bird, and whatever creeps on the earth, according to their families, went out of the ark…………9:1 So God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them: “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth. And although we won’t go into the details today, the same thing is seen again through Jonah being vomited onto ‘dry land’ on the 3rd day, following his repentance and subsequent resurrection – Jon 2:10 So the Lord spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land. And national resurrection for Israel is also seen in the account of the raising of Lazarus – Jn 11:6 So, when He heard that he was sick, He stayed two more days in the place where He was. 7 Then after this He said to the disciples, “Let us go to Judea again.”……….. 17 So when Jesus came, He found that he had already been in the tomb four days. When Jesus heard that Lazarus ‘was sick, He stayed two more days in the place where He was’. This means that the Lord returned to Judea to raise Lazarus on the 3rd day following. j). That which is pictured here should be very obvious. Israel is presently ‘sick’ and in the place of death and the Lord is spending 2 days, 2000 years, in the place where He is before He returns again to Judea to raise Israel. k). Then we see from the type of Lazarus, that Lazarus had ‘been in the tomb four days’, which, in the antitype, would put Israel in the place of death for 4 days, 4000 years, a time period that takes us all the way back to Abraham. Now we have already seen in Hebrews Chapter 11 that Abraham, Isaac and Jacob are commended for their faith and so these individuals cannot be seen as being in the place of death themselves. However, unfaithful, disobedient Israel was in the loins of their father Jacob, who was in the loins of Isaac, who was in the loins of Abraham the friend of God. And it is in this sense that Israel’s location in the place of death can be seen as lasting 4 days. l). The same picture seen through the account of Lazarus can be found earlier on in John’s Gospel, in Chapter 4 – Jn 4:40 So when the Samaritans had come to Him, they urged Him to stay with them; and He stayed there two days………..43 Now after the two days He departed from there and went to Galilee…………..46 So Jesus came again to Cana of Galilee where He had made the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman whose son was sick at Capernaum…………..50 Jesus said to him, “Go your way; your son lives.” The Lord spent 2 days in Samaria before returning to Cana of Galilee where a wedding had taken place and water had been turned into wine – the first of the 8 signs seen in John’s Gospel. m). And as we see from this account, on His return to Galilee after 2 days the Lord healed the son of ‘a certain nobleman’ who ‘was sick in Capernaum’. n). In John Chapter 4 then, upon the Lord’s return to Galilee after 2 days, the son of ‘a certain nobleman’ was healed and in John Chapter 11 upon the Lord’s return to Judea after 2 days, Lazarus was raised from the dead - Jn 11:43 Now when He had said these things, He cried with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come forth!” 44 And he who had died came out bound hand and foot with graveclothes, and his face was wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Loose him, and let him go.” Both of these events deal with exactly the same thing, the resurrection of national Israel and the healing of the nation’s spiritual sickness upon the Lord’s return to deliver His people after 2 days, 2000 years, separated from them. This is what is prefigured through the dry land coming from beneath the seas in Genesis Chapter 1, Noah and his family on dry land in Genesis Chapters 8-9 and Israel passing through the Red Sea on dry land in Exodus Chapter 14, and Jonah on the dry land in Chapter 2. Power Point – Slides 9-12 2). Heb 11:30 By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they were encircled for seven days. The end of Hebrews 11:29 deals with the Egyptians being drowned in the Red Sea which pictures the destruction of Gentile world power and Hebrews 11:30 also deals with the same destruction of Gentile world power pictured through the overthrow of Jericho, but within a different context. a). The foundational type for this has been set in the utter destruction of Egypt in the Red Sea. Gentile world power and the angelic rulers that control it will be utterly destroyed. Of this there can be no doubt. b). And let’s remember that the purpose for this destruction has to do with the exercise of the rights of the firstborn with respect to rulership and inheritance in the 7th Day - Ge 1:26 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion…………. Ge 22:17 blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies. Ex 4:22 Then you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says the Lord: “Israel is My son, My firstborn. Ga 3:9 So then those who are of faith are blessed with believing Abraham. And with respect to rulership and inheritance God’s adopted firstborn son in the first generation to come out of Egypt failed. That pictured through the Egyptians being overthrown in the Red Sea faltered at Kadesh Barnea. c). God had directed Moses to send 12 spies into the land to verify what God had said about it. And this they did – Nu 13:27 Then they told him, and said: “We went to the land where you sent us. It truly flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit. The nation, seeing the fruits of the land and having its abundance confirmed to them was then to believe what God had previously said about giving them the land and they were to enter the land by faith, knowing that God would deliver their enemies into their hands. Remember the Egyptians. d). However, 10 of the 12 spies gave an evil report concerning this causing the nation to turn away in unbelief – Nu 14:3 Why has the Lord brought us to this land to fall by the sword, that our wives and children should become victims? Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?” 4 So they said to one another, “Let us select a leader and return to Egypt.” The result of this, as we know, was the overthrow of that generation, except for Caleb and Joshua, in 40 years of wilderness wandering – Nu 14:29 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. At the end of the 40 years, the second generation led by Joshua returned again to the borders of the land with a view to entering the land and overthrowing its inhabitants. And as had happened with the previous generation, spies were sent into the land to assess it. e). Instead of 12 spies 2 were sent at this time, and rather than returning with an evil report, they returned with a report based entirely upon God’s promise to give the land to them – Jos 2:23 So the two men returned, descended from the mountain, and crossed over; and they came to Joshua the son of Nun, and told him all that had befallen them. 24 And they said to Joshua, “Truly the Lord has delivered all the land into our hands, for indeed all the inhabitants of the country are fainthearted because of us.” If we return to Hebrews 11:30 for a moment, we will remember that the walls of Jericho fell down by ‘by faith’. The second generation believed what God had said about the overthrow of this city and believed the report of the spies, acted in accordance with God’s instructions – Jos 6:1 Now Jericho was securely shut up because of the children of Israel; none went out, and none came in. 2 And the Lord said to Joshua: “See! I have given Jericho into your hand, its king, and the mighty men of valor. 3 You shall march around the city, all you men of war; you shall go all around the city once. This you shall do six days. 4 And seven priests shall bear seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark. But the seventh day you shall march around the city seven times, and the priests shall blow the trumpets. 5 It shall come to pass, when they make a long blast with the ram's horn, and when you hear the sound of the trumpet, that all the people shall shout with a great shout; then the wall of the city will fall down flat. And the people shall go up every man straight before him.” I am sure the use of the numbers 6 and 7 won’t have escaped our attention here. Israel was to march around the city once a day for 6 days. On the 7th day they would march around the city 7 times. Then as the 7 priests blew on the 7 trumpets and the people gave a great shout so the walls of the city would fall down flat. f). That seen here of course provides us with a prophetic type. So, let’s establish the setting for it - The first generation of Israel to come out of Egypt under Moses provides the picture for Israel at the Lord’s first advent. At this time Israel was being offered the heavenly realm of the Kingdom which would have given them the double portion of the Father’s estate. This of course was rejected and subsequently the heavenly realm of the Kingdom was taken from them to be given to the spiritual descendants of Abraham through faith. g). That seen through the second generation at Jericho under Joshua takes us to the generation of Jews who will survive the Great Tribulation, those who will experience the national resurrection and healing we have previously talked about. What will be in view for them of course is not the heavenly realm of the Kingdom, on offer at the Lord’s first advent, as this realm has been permanently taken from them. What is in view here is the earthly realm of the Kingdom covenanted to David and the establishment of God’s adopted firstborn son, Israel, in the place of Satan’s firstborn son and the Gentile nations under his control. h). From the type of Joshua at Jericho we can also draw a parallel application with regards to Abraham’s spiritual descendants, those to whom the Kingdom of the Heavens is presently being offered. i). From a prophetic standpoint the circuit around the city for 6 days points to the 6 days comprising Man’s Day. From the moment that light shone out of the darkness on day 1 in Genesis the march around the city began, so to speak. Satan’s kingdom was doomed. There has never been any other outcome possible. j). Then given what God has said about these six days – 2 Pe 3:8 But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. We may determine that we have almost completed the 6th circuit of the city and the 7 trumpets are about to sound. All that God has promised from the beginning of His revelation to us is about to be fulfilled. And the Day of the overthrow of our enemy is almost at hand. k). With regards to ourselves, that seen through the process of Israel marching around Jericho for 6 days, has to do with our faith and patient endurance, believing that which God has said and then properly engaging our enemy in the spiritual warfare in faithful obedience to God’s directions to us. l). Let us be quite clear that there is no victory in the spiritual warfare apart from faithfully following the Lord’s instructions concerning it. And no triumphant entry into the city apart from understanding what we are doing and why we are doing it; apart from seeing, understanding and believing all that God has said about His plans and purposes for Man with respect to Israel, the Church and the Gentile nations. The walls of Jericho in the type fell down ‘by faith’ and entrance into the heavenly realm of the Kingdom will only happen in like manner for those who exercise exactly the same type of faith seen in Hebrews Chapter 11 in the antitype. m). God has spoken, we can either believe Him or look for someone else to take us back to Egypt and perish in the wilderness. 3). Jos 4:22 then you shall let your children know, saying, ‘Israel crossed over this Jordan on dry land’; 23 for the Lord your God dried up the waters of the Jordan before you until you had crossed over, as the Lord your God did to the Red Sea, which He dried up before us until we had crossed over, 24 that all the peoples of the earth may know the hand of the Lord, that it is mighty, that you may fear the Lord your God forever.” With respect to the events at the end of the Tribulation with regards to Israel and the destruction of Gentile world power there are important details to be found in the account of Joshua at Jericho that we need to note. a). Firstly, we see that Israel crossed over the Jordan ‘on dry land’ providing a parallel to the first generation passing ‘on dry land’ through the Red Sea, to Noah on the dry land after the flood and to the dry land coming from beneath the seas on day 3 and Jonah on the dry land, also on the 3rd day. Power Point – Slides 13-14 b). As Israel crossed the Jordan under Joshua they entered into the land of their inheritance. And it is once Israel has returned to the land of their inheritance that Gentile world power, seen in Jericho, will be overthrown. c). In that future day then, Israel will have returned to the land promised to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob before Antichrist and his armies are destroyed – Re 19:19 And I saw the beast, the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against Him who sat on the horse and against His army. 20 Then the beast was captured, and with him the false prophet who worked signs in his presence, by which he deceived those who received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image. These two were cast alive into the lake of fire burning with brimstone. 21 And the rest were killed with the sword which proceeded from the mouth of Him who sat on the horse. And all the birds were filled with their flesh. And also, preceding the destruction of Jericho we see the second generation of Israel being circumcised – Jos 5:6 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. And we see them keeping the Passover – Jos 5:10 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. 11 And they ate of the produce of the land on the day after the Passover, unleavened bread and parched grain, on the very same day. 12 Then the manna ceased on the day after they had eaten the produce of the land; and the children of Israel no longer had manna, but they ate the food of the land of Canaan that year. And we know that in that future day Israel will fulfill the Passover prior to receiving their inheritance and prior to the destruction of Gentile world power. And through the second generation’s circumcision we find a twofold picture. The first pointing to the circumcision of the heart – 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. Ro 2:29 but he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the Spirit, not in the letter; whose praise is not from men but from God. Ro 4:11 And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while still uncircumcised, that he might be the father of all those who believe, though they are uncircumcised, that righteousness might be imputed to them also, 12 and the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of the faith which our father Abraham had while still uncircumcised. 13 For the promise that he would be the heir of the world was not to Abraham or to his seed through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. And the second picture we see through Israel’s future ‘circumcision’ has to do with covenant – Ge 17:1 When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am Almighty God; walk before Me and be blameless. 2 And I will make My covenant between Me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly.”…………… 10 This is My covenant which you shall keep, between Me and you and your descendants after you: Every male child among you shall be circumcised; 11 and you shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskins, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between Me and you. In that day, not only will God’s covenant with Abraham be fulfilled, but God will also give a new covenant to Israel to replace that given to the first generation to come out of Egypt at Sinai and the new covenant has a direct connection with the circumcision of the heart – Jer 31:31 “Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah— 32 not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, though I was a husband to them, says the Lord. 33 But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. We will need to continue with this next time though – If the Lord is willing.