EGYPT, WILDERNESS & CANAAN These three places depict a believer’s journey in as far as salvation is concerned. There are those that decide to remain in Egypt by rejecting God’s sent deliverer to them. There are also those that come out of Egypt in to the wilderness but while in the wilderness they turn their hearts to Egypt; these perish in the wilderness and hence, do not see Canaan. An example is Lot’s wife who looked back to the immoral city of Sodom & Gomorrah, and turned into salt. The third group is that which comes out of Egypt, pass through the wilderness even by endurance, and reach Canaan, the Promised Land. This should be a goal for every true believer. Paul, the Apostle, finished his race. He fought a good fight of faith in the wilderness. He qualified to enter the Promised Land, even the promised paradise. Read Acts 7:34-39, 42 & I Corinthians 10:5-12. Let’s now look at these three places. 1. EGYPT “For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.” Hebrews 3:16 It was out of Egypt that God called His people. Moses, God’s servant, was sent to lead out Israelites from Egypt. “Whereas I have not dwelt in any house since the time that I brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt, even to this day, but have walked in a tent and in a tabernacle.” II Samuel 7:6 Read I Samuel 2:27-28 & Joshua 2:10. The land of Egypt was a land of bondage, where God’s chosen people were in bondage. It typifies the world where people are bound in sin under the leadership of Satan. Satan is the god of this world. “Iam the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.” Deuteronomy 5:6 God sent Moses to deliver the Israelites from the land of bondage. God sent the Messiyah to die for the world to deliver those that shall believe in Him as the Savior. “And the Lord said unto Moses, when thou goest to return into Egypt, see that thou do all those wonders before Pharaoh, which I have put in thine hand: but I will harden his heart, that he shall not let the people go. And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the Lord, Israel is my son, even my firstborn: And I say unto thee, let my son go, that he may serve Me: and if thou refuse to let him go, behold, I will slay thy son, even thy firstborn.” Exodus 4:21-23 Read Exodus 7:4-5. “Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, Iam the Lord, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments: And I will take you to Me for a people, and I will be to you a God: and ye shall know that Iam the Lord your God, which bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.” Exodus 6:6-7 Read Exodus 29:45-46. God promised to do the following for the Israelites: (a) I will bring you out from the burdens of the Egyptians. (b) I will rid you out of their bondage. (c) I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments. (d) I will take you to Me for a people. (e) I will be to you a God. Moses, God’s sent deliverer, said the following about YaHshua Messiyah: “The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken;” Deuteronomy 18:15 We see God sending the Savior, YaHshua Messiyah, to save the world out of worldliness (sin). He came to deliver us from the spiritual Egypt whose god is Satan. “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.” John 3:16-17 God is calling His people out of Egypt (world). Read Isaiah 19:18-25 Today our Moses is YaHshua Messiyah, and not any other man. YaHshua Messiay is our deliverer. The world can only be saved through Him. Just as God sent Moses into Egypt to deliver His people right from there, God later sent His only begotten Son into the world that the world might be saved through Him. Read Exodus 4:18-20; 3:7-10. The whole world is under the power of the wicked one. True believers are not of the world. “Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out.” John 12:31 Read John 14:30; 16:11. Since Satan is this world’s ruler, we must be separate from the world. We must not be part of the world. We should love the people of the world but not their ungodly attitudes and actions. They should not be in Egypt (world) but in the wilderness being led by the Spirit of God to the Promised Land (paradise earth). “Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world:...” John 18:36 Jesus refused to be made king of this polluted world (Egypt). “When Jesus therefore perceived that they would come and take Him by force, to make Him a king, He departed again into a mountain Himself alone.” John 6:15 True disciples follow YaHshua’ footsteps. He did not teach rebellion against secular authorities. Read Romans 13:1-7, Titus 3:1-2 God allows these secular governments to exist until His kingdom is finally set on the new earth. “In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.” II Corinthians 4:4 Read Revelation 12:9 & II Corinthians 11:3. Conformity to worldly ways and customs converts the believer right back to the world (Egypt). It never converts the world to YaHshua. What do we see today? Most of the Church have returned to Egypt (world) in their hearts. Their hearts and minds are in Egypt. Read Acts 7:38-42 & I Corinthians 10:5-12. The Messiyah came to take the Church to the promised paradise (land) through the wilderness. The first Church (Israel) is an example of the present. Read Numbers 11:4, Exodus 32:25, Psalms 1:1, 6. In Egypt there is: (a) Immoral dressing (worldly fashions). (b) Worldly customs and traditions. (c) Disregard of God’s commandments and law. What are we seeing in Churches today? We see the worldly deeds, motives, etc Read Jude 5. 2. WILDERNESS God delivered the children of Israel from Egypt that they might worship Him. In the wilderness, God gave them the Ten Commandments on the tables of stone to keep. Deuteronomy 5:6-22 Today in this wilderness, God gives the same Ten Commandments through the fleshly tables of the heart by His Spirit. Read II Corinthians 3:3. What is a wilderness? Read Isaiah 50:2 & Deuteronomy 32:10. (a) Dry pasture land with scanty grazing. (b) A dry, desolate, unfertile land. (c) Cities and places once inhabited but now lying waste. It is a place of trials and tests. The scapegoat on the Day of Atonement, was sent away into a wilderness. Our Savior, the Lord YaHshua Messiyah, was tempted in the wilderness of this world. Read Matthew 4:1-11. Moses died in the wilderness. YaHshua died for our sins in the wilderness of this world. It is in the wilderness that God was leading the children of Israel by a pillar of fire at night and by a cloud during the day. In today’s wilderness, God is leading His people by His Spirit. “For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are sons of God.” Romans 8:14 “For some, when they heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses. But with whom was He grieved forty years? Was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?” Hebrews 3:16-17 Their hearts turned to Egypt (Numbers 11:5-6; 14:11-16). Read Numbers 14:2-4 & Hebrews 3:7-12, 15. The wilderness of wandering is that part of Arabian Desert in which the children of Israel wondered for forty years because of rebellion against God. It is located in the peninsula of Sinai, in the region between Egypt and Canaan. “To Him which led His people through the wilderness: for His mercy endureth forever.” Psalms 136:16 The following is God’s promise for His children in the wilderness: “The Lord your God which goeth before you, He shall fight for you, according to all that He did for you in Egypt before your eyes; And in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that the Lord thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came unto this place.” Deuteronomy 1:30-31 Read I John 2:15-16 & Leviticus 18:3-4. God’s chosen people were forbidden to do evils of Egypt, and not even the doings of the land of Canaan where He was leading them to. But they were to keep God’s Commandments. 3. CANAAN This was Promised Land to Abraham and his children as land which flows with milk and honey. This was the pleasant land. Genesis 17:8, Exodus 16:35, I Chronicles 16:16-18 “Therefore He said that He would destroy them, had not Moses His chosen stood before Him in the breach, to turn away His wrath, lest He should destroy them. Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not His Word. But murmured in their tents, and hearkened not unto the voice of the Lord. Therefore He lifted up His hand against them, to overthrow them in the wilderness: To overthrow their seed also among the nations, and to scatter them in the lands...” Psalms 106:23-48 Read Jeremiah 3:18-19 & Zechariah 7:7, 14. “And I have also established My covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage.” Exodus 6:4 “And I will bring you unto the land, concerning the which I did swear to give it to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it to you for a heritage: Iam the Lord.” Exodus 6:8 Read Numbers 13:25-30; 14:6-9; 11:3-23; 14:6-9. Today our Canaan is the promised paradise earth wherein dwelleth righteousness. “Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.” II Peter 3:13 “Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.” Matthew 5:5 Amen!
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