Peace in Christ.
Joshua was a “type” for Jesus Christ.
With Jesus/Joshua (His manifest eternal life in this mortal body), we will also go unto the promise “land”….that is, to inherit this earth. We are to be rulers with Him in the age to come.
With Him, we will continue to live in this earth to see this (to inherit this earth) just as Caleb and Joshua did with the Promised Land while the unbelievers of Israel died off in the desert.
Deu 31:7
(7) And Moses called unto Joshua, and said unto him in the sight of all Israel, Be strong and of a good courage: for thou must go with this people unto the land (earth) which the LORD hath sworn unto their fathers to give them; and thou shalt cause them to inherit it.
Caleb (meaning “faithful, whole-hearted”) was kept alive by the LORD….and so will we also by our faith in the name of Jesus Christ whose eternal life shall be made manifest in our mortal bodies in the here-and-now (in this present evil age) to keep us alive unto the coming age where we shall inherit this earth (the gospel/good news of the Kingdom).
This is not about “dying and going to Heaven”.
All of those who are perishing (mortally dying) have been deceived by false prophets and do not understand the true good news (gospel) of our Lord Jesus Christ for the here-and-now. They perish in the wilderness so to speak.
Jos 14:10-11 KJV
(10) And now, behold, the LORD hath kept me alive, as he said, these forty and five years, even since the LORD spake this word unto Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness: and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old.
Caleb and Joshua continued to live on this earth to inherit the promised land while the unbelievers died in the wilderness and did not reach that destination.
Caleb and Joshua had “eternal life” in a sense as they were kept alive by the LORD to inherit the promised land. We also shall be preserved in this earth with the manifest eternal life of Jesus keeping us alive until we inherit the earth.
Num 26:65 KJV
(65) For the LORD had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. And there was not left a man of them, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
Num 14:24 KJV
(24) But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it.
Those who are dying have not truly believed. They have "believed" in vain.
Heb 3:17-19 KJV
(17) But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?
(18) And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?
(19) So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.
The ends of the “world”….that is, AGE…are come upon us…so let us heed the warnings of what the people did in the wilderness (and died there) and not follow them. They are examples to us of what not to do so that we may continue to live here.
1Co 10:11-12 KJV
(11) Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.
(12) Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.
For we are to be delivered (plucked out) from this present evil age (in this “desert”) that we are currently living in by God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ. “world” = “age”.
The 2 ages overlap as we shall have the eternal life of the next age to come NOW in Jesus Christ so that we may live on this earth until all of the kingdoms of this world become His…of which we become rulers of this earth with Him.
Gal 1:3-4
(3) Grace be to you and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ,
(4) Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world (AGE), according to the will of God and our Father:
We are NOT to be taken out of this world but rather to be kept from the evil of this present evil age.
Joh 17:14-16 KJV
(14) I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
(15) I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.
(16) They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
Our Savior Jesus Christ has rendered death idle and has brought life and immortality to light through the good news.
2Ti 1:9-10 KJV
(9) Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,
(10) But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel:
Whosoever believes INTO Him (as His immortal life shall be made manifest in our mortal flesh) should not perish (mortally die from this earth) but have “eternal life”….the eternal life of the age to come to be had NOW in this present evil age. “eternal” = age lasting.
Joh 3:15-17 KJV
(15) That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
(16) 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.
(17) For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
Through faith in His name, He makes our “man” (our mortal body) strong in “perfect soundness” so that we may live.
Act 3:16 KJV
(16) And his name through faith in his name hath made this man strong, whom ye see and know: yea, the faith which is by him hath given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.
Note the lame beggar that was miraculously healed was “above 40 years old”. This is not just a trivial detail.
Act 4:21-22 KJV
(21) So when they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding nothing how they might punish them, because of the people: for all men glorified God for that which was done.
(22) For the man was above forty years old, on whom this miracle of healing was shewed.
This detail of his age points back to Caleb who was also 40 years old in the desert and was made strong even until age 85 so that he could live in the desert until he could dwell in that promised land. He was kept alive for 45 years while in the desert.
Jos 14:10-11
(10) And now, behold, the LORD hath kept me alive, as he said, these forty and five (45) years , even since the LORD spake this word unto Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness: and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five (85) years old.
(11) As yet I am as strong this day as I was in the day that Moses sent me: as my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war, both to go out, and to come in.
But be aware of the false prophets among us. They lead us astray and overthrow faith so that we do not believe INTO Jesus. We are then destroyed with them from this earth. We perish along with them.
They deny the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ.
Jud 1:4-5 KJV
(4) For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
(5) I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.
They deny the Holy One and the Just….the true Lord Jesus…and many desire “another jesus” that the false prophets are preaching (their “jesus” Barabbas…the preaching of the “son” of their church fathers).
Act 3:14-15 KJV
(14) But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you;
The false prophets and their followers “kill the Prince of life” as the eternal life of Jesus is not being made manifest in the mortal flesh of those they are deceiving. His life is being aborted from this earth…. from being made manifest in the mortal flesh of those who are being deceived by them.
(15) And killed the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses.
We and our “rulers” do it through ignorance. We do not have the true gospel of Jesus Christ being preached to us.
Act 3:16-17 KJV
(16) And his name through faith in his name hath made this man strong, whom ye see and know: yea, the faith which is by him hath given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.
(17) And now, brethren, I wot that through ignorance ye did it, as did also your rulers.
The “princes of this age”….the church rulers…are in ignorance. If they knew what they were doing, they would not be currently crucifying the Lord of glory whom God has already raised from the dead. They do not know the true good news of Jesus Christ who brings our mortal bodies immortality in this earth in the here-and-now.
1Co 2:7-8 KJV
(7) But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:
(8) Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
But if any man be in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things (such as death) are passed away. There shall be no more death. As He lives, we shall live in this earth.
2Co 5:17-18 KJV
(17) Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
(18) And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;
Rev 21:4-5 KJV
(4) And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
(5) And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.
Joshua was a “type” for Jesus Christ.
With Jesus/Joshua (His manifest eternal life in this mortal body), we will also go unto the promise “land”….that is, to inherit this earth. We are to be rulers with Him in the age to come.
With Him, we will continue to live in this earth to see this (to inherit this earth) just as Caleb and Joshua did with the Promised Land while the unbelievers of Israel died off in the desert.
Deu 31:7
(7) And Moses called unto Joshua, and said unto him in the sight of all Israel, Be strong and of a good courage: for thou must go with this people unto the land (earth) which the LORD hath sworn unto their fathers to give them; and thou shalt cause them to inherit it.
Caleb (meaning “faithful, whole-hearted”) was kept alive by the LORD….and so will we also by our faith in the name of Jesus Christ whose eternal life shall be made manifest in our mortal bodies in the here-and-now (in this present evil age) to keep us alive unto the coming age where we shall inherit this earth (the gospel/good news of the Kingdom).
This is not about “dying and going to Heaven”.
All of those who are perishing (mortally dying) have been deceived by false prophets and do not understand the true good news (gospel) of our Lord Jesus Christ for the here-and-now. They perish in the wilderness so to speak.
Jos 14:10-11 KJV
(10) And now, behold, the LORD hath kept me alive, as he said, these forty and five years, even since the LORD spake this word unto Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness: and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old.
Caleb and Joshua continued to live on this earth to inherit the promised land while the unbelievers died in the wilderness and did not reach that destination.
Caleb and Joshua had “eternal life” in a sense as they were kept alive by the LORD to inherit the promised land. We also shall be preserved in this earth with the manifest eternal life of Jesus keeping us alive until we inherit the earth.
Num 26:65 KJV
(65) For the LORD had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. And there was not left a man of them, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
Num 14:24 KJV
(24) But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it.
Those who are dying have not truly believed. They have "believed" in vain.
Heb 3:17-19 KJV
(17) But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?
(18) And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?
(19) So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.
The ends of the “world”….that is, AGE…are come upon us…so let us heed the warnings of what the people did in the wilderness (and died there) and not follow them. They are examples to us of what not to do so that we may continue to live here.
1Co 10:11-12 KJV
(11) Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.
(12) Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.
For we are to be delivered (plucked out) from this present evil age (in this “desert”) that we are currently living in by God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ. “world” = “age”.
The 2 ages overlap as we shall have the eternal life of the next age to come NOW in Jesus Christ so that we may live on this earth until all of the kingdoms of this world become His…of which we become rulers of this earth with Him.
Gal 1:3-4
(3) Grace be to you and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ,
(4) Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world (AGE), according to the will of God and our Father:
We are NOT to be taken out of this world but rather to be kept from the evil of this present evil age.
Joh 17:14-16 KJV
(14) I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
(15) I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.
(16) They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
Our Savior Jesus Christ has rendered death idle and has brought life and immortality to light through the good news.
2Ti 1:9-10 KJV
(9) Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,
(10) But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel:
Whosoever believes INTO Him (as His immortal life shall be made manifest in our mortal flesh) should not perish (mortally die from this earth) but have “eternal life”….the eternal life of the age to come to be had NOW in this present evil age. “eternal” = age lasting.
Joh 3:15-17 KJV
(15) That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
(16) 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.
(17) For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
Through faith in His name, He makes our “man” (our mortal body) strong in “perfect soundness” so that we may live.
Act 3:16 KJV
(16) And his name through faith in his name hath made this man strong, whom ye see and know: yea, the faith which is by him hath given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.
Note the lame beggar that was miraculously healed was “above 40 years old”. This is not just a trivial detail.
Act 4:21-22 KJV
(21) So when they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding nothing how they might punish them, because of the people: for all men glorified God for that which was done.
(22) For the man was above forty years old, on whom this miracle of healing was shewed.
This detail of his age points back to Caleb who was also 40 years old in the desert and was made strong even until age 85 so that he could live in the desert until he could dwell in that promised land. He was kept alive for 45 years while in the desert.
Jos 14:10-11
(10) And now, behold, the LORD hath kept me alive, as he said, these forty and five (45) years , even since the LORD spake this word unto Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness: and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five (85) years old.
(11) As yet I am as strong this day as I was in the day that Moses sent me: as my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war, both to go out, and to come in.
But be aware of the false prophets among us. They lead us astray and overthrow faith so that we do not believe INTO Jesus. We are then destroyed with them from this earth. We perish along with them.
They deny the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ.
Jud 1:4-5 KJV
(4) For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
(5) I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.
They deny the Holy One and the Just….the true Lord Jesus…and many desire “another jesus” that the false prophets are preaching (their “jesus” Barabbas…the preaching of the “son” of their church fathers).
Act 3:14-15 KJV
(14) But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you;
The false prophets and their followers “kill the Prince of life” as the eternal life of Jesus is not being made manifest in the mortal flesh of those they are deceiving. His life is being aborted from this earth…. from being made manifest in the mortal flesh of those who are being deceived by them.
(15) And killed the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses.
We and our “rulers” do it through ignorance. We do not have the true gospel of Jesus Christ being preached to us.
Act 3:16-17 KJV
(16) And his name through faith in his name hath made this man strong, whom ye see and know: yea, the faith which is by him hath given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.
(17) And now, brethren, I wot that through ignorance ye did it, as did also your rulers.
The “princes of this age”….the church rulers…are in ignorance. If they knew what they were doing, they would not be currently crucifying the Lord of glory whom God has already raised from the dead. They do not know the true good news of Jesus Christ who brings our mortal bodies immortality in this earth in the here-and-now.
1Co 2:7-8 KJV
(7) But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:
(8) Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
But if any man be in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things (such as death) are passed away. There shall be no more death. As He lives, we shall live in this earth.
2Co 5:17-18 KJV
(17) Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
(18) And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;
Rev 21:4-5 KJV
(4) And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
(5) And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.
