Why is it that Joshua could not give God's people rest? What IS God's rest?
God's rest is rest from one's own effort.
Hebrews 4:10For the person who has entered His rest has rested from his own works, just as God did from His.
Joshua escorted Israel into the Promised Land, but Israel never entered God's rest.
The text says that she never entered rest because she had disobeyed:
Hebrews 4:2For indeed we have had good news preached to us, just as they also; but the word they heard did not profit them, because it was not united by faith in those who heard.
3For we who have believed enter that rest, just as He has said,
“AS I SWORE IN MY WRATH,
THEY SHALL NOT ENTER MY REST,”
although His works were finished from the foundation of the world.
Apparently entering rest is not entering the Promised land because Israel DID enter the Promised Land. What then IS the rest David speaks of:
Hebrews 4:7He again fixes a certain day, “Today,” saying through David after so long a time just as has been said before,
“TODAY IF YOU HEAR HIS VOICE,
DO NOT HARDEN YOUR HEARTS.”
Rest is the final destination of God”s Holy Spirit, as it moved from being in the Tabernacle within the camp of Israel, to being in Solomon’s Temple in the Promised Land, to being in Christ when He rose up from being baptised in the River Jordan.
God’s rest therefore is the rest in Christ.
http://www.frame-poythress.org/ebooks/the-shadow-of-christ-in-the-law-of-moses/
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We may return to the same conclusion that we reached before: the sacrifice of animals is inadequate to achieve final cleansing, nor can it cleanse anything more than the copies of heavenly things. Then who will bring the definitive sacrifice? A man must do it. A similar point is made indirectly in Num. 35:33-34: “Do not pollute the land where you are. Bloodshed pollutes the land, and atonement cannot be made for the land on which blood has been shed, except by the blood of the one who shed it. Do not defile the land where you live and where I dwell, for I, the LORD, dwell among the Israelites.” When a man had shed blood, the man must die. But there is one exception, when the blood of the death of the high priest releases a manslaughterer to return home (Num. 35:25-28). The blood of the high priest has special value. In agreement with this principle, Zech. 3 uses all the symbolism of a defiled human high priest Joshua and then speaks mysteriously of the Branch in connection with which “I will remove the sin of this land in a single day” (Zech. 3:9).
IDEA MODULE 1
The real Tabernacle, Israel, Temple, Promised Land, is Christ, who in turn is the new Man, the second Adam, the restored humanity.
Those who are in the new humankind, in Christ, are the beneficiaries of the will which was executed when the first humankind died, IN Christ, of which Christ Himself is the first fruit.
IDEA MODULE 2
Being in Christ is a process.
If we walk in the light as He is in the Light, the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all unrighteousness.
Synthethic paralleism
1 John 1:9If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Eternal life is having Christ. Having Christ is God working in us to harvest eternal treasures, treasures in heaven.
Next we will study the topic of why Israel was given the Law.
God's rest is rest from one's own effort.
Hebrews 4:10For the person who has entered His rest has rested from his own works, just as God did from His.
Joshua escorted Israel into the Promised Land, but Israel never entered God's rest.
The text says that she never entered rest because she had disobeyed:
Hebrews 4:2For indeed we have had good news preached to us, just as they also; but the word they heard did not profit them, because it was not united by faith in those who heard.
3For we who have believed enter that rest, just as He has said,
“AS I SWORE IN MY WRATH,
THEY SHALL NOT ENTER MY REST,”
although His works were finished from the foundation of the world.
Apparently entering rest is not entering the Promised land because Israel DID enter the Promised Land. What then IS the rest David speaks of:
Hebrews 4:7He again fixes a certain day, “Today,” saying through David after so long a time just as has been said before,
“TODAY IF YOU HEAR HIS VOICE,
DO NOT HARDEN YOUR HEARTS.”
Rest is the final destination of God”s Holy Spirit, as it moved from being in the Tabernacle within the camp of Israel, to being in Solomon’s Temple in the Promised Land, to being in Christ when He rose up from being baptised in the River Jordan.
God’s rest therefore is the rest in Christ.
http://www.frame-poythress.org/ebooks/the-shadow-of-christ-in-the-law-of-moses/
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We may return to the same conclusion that we reached before: the sacrifice of animals is inadequate to achieve final cleansing, nor can it cleanse anything more than the copies of heavenly things. Then who will bring the definitive sacrifice? A man must do it. A similar point is made indirectly in Num. 35:33-34: “Do not pollute the land where you are. Bloodshed pollutes the land, and atonement cannot be made for the land on which blood has been shed, except by the blood of the one who shed it. Do not defile the land where you live and where I dwell, for I, the LORD, dwell among the Israelites.” When a man had shed blood, the man must die. But there is one exception, when the blood of the death of the high priest releases a manslaughterer to return home (Num. 35:25-28). The blood of the high priest has special value. In agreement with this principle, Zech. 3 uses all the symbolism of a defiled human high priest Joshua and then speaks mysteriously of the Branch in connection with which “I will remove the sin of this land in a single day” (Zech. 3:9).
IDEA MODULE 1
The real Tabernacle, Israel, Temple, Promised Land, is Christ, who in turn is the new Man, the second Adam, the restored humanity.
Those who are in the new humankind, in Christ, are the beneficiaries of the will which was executed when the first humankind died, IN Christ, of which Christ Himself is the first fruit.
IDEA MODULE 2
Being in Christ is a process.
If we walk in the light as He is in the Light, the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all unrighteousness.
Synthethic paralleism
1 John 1:9If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Eternal life is having Christ. Having Christ is God working in us to harvest eternal treasures, treasures in heaven.
Next we will study the topic of why Israel was given the Law.
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