“THE BOOK OF JOSHUA ~ a Type & Shadow” A-006 (05-19-21) Joshua 1:12-15
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Joshua 1:12-15 (NKJV) “12 And to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manas′seh Joshua said, 13 “Remember the word which Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, saying, ‘The LORD your God is providing you a place of rest, and will give you this land.’ 14 Your wives, your little ones, and your cattle shall remain in the land which Moses gave you beyond the Jordan; but all the men of valor among you shall pass over armed before your brethren and shall help them, 15 until the LORD gives rest to your brethren as well as to you, and they also take possession of the land which the LORD your God is giving them; then you shall return to the land of your possession, and shall possess it, the land which Moses the servant of the LORD gave you beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise.”
● The first point of focus is 1) “13 The LORD your God is providing you a place of rest, and will give you this land," and 2) “15 until the LORD gives rest to your brethren as well as to you, and they also take possession of the land which the LORD your God is giving them; then you shall return to the land of your possession, and shall possess it.”
● The rest they were to enter into was not something they obtained with their own two hands, but they entered into or possessed it by faith. Joshua 1:13 (KJV) “Remember the word which Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, saying, The LORD your God hath given you rest, and hath given you this land.”
● In a type of metaphor, this reminds me of how we have been given all things that pertain to life and godliness, “through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue.” When 2 Peter 1:3-4 talks about how God has give to us “magnificent promises that are beyond price,” or value, the Greek could read, “Through a glorious manifestation of His goodness He has imparted to us His magnificent promises.”
● Therefore, by claiming these tremendous promises as our very own, faith or the power of belief always releases the power of the words that Father has already spoken or declared from before time began. Also, to escape the corruption that is in this world that influences us by what we see, hear, and touch, we have been acquitted {apopheugō ~ ăw–păw–fŏŏ’–gō} so that “through the power of these tremendous promises we can experience partnership {koinōnia} with the divine nature,” of which living in or from Father’s divine nature provides the freedom from this sensory realm of flesh.
● Then the second point 2) from Joshua 1:15 which says, “until the LORD gives rest to your brethren as well as to you, and they also take possession of the land which the LORD your God is giving them; then you shall return to the land of your possession, and shall possess it.” A better way to look at this verse for me would be something like “until they obtain that which the Lord had already given them by promise.” And they had possessed the land which the Lord had given them, even while they were temporarily camped they beside the Jordan river before the journey had begun.
● The point is that Moses declared that God had given them the land while on the east side of the Jordan, toward the sunrising, meaning that they were camped on the east side, toward the going down of the sun. The sun would be at their backs during this journey and not in their faces which for me is a declaration of grace and favor. These various tribes of people were about to fight together, and stand together in this journey as they were on their way to possess that which God had promised.
● For us today, it is great to have others join you in this journey to freedom. But when you as a leader, even when you think you are alone, still you are never alone because the Fullness of the Godhead never leaves you. Also, even those who attempt to disconnect from you, are still with you in the cloud of witnesses as spirit.
● The fact is that Father’s plan always was for Israel to have a homeland, but not just for Israel, but for all mankind. You are the creation of the Fullness of the Godhead within you, and your home, your refuge, your dwelling place, has been and always will be within you, which is the realm of spirit, no matter what realm you seem to be interacting with at any moment in time.
Father said to Joshua, “as I was with Moses, so I will be with you.” Even when you deal with your own personal Jordan, remember that where are presently are in your journey, has been a time of preparing you to cross over in victory.
● Each day you are moving closer and closer to the full unveiling of Father’s mind within you as you possess or learn to live as a spirit-being, fully functioning from or out of the land of the spirit-realm. I hope you were enlightened and inspired to “dig deep into the well of Father’s mind within,” as you watch this video lesson!