Camped at Gilgal

We were saved out of Egypt, out of the Antichrist world spirit, by the blood of the cross. We were baptized with the Holy Spirit in order that we might overcome sin, and also serve our gifts and ministry to our fellow members of the Body of Christ, that Christ may be formed in them.
Now we are camped at Gilgal, in the plains of Jericho, to speak in a figure, looking toward Jericho, the first of the cities of Canaan that we are to possess. Canaan is a type of our land of promise, and it is filled with enemies.
We have not been here before. We have been occupied with learning the lessons that the wilderness, through which we have been plodding for many years, has provided for us while the older people have died off.
Now we have reached our goal—that which we have been thinking about while we have been growing up. It is a good land, good for agriculture and good for raising livestock. And yet it already is inhabited.
I have said, Canaan is a type of our land of promise. For so many centuries, Canaan has represented Heaven. "When we get to Heaven all of our problems will be over. Christ came to bring us to our mansion in Heaven."
But Canaan is not a type of Heaven. It simply is not a type of Heaven! Nowhere in the New Testament is Heaven set forth as our goal. None of the parables of Christ are about Heaven. The Apostles did not preach about our going to Heaven.
If Heaven is the goal of our salvation, there ought to be at least one New Testament statement that we are on our way to Heaven when we are saved. There is no such statement.