Take head then lest you enter not into the promise as the children of Israel "did not enter through unbelief "
For did they not also come through the blood? Did they not also hear the same Gospel ?
The Gospel has been reduced (for a peace sake) to being but BORN again .The getting out of Egypt .
For Pharoah is a type for the devil and Egypt a type for the world.
They became a people of God after they were saved from both .
By the Word of God .The promise to Abraham.
By the power of God . The judgements on Egypt .
By the blood of a lamb .
and by the will of God .
It was not then by might or by their own power or works they were saved . But by the grace of God .
By Grace are we saved and that through faith (in the lamb and the Word of God)
"They entered not in because of unbelief "
I used to think that unbelief was just not believing God.
Its not .
Its also believing the wrong message .
The two faithful spies walked and saw things by faith .
How long did it take them to get FROM Egypt TO the banks of the river Jordan and the promised land?
Most people say 40 YEARS . That's not what the scriptures say of it .
It took them 40 DAYS !
The church has justified disobedience and wandering in the wilderness as the NORM of a Christian life .
Those who so wandered . Was not God still with them? had they stopped being children of God?
Not at all .
In fact they had miracles every day of the week twice on Saturday for 40 YEARS ! and their cloths never wore out .
Yet they were out of the centre of God s will .
The two faithful servants 40 years later entered into the promise in the same strength they had before .
in Christ
gerald