Shalom,
Our teaching today will come from Joshua 12.1-24 and Joshua 13.1-33.
AND THE TITLE OF OUR MESSAGE IS, THESE ARE THE KINGS OF THE LAND OF CANAAN THAT THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL KILLED WHEN JOSHUA TOOK THE WHOLE LAND AS THE LORD COMMANDED MOSES, AND GAVE IT TO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, THE JEWISH PEOPLE, FOR AN INHERITANCE TO BECOME THE LAND OF ISRAEL. THIS IS THE LAND THAT THE LORD WILL TRANSFORM INTO THE 1,000 YEAR MESSIANIC KINGDOM THAT WILL BE LIKE THE GARDEN OF EDEN WHEN HE RETURNS.
And with that said, let’s read Joshua 12.1-24.
So The Children of Israel killed Sihon, king of the Amorites, Og, the king of Bashan, current day The Golan Heights, the king of Jericho, the king of Ai, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, the king of Eglon, the king of Gezer, the king of Debir, the king of Geder, the king of Hormah, the king of Arad, the king of Libnah, the king of Adullam, the king of Makkedah, the king of Beth El, the king of Tappuah, the king of Hepher, the king Aphek, the king of Lasharon, the king of Madon, the king of Hazor, the king of Shimron-meron, the king of Achshaph, the king of Tanaach, the king of Megiddo, the king of Kedesh, the king of Lokneam of Carmel, the king of Dor, the king of the nations of Gilgal, the king of Tirzah.
Thirty one kings from the land of Canaan, plus Sihon, the king of the Amorites, and Og the king of Bashan did The Children of Israel kill and defeat, and possess their land that GOD gave to The Children of Israel, The Jewish People, for an inheritance that became The Land of Israel.
And those GOD Given Borders of Israel GOD will return to The Jewish People when The LORD returns to establish His 1,000 year Messianic Kingdom in The Land of Israel that Messiah Yeshua, The LORD GOD ALMIGHTY will transform to be like The Garden of Eden.
GENESIS 15.18-21, GENESIS 17.8, ISAIAH 51.3
JOSHUA 13.1 READS, NOW JOSHUA WAS OLD AND STRICKEN IN YEARS, AND THE LORD SAID TO HIM, YOU ARE OLD AND STRICKEN IN YEARS, AND THERE REMAINS YET VERY MUCH LAND TO BE POSSESSED.
AND TO SUMMARIZE THE WORDS OF JOSHUA 13.2-7, THE LORD TOLD JOSHUA, THIS IS THE LAND OF CANAAN THAT REMAINS. ALL THE BORDERS OF THE PHILISTINES, AND ALL GESHURI, FROM SIHOR WHICH IS BEFORE EGYPT, AND ALL LEBANON.
AND THE LORD SAID TO JOSHUA, NOW THEREFORE DIVIDE THIS LAND FOR AN INHERITANCE TO THE TRIBES, AND THE HALF TRIBE OF MANASSEH. (THE OTHER TWO AND A HALF TRIBES, THE TRIBE OF GAD, THE TRIBE OF REUBEN, AND THE HALF TRIBE OF MANASSEH, WERE SETTLED ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE JORDAN RIVER IN CURRENT DAY JORDAN.
LET’S LOOK AT JOSHUA 1.1-4 THE GOD GIVEN LAND OF ISRAEL IS ALL THE WILDERNESS THAT THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WALKED THROUGH DURING THE EXODUS FROM EGYPT TO THE PROMISED LAND CANAAN, THAT INCLUDES LEBANON, MUCH OF SYRIA, IRAQ, AND JORDAN, AND A PORTION OF EGYPT FROM THE RIVER OF EGYPT.
THAT WILL BE THE LAND OF ISRAEL, THE MESSIANIC KINGDOM, WHEN MESSIAH YESHUA RETURNS AND REIGNS OVER ALL THE EARTH FROM JERUSALEM THAT GOD WILL TRANSFORM TO BE LIKE THE GARDEN OF EDEN.
AND GOD SAID TO JOSHUA AFTER THE DEATH OF MOSES, GO OVER THIS JORDAN RIVER, YOU AND ALL THIS PEOPLE TO THE LAND WHICH I GIVE TO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL. EVERY PLACE THAT THE SOLE OF YOUR FOOT SHALL TREAD UPON THAT HAVE I GIVEN TO YOU AS I SAID TO MOSES.
FROM THE WILDERNESS, AND THIS LEBANON, TO THE GREAT RIVER, THE RIVER EUPHRATES, ALL THE LAND OF THE HITTITES TO THE GREAT SEA, WHICH IS THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA, TOWARD THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN SHALL BE YOUR COAST.
YOU KNOW, RATHER THAN TALK ABOUT, WHY DO THE HEATHEN RAGE, AND THE PEOPLE IMAGINE A VAIN THING BECAUSE THE JEWISH PEOPLE LIVE IN THEIR OWN GOD GIVEN LAND, THE LAND OF ISRAEL, I THOUGHT WE WOULD SPEAK ABOUT THE FUTURE 1,000 YEAR MESSIANIC KINGDOM IN ISRAEL.
GOD WILL DEAL WITH THOSE WHO RAGE THAT ISRAEL DOES NOT BELONG TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE. WE’VE BEEN THERE FOR 3,400 YEARS.
LET’S TAKE A PEEK INTO THE MESSIANIC KINGDOM IN ISRAEL WHERE WE WILL BE WITH THE LORD OUR GOD, THE MESSIAH YESHUA FACE TO FACE FOR 1,000 YEARS BEFORE HE TAKES US TO HEAVEN FOR ETERNITY.
GOD SAYS THROUGH HIS PROPHET JEREMIAH, BEHOLD THE DAYS COME SAITH THE LORD THAT I WILL RAISE UNTO DAVID A RIGHTEOUS BRANCH, AND A KING SHALL REIGN AND PROSPER.
THE RIGHTEOUS BRANCH, AND KING, WHO WILL REIGN FOREVER IS THE MESSIAH YESHUA, THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY.
JEREMIAH 23.5-8
AND THE LORD TELLS US TO BE GLAD AND REJOICE FOREVER IN THAT WHICH I CREATE.
GOD WILL CREATE THE FUTURE MESSIANIC KINGDOM IN ISRAEL FROM THE RIVER OF EGYPT TO THE EUPHRATES RIVER. ABOUT ONE THIRD THE SIZE OF THE UNITED STATES.
SO THE LORD TELLS US TO BE GLAD AND REJOICE FOREVER IN THAT WHICH I CREATE, THE 1,000 YEAR MESSIANIC KINGDOM THAT WILL BE LIKE THE GARDEN OF EDEN. PURE, SINLESS, MAGNIFICENT BEAUTY, WITHOUT DEATH, NO PAIN, NO SICKNESS, NO SORROW, OR SADNESS. AND THE LORD GOD HIMSELF WILL DWELL AMONG US. ISAIAH 65.18-25
ISAIAH 65.18-19 BUT BE GLAD AND REJOICE FOREVER IN THAT WHICH I CREATE, GOD SAYS, FOR BEHOLD I CREATE JERUSALEM A REJOICING, AND HER PEOPLE A JOY. AND I WILL REJOICE IN JERUSALEM.
I BELIEVE THAT JERUSALEM IS SYMBOLIC FOR ALL THE MESSIANIC KINGDOM.
EVERYBODY GOD BRINGS INTO THE MESSIANIC KINGDOM WILL BE GLAD, AND WE WILL REJOICE FOREVER.
WE HAVE TO THINK ON THAT FOR A MOMENT BECAUSE LIVING ON THIS EARTH, WHEREVER PEOPLE ARE TODAY, WHATEVER COUNTRY THEIR HOME MAY BE, THERE IS RELATIVELY LITTLE JOY AND REJOICING.
BUT MESSIAH’S KINGDOM WILL BE A TIME OF REJOICING, AND GLADNESS, AND JOY, FOREVER.
AND GOD WILL REJOICE WITH US. HE WILL REJOICE AND JOY IN HIS PEOPLE. ALL PEOPLE, NATIONS, AND LANGUAGES WILL SERVE THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY, THE MESSIAH YESHUA, WITH JOY AND REJOICING FOREVER.
DANIEL 7.13-14, ZEPHANIAH 3.14-17
BACK TO ISAIAH 65.18-19. THERE WILL NEVER BE HEARD THE SOUND OF WEEPING OR CRYING IN THE KINGDOM. SADNESS WILL VANISH, REPLACED WITH GLADNESS AND REJOICING FOREVER. AND THE LORD OUR GOD WILL REJOICE OVER US, FOREVER.
GOD WILL TRANSFORM THIS WORLD INTO A NEW AGE, BUT ETERNAL PEACE AND JOY WILL REIGN IN THE MESSIANIC KINGDOM IN ISRAEL THAT WILL BE LIKE THE GARDEN OF EDEN.
TODAY, I DOUBT IF THE LORD IS VERY HAPPY WITH HIS HUMAN CREATION. THESE DAYS ARE LIKE THE DAYS OF NOAH. VERY FEW PEOPLE LIVE BY THE SPOKEN WORD OF GOD IN THE BIBLE. SO GOD SHOWS HIS ANGER WITH HIS JUDGMENTS THAT HE’S POURING ON THE EARTH. THE SPIRIT OF HATE, FIRES, EARTHQUAKES, FLOODS, CORONAVIRUS, RIOTS, VANDALISM, MURDER, SICKNESS, DISEASE, DEATH, AND SO ON. BECAUSE OF DISOBEDIENCE TO THE SPOKEN WORD OF GOD IN THE BIBLE FROM GENESIS THROUGH REVELATION.
DEUTERONOMY 8.3, MATTHEW 4.4, LUKE 4.4
BUT IN THE KINGDOM OF THE MESSIAH YESHUA THAT WILL BE LIKE THE GARDEN OF EDEN, THE LORD WILL REJOICE IN JERUSALEM FOREVER. AND THE VOICE OF WEEPING AND CRYING WILL DISAPPEAR.
ISAIAH 65.20 I BELIEVE THESE WORDS ARE FOR THOSE PEOPLE LIVING OUTSIDE THE MESSIANIC KINGDOM IN ISRAEL.
THERE SHALL NOT BE AN INFANT OF DAYS ANYMORE, NOR AN OLD MAN THAT HAS NOT FILLED HIS DAYS. FOR THE CHILD SHALL DIE AT ONE HUNDRED YEARS OLD, BUT THE SINNER, THE DISOBEDIENT TO THE SPOKEN WORD OF GOD, WILL DIE AT ONE HUNDRED YEARS OLD AND BE ACCURSED.
DURING THE 1,000 YEAR MESSIANIC KINGDOM IN ISRAEL, THERE WILL BE UNGODLY PEOPLE LIVING OUTSIDE THE KINGDOM. PERHAPS SOME WILL GET SAVED, BUT OTHERS WILL NOT.
ISAIAH 65.21-22 WE IN THE KINGDOM WILL BUILD HOUSES, AND LIVE IN THEM. WE WILL PLANT VINEYARDS, AND EAT THE FRUIT OF THEM.
WE WILL NOT BUILD AND ANOTHER WILL LIVE IN OUR HOUSE. WE WILL NOT PLANT AND ANOTHER EAT OF WHAT WE PLANT. FOR AS THE DAYS OF A TREE ARE THE DAYS OF MY PEOPLE, MY ELECT SHALL LONG ENJOY THE WORK OF THEIR HANDS.
SOME TREES LIVE FOR 5,000 YEARS. THE MESSIANIC KINGDOM IS 1,000 YEARS. AND THEN GOD WILL TAKE US UP TO HEAVEN TO LIVE WITH HIM FOREVER. AND THE EARTH WILL BURN UP AND DISAPPEAR.
ISAIAH 24.4-6, REVELATION 20.11
ISAIAH 65.23 WE WILL NOT LABOR IN VAIN. THE MESSIANIC KINGDOM WILL HAVE LABOR. WE WILL STILL BE ON EARTH BUT IN SPIRITUAL BODIES. THOSE OF US WHO ARE RESURRECTED FROM THE DEAD, OR RAISED WHILE YET ALIVE AT MESSIAH’S RETURN WILL HAVE SPIRITUAL BODIES LIKE GOD.
BUT THERE WILL ALSO BE PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT SAVED AT MESSIAH’S RETURN WHOM THE LORD WILL SAVE, AND GIVE SALVATION, AND BRING THEM INTO THE KINGDOM.
AND WHEN THEY MEET THEIR MESSIAH YESHUA, THE BIBLE SAYS, THEY WILL MOURN FOR HIM AS ONE MOURNS FOR HIS ONLY SON. PERHAPS, BECAUSE THEY REJECTED THEIR MESSIAH YESHUA.
BUT GOD WILL SEE THEM RIGHTEOUS FOR LIVING ACCORDING TO TORAH, THE LAW OF MOSES, OR GENTILES WHO BLESSED THE JEWISH PEOPLE AND ISRAEL. AND GOD WILL SAVE THEM.
ZECHARIAH 12.10-14, GENESIS 12.3, MATTHEW 25.31-46, PSALM 17.15, 1 JOHN 3.1-2, 1 CORINTHIANS 15.42-44, 49-58
BACK TO ISAIAH 65.23 THEY WILL NOT LABOR IN VAIN, NOR BRING FORTH IN TROUBLE, FOR THEY ARE THE DESCENDANTS OF THE BLESSED OF THE LORD, AND THEIR OFFSPRING WITH THEM.
THE HEBREW FOR OFFSPRING IS STEH’EH’STAH’EEM, MEANING CHILDREN. YOUR CHILDREN, AND PERHAPS YOUR GRANDCHILDREN WILL BE WITH YOU IN THE MESSIANIC KINGDOM IN ISRAEL, AND THROUGHOUT ETERNITY IN HEAVEN.
ISAIAH 66.24-25 AND GOD SAYS, IT SHALL COME TO PASS, THAT BEFORE WE CALL, I WILL ANSWER, AND WHILE WE ARE YET SPEAKING, I WILL HEAR.
THE WOLF AND THE LAMB SHALL FEED TOGETHER. AND THE LION SHALL EAT STRAW LIKE THE BULL. AND THE DUST SHALL BE THE SERPENT’S FOOD. THEY SHALL NOT HURT NOR DESTROY IN ALL MY HOLY MOUNTAIN, SAITH THE LORD. BECAUSE THERE WILL BE PERFECT PEACE IN THE MESSIANIC KINGDOM.
SO LET’S PEEK IN AND GET A GLIMPSE OF WHAT THE MESSIANIC KINGDOM WILL LOOK LIKE. ISAIAH 54.11-13
VERSE 11 THE STONES IN THE KINGDOM, AND THE STONES OF YOUR HOUSE WILL BE THE SAME BEAUTIFUL STONES AS THE TEMPLE. PERHAPS MARBLE. AND THE FOUNDATIONS OF YOUR HOUSE WILL BE GEMS AND SAPPHIRES OF BEAUTIFUL BLUE.
VERSE 12 YOUR WINDOWS WILL BE RUBY AND AGATES OF MANY BEAUTIFUL COLORS. AND YOUR GATES WILL BE CARBUNCLE STONES OF MAGNIFICENT RED AND BLUE CRYSTAL.
AND THE BORDERS OF THE KINGDOM WILL BE PRECIOUS STONES.
VERSE 13 AND ALL YOUR CHILDREN WILL BE TAUGHT OF THE LORD, AND GREAT SHALL BE THE PEACE OF YOUR CHILDREN.
THE PRECIOUS STONES AND GEMS IN THE KINGDOM, I BELIEVE, WILL BE AS THE THRONE OF GOD, AND THE PRECIOUS STONES AND MARBLE, THE SAME AS THE TEMPLE OF GOD.
EZEKIEL 1.4-5, 26, 1 CHRONICLES 29.1, 2
AND GOD SAYS, IF IT IS MARVELOUS IN THE EYES OF THE REMNANT, THOSE OF US WHOM GOD SAVES BECAUSE WE HAVE ATONEMENT IN MESSIAH YESHUA, AND WE LIVE OUR LIFE ACCORDING TO EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE FROM GENESIS THROUGH REVELATION, GOD SAYS, IT WILL ALSO BE MARVELOUS IN HIS EYES.
AND OUR JOY WILL BE FOREVER.
AND EVERYONE IN THE KINGDOM, FROM THE LEAST TO THE GREATEST, SHALL KNOW THE LORD, THE MESSIAH YESHUA, GOD ALMIGHTY.
AND GREAT PEACE SHALL WE HAVE BECAUSE WE LOVE TORAH, GOD’S LAWS WRITTEN IN THE LAW OF MOSES.
ZECHARIAH 8.6-8, ISAIAH 51.11-13, JEREMIAH 31.34, PSALM 119.165
GREAT IS THE LORD AND GREATLY TO BE PRAISED.
AND THE LORD YOUR GOD WILL REJOICE OVER YOU FOREVER.
Shalom,
Ira Weinstein
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