Golden Candlestick: December 2000: From the Wilderness to the Land - Entry into the Land

January 1st, 1945

Summary

We have been thinking of the distance of difference be-tween Christ and ourselves. In virtue of the shed and sprinkled blood, Israel had been brought out of Egypt and made the people of God; they were the Lord’s redeemed ones. But even so a fact existed which could not be overlooked, ignored or made light of, a fact which had to be recognised, and fully so. That fact was, and is, that even when we are the Lord’s, in ourselves there is a vast distance of difference between ourselves as ourselves and Himself. Eleven days and forty years — not a fixed period, a period fixed by God; that is, not of necessity forty years. The distance is determined, not by geography or time, but entirely by the appropriation of faith.

Scriptures Referenced

Deuteronomy 1:2-3

²(There are eleven days’ journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir unto Kadeshbarnea.) ³And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spake unto the children of Israel, according unto all that the LORD had given him in commandment unto them;

Deuteronomy 8:2

²And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.

Hebrews 3:19

¹⁹So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

Hebrews 4:1

¹Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.

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