The land to which we go
Steven Key uses Deuteronomy 11:10-12 to contrast the earthly promised land of Canaan with the heavenly inheritance awaiting believers, encouraging Christians to fix their focus on Christ and the eternal kingdom rather than temporal earthly concerns. The article applies Old Testament typology to exhort believers toward spiritual maturity and heavenly-mindedness as they journey toward their ultimate inheritance in glory.
"For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs: but the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven: a land which the Lord thy God careth for: the eyes of the Lord thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year." Deuteronomy 11:10-12 2020! Time speeds...
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