Proverbs 10:30
The righteous shall never be removed:
But the wicked shall not inhabit the earth.
From eternity, the righteous is promised an inhabitation.
It is important to notice that under King Solomon, God’s people possessed that land under the large boundaries given to Abraham: from the Euphrates to the Nile. This inheritance is a perpetual inheritance conditional on obedience to God’s Law. After all, if we abide in His Land, we should obey His rules. Sad to say, because we broke the terms of the ‘Lease’, our ‘Landlord’ kicked us out. All is not lost though, because the ‘Lease’ also comprises an atonement clause. The ‘Landlord ‘s Son’ pleads to His Father on our behalf and even pays for the damages. He also takes charge of teaching us how to be better guardians of the terms of the ‘Lease’; the terms even say that He ‘turns’ us away from our Law-lessness and disobedience. As we learn to obey the terms of the ‘Contract’, we are in time returned to our Land.
But those who absolutely refuse the help of the Son, those who do not want to learn how to obey the lease, those will never possess the land. The eschatological role of that land is too important. It is to become the spiritual center of the earth: the place where the whole world will come to learn about God. Therefore the people living there have got to be an example of God’s character. God cannot allow sin, which is the breaking of the ‘Lease’, to exist in that land. The Son, who is without sin, will reign there and that land is to represent Him, His character, His inner being.
Let us rejoice in this promise: God’s people have a land. It has been promised to them. They have a land from where they shall never be removed. No dubious peace plans preserves it for them, only the Hand of the Almighty El Shaddai Himself who has promised it to them. The wicked, he who is disobedient to God’s law, has no place in it. It is a place of promise, of learning, of plenty, of peace, of love and of laughter. It is a place where God’s people are no more pilgrims and stranger trying to obey their God while living in foreign cultures. It is a place they can finally call ‘home’, where they can, without fears and uncertainties, unpack from their millenniums of travels and finally settle with their children and grand-children. It is a land where serving their God is no strange thing. It is a Land of milk and honey.
The righteous shall never be removed:
But the wicked shall not inhabit the earth.
From eternity, the righteous is promised an inhabitation.
It is important to notice that under King Solomon, God’s people possessed that land under the large boundaries given to Abraham: from the Euphrates to the Nile. This inheritance is a perpetual inheritance conditional on obedience to God’s Law. After all, if we abide in His Land, we should obey His rules. Sad to say, because we broke the terms of the ‘Lease’, our ‘Landlord’ kicked us out. All is not lost though, because the ‘Lease’ also comprises an atonement clause. The ‘Landlord ‘s Son’ pleads to His Father on our behalf and even pays for the damages. He also takes charge of teaching us how to be better guardians of the terms of the ‘Lease’; the terms even say that He ‘turns’ us away from our Law-lessness and disobedience. As we learn to obey the terms of the ‘Contract’, we are in time returned to our Land.
But those who absolutely refuse the help of the Son, those who do not want to learn how to obey the lease, those will never possess the land. The eschatological role of that land is too important. It is to become the spiritual center of the earth: the place where the whole world will come to learn about God. Therefore the people living there have got to be an example of God’s character. God cannot allow sin, which is the breaking of the ‘Lease’, to exist in that land. The Son, who is without sin, will reign there and that land is to represent Him, His character, His inner being.
Let us rejoice in this promise: God’s people have a land. It has been promised to them. They have a land from where they shall never be removed. No dubious peace plans preserves it for them, only the Hand of the Almighty El Shaddai Himself who has promised it to them. The wicked, he who is disobedient to God’s law, has no place in it. It is a place of promise, of learning, of plenty, of peace, of love and of laughter. It is a place where God’s people are no more pilgrims and stranger trying to obey their God while living in foreign cultures. It is a place they can finally call ‘home’, where they can, without fears and uncertainties, unpack from their millenniums of travels and finally settle with their children and grand-children. It is a land where serving their God is no strange thing. It is a Land of milk and honey.
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