Joshua obviously took the promised territory. Scripture proves that. But this was not the eternal promised land. Christ was. The writer of the Hebrews is always pointing the Jew to something greater, higher and longer lasting than mere real estate in the Middle East. Hebrews 4:8 is showing us that the possession of the physical land boundaries of Israel wasn’t the true and lasting “rest” that Joshua, and Israel needed or longed for. Christ and the glorified state, where man would finally be delivered from the bondage of corruption by the redemption of our bodies and enter into the perfect eternal state, was.
If God does not have a people in His holy Land, who believe in Him and keep His Commandments, then He will have failed.
Who are the people that will re-inhabit the holy Land after all that area is cleared and cleansed by the Day of the Lord’s wrath? Zephaniah 1:1-18, Ezekiel 30:1-5, Jeremiah 10:18, Joel 1:15-20, +
The true Israelites of God, those who come to live in the new country of Beulah, [Isaiah 62:1-5] cannot be those who are apostate or of any sort of deviant personality. But there must be many left alive in the world who will credit the terrible Day of the Lord’s wrath to a natural event and continue on in their disbelief of a Creator God. They will form a One World Govt, as prophesied.
Ezekiel 20:37-38 is the best scripture that tells how the Lord will gather all His people, then judge them and those who ‘revolt and rebel’, will not enter the Land. Jeremiah 5:26-29, Isaiah 66:19b-21
Amos 9:10…
the sinners of My people will die by the sword… Isaiah 65:11-12
Isaiah 35:8-10…
no one unclean will travel along the ‘Way of Holiness’ into Zion.
Romans 9:24-26
You Christians are My people and in the same place as Israel was rejected, you shall be called Children of the Living God.
As we see in Daniel 7:25, Revelation 13:7, it is the ‘
holy ones of the Most High’ who are present in the Land during the end time events.
Unfortunately it is evident that the new Israelites go to some extent along the same path as their ancestors and in their prosperity, begin to fall away from the true faith in the Lord as their protector and they agree to a peace treaty with the leader of the OWG. Daniel 9:27 What the Lord thinks about this is in Isaiah 28:14-20
Isaiah 28:21-22 refers to the great Tribulation of the 7 Trumpets and 7 Bowls.
The rest of the world’s nations will be under the One World Government, a ten region entity governed by councils each headed by a President. They will soon confer their power and authority onto one charismatic leader, Revelation 17:13
So then, unrighteous and evil people will be present on earth right up until the Return of Jesus. Then, many prophesies say how all the wicked are destroyed then.
But Satan will be released at the end of the 1000 years and he will ‘seduce the nations’ for the one last time. This will sort out those who have kept their faith and those who rebel for the last earthly judgement.
For us, knowing how important it is to keep firm hold onto trusting the Lord for our protection during the forthcoming traumatic times ahead, it is a matter of life or death- Life eternal with Jesus or Death; eventual total annihilation.