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Bible Study Desert Theology – Leading God's Faithful Back Into The Desert

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Desert Theology – Leading God's Faithful Back Into The Desert

The current fad in Christian theology is the notion of 'economic justice' where everyone is expected to receive the same economic subsistence which is equivalent to a communist economic system. This 'desert theology' was practiced long ago by all the newly liberated Hebrew slaves after God brought them out of Egypt.

When the Israelites were being led in the desert by Jesus Christ, who was the Pillar of Fire and the Pillar of Cloud, they only lived on a few basic staples that were replenished daily. In this march across the desert Jesus Christ, who again was the Pillar of Fire and the Pillar of Cloud, was leading all of them to the 'Promised Land' which would eventually become Christ's body, God incarnate.

Notice that everyone during this march in the desert to the 'Promised Land' had complete economic and social justice where everyone received the same subsistence existence. This economic and social justice in the desert, that I call today's 'Desert Theology', was NOT the Promised Land but an economic system to lead all of the unsaved to the “Promised Land”!

Every people and/or nation that is not Christian (hint: today's Islamic and/or Communist nations) is forced to live as the Israelites did in the desert and wander in the desert of economic and social justice, where scarcity is forced upon everyone, aimlessly searching for the promised land which is actually the person of Jesus Christ.

Why would any Christian want to lead anyone back into the desert away from the “Promised Land” only to satisfy the wicked and their lust for economic and social justice. Remember that it was in the desert that all of man's greatest sins were committed (hint: Noah's Ark and the Great Flood – Sodom and Gomorrah) and God's judgment of those sins were initiated.

Eventually all the Israelites were led to the “promised Land' where God would use this land to become a man in the person of Jesus Christ who is God's Son become man. For God first made man from the dust of the ground. The promised land became Jesus Christ, a sinless man, who would then be crucified and died and then resurrected up to heaven where the promised land is now the person of Jesus Christ up in heaven.

Whenever a person believes in Jesus Christ they have finally arrived at the promised land for Jesus and his believers become one by the indwelling Holy Spirit. I rebuke all those Christians who want to lead everyone back into the desert were scarcity and suffering were the norm by living a life of 'economic and social justice and instead implore Christians to enjoy the fruits of God's Promised Land which is a belief in Jesus Christ and enjoy a land flowing with 'Milk and Honey'.

Believe in the Death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ and you will have found God's Promised Land and one day you'll be with God the Father, God the Son Jesus Christ, and God the Holy Spirit, forever in heaven!

God Bless
 
When I can get a little time, I'll respond to this thread. I liked a lot of what you wrote, and as well have a few questions for you. One of them is: The "Promised Land" is not a person IMO, it is a "land" a place, the New Jerusalem where the Christ will dwell with Christians who have remained faithful until the end....I have other questions.
 
A note on my meditation on The 10 Commandments.

Exodus 20:2 I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
I was struck that at the start of my quest to understand the Commandments from my Savior's understanding rather than mine, I went into praise because I saw that Jesus brought ME out of the house of the bondage of sin.
 
Question #2. How do you thing that Christians are leading others back to the desert? Back to my first statement, Why do you think that the promised land is the Christ? Also, I see the "march" as punitive because of their rebellion to enter that land 40 years ago, just saying.
 
Chopper said:
A note on my meditation on The 10 Commandments.

Exodus 20:2 I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
I was struck that at the start of my quest to understand the Commandments from my Savior's understanding rather than mine, I went into praise because I saw that Jesus brought ME out of the house of the bondage of sin.
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Jeremiah 23:5-8
Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth. In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, the Lord our Righteousness. Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that they shall no more say, The Lord liveth, which brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt; But, The Lord liveth, which brought up and which led the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all countries whither I had driven them; and they shall dwell in their own land.


Just a thought for you, but what is the promised land? Is not the promised land the inheritance? And for whom or what do you hope to inherit? A piece of land promised through a former covenant? Or is your hope of Christ?

1 Peter 1:3-5
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
 
Hebrews 12:18-21
For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest, And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more: (For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart: And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake.

Hebrews 12:22-24
But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.
 
Basically, the "Promised Land" to me is Old Covenant language. New Covenant language is the Heavenly "New Jerusalem" I have already had my desert wandering in sin before my Salvation. Once I was saved, my hope and longing was for my heavenly home with Yhovah my Elohiym. In other words, with my Heavenly Father, my Savior Jesus, and the Holy Spirit as well with my loved ones.

I am about to start a new thread on the New Jerusalem. Most Christians have not been taught about the reality of this heavenly place.
 
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