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phillip78:
I have a question with a passage of scripture. Hopefully someone here may help.

Exodus 6:6-8
6.Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments:
7And I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God: and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God, which bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.
8And I will bring you in unto the land, concerning the which I did swear to give it to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it you for an heritage: I am the LORD.

Here is my question:

Did God say that he would bring the 1st generation of Israelites into the Promised Land but instead they died in the desert after refusing to go in? Or was this something totally different?

Deborah-Leigh:

Hi phillip78

We may begin to learn in LOF part 1 of the Ray Smith series, that the Scriptures are not literal or physical.  This is expounded and secured upon the very words or our Lord Jesus Christ who says:

Joh 6:63  It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.

Like all the Scripture, every Word is as Jesus says it is ~ Spirit and Life.

So if anyone reads the words that Jesus speaks, which is the entire Scriptures, if read with the flesh, physical eyes, interpreting spiritual words as if they are physical in meaning, then there can be nothing profitable or beneficial or fruitful in doing so.
 
The Hebrew Scriptures are written in aorist tense being of meaning past, present and future or is, was and will be. So everything you have presented in the Scripture you wish to understand has its meaning in what is past, present and future.

There are many generations. the generations of the heavens and of the earth, the generations of Adam, the generations of Noah, there are even perpetual generations: there are their generations and your generations,  and all generations, yet a first generation is not referred to anywhere that I can find,  in the Scriptures.
 
There is a first man Adam, a second man who is our Lord from Heaven and a Last Adam that the Scriptures don’t say is a man at all, but is a quickening Spirit.

Recommended reading / re-reading : LOF part 1

So to answer your question ~  God did not promise one thing and then wipe out all evidence of not keeping His Promise except for two who entered the Promised Land. God keeps His Promises and God knew exactly where when and how the rebellious children of Israel were to die even before they left Egypt. He still made His Promise and He will keep it. The dead shall rise again to judgment and we know, trust and believe that the Son of God was sent by The Father, as Jesus Who came to save the world, not just the few, the contemporary or those He knew when He still walked on the earth in a physical mortal body.

Everyone will be saved, healed repented, purged and purified, judged and made right with God. God didn’t lie then, He doesn’t lie now and He is not a God that He should lie.

That’s good news for us! 8)

Arc

mharrell08:

--- Quote from: phillip78 on September 27, 2010, 09:53:19 AM ---I have a question with a passage of scripture. Hopefully someone here may help.

Exodus 6:6-8
6.Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments:
7And I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God: and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God, which bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.
8And I will bring you in unto the land, concerning the which I did swear to give it to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it you for an heritage: I am the LORD.

Here is my question:

Did God say that he would bring the 1st generation of Israelites into the Promised Land but instead they died in the desert after refusing to go in? Or was this something totally different?
--- End quote ---


Hello Phillip78,

While the scriptures do not refer to them as the 1st generation, the generation that the Lord is speaking of here did not enter the Promise Land, except for Joshua & Caleb [Num 14:29-30].

Jacob was named Israel [Gen 32:28], so the 1st generation would be his sons & daughters, and possibly grandsons & granddaughters. Neither were told to enter the Promise Land, God visited their descendants many years later to free them from Egypt.


Hope this helps,

Marques

Deborah-Leigh:
Num 16:13  Is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of a land that flows with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, but must you also seize dominion over us?

Moses was falsely accused of bringing the Hebrews out of Egypt in order to kill  and rule over them. The upshot of that false belief and blasphemous assumption was:

Num 16:31  And it came to pass, as he had made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground cleaved asunder that was under them:
Num 16:32  And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained to Korah, and all their goods.
Num 16:33  They, and all that appertained to them went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them: and they perished from among the congregation.

... and that's not all that happened either! :o

Arc

phillip78:
Thanks for the replies. I have read, and re read all of the lake of fire series at bibletruths.com many times. I'm probably there nearly every single day. I'm sure we all have questions, and thoughts that come about sometimes, but usually I can find answers on BT.com, I didn't see anything on that subject.

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