God leads us out of sin but those who do not follow are not led into the eternal New Jerusalem.

Ezekiel 20:14-17

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“But I acted for My name’s sake, that it should not be profaned before the Gentiles, in whose sight I had brought them out. So I also raised My hand in an oath to them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, ‘flowing with milk and honey,’ the glory of all lands, because they despised My judgments and did not walk in My statutes but profaned My Sabbaths; for their heart went after their idols. Nevertheless, My eye spared them from destruction. I did not make an end of them in the wilderness.” Ezekiel 20:14-17

While in Egypt, the Israelites profaned the name of God by living for the idols of Egypt and every pleasant carnal desire while not being sensitive to the ways of God. For that reason, God brought them out of the corrupt influence of Egypt, by the Ten Plagues, for all the Egyptians to see His power over them. While in the wilderness, God gave them the Ten Commandments, and other laws, along with the Sabbaths so they could learn how to live for Him. But they ignored His word and His Sabbaths so God said that they would not be brought into the promised land, “flowing with milk and honey”. The Israelites continued to want to serve a false god, instead of the Living God, as described in Exodus 32 when the golden Calf was built. While the majority of Israelites did not cross over into the promised land, a few did, God did not completely annihilate them in the wilderness.

“Remember Your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; do not look on the stubbornness of this people, or on their wickedness or their sin, lest the land from which You brought us should say, “Because the Lord was not able to bring them to the land which He promised them, and because He hated them, He has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.” Yet they are Your people and Your inheritance, whom You brought out by Your mighty power and by Your outstretched arm.’” Deuteronomy 9:27-29

Only because God spared a few of the Israelites, Jesus Christ was born thousands of years later, from the Jewish Tribe of Israel, by the Spirit of God.

Before Jesus Christ, all of humanity was in “Egypt” living by the ways, desires, and will of this world. Today, the majority of the world lives by the idol that gives them what to think, feel, do, and say. Even before that, God knew how corrupt “Egypt” was, so He led all of humanity out from being held bondage there and led the world into the wilderness. Here in the wilderness today, He sent His Son Jesus Christ to atone for sin, to give us the Holy Bible, and to establish the Church. In the Church and through His word, we are to learn how to live for Him and be set apart from this world. But everyone has abandoned the Gospel of Jesus Christ and have defiled the Church. While the majority of this world will not enter into the promised land of the eternal New Jerusalem, the faithful few who hold to the testimony of Christ Jesus will.

“The Lord is not slack about His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance…For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” 2 Peter 3:9, John 3:16

A piece of the “land flowing with milk and honey” lives within us through the Holy Spirit, who is the guarantee of our eternal inheritance in the promised land of the New Jerusalem, as quoted, “In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is the guarantee of our inheritance…” Ephesians 1:13-14

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“….to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets,“
‘I will not impose any other burden on you, except to hold on to what you have until I come.’”
“I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.”
Revelation 2:24-25, 3:11