God’s Promise and Israel’s destiny
Genesis 50:24-27 (New King James Version)
24 And Joseph said to his brethren, “I am dying; but God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land to the land of which He swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.” 25 Then Joseph took an oath from the children of Israel, saying, “God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here.” 26 So Joseph died, being one hundred and ten years old; and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
Pharaoh’s interference to stop God’s purpose for his people
Pharaoh comes between God and Israel to rob their destiny
So who was pharaoh?
Pharaoh is a title for the kings of Egypt. "Pharaoh" means the son of the sun. The Egyptian kings were regarded as gods. Mizraim is the Hebrew name for Egypt (Genesis 50:11). He is a worshipper of RA (the sun-god).
What did he represent?
He represents stubborn spirits, flesh, and evil spirit. In Exodus 15:9-12, we read about Pharaoh’s vow and the reaction of God Almighty. Pharaoh wanted to kill all the male children of Israel and eliminate them thereby. The scriptures say that pharaoh’s heart was hardened many times. And God had sent ten plagues, yet he did not change, but wanted to kill the Israelites or to bring them back as slaves. He wanted to keep them as slaves for good. It is against the will of God for Hebrew children. He comes between you and God’s will for your life. It could be anybody in your life who is preventing you from going to your destiny. The ultimate enemy is Satan who is behind the Pharaoh who is stopping you from reaching your destiny.
Even after the death of Pharaoh they did not make it, why?
Exodus 15:9-12 (New King James Version)
9 The enemy said, ‘I will pursue,
I will overtake,
I will divide the spoil;
My desire shall be satisfied on them.
I will draw my sword,
My hand shall destroy them.’
10 You blew with Your wind,
The sea covered them;
They sank like lead in the mighty waters.
11 “Who is like You, O LORD, among the gods?
Who is like You, glorious in holiness,
Fearful in praises, doing wonders?
12 You stretched out Your right hand;
The earth swallowed them.
Pharaoh is dead, but will they made it? , the Israelites, No.
So even after the pharaoh is dead, what stopped them from reaching their destiny?
Let us go to numbers and see.
Numbers 14:1-10, NKJV
Israel Refuses to Enter Canaan
1 So all the congregation lifted up their voices and cried, and the people wept that night. 2 And all the children of Israel complained against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt! Or if only we had died in this wilderness! 3 Why has the LORD brought us to this land to fall by the sword, that our wives and children should become victims? Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?” 4 So they said to one another, “Let us select a leader and return to Egypt.”
5 Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.
6 But Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had spied out the land, tore their clothes; 7 and they spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying: “The land we passed through to spy out is an exceedingly good land. 8 If the LORD delights in us, then He will bring us into this land and give it to us, ‘a land which flows with milk and honey.’[a] 9 Only do not rebel against the LORD, nor fear the people of the land, for they are our bread their protection has departed from them, and the LORD is with us. Do not fear them.”
10 And all the congregation said to stone them with stones. Now the glory of the LORD appeared in the tabernacle of meeting before all the children of Israel.
Numbers 13:30-33
30 Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses, and said, “Let us go up at once and take possession, for we are well able to overcome it.”
31 But the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.” 32 And they gave the children of Israel a bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying, “The land through which we have gone as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people whom we saw in it are men of great stature. 33 There we saw the giants[d] (the descendants of Anak came from the giants); and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight.”
Why they did not enter into the Promised Land?
Numbers 14:26-38 (King James Version)
Death Sentence on the Rebels
26 And the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, 27 “How long shall I bear with this evil congregation who complain against Me? I have heard the complaints which the children of Israel make against Me. 28 Say to them, ‘As I live,’ says the LORD, ‘just as you have spoken in My hearing, so I will do to you: 29 The carcasses of you who have complained against Me shall fall in this wilderness, all of you who were numbered, according to your entire number, from twenty years old and above. 30 Except for Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun, you shall by no means enter the land which I swore I would make you dwell in. 31 But your little ones, whom you said would be victims, I will bring in, and they shall know the land which you have despised. 32 But as for you, your carcasses shall fall in this wilderness. 33 And your sons shall be shepherds in the wilderness forty years, and bear the brunt of your infidelity, until your carcasses are consumed in the wilderness. 34 According to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, forty days, for each day you shall bear your guilt one year, namely forty years, and you shall know My rejection. 35 I the LORD have spoken this. I will surely do so to all this evil congregation who are gathered together against Me. In this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.’”
36 Now the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land, who returned and made all the congregation complain against him by bringing a bad report of the land, 37 those very men who brought the evil report about the land, died by the plague before the LORD. 38 But Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh remained alive, of the men who went to spy out the land.
Here is a list of their possible problems that prevented them from entering the Promised Land.
1) They had unbelief
2) They were feeding their unbelief
3) They really did not take the Lord at his word, even though they saw the mighty miracles of God
4) They had Egypt in them, even though they left Egypt physically, here Egypt represents the world and its systems.
5) They were more worried about their belly.
6) Their focus is on the world and its temptations
7) They had no commitment to the Lord to follow HIM.
8) They were rebellious in nature
9) They were always murmuring in nature
10) They had bad spirit in them
11) They loved the world more than they loved the Lord
12) They were focusing on themselves rather than the Lord
13) They were depending on their own strength rather than the Lord’s strength
14) Even after seeing so many miracles their faith did not grow
15) There was disobedience rooted in them, they were bent on it
16) They did not have faith in the Lord
17) Yes, they did not kill the self.
18) Yes, they did not walk in the spirit.
19) Yes, they did not put on Christ
20) Yes, they did not overcome the works of flesh
21) Yes, they did not die to the self
22) Yes, they did not crucify themselves
23) Yes, they loved darkness more than they loved light.
24) They did not follow the spirit of the Lord and the leader Moses who was given to them by God.
So what should you do to go to your destiny?
Numbers 14:24, NKJV
24 But My servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit in him and has followed Me fully, I will bring into the land where he went, and his descendants shall inherit it.
Among all those people only 2 people entered the land Canaan, the Promised Land, Caleb and Joshua. They entered because they had a different spirit in them.
Kill yourself, Not really, not physically anyway.
Galatians 2:20 (New King James Version)
20 I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.
Put on Christ
Romans 13:14 (King James Version)
14But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts thereof.
Galatians 3:27 (King James Version)
27For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
Walk in spirit
Galatians 5:16-26 (New King James Version)
Walking in the Spirit
16 I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. 17 For the flesh lusts against the Spirit and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish. 18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
19 Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery,[c] fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, 20 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, 21 envy, murders,[d] drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law. 24 And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. 26Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.
Walk in love
Romans 13:10-12 (New King James Version)
10 Love does no harm to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.
1 Corinthians 13 (New King James Version)
1 Corinthians 13
The Greatest Gift
1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. 2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned,[a] but have not love, it profits me nothing.
4 Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; 5does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; 6 does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part. 10 But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away.
11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. 12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.
13 And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
If you do all these things you will enter into your promised land.
You go to the land flowing with milk and honey
