Led Through the Desert

(Dt8:11-16; 2Pe3:11-13)

God is the Lord in heaven (Dt4:39).

He is the Master of the heaven where there is no end to its time, joy, happiness and glory.

For He holds its key, what He opens no can shut and what He shuts no one can open(Rev3:7).

Faith is longing for Him, and

The life of this faith is overcoming all obstacles and passing through the world in order to arrive in heaven.

While a man's life is like an alien or a stranger (1Pe2:11),

Different from wanderers, his destination is clear so

He passes through various points without looking back.

God appointed His Son to be the Heir of all things and

Created the spiritual heaven for Him as His inheritance (Col1:16; He1:2).

For the Son to enter there

The universe, Hades, was made for Him to pass through.

After their exodus,

God led the Israelites through the desert with its venomous snakes and scorpions (Dt8:15),

As a shadow or a copy for the Son of God to pass through

Hades where the devil is (Is14:12-15; Heb9:24; 2Pe2:4).

This was reminded by the sanctuary where

The name of the Lord God and the Testimony which led the Israelites were,

While the prophecy said

A highway will be made in the desert where the clean will journey on it (Is35:1-2, 8-10).

Jesus said, "Destroy this temple and I will raise it again in three days (Jn2:19), because

Through the death and the resurrection of the temple of His body,

He would make a highway in Hades to lead souls to heaven (Jn14:1-6) for

He is the incarnate Word who came from the Father, from heaven (Jn1:11, 14, 18, 3:13).

As He died, Jesus said, "It is finished (Jn19:30), declaring that He:
1) Humbled Himself to Hades and revealed that the Father alone is the Lord in heaven (Php2:6-8);
2) Judged the devil who tried to ascend to heaven (Is14:12; 1Jn3:8); and
3) With His blood redeemed all men and with His torn flesh opened a new and living way to heaven (Mt27:51; He10:19-20).

Therefore, the Father raised Him from the grave and

Exalted Him to the highest place and gave Him the name above every name (Php2:9-11).

The Holy Spirit who was sent from there

Came in the name Yeshua to those cleansed by His blood and

Lets them know the way to heaven.

The man of the Spirit is he who

Knows that he is a pilgrim headed to heaven, and

Thus, puts effort to journey on "the Way of Holiness(Is35:8) and

Take off the lust of the flesh, the pride and the vanity of life along the way (1Pe2:11; 1Jn2:16).

For he longs to be led out of the burning universe in that day (1Pe3:6-14),

He passes through this world without regrets or looking back.

O Lord,

Thank You for making a highway in this vast and dreadful desert to lead us out!

Though we once lived this one life lost in the vanity of the world

Now that we know that we are pilgrims headed to heaven

Let us leave this world without looking back! Amen.