Christ in All the Scriptures by A.M. Hodgkin
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Christ in the Historical Books
Joshua
We now come to a new Leader and a new command to arise and go in to possess a new land. Moses was not able to bring the Children of Israel into the Land of Promise. Moses was the embodiment of the Law. The Law cannot bring us into the fulness of the blessing of the Gospel of Christ. That Jesus Christ alone can do, and through this book Joshua is a type of Him. The very name has the same meaning. Joshua means “Jehovah is Salvation.” “And thou shalt call His name Jesus—Saviour; for He shall save His people from their sins.”
God gave His people a threefold encouragement to go forward and possess the land:—
First—The Gift of the land. “Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that have I given unto you.”
Second—The Command. “Arise and go. Have not I commanded thee?”
Third—The Promise of His presence. “As I was with Moses so will I be with thee.”
And the Lord commanded them to observe to do according to all the law which Moses commanded, and to meditate therein day and night.
The Land. The entrance of the Children of Israel into the Land of Canaan is full of teaching for the Christian. It is true that in one sense it is a picture of the Better Country to which we look forward as our eternal Home. But in many respects it is far more truly a picture of our present inheritance in Christ Jesus, a good land we are called upon to enter here in this life.
It is a land of Rest from the wanderings of the wilderness life. A land with “great and goodly cities, which thou buildedst not, and houses full of all good things, which thou filledst not” (Deuteronomy 6:10-11).
It is a land of Plenty. “A land of wheat, and barley, and
