Jos 3:7 | KingComments | STEP | Exalting Joshua is also a picture of what happened to the Lord Jesus. What happens to the ark and the people under Joshua’s leadership is of extraordinary significance. After the liberation from Egypt and the forty-year journey through the wilderness Joshua brings the people into the land! And how? Through the Jordan, the water of death! Has not the Lord Jesus become even greater for us now that He is in glory than that we would know Him only as the Savior of our sins? Now we do not only see what He has done away: our sins, but also what He has acquired for us: heavenly blessings. The Holy Spirit has come to tell us of this ( ). The glorification of the Lord Jesus by God at His right hand is the proof that God is with Him, as He was with Him during His life on earth ( ). He has glorified God on earth. Therefore God glorified Him in heaven ( ).

‏ Joshua 3:7

Joshua Encouraged by the LORD

Exalting Joshua is also a picture of what happened to the Lord Jesus. What happens to the ark and the people under Joshua’s leadership is of extraordinary significance. After the liberation from Egypt and the forty-year journey through the wilderness Joshua brings the people into the land! And how? Through the Jordan, the water of death!

Has not the Lord Jesus become even greater for us now that He is in glory than that we would know Him only as the Savior of our sins? Now we do not only see what He has done away: our sins, but also what He has acquired for us: heavenly blessings. The Holy Spirit has come to tell us of this (Jn 16:13-15).

The glorification of the Lord Jesus by God at His right hand is the proof that God is with Him, as He was with Him during His life on earth (Acts 10:38). He has glorified God on earth. Therefore God glorified Him in heaven (Jn 13:31-32).