This is going to be a long post so be patient.
Like the 12 spies of Israel, only a few of those who left Egypt (the called out) will be allowed to glimpse the glories of Canaan. Of those few who see it, only a remnant will have ears to hear , spiritual eyes to see, and a heart to believe that it can be attained. These will observe and consider the possibilities of a new spiritual habitation, something far beyond the experience of mortals. Their veins will pulse with the vision of Joshua and the courage of Caleb. Their hearts will yearn for something more, and be drawn by the tantalizing glimmer of a permanent spiritual inheritance.
If these qualities exist in your spirit, you are called to a rare and higher road. This road leads to the greatest of celestial battles. This ultimate war is for the conquest of Canaan. This supreme contest offers a prize of glittering excessive spiritual wealth, a prize above all others, a spiritual position in the first born company of the Sons of God.
These few are the 144,000
When a sinner is called out of sin he/she is in the wilderness and cared for by God as the Israelites were. But when confronted with their promised possession they drew back in fear and disbelief because they did not have the stomach for possible sacrifice of what they had in order to go to WAR to gain the possession. There were 2 (Joshua and Caleb) that did not draw back and were not afraid and only those 2 of all the people 20 years old and up were allowed to eventually enter in to the promised possession. And they entered in as WARRIORS. The rest were cared for by God in the wilderness and wandered in the desert until death claimed them. This is the state of the majority of Christianity today, either not shown the promised land or too afraid or unable to believe that it is theirs. This is the high road or the narrow path Jesus talked about.
All it requires is the death of the 5 Canaanite tribes in You which are your 5 senses, and once they are dead, their master, your carnal mind, will die with them. The lusty 5 senses of the physical body , and the Satanic carnal mind, are the 2 curses of Eden. The destruction of these adversaries is the WAR that God has provided for your spiritual perfection. (A mans enemies are those of his own household)
What you are able to see today in modern Christianity will cause bewilderment because it does not satisfy you. There is a lingering tug at your heart that says there is more and in order to get more we have to give up whatever is holding us back.
That I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death. If by and means I might advance to the earlier resurrection, which is from among the dead. Not as though I had already attainded, either were already perfect: but I follow after, If that I may apprehend that for which I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, FORGETTING those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before. I press toward the mark for the prize of the HIGH CALLING of GOD in Christ Jesus. Let us therefore , as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, GOD SHALL REVEAL EVEN THIS UNTO YOU.
Jesus Christ is the pattern for your spiritual maturity, and he established the universal standard for SELF SACRIFICE. Jesus did not do it all for you. Rather he made it possible for you to follow in his steps. If you do what Jesus did , you will come to the same reward. If you do not, you will die in the wilderness.
"If any man come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me."
"Whosoever does not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple."
"To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I overcame."
These short posts do very little justice to the magnitude of what is provided in the Bible and it leaves it up to each individual to dig up these precious pearls that God has hidden within the text. We are miners digging up spiritual gold that is more precious than anything the world has to offer.
Egypt represents slavery to sin.
The Red Sea represents the washing of the sinner with the blood of the lamb. Salvation
The wilderness represents that location where most are left to enjoy salvation until they are called unto the resurrection.
Canaan represents that area where the Warrior Son will be crucified of all self. And put on the mind of Christ becoming a Son of God.
When you cross the river Jordan be prepared for your own sacrifice.