TODAY'S BIBLE TWEET

BIBLE TEXT: “From the wilderness and this Lebanon even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your coast.” (Joshua 1:4 KJV)

BIBLE TWEET: Here we have the boundaries of the Promised Land. It was bordered in the south by “the wilderness” or Arabian Desert, in the north by Mount “Lebanon,” in the east by “the great river” or the Euphrates, and in the west by “the great sea” or the Mediterranean. 

BIBLE TAKEAWAY: Although “all the land of the Hittites” or Canaanites was encompassed within the Promised Land, which God gave to Israel, the specific “land of the Hittites,” which was also divinely given to Israel, was, much to the chagrin of today’s Pro-Palestinian and antisemitic protesters, what they mistakenly refer to as Palestinian territory, which supposedly includes East Jerusalem, the Israeli-occupied West Bank, and the Gaza Strip.

As Charles Spurgeon makes clear, in his commentary on this verse, though the verse refers to a literal land, it also has a spiritual application, teaching us the following: “All that is in Christ is meant for all believers, and therefore all believers may have all that is in Christ, who is all in all. We should not, therefore, be content with pence when He endows us with pounds.”