Our CHANGE/TRANSITION & Limits to our Territory

3-18-13

Joshua 1:

2Moses My servant is dead. So now arise [take his place], go over this Jordan, (die to self) you and all this people, into the land (Kingdom territory)which I am giving to them, the Israelites.(those who prevail/contend with God) 

3Every place upon which the sole (power) of your foot (walking through life) shall tread, that have I given to you, as I promised Moses.

4From the wilderness (place of wandering/dry place/a place driven to/a pasture)and this Lebanon (pure)to the great river Euphrates   (that makes fruitful)--all the land of the Hittites [Canaan]-- (trembling/fear) and to the Great [Mediterranean] Sea (masses of humanity) on the west ("toward the going down of the sun" or place or act of battlement) shall be your territory. ("coast"=border, territory, space, limit)

11Pass through (transition/change + the midst, among, inner part, middle) the camp (army/church) and command (set in order) (#853 from God as a sign/signal) the people, Prepare (stedfast; restored; to be firm, be stable, be established) your provisions, (meat, provision, venison, victuals; from: that which he took in hunting/lunch especially for a journey) for within three days (completed appointed time) you shall pass over (transition/change)(#853 from God as a sign/signal) this Jordan (humility/dying to self) to go in (enter/attain to) to take possession (to occupy be driving out previous tenants, and possessing in their place; to inherit)(#853 from God as a sign/signal) of the land (country, world, ground, wilderness; Kingdom Territory) which the Lord your God is giving you to possess. (to occupy be driving out previous tenants, and possessing in their place; to inherit)

12And to the Reubenites,(vision of the son) the Gadites,(band/troop type:church) and the half-tribe (to cut/split in two/middle/partial/incomplete/one of two equal parts/shorten/curtail...church) of Manasseh, (forgetfulness) Joshua (type: Jesus) said,

13 Remember (#853 from God as a sign/signal)(mark) what Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, saying, The Lord your God is giving you (#853 from God as a sign/signal)[of these two (witness/testimony; division/separation) and a half (to cut/split in two/middle/partial/incomplete/one of two equal parts/shorten/curtail) tribes (church) a place of] rest  (quiet, repose, open space, to alight) and will give you this land [east of the Jordan] (before/precedes humility/dying to self).

14Your wives, (extended mortal) your little ones, (to trip with short steps) and your cattle (possession, purchase, substance) shall dwell in the land which Moses gave you on this side (opposite side of transition/change) of the Jordan, (humility/dying to self) but all your mighty men (prevail/exceed/powerful/warrior) of valor (ability/sufficantcy/ strength, might, efficiency, wealth, army) shall pass (transition/change) on before  (to turn) your brethren (resemblance/relative, kinship, same tribe) [of the other tribes] armed, (in battle array, arrayed for battle by fives, armed; from: the 5th rib='grace' in 'conviction of sin/the intimate part of man's makeup; abdomen/) and help them (to surround, that is, protect or aid/secure)[possess their land]

15Until the Lord gives your brethren rest, (to settle down/let fall/place) as He has given you, and they also possess (to seize, dispossess, take possession off, inherit, disinherit, occupy, impoverish, be an heir) (#853 from God as a sign/signal)the land the Lord your God is giving (to give, put, set) them. Then you shall return (to return, turn back; restore/refresh/repair)to the land of your possession (be driving out previous tenants and possessing in their place;  inheritance) and possess it, (to seize, dispossess, take possession off, inherit, disinherit, occupy, impoverish, be an heir) the land Moses the Lord’s servant gave you on the sunrise side (east; hide self/hiding place/refuge; to hide as if in the bosom/to cherish) of the Jordan. (transition/change; region beyond or across)