- A heritage
Exodus 6:8 And I will bring you in unto the land, concerning the which I did swear to give it to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it you for an heritage: I am the Lord.
The promise of land given to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is repeated for Moses, and for the all the believers who would follow him and believe God. The land will be our inheritance. The land is the kingdom of God, now spiritually residing and ruling in our spirits. It is the life of God, shared by God, and shared with all brothers and sisters who believe in Jesus. And it is eternal.
It is the inheritance reserved for us in heaven. Upon the death of the Son of God the inheritance is earned for all people. Upon our spiritual death through Baptism and daily repentance the inheritance is sealed in the heart. Upon our physical death at the end of our time on earth we will receive the inheritance forever. I Peter 1:3, 4: “He has caused us to be born again…to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you.” The Lord makes us alive again to the inheritance that we once had before Adam fell. The inheritance is kept in heaven for us, and we enjoy it upon death.
Meanwhile, we have the Spirit. Ephesians 1:13, 14: “(We) were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it.” For the time being, we are not physically in the land; we are still sojourning is a foreign country, the world; but we do have the land in us, as a guarantee; heaven has come to us until we “go to heaven.”