- Inherit and Possess the Land
Leviticus 20:24 But I have said unto you, Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it unto you to possess it, a land that floweth with milk and honey: I am the Lord your God which have separated you from other people.
The Lord repeats the central promise of Land, which He had promised to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and the twelve tribes of Israel. You shall inherit the land, and I will give it to you to possess. The Lord did give Israel the land of Canaan, and they did possess it, though not completely.
The Land Promise is a spiritual promise for all the people who are believers in Jesus Christ. The Land is the Kingdom of God, the spiritual heaven where God lives and reigns, or, eternal life with God. The promise came true when the Son of God came to earth, announced it, showed it for all to see, bought it back from the Enemy with his shed blood, victoriously possessed it in the resurrection of the body, and freely gave it to us who would believe, receive and possess it. Heaven enters the hearts of believers in Christ.
The Lord our God has separated us from other people. The Jews were “different,” and the difference was evident when they kept the dietary and ritual rules that God had given to them. They were Holy. The holiness they had received from God separated them from other people. NT believers are also saved to be different than the rest of the world, and we are separated from other people. Unfortunately, we spend our lives trying to fit in, go along, and be like the world’s people. But we are separate and “different.” Humans cannot always tell the difference and people cannot always see what separates us from other people, but God sees. The Lord sees and knows who has the life of God in them and who doesn’t.
Christians are continually possessing the kingdom (“seek ye first the kingdom of God…”). We are taking it over from the enemy usurpers. The promise is that Sin, Death, and the Devil are conquered at the cross and the tomb, and through prayer and trust, by repentance and faith, with Word and Spirit, we drive out the unbelieving spirits who don’t belong in our lives and in our land. We exercise this authority based on the promise of inheritance and possession. “The kingdom ours remaineth.”