154. Bring You In
Deuteronomy 30:5 And the Lord thy God will bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it; and he will do thee good, and multiply thee above thy fathers.
After the Exile, the Lord promises to bring the people into the land which their fathers possessed. This promise is a predictive prophecy about the return from exile in Babylon. Moses is actually speaking to the future generations long after his own time. The fathers possessing the land are the people of the immediate future, who would go in and possess the land under Joshua. The descendants will go into exile in a foreign land and then be brought back.
And then and there in the land the Lord promises good to them and He will multiply then in the land in even greater ways.
The spiritual promise for us today that through Jesus Christ the Lord will bring us out of Captivity to the world under the control of sin, death, and the devil and He will bring us into the Kingdom of God. This spiritual kingdom is eternal life for believers in Christ. When Jesus died and rose He brought us out of the captivity of darkness into the freedom of His marvelous light. This Eternal Life we possess by faith. We enjoy the blessings of forgiveness of sins, life, and salvation now by faith, and we will live in the Promised Land later in actual sight.
The simple promise, “He will do you good,” is a big deal. We can trust God to be good and to do good, all the time. The Lord God is our Highest Good, and we look to Him alone for all the good we will ever need. He showers abundant spiritual blessings upon us every day, more than we are ever able to receive or hold on to with our “little faith.”
And He will multiply good to us as the Lord multiplies and grows the Church of all believers living in the Kingdom. Blessings are multiplied in our lives and the people of God are multiplied, for the Church is made up of myriads and myriads standing before the throne of God.