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we may also be glorified with Him.

A marvelous testimony is brought forth in this account of the crossing of the Jordan.
The details of this event are pregnant with hidden meaning.

Joshua 3:3-4
And they commanded the people, saying, "When you see the Ark of the Covenant of
Yahweh your God with the Levitical priests carrying it, then you shall set out from your
place and go after it. However, there shall be between you and it a distance of about 2,000
cubits by measure. Do not come near it, that you may know the way by which you shall
go, for you have not passed this way before."

Why did the Father command that a distance be kept between the Ark and the next
group of people to cross the Jordan? And why did the Father specifically determine that the
distance be "about 2,000 cubits"? This is all by marvelous design. Christ must cross ahead
of His brothers. Each cubit represents a year. It would be "about 2,000" years from the time
that Christ tasted death and entered into glory until the next group to follow after Him
would be resurrected into glory. Yahweh could have been very precise, but He has
intentionally hidden the hour and the day from mankind. Therefore, He will tell us only that
it will be about 2,000 years from Christ entering into His inheritance until a firstfruits
group of overcoming Christians enters into their inheritance.
There is far more in the description of this crossing for us yet to glean. Consider the
following details.

Joshua 3:14-16
So when the people set out from their tents to cross the Jordan with the priests carrying
the Ark of the Covenant before the people, and when those who carried the Ark came into
the Jordan, and the feet of the priests carrying the Ark were dipped in the edge of the
water (for the Jordan overflows all its banks all the days of harvest), the waters which
were flowing down from above stood and rose up in one heap, a great distance away at
Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan; and those which were flowing down toward the sea
of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, were completely cut off.

I mentioned already that the Israelites had to leave their tents in order to cross the
Jordan. This is a strange detail to include in the Scriptures. It should go without saying that
the Israelites only journeyed by exiting their tents. A man cannot travel while still staying
in his tent. Such a detail appears to be superfluous if one views this account merely on a
physical level as history.
This reveals an error of much of the church today. Many read the Old Testament as
history, but do not study it to discern the hidden mysteries of this present age and the ages
to come. The mention of the Israelites setting out from their tents is not a meaningless
detail when one views this event as prophecy. These things were written for our benefit, and
our instruction.

I Corinthians 10:11
Now these things happened to them as an example, and they were written for our
instruction, upon whom the ends of the ages have come.

The events that happened to Israel in the wilderness serve as "types of us."