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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."

The ark of the covenant stands as a symbol of the presence of God in His glory... (This glory
was revealed in the Son who was the incarnation of the Father.)

Joshua commanded the priests to carry the ark into the waters of the Jordan, and all who
followed were strictly charged to remain at a distance of about 2,000 cubits. Every detail
of the word of God is pregnant with meaning. Yahshua would be the first man to cross into
the inheritance prepared for the sons of God. It would be “about 2,000" years before any
others were to follow, entering into the same inheritance prepared for the saints in glory.
The 2,000 cubits stand for 2,000 years. We should note, however, that it says “about
2,000,” for no one knows the hour or the day. We are not told that it would be precisely
2,000 years from the time of Yahshua’s resurrection to the time of the resurrection of His
firstborn brothers. We are only told that it will be “about 2,000" years.
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This is a marvelous testimony. Joshua is leading the people of God across the Jordan, signifying that
we must all pass through the waters of death before entering into our spiritual inheritance. The ark,
representing the presence of God revealed bodily in the person of the Messiah, went ahead of the
people. They were told to remain at a distance of “about 2,000 cubits.”

This distance was not arrived at arbitrarily. It was commanded by Yahweh who does all things with
great deliberation and divine purpose. He could have told the people to stay back 1,000 cubits, or
5,000 cubits, but He did not. He could have commanded the people to surround the Ark as they did
when they were camped in the wilderness. Doing so, however, would not have communicated the
spiritual parable that Yahweh had purposed. The distance was set by Yahweh to prophesy of His Son
being the first to cross through the waters of death and then to enter into His glorious inheritance.
Yahshua would be the first to enter into ruling and reigning with the Father, but there would be a
much more numerous company of overcoming sons who would one day join Him. These are those
sons who attain to the first resurrection.

Revelation 20:6
Blessed and holy is the one who has a part in the first resurrection; over these the second death has
no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with Him for a thousand years.

There is a distance in time between Christ’s ascension to the throne, and those who attain to the first
resurrection from the dead. The distance is “about 2,000" years, even as the ark and the Israelites
were separated by “about 2,000 cubits.” To understand more on this subject, I recommend the book
from which the above excerpt was taken.

It is very important that our Bibles faithfully reproduce the words and details of the original
manuscripts, for any alteration of the text will tend to obscure the spiritual insight contained therein.