35- Caleb’s spectacular deserved share

Caleb gets his share

Caleb gets his share.


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Why a special share for Caleb, not the same as the rest of the people? what are the different kinds, of blessings that the true believer can have? How was Caleb above the time? and why?

Caleb Inherits Hebron

(Because all these men who have seen My glory and the signs which I did in Egypt and the wilderness and have not heeded My voice, they certainly shall not see the land, I swore to their fathers. But My servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit in him and has followed Me fully, I will bring into the land where he went, and his descendants shall inherit it.) (NUMBERS 14:22,23,24)
(Nevertheless, my brethren who went up with me made the heart of the people melt, but I wholly followed the Lord my God. Now therefore, give me the mountain of which the Lord spoke in that day.) (JOSHUA 14:8,12)
(Hebron therefore became the inheritance of Caleb to this day.) (JOSHUA 14:14)
Thus, Caleb did not take part in the lot of dividing the land since he had a special privilege from the Lord Himself, in the mouth of prophet Moses. And the secret, behind this privilege, are many.
Firstly, Caleb means, heart and the coherence between Joshua and Caleb denotes to the coherence between, the faith of Jesus, with the pure heart, to enjoy, the eternal legacy. And Origin Adamantios says, that Jephunneh means conversion and Kenizzite means the despicable so, Joshua has been converted, from the despicable, to the life to live with a pure heart with the Lord.
Secondly, the linkage between Caleb and Joshua, between the heart and the faith makes us, be open-hearted and He can hold our inner soul and sit down in the throne of our hearts, so, as He holds us, we can hold our eternal legacy by Him. So, we should deliver our lives in His hand.
Thirdly, the meeting between Caleb and Joshua was at Kadesh meaning the holiness so that, in fact, we can only meet with Jesus through the life of the righteousness and holiness.
Fourthly, Caleb could get his promise through Moses representing the Law but attaining it can’t be made but for Joshua who can only give the rewarding. So, our Jesus gave us the commandment to get the rewarding through, not as a personal deserve but through Him who, also helps us to implement it to give us it from.
Fifthly, Caleb realized that his legacy is a legacy of partnership with Joshua meaning that our enjoyment of Jesus’s legacy Himself, is that we can have Him and His glory through our membership in his flesh. 
Finally, Caleb’s legacy was a fruit of his union with Joshua, does not mean being negative or slow in implementing the commandment but as he says, (But I wholly followed the Lord my God.) (JOSHUA 14:8)

Caleb is Above Time

(And now, behold the Lord has kept me alive, as He said, these forty-five years, ever since the Lord spoke this word to Moses while Israel wondered in the wilderness, and now, here I am this day, eighty-five years old. As yet I am as strong this day as on the day that Moses sent me; just as my strength was then, so now is my strength for war, both for going out and for coming in.) (JOSHUA 14:10-11)
If the real legacy that the believer can enjoy is the eternal one; that’s above time, and it is the extension of his life which he lives here, so, we will be better to enter the circle of the eternality instead of the timely one which in its turn makes us sometimes up, sometimes down.
Thus, Caleb could get the promise while, he was forty years and was strong for the work of the Lord and now he is eighty-five years yet, as strong as, he was at this, very same day.
Origin Adamantios comments on the words of Caleb, saying, the Saint in the truth carries the same power in the present, the same as the past, in the new matters as in the old ones, in the Bibles as in the Law since, the awakened heart realizes the secret of the two testaments with the same power.
(And Joshua blessed him and gave Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh as an inheritance.) (JOSHUA 14:13)
Tawfik, S. (2023). Caleb’s spectacular deserved share. www.orthodox-beliefs.com
Source is THE HOLY BIBLE NKJV. Arabic New van Dyck text C. The Bible Society of Egypt. Fifth Edition Third print2019. ISBN 978-1-84364-188-9. Printed in China.
Reference: – Book Joshua for father priest Tadros Jakob Malti printed in the Arabic language.

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