man must be arrested before the people of the Lord can pass over Jordan into their

inheritance. Rom. 5: 12 - 8: 39 is seen in type and shadow here.

Thus the Red Sea passage sets forth our union with Christ in His triumph over sin and

death, and the Jordan passage our actual triumphant passage into literal resurrection

glory. The reader may fill in many other parallels, for example, the Lord's baptism in

Jordan followed by His genealogy back to Adam, and the calling of the twelve "from the

baptism of John", as witnesses, but these details are somewhat apart from our theme.

It is noticeable that Israel pass the Jordan "right against Jericho". Just as the passage

through the Red Sea spread consternation among the natives of Canaan, so also did the

passage of the Jordan (Josh. 5: 1). It is here that Joshua meets "The Captain of the Lord's

host" (5: 13-15). This is the beginning of the conquest of Canaan. The first to fall is

Jericho and its king, and in the Lord's mercy the initial victory of this third phase is seen

to be all of faith. Now follows a series of battles, interspersed with events that we must

consider together when we reach this book in Fundamentals of Dispensational Truth,

until at the close of chapter 12: a halt is made and a list drawn up comprised of thirty-

one kings that had been smitten.

The record of Caleb and Joshua given in Numbers and Joshua may throw light upon

the position of those who, like these men of faith, press on to the goal and overcome.

Sufficient, however, has been said to point the direction for the child of God that he may

realize the past, the present and the future phases of this mighty conflict with

principalities, and powers, who, like the Canaanites, are doomed to destruction, who shall

be turned out of their possessions in the heavenlies, and who already, like Sihon and Og,

seek to prevent us "passing through". Let us not forget the solemn lesson of "then came

Amalek", nor the fact that Christ's triumph has traveled on ahead through all spheres, and

is the basis of our ultimate victory. The power of His might in Eph. 1: 19 and Eph. 6:

10 is both His triumph and our triumph, Both Rom. 5:-8: and I Cor. 15: link the

doctrine of Adam, death, and resurrection victory together, a truth so blessedly set forth

in the heaped up waters of Jordan near the city of Adam. "Stand therefore."

Immediately following the exhortation to put on the whole armour of God comes

prayer.  The statement with which this idea of prayer is introduced  is somewhat