We will be looking at the book of Hebrews to see what it says about Israel and the Promised Land. The concept of the Promised Land comes from Paradise, where Adam walked in relationship and communion with God.
The concept of paradise or the land appears in the prophets in symbolism, where it is a place of rest, or peace, of security from enemies and reconciliation and peace with God. Phrases like “every man sitting under his fig tree” describe the serenity of reconciliation in a way that can be understood in human terms (Is 65:22, Zech 3:10).
There are many pictures like this, of living in the land under the New Covenant. They do not picture a one thousand year reign of Christ in Jerusalem. They picture the redemption of Christ. The land is thus reconciliation. The land is Christ, just as the Sabbath is.
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