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It hasn’t always gone smoothly, either. There have been times in the Church’s history when she would lose ground and things would get dark. But then someone would get light on the Word of God. Someone would get a revelation, like Martin Luther did about the just living by faith, and the Church would light up and start growing again. Through it all, though, God has never given up on us. He’s kept teaching us, line upon line and precept upon precept. And over time, we’ve learned some things. We’ve learned how to operate by faith. We’ve learned how to resist the devil and rejoice even in the face of persecution. We’ve learned how to cast our care over on the Lord; how to tithe and give so that regardless of what happens in the world we are BLESSED and abounding. Now, in these last days before Jesus returns, God is bringing it all together. He’s preparing us to finish out this Church Age in triumph by giving us a fresh revelation of the fact that we truly are His people. That although we’re in the world, we are not of it. That we’re His special possession and He wants us to live like it. Through His apostles, prophets, pastors and teachers, we’re being reminded anew of what Paul told the early Church: “You are the temple of the living God. As God has said: ‘I will dwell in them and walk among them. I will be their God, and they shall be My people.’ Therefore ‘Come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, and I will receive you. I will be a Father to you, and you shall be My sons and daughters’” (2 Corinthians 6:16-18, "NKJV"). Raising Up a Generation to Take the Promised Land If you’ve read the Old Testament you know those words were first spoken by God to the Israelites. As His First Covenant people, God called them His own just like He does us under the New Covenant. Having separated them to Himself from all the nations of the earth, He repeatedly talked to them in the Scriptures about dedicating themselves and their lives to Him. All too often though, they refused. They’d draw near to Him for a while, but then they’d give in to the pull of their flesh and the devil. Providing us, as New Covenant believers, with an excellent example of what not to do, they’d backslide into ungodliness and start living like the world. Take, for example, what happened after God brought them out of Egypt. Although they initially sang praises to Him for splitting the Red Sea and delivering them from Pharaoh’s army, they soon turned back to Egyptian idolatry. At Sinai, while Moses was on the mountain getting God’s commandments, they built and started worshipping a golden calf! When Moses returned, he got them straightened out. But they didn’t stay that way long. A few months later, when they were about to go into the Promised Land and found out it was full of giants, they backslid again. 28 : BVOV