The 42nd Generation is about getting inheritance (pt. 3)
A few days ago, I shared about what the 42nd Generation is. In yesterday’s blog I shared more of Andrew Shearman‘s revelation of the 42nd Generation and what it practically means for the Jesus-follower. I continue it below:
God has stockpiled treasures for you – not the kind of material abundance that the prosperity gospel wackos would have you believe, but a great inheritance in the form of kingdom fruit. To learn more about how you get it, we study the children of Israel, who after 42 stops in the desert, crossed over the Jordan. As described in Numbers 33, the Israelites are about to go to their inheritance. They are about to run the family business. They are about to be adopted. And their leader is Joshua.
Joshua is the Jesus-type figure of the Old Testament. Joshua couldn’t do it in the flesh. He had to meet the Christ. We have here what is called a christophany, a manifestation of Christ in the flesh before his incarnation. Christ appears as the Lord of Hosts.
Joshua has to have an understanding of Christ before he can get across the river. So Christ has to be formed. Joshua is on his face worshiping Christ. Joshua was asked to take his sandals off.
Ruth 4:7 says, “Now in earlier times in Israel, for the redemption and transfer of property to become final, one party took off his sandal and gave it to the other.” This was the method of legalizing transactions in Israel. By giving the other person your shoe, you were giving up all rights to the land, legally and forever. God wants to take off your shoes and give you the land of your heart. He wants totally surrender so that he can bless you with inheritance.
There are three main feasts: Passover, Pentecost, and Tabernacles or Harvest. The Passover feast was about salvation, deliverance, and the blood. The angel of death passed over their houses because they killed a lamb and put the blood over the door post.
The Pentecost feast was all about the manifested presence of God. It was about mountains shaking and God speaking. It was about the having the oil of God on his children.
The Feast of the Tabernacle was about the harvest that God provided year after year. It was also called an inheritance feast. The children of Israel could not celebrate this feast in the wilderness because they had no harvest. The amazing thing is that they had no need for a harvest. Day after Day, God would provide all the food they needed from the sky. There were three parts to this celebration. First, they would blow trumpets as a way of saying to God’s chosen people, “Get ready.” Second, there was a day of atonement. Then, they had the Feast of Tabernacles itself.
One of the things we, as the body of Christ, need to learn to do to prepare for the inheritance is to learn how to celebrate. Celebrating has to do with being enraptured, totally head over heels in love with Jesus. It is an attitude of not caring what people around you think as you put your heart and soul into worshiping the king. God calls us to celebrate not just as individuals, but we need to celebrate corporately.
The sound in the earth of the people of the 42nd generation is people who know how to shout. It’s the sound of the abundance of rain. All kingdoms are established with a shout, never a whisper. If you’re a member of the 42nd generation, the one that is going to get its inheritance and come into its destiny, you’re going to have learn how to shout.
This teaching on the 42nd generation is life-changing, so I hope you stick with it. I’ll finish sharing Andrew’s message next weekend.
To read the first part of this series, check out: What is the 42nd Generation?
