Exodus Segment 8

Arrival at The Promised Land 

Man’s basic spiritual problem is still the integrity of God’s Word. 

It’s a battle on whose words to believe. We need to build the integrity of God’s Word in our lives by winning the battle of believing. Our primary contact with God is through His Word. We can not allow “the facts” to eradicate our believing in what God says in His Word. 

Israel had lived in Egypt as slaves. While there, they saw the plagues and how God had fought for His people. They witnessed the Passover, the angel of death, the transition from being a slave to escaping Egypt.  

They were present when the "Jewish chariot wash" took place. They crossed the Red Sea on dry land, had manna, water, quails provided at no charge. God had continued to work for them to keep them merrily on their way to the Promised Land.  

These people had seen, had been taught, knew first hand, the blessings of God. They saw God's willingness to deliver His people time and time again. After all this, God had gotten them to the doors of the land in which he had promised to Abraham.  

Numbers 10:11 And it came to pass on the twentieth day of the second month, in the second year, that the cloud was taken up from off the tabernacle of the testimony.  

12 And the children of Israel took their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai… 

Numbers 13:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,  

2 Send thou men, that they may search the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel: of every tribe of their fathers shall ye send a man, every one a ruler among them.  

3 And Moses by the commandment of the LORD sent them from the wilderness of Paran: all those men were heads of the children of Israel.  

Out of the multitude, Moses picks 12 qualified heads of the people to search out the land. 

6 Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.  

8 Of the tribe of Ephraim, Oshea the son of Nun.  

16 These are the names of the men which Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called Oshea the son of Nun Jehoshua.  

17 And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said unto them, Get you up this way southward, and go up into the mountain:  

18 And see the land, what it is; and the people that dwelleth therein, whether they be strong or weak, few or many;  

19 And what the land is that they dwell in, whether it be good or bad; and what cities they be that they dwell in, whether in tents, or in strong holds;  

20 And what the land is, whether it be fat or lean, whether there be wood therein, or not. And be ye of good courage, and bring of the fruit of the land. Now the time was the time of the firstripe grapes.  

Moses gives them specifics, where to go, what to do, what to look for, and gives them an exhortation to be of strong courage.  

21 So they went up, and searched the land… 

22 And they ascended by the south, and came unto Hebron; where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were.  

23 And they came unto the brook of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it between two upon a staff; and they brought of the pomegranates, and of the figs.   

25 And they returned from searching of the land after forty days.  

26 And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word unto them, and unto all the congregation, and shewed them the fruit of the land.  

27 And they told him, and said, We came unto the land whither thou sentest us, and surely it floweth with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it.  

28 Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled, and very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there.  

29 The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south: and the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites, dwell in the mountains: and the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and by the coast of Jordan.  

Report time: The spies present the facts. These facts shouldn't have mattered much. They had just destroyed the world's greatest fighting force, with the newest technology, 600 chariots. They had just seen the Red Sea parted, been healed at the Passover. With God on your side, what are all these facts to Him? 

Were they wrong to present the facts, to say how strong these men were? NO! But they needed to keep it in perspective. 

The majority of the 12 had forgotten the redemptive and delivering nature of God. While Caleb and Joshua either kept God in the picture or were looney. 

30 And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.  

31 But the men that went up with him said, We be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.  

32 And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature.   

33 And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.  

Is there an argument over the facts? No. All agree that it is a land of milk and honey. All agree that it has many strong people including the giants of Anak in it. All the facts are absolutely straight, but as soon as you leave God out of the picture as a redemptive and delivering God – problems become larger than solutions. 

This happens today, people say they bring God into the picture. But how? As a limited God, maybe as a God of sickness, or as a God who won't answer prayer, or a God who is never satisfied, or rather as He really is, a redemptive and delivering God who wants to help. 

Today, in our day by day walk, we need to get the facts straight, but getting the facts straight does not of necessity mean we're going to see the deliverance.  

Here, the facts were clear, but they didn't go to the promise of God, God’s Word, to the truth that God is a redemptive, delivering God who had promised to deliver them, to bless them, to take care of them, to meet every need. 

Ten of the twelve lost the battle of believing. What about the people? 

14:1 And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.  

2 And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness!  

3 And wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt?  

They were acting as if this catastrophe had already occurred. That God had abandoned them. The people agreed with the 10 who had left God out of the picture.  

4 And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.  

5 Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.  

6 And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes:  

7 And they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it, is an exceeding good land.  

8 If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and honey. 

God had already shown this in the past. 

9 Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not.   

They had to use their intellect to gather the facts. Ten then used the facts to eradicate believing, to distrust the promises God had made.  

We all have to live each day, moment by moment with things we have to apply God's Word to. The renewed mind is the application of the Word of God, isn't it?  

We all have the privilege of deciding which way we will decide to use the facts we gather daily. Either to eradicate, destroy believing or to make God's choice. Days we choose God's way, we believe, we walk, we get the deliverance. 

Days we don't choose correctly we lose the battle of believing. So, either we believe God’s input in situations, or we lose. We have the privilege to make that decision just like they did. 

10 But all the congregation bade stone them with stones. And the glory of the LORD appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation before all the children of Israel.  

11 And the LORD said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have shewed among them?  

12 I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.  

13 And Moses said unto the LORD, Then the Egyptians shall hear it, (for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among them;)  

14 And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land: for they have heard that thou LORD art among this people, that thou LORD art seen face to face, and that thy cloud standeth over them, and that thou goest before them, by day time in a pillar of a cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night.  

15 Now if thou shalt kill all this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,  

16 Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness.  

17 And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my Lord be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying,  

18 The LORD is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.  

19 Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people according unto the greatness of thy mercy, and as thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.   

20 And the LORD said, I have pardoned according to thy word: 

21 But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD.  

22 Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;  

23 Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:   

24 But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it. 

25 (Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley.) To morrow turn you, and get you into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.  

26 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, 

27 How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, which murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me.  

28 Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith the LORD, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you: 

29 Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, which have murmured against me,  

30 Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.   

31 But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised.  

32 But as for you, your carcases, they shall fall in this wilderness.  

33 And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.   

34 After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise.   

Deuteronomy 2:14 And the space in which we came from Kadeshbarnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the host, as the LORD sware unto them.   

For the next 38 years they lived in Kadeshbarnea. {53. Kadeshbarnea} 

Now in year 40 things begin to happen again. 

Numbers 20:1 Then came the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, into the desert of Zin in the first month: and the people abode in Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried there.  

Miriam dies in the first month of year 40, Aaron will die in month 5 and Moses in month 11 or 12. 

2 And there was no water for the congregation: and they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.  

3 And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the LORD!  

Still complaining even after 40 years. 

4 And why have ye brought up the congregation of the LORD into this wilderness, that we and our cattle should die there?

5 And wherefore have ye made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in unto this evil place? it is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither is there any water to drink.  

6 And Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they fell upon their faces: and the glory of the LORD appeared unto them.  

The Shekinah glory, the blazing beauty of God. The same kind of light that blinded Saul on the road to Damascus. Even after 40 years God appears at just the right time. 

Did you ever wonder why Moses, the great lawgiver, and Aaron never had the joy, the thrill, the excitement, the dynamic of at least walking through the promised land? He had spent 40 years in preparation in the wilderness, then 40 more leading and interceding to God for the children of Israel. 

7 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,  

8 Take the rod, and gather thou the assembly together, thou, and Aaron thy brother, and speak ye unto the rock before their eyes; and it shall give forth his water, and thou shalt bring forth to them water out of the rock: so thou shalt give the congregation and their beasts drink.  

“Speak ye unto the rock” literally is “speak about the rock.”  

John 8:56 tells us that Abraham looked forward to that day, the day of the coming of the Rock, the Messiah, Jesus Christ. So did Moses. Here God told Moses to speak to the children of Israel about the rock, about the rock, about the rock. Speak to them about the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, the rock. 

Thou shalt bring forth to them water out of the rock. And that water is the water of life. Out of the rock, which is Christ Jesus. 

9 And Moses took the rod from before the LORD, as he commanded him.  

10 And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation together before the rock, and he said unto them, Hear now, ye rebels; must we fetch you water out of this rock?  

Moses gathered the congregation to speak to them about the coming Messiah, the rock, Christ Jesus.  

Moses said, “Must we bring you water out of this rock, out of this physical rock or can we receive the water of life, speaking of the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ.” 

11 And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their beasts also.  

There is a period of time between verse 10 and 11. 

12 And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye believed me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them.  

“Because ye believed me not” is the key. Moses built doubt and unbelief in the eyes of the people. “To sanctify” is to set up and honor, to set apart, in the eyes of the children of Israel.  

Moses, if you had a doubt, why did you have to tell the whole assembly. There’s the problem. Instead of Moses keeping it to himself.  

He’s led these people for 40 years, stiff-necked people. The promise of the Lord Jehovah has been, the Messiah is coming to get you out of all these problems. Forty years of nothing but problems, heartaches, defeats, frustrations. He had to intercede all the time.  

Moses was human. He got very disgusted, and, as great a man as he was, he was still a man. 

He basically as much said, “God I just can’t believe that you’re going to send the Messiah to get us out of the soup, to this unthankful, stiff-necked people that You chose.”  

And because he said this publicly before the children of Israel, therefore God said to him, “ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given to them.”  Twice  he did not stand for the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ and hold it forth to Israel. 

He rejected, he stood against, the Rock, Jesus Christ. He did not declare it; he did not speak it and say, “Look, he is still coming.” Moses was so tired of the fight that twice he said, “Why would God send His Son for you?” 

The reason we are Biblically called the children of Abraham, and not the children of Moses, is because Abraham never doubted the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. 

13 This is the water of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the LORD, and he was sanctified in them.   

Water of Meribah is water of bitterness. Moses, you had the water of life, Jesus Christ, the rock. Forty years you stood. Now all at once, doubt, fear, worry, unbelief. Ye believed not, so it’s bitterness, real bitter, because the children of Israel strove with the Lord, strove with Him because of unbelief. 

That’s why they all died except Joshua and Caleb, in the wilderness. They needed physical water, but the greatness of the revelation is spiritual as well.  

Moses for 40 years went along, interceding all the time for the children, wondering when the Messiah would come. He finally got to the place he had unbelief, not just to himself, but he told the unbelief to all the assembly of the people. 

Not because he took his stick and hit a rock twice, much deeper spiritually than that. 

Psalm 78:20 Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can he give bread also? can he provide flesh for his people?  

21 Therefore the LORD heard this, and was wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel;  

22 Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:  

I Corinthians 10:2 And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;  

3 And did all eat the same spiritual meat; 

4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.   

5 But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.  

That spiritual rock was Christ.  

Exodus 20:22 And the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, journeyed from Kadesh, and came unto mount Hor.  

23 And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in mount Hor, by the coast of the land of Edom, saying,  

24 Aaron shall be gathered unto his people: for he shall not enter into the land which I have given unto the children of Israel, because ye rebelled against my word at the water of Meribah.  

25 Take Aaron and Eleazar his son, and bring them up unto mount Hor:  

26 And strip Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son: and Aaron shall be gathered unto his people, and shall die there.  

27 And Moses did as the LORD commanded: and they went up into mount Hor in the sight of all the congregation.  

28 And Moses stripped Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son; and Aaron died there in the top of the mount: and Moses and Eleazar came down from the mount.  

29 And when all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they mourned for Aaron thirty days, even all the house of Israel. 

Numbers chapter 33 is an excellent overview of the journeys of the children of Israel, it’s a great chapter if you want to chart their route extensively. 

33:37 And they removed from Kadesh, and pitched in mount Hor, in the edge of the land of Edom.  

38 And Aaron the priest went up into mount Hor at the commandment of the LORD, and died there, in the fortieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the first day of the fifth month.  

39 And Aaron was an hundred and twenty and three years old when he died in mount Hor.  

48 And they departed from the mountains of Abarim, and pitched in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho. 

50 And the LORD spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying,  

51 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye are passed over Jordan into the land of Canaan;  

52 Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places:  

53 And ye shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land, and dwell therein: for I have given you the land to possess it.  

54 And ye shall divide the land by lot for an inheritance among your families: and to the more ye shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer ye shall give the less inheritance: every man’s inheritance shall be in the place where his lot falleth; according to the tribes of your fathers ye shall inherit.    

55 But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you; then it shall come to pass, that those which ye let remain of them shall be pricks in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell.  

56 Moreover it shall come to pass, that I shall do unto you, as I thought to do unto them.  

Deuteronomy 31:1 And Moses went and spake these words unto all Israel.  

2 And he said unto them, I am an hundred and twenty years old this day; I can no more go out and come in: also the LORD hath said unto me, Thou shalt not go over this Jordan.  

3 The LORD thy God, he will go over before thee, and he will destroy these nations from before thee, and thou shalt possess them: and Joshua, he shall go over before thee, as the LORD hath said.  

4 And the LORD shall do unto them as he did to Sihon and to Og, kings of the Amorites, and unto the land of them, whom he destroyed.  

5 And the LORD shall give them up before your face, that ye may do unto them according unto all the commandments which I have commanded you.  

6 Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the LORD thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.  

7 And Moses called unto Joshua, and said unto him in the sight of all Israel, Be strong and of a good courage: for thou must go with this people unto the land which the LORD hath sworn unto their fathers to give them; and thou shalt cause them to inherit it.  

8 And the LORD, he it is that doth go before thee; he will be with thee, he will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not, neither be dismayed.  

9 And Moses wrote this law, and delivered it unto the priests the sons of Levi, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and unto all the elders of Israel.  

10 And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of every seven years, in the solemnity of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles,  

11 When all Israel is come to appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing.  

12 Gather the people together, men, and women, and children, and thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the LORD your God, and observe to do all the words of this law:  

13 And that their children, which have not known any thing, may hear, and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as ye live in the land whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.  

14 And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thy days approach that thou must die: call Joshua, and present yourselves in the tabernacle of the congregation, that I may give him a charge. And Moses and Joshua went, and presented themselves in the tabernacle of the congregation. 

Moses even though he knew that his days were numbered, knowing that God had told him he was going to die, knowing that God had told him he was not going to see the Promised Land, still stood up to the children of Israel and delivered to them, full force, what God had told him to say; he did not fail in his believing. 

15 And the LORD appeared in the tabernacle in a pillar of a cloud: and the pillar of the cloud stood over the door of the tabernacle.  

16 And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.   

17 Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us, because our God is not among us?   

18 And I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evils which they shall have wrought, in that they are turned unto other gods.  

19 Now therefore write ye this song for you, and teach it the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel.  

20 For when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware unto their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and waxen fat; then will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and break my covenant.  

For Moses to hear this from God by revelation at the end of his life was an undeniably heavy burden, a weight on his heart. 

21 And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles are befallen them, that this song shall testify against them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they go about, even now, before I have brought them into the land which I sware.    

22 Moses therefore wrote this song the same day, and taught it the children of Israel.  

23 And he gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge, and said, Be strong and of a good courage: for thou shalt bring the children of Israel into the land which I sware unto them: and I will be with thee.  

24 And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished,  

25 That Moses commanded the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, saying,  

26 Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee.  

27 For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against the LORD; and how much more after my death?  

28 Gather unto me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to record against them.  

29 For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days; because ye will do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.  

30 And Moses spake in the ears of all the congregation of Israel the words of this song, until they were ended.  

Deuteronomy 32 is that wonderful song that Moses wrote. 

9 For the LORD’S portion is his people…[That’s what God gets the people.] 

Chapter 33 deals with Moses blessing the individual tribes of Israel, like Joseph did. 

34:1 And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. And the LORD shewed him all the land of Gilead, unto Dan,   

2 And all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim, and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, unto the utmost sea,  

3 And the south, and the plain of the valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees, unto Zoar.  

4 And the LORD said unto him, This is the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, saying, I will give it unto thy seed: I have caused thee to see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt not go over thither.  

5 So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD.  

6 And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Bethpeor: but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day.  

7 And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.    

8 And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days: so the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended.  

9 And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom; for Moses had laid his hands upon him: and the children of Israel hearkened unto him, and did as the LORD commanded Moses.

Joshua’s longsuit was one of wisdom.  

10 And there arose not a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face,  

11 In all the signs and the wonders, which the LORD sent him to do in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land,  

12 And in all that mighty hand, and in all the great terror which Moses shewed in the sight of all Israel.  

Joshua 3:14 And it came to pass, when the people removed from their tents, to pass over Jordan, and the priests bearing the ark of the covenant before the people;  

15 And as they that bare the ark were come unto Jordan, and the feet of the priests that bare the ark were dipped in the brim of the water, (for Jordan overfloweth all his banks all the time of harvest,)  

16 That the waters which came down from above stood and rose up upon an heap very far from the city Adam, that is beside Zaretan: and those that came down toward the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, failed, and were cut off: and the people passed over right against Jericho.  

17 And the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood firm on dry ground in the midst of Jordan, and all the Israelites passed over on dry ground, until all the people were passed clean over Jordan.  

After 40 years the Exodus was over. They had finally made it into the land that God had promised unto Abraham as a nation. After circumcising the males who were born in the wilderness, they celebrated the Passover. 

Joshua 5:10 And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal, and kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the month at even in the plains of Jericho.  

11 And they did eat of the old corn of the land on the morrow after the passover, unleavened cakes, and parched corn in the selfsame day.  

12 And the manna ceased on the morrow after they had eaten of the old corn of the land; neither had the children of Israel manna any more; but they did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.  

A new era begins…life in the Promise Land.