Deuteronomio 12:9

9 porque todavía no habéis llegado al lugar de reposo y a la heredad que el SEÑOR vuestro Dios os da.

Deuteronomio 12:9 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 12:9

For ye are not yet come to the rest
The land of Canaan, which was typical of the rest which remains for the people of God in heaven; for though they now enter into a spiritual rest in Christ, they are not yet come to their eternal rest; they are in a world of trouble, through sin, Satan, and wicked men; but they shall come to it, as Israel did to Canaan; for God has promised and prepared it, and it remains for them; Christ prayed for it, is also gone to prepare it, and the Spirit is the seal and earnest of it, and works up the saints, and makes them meet for it:

and to the inheritance which the Lord your God giveth you;
and the land of Canaan being an inheritance, and the gift of God, was also a type of the heavenly inheritance; which saints are now born unto, and have both a right unto, and meetness for, through the righteousness of Christ, and grace of God; but as yet are not entered on it, but that is reserved for them in heaven, and they are preserved and kept for that; and ere long shall inherit it, as the free gift of God their Father to them, and which is peculiar to them as children. Jarchi and Ben Melech by the "rest" understand Shiloh, and by the inheritance Jerusalem; so in the Misnah ^F6; see ( 1 Chronicles 23:25 ) the Targum of Jonathan is,

``ye are not come to the house of the sanctuary, which is the house of rest, and to the inheritance of the land.''

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FOOTNOTES:

F6 Zebachim, c. 14. sect. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. & Bartenora in ib.

Deuteronomio 12:9 In-Context

7 Allí también vosotros y vuestras familias comeréis en presencia del SEÑOR vuestro Dios, y os alegraréis en todas vuestras empresas en las cuales el SEÑOR vuestro Dios os ha bendecido.

8 De ninguna manera haréis lo que hacemos aquí hoy, que cada cual hace lo que le parece bien a sus propios ojos;

9 porque todavía no habéis llegado al lugar de reposo y a la heredad que el SEÑOR vuestro Dios os da.

10 Cuando crucéis el Jordán y habitéis en la tierra que el SEÑOR vuestro Dios os da en heredad, y El os dé descanso de todos vuestros enemigos alrededor de vosotros para que habitéis seguros,

11 entonces sucederá que al lugar que el SEÑOR vuestro Dios escoja para morada de su nombre, allí traeréis todo lo que yo os mando: vuestros holocaustos y vuestros sacrificios, vuestros diezmos y la ofrenda alzada de vuestra mano, y todo lo más selecto de vuestras ofrendas votivas que habéis prometido al SEÑOR.