TYPOLOGY OF THE BELIEVER'S PRESENT REST

“We who have believed do enter into rest.” 
Hebrews 4:3.
There is another type of rest given us in the Word, namely that of the children of Israel entering into the promised land. “If Jesus (that is, Joshua), had given them rest,” says the Apostle, “then would he not afterward have spoken of
another day.” All the while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they were constantly moving to and fro, dwelling in tents and enjoying but little comfort. Notwithstanding all the blessings with which God enriched them in the wilderness, it was a wilderness, and Moses truly called it, “the waste howling wilderness.” They had no rest there and they were always looking forward to the land flowing with milk and honey to where they were journeying.
Their eager longing was for a land where they could settle down, build houses, plant vineyards and dwell in quiet resting places.
Canaan is, therefore, the type of the rest which God intends to give His people here. It is not the type of Heaven, except very imperfectly,
for in Canaan there were Canaanites to be fought and to be gradually driven out. And there were some that were never driven out. But we thank God that there are no Canaanites to trouble the saints in Heaven.
Canaan is the true pattern and type of the Believer’s condition upon the earth. We who have believed in Jesus have crossed the Jordan. He has divided it for us and we have entered into rest.
It is true that the Canaanites are still in the land, but the Lord also is in the land and, by His Grace, we shall surely drive them all out. We ought not to say that we hope to reach Canaan’s peaceful shore, by-and-by—we are on it NOW!
If we have truly believed in Jesus, our condition is rightly typified by the
Israelites in Canaan who had obtained their inheritance, for Jesus has obtained His inheritance and God “has raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.”