The daughters of Zelophehad petitioned for an inheritance from their father since there were no sons to inherit. The tribal leaders were concerned with losing part of a tribe’s inheritance should the daughters marry someone from another tribe. Moses ruled that the daughters who received an inheritance could only marry a man from their own tribe. Land could not pass from one tribe to another.
This principle and rule is a type of the inheritance of the people of God. You cannot barter salvation or the blessings of God to someone else. You cannot use God’s grace as currency. The grace of God is just that, grace. We cannot earn it or deserve it, only receive it and embrace it. Just as inheritance cannot be passed from one tribe to another, neither is the grace of God to be taken for granted or passed on to someone else.
The book of Deuteronomy begins with Moses recounting the previous command to take the promised land. The Lord had said to Moses,
Deuteronomy 1:7–8 (NKJV)
7 Turn and take your journey, and go to the mountains of the Amorites, to all the neighboring places in the plain, in the mountains and in the lowland, in the South and on the seacoast, to the land of the Canaanites and to Lebanon, as far as the great river, the River Euphrates. 8 See, I have set the land before you; go in and possess the land which the Lord swore to your fathers—to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—to give to them and their descendants after them.’
God had promised long ago to give Israel the land, and they chose not to believe, and then did not get to go in right away. The lesson is to take God at His word the first time, and to continue to follow Him all the way into the land of Promise. The land is the heritage of God, and the victory comes through faith in God.
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