Key Thought:The land is important in the beginning with the promise to Israel and in the end when the meek shall inherit the earth. But to rest in the land is only through Jesus and spiritual rest.
November 29, 2025

1. Have a volunteer read Exodus 3:8, Leviticus 20:22, 25:23, Numbers 13:27.

1. Ask class members to share a short thought on what the most important point is in this passage.
2. What was the special relationship between God, Israel, and the Promised Land?
3. Personal Application: What do you think it means to Christians to be heirs of the promise? Share your thoughts.
4. Case Study: One of your relatives states, “What is the relationship of a country and how you live your life within that country? How does one affect the other? How does this show what expectations and requirements are important for Christians to enter the Promised Land?” How would you respond to your relative?

2. Have a volunteer read Joshua 13:1-7.

1. Ask class members to share a thought on what the most important point in this text is.
2. What were some of the challenges Israel had in possessing the land God had promised them?
3. Personal Application: How do Christians today encounter similar challenges related to occupying the Promised Land?
4. Case Study: One of your friends states, “I’ve been promised many things in my life, but not many of the promises were kept. Promises given, promises broken. Why should I trust God and His promises? How do I know He will keep His promises? How do I know the promises apply to me personally?.” How would you respond to your friend?

3. Have a volunteer read Leviticus 25:1-5, 8-13.

1. Ask class members to share a short thought on what the most important point in this text is.
2. What is the purpose of the Sabbatical year and the year of Jubilee?
3. Personal Application: What can the principle of the land statement remind us that we are all equal in God’s eyes? Share your thoughts.
4. Case Study: One of your neighbors states: “What is your application of this principle to how we treat refugees from dictatorial, war-torn, or impoverished countries? Is it okay for them to seek relief by breaking the laws of the land they are entering?” How would you respond to your neighbor?

4. Have a volunteer read Jeremiah 24:6, 31:16, Ezekiel 11:17, 28:25, 57:14,25.

1. Ask class members to share a thought on what the most important point in this text is.
2. What was the promise of God concerning the return of Israel to the Promised Land, and how was it fulfilled?
3. Personal Application: What hope is found for Christians that God has promised and the death of Jesus has guaranteed? Share your thoughts.
4. Case Study: Think of one person who needs to hear a message from this week’s lesson. Tell the class what you plan to do this week to share with them.

(Truth that is not lived, that is not imparted, loses its life-giving power, its healing virtue. Its blessings can be retained only as it is shared. ”Ministry of Healing, p. 148).

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Daily Lesson for Monday 24th of November 2025

At a very basic level, land offers physical identity to a nation. By locating the nation, it also determines the occupation and lifestyle of the nation. Slaves were rootless and belonged nowhere; someone else enjoyed the results of their work. Having land meant freedom. The identity of the chosen people was linked strongly to their dwelling in the land.

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There was a special relationship among God, Israel, and the land. Israel received the land from God as a gift, not as an inalienable right. The chosen people could own the land as long as they were in a covenantal relationship with Yahweh and respected the precepts of the covenant. In other words, they could not have the land and its blessings without the blessing of God.

At the same time, it is true that the land provided a lens through which the Israelites could better understand God. Living in the land would always remind them of a faithful, promise-keeping, and trustworthy God. Neither the land nor Israel would have existed without the initiative of God, who was the Source and foundation of their existence. While the Israelites were in Egypt, the Nile and the irrigation system, coupled with hard work, provided the crops that they needed for subsistence. Canaan was different. They depended on rain for the abundance of their harvests, and it was only God who could control the weather. Thus, the land reminded the people of their constant dependence on God.

Even if Israel received the land as a gift from Yahweh, in the ultimate sense, God Himself remained the owner. As the true owner of the whole earth (Psalms 24:1), Yahweh has the right to assign the land to Israel or to take it away. If God is the owner of the land, the Israelites and, by extension, all humans are strangers and sojourners, or in modern terminology, we are all God’s long-term guests on His land/earth.

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Daily Lesson for Sunday 23rd of November 2025

At Creation, God placed Adam and Eve in a perfect environment that embodied abundance and beauty. The first human couple met their Creator in the setting of a lovely living space that could provide for all their physical needs. In addition to the spoken word of God, the Garden of Eden served as a learning center where Adam and Eve gained significant insight into God’s character and the life He intended for them.

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Therefore, when they broke the trusting relationship with their Creator, their relationship with the Garden of Eden changed as well, and as a sign of the broken relationship, they had to leave the garden. They lost the territory that God had given to them. Thus, the Garden of Eden became the symbol of abundant life, and we will rediscover its motifs in the theme of the Promised Land.

As Abraham entered the land God had shown him, by faith that land became the Land of Promise to him and his descendants. It remained the Land of Promise for 400 years. The patriarchs did not really own the land; it was not theirs in such a way that they were able to give it to their children as an inheritance. Rather, it belonged to God, as the Garden of Eden had belonged to Him. As Adam and Eve did not do anything that entitled them to the Garden of Eden, Israel had not contributed anything to deserve the land either. The Promised Land was a gift of God based on His initiative. Israel had no inherent right or claim to own the land (Deuteronomy 9:4-6); it was only by God’s grace that the Israelites could possess it.

The patriarchs were heirs of the promises until they were fulfilled. We, as Christ’s followers, have inherited even better promises (Hebrews 8:6) that will be fulfilled if we become “imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises” (Hebrews 6:12, RSV).

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Daily Lesson for Sabbath 22nd of November 2025

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Read for This Week’s Study: Genesis 3:17-24; Deuteronomy 6:3; Joshua 13:1-7; Hebrews 12:28; Leviticus 25:1-5,8-13; Ezekiel 37:14,25.

Memory Text: “Return to your stronghold, O prisoners of hope; today I declare that I will restore to you double” (Zechariah 9:12, ESV).

Joshua 13:1-33; Joshua 14:1-15; Joshua 15:1-63; Joshua 16:1-10; Joshua 17:1-18; Joshua 18:1-28; Joshua 19:1-51; Joshua 20:1-9; Joshua 21:1-45 contains long lists of geographical boundary markers that delineate portions of land allocated to the tribes of Israel. For the modern reader, these lists might seem irrelevant, but they are based on a theological understanding of the Promised Land that is significant for us today. Through these concrete lists, God wanted to teach the Israelites that the land was not a dream. It was promised to them in a very tangible, measurable way. But they had to make that promise a reality by acting on it.

That is, yes, God was going to give land to them as an inheritance; it was going to be a gift, made in fulfillment of what He promised their fathers. “ ‘ “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” ’ ” (Deuteronomy 1:8, NKJV). But yes, they too had their part to play.

This week we will look at some theological concepts related to the Promised Land and their spiritual implications for those who claim all the promises found in Jesus.

*Study this week’s lesson to prepare for Sabbath, November 29.

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Our Sabbath School program has always been linked to the support of the Seventh-day Adventist Mission program. This video provides a little insight into this important work.

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