What is Beulah Land? I like to think of Beulah Land as being comparable to a peaceful and totally fulfilled state of mind. It is a place within a place in a future time. It is that which will exist because the Creator has willed it to exist.
Beulah Land is a prophetic figurative expression describing Israel when it is restored to God's blessing and its restoration, finally, to all of the land given to the Jews by God. Isaiah 62 is prophetic in nature, because it looks forward to the future Millennial Kingdom of one thousand years (Revelation 20), during which time Christ will reign on the earth. The Millennium will be the last of the ordered ages of time. Eternity will not dawn until the Millennium is complete (Isaiah 65:17; 66:22; II Peter 3:13; Revelation 21:1). Ah! Beautiful Beulah Land. What a picture.
An accurate mental picture of the land today can be formed, but it is not yet Beulah Land. It is hot, arid, and dry. The sun is unforgiving. There is no kindness in the desert's wind or sand. Much of the land walked by Abraham is forsaken, except for a few nomads here and there. It is desolate beyond belief. This is certainly an accurate description of the Holy Land as it now stands among the nations of the world. In the coming kingdom, however, things will change. They will not be as they are now. In that yet to come day, Israel will be given a new name by their Messiah -Hephzibah, which means delightful. In Isaiah 62:4 Zion is called forsaken, but now it is called Hephzibah - the object of God's affection. This prophetic appellation will find fulfilment in the future conversion and millennial blessing of the nation Israel.
You know what? I have no desire to visit the Holy Land or the city of Jerusalem today because it is not a delightful place to visit; but, it will be delightful one day, in Beulah Land. It is not a holy city now; but, it will be holy one day. It is not peaceful; but, it will be peaceful one day, for in that day, the lion and the lamb will sit together. Jerusalem cannot have peace today because her Messiah, the Lord Jesus Christ, is not there. We are, however, commanded to pray for the peace of Jerusalem. Everyone can pray this prayer and long for the day when there will be peace. When we pray this prayer we are asking Messiah to hurry back. We are praying for His Kingdom to come. But for now, He is in Heaven seated at the right hand of God, longing to rule Jerusalem in righteousness. "Even so, come Lord Jesus" (Revelation 22:20).
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