A flaming sword for Canaanites
“When they persecute you in one town, flee to the next, for truly, I say to you, you will not have gone through all the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes.” (Matthew 10:23)
John baptized in the Jordan but the disciples would be baptized in the Spirit. This was their Jordan crossing into a new Land. Their task was to take it by force and wipe out the spiritual Canaanites with the sword—in this case, conversion or judgment. In Joshua’s time, Israel had failed to complete this. But Zechariah had predicted that by the end of this first century conquest, not one Canaanite would remain in the house of the Lord – the New Jerusalem.
