A Few More Words About Beulah Land

May 28, 2019 (Tuesday)
Many of us have loved ones who have crossed over into “a land that is fairer than day, that by faith we can “see” with spiritual vision, a place prepared by the Lord for his own people. In recent days in these blogs, we have seen how, long ago, the people of faith were uprooted from their homeland and forced to live in a strange place, and were reminded of how their experience of being visitors and strangers is much like our own.
Then we paused to notice that those who have homes that are precious to them can understand how the concept of belonging in a place can mean so much. We love to be around people who share our beliefs and our love for the Lord, because within that fellowship we find love, joy and peace. After seventy years, they were allowed to go back home, and, just as they had been forced to adjust to Babylon, they then had to readjust to Jerusalem. They set to work rebuilding God’s city and temple and their own homes. The prophet encouraged them: “Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate; but thou shalt be called Hephzibah and thy land Beulah; for the LORD delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married” (Isaiah 62:4 KJV). The verse is in reference to the return of the Hebrews from their exile in Babylon in which the Hebrew people shall no longer be called Forsaken, but Hephzibah (My Delight Is in Her), and Jerusalem shall no longer be called Desolate, but Beulah (Married). This implies that the Hebrews have learned to devote themselves sincerely to the worship of God.
We’ve adopted some of the terminology associated with those ancient people who were forced to leave their homes and live in a strange land. The term, “Beulah Land,” seems to be descriptive of the Joys of Knowing Christ and is also representative of Heaven itself. And so we sing, “This world is not my home, I’m just passing through, My treasures are laid up in Heaven.”