Persevere to the Promised Land

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Many scriptures emphasize perseverance and faithfulness as an essential key to salvation. Israel’s travel from Egyptian slavery to the Promised Land of Canaan is a type of a Christian’s journey to eternal life in the Kingdom of God. This parallel is made clear in Hebrews, chapters 3 and 4, plus the number one theme of Hebrews is spiritual perseverance. In the Olivet Prophecy, Jesus warned that God’s people would face many kinds of persecution, betrayals, trials and temptations, and emphasized “he who endures to the end shall be saved” (Matthew 24:13). We must steadfastly persevere by staying close to God until we enter the “Promised Land.”
Donald Hooser

Don Hooser is a minister for the United Church of God. He lives in McKinney, Texas, a suburb of Dallas.  He and his wife Elsie had three children, and she died in August 2020.  Don married Judy in January 2022.  Mr. Hooser graduated in 1963 from Southern Methodist University with a degree in mechanical engineering, and graduated in 1966 from Ambassador College, Big Sandy, Texas.  For most of the time since then, he served as the pastor of churches in Ohio, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas, and Washington. From 2011 until his retirement in 2021, his primary responsibility was answering the many letters written to the Church.