Tabletalk: The Threat of Exile

Temporal judgments anticipate the final verdict God will render on the last day and prove His judgment is surely on its way. They are, as the late OT scholar Meredith Kline used to say, "intrusions" of the eschaton (the messianic age/last days)–points at which end-time realities are manifested in the present.

Israel's exile from Canaan was a type of the final exile all impenitent sinners will experience at the last judgement.

Though it may be painful at times, God's discipline is one of the greatest blessings tht we have as His children. (Ps 119.71)