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“All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it... at the time.”
The five people you meet in Heaven

-Mitch Albom

Christianity teaches us to have hope in the Caleb led his life by having a similar faith in Caleb and Joshua dismissed the comment
Lord at all times of our lives. Christian the Lord who liberated him and his and took a stand laying their faith in the
philosophers Augustine and Thomas Aquinas community from bondage. He trusted the Lord living God, firm in hope that they would
see hope as the most central virtue of a and moved ahead. He was one among the overcome all obstacles as long as the all-
believer. Christian theology is associated with twelve spies who were sent to Canaan by mighty Lord was with them. Caleb knows
the virtue of hope and Christian hope is Moses. The role of Caleb in God’s plan is that the Lord was with the Israelites when
concerned with eschatology. Eschatology mentioned in the book of Numbers chapters they were in trouble; just as the pillar of
comes from the Greek word 'ta eschata', 13 & 14. The Israelites came out of Egypt and cloud during the day and as the pillar of
which means last things while ‘Parousia’ now were on their way to the promised land, fire during the night, the Lord had led
means ‘coming’, which is an eschatological Canaan. Before entering the promised land, them. The Lord fulfilled their requirements
concept, hence, to sum up, the doctrine lays the Lord asked Moses to send one person and assured them that he would always be
faith in the final act of God. Luke 17:20-37 from each tribe to spy on the promised land. with them. In this assurance of God, Caleb
talks about the eshatological discourse and gains hope and moves forward.
Parousia. Both ‘Eschatology’ and ‘Parousia’ Moses obeyed what Lord had said and sent
influences Christians to lead a life of twelve spies with the instructions and Hope which led him to have a Fearless
righteousness and thus constitutes a reason guidelines that they were supposed to follow Faith .
that feeds the Christian faith. According to for the next forty days. The spies went to Caleb along with the eleven spies was
Jürgen Moltmann, Christian theology Canaan, explored the land and did exactly sent to the promised land by Moses.
provides a vision of hope through the what was asked of them. On their return, the Caleb and Joshua were the only two
transforming work of God, which stands in spies confirmed that Canaan was indeed a
spies who gave the thumbs up to the
sharp contrast to secular ideas of hope and land of flowing milk and honey, but ten
plan instead of thumbs down. The other
social transformation. The transforming amongst them added on a false report
spies felt like grasshoppers when they
work of God can be seen throughout the Bible. suggesting that Israelites would never be able
saw the giants of the city.
Let us examine the character of Caleb from to resist the mighty natives,
Numbers and Joshua in the Old Testament, a
man who had hope in the Lord when others
did not, in the Lord who led them out of Egypt.

Caleb is the son of Jephunneh from the tribe of
Judah. The meaning of the name Caleb is
“dog” and a dog is known to be a faithful
animal. There is a story about a dog named
Hachiko, who waited at the train station for
his master to bring him home in the evening.
Unfortunately one day, his master died but
Hachiko waited every day at the station with a
hope that his master would come.