Unlike the Israelite who was only in one place at one time, we are simultaneously in the world (Egypt), in the wilderness and in heavenly places (Canaan). We are to have a lifestyle suited to all three places at the same time. God has called us out of the world to be a heavenly people. But the Lord has sent us back into the world to be the light of the world and to manifest the love of God to the world. We must learn that the place where we are called to be as a testimony for God is a wilderness, for there is no food to be found there for our souls. Our souls can only be sustained by that food which our God supplies us from heaven itself. And as dead and risen with Christ and living in heavenly places (Canaan), we are at war with Satan and his forces. We must live a lifestyle suited to our life of warfare (Eph. 6).