Another good one from the “types and shadows” genre.
Canaan is a foreshadow of heaven that is inhabited by Nephilim (a type of demon power). The 12 spies are representative of the general population, but only two (Joshua and Caleb) are God’s faithful believers. The lesson here is that you must be tested by the nephilim and then you overcome them by God’s power. Nephilim is any issue that appears so big and insurmountable could be anything, an addiction, lust, pride, anger, greed that stands in between you and the promised land. Instead of focusing on the size of these Nephilim giants, keep your eyes on the goal like Joshua and Caleb, or perish. The 10 spies who were faithless and brought a bad report to Moses, and all of Israel who believed their bad report, did not see the promised land.
Numbers 13
1 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Send men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the people of Israel.
25 At the end of forty days they returned from spying out the land. 26 And they came to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation of the people of Israel in the wilderness of Paran, at Kadesh. They brought back word to them and to all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land. 27 And they told him, “We came to the land to which you sent us. It flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit.28 However, the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large. And besides, we saw the descendants of Anak there.29 The Amalekites dwell in the land of the Negeb. The Hittites, the Jebusites, and the Amorites dwell in the hill country. And the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and along the Jordan.”
30 But Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said, “Let us go up at once and occupy it, for we are well able to overcome it.” 31 Then the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we are.”32 So they brought to the people of Israel a bad report of the land that they had spied out, saying, “The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people that we saw in it are of great height. 33 And there we saw the Nephilim (the sons of Anak, who come from the Nephilim), and we seemed to ourselves like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them.”