The lot that fell on Christ was death

Numbers 33:53-54 (ESV)
And you shall take possession of the land and settle in it, for I have given the land to you to possess it. [54] You shall inherit the land by lot according to your clans. To a large tribe you shall give a large inheritance, and to a small tribe you shall give a small inheritance. Wherever the lot falls for anyone, that shall be his. According to the tribes of your fathers you shall inherit.

For I have given the land to you to possess it. God was driving out the inhabitants of the land because of their wickedness. Canaanites were not worthy tenants, not paying back God with honour and thanksgiving in return for His blessings. God was vomiting them out of the land, for they had become filthy and defiled in His sight beyond all repair.

But it was not as though that God was giving this land to Israel because they were better people. And this is what is amazing about the grace of God. God judges the Canaanites for their sins by utterly casting them out of the land like refuse, but He replaces the land with people whom He had chosen by His free and sovereign grace, though they are not more righteous nor good:
Deuteronomy 9:4-7 (ESV)
"Do not say in your heart, after the LORD your God has thrust them out before you, ''It is because of my righteousness that the LORD has brought me in to possess this land,'' whereas it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD is driving them out before you. [5] Not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart are you going in to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations the LORD your God is driving them out from before you, and that he may confirm the word that the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. [6] "Know, therefore, that the LORD your God is not giving you this good land to possess because of your righteousness, for you are a stubborn people. [7] Remember and do not forget how you provoked the LORD your God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day you came out of the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against the LORD.

The scripture is clear warning against self-righteousness and pride for the Christian. A Christian is not going to inherit the earth and the Kingdom of God because he is more righteous than those who are going to be thrown out of the earth on Judgment Day. All sinners in this world are going to be thrown out and thrust into the lake of fire as a just retribution to what they have done against an Almighty God. God's wrath which they have stored for themselves in heaven shall finally fall upon them in full measure, and no man shall escape. But the Christian is going to inherit the land. Because of his righteousness? By no means: "Not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart are you going to possess this land". Our righteousness is like filthy rags before God. Our own righteousness that is stained with sin is as vile before God as the sins of the Canaanites. Because read:
Psalm 71:19 (ESV)
Your righteousness, O God, reaches the high heavens. You who have done great things, O God, who is like you?
God's righteousness reaches the high heavens. His standard of good is as high as Himself. Let's have a look back at our lives, even after we became Christians. Though God changed our natures to love good and despise evil, we still sinned against Him. We have provoked our Father to anger many times and wearied Him with our uncleanness. We have rebelled against Him, and complained against Him as much the Israelites did - even after we believed in the grace of God in Christ.

No right-minded Christian can truly say that he is going to heaven because of his righteousness. In fact if the Christian were to be judged on his righteousness as the basis for entry to heaven, he will surely go to Hell like rest of the world. In fact if a man committed sins after he became Christian, he has committed much worse sins against God than the unbeliever, because he did it knowing the grave and truth of God. We Christians don't want to be judged based on our righteousness.

What then? How is the Christian going to inherit the Kingdom of heaven despite not being better than the people who are being thrust out? Moses says Israel were going to possess the land despite their lack of righteousness that God "may confirm the word that the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob". Israelites were going to heaven because God had sworn to their fathers that He was going to give the land to their children, because God never breaks His promises. Therefore it depends on God's word of promise, and not on our righteousness.

The Christian likewise goes to heaven because of the promise that God made to Christ our father, not because of his righteousness. Let's read the oath that God made to Christ:
Psalm 89:19-37 (ESV)
Of old you spoke in a vision to your godly one, and said: "I have granted help to one who is mighty; I have exalted one chosen from the people. [20] I have found David, my servant; with my holy oil I have anointed him, [21] so that my hand shall be established with him; my arm also shall strengthen him. [22] The enemy shall not outwit him; the wicked shall not humble him. [23] I will crush his foes before him and strike down those who hate him. [24] My faithfulness and my steadfast love shall be with him, and in my name shall his horn be exalted. [25] I will set his hand on the sea and his right hand on the rivers. [26] He shall cry to me, ''You are my Father, my God, and the Rock of my salvation.'' [27] And I will make him the firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth. [28] My steadfast love I will keep for him forever, and my covenant will stand firm for him. [29] I will establish his offspring forever and his throne as the days of the heavens. [30] If his children forsake my law and do not walk according to my rules, [31] if they violate my statutes and do not keep my commandments, [32] then I will punish their transgression with the rod and their iniquity with stripes, [33] but I will not remove from him my steadfast love or be false to my faithfulness. [34] I will not violate my covenant or alter the word that went forth from my lips. [35] Once for all I have sworn by my holiness; I will not lie to David. [36] His offspring shall endure forever, his throne as long as the sun before me. [37] Like the moon it shall be established forever, a faithful witness in the skies.

David was the type of Christ to come. And as David's name means "Beloved", we can be sure that God is speaking above of His Beloved Son, Jesus Christ, the one whom God anoints with the His Spirit:
Matthew 3:16-17 (ESV)
And when Jesus was baptized, immediately he went up from the water, and behold, the heavens were opened to him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming to rest on him; [17] and behold, a voice from heaven said, "This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased."

See how God says He has sworn by His holiness, and that He will not lie to His Beloved, that His Son's offspring will endure forever. We believers are the offspring of Christ. God has sworn this as an oath, that He will not leave us for forsake us. This is why Christians get to go to heaven. But one may ask, is it unfair that Christians should be saved though they are equally sinful as those who are perishing? By no means. It is fair, because Jesus Christ has bought for us a place in heaven by the works righteousness He performed. By Christ's righteous life that He lived, and by Christ's righteous death for our sins, He bought for us a legal right to inherit the promises. Therefore we are rightful possessors of the Kingdom of Heaven. There can no accusation stand against our right to possess heaven, for Christ lived and died, and rose again for us. Hallelujah.

Therefore, if we have known that Christ has died so that He may buy us a lot in His own kingdom, we are to take it with force and vigilance. Christ said:
Matthew 11:12 (ESV)
From the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven has suffered violence, and the violent take it by force.
Just as Israel went in boldly into the land of Canaan and rightfully expelled the wicked owners and possessed the land God had given them, we Christians are likewise to boldly enter in to the kingdom of God. Knowing that Christ suffered so much to grant us eternal life, we ought to forcefully grasp it, fighting the good fight of faith. We violently fight sin and unbelief, shaking off every weight of sin that hinders our way, NOT because we want to be saved by those things, but because God has promised the Kingdom to us through Christ. We zealously confess and turn away from every kind of sin, not that through that we escape God's wrath, but because God's wrath has already passed over us and fallen on Christ our substitute. God is the one who is giving us this land, not because of our righteousness, but because of Christ's righteousness. Let us believe in this with all our heart, and charge with all our might into Heaven, trusting in God's mighty grace.

You shall inherit the land by lot according to your clans. God desires that the land be distributed among the tribes by casting a lot, that there be no strife nor war among the brethren about which piece of land to take. But not as though God was leaving it up to random chance, for to God there is no such thing. Every lot cast, every dice thrown, every name taken out of a hat - all outcomes of such are not of chance but are God's decisions:
Proverbs 16:33 (ESV)
The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the LORD.
But it was not that God divided the land equally between all the tribes. There were to be a divide between the large tribes and the smaller tribes, and separate distribution of land between them. In reading of the book of Joshua chapters 16-17, we see that Judah and the tribes of Joseph (Ephraim and half-tribe of Manasseh) first had their inheritance divided by lot between two main southern and northern parts of the land, as they had the pre-eminence. And in Joshua 18 we see the equal distribution of the remainder of the land between the 7 small tribes.

However the casting of lots and the dividing of the land was actually done, what is important is that God distributed the portions of land to whom He willed and the proportion that He saw fit in His own eyes. Likewise, God gives each believer of Christ different quantities of faith and gifts has He sees fit. Christ gives 5 talents to one, and to another only 1. To one He gives great faith to believe in all things, to another He by His own will gives just enough faith to cling on to Him. It is not as though the person himself is great or small, but it is God who has distributed these things to them out of His will, in the amounts of His own desire, for His own glory. Judah was chosen that through Him David and Christ Jesus would be born, but it was not that He was a righteous or a moral man, as we have seen in Genesis chapter 38. But God chose out of His own will to send His Son through this unworthy vessel to be called the "Lion of the Tribe of Judah". What mercy and grace had been shown to Judah! It is not therefore based on our performance or our will that we have more faith or gifts than others. It is all because of God, who gave by His own desire and of His own free will and choice, that He may be glorified through each of us. Let us cast off these evil thoughts that boast of our faith and gifts, as though they were not given to us by God out of His own will. Let us remember this rather that God uses the weak and pitiful things that His glory may abound.

According to the tribe of your fathers you shall inherit. We Christians are inheriting the Kingdom of God because of Jesus Christ, because He is from the tribe of Judah. We did not belong to this olive tree of salvation before, but we have now been grafted into Israel through Jesus Christ alone. Apart from Christ the King of Israel, we Gentiles accordng to the flesh would have no part from God's Kingdom whatsoever:
Ephesians 2:11-13 (ESV)
Therefore remember that at one time you Gentiles in the flesh, called "the uncircumcision" by what is called the circumcision, which is made in the flesh by hands- [12] remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. [13] But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.

In Christ we have God, whom we didn't have before. This is the main thing that the above scripture is talking about. This is the "blessing" that was promised to Abraham and to Christ His offspring. We would have never had fellowship with God apart from Christ. We would have never known God. We would have never had God as our Father. We would have never known God's love outside Christ. To have the LORD as our God is the inheritance that we have received and the covenant that was confirmed in Christ:
Genesis 17:7 (ESV)
And I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your offspring after you.

Let us remember the lot that fell upon Jesus Christ for our sins, that the inheritance of God and eternal life be ours. The cup that was offered to Christ was God's wrath, curse, hatred, rejection and sorrow. There was no other lot that God gave for Christ to choose from. God gave Him no other option but death, that we may have also no other option but life. God never left us to chance to be blessed, but because Christ was damned for our sins, we only had 100 percent chance of being blessed in Him. It is as though God put only blessings in the urn, and ask us to pick our lots from it. We are always blessed in Christ, wherever we are, whatever state we are in, because Christ has picked out all the curses from the urn for us. Christ drank down all curses for us on the cross. Blessed be God, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessings. Let us thank Him for this unspeakable grace.