A prophet "points out" a land he himself will not enter

Last night I read in Elias: An Epic of the Ages a passage in which Joseph Smith is imagined as foreseeing the later Mormon migration to Utah, in the far west:

While ye, my people -- yonder setting sun

Points out your path.

The phrasal verb point out usually means to draw attention to some fact, not to point in a particular direction.

Also last night, I read the last few chapters of the Book of Numbers. Chapter 34 contains the only instances of point out in the King James Bible:

And this shall be your north border: from the great sea ye shall point out for you mount Hor:

From mount Hor ye shall point out your border unto the entrance of Hamath; and the goings forth of the border shall be to Zedad: . . .

And ye shall point out your east border from Hazarenan to Shepham (Num. 34:7-8, 10).

The context is broadly similar. In each case a founding prophet is indicating the location of a land his people will settle in after his death.