Joshua 1 | Not Just History — A Prophetic Story of Promise, Obedience, and Rest

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Well, welcome back, Zach.
This feels like it's been

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forever.
Yeah, it does feel like a very

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long time.
Yeah, we kind of went on a

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couple marathons before
Christmas so we could have a

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couple Christmas weeks off and
New Year.

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New year, new me?
Yeah, just to say new New year,

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new you.
Nice shirt you got on there.

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Thanks.
I was going to, I was thinking

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of your, your hat there and I
was like, man, you think Drake

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Mays going to win the MVPI?
Don't think he's going to.

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I think he should.
I don't think he's going to.

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I think he's going to give it to
Matthew Stafford.

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I was going to say, you know,
then he would be, I mean, pretty

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close to Tom Brady because I
think Tom Brady only has three

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MVPS, right?
Yeah, like, I know like Super

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Bowl 51, Matt Reeves, is that
the quarterback for coming out?

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All right, all right, one of the
Christmas.

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Presents I I'm I'm donning nice
Aaron Rodgers jersey.

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I just brought him up because he
has four MVPS, one more than Tom

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Brady.
So, you know, but Drake May is

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close to time.
If he gets one, he'll be closer

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to Tom Brady, not quite close to
Aaron Rodgers, but you know,

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maybe one year.
Did you buy this or is it

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gifted?
To it was gifted to I've never

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had, I don't think I've ever had
an NFL jersey before all.

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Right.
Yeah.

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Yeah.
That's nice.

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Yeah.
I was just going over what?

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What's that guy's name?
The quarterback of the Falcons,

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Matt Reeves.
Oh.

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Matt Ryan.
Matt Ryan.

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Matt Ryan.
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Knew Reeves was was not right.
It didn't feel right, but I knew

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it was close.
Yeah.

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When he won the MVP, he didn't.
He was a good he.

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Won the MVP that year.
That's true.

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That's true.
That's.

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Good for him.
And then he got eventually

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smoked in the Super Bowl.
So I was like, take your pick,

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you know, that's and that's, I
almost said something like, I

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almost don't want him to win it.
I don't.

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Think.
I don't think.

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Drake.
Is the type of person.

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I don't think he pays a lot of
attention.

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To it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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So that's a good, that's good,
but I think it might be just a

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little bit.
Of once you start.

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Yeah, a little bit of a.
Getting it, it's like, yeah,

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'cause I've seen, I mean,
obviously the only weird thing

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about Stafford getting it is
that his team is not like a one

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or two seed.
Like he's putting up great

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numbers.
And then the the thing I keep

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saying about the Pats is I might
have made this up.

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This doesn't sound like it could
be right, that they beat like

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one team with a winning record
this year or like something

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crazy.
I'm like, that's insane.

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That is true, but when you look
at the defenses that we played.

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I've seen this statue.
We played like some of the top

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defenses, so I guess we played a
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Game, but pulse the team sport
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But this?

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Is why it's hard with the NDPS
and stuff 'cause I do think

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objectively.
Who was the Most Valuable Player

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to their team?
That that could because Patriots

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do have a good team, but Drake
may has been like on the money.

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He's been really good.
Matt Stafford has some really

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good receivers.
I think I think Drake May has

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he's.
Got a digs?

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Digs only plays like half the
game, like you know what I mean?

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Like he's really good though,
but it's and they've got a good

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it's tough.
We don't have one of those just.

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I know.
Top, top, top of the class

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receiving score.
But you know, Pop Douglas, he's

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doing it good.
There's a young guy, I, I can't

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remember his last name right
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There's that Chisholm guy, you
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spread.
Hunter Henry has been catching

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some Hooper that we got from Oh
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Who'd we get them from?
Saints maybe.

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I don't.
I can't remember where we got

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him from, but so it's been very
spread.

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You know, it's not been like the
Mahomes, Kelsey, Mahomes,

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Kelsey, Mahomes, Kelsey.
Mahomes, even like when Brady

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and Gronk or Edelman, you kind
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0 in on and it's like you're
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It's even more spread out.
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So I'm interested to see who
wins because and Matt Stafford,

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whether this is fair or not,
this is like it could be like a

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lifetime achievement award, too.
It's like he's had a lot of good

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years and it's like, I know you
should.

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It's based on the season.
It shouldn't.

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Be that but.
Where it's like you.

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Know Drake could break his leg
next year and be out basically

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for forever and then you're.
Like, you didn't have it, that

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one.
Yeah, Yeah, it is very.

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And this year's a weird year
because like, you look at the

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playoff picture and you're like,
every team is good and every

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team is bad.
Like what's it even matter?

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This like some teams have lost a
lot.

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It it doesn't make any sense.
Does it I I've thought about

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this quite a bit because of all
the schedule.

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Oh, you're playing this.
It's so much is about yeah, so

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much, so much.
Does that mean what?

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What does that mean?
Because we have had years in the

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NFL where there had just been
some two or three or 4 dominant

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teams and they're basically
winning a whole bunch.

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And this year it's like you,
it's really any given Sunday it.

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Really is, yeah.
So that means it has the league

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overall gotten better?
Has the league overall gotten

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worse?
Some people said the the trade

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corridor, what's it called?
Portal has made it worse because

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college students aren't required
to like they can stick into a

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system, learn that system.
So they kind of kind of dumb the

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college level down some because
you're just going off of

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athlete, the athlete.
Instead of like learning, Yeah,

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I don't know.
All I know is, and you can

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probably hear it a little bit in
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My voice is like shot, 'cause I
was up to midnight last night

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watching this Raven Steelers
game that I knew we were going

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to lose.
I knew I just.

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I was.
I did not realize that y'all

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both of the teams were fighting
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Lives I would.
Have paid more attention because

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my football day yesterday was
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And then Jill was like, hey, you
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know, you know, if you'll fold
the towels, I'll straighten up

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my corner and then, you know,
let's play a family game, which

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those words never come out of
Jill's mouth.

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I was like, oh.
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Yes, ma'am.
Let's do it.

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So we played two games of
concentration or memory.

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OK, yeah.
And then one game of Uno, the

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one No, I guess no.
I've not played it but I've seen

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like a bunch of these versions.
Yeah, it's the one where you

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like, you can get up to 25 cards
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No mercy Uno.
Mercy.

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Oh, OK, OK.
Happened to win two of those,

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one of the Grats, the Uno one
yeah, yeah.

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So then I was like, you know,
getting ready.

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So I, I, I tuned in late and saw
the, the information.

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I was like, whoa, I didn't
realize it was, I thought they

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were like, are we going to be
the 3rd to see the fourth seed,

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third, you know, type of thing.
I didn't realize it was that

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cut.
Crazy it came up because the

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NFLS we know is scripted and did
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See a picture of the last play.
No.

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Because there was a Steelers
player, yeah, yeah, who went

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over the top of the long
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Should have been a penalty.
Man, I'll, I'll tell you what,

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it's like every game like this
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before to the Browns, but it was
like we're and I've seen they

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the rest are calling this more
this year, but it makes no sense

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like they're calling more and
more offensive passenger affairs

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on pick plays that aren't
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We got we got hit with the same
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It's weird.
I'm like.

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Hunter Henry ran a route and
they had like a little bit of

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contact and then he turns around
and they're still contacting

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like who's contacting whom here?
It's.

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It's crazy.
And like everyone, like everyone

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in the booth, the rules analyst
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analysts.
Were like that that's a bad call

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and even I was watching earlier
like the Tampa Carolina game and

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like there were like egregious
calls like some guy like face

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masked the guy and took his
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like the guy's missing his
helmet it's like how did we miss

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this like it's.
It is crazy.

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It's like when they missed big
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That I know.
Yeah, there was.

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This has happened a couple times
and I don't even remember who it

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was.
I think it was someone Saturday,

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but I could look it up 'cause I
posted it on XI.

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Should just look it up while I'm
talking.

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But you know, certain things are
reviewable and certain things

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are not reviewable.
So there was a play where there

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was a backwards pass and the
backwards pass got reviewed and

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it was dropped and he picked it
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For the two point conversion.
It wasn't 2 point conversion.

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It was let's see, I I I I get on
these retreating re sharing

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stuff so much.
Maybe I can find it.

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May I but the the team doesn't
really matter.

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It all I'm saying is it wasn't
the the pads.

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So I'm so you're I'm objective,
very, very objective bystander.

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So it was a backwards pass.
It was dropped.

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The guy picks it up and starts
running with it, but was blown

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dead as if it were a a
incomplete.

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Pass, but it was.
But it's live, so then they

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review.
So it was blown incomplete and

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you get the ball back at at the
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They review it, they declare it
is a backwards pass and you lose

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6 yards on it when that guy
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So it's so he got the team.
That he got the worst of both

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calls.
He wasn't allowed to run and the

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ball got moved back 6 yards.
It's like if you can't make it

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right, right, Yeah, don't change
anything.

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Don't change anything, yeah.
Just leave it as an incomplete

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pass.
It's crazy 'cause these calls

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like even not to complain
because we won the game, but

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Raven Steelers, there was a play
we got called roughing the

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passer and that those are always
so tough.

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Like we were it was too much
weight.

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It was technically late on
Lamar, but the reason why we

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were late on Lamar is because he
got, he got trips and fell on

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Lamar, but he got tripped like
the guy stuck out his leg and so

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it was roughing the passer, but
where was the tripping called

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that made him rough the passer?
It's like crazy.

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And so it's like not it should
have been tripping initially 15

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yards for the steward, but he
said it was 50.

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It's a 30 yard swing, or you
know what I mean.

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Yeah, those are so.
Frustrated offset it'd be like

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that's better yeah yeah, but we
it was great off a missed field

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go man don't I feel bad for
rookie kicker.

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I feel bad it's like and our
kicker missed the extra point

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right before to make make us
down only up by two.

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I was like, this is it, we're
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I saw that the, what's his name,
Harbaugh or whatever the coach

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is, just took a knee instead of
using.

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Oh yeah, Henry.
Like he could have shaved what,

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4-5 yards off of what this
rookie kicker would have had to

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kick?
Insane because even leading up

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to this like they had three time
out like they actually like

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Steelers in Steeler fashion
burned our three time outs like

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in the third quarter.
Also not a real thing.

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It's probably a Steelers thing
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Rogers headset wasn't working.
He traded out helmets like 5

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and it happened at the pass and
we were accused of like sending

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radio waves.
You probably did cheat on this

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one.
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figuring that out because it was
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yard on like we needed the
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So it was important, but we had
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Could think someone who's like
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plays.
Well, honestly, he should have

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on the 2 minute plays when he 2
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own plays, rolling, rolling,
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where you go all the way, all
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coordinator, you should look it
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It's great.
Our whole team, it's a counter.

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Our whole team is going to the
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where all of us are going to
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from the Ravens just like thank
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It's like turn over on downs.
We went for it, but it's like,

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what a terrible play call.
Like no chance was that Aaron

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Rodgers or the offensive?
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Yeah, we wasted all this time.
And it's like wasted all the

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time to get a bad play call.
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think this is just true of
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we're like hustling up and he's
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we do so much better.
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don't know what it is, but it's
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offense going.
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two-minute drill.
It is everyone, just like flies

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on.
Why can't we just just always do

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the two-minute drill?
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It seems like every quarterback
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they're like trying.
It's like.

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It's more of a prevent.
Yeah, It's like great.

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It's like, yeah, you should do
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But it was it was, it was
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Like we let our kids like, stay
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They never stay up that late.
And it was like, it was like.

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We should invited you over for
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Next time.
The evening.

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Yeah.
Next time.

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Bittersweet here.
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If you like the NFL, it's bitter
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Yes, Yeah, we got the playoff
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maybe about four.
And then you won't have to hear

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us talking about NFL for, you
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if you don't like the NFL, it's
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So, you know, it could be, could
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When we spend a lot of time on
NFL but just like Aaron Rodgers

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the the leader of the Steelers
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playoffs, which is the promised
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Who do y'all play in the
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We play the Houston Texans,
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they've looked kind of rough the
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Our offense is pretty anemic.
We get DK Matt comeback and

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it'll be bad.
You're playing at Houston, no?

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We got we're division champs, so
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worst record, but we get the
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division.
We're at home, so it's pretty

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nice.
But y'all are y'all are AFC

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North.
We are OK.

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I guess so.
I don't know.

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I don't know all of them.
So that's the wild card.

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Part of it, yeah, Yeah, exactly.
Yeah, they got wild card so

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because.
They have a priest again.

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Dude, I hope so.
That holy water.

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Honestly, I don't think much of
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No, I'm just kidding.
I'm just kidding.

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I saw that on the same side.
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But we're going to be talking
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May be doing a few weeks going
through the book of Joshua.

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Yeah.
I'm sorry, did you say Jesus?

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Yeah, if you listen to previous
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what?
What's going on?

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Yeah, I should, I should have
just gotten straight Hebrew to

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really confuse, confuse people.
So we're going to do a little

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overview, some background, some
context as we get into this

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series.
But let's go ahead, take it to

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the next level.
Let's fire up that twanga music.

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From the hearts of the Low
Country in South Carolina.

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It's the Take Two podcast where
we take theology to the next

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level.
The book of Joshua, or I should

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say, you know, where does Joshua
rank in in Bible character lore

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to you?
It's like when I study him, I

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think, wow, this is a good guy.
But you know, also when I study

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him a little bit, you know, he's
kind of put off as timid a

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little bit.
Yeah, yeah, 'cause he's got to

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be so.
Encouraged so much, but you

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know, maybe mid.
I'd say mid.

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Mid yeah, I think so too, 'cause
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parallels Moses even a lot of
the acts like it, but it's like

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Moses is always like kind of
like the greater right, like so

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that kind of overshadows.
That I bet he circumcised his

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sons.
Hey.

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Yeah, without having to have
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to kill him.
Probably probably true if you've

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been paying attention to this
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Joshua takes special place in
our household because my 4th

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born, my fourth child is Joshua
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He had some parameters he had to
do AJ name and he was like his

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favorite Bible character at the
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We were actually going to name
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cause Jayden was really, he was
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So we went Joshua Judah.
I coached a a Judah.

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Oh yeah, I like, I like that
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And Jayden was like just loved
the Joshua story and I'm excited

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to get into it.
I will say there's a couple of

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books I've been using as I've
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these notes.
One, this is like if I'd

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recommend a book on Joshua.
This is so good.

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This is by Dale Ralph Davis.
OK, Dale, it Ralph Davis.

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It's called Joshua, no falling
words.

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It is.
It's like a very short

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commentary, but it's very
insightful versus I'm also been

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using.
This one's not as insightful.

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It's very insightful.
It's more academic.

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It's from the NIV commentary on
the Old Testament, just probably

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written in like the 80s or
something.

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But it's really good.
But it's it's this is like so

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much, so much bang for your
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This you have to really like.
You get good stuff, but it's

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like you gotta.
Really work through.

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It but I cannot recommend this
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I haven't made my way all the
way through it, but it's like so

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good.
Oh, he is in South Carolina.

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I need to get this guy Wow He
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and then got to Columbia.
But anyway, let's frame this

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book a little bit.
When you think of Joshua,

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probably like many of us that
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maybe we're thinking broader
evangelical average person, like

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there's a lot of things that
probably come to your mind right

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away.
What are like the the the big

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beats?
If I had to put it in one word,

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transition, that's good.
You're starting to transition.

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You know, obviously after
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Judges and it's just kind of
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And, you know, I always found it
weird that we have laws about

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kings in, you know, in what the
kings were supposed to do, but

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they weren't supposed to have a
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So when they get a king, it's
it's bad type of thing.

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Like what was the real plan?
Like, were they outside of, you

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know, So I always wonder about
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You know, there's questions.
There's like apologetic

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questions.
Those are good, like all the

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killing genocide.
Right, like the the supposed

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genocide, but then how are they
still there?

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Because it's like, and they keep
fighting them, they keep

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fighting them, they keep
fighting them.

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They drove them all out.
OK, great.

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We own we, we have a wall
around, you know, Israel and

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it's ours.
Well, you know, quote UN quote

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ours.
But then it's not because

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they're still there during the
time the judges are still there

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during, you know, Saul and so
you know, those types of things.

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I think that's great, what I
wrote down.

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When I think of Joshua, I feel
like transition's good.

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I think of I think Jericho's
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stories that you could sing to
it, You know, judge battle that

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that's right.
I think of like you alluded to

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it, be strong and of good
courage.

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Think of the promised lands.
If we think about it, maybe a

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little bit less familiar and
getting some insight.

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I I like looking at how the
Jewish Bible lays things out

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versus English Bible pros and
cons to both ways you organize

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stuff in the English Bible.
It really goes Pentateuch than

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to historical books, than to
wisdom literature, than the

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prophets.
So Joshua kind of kicks off

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historical books.
That's true.

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It's part of history.
I think sometimes you think when

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you think of history, historical
books, you can just think of,

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OK, it's like this conquest and
this conquest, this campaign,

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this land.
It's like chronology, which

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isn't bad, it's true.
But I like what what you can do.

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You can flatten out the story.
You can just think, OK, Moses is

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done.
This is, you know, Israel as a

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nation continuing, not wrong.
But you can miss some of the

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significance.
And I like how the Jewish Bible

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lays it out, not because it's
better, but just makes you think

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a little bit differently.
They have, you know, the Tanakh

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old Jewish Bible has threefold
structure.

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Torah lines up with our
Pentateuch.

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They have the Naveen, the
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KET of them, the writings, and
Joshua is the first book of all

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the prophets.
It's like Joshua is a prophet.

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That's a little bit different
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though I think we all would
agree, you know, he would fit

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fit that bit on something, maybe
not in the same way as Isaiah,

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like a little bit different.
But when you think about that, I

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think it kind of sets your your
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You know, what, what is Joshua
quote, UN quote, you know,

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prophesying theologically, What
kind of things are we supposed

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to, to think about?
And So what I think Joshua

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emphasizes is, you know, we have
the Torah.

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What's it look like to live the
Torah out?

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How do we put it into practice?
What's obedience to the Torah?

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How are we faithful to Yahweh?
And then, you know, if we aren't

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obedient, there is not that
faithfulness.

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What are some of those dangers
to where it's really not just

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reporting events, it's preaching
through history where you see

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like this covenant, you see
these things.

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It's not that one's right or
wrong, but I think it just

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challenges us maybe to think
about it slightly.

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Differently.
Yeah, if you are disobedient,

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you may find yourself aching.
That that's exactly right.

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And I love this contrast.
Like we'll talk about it more.

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It's aching.
I see the pun aching.

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Yeah, that's good.
Where it's like, what's that

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tell us like someone in the
covenant community can like be

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disobedient and throw it all
away.

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And just before someone outside
of it, Rahab, it's like you see

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these things where it's about
covenant like I think that.

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Means something.
Yeah, exactly.

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So anyway, keeping in mind as we
go through Joshua, it's good to

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see God's faithfulness in light
of what comes before it.

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The Torah, Genesis, through
Deuteronomy, the seriousness of

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being obedient, covenantaly,
that victory, there's a lot of

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conquest.
It doesn't necessarily come from

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military might, but through
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Well, I've always wondered 36
guys, is that is that a huge

448
00:20:59,240 --> 00:21:01,800
loss?
Like every life is precious, but

449
00:21:01,800 --> 00:21:05,680
when you're fighting a battle, I
always wonder, is there

450
00:21:05,680 --> 00:21:07,480
something that we're not getting
there's?

451
00:21:07,480 --> 00:21:11,080
Something.
That we don't understand how it

452
00:21:11,080 --> 00:21:14,480
was passed down or something.
Or maybe they didn't lose anyone

453
00:21:14,480 --> 00:21:18,720
in Jericho and they just assumed
we would never lose any life.

454
00:21:18,720 --> 00:21:20,600
I don't know.
Yeah, those are really good

455
00:21:20,600 --> 00:21:22,320
questions.
Maybe we'll talk maybe as as we

456
00:21:22,320 --> 00:21:24,680
kind of go through, but I think
it's good to frame it this way

457
00:21:24,680 --> 00:21:26,960
too.
Joshua is less about, you know,

458
00:21:26,960 --> 00:21:30,200
we think about the promised one.
It's not how did Israel win, but

459
00:21:30,200 --> 00:21:32,280
what kind of God keeps his
promises?

460
00:21:32,280 --> 00:21:35,480
What kind of people dwell with
God in the promised land

461
00:21:35,480 --> 00:21:38,040
thinking big picture.
So the difference between a

462
00:21:38,040 --> 00:21:41,880
history book and this prophet
preaching paradigm.

463
00:21:41,880 --> 00:21:44,280
Another thing I like to think
about, I think it applies to a

464
00:21:44,280 --> 00:21:47,600
lot of Old Testament is man
centered versus God centered

465
00:21:47,600 --> 00:21:52,240
because I think the temptation
is David, Joshua, Moses, like

466
00:21:52,240 --> 00:21:53,560
these were and they were great
men.

467
00:21:53,560 --> 00:21:55,800
You don't want to minimize that,
but they.

468
00:21:56,040 --> 00:21:57,840
Had failings.
They they had failings.

469
00:21:57,840 --> 00:22:01,160
Yeah, you could totally make it
like man, Joshua did everything

470
00:22:01,600 --> 00:22:03,880
right.
But really the point of Joshua

471
00:22:04,200 --> 00:22:11,040
is what what did God do?
That's we get to the end of

472
00:22:11,040 --> 00:22:12,960
Joshua.
So Moses, great leader, we get

473
00:22:12,960 --> 00:22:15,680
to the end of Deuteronomy.
It's a little bit depressing.

474
00:22:15,920 --> 00:22:18,320
You know, same thing with Josh.
We get to the end of it and

475
00:22:18,320 --> 00:22:19,880
you're kind of like you meant
some judges.

476
00:22:19,880 --> 00:22:21,840
That's not good.
It's like even though they were

477
00:22:21,840 --> 00:22:25,400
great and God was faithful, they
can't, they're not initiate.

478
00:22:25,400 --> 00:22:27,400
Ezra, Nehemiah we talked about
did not initiate all this

479
00:22:27,400 --> 00:22:28,760
change.
It's like you kind of want and

480
00:22:28,760 --> 00:22:31,440
hope for more.
Yeah, I always remember, I know

481
00:22:31,440 --> 00:22:34,240
this is not judges, but I always
remember being younger and

482
00:22:34,240 --> 00:22:36,080
reading that phrase and everyone
did write what was in their own

483
00:22:36,080 --> 00:22:38,200
eyes and thought, OK, they're
doing their best.

484
00:22:38,680 --> 00:22:40,440
Like they're they're doing much
right.

485
00:22:40,440 --> 00:22:42,200
They may have some
misunderstandings.

486
00:22:42,240 --> 00:22:44,280
And you know, as I've gotten
older, I've come to realize

487
00:22:44,280 --> 00:22:45,400
that.
That's that's good.

488
00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:47,360
That's not a good thing.
Yeah, some of these phrases,

489
00:22:47,360 --> 00:22:51,600
that's great.
Along those lines, Joshua's,

490
00:22:51,600 --> 00:22:52,760
there's a it's a lot of
narrative.

491
00:22:52,760 --> 00:22:54,840
Sometimes that can be
challenging to be like, what's

492
00:22:54,840 --> 00:22:56,720
that mean for me?
That does that mean if I I can

493
00:22:56,720 --> 00:22:59,760
just conquer, I can just get my
sword out on military conquer?

494
00:22:59,760 --> 00:23:02,280
That'll be good to talk through.
We mentioned these supposed

495
00:23:02,680 --> 00:23:06,200
problems of God telling them to
kill thousands of people, moral

496
00:23:06,200 --> 00:23:09,320
and ethical challenges.
I think it's good to think of

497
00:23:09,320 --> 00:23:11,560
this book this way.
And this this author of this

498
00:23:11,560 --> 00:23:15,120
book, Joshua Dale, Ralph Davis,
he's Presbyterian and I think

499
00:23:15,120 --> 00:23:19,600
he's got good insight when he
says things like, you know, this

500
00:23:19,600 --> 00:23:23,200
book teaches us a lot about
things like heaven and hell, sin

501
00:23:23,200 --> 00:23:25,800
and salvation that at the core
we talked about Joshua in the

502
00:23:25,800 --> 00:23:28,400
name.
It's really about Jesus and

503
00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:32,800
applies to to us that what
Israel needed was not just a

504
00:23:32,800 --> 00:23:37,400
plot of land where to live
because they kind of get the

505
00:23:37,400 --> 00:23:41,560
land, they settle the land, but
they still die because of sins.

506
00:23:41,560 --> 00:23:44,040
Curse what they still need Jesus
to come, right?

507
00:23:44,040 --> 00:23:45,320
They're looking forward to a
cross.

508
00:23:45,320 --> 00:23:48,120
They're looking forward to a new
heavens and a new earth.

509
00:23:48,480 --> 00:23:51,960
And Joshua kind of gets the
story going a little bit, but it

510
00:23:51,960 --> 00:23:56,520
makes us really long for that
eschatology that that that ends

511
00:23:56,920 --> 00:24:00,120
reality where we have this
expectation for this promised

512
00:24:00,120 --> 00:24:03,960
land, for this rest, where
everything will be right.

513
00:24:04,360 --> 00:24:07,520
So I think it's good to try to
we, everyone knows Joshua to

514
00:24:07,520 --> 00:24:09,040
some extent.
Most of us probably do.

515
00:24:09,320 --> 00:24:11,760
Where does it fit?
Where does this idea?

516
00:24:11,760 --> 00:24:14,960
I think Joshua talks a lot about
promised land, inheritance,

517
00:24:14,960 --> 00:24:17,640
these kind of things.
Where do we, you know, see that

518
00:24:17,640 --> 00:24:21,100
in the broader biblical context?
What was like the quote UN

519
00:24:21,100 --> 00:24:23,760
quote, first promised land or
where was the good rest?

520
00:24:24,040 --> 00:24:26,960
Where did that start?
And we could probably back up

521
00:24:27,400 --> 00:24:29,320
and people, you know, a lot of
times go to like Abraham.

522
00:24:29,320 --> 00:24:31,680
But even going like before
Abraham, going like Adam and

523
00:24:31,680 --> 00:24:34,400
Eve, they were in like the
promised land, so to speak,

524
00:24:34,440 --> 00:24:35,320
right?
Yeah, yeah.

525
00:24:35,720 --> 00:24:37,640
They dwelt.
All the four different rivers

526
00:24:37,840 --> 00:24:40,360
wonder where that is.
I know, man, let's go find it.

527
00:24:40,880 --> 00:24:42,280
I bet people just aren't looking
hard enough.

528
00:24:42,280 --> 00:24:44,560
You know, we know a couple of
those rivers, right?

529
00:24:44,680 --> 00:24:46,760
So we could we could figure it
out.

530
00:24:48,120 --> 00:24:51,680
But anyway, we think of I I and
we'll see this in our next

531
00:24:51,680 --> 00:24:53,200
series.
We'll try to tie it together

532
00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:58,040
with some of Genesis and never,
I mean with Abraham, but before

533
00:24:58,080 --> 00:25:02,480
Abraham there was Adam.
I think thinking about that is

534
00:25:02,480 --> 00:25:06,200
pivotal where it's like bigger
even than the Abraham story goes

535
00:25:06,200 --> 00:25:09,360
like Eden, promised land, the
fall and like we kind of long

536
00:25:09,360 --> 00:25:11,240
for that.
We see that revelation and

537
00:25:11,640 --> 00:25:14,760
Abraham and Joshua was a great
picture of this and is very

538
00:25:14,760 --> 00:25:17,600
important, but it's like it's
even bigger than that, you know?

539
00:25:19,640 --> 00:25:22,400
So anyway, a lot of things that
we'll talk about rest, covenant

540
00:25:22,400 --> 00:25:25,600
obedience, how the Lord judges,
how the Lord fights for his

541
00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:28,560
people.
And then as we probably know,

542
00:25:28,560 --> 00:25:33,200
it's like the land is never like
fully conquered or settled.

543
00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:36,280
It's like it's there for the
taking and it's just like we

544
00:25:36,280 --> 00:25:39,240
don't get it.
We don't get it until when?

545
00:25:40,360 --> 00:25:41,520
The All the land, yeah.
Yeah, yeah.

546
00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:44,240
That's.
Hey, we're still, we're still,

547
00:25:44,240 --> 00:25:48,480
we're still waiting, huh?
So big things to think about.

548
00:25:50,240 --> 00:25:53,680
Let's let's talk a little bit in
our time left about dating

549
00:25:53,840 --> 00:25:55,760
historical background for
Joshua, 'cause I think this is

550
00:25:55,760 --> 00:26:00,120
really interesting.
You know, you ask, ask, you ask

551
00:26:00,120 --> 00:26:02,120
like critical scholars, all,
all, you know, the liberal side

552
00:26:02,120 --> 00:26:03,560
of things.
They're just like, who knows?

553
00:26:03,560 --> 00:26:06,080
Like it was written millions, I
mean, you know, hundreds of

554
00:26:06,080 --> 00:26:09,520
years afterward.
At some point, you have to think

555
00:26:09,520 --> 00:26:12,280
that Joshua wrote at least a
good point.

556
00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:13,720
I think that's a good way to
think about it.

557
00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:15,040
Yeah.
If you're thinking like 2000s

558
00:26:15,040 --> 00:26:20,000
Abraham, 1500s like Moses,
you're probably in that. 1000 is

559
00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:22,560
David.
Yeah, so 14.

560
00:26:23,200 --> 00:26:25,360
I think that's a good way.
It depends on where you date.

561
00:26:25,360 --> 00:26:27,880
Like I don't, I'm not.
I wonder, I have not done a lot

562
00:26:27,880 --> 00:26:29,680
of study on it.
Like where is Moses?

563
00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:31,880
Which Pharaoh is Moses, You
know, it's kind of hard to know

564
00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:33,880
exactly, but I think.
Maybe 13 to 80.

565
00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:36,680
Yeah, I, I think broad picture
thinking, yeah, it's like you

566
00:26:36,680 --> 00:26:40,280
can quibble about 100 years here
or there, but.

567
00:26:40,280 --> 00:26:41,800
But where do critical scholars
put it?

568
00:26:41,840 --> 00:26:44,480
Or they just don't.
Say they'll be like it was

569
00:26:45,440 --> 00:26:50,120
probably totally constructed
after exile, like it's like.

570
00:26:50,120 --> 00:26:51,440
They don't think it's a real
book or.

571
00:26:51,640 --> 00:26:53,720
Yeah, they don't.
It certainly Joshua wasn't

572
00:26:53,720 --> 00:26:57,760
writing anything, certainly.
So if you if you you know most,

573
00:26:57,760 --> 00:27:00,680
if you're conservative, who the
Bible is inspired and errands

574
00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:03,480
and if you don't come back at
the the Tolman, what rabbis

575
00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:05,760
would say?
Joshua wrote a lot of it.

576
00:27:05,920 --> 00:27:09,960
And then Eleazar and Eleazar son
Phineas probably filled in the

577
00:27:09,960 --> 00:27:13,000
gaps of Joshua died.
And there's some things that say

578
00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:15,720
like even up until this day,
like they're probably writing

579
00:27:15,920 --> 00:27:17,960
that part of it this day.
They might be filling in some of

580
00:27:17,960 --> 00:27:23,240
the gaps and maybe it all wasn't
completed, you know, a little

581
00:27:23,240 --> 00:27:25,960
bit after that.
But probably, you know, in that

582
00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:29,240
time frame, this is where the
pushback comes this phrase to

583
00:27:29,240 --> 00:27:30,640
this day.
Like what's that mean?

584
00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:33,320
So some, so the liberal people
would say like all that was

585
00:27:33,320 --> 00:27:35,240
written there.
It's not like, you know, filling

586
00:27:35,240 --> 00:27:38,280
an already existing document,
maybe like, you know, filling

587
00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:42,960
that a little bit.
Hebrews 11/21 talks about Joshua

588
00:27:42,960 --> 00:27:48,600
or yeah, Hebrew, the Hebrew text
of Joshua 1121 distinguishes

589
00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:50,760
between Israel and Judah.
So some people are like, OK, if

590
00:27:50,760 --> 00:27:54,360
they're making that distinction,
it does have to come at least

591
00:27:54,360 --> 00:27:57,240
where the the Kingdom split.
So, you know, there, there's

592
00:27:57,240 --> 00:28:01,000
some of that there.
So what we can say is that the

593
00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:05,040
latest possible date of
completion suggests that the

594
00:28:05,040 --> 00:28:07,400
author of Kings relied on the
book of Joshua.

595
00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:08,760
So that's like the latest,
whoever's writing.

596
00:28:08,760 --> 00:28:13,240
Kings used Joshua's like, source
material, so it could not have

597
00:28:13,240 --> 00:28:15,800
been finished later than that.
You know what I mean?

598
00:28:15,920 --> 00:28:17,640
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That make that makes sense.

599
00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:21,720
And part of this, the thing from
what I understood, and correct

600
00:28:21,720 --> 00:28:24,280
me if you've read something
different, but I've heard that

601
00:28:24,280 --> 00:28:28,360
like there was this the priest
that kind of kept up these

602
00:28:28,360 --> 00:28:32,040
chronicles and you know, like
you're saying Joshua could have

603
00:28:32,040 --> 00:28:36,560
written 85% of it and then you
have some stuff filled in.

604
00:28:37,320 --> 00:28:41,920
But even I'm trying to think
like this distinction between

605
00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:44,680
like Judah and Israel.
It could have.

606
00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:47,840
There was already, you know,
that that's the different tribes

607
00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:50,800
and early before they even split
because you know, that's true

608
00:28:50,920 --> 00:28:54,160
when Saul was king of, you know,
he was just of the southern

609
00:28:54,160 --> 00:28:57,080
tribes and all of it and stuff.
And so I don't know.

610
00:28:57,160 --> 00:28:59,680
Yeah, I think people can get
bent out of shape where I think,

611
00:29:00,040 --> 00:29:03,760
you know, I think we can safely
say Joshua wrote a lot of this.

612
00:29:03,760 --> 00:29:06,240
And so if you're thinking about
this too, I think it's good.

613
00:29:06,240 --> 00:29:09,440
You know, what was the original
audience of Joshua?

614
00:29:09,440 --> 00:29:12,200
I think this is fascinating
that, you know, probably was

615
00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:14,320
people of Joshua's day.
But a lot of it's probably that

616
00:29:14,320 --> 00:29:17,400
generate a lot of people in the
time of the judge a little bit

617
00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:21,480
after Joshua are probably
reading this and seeing what

618
00:29:21,480 --> 00:29:22,640
happened.
It's like a warning

619
00:29:22,640 --> 00:29:24,320
disobedience.
This is what comes to get like

620
00:29:24,320 --> 00:29:27,960
it's kind of like man, that was
like for those people a lot

621
00:29:27,960 --> 00:29:30,000
because you they're probably
reading about God being

622
00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:32,520
faithful.
They did get this promised land

623
00:29:32,840 --> 00:29:35,760
and that they're starting to
look like these Pagan nations

624
00:29:35,760 --> 00:29:37,480
that they read that that God
commanded.

625
00:29:37,480 --> 00:29:40,080
We need to utterly destroy this.
That's like what Israel is now

626
00:29:40,080 --> 00:29:40,720
doing.
Like what?

627
00:29:40,720 --> 00:29:42,080
A warning.
Like what would that be like

628
00:29:42,080 --> 00:29:43,680
reading that, you know?
If they had read it.

629
00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:45,920
If they yeah and applied, it's
like almost you're in America,

630
00:29:45,920 --> 00:29:48,240
you know, you can read it today
and be like, oh, we're maybe not

631
00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:50,080
doing everything we're supposed
to do.

632
00:29:50,080 --> 00:29:54,960
But big picture, probably 14113
hundred something in there is is

633
00:29:54,960 --> 00:29:57,920
the chronological events and
probably written fairly close to

634
00:29:57,920 --> 00:30:02,360
that time where maybe an editor
did final touches, you know, 600

635
00:30:02,360 --> 00:30:05,040
or 800 or something.
BC and the Hebrews definitely

636
00:30:05,040 --> 00:30:07,720
had a language that was.
Separate for sure, for sure.

637
00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:12,880
Egyptian Moses, Pharaoh's
daughter, knew that Moses was

638
00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:15,600
the Hebrew when she found him.
That's right, yeah.

639
00:30:16,040 --> 00:30:17,920
Yeah, so.
There had to be subject for no

640
00:30:17,920 --> 00:30:19,440
other.
Reasons then he was circumcised

641
00:30:19,640 --> 00:30:22,880
because he would have been
circumcised, but you know that

642
00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:26,080
I, I found a Hebrew child go get
a nurse for me, that type of

643
00:30:26,080 --> 00:30:28,240
thing.
Moses would have been trained

644
00:30:28,920 --> 00:30:34,640
and I I wonder if he learned to
speak Egyptian and then he

645
00:30:34,680 --> 00:30:36,320
wasn't as good as Hebrew and
that's what he was

646
00:30:36,320 --> 00:30:37,520
communicating.
Oh, that's very.

647
00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:38,720
Interesting.
Yeah.

648
00:30:38,720 --> 00:30:41,640
I, I, you know, I can speak it,
but I'm not eloquent.

649
00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:43,640
Totally.
Well, here's your brother Aaron.

650
00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:46,680
He can speak for you type of
thing, but he would have spent

651
00:30:47,080 --> 00:30:52,080
close, maybe not fully even 30
years around Joshua before he

652
00:30:52,080 --> 00:30:53,160
died.
Right.

653
00:30:53,160 --> 00:30:54,000
Yeah, yeah.
Right.

654
00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:58,320
Plenty of time to if Joshua, you
know, for him to like bring him

655
00:30:58,320 --> 00:31:00,520
under his wing.
If Joshua didn't know how to

656
00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:03,520
write, that's a that's a long
time for an adult that you could

657
00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:04,640
learn how to write.
Totally learn.

658
00:31:05,240 --> 00:31:07,800
Yeah, I'm, I'm training you how
to be a scribe type of thing.

659
00:31:07,800 --> 00:31:09,720
So it's not.
Like it's this far fetched,

660
00:31:09,800 --> 00:31:10,240
Yeah.
Right.

661
00:31:10,320 --> 00:31:13,160
Yeah, It seems reasonable that
Joshua could could do these

662
00:31:13,160 --> 00:31:15,600
things.
If we look, I'm borrowing this

663
00:31:15,600 --> 00:31:17,160
outline from the ESP Study
Bible.

664
00:31:17,760 --> 00:31:22,640
It might offend you, Michael,
but they frame the outline all

665
00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:25,360
around the promised land and
this inheritance, something

666
00:31:25,360 --> 00:31:28,200
they'll look for and that that's
kind of the more or less the

667
00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:31,320
approach I'm taking here.
Chapters one through 5 talks a

668
00:31:31,320 --> 00:31:33,560
little about crossing into the
promised land.

669
00:31:34,040 --> 00:31:36,200
Chapters 6 through 12.
East to West.

670
00:31:36,480 --> 00:31:38,240
And there you go.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

671
00:31:38,280 --> 00:31:41,960
That's that comes up a lot, you
know, like the the they had to

672
00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:46,680
go around Jordan and yeah, all
all this stuff. 6 to 12 talks

673
00:31:46,680 --> 00:31:49,720
about the actual taking of the
land.

674
00:31:50,480 --> 00:31:53,680
Then 13 through 21, this is
where people start to check out.

675
00:31:53,680 --> 00:31:57,840
I think large, large swaths of
text that's dividing the land,

676
00:31:57,920 --> 00:31:59,480
it can get it.
Can get challenging, right?

677
00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:03,400
They rode lots, they rode lots,
and it's like, how many lots are

678
00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:07,120
we rolling?
Keep it going and then 22

679
00:32:07,120 --> 00:32:10,080
through 24 serving the Lord in
the land.

680
00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:12,000
So kind of all based around the
land.

681
00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:15,400
I think there's a lot we can
glean from this.

682
00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:18,760
I'm excited to get into it.
Anything major?

683
00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:23,000
So I don't you said the series,
but I don't know if we said this

684
00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:25,600
is the first of a series.
We should say this.

685
00:32:25,640 --> 00:32:28,560
Yeah, in, in Joshua.
I don't know how, maybe like 5

686
00:32:28,560 --> 00:32:30,480
weeks, six weeks, something like
that probably.

687
00:32:30,680 --> 00:32:32,800
Yeah.
So based on our tracker with

688
00:32:32,800 --> 00:32:34,680
Paul, that means really there's
20.

689
00:32:34,880 --> 00:32:36,560
It means weeks.
Originally I was going to do

690
00:32:36,560 --> 00:32:39,680
this intro and then one for
crossing into the land, 2 for

691
00:32:39,680 --> 00:32:41,960
taking the land, 3 for dividing
the land, 4 for serving the

692
00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:44,520
Lord.
I might have like in the

693
00:32:44,680 --> 00:32:47,200
crossing until I might have
divided that up into two, so it

694
00:32:47,200 --> 00:32:49,480
might start to grow a little bit
but in that ball, but hopefully

695
00:32:49,480 --> 00:32:52,600
not more like about. 10 On
dividing up the land we should

696
00:32:52,600 --> 00:32:53,920
do.
We're going to go heavy on the

697
00:32:53,920 --> 00:32:56,440
lots.
Yeah, we're going to map it all

698
00:32:56,440 --> 00:32:57,680
out.
You're going to be an expert,

699
00:32:57,680 --> 00:33:01,360
yeah.
So what I hear is that as your

700
00:33:01,440 --> 00:33:04,400
two youngest sons get older.
Oh yeah, yeah.

701
00:33:04,600 --> 00:33:08,360
Like if they're playing
basketball, if your younger 1,

702
00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:11,320
you know, you know, doesn't
move, it could be Joshua's

703
00:33:11,520 --> 00:33:13,040
crossing over Jordan, you know
what I'm saying?

704
00:33:13,440 --> 00:33:15,880
That's the dream.
That's why we named him that.

705
00:33:15,880 --> 00:33:17,600
Just the set up that.
Moment.

706
00:33:17,600 --> 00:33:18,920
So that's good.
That's good.

707
00:33:18,920 --> 00:33:21,600
Well, that's great.
I'm excited to get into it.

708
00:33:22,760 --> 00:33:27,520
Next week we'll get into the 1st
chapter and I've got, I'm going

709
00:33:27,560 --> 00:33:30,080
to frame it at the beginning of
it a little bit different than

710
00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:31,400
me.
I'm going to steal from this guy

711
00:33:31,400 --> 00:33:32,800
here.
He does a wonderful way that's

712
00:33:32,800 --> 00:33:34,320
like a little bit out of the
norm.

713
00:33:34,360 --> 00:33:35,760
Do we need to talk to you about
council?

714
00:33:35,760 --> 00:33:37,040
You on stealing?
Steal.

715
00:33:37,040 --> 00:33:38,760
Yeah, that's right.
And honestly, there's there's

716
00:33:38,760 --> 00:33:40,960
nothing done to the.
Sun right, that's Steelers

717
00:33:41,120 --> 00:33:42,520
jersey on that's.
Great.

718
00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:44,280
I love it.
Well, anything else you want to

719
00:33:44,280 --> 00:33:44,720
say?
That's all.

720
00:33:45,240 --> 00:33:46,440
Yeah.
All right, that's our take.

721
00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:49,240
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722
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