Joshua 3 | Crossing the Jordan: Faith, Fear, and the God Who Goes Before Us

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Right, Zach, we are about to
enter into our, what is this

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third from Joshua and it's kind
of like third and a half because

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our New Year's was Joshua
related.

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That's true.
It started with a little Jordan

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reference.
Yeah, it's good.

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Yeah, crossing Jordan and going
to New York's.

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So we, we did pick out our New
Year's word, you know.

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You know, we had serve then we
had strengthen discipline.

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Man, I'm excited.
Journey, journey.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, what?

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What's the phrase?
It's not about the destination,

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it's about the journey.
I don't know about but.

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That's exactly it.
And there's also it shows up in

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this Brandon Sanderson books,
the Starlight Archive, where

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this really wise king writes,
you know, these these three

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things and one of them is
journey over destination.

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It's like, and it it's kind of
goes along with what you're

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talking about, you know, with
some of your stuff for Jay, like

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you want the end result to be
this, but I don't want to make

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that the goal.
I want to make the goal, the

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process thing.
I've been.

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Thinking about that too, it's
like people and I think these

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are great goals, like reading
the Bible in a year, do these

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things great, but just learn to
like love to read the Bible,

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even if they're happy and maybe
you do more.

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It's like, that's like a
different thing.

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And it's like, man, if you can
like do that, That's I think a

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hard thing to appreciate, but
it's like that.

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That is awesome.
Yeah, I want to love the I want

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to love activity.
I want to love, you know, those

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types of things.
So that's that's kind of the the

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the spirit behind.
I like that the journey, you

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know, just just soaking it all
in.

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And the other thing I was going
to say maybe the, maybe the

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users pay attention, maybe they
don't.

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But I, So what I do is I take
our notes that we use and I have

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three things that I do three
different threads with ChatGPT.

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So I'll, one of those threads is
only producing the summaries.

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So I don't, I don't go in and
write the summaries.

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I just say, I just actually, I
don't even say anything.

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I just copy notes in there.
Boom, it gives me a suggested

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title.
Sometimes I tweak it if I don't

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like it and then some a summary
and I, I use that, But then I

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take that summary and I put it
into a different thread and it

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knows I want a prompt to create
an image.

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So all of our image.
And then so I take that prompt

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and I throw it into a different
thread and it knows I get a

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prompt, I make an image.
That's great.

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And that middle step has just
been, they're fine images.

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You can probably tell they're AI
if you're if you're looking for

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that kind of thing, but they're
like always the sepia color.

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Yes, I've never.
Yes, yeah, yeah.

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And I'm like, OK, finally I'm
like I said, I'm tired of the

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sepia.
Like I don't want like neon or

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vivid, but give me something
with a little bit more

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saturation.
So I did that for the episode

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that came out last week, so the
last Tuesdays, and I went back

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and I was like, you know what, I
like that so much.

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Let's change all of the Joshua
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That's actually smart to all the
series.

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That's like kind of smart.
So so if you notice that that's.

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I saw.
That's cool.

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Yeah.
So that's kind of the thought

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process behind.
So I went back and I tweaked

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some of the, the, the YouTube
and the, the Spotify little

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logos just so that it's like not
so sepia all the time because I

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like sepia.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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It's got its place.
But it's like we, we got to, we

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got to have a little bit more
variety, so.

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I love it.
That's good.

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Very, very good.
I like the word to journey, man

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OK, I'm trying to maybe this
year I'll learn to love movies

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more.
I've I've been I've been looking

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at some classic movies and
trying to fill in some gaps or

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some I know these are great or
not for the first time I watched

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You'll not believe it, Dead Poet
Society.

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What did you think?
Honestly, it was like, I want to

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be a good teacher because it was
like engage, you know, yeah,

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that kind of thing.
I and it's like old, you know, I

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mean, not that.
Does someone commit suicide

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there or is there?
Yeah, that's something I

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remember.
Yeah, yeah.

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Boy, that like his dad is like,
don't be an actor, don't love

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the arts.
You're going to be a doctor.

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Yeah.
And he's like, OK, I'm going to

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shoot myself.
Somehow they don't hear the.

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I don't, I don't know.
I mean you can, but I thought it

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was a good movie overall.
Yeah, yeah.

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And they're responding to that.
Well, how?

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How far into the movie does that
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Toward toward the end, yeah,
yeah, he like goes 'cause he

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like acts in a play and he loves
it and all the this stuff and

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anyway, but yeah.
And did you feel like the same

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kind of pressure from your
father to be a doctor?

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Yeah, and, and it was, it was a
little overtime.

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He's like, you're gonna,
everyone's in this boarding

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school and they're, you know,
all of them go to Ivy League,

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but, you know.
I remember being inspired by it,

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but I was so young when I
watched it again.

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I.
Captain, My captain, I.

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Did I think I did put that on
Lydia's list?

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So it's so let me let me make
sure I can check to see if it's

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on Lydia's.
List Yeah, I I really was struck

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by all the scenes with Robin
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And he's like teaching and he's
doing like all these weird

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things like taking him outside
and he's proving a point.

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Like he hasn't take their poetry
book and he hasn't like read.

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It's on there.
Hey, it's on the yeah, I like

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it.
And and he just like RIP out

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this page.
It's stupid.

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It's like making poetry a
science about meter and it's

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like we don't care about.
But he was a good.

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I bet he did not teach them
chiasms.

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We got a chiasm today.
What a great what a great segue.

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But overall, you know any?
Other movies.

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There's a, there's a couple I've
watched that pretty good.

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I don't think they're, I don't
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little bit violent, but other
than that, nothing too, too

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crazy.
Have you have you ever watched

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No Country for Old Men?
I haven't.

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I I've never watched it before
and I was like, everyone's like,

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this is a class movie.
I watched it, it was pretty

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good.
It's it's a little bit violent,

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a lot of shooting and killing
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I've never seen Pulp Fiction.
Oh yes, yeah.

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Have you seen it?
I I have seen like parts of it a

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long time about it.
It's.

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Like it's like it's a classic
cult classic.

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You should watch it.
And I don't know, I, it seems

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like it's, I don't know.
I don't know if it, if it's bad,

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if it's racy, if I don't know
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people reference it all the
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They'll make some reference like
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from.
And I, I don't like that.

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I don't like that feeling.
But yeah, so I, I don't know.

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The hard thing, what I found is
it is hard to find like a good,

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it's hard to find a good movie.
Well, a game changer for us is

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especially with our kids.
I mean with us too.

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We have bid Angel and that like
opens up.

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You can like really tweak things
if they're on certain platforms,

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like pretty like specifically as
much or as little as you want

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something, but it's hard to find
like a great movie and you're

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like, oh, it's really great, but
it's got this or this and like,

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you know, you can like Fast
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like hard.
You might not know what it's

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coming, you know what I'm
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So you, like, want to stay away
from that, you know?

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Have we talked about this?
We have.

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We talked about Teen Wolf.
I don't think so.

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It was not.
It's also on the list like the

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old 80s one.
I just remember Michael J Fox

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playing basketball turned into a
wolf and like being a good time.

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And we watched that.
And it's like, it probably

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wouldn't be an R today, but it
like goes right up to the edge

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of, you know, sexual innuendo
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And my kids.
Yeah.

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I like this is this was what
movies were and it was PG.

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They didn't even have APG 13
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So it was like either that's
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out of a year or so after this
movie came out, probably to

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catch these.
Catch these things like I think

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is airplane PG probably.
I know it's like, you know,

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yeah, it's like all these old
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It's hard to, you know, figure
figure it on.

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It's like problem bit Angel is
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The problem is not everything's
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And so it's like, yeah, then you
can't, but you can like.

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So if you were watching Private
Ryan, yeah, you the F bombs

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don't bother me.
Personally, right?

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Yeah.
But when they take the Lord's

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name in vain.
Yes, that.

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So I could, you could take the
you could like, Hey, specific

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bombs are fine.
Yes, but I want the Lord's name

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in vain removed.
Yeah, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Not that I used them.
I think in a time of war, I

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would use them.
Yeah, if, if, if we're being

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bombed, I will also throw.
A bomb.

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I think we're an imperialistic
country now.

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So maybe, I mean, maybe there's
a chance, maybe you get in the

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dream, but it's are we, are we
going to take over Greenland?

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Is this is this happening?
Take over Greenland.

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I think we're going to buy
Greenland.

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What's what's?
I don't pay attention to

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anything, but what's the what's
what's the what's green going

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for these days?
I don't know how much it is I,

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you know, I think Trump's modus
aprendi MO is to make some

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egregious claim.
Yeah.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
To then give him leverage in

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making a deal.
And that's what he does all the

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time.
And so he's made some egregious

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acclaim and now he's wanting to
buy.

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I think, you know, Marco Rubio,
I think has said, yeah, we're,

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we're going to be on the table,
too.

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I saw this hilarious clip of
like, Marco Rubio and Trump in a

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meeting, and he's like passing a
note that he's like not wanting

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Trump to read out loud, but it's
like, hey, just this.

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And like Trump just like takes
it and starts reading it.

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Marco's like, no, no, that's
like, you know, we don't want to

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say this out loud, but it's
great.

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It's really funny.
That's the inside out.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But anyway, we've talked a lot,

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Chi Asm's probably where we
should have transitioned.

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We are in Joshua Chapter 3.
Let's go ahead, take it to the

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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.
All right, Joshua, last week,

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just quick review.
Are we back up two episodes?

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We did an overview last episode,
talked about four funerals a

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little bit.
Strange ways.

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Prophecy, not history.
Prophecy, not history.

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That's right.
That's right.

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A little bit different,
different take on it.

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Today we're going to look at
some familiar stories.

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We are crossing into the land.
Last time we kind of talked

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about right right into the, we
talked about the Jordan River

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and crossing the Jordan or we
did not.

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Yeah, we talked about really, we
focused in on the four funerals

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like Joshua's.
Oh, and.

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Today we're going to talk about
actual, the actual crossing into

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the land.
And and like you were mentioning

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Michael in my note, I've gotten
bold letters, chiasm alert.

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That's right.
That's.

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Right, so so I love this this
book I'm reading by Dale Davis

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that's like a very short
commentary.

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He does a good job of pointing
out structure and content in the

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literary devices as a the help
interpret the book.

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And what he points out is if you
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where you want to I, I, I feel
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bearings.
Are we just jumping right into?

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Chapter 2, right?
Ray Hat.

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Yeah, Ray Hat we're.
In episode 3, but chapter 1 so

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we cover like really chapter one
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did book ends in episode 2 and
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In and here we're at yes, that's
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Because what what confuses me, I
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time is like, you almost could
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over to do.
You think 2 happen

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chronologically between?
Like they sent spies in before

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they probably.
Yeah, yeah, that that actually

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does make make a lot of sense
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So let's give the overview of
the chiasm.

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And if you know the listeners in
a home, I forgot what a chiasm

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is, How would you describe a
chiasm?

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Well, a chiasm.
It's like it gets its name from

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the Greek letter X.
And so really if you kind of cut

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the Greekler X in half, you'd
have like this slant and then

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another slant.
And basically as you are writing

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something, once you kind of
shift thought, you indent and

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shift thought, indent, shift
thought, indent.

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back and it starts paralleling

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what you have above, then you
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And so that the things that line
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And so the beginning and the
end, similar thoughts or topics,

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maybe from different viewpoints,
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And then the next indent level
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And then so you get to the
center and that just like in a

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Tootsie Pop, it's the best,
that's the best thing.

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It's the.
It's the core, core idea.

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Well, if we're looking at
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Many are very familiar with
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If you look at Chapter 1, it's
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commissioning these spies.
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chapter 2 and then if you look
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it's like the spies coming back
to Joshua.

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That's like, you know, the bread
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It kind of bookends things.
If you go in one level, there is

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this concern, you know, the
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whatever Rahab like protecting
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And then if you flip it towards
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actually protecting Rahab is
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Hey, we'll, we'll protect you.
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And so if you're working your
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chapter would be the very
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makes a lot of sense.
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and that kind of according to
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through, it is being pointed out
very significantly that hey,

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this is like this is the part of
the story we want to highlight.

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of maybe go through this story a
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So Joshua too, we know the rehab
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Most people do the first
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Joshua was sending these spies
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They found rehab's house.
You know, King gets word that,

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hey, there's some spies here,
Let's go look for these people.

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Rahab told them, told, told, you
know, the King's people like,

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hey, these spies, they already
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But they're really hiding with
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And then if you skip from that
first paragraph that ends in

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verse 7, it ends.
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So the men pursued after them on
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the forwards.
And the gate was shut as soon as

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the pursuers had gone out.
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left.
Then verse 15, like 8 verses

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later picks up the story.
Then she let them down by a rope

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through the window.
So it's like the chronology of

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the story is like interrupted by
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So it's like this gap in the
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It does kind of seem like
everything's kind of pointing

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towards this.
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So go ahead 'cause you would
almost think like, well, anyway,

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read, read these verses for us
if you want to. 8 through 14. 8

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through 14.
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Of it, yeah, there we go, it
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Now, therefore lay down.
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Now before they lay down, she
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said to the men, I know that the
Lord which is this is the word

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for Yahweh, has given you the
land, and that the terror of you

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has fallen on us, and that all
the inhabitants of the land have

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melted away before you.
For we have heard how Yahweh

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dried up the water of the Red
Sea before you when you came out

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of Egypt, and what you did to
the 2 kings of the Amorites who

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were beyond the Jordan, to
Shiha, Scion and Ogg, whom you

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utterly destroyed.
When we heard it, our hearts

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melted, and no courage remained
in any man any longer because of

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you.
For Yahweh your God, He is God

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in heaven above and on the earth
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There Now, therefore please
swear to me by Yahweh, since I

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have dwelt kindly with you, that
you will also deal kindly with

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my father's household, and give
me a pledge of truth, and spare

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my father and my mother and my
brothers and sisters, and with

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all who belong to them, and
deliver our lives from death.

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So the men said to her, Our life
is our life for yours, if you do

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not tell this business of ours.
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Lord Yahweh gives us the land,
that we will deal kindly and

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faithfully with you.
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Thanks, Michael.
And then the third paragraph

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will continue with, you know,
they were let down through a

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rope, through the window.
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Everything turns out OK.
It's that middle point and if

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you were to break it down,
there's a lot in Rahab's

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confession where she focuses on
the mightiness of Yahweh.

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Like I've heard what you've
done.

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You've dried up the that Yahweh
dried up the water of the Red

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Sea and Egypt, the king of the
Amorites has specifically

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mentioned shifts to not only
that, but you know, he is the

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God of the heavens above and on
earth beneath like this majestic

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God.
And then really let from there,

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it kind of moves like, can this
God have mercy on me?

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Like I've heard of this God.
I'm, I'm here.

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Please let me know what I can do
to be saved by this God in a

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way.
And I like the structure of it

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because I, I often read
narratives and stories and

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sometimes my mind like
immediately drifts to not the

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main point.
Like I read the rehab story and

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I'm like, is rehab lying?
Like or like, you know, like,

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you know what I mean?
And those are I don't think

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those are bad questions to
consider, but it's like you're

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you're missing like the main
point.

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The main point's not even like
despise like snucker.

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It's like man, that Yahweh is
great and he's going to save

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this non Jew.
Yeah, and like you said, I also

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wonder, you know, I was
purposely saying Yahweh for all

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the times that Lord capitalized,
but did she actually know the

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name Yahweh and use it?
Like has that?

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How far the name of the Lord had
spread and and the fear that

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went with it, which I think
would be pretty cool if it is.

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Like.
Hey, we know this Yahweh that

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met Moses at the Bush and he,
you know, let them out and, and,

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you know, save them and all
that, that.

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And when you tie that into, you
know, what someone like clay

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thrower mate might believe and
I, I kind of believe.

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And you have these different
watchers and you these

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different, you know, things and
like God is taking back this

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land that was promised to him
and, you know, and the friends

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of Israel's taken back.
I I think it's a, a cool

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connection that now she they
know these even people know the

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name Yahweh and he's coming,
coming to take back what's his.

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And it it's crazy, you know,
Rahab for this person at the

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very beginning of Joshua, I feel
like, you know, gets it's a lot

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of significance elsewhere in
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You see Rahab popping up a lot
of places genealogies you see in

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James 2.
It's like Rahab's directly

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compared with Abraham, Like
these are the two people, right?

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That's it's like crazy.
And we mentioned this last time,

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but that's one reason probably
that the rave story is at the

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beginning.
It's kind of setting the tone

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for this land right away.
And Speaking of land, you know,

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you read this chapter, we didn't
read it all, but you see this

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theme of of the land talked
about verse one, verse 9 and

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verse 14 and verse 18, verse 24.
The promised land is a huge

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motif and theme and it's kind of
building towards this is so

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important.
And and again, you know, rehab

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is really singled out and in a
very pivotal way.

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And it's like this woman, non
non Jew, you know, her

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profession, all these things,
you know, probably morally not

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the most stand up person in her
past, you know.

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Yeah, she's always claimed to be
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And I mean, how is that the
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I don't know why?
Why does why does prostitution

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have the name the oldest
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I.
Don't know.

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Yeah.
What what I mean, yeah.

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Why can't it be, you know, any
anything else?

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I.
I don't know, probably farmer is

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the oldest profession.
You got you got to eat.

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Yeah, But anyway, anything else
on the on the rehab store kind

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of teeing it up for Israel about
to cross the Jordan?

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No, I, I think it's cool and I,
I am always like, like I have

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all these questions.
Like, yeah, we know it's going

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to work out because we've read
it and how her part of the wall

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isn't going to fall down.
That's amazing.

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That is amazing.
But it's like God is honoring

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the pact that the that the spies
made with with her.

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How did they know that How that
was going to happen?

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I don't know but.
Yeah, I know that that is that

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is pretty, pretty crazy.
The rest of our time we're going

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to look at chapters 3 and four
that that talks about Israel

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crossing the Jordan and God
working in, in pretty incredible

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ways.
So again, maybe something to

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talk about too.
I don't know if you've heard

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this, Like there there, there's
a lot of chatter about like, you

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know, how much how much is the
Jordan flood?

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Or like, is it is this a
supernatural versus having heard

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this argument, like they made
it.

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Well, some people say like
either way, you know, you can

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have to read it to God.
But some people be like this is

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a supernatural that God
performed or it's like it was

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the right time in the year where
the harvest happens and the moon

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was the right and you know what
I mean, Like.

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I've always heard that it like
there are natural ebb and flow

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of the river and this happened
to be at kind of high tide for

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the river.
Yeah, yeah, I've heard.

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During the right after the snow
melt on you know what is that

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mount?
What's that?

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Not Herman.
Not Herman.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Which like if you're thinking of

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the Exodus story, harder to be
like, well, this is the time.

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This is the time of the year
where the sea like, you know, I

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don't know Red Sea, so.
You're saying I heard that it

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was like higher and God parted
it, but you're you're saying

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that it may have been lower and
God.

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Maybe.
That that's something to argue.

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You you read a lot of a lot of
different things.

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But anyway, neither he neither
here nor there.

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You read this.
And again, I've just never paid

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attention to stuff all the time
because some of this is

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familiar.
You read in your Bible reading

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and you're moving so fast.
But it was pointed out that you

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look at 3 verse eight and three
verse 13.

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There's like this very abrupt
like stall in the story.

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So, so maybe what we can do here
is let's read a little bit of

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this.
I don't know if you want to read

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verses 7 through like through
13.

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Sure.
And we'll see if we can point

446
00:22:11,360 --> 00:22:15,560
out some of this, looking back
on it, the suspense, maybe the

447
00:22:15,560 --> 00:22:17,280
author's building in this abrupt
change.

448
00:22:17,440 --> 00:22:21,640
Yeah, it says now the Lord
again, Yahweh, I can continue

449
00:22:21,640 --> 00:22:22,640
making those.
I love that.

450
00:22:22,640 --> 00:22:24,120
That's great.
All right, so now Yahweh has

451
00:22:24,120 --> 00:22:28,280
said to Joshua, this day I will
begin to exalt you in the sight

452
00:22:28,280 --> 00:22:32,160
of all Israel, that they may
know that just as I have been

453
00:22:32,160 --> 00:22:36,160
with Moses, I will be with you.
You shall moreover command the

454
00:22:36,160 --> 00:22:38,600
priests who are carrying the ark
of the covenant, saying, When

455
00:22:38,600 --> 00:22:41,680
you come to the edge of the
waters of the Jordan, you shall

456
00:22:41,680 --> 00:22:45,840
stand still in the Jordan.
Then Joshua said to the sons of

457
00:22:45,840 --> 00:22:49,120
Israel, come here and hear the
words of Yahweh your God.

458
00:22:49,440 --> 00:22:52,560
Joshua said, By this you shall
know that the living God is

459
00:22:52,560 --> 00:22:56,000
among you, and that He will
assuredly dispose from before

460
00:22:56,000 --> 00:22:59,600
you the Canaanite, the Hittite,
the Hibite, the Pezzerite, the

461
00:22:59,600 --> 00:23:03,120
Girgashite, the Amorite, and the
Jebusite, before the ark of the

462
00:23:03,120 --> 00:23:06,200
covenant of the Lord of all the
earth is crossing over ahead of

463
00:23:06,200 --> 00:23:08,920
you into the Jordan.
But now then, take for

464
00:23:08,920 --> 00:23:12,240
yourselves 12 men from the
tribes of Israel, one men for

465
00:23:12,240 --> 00:23:14,360
each tribe.
It shall come about when the

466
00:23:14,360 --> 00:23:17,520
soles of the feet of the priests
who carry the ark of Yahweh, the

467
00:23:17,520 --> 00:23:20,400
Lord of all the earth, rests in
the waters of the Jordan.

468
00:23:20,680 --> 00:23:23,680
The waters of the Jordan will be
cut off and the waters which are

469
00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:25,840
flowing down from above will
stand in one heap.

470
00:23:26,560 --> 00:23:27,760
Awesome.
Thanks for reading that.

471
00:23:27,760 --> 00:23:30,760
And I think as, and I've been
reading through Joshua a little

472
00:23:30,760 --> 00:23:33,960
bit more, it's like it's
interesting to take into account

473
00:23:33,960 --> 00:23:37,120
some of the storytelling by the
author where you can just like

474
00:23:37,120 --> 00:23:41,480
layout facts, but it's like you
build some suspense and then you

475
00:23:41,480 --> 00:23:43,560
like have a parenthetical and
then you finish the story.

476
00:23:43,560 --> 00:23:45,880
And it's like where where you
make these different emphases.

477
00:23:46,280 --> 00:23:47,600
We'll talk about that a little
bit later.

478
00:23:47,600 --> 00:23:51,160
I think plays into it.
Looking ahead a little bit,

479
00:23:51,160 --> 00:23:53,560
we'll circle back to Chapter 3.
But if you look at Chapter 4,

480
00:23:53,840 --> 00:23:58,360
it's really known for this
memorial, these 12 Stones, big

481
00:23:58,360 --> 00:24:02,080
theme in the beginning of of
Chapter 4.

482
00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:06,480
And if you read in Chapter 3,
there's a section that talks a

483
00:24:06,480 --> 00:24:10,240
lot about crossing over.
In Chapter 4, there's a big

484
00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:12,040
section that talks a lot about
crossing over.

485
00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:16,640
Spoiler alert, we're going to
talk another, another chiasm

486
00:24:16,640 --> 00:24:19,400
potentially just with you see a
section talking about crossing

487
00:24:19,400 --> 00:24:22,520
over, crossing over like 5
times, and then another section

488
00:24:23,160 --> 00:24:24,520
crossing over, crossing over,
crossing over.

489
00:24:24,520 --> 00:24:26,400
And then in the middle you have
a section that doesn't talk

490
00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:31,000
about crossing over but focuses
on these 12 Stones, drawing a

491
00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:33,360
real emphasis to these.
Something to keep in mind as we

492
00:24:33,360 --> 00:24:38,080
go throughout the story.
And then at the end of verse 3,

493
00:24:38,600 --> 00:24:41,520
at the end of chapter 3 and
verse 17, we we come across the

494
00:24:41,520 --> 00:24:45,440
priest standing in the water.
They're still standing in the

495
00:24:45,440 --> 00:24:49,680
water until chapter 4, verse 10.
The story doesn't advance as far

496
00:24:49,680 --> 00:24:53,320
as what's happening.
The stones kind of intrude the

497
00:24:53,320 --> 00:24:56,400
story.
And so it's like weird the threw

498
00:24:56,400 --> 00:24:57,480
that in there.
Now.

499
00:24:57,480 --> 00:24:58,480
It's not like a summary at the
end.

500
00:24:58,480 --> 00:24:59,840
It's like in the middle of the
story.

501
00:25:00,440 --> 00:25:02,560
Things to think about.
Like why are we telling the

502
00:25:02,560 --> 00:25:05,480
story this way anyway?
And then at the end of chapter

503
00:25:05,480 --> 00:25:09,640
4, Joshua's got a speech that
closes the account and really

504
00:25:10,320 --> 00:25:13,480
brings this emphasis.
As you know, chapters 3 and 4 is

505
00:25:13,480 --> 00:25:16,120
a unit together.
So that being said, we'll kind

506
00:25:16,120 --> 00:25:19,040
of walk through the account
quickly here.

507
00:25:20,040 --> 00:25:24,040
Chapter 3, verse, 6 verses,
Israel's just getting ready for

508
00:25:24,040 --> 00:25:27,320
the crossing.
Joshua's preparing them, and we

509
00:25:27,920 --> 00:25:30,960
don't have time to read through
it, but in these 6 verses, do

510
00:25:30,960 --> 00:25:33,040
you want to guess how many times
the Ark of the Covenant has

511
00:25:33,040 --> 00:25:35,080
mentioned?
Well, maybe not me. 6 verses and

512
00:25:35,080 --> 00:25:37,080
chapters 3 and 4 together.
It's a lot.

513
00:25:37,240 --> 00:25:40,560
It's a lot.
I can see their nose, so 17.

514
00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:42,440
Nailed it.
Nailed it.

515
00:25:42,440 --> 00:25:44,880
So you got to think like you
look at these things.

516
00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:47,360
The word stones crossing over is
mentioned a lot.

517
00:25:47,360 --> 00:25:51,520
Ark of the Covenant is also a
central emphasis in these

518
00:25:51,520 --> 00:25:55,040
chapters.
Why do you think that's there so

519
00:25:55,040 --> 00:25:59,720
much?
Well, signifies God's presence.

520
00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:04,280
So I think he's, you know,
reminding that one, it's God's

521
00:26:04,280 --> 00:26:07,000
presence, he's with them, and
two, here has to be taken and

522
00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:09,280
treated, right.
That's probably, yeah, kind of.

523
00:26:09,280 --> 00:26:10,800
Come on those themes.
Yeah.

524
00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:14,040
I, I think totally reading the
story, they're saying you know

525
00:26:14,040 --> 00:26:17,120
the arc's going to be 2000
cubits ahead of head of the

526
00:26:17,120 --> 00:26:18,520
group so you can see where it's
going.

527
00:26:18,520 --> 00:26:21,640
Do you know how far 2000 cubits
is?

528
00:26:22,880 --> 00:26:30,160
2000, it's around 3000 feet, or
what would that be?

529
00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:32,400
1000 yards, So 10 football
fields.

530
00:26:32,440 --> 00:26:34,600
Yeah, there you go.
So that that's kind of a lot.

531
00:26:34,840 --> 00:26:37,040
I mean, I was trying to think
through those like the arcs look

532
00:26:37,040 --> 00:26:39,280
really far ahead.
It's not just like a football

533
00:26:39,280 --> 00:26:40,920
field ahead.
It's a lot ahead.

534
00:26:40,920 --> 00:26:43,640
Yeah, Yeah.
That's a big, a big separation

535
00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:46,360
there. 10 football fields.
That's crazy.

536
00:26:46,360 --> 00:26:47,840
That's like almost like throw.
It that far?

537
00:26:48,840 --> 00:26:52,440
If anyone could, you know, he
would and and they're preparing

538
00:26:52,440 --> 00:26:54,160
for this.
Their people are called to

539
00:26:54,160 --> 00:26:56,280
prepare themselves.
Then we get to the next

540
00:26:56,280 --> 00:27:02,120
paragraph, verses 7 through 13.
Joshua's kind of again lifted up

541
00:27:02,120 --> 00:27:04,760
like set apart a little bit,
getting some credibility to him.

542
00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:10,080
I'll read verses 14 through 17
comes immediately after this.

543
00:27:10,080 --> 00:27:16,000
Joshua's kind of exalted Yahweh
emphasizes that Joshua obeys.

544
00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:17,240
You're always going to work
through.

545
00:27:17,240 --> 00:27:18,600
It's kind of this theme
throughout Joshua.

546
00:27:18,600 --> 00:27:20,680
It's like Yahweh does all these
things, but he doesn't just, you

547
00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:23,600
know, happen right away.
It happens through means.

548
00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:27,080
Joshua's obedience, Verse 14
through 17.

549
00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:30,080
I've got this as kind of an
important center point.

550
00:27:30,280 --> 00:27:32,640
Here it goes.
So when the people set up from

551
00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:35,040
their tents to Passover, the
Jordan with the priest bearing

552
00:27:35,040 --> 00:27:36,600
the ark of the covenant before
the people.

553
00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:39,160
And as soon as those bearing the
ark had come as far as the

554
00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:40,840
Jordan, and the feet of the
priest bearing the ark were

555
00:27:40,840 --> 00:27:44,480
dipped in the brink of the water
parentheses, Now the Jordan

556
00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:47,240
overflows all of its bank
throughout the time of harvest.

557
00:27:47,560 --> 00:27:49,720
The waters coming down from
above stood and rose in a heap

558
00:27:49,720 --> 00:27:54,200
very far away at Adam, the city
that is beside Zarathan and is

559
00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:56,640
flowing down toward the sea of
the Arabah.

560
00:27:56,640 --> 00:28:00,280
The salt sea were completely cut
off, and the people passed over

561
00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:02,760
opposite Jericho.
Now the priest bearing the ark

562
00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:05,000
of the covenant of the Lord
stood firmly on the dry ground

563
00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:07,880
in the midst of the Jordan.
And all Israel is passing over

564
00:28:07,880 --> 00:28:10,680
on dry ground until all the
nation finish passing over.

565
00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:14,040
Did Jordan?
So did the people eventually

566
00:28:14,040 --> 00:28:14,560
catch?
Up.

567
00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:17,600
I I that's what it seems like.
It's like they got a big lead

568
00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:20,400
and then everyone passed and
then they closed it out.

569
00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:22,080
OK, All right.
It is so interesting.

570
00:28:22,080 --> 00:28:23,320
Then why did I think it's such a
big lead?

571
00:28:23,320 --> 00:28:25,280
Yeah, yeah.
So they don't see the waters

572
00:28:25,280 --> 00:28:26,240
heap up.
I don't know.

573
00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:30,120
Yeah, maybe don't get like
caught in the craziness of it.

574
00:28:30,120 --> 00:28:33,600
It is interesting.
You look at what I just read,

575
00:28:33,600 --> 00:28:36,480
kind of the flow of the passage.
There's like this introduction.

576
00:28:36,480 --> 00:28:39,640
It kind of builds up.
And then again, it's just weird

577
00:28:39,640 --> 00:28:42,160
in the middle.
We have like this parenthetical

578
00:28:42,160 --> 00:28:45,560
thing, like right in the middle
of it where it's like, you know,

579
00:28:45,560 --> 00:28:48,640
the priest at their foot in the
water and the water's froze in a

580
00:28:48,640 --> 00:28:50,520
heap.
But in between, it's like just

581
00:28:50,520 --> 00:28:54,800
so you know that Jordan does
overflow, drawing a lot of

582
00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:57,600
attention to this Jordan River.
I don't know if you know a lot

583
00:28:57,600 --> 00:28:59,880
about the Jordan River.
I'm not like an expert on rivers

584
00:28:59,880 --> 00:29:04,080
or the Jordan River.
I mean it goes from Mount

585
00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:05,240
Hermon.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

586
00:29:05,360 --> 00:29:07,040
Down to the Sea of Galilee,
Yeah.

587
00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:09,640
Then the Sea of Galilee down to
the Dead Sea.

588
00:29:09,960 --> 00:29:12,920
Nailed it.
That's that's and I know that

589
00:29:12,920 --> 00:29:17,000
it's not the cleanest river.
Right.

590
00:29:17,160 --> 00:29:20,040
Yeah, you talk.
About like a dirty and some

591
00:29:20,120 --> 00:29:23,800
sometimes of the year it's like
real thin and and not, not

592
00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:25,480
something.
But the other times this year, I

593
00:29:25,480 --> 00:29:27,920
guess it's big enough to get
baptized in or probably there's

594
00:29:27,920 --> 00:29:30,320
probably spots around that's
kind of dugout and it's a little

595
00:29:30,320 --> 00:29:32,440
deeper and you can get baptized
in and stuff.

596
00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:36,040
As I was reading about it,
people will point out that

597
00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:38,920
especially you go back, you
know, thousands of years, the

598
00:29:38,920 --> 00:29:41,280
banks have a lot of tangled Bush
jungle growth.

599
00:29:41,280 --> 00:29:45,560
It's not you look at it today,
it's easier to cross today and

600
00:29:45,920 --> 00:29:47,880
waters have receded a little
bit, that kind of thing.

601
00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:51,480
Presumably, you know, closer to
where they were crossing.

602
00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:54,280
There is, you know, we know
there's this elevation drop from

603
00:29:54,280 --> 00:29:56,240
Mount Hermon all the way down to
that, that sea.

604
00:29:56,640 --> 00:30:01,120
That's when you're farther N
it's like 40 feet per mile

605
00:30:01,120 --> 00:30:03,080
elevation drops.
So significant enough where you

606
00:30:03,080 --> 00:30:05,480
can get some with the
overflowing and the flooding

607
00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:10,040
that kind of gives some of that.
And with the flooding, it could

608
00:30:10,040 --> 00:30:12,040
be in some parts up to 1000 feet
wide.

609
00:30:12,040 --> 00:30:15,320
So it's not there everywhere,
but it's it, you know, get some

610
00:30:15,320 --> 00:30:16,320
perfection.
See pictures today.

611
00:30:16,320 --> 00:30:18,360
It's, you know, can be very,
very small.

612
00:30:18,360 --> 00:30:20,800
This was the springtime harvest
time, the hardest time to cross

613
00:30:20,800 --> 00:30:24,560
the river, really could be
unpredictable and dangerous in

614
00:30:24,560 --> 00:30:26,560
Bible times.
If you were, if you're thinking

615
00:30:26,560 --> 00:30:29,400
like livestock, elderly, that
kind of thing, like maybe like,

616
00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:31,840
you're fit, people could cross.
But if you're trying to get,

617
00:30:31,840 --> 00:30:35,160
like, thousands, thousands of
people, that's not like nothing.

618
00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:37,320
Yeah.
Mount Hermon, the snow is

619
00:30:37,320 --> 00:30:38,920
melting.
It gives, it gives it make.

620
00:30:38,920 --> 00:30:41,160
It can be hard.
And the obvious picture here we

621
00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:45,040
talked about a little bit is
echoes of the Exodus really, you

622
00:30:45,040 --> 00:30:47,480
know, validating.
You'll get these two stories out

623
00:30:47,480 --> 00:30:49,080
of bondage into the promised
land.

624
00:30:49,080 --> 00:30:52,720
You see a lot of similarities
here, highlighting Yahweh's

625
00:30:53,280 --> 00:30:56,680
greatness.
So we hear this story, we talk

626
00:30:56,680 --> 00:31:00,480
talk about it a lot, but I think
it's some of those facts,

627
00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:04,680
events, put a little bit of
flesh on it where Chapter 3 is

628
00:31:04,680 --> 00:31:07,560
really the account, then chapter
4 is like, let's remember this

629
00:31:08,120 --> 00:31:09,440
and have this more.
And I feel like the Old

630
00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:12,160
Testament, man, we're like,
we're heaping up thousands of

631
00:31:12,160 --> 00:31:13,520
rocks all the time.
Yeah.

632
00:31:13,520 --> 00:31:15,320
It's like at some point, are you
like walking around and you're

633
00:31:15,320 --> 00:31:17,200
like, there's no place to
memorialize what just happened

634
00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:18,720
because it's already been
memorialized, you know?

635
00:31:20,160 --> 00:31:22,280
So anyway, let's look at chapter
4 a little bit.

636
00:31:22,280 --> 00:31:24,480
Can you read verses 6:00 and
7:00?

637
00:31:24,480 --> 00:31:29,520
For us it says, Let this be a
sign among you, so that when

638
00:31:29,520 --> 00:31:32,760
your children ask later saying,
What do these stones mean to

639
00:31:32,760 --> 00:31:36,640
you, then you shall say to them,
Because the waters of the Jordan

640
00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:39,680
were cut off before the Ark of
the Covenant of Yahweh.

641
00:31:40,040 --> 00:31:43,160
When it crossed the Jordan, the
waters of the Jordan were cut

642
00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:45,360
off.
So these stones shall be a

643
00:31:45,360 --> 00:31:48,040
memorial to the sons of Israel
forever.

644
00:31:48,480 --> 00:31:50,600
Yeah, it's a good, good reason
people are going to ask you

645
00:31:50,600 --> 00:31:52,760
catching me Like what?
What's this going on?

646
00:31:53,960 --> 00:31:56,440
Joshua talks a lot about
conquest, a lot about conquering

647
00:31:56,440 --> 00:31:59,560
enemies.
But just as important, like

648
00:31:59,560 --> 00:32:02,680
there's things, things to do,
but it's also like, don't forget

649
00:32:02,680 --> 00:32:04,320
what's been done.
You know, it's like that other

650
00:32:04,320 --> 00:32:08,200
side of it.
I think, you know, sometimes the

651
00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:11,440
greater enemy can be like, oh,
I'm just not reflecting and

652
00:32:11,440 --> 00:32:14,640
remembering what God has done
and not only remembering it,

653
00:32:14,640 --> 00:32:16,560
but, and children are going to
ask, but you're like

654
00:32:17,120 --> 00:32:19,520
propagating, you're teaching it,
you're passing it down.

655
00:32:21,240 --> 00:32:24,120
And also, I think a good side
note is for, you know, all of us

656
00:32:24,120 --> 00:32:28,400
to remember is if God wants this
like moment, same thing with the

657
00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:29,960
Exodus and Passover and these
things.

658
00:32:29,960 --> 00:32:33,640
It's like so ingrained probably
saying this stuff doesn't happen

659
00:32:33,640 --> 00:32:34,720
everyday.
Like you don't need to be

660
00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:37,280
chasing like all the crazy
signs, you know what I mean?

661
00:32:37,360 --> 00:32:39,600
You're right at some level.
Like it's like maybe most of the

662
00:32:39,600 --> 00:32:42,960
time God works very ordinarily.
So you're saying we probably

663
00:32:42,960 --> 00:32:45,560
shouldn't try to cross the
Cooper or the Ashley the same

664
00:32:45,560 --> 00:32:48,320
way?
Let's do it, let's do it.

665
00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:51,600
So anyway, and, and people will
also look back, you know, you

666
00:32:51,600 --> 00:32:56,680
can look at history and you
know, 126719-O61927 they were

667
00:32:56,680 --> 00:33:00,280
all like earthquakes that caused
the Jordan to flood in a

668
00:33:00,280 --> 00:33:02,280
miraculous way.
You know, people, you know,

669
00:33:02,440 --> 00:33:04,840
there's a lot of ink spill on.
Is this a natural?

670
00:33:04,840 --> 00:33:06,960
Flood or like reverse flow or
something like that.

671
00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:09,800
Did you know the Mississippi,
there was a earthquake in the

672
00:33:09,800 --> 00:33:12,520
1800s that caused the
Mississippi to flow backwards.

673
00:33:12,520 --> 00:33:13,920
That's pretty crazy.
Yeah.

674
00:33:13,920 --> 00:33:17,480
So it had such a huge chasm that
water flew backwards for a

675
00:33:17,480 --> 00:33:20,200
little bit till it filled it in
and then it resumed its normal.

676
00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:23,440
So.
I'm going to this is I didn't

677
00:33:23,440 --> 00:33:24,760
know this, maybe this is common
knowledge.

678
00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:27,520
I'm going to read Exodus 12/2
and three, and then I'm going to

679
00:33:27,520 --> 00:33:34,200
ask you to read Joshua 419.
So Exodus 12, we're coming right

680
00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:39,160
right after the crossing of the
Red Sea, the Lord said to Moses

681
00:33:39,160 --> 00:33:43,000
and Aaron in the land of Egypt.
Let's see if it tells, I think

682
00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:45,920
it tells us in Chapter 11, but
talks about a certain this month

683
00:33:45,920 --> 00:33:47,680
that we're in right now will be
the beginning of months.

684
00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:50,000
It'll be the first month of the
year for you.

685
00:33:50,760 --> 00:33:54,280
Go ahead and read Joshua 4/19.
Now the people came up from the

686
00:33:54,280 --> 00:33:58,160
Jordan on the 10th of the first
month and camped at Gilgal on

687
00:33:58,160 --> 00:34:03,120
the eastern edge of Jericho.
So the 10th day of the first

688
00:34:03,120 --> 00:34:06,520
month is when they celebrate the
Passover came out of Exodus.

689
00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:09,560
10th day of the first month is
when they crossed the Jordan.

690
00:34:09,560 --> 00:34:12,639
So it's like literally the same
time in the calendar, just so

691
00:34:12,639 --> 00:34:15,600
happened it's like on the same
day, you know, obviously.

692
00:34:15,600 --> 00:34:18,199
That just happened.
Disobeying by not observing

693
00:34:18,199 --> 00:34:20,880
Passover.
Maybe they did the night before.

694
00:34:21,239 --> 00:34:23,800
Maybe that's a good question.
You know, I you know, it's, it's

695
00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:25,840
interesting.
It's like all these connections

696
00:34:25,840 --> 00:34:27,600
are there 10th day of the first
month.

697
00:34:28,600 --> 00:34:30,520
Anyway.
You can't really miss miss these

698
00:34:30,520 --> 00:34:33,679
connections.
Josh Joshua, 3 or 4, you know,

699
00:34:33,679 --> 00:34:35,840
by way of application.
Maybe we can talk about this

700
00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:36,960
later too.
Is there anything you're like,

701
00:34:36,960 --> 00:34:40,600
man, this is like a memorial?
I was, I don't, I was thinking,

702
00:34:40,600 --> 00:34:43,719
you know, things that you like
tangible physical reminders.

703
00:34:43,719 --> 00:34:46,840
I think those things are good.
I'm not thinking of any like,

704
00:34:46,840 --> 00:34:48,360
but you know, like there's
things, you know.

705
00:34:49,040 --> 00:34:53,199
Yeah, I think I suffer a little
bit from ADHD.

706
00:34:53,199 --> 00:34:57,120
Like I have these Army men at my
work desk that was handed out a

707
00:34:57,120 --> 00:34:59,320
long time going to like fight
the good fight type of thing.

708
00:34:59,840 --> 00:35:01,640
Yeah.
And they just blend, you know,

709
00:35:01,880 --> 00:35:03,240
they just blend at the
background.

710
00:35:03,240 --> 00:35:05,040
After a while, it's like you get
used to.

711
00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:06,720
I'm guessing that's probably
everyone.

712
00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:08,680
Yeah.
But you know what?

713
00:35:08,680 --> 00:35:11,400
When my kids did, when it was
like bringing a kid to work day,

714
00:35:11,400 --> 00:35:12,520
they're like, Dad, what are
these Army?

715
00:35:12,960 --> 00:35:14,880
Oh yeah, Let me tell you about
That's why.

716
00:35:14,880 --> 00:35:16,160
Children regret because they're
asking.

717
00:35:16,160 --> 00:35:17,560
They're asking that's.
What this says?

718
00:35:17,640 --> 00:35:19,520
Here, that's great so.
Maybe that's good.

719
00:35:19,520 --> 00:35:22,320
I always wondered how long did
these stones last?

720
00:35:22,880 --> 00:35:24,200
I assume they're not there
today.

721
00:35:24,640 --> 00:35:25,400
Right, right.
Yeah.

722
00:35:25,640 --> 00:35:29,000
How long did they last?
Did they last through the

723
00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:30,400
Babylonian conquest and they
came down.

724
00:35:31,120 --> 00:35:32,560
Isn't that interesting?
When did they come down?

725
00:35:32,560 --> 00:35:33,960
That's that's kind of stuff I
want to know.

726
00:35:33,960 --> 00:35:38,760
I was like, and they lasted
until, you know, Jehoshaphat,

727
00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:41,440
you know, do whatever, you know,
and that's the day that he took

728
00:35:41,440 --> 00:35:42,680
down the memorial stones of
Joshua.

729
00:35:42,680 --> 00:35:44,880
I'd like to see closure like
that or something that would be.

730
00:35:44,880 --> 00:35:47,240
We don't have that.
Man I know that that would be

731
00:35:47,240 --> 00:35:50,080
pretty cool.
Well they have officially

732
00:35:50,080 --> 00:35:51,960
crossed the river.
This is like a pivot point.

733
00:35:51,960 --> 00:35:54,040
If you look at different
outlines of Joshua, some people

734
00:35:54,040 --> 00:35:57,800
say chapter 5 brand new section.
I think that's what a lot of

735
00:35:58,160 --> 00:36:01,120
commentaries and reading say ESP
study Bible does not at once

736
00:36:01,120 --> 00:36:04,080
chapter 5 into the taking kind
of go either way.

737
00:36:04,680 --> 00:36:09,160
All that to say, is this a good
top spot right here to cut this

738
00:36:09,160 --> 00:36:12,400
episode and pick up with the
next one, or do we want to run

739
00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:15,560
through chapter 5?
Yeah, we can.

740
00:36:15,640 --> 00:36:17,680
We can probably, you know, cut
here.

741
00:36:17,720 --> 00:36:20,800
We we could cut what's right
here.

742
00:36:21,040 --> 00:36:22,920
Seeing how you know, I know what
the next.

743
00:36:23,040 --> 00:36:26,440
Topic is that's great.
This is good.

744
00:36:26,440 --> 00:36:29,080
The crossed in we'll begin next
episode.

745
00:36:29,680 --> 00:36:31,160
We're taking, we're starting to
take the door.

746
00:36:31,160 --> 00:36:32,880
We're preparing for that.
Yeah, sounds good.

747
00:36:32,920 --> 00:36:36,960
So let's say together we never
say it.

748
00:36:36,960 --> 00:36:38,120
Together We.
Don't Hardly ever.

749
00:36:38,520 --> 00:36:41,920
That's our state.
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750
00:36:41,920 --> 00:36:44,120
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751
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752
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