Joshua 4 | Taking the Land: God Fights, God Judges, God Keeps His Word

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I posted this on Facebook on
Christmas Day.

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Oh, yeah.
So this is a little bit passed

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in, but I got a gift that was
truly out of this world.

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Wow.
Yeah, yeah.

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Man this seems.
It is something I asked for so,

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but, but when you get it, you're
like, oh, it was a good thing.

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It was.
It's a piece of a meteorite.

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Well, it is a meteorite.
I guess they're some place in

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Columbia, not South Carolina.
Columbia, the country.

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Columbia, there's this huge
meteorite field.

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Wow.
Oh yeah.

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Where this the and they they.
There's a large section of the

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meteorite that's like 13 tons
that's still there.

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That's still there.
I think I think I have that

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number right.
But then, you know, as it's

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coming down, like, it splinters
off.

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And so like, there's this whole
field in this.

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Well, I don't know if I could
go, but people go there someone

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and they rescue him.
And then they.

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So I have AI have a meteorite.
Yeah.

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And I also asked for, I watched
this guy Avi on YouTube.

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He's a jeweler.
I think he's in Chicago.

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I think he's Jewish.
OK.

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Because they say what they like,
make a deal and they say huzzah,

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maybe.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

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yeah.
There you.

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Go.
But he's he.

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It's kind of piqued my interest
in Jim's some, but you know, he

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always is like and I know how to
tell if it's a lab grown gem.

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Yeah.
What's the telltale sign?

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So you have to look at the
inclusion.

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So inclusions are small defects
in the stones.

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And if they're like struck that
they're linear inclusions or

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like crack, like those are
natural.

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But if they are like little
small bubble inclusions, those

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are those are lab grown.
But to me, he's like in lab

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grown, they're not really even
worth anything.

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And I'm like, I don't care.
Like to me, if it's the same

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chemical formula and one of them
happened to occur through

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natural processes and one
happened to occur because we put

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some chemicals in there, we grew
the crystal.

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I don't know.
I don't know.

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I even told my daughters and
after I said it, I looked at my

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wife and I thought, oh, I hope
she because I bought her a

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natural diamond.
But I was like, girls.

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Just be happy.
Why would you make your husband

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spend all this money on a
naturally occurring diamond when

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you can get one that's going to
look better, be larger and it's

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lab grown.
It's still a a carbon.

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It's still the same chemical
structure.

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And you know, sorry to go off on
a tangent here, but you know,

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the De Beers company has a
monopoly on diamonds, and

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there's lots.
And.

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Lots and lots of them, but they
only let out so much to keep the

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prices artificially high.
Like diamonds are so actually

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common that it's not.
But there was this around the

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turn of the 1900s.
They had this big marketing

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campaign because I guess before
engagement rings could be just

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gold or maybe gold with any type
of stone, and they made this

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thing like it has to be a
diamond if you truly love so.

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Yeah.
What's the, what's your girl's

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take on it?
Are they, are they like, yeah,

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I'm with you, It doesn't matter.
Are they like, come on, Dad, I

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think.
They just, they considered it.

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I didn't get an answer, but I
know I put like, at least a, you

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know, a, a stone in their shoe.
Hey, there you go for them to

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consider.
But yeah, nice.

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Yeah.
Because some people do get, like

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bent out of shape about that a
little bit.

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Like I would never take a yeah,
you know what I mean?

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I kept.
I've heard these things.

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Yeah, now like a cubic
zirconium.

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Well, yeah, it's a different
chemical.

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Compound, yeah, but if it's
truly, you know, a, you know,

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the, you know, you have carbon
graphite, OK and then you have

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there's a couple different forms
of pure carbon and diamond is

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one of those so.
Yeah, what's the big fuss,

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ladies?
Like, just be.

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Just be thankful.
Women are not thankful.

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I think I'm I'm reading what
you're really saying.

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No to me.
So I did get AI think a emerald

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lab grown emerald.
I got a green, a blue and a

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Redstone.
I have to go look.

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I think the Redstone is a
garnet, not Ruby.

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Oh yeah.
But garnets are deeper red than

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rubies.
So.

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I like them better than January
birthstone.

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It is January birthstone and it
is the stone that was in my

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class ring because my birthday
is October and it they put in a

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pink this pink.
Stone and you're like who?

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Wants that give me a strong deep
Redstone so that's what I

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that's.
What I got?

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Yeah, man, October.
Yeah.

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What is October?
'S it's Opal Opal.

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And then they'll put in like
this, they put in this, this

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rose, a true Opal.
They're they're kind of good

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looking, but they're not very
sturdy.

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Like they're very susceptible to
being damaged and cracked.

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So yeah, kind of like your
personality, you're very

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fragile.
No, I'm just kidding.

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Also, I just to say this is the
best.

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It's like we're in, we're in the
middle of January on January

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11th, we're at home groups.
Karis walks and is like, hey

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Chloe, hey, Lydia just got done
mom's Christmas shopping.

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I was like, wow, you got an
early jump start.

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She's like, no, I got a late
start.

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We're wrapping it up.
I'm like, that's great.

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I love it.
Yeah.

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Well, traditionally the past two
or three years, we, Jill and I

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have had a late start because
what would happen is Juju,

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Jill's mom would ask for the
kids Christmas list.

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They would give their list to
her.

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She would buy stuff like in
September and then wouldn't

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remember what she got off there.
And we're like, how do we?

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So this I was last year, I was
like, girls, give us the list.

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First we'll buy off of them and
then we will give it to Juju and

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and we'll take off the things
that we we bought for you.

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So we were, we were on the
Michael and Jill were were on

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time.
This year duplicate like because

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you gave the list to her
afterwards.

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And but Karis was she's in a
crocheting, so I already know

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what my gift is.
I I picked out the yarn.

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I was like crocheting,
crocheting me a scarf with this.

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But she's behind.
So I'll get it eventually,

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probably like July.
The rice wings need it, you

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know.
I've always been like, man, I

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could use a scarf right now.
Very cool, Very cool.

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Yeah.
Honestly, I like the Christmas

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gifts late because it it spreads
it out a little.

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It's like.
The season that keeps on it.

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Keeps Yeah, because it's like
I've got little kids where like

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they get a lot of like small
gifts and it's like it's just

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good to do not all the gifts in
a 20 minute span or whatever.

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It's like it's good to spread
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It's like too much.
No one appreciates anything.

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You know, I, I feel myself
getting older, kind of like

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these kids, they've got it so
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I grew up, but it's just, you
know, it's not what it used to

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be.
I know I I always wanted a full

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like what I, I didn't care what
it was, but like a Constructicon

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was this Autobot that had all of
these, like the dozer, the

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concrete mixture, the crane, but
you could put them together to

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form one giant guy.
And I was like, give me all of

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those.
I just want to form one of

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those.
And I'd always get like just the

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dozer.
Like I've got the left leg.

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You're like, yeah, I can't.
You can like make the arm, but

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you're like, I can't fit it all
together, man.

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That's like such a good kids
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Like our powers combined, it's
like, that's great, Like Power

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Rangers did that, you know?
Captain Planet.

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Captain Planet.
Voltron.

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Yeah, yeah.
It's like, man, it's a it.

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It clearly works.
People kept using it well.

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It's a good, I know you're
trying to transition here, but

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it is a, it's a good, it's a
good object lesson for spiritual

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gifts.
Hey, there we go.

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There it is.
There it is.

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I love it.
I like it, Joshua.

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Yeah.
I would love, you know, know

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what what Christmas is like for
Joshua.

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I'm sure he's a really big
Christmas guy.

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Right.
We talked about Passover, you

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know, last time a little bit.
We're at this transition point.

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We just crossed the Jordan,
right?

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We're getting into it.
And we had to cut.

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We did.
That episode short, but we're

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going.
We'll pick up where we left off.

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Yeah, right where we cut it.
Right where we cut it.

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That's right all.
Right, fantastic.

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Let's go ahead and take it to
the next level.

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Let's fire up that twangy music.
From the hearts of the Low

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Country in South Carolina.
It's the Take Two podcast where

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we take theology to the next
level.

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So we're in Chapter 5 and This
is why a lot of authors,

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commentators, however you want
to put it, they make this a new

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part of the outline.
Go ahead and read verse one for

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us.
Now it came about when all the

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kings of the Amorites, who were
beyond the Jordan to the West,

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and all the kings of the
Canaanites who were by the sea,

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heard how Yahweh had dried up
the waters of the Jordan before

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the sons of Israel, until they
had crossed that their hearts

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melted, and there was no spirit
in them any longer because of

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the sons of Israel.
Thank you.

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I love that we're doing the
Yahweh thing.

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I think that's like good.
It's like, man, that is like

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such a such a good move.
As soon as all the kings of the

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Amorites heard this, you'll see
this kind of phrase happen in

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Chapter 9, in chapter 10,
Chapter 11.

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It's a recurring theme in this
section of Joshua where these

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kings heard about Josh, Israel
and Yahweh and people are

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hearing about it.
And normally the response is

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this ain't good, whether it's
their heart melted or we got a

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band together and fight against
them.

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But it's like the word is
spreading.

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We kind of talked about that
last week, but.

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These are would be some of them
would be the literal giants that

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they saw the first time around.
Yeah, and they're scary.

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Exactly.
It's like, man, this all we're

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hearing about Yahweh, It's
pretty, pretty basic.

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I like that.
We're putting this in the next

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section, so to speak, because
Chapter 5 kind of kicks that

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off.
But before they really get into

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the fighting and the conquest,
like at this time, got to get

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circumcised.
They got to make a cut.

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They.
Got to make a cut and it's it is

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so interesting that God's people
here were not circumcised.

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It is weird.
Like it is very weird because it

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was it was big enough that the
Angel of the Lord comes to Moses

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and is like, you're going to
circumcise your two sons and

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Zipporah does it throws the
foreskins at Moses and it's like

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you're a husband of blood.
Crazy.

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And so it's like this weird,
we're in this transition period.

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They haven't taken the land, but
it's like God's.

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People, what's this, the second
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Second time, yeah, I know.
What does that mean?

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Like these aren't circumcised
guys who are getting re

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circumcised.
And took up a sense of Israel a

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second time.
That's great.

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I need I'll pull up the
commentary on on that one with

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the second one, but maybe it's
saying I don't know if we've

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moved down a little bit versus 4
through 6.

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Gives us a little more context.
As all the males of the people

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came out of Egypt, all the men
of war, they were dead.

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They died in the wilderness.
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of Egypt, though all the people
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yet all the people who were
bored on the way after they had

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come out had not been
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And so, you know, you're
wandering around, maybe it's not

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the best time to circumcise
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You're like, we got to get this
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fighting battles for years and.
Years, yeah, we need a three day

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recovery and then and then we
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Because you're right, this is
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This is God's covenant sign.
They're about to be in the land

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and it's like interesting that
they or not, but it again is

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connecting God's promise, he's
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God's provision.
We also see that this is when

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the mana ceased.
They lived off the land that

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that you know, two different
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supernaturally versus more
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God's still in control.
But it's, you know, different

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seasons, different times in
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God works in different ways.
So this is like that demarcation

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because they, you know, are
going to go to this landfill and

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with milk and honey and and all
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Great, got that going.
They had their first Passover in

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Canaan.
That's actually when they have

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the Passover is when the mana
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into the produce of the land.
There was no longer mana for the

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people of Israel, but they ate
of the fruit of the land of

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Canaan that it was probably was
a pretty, pretty big deal.

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Like they crossed over the
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they're not planting vineyards
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Forget and turn away from
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It was smooth sailing from here.
Great.

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Is this figure, this prominent
story, the commander of the

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Lord's army?
Maybe some of the why behind

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Yahweh's command to Israel to
conquer gives us a little more

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information, a little more
context.

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You've talked through this a
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If you go back to Genesis 15
chapter 16, you know, did

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Abraham get the land like right
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Right.
No.

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What?
What was the reason why?

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Why didn't he?
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What was wondering, I know
there's a lot, probably a lot of

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reasons, but but you know,
Yahweh and his patience was

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like.
Yeah, and he's like, hey, you're

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going to go down into slavery
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The that sends the.
MRI to go out.

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They're going to increase, but
really what I think God's doing

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is moving Abrahams family out of
Dodge and kind of protecting

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them through slavery because the
Egypt, Egyptians didn't want

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anything with them.
And so they can kind of incubate

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and grow in number and kind of.
Like have a structure to hold on

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to, kind of.
And then, you know, nothing's

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out of God's control or, or he's
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So I think he knows that the 10
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or the 10 spies are going to
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And so really not, he's grown a
people, but the people he's

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going to take into the promised
land are not the people he took

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out of Egypt.
It's a whole new generation that

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has spent basically their whole
life depending on Yahweh as

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they've moved through the
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And so they've kind of been
conditioned to, all right.

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I never grew up in Egypt.
I'm not an Egyptian, I'm an

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Israelite and we follow Yahweh.
So I I think that's kind of

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God's plan to bring them into
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I, I, I think, I think that's
good.

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And when you compare like you
look at the Amorites and you

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look at some of these people who
are occupying Canaan, they're

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guilty of a lot of these sins
that are outlined in the Torah

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as well.
When we talk about, you know,

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their iniquity, it hasn't been
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It's amazing that Yahweh's like,
I'm pretty patient guy 400,

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four, 400 years with the
patients like it's, it's pretty,

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it's pretty crazy that that
judgement of the MRI.

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So it's not the time, it's not
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You look at some of the things
they were doing, they were

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practicing sexual perversion,
magic divination.

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There's a long list in some of
these commentaries And you know,

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at at some level, you know, I
think what people grapple with

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is, you know, why, why did
Yahweh, why did God command them

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to kill all these people?
And part of it's like a it's

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pretty patient.
Like it's not, it's not like

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judgment were there.
And then the other answer is

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too, it's not.
The other answer wasn't like,

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Oh, Israel's great and deserves
all this and they've earned my

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favor.
Really.

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A lot of it was to highlight how
good God is.

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And actually it kind of shows
God is really just if people

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always attack his justice.
But you, you look at the

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wickedness of the Canaanites if
we were to turn.

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I don't have it in our notes,
but I'll see if I can read it

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quickly.
Deuteronomy 9 verses four and

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five.
I don't even know what it's

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going to say off the top of my
head, but I'm sure it's good.

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Says don't say in your heart
after Yahweh your God has thrust

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them out before you.
Oh yeah.

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So when we get into the promise
and don't say it's because of my

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righteousness that the Lord has
brought me in to possess this

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land.
Actually, whereas it's because

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of the wickedness of these
nations that the Lord is driving

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them out before you, not because
you're upright And so in in a

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way, not that Israel's anything
but he it's being just in

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judging these wicked nations,
which is always like one of

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those things.
It always gives you a pause with

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like your nation and the
trajectory of it.

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And you're like man, God's been
so good and patience, but

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there's so many bad things.
You know, it's like, you know a.

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100 years to turn from the ways
and I know you kind of went

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through the list, but these are
the people who worship Molec and

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they would you know, so if you
don't know, you know, that's

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child sacrifice on the burning
red, burning hot bronze arms of

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a statue.
So think about putting a baby up

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up on that and just basically,
you know, and.

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Everyone would say that's not
just like today, like you would.

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No one would have a problem with
bringing judgment on those

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people, you know, if you were.
On it and then the the sexual

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sins on down to like basically
pedophilia and bestiality mixed

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together and they're like they
they had they've uncovered like

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laws on the books that they had
that basically said you can't

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have sex with an ox because an
ox will get, you know, used to

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this and gore people on the
street.

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But these other animals, you,
you're fine with it.

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And it's like that society is
like it's, it's just very, it's

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very debauchery, you know?
And, and so I think when you

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frame it that way, it's not just
like senseless killing with no

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bait.
It's like, you know, and it's

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interesting that that in
Deuteronomy, Moses like, hey,

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it's not because you're great.
It's you know what I mean?

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And we'll see the same thing
when Israel goes into exile.

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It's not because these Chaldeans
were like the most holy people,

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but it's like, hey, you know,
being used of God.

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And it is not as though they it
was genocide because they could

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flee to another land.
It wasn't like he was just like,

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I want every single person of
this, you know, ethnic group to

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be killed.
It's like you drive them out of

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the land.
They're not supposed to share

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the land.
If they don't, if they resist,

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then you're going to kill.
Kill them all.

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Yeah.
And so we get to the end of

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chapter 5 verses 13, what to go
to 15.

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But a couple commentaries I I
was reading, I'm curious to get

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your take on this as we kind of
read through it.

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They'll point out that 6 verse
one maybe not necessary like

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upon first reading it can go
either way.

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Maybe not the best place for a
chapter division.

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In verses 13 through 15 we see
the commander of the Lord's

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army.
I'll read this really quick.

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When Joshua was by Jericho, he
looked up his eyes and looked

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and behold a man was standing
before him noticed these

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characteristics is his drawn
sword in his hand.

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And Joshua went to him and said
to him, are you for us or for

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our adversaries?
And he said, No, I like, I like

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that answer.
No, but I am the commander of

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the army of the Lord.
Now I have come.

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And Joshua fell on his face to
the earth and worshipped and

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said to him, What does my Lord
say to a servant?

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And the commander of Yahweh's
army said to Joshua, take off

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your sandals from your feet, for
the place where you were

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standing is holy.
And Joshua did so.

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And.
He doesn't say get up and don't

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worship me.
I'm a servant just like you.

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Yeah.
That's important, right?

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Yeah.
So clearly Christophany.

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Totally.
I'll, I'll go ahead into.

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So this is probably Michael.
Maybe, maybe I'm not.

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I'm not rolling it out.
A lot of you know, in our Bibles

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that in chapter 5, chapter 6 is
like a new story.

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What a couple of these
commentators I was reading says

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really 61 might just be a
parenthetical and six two picks

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up.
So I'll read it.

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You tell me what you think they
would say.

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This is a parentheses.
Now Jericho was shut up inside

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and outside because of the
people of Israel.

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None went out and none came in
and it's like picking up.

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If you're thinking he's talking
to the Angel of the Lord and

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Yahweh said to Joshua, see, I
have given Jericho into your

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hand with its king and mighty
men of valor.

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I could see it being a separate
account.

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Or it's like he's with the
commander of the Lord and he's

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like continuing on.
You're in the holy ground.

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I'm still talking to you.
I'm giving this to you.

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Yeah.
It seems like it's one.

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Could it could be it's not it
doesn't need to be artificially

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broken up.
We see the drawn so like you

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painted all the things this is
this is Christophany like you

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can you can get that the
worshipping all of this purpose

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of this gives instruction but
more likely to show like this

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Yahweh is here and the
instruction is Jericho's been

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given into Joshua's hand.
The city was shut, which begs

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the question, you know this
unskilled, at least at this

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point, unskilled, you know,
fighting people conquer this

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like shut city.
We know the story of Jericho.

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We know the songs, probably
maybe maybe able to sing it, but

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it's a weird method to conquer a
city.

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I saw this thing that had this
little kid who had like this

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little plastic instrument and he
was like playing it and he'd

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laugh at it was like the
children of Israel before.

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That's great.
Like what's going on?

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It's such a great way to like
kick things off because it is

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like demonstrating.
This is different.

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This is way different, yeah.
It's great.

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So we got some armed men, we
have 7 priests blowing ram's

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horns, we have the ark, we have
the rear guard circling, and all

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these people are circling
Jericho each day.

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So this is these are shafars.
They're they're.

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Blowing Shafars.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.

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Yeah.
Did you, did you bring this on

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the podcast one time?
And did you, did you blow

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Shafar?
Yeah.

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No, I I didn't I I don't own
one.

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I've said I.
OK, I do I.

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I would want to.
There are some that are short

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and they're kind of just you
can't do a lot musically with

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them.
But the longer ones have you can

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do like basically all the the
stuff.

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Yeah, yeah.
And then on this and then seven

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times on the 7th day, you read
this again, you read a lot about

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the Ark of the Covenant.
Just like in the crossing of the

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Jordan, the Ark is mentioned
extensively.

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It's mentioned 9 times and 10
verses and 10 times total in the

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chapter in like a short section.
It's like a lot about the Ark

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fits with this thing.
Yahweh's present people are

448
00:21:57,640 --> 00:22:03,400
called to do some work, but you
always at the center of it and

449
00:22:03,560 --> 00:22:06,600
that there's some conditions,
you know, the people at the

450
00:22:06,600 --> 00:22:09,760
shouts.
Yeah, this this is interesting

451
00:22:09,760 --> 00:22:12,640
too.
What's maybe maybe we can read

452
00:22:14,320 --> 00:22:19,120
Let's read verses maybe 17
through 19.

453
00:22:19,480 --> 00:22:23,840
Says The city shall be under the
ban, it and all that is in it

454
00:22:23,840 --> 00:22:28,080
belongs to the Lord Yahweh.
Only Rahab the harlot, and all

455
00:22:28,080 --> 00:22:32,400
who are in with her in her house
shall live, because she hid the

456
00:22:32,400 --> 00:22:35,840
messengers whom we sent.
But As for you, only keep

457
00:22:35,840 --> 00:22:38,680
yourselves from taking the
things under the ban, so that

458
00:22:38,680 --> 00:22:41,400
you do not covet them, and take
some of the things under the

459
00:22:41,400 --> 00:22:44,760
ban, and make the camp of Israel
cursed, and bring trouble on it.

460
00:22:45,080 --> 00:22:49,400
But all the silver and gold and
articles of bronze and iron are

461
00:22:49,400 --> 00:22:52,080
holy to Yahweh.
They shall go unto the treasury

462
00:22:52,320 --> 00:22:54,280
of Yahweh.
Yeah, again, this is

463
00:22:54,280 --> 00:22:56,200
interesting.
And there is, like in Joshua,

464
00:22:56,400 --> 00:22:58,320
there's a lot of these, like
parentheticals that's kind of

465
00:22:58,320 --> 00:23:00,920
like a parenthetical, maybe not
a parenthetical, but you're

466
00:23:00,920 --> 00:23:03,320
reading a story.
Joshua was saying, and on the

467
00:23:03,320 --> 00:23:06,120
7th time, on the 7th day, you're
going to shout for you, always

468
00:23:06,120 --> 00:23:09,080
giving you the city.
And then he says what you said.

469
00:23:09,440 --> 00:23:11,280
And then he says then it
records.

470
00:23:11,280 --> 00:23:12,920
Then the people shouted.
The city was destroyed.

471
00:23:12,920 --> 00:23:14,880
It's like weird.
It's like the story's

472
00:23:14,880 --> 00:23:17,760
interrupted for this very
important detail.

473
00:23:18,400 --> 00:23:20,680
You go on and you finish out the
chapter.

474
00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:27,360
You see more text is devoted to
some of this this instruction

475
00:23:27,360 --> 00:23:30,440
more than them actually doing
the, you know, destroying.

476
00:23:30,440 --> 00:23:33,520
It's more it's like all these
instructions, it's pretty clear

477
00:23:33,960 --> 00:23:36,120
that you wanted to devote all
the city to instruction

478
00:23:36,760 --> 00:23:40,360
foreshadowing.
You see this see this a lot and

479
00:23:40,800 --> 00:23:44,760
Yahweh, you know, saving of
rehab amidst this judgment.

480
00:23:44,760 --> 00:23:49,760
Rehab comes out is the oath is,
you know, upheld and that's kind

481
00:23:49,760 --> 00:23:53,200
of where the story.
And so Yahweh was with Joshua

482
00:23:53,360 --> 00:23:55,520
and his fame wasn't all the
land.

483
00:23:55,520 --> 00:23:58,400
And it's a really high point.
Everyone loves talking about the

484
00:23:58,400 --> 00:23:59,520
battle of Jericho.
I know I do.

485
00:23:59,520 --> 00:24:01,600
It's like that kids really
resonate with that.

486
00:24:01,600 --> 00:24:03,200
You know, it's like a great,
great thing.

487
00:24:03,200 --> 00:24:05,920
Anything else on Joshua?
6 things and things are going

488
00:24:05,920 --> 00:24:08,440
good.
No, Yeah, things are looking

489
00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:11,160
good.
About to take a turn?

490
00:24:11,200 --> 00:24:15,400
About to take a turn at the
great city.

491
00:24:16,560 --> 00:24:18,680
Heard it several ways.
Artificial intelligence.

492
00:24:19,160 --> 00:24:23,680
AI taking over the world and
tell me if you've heard this

493
00:24:23,680 --> 00:24:28,720
interpretation of Chapter 7.
I have heard this AI.

494
00:24:28,720 --> 00:24:32,040
It's a negative example to teach
us what not to do.

495
00:24:33,320 --> 00:24:35,920
These people, they didn't, you
know, pray to God, they were

496
00:24:35,920 --> 00:24:38,800
overconfidence.
They were they were cocky a

497
00:24:38,800 --> 00:24:40,760
little bit.
They sent small numbers.

498
00:24:40,760 --> 00:24:43,160
They weren't and and they
failed.

499
00:24:43,160 --> 00:24:48,440
And I've heard that said before.
Honestly, I've not known what

500
00:24:48,480 --> 00:24:52,600
I've not known what to make of
AI or I, I've.

501
00:24:52,600 --> 00:24:52,920
Heard.
I know.

502
00:24:52,920 --> 00:24:58,000
I've heard it, yeah.
Because I'm always like, I

503
00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:01,920
guess, did they send small
enough numbers that 36 was just

504
00:25:01,920 --> 00:25:03,960
a massacre?
Because in that the number that

505
00:25:03,960 --> 00:25:04,760
they lose.
It's something.

506
00:25:04,760 --> 00:25:05,840
It's something small.
Yeah.

507
00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:06,560
Yeah.
It's not.

508
00:25:06,600 --> 00:25:08,560
Yeah.
And I'm like, I think we kind of

509
00:25:08,560 --> 00:25:12,760
touched on this before maybe 2
episodes ago, like 36, like

510
00:25:12,880 --> 00:25:15,240
every life is precious.
But when you're fighting more,

511
00:25:15,240 --> 00:25:19,160
if you can win something with
only 36 loss, then that's pretty

512
00:25:19,160 --> 00:25:20,560
good.
And it's weird to me.

513
00:25:21,560 --> 00:25:24,040
Maybe this is God teaching them
like, hey, you're going to have

514
00:25:24,040 --> 00:25:26,640
to do battle tactics.
Like it's good.

515
00:25:26,640 --> 00:25:29,760
Doesn't he tell them how to like
basically draw them out of the

516
00:25:29,760 --> 00:25:32,240
city and ambush them and.
Stuff like this, Yeah, totally.

517
00:25:32,520 --> 00:25:35,960
Yeah, totally.
What I want to point out is

518
00:25:35,960 --> 00:25:39,680
again, and I think chiasms are
overused, but if we take a

519
00:25:39,680 --> 00:25:43,240
chiastic approach to this,
what's interesting, chapter 1

520
00:25:43,240 --> 00:25:46,200
says, but the people of Israel
broke faith in regard to the

521
00:25:46,200 --> 00:25:48,880
devoted things.
For Akin, son of Karmi, the son

522
00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:51,160
of Zabi, the son of Azera of the
tribe of Judah, took some of the

523
00:25:51,160 --> 00:25:54,200
devoted things, and the anger of
the Lord burned against the

524
00:25:54,200 --> 00:25:57,960
people of Israel And then?
That's verse one.

525
00:25:57,960 --> 00:26:00,840
That's verse one kicking it off
where yes I say chapter 1 you

526
00:26:00,880 --> 00:26:03,000
did say doing this like.
Chapter 7, verse one, yeah.

527
00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:06,600
Chapter 7, verse one, and then
the end of it says the Lord

528
00:26:06,600 --> 00:26:11,400
turned from his burning anger.
And so we see God.

529
00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:13,440
It starts with God's anger.
Yahweh's anger ends with

530
00:26:13,440 --> 00:26:15,440
Yahweh's anger.
That's like the bookends.

531
00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:19,400
That's probably framing all of
it where what we're going to see

532
00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:22,360
later on, what I don't want to
get ahead of myself.

533
00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:25,080
If you go in, we see two
different disasters, Israel's

534
00:26:25,080 --> 00:26:27,400
disasters.
They lose the AI at the end.

535
00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:30,200
It's pretty disastrous for Aiken
and his family does not end

536
00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:32,800
good.
You keep going into the middle

537
00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:34,440
there.
You can break it down all the

538
00:26:34,440 --> 00:26:40,640
way, kind of I think gets to the
heart of it, which centers a lot

539
00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:44,000
around Yahweh's wrath.
But let's go through.

540
00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:46,160
We'll go through it leading up
to the middle.

541
00:26:47,280 --> 00:26:48,640
Can you actually go ahead?
I read verse one.

542
00:26:48,640 --> 00:26:50,760
Can you read chap verses 2
through 5?

543
00:26:50,960 --> 00:26:54,880
Yeah, 2 through 5 says now
Joshua sent men from Jericho to

544
00:26:54,960 --> 00:26:59,960
AI which is near Beth Haven east
of Bethel and said of them go up

545
00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:02,640
and spy off the land.
So the men went up and spied out

546
00:27:02,640 --> 00:27:04,680
AI.
They returned to Joshua and said

547
00:27:04,680 --> 00:27:06,400
to him, do not let all the
people go up.

548
00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:10,280
Only about two or three, two or
three thousand men need to go to

549
00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:12,040
AI.
Do not make all the people toil

550
00:27:12,040 --> 00:27:14,640
up there for they are few.
How long?

551
00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:20,000
2 through 5 S About 3000 men
from the people went up there,

552
00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:21,920
but they fled from the men of
AI.

553
00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:25,320
The men of AI struck down about
36 of their men and pursued them

554
00:27:25,320 --> 00:27:29,320
from the gate as far as Shabaram
and struck them down on the

555
00:27:29,320 --> 00:27:30,760
descent.
So the hearts of the people

556
00:27:30,760 --> 00:27:34,160
melted and became as water.
So you, you said it, the last 36

557
00:27:34,160 --> 00:27:35,560
people.
Out of 3000.

558
00:27:35,760 --> 00:27:38,640
Out of 3000, there's some people
will say that overconfidence

559
00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:39,920
thing.
I think you know, you read verse

560
00:27:39,920 --> 00:27:42,800
one it it's interesting.
It's all about they broke

561
00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:45,400
covenant Yahweh's anger no
matter what they did probably

562
00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:48,800
wouldn't have gone well and that
leads to the next section.

563
00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:52,560
Joshua is very perplexed.
Joshua tours close.

564
00:27:52,560 --> 00:27:55,120
He says like why did you bring
us here Yahweh if we're just

565
00:27:55,120 --> 00:27:58,680
going to, you know, lose to the
Amorites like what like what,

566
00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:00,320
what's the point?
I'm just trying to do, you know,

567
00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:03,680
what will you do for your great
name?

568
00:28:05,320 --> 00:28:08,360
And he's he's really confused
reaching out to God.

569
00:28:08,360 --> 00:28:12,640
And I think, you know, as far as
Joshua knows, like this is

570
00:28:12,640 --> 00:28:13,920
weird.
Like everything's been really

571
00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:14,640
great.
You've told me to.

572
00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:17,480
Realized that he's like, you
just sent this guy out and

573
00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:21,760
talked to me, which was you and
said, you know, be courageous.

574
00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:24,200
You're going to go destroy all
these people and now we go up.

575
00:28:24,560 --> 00:28:26,160
We should have taken them and we
didn't.

576
00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:28,640
I don't know what to do.
He's totally caught off guard.

577
00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:30,080
He's totally strong and
courageous.

578
00:28:30,080 --> 00:28:33,000
He's actually doing a great job
of doing that right.

579
00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:35,240
He's not doing anything wrong
here.

580
00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:38,560
Where you know, if you ever hear
it's like overconfident or

581
00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:40,200
didn't talk.
It's like he's actually reaching

582
00:28:40,200 --> 00:28:42,040
out talking to God.
These are good things.

583
00:28:42,040 --> 00:28:45,400
Maybe later there isn't some of
that which brings us to kind of

584
00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:51,480
that center point I'll read
versus I'll just read verses 10

585
00:28:51,520 --> 00:28:55,000
through 15 or 10 through 12
maybe quickly here.

586
00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:56,720
The Lord Yahweh said to Joshua,
get up.

587
00:28:57,080 --> 00:28:58,040
Why have you fallen on your
face?

588
00:28:58,040 --> 00:28:59,960
Israel has sinned.
They have transgressed my

589
00:28:59,960 --> 00:29:01,720
covenant and I commanded them.
They have taken some of the

590
00:29:01,720 --> 00:29:04,400
devoted things they've stolen.
They have light and put them

591
00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:06,960
among their own belongings.
Therefore people of Israel

592
00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:08,160
cannot stand before their
enemies.

593
00:29:08,160 --> 00:29:09,960
They turn their back before
their enemies because they have

594
00:29:09,960 --> 00:29:13,480
become devoted for destruction.
I'll be with you no more.

595
00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:16,680
And the less you destroy, the
devoted things from among you

596
00:29:17,160 --> 00:29:19,680
gets to the heart of it.
It's like, hey, you've got, you

597
00:29:19,680 --> 00:29:22,440
know, some problem in your
midst.

598
00:29:22,440 --> 00:29:25,600
They they cast the lots.
It comes to Aiken.

599
00:29:26,240 --> 00:29:31,880
I always wondered, like, you
know, I can just see Aiken's son

600
00:29:31,880 --> 00:29:34,360
going.
Dad, just tell them no, no, no,

601
00:29:34,360 --> 00:29:36,800
we're gonna see this through.
And it just gets like narrower

602
00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:39,080
and narrower.
You know it's coming for you,

603
00:29:39,280 --> 00:29:40,440
right?
Yeah.

604
00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:44,240
That's crazy.
Yeah, and it's one of those

605
00:29:44,240 --> 00:29:47,840
things, I don't know if you have
this like the severity of

606
00:29:47,840 --> 00:29:50,600
Gottrap.
It seems like Aiken's end.

607
00:29:51,240 --> 00:29:54,480
It almost seems like the whole
thing's kind of severe, like 36

608
00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:57,240
people die, they lose the AI
because of like one person.

609
00:29:57,360 --> 00:30:00,600
And then at the end it's like
this high guys, whole family,

610
00:30:00,600 --> 00:30:02,600
his livestock.
It's not just this one person.

611
00:30:02,840 --> 00:30:07,400
Well, I thought it was severe
when I was younger, but if you

612
00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:11,040
read what he did, he took it and
he dug a hole underneath their

613
00:30:11,040 --> 00:30:13,840
tent and hit it.
You'd think all the family would

614
00:30:13,840 --> 00:30:16,520
have known, right?
So they're kind of complicit in

615
00:30:16,520 --> 00:30:18,120
it.
That's the, that's that's the.

616
00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:21,480
Even the horses, even the the
horses, I don't know, but

617
00:30:21,840 --> 00:30:23,680
whatever they're, they're goats,
whatever their lifestyle.

618
00:30:23,680 --> 00:30:25,600
But yeah, no, yeah, that, that's
a good.

619
00:30:25,600 --> 00:30:30,640
Parallel between him and Ananias
and Sapphira, you know, starting

620
00:30:30,640 --> 00:30:36,720
off the this new man thing, this
new, you know, theocracy for the

621
00:30:36,720 --> 00:30:38,880
Old Testament, the church for
the New Testament.

622
00:30:39,840 --> 00:30:41,640
There's like these people that
kind of mess it up.

623
00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:44,640
They're used as examples of
like, hey, this is a serious

624
00:30:44,640 --> 00:30:46,640
thing.
It's exactly and I think it's

625
00:30:46,640 --> 00:30:50,440
good to we probably, you know,
look for like excuses to like

626
00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:53,480
downplay it all, but all of
this.

627
00:30:53,480 --> 00:30:56,120
It's like how a sin can just
affect the whole people, where

628
00:30:56,120 --> 00:30:58,120
it's like man, when it's
something like that, it's like.

629
00:30:58,520 --> 00:31:01,640
Little Levin.
A little Levin at the end we see

630
00:31:02,920 --> 00:31:05,240
talking about about this place
they call it the valley of

631
00:31:05,440 --> 00:31:07,760
Achor.
Achor means trouble doesn't

632
00:31:07,760 --> 00:31:10,400
sound unlike Aiken maybe some
word played.

633
00:31:10,600 --> 00:31:12,720
You know man, if you do
something bad in the Bible or

634
00:31:12,720 --> 00:31:15,800
good in the Bible, your name
sometimes goes very closely

635
00:31:16,240 --> 00:31:19,200
closely with it.
So kind of ends on this

636
00:31:19,720 --> 00:31:24,080
negative.
It ends you know good.

637
00:31:24,080 --> 00:31:26,800
But now, you know, you know,
there's some judgement here, but

638
00:31:26,800 --> 00:31:28,400
things turn around.
Chapter 8.

639
00:31:28,440 --> 00:31:32,880
We have AI, the small city.
We kind of have the, you know,

640
00:31:32,880 --> 00:31:35,880
right side of it where Israel is
getting right on track.

641
00:31:38,760 --> 00:31:42,480
When I'm looking at this, there
are, you know, Joshua is one of

642
00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:45,080
these places where archaeology,
archaeology is like fascinating.

643
00:31:45,080 --> 00:31:47,960
It's like this proves the whole
Bible totally supports the

644
00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:49,040
Bible.
There's like, I feel like

645
00:31:49,040 --> 00:31:50,560
there's these swings.
Yeah.

646
00:31:50,560 --> 00:31:53,880
You know, I was just listening
to William Lane Craig's podcast

647
00:31:53,880 --> 00:31:57,600
today and it was on Bart Ehrman,
and he basically said that

648
00:31:57,600 --> 00:32:00,600
there's no archaeological
evidence whatsoever to support

649
00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:04,120
the exodus and these people
moving around in the desert.

650
00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:09,040
I'm thinking, but if there were
nomadic what you know, I guess

651
00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:11,560
what, what would you expect to
see there that's not already

652
00:32:11,560 --> 00:32:13,800
there?
Broken pots and stuff or you

653
00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:15,960
know, it's not like they're
going to have these dwellings

654
00:32:15,960 --> 00:32:17,600
that are going to last.
And how would you know that

655
00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:21,960
broken pot is Egyptian or yeah,
how would you know?

656
00:32:22,320 --> 00:32:25,760
It seems does seem weird to me,
but I've not heard of any.

657
00:32:25,960 --> 00:32:28,800
I think if there was something
that disproved.

658
00:32:28,800 --> 00:32:32,760
Oh, we would hear, you know.
You would, you bet your bottom

659
00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:37,720
dollar, you know, or even even
cast some doubt about it, you

660
00:32:37,720 --> 00:32:40,160
would know it would be blown up.
And then we would be looking at

661
00:32:40,160 --> 00:32:42,560
like, well, and you know, we
would, we would look at and try

662
00:32:42,560 --> 00:32:44,240
to interpret it in light of
what's here.

663
00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:47,000
Like, can we make sense of this?
But, you know, you just don't

664
00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:49,640
hear those things most of the
time, not ever that I've heard,

665
00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:51,520
you know?
No, I, I'm right there with you.

666
00:32:51,520 --> 00:32:55,480
Here's some, you know,
archaeology background for AI.

667
00:32:55,520 --> 00:32:57,840
You know we read Joshua AI is
painted as a small city near

668
00:32:57,840 --> 00:33:01,400
Bethel, you know, militarily
insignificant when it's compared

669
00:33:01,400 --> 00:33:05,200
to a city like Jericho.
Yeah, AI is east of Bethel near.

670
00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:07,600
And I like there's a lot of
detail in all of scripture, but

671
00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:09,400
like they like they like map out
like this.

672
00:33:09,560 --> 00:33:11,840
This place is West or east or
north or whatever.

673
00:33:12,840 --> 00:33:18,520
AI in as portrayed by Joshua
near a valley suitable for

674
00:33:18,520 --> 00:33:21,520
ambush.
Traditional location is this

675
00:33:21,520 --> 00:33:25,040
place called Ettel, you know,
tells a ruined heap.

676
00:33:25,520 --> 00:33:27,520
AI, you know, is a heap of
sorts.

677
00:33:28,040 --> 00:33:30,480
This Nettel is located east of
Bethel.

678
00:33:30,480 --> 00:33:33,480
It's this large impressive ruin.
So it doesn't necessarily line

679
00:33:33,480 --> 00:33:35,600
up with AI.
But this is like where people

680
00:33:35,600 --> 00:33:39,800
thought it was, you know,
everyone thought that was, but

681
00:33:39,800 --> 00:33:42,280
it, you know, was.
And so people critics are like,

682
00:33:42,480 --> 00:33:45,560
oh, the dating doesn't match up,
but it's like actually probably

683
00:33:45,560 --> 00:33:48,840
not AI or you make these guesses
and they put all their stake on

684
00:33:48,840 --> 00:33:50,960
there.
And I think semi recently, maybe

685
00:33:50,960 --> 00:33:53,200
in the last 20 years, there's
been, you know, archaeologists

686
00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:55,480
like, hey, actually this doesn't
seem like I say, yeah, this

687
00:33:55,480 --> 00:33:59,480
other place seems like AI and
and the dating kind of lines up

688
00:33:59,480 --> 00:34:01,880
where actually this city
wouldn't have been around in the

689
00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:03,400
1400 or whenever, you know,
it's.

690
00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:06,120
So all that to say, I think
there's something similar with

691
00:34:06,120 --> 00:34:09,000
Jericho in the 90s.
People are like nothing on

692
00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:10,600
Jericho.
And then it's like, oh, this is

693
00:34:10,600 --> 00:34:12,800
actually a problem.
Jericho is such a big city, but

694
00:34:12,800 --> 00:34:15,199
then they found stuff.
Archaeology is like the one

695
00:34:15,199 --> 00:34:17,880
thing I just don't trust because
it's it's too much of that kind

696
00:34:17,880 --> 00:34:20,080
of stuff.
I mean, I trust it when but it's

697
00:34:20,080 --> 00:34:22,880
like.
And I think and just to because

698
00:34:22,880 --> 00:34:27,320
I was thinking about this too, I
have in times past made some

699
00:34:29,040 --> 00:34:33,239
slurs, you could say slurs
against the Book of Mormon

700
00:34:33,400 --> 00:34:35,480
because there's no
archaeological evidence like,

701
00:34:35,960 --> 00:34:40,840
but this is a vast culture that
supposedly existed for thousands

702
00:34:40,840 --> 00:34:45,280
of years on the North and
Central American continents.

703
00:34:45,400 --> 00:34:47,679
And you would and there's not
one shred of evidence of that

704
00:34:47,679 --> 00:34:50,040
culture living.
So I think that's vastly

705
00:34:50,040 --> 00:34:55,199
different than a nomadic people
living 40 years in a desert and

706
00:34:55,199 --> 00:34:58,120
moving through and make
basically taking with them all

707
00:34:58,120 --> 00:35:00,320
their stuff.
So like, I don't know what you

708
00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:02,240
would expect.
They didn't build any cities and

709
00:35:02,240 --> 00:35:03,600
stuff.
So I think Bart Ehrman's

710
00:35:04,160 --> 00:35:08,000
claimant is not is not as good.
Yeah, I'm right there with you.

711
00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:11,560
And when it comes to this thing
in Joshua, it's like you take a

712
00:35:11,560 --> 00:35:14,000
lot of assumptions, what you
think the text says and you're

713
00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:15,520
projecting it there or vice
versa.

714
00:35:15,520 --> 00:35:18,120
Where like this at Tell City.
It's like if you actually

715
00:35:18,120 --> 00:35:20,440
compare it to Joshua in
hindsight's 2020, you're like,

716
00:35:20,440 --> 00:35:22,800
actually the city would be too
large.

717
00:35:22,800 --> 00:35:24,400
It's during the wrong time
period.

718
00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:26,840
It doesn't fit Josh.
There's no place to do ambushes

719
00:35:26,840 --> 00:35:29,440
here or whatever.
And you know, most conservative

720
00:35:29,440 --> 00:35:31,240
scholars, archaeologists, like
we found this other place,

721
00:35:31,240 --> 00:35:34,400
Kerbet El Mcateer that actually
lines up.

722
00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:37,960
But it's like they could be
wrong too, but it's more

723
00:35:37,960 --> 00:35:39,840
plausible and they're finding
things like this all the time.

724
00:35:39,960 --> 00:35:42,360
If none of it lines up with AI,
then guess what?

725
00:35:43,160 --> 00:35:46,920
You're probably right.
It's not AI and talking about

726
00:35:46,920 --> 00:35:50,320
someplace different, yeah.
So let's get into the account

727
00:35:50,320 --> 00:35:53,960
here.
It starts off in verses one.

728
00:35:54,240 --> 00:35:55,840
We'll go ahead and read verses 1
and 2.

729
00:35:56,200 --> 00:35:57,960
And this is of chapter. 8 of
chapter 8 that's.

730
00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:02,680
Right, it says now, Yahweh said
to Joshua, Do not fear or be

731
00:36:02,680 --> 00:36:04,720
dismayed.
Take all the people of war with

732
00:36:04,720 --> 00:36:07,320
you and arise.
Go up to AI.

733
00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:11,760
See, I have given into your hand
the king of AI, his people, his

734
00:36:11,760 --> 00:36:14,960
city and his land.
You shall do to AI and its king,

735
00:36:14,960 --> 00:36:17,240
just as you did to Jericho and
its king.

736
00:36:17,480 --> 00:36:20,920
You shall take only its spoil
and its cattle as ponder for

737
00:36:20,920 --> 00:36:22,680
yourself.
Set an ambush for the city

738
00:36:22,680 --> 00:36:24,760
behind it.
Great, We got some.

739
00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:26,600
Don't be afraid.
Don't be dismayed.

740
00:36:26,600 --> 00:36:28,240
We'll make it happen this time.
It's like it.

741
00:36:28,320 --> 00:36:30,640
All of your men.
I'll pull the mic and just nail.

742
00:36:30,640 --> 00:36:32,920
Nail the mic.
Interesting.

743
00:36:32,920 --> 00:36:34,760
Here, he's like, hey, livestock.
Yeah.

744
00:36:34,760 --> 00:36:36,280
You don't have to devote all
this to destruction.

745
00:36:36,280 --> 00:36:38,800
It's like, you know, trusting
God in different areas.

746
00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:41,480
You know?
It's not, you know, don't take

747
00:36:41,480 --> 00:36:44,600
matters into your own hands, you
know, coming out of out of these

748
00:36:44,600 --> 00:36:47,840
things.
And there's a little bit, I

749
00:36:47,840 --> 00:36:49,680
don't know what your take is on
this.

750
00:36:49,680 --> 00:36:53,720
There's a little bit of
discrepancy of how many groups

751
00:36:53,720 --> 00:36:55,800
there were in ambush.
You know, the ambush was there's

752
00:36:55,800 --> 00:36:59,200
two ambush groups and the main
group was there one.

753
00:37:00,600 --> 00:37:03,680
You know, there's talk about
30,000 Mighty Men of Valor.

754
00:37:03,680 --> 00:37:05,880
Is that like the collective
there was 30,000 total or that

755
00:37:05,880 --> 00:37:08,520
was just like one group over
here and 5000 over here and then

756
00:37:08,520 --> 00:37:12,000
the main army somewhere else?
But they actually do a pretty

757
00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:15,000
like elaborate, you know,
military tactics here.

758
00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:17,520
It's pretty, pretty smart.
Yeah, seems seems smart.

759
00:37:17,520 --> 00:37:20,120
Seems like whoever told him what
to do knew what he was saying.

760
00:37:20,800 --> 00:37:25,720
Yeah, exactly right.
And the plan here was Joshua

761
00:37:25,720 --> 00:37:29,240
sent out 30,000 mighty men of
Valor at night to lie in ambush

762
00:37:29,240 --> 00:37:31,480
West of AI.
There were 5000 men.

763
00:37:31,480 --> 00:37:33,200
And the way I'm taking it is
there's a couple different

764
00:37:33,200 --> 00:37:36,320
ambush group, 5000 men
positioned AI in Bethel maybe to

765
00:37:36,320 --> 00:37:38,080
cut off support.
And then there's like the main

766
00:37:38,080 --> 00:37:42,520
force north of AI with a valley
between them and the city and

767
00:37:42,520 --> 00:37:44,240
Joshua's with, with the main
force.

768
00:37:44,680 --> 00:37:47,440
And, you know, the king of AI
sees Israel, leads me.

769
00:37:47,440 --> 00:37:48,520
He's like, oh, we're going to do
this again.

770
00:37:48,520 --> 00:37:51,160
They're back for more.
We, we destroyed them last time.

771
00:37:51,520 --> 00:37:53,480
And they do the, the fake out
temperature.

772
00:37:53,480 --> 00:37:55,360
What that's going to be like,
wonderful to be like, we know

773
00:37:55,360 --> 00:37:57,480
what we're doing, like we're
just luring them out.

774
00:37:58,200 --> 00:38:02,840
And, and then, you know, Joshua
raises his spear and the ambush

775
00:38:02,840 --> 00:38:06,240
force enters AI, captures it,
sets it on fire, seeing the

776
00:38:06,240 --> 00:38:10,560
smoke, you know, not not good
news for AI.

777
00:38:10,560 --> 00:38:15,480
It seems like a total total
defeat, like a total 181 of

778
00:38:15,480 --> 00:38:17,120
these.
And, and I don't know, you know,

779
00:38:17,200 --> 00:38:20,360
we'll talk about this more, but
this is one of the few cities

780
00:38:20,360 --> 00:38:23,320
that is set on fire.
There's not a lot of fire

781
00:38:23,320 --> 00:38:26,920
because that's another, you
know, attack against

782
00:38:26,920 --> 00:38:28,720
Christianity.
Like wouldn't they have like put

783
00:38:28,720 --> 00:38:30,640
all these cities on fire?
Like, wouldn't we see like all

784
00:38:30,640 --> 00:38:33,880
these burned down ruins?
And it's like really, at least

785
00:38:33,880 --> 00:38:36,120
not that they couldn't have done
more, but there's only three of

786
00:38:36,120 --> 00:38:38,720
these battles.
That or using fire.

787
00:38:38,720 --> 00:38:43,160
But anyway, total, total
destruction.

788
00:38:43,160 --> 00:38:45,520
Total, not total.
The total defeat of AI, the

789
00:38:45,520 --> 00:38:48,960
kings captured, hanged on a tree
until evening, buried under a

790
00:38:48,960 --> 00:38:52,040
heap of stones at the city gate,
left in ruins.

791
00:38:52,040 --> 00:38:55,000
And there's some, you know,
they'd be familiar with the

792
00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:56,360
Torah.
There's some connection here

793
00:38:56,360 --> 00:39:00,520
where the one who is put to
death, it could be hanged on a

794
00:39:00,520 --> 00:39:01,960
tree to serve as a warning to
others.

795
00:39:02,120 --> 00:39:03,360
Yeah.
You Fast forward to the New

796
00:39:03,360 --> 00:39:04,640
Testament.
We see, you know, the one who's

797
00:39:04,640 --> 00:39:07,200
hanging on a tree is cursed.
It's like all of these things

798
00:39:07,200 --> 00:39:10,720
are coming together, you know?
Are you are you pulling to some

799
00:39:10,720 --> 00:39:12,600
of this stuff?
Yeah, it says if a man, this is

800
00:39:12,600 --> 00:39:15,400
Deuteronomy 2122.
If a man has committed a sin

801
00:39:15,400 --> 00:39:18,920
worthy of death, and he is put
to death, and you hang him on a

802
00:39:18,920 --> 00:39:21,800
tree, his corpse shall not hang
all night on the tree, but you

803
00:39:21,800 --> 00:39:23,840
shall surely bury him on the
same day.

804
00:39:24,360 --> 00:39:28,120
Or he who is hanged is a curse
of God, so that you do not

805
00:39:28,120 --> 00:39:31,520
defile your land, which is the
Lord your God gives you as an

806
00:39:31,520 --> 00:39:33,160
inheritance.
Great.

807
00:39:33,160 --> 00:39:35,760
And that's you.
You made the illusion.

808
00:39:35,760 --> 00:39:40,360
You know, this is quoted in
Galatians 3 verse 13, saying

809
00:39:40,360 --> 00:39:43,320
that Christ redeemed us from the
curse of the law by becoming a

810
00:39:43,320 --> 00:39:45,320
curse for us.
For it's written cursed is

811
00:39:45,320 --> 00:39:47,880
everyone who was hanged on a
tree.

812
00:39:47,960 --> 00:39:51,720
And so this is like a, you know,
part of Israel's history that

813
00:39:51,720 --> 00:39:55,080
you would be very familiar with.
I was also thinking about, you

814
00:39:55,080 --> 00:39:57,160
know, we look at Joshua and
we're like, man, those brutal

815
00:39:57,160 --> 00:39:58,000
Barbarians.
Yeah.

816
00:39:58,480 --> 00:40:01,320
And you look at the 21st
century, the 20th century,

817
00:40:01,920 --> 00:40:06,400
there's a lot of brutality.
The two atomic bombs.

818
00:40:06,400 --> 00:40:08,600
Yeah, like when you look at
that, you're like, OK, I mean,

819
00:40:08,600 --> 00:40:10,440
humanity is humanity, right?
Yeah.

820
00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:14,960
Have you seen the video of like
the Russian soldiers trying to

821
00:40:14,960 --> 00:40:18,280
hide from the drones and the
drones, like freaking them out?

822
00:40:18,360 --> 00:40:22,040
And it's like, it's like, so.
So it's like, does it make it

823
00:40:22,040 --> 00:40:24,200
more humane if there's a guy
there pulling a trigger?

824
00:40:24,200 --> 00:40:25,760
I don't know, but it's like
you've it's.

825
00:40:25,920 --> 00:40:28,160
Crazy.
You can just imagine like you're

826
00:40:28,160 --> 00:40:31,040
getting in this and it's I think
it takes them out.

827
00:40:31,120 --> 00:40:34,840
So it's pretty, pretty bad.
They got, you know, they like

828
00:40:34,840 --> 00:40:37,000
the word commanded.
They could keep livestock in the

829
00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:41,120
spoil of the city.
So and then Joshua burned AI and

830
00:40:41,120 --> 00:40:43,520
made it forever, a heap of ruins
as it is this day.

831
00:40:43,520 --> 00:40:45,120
So when you read something like
that, you're like, OK, there's

832
00:40:45,120 --> 00:40:46,320
got to be archaeological
evidence.

833
00:40:46,320 --> 00:40:48,800
I think we have some.
It's just not everywhere.

834
00:40:48,800 --> 00:40:52,240
And then you get to the end of
Chapter 8, and this is probably

835
00:40:52,240 --> 00:40:57,360
a good way to close it up it it
clearly is an end of a section.

836
00:40:57,360 --> 00:41:01,360
It's probably, I don't know if
it's worth totally reading

837
00:41:01,360 --> 00:41:05,920
because it's a little bit of
text here, but it's a big shift.

838
00:41:06,080 --> 00:41:10,080
It talks about that, you know,
the king of a he hanged the king

839
00:41:10,080 --> 00:41:13,280
of AI on the Trancel evening.
There's sunset that sunset

840
00:41:13,280 --> 00:41:15,240
Joshua commanded and they took
his body down from the tree.

841
00:41:15,240 --> 00:41:17,280
They threw it at the entrance of
the gate and they raised it over

842
00:41:17,280 --> 00:41:19,120
a heap of stones, which stands
there to this day.

843
00:41:19,160 --> 00:41:22,440
That's verse 29.
We get to verse 30 and it says

844
00:41:22,440 --> 00:41:25,000
at that time, Joshua built an
altar to the war to Yahweh, the

845
00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:28,080
God of Israel on Mount Ebal,
which is not at AI.

846
00:41:28,400 --> 00:41:30,840
We're I mean, we're not super
for we're 20 miles north.

847
00:41:31,040 --> 00:41:33,840
So it's like this story is not
just continuous.

848
00:41:33,840 --> 00:41:36,280
There's like a gap here.
We're in a different place.

849
00:41:36,280 --> 00:41:37,760
We're on a mountain near
Shechem.

850
00:41:38,360 --> 00:41:41,280
It kind of goes from this war
movie to this worship service.

851
00:41:41,280 --> 00:41:44,520
So it's it is a it stands out,
it is different.

852
00:41:44,840 --> 00:41:47,680
Joshua builds an altar to
Yahweh, offer sacrifices, writes

853
00:41:47,680 --> 00:41:50,080
the law of Moses on stones,
right right then and there,

854
00:41:50,680 --> 00:41:52,360
reads.
How much of the law?

855
00:41:52,720 --> 00:41:55,320
It, you know, 'cause that's what
I was thinking to, I was like,

856
00:41:55,320 --> 00:41:57,240
are we doing, we're doing 10
commandments because we've been

857
00:41:57,240 --> 00:42:00,280
there a while. 10 commandments.
Not easy, but doable.

858
00:42:01,080 --> 00:42:05,640
All 613 commands on stone that
you're going to be there for a

859
00:42:05,640 --> 00:42:07,240
bit.
It it says, I don't know what it

860
00:42:07,240 --> 00:42:09,560
says about writing.
It says he read all the words of

861
00:42:09,560 --> 00:42:10,680
the law.
I don't know if it says that

862
00:42:10,680 --> 00:42:13,120
that he wrote all the words.
It might just say he wrote the

863
00:42:13,120 --> 00:42:16,440
law, but blessings and curses,
we got mount gears in Mount evil

864
00:42:17,120 --> 00:42:19,640
to the entire assembly,
including the women, children

865
00:42:19,640 --> 00:42:25,160
and sojourners.
But it's it's so different.

866
00:42:26,200 --> 00:42:29,440
It, it's a good kind of capstone
to the end of this section

867
00:42:29,440 --> 00:42:31,720
because if you zoom out really
chapter we talk, we start with

868
00:42:31,720 --> 00:42:34,600
Chapter 5 into Chapter 8.
It's really a unit because where

869
00:42:34,600 --> 00:42:37,960
do we start with Chapter 5?
In a way we started, maybe not

870
00:42:37,960 --> 00:42:39,560
started, but we talked a lot
about circumcision in the

871
00:42:39,560 --> 00:42:41,360
Passover.
Then we kind of end with this

872
00:42:41,360 --> 00:42:43,920
covenant renewal.
There's like this continuity.

873
00:42:44,560 --> 00:42:47,800
Like a picture of the big
picture of totally Abraham,

874
00:42:47,800 --> 00:42:50,120
Moses, and then, you know, get
in the land.

875
00:42:50,240 --> 00:42:54,120
It's connecting everything.
Chapter 9 starts out as soon as

876
00:42:54,120 --> 00:42:56,720
all the kings who are beyond the
Jordan, you know, heard of this.

877
00:42:56,720 --> 00:43:00,240
It's kind of that same initial
pattern that we started in verse

878
00:43:00,240 --> 00:43:01,360
5.
So it's kind of like this

879
00:43:01,360 --> 00:43:06,160
different Chapter 5, Chapter 5,
yeah, yeah.

880
00:43:07,560 --> 00:43:09,400
Chapter 7 started with Yahweh's
wrath.

881
00:43:09,400 --> 00:43:11,360
Chapter 8 shows Yahweh's
blessings.

882
00:43:11,360 --> 00:43:13,120
It kind of fits with this
blessing, cursing.

883
00:43:13,160 --> 00:43:17,960
End of this chapter highlights
and emphasizes what's all under

884
00:43:17,960 --> 00:43:19,680
the conquest, this covenant
obedience.

885
00:43:19,680 --> 00:43:22,400
It's more than merely military
might.

886
00:43:22,400 --> 00:43:24,120
And maybe something I
highlighted here.

887
00:43:24,120 --> 00:43:27,920
We don't have to read it all,
but if you read, I'll just read

888
00:43:28,400 --> 00:43:31,200
chapter 33 onward.
It says all of Israel was there,

889
00:43:31,200 --> 00:43:32,720
sojourners as well as native
born.

890
00:43:33,480 --> 00:43:37,520
If I skip down to verse 34, it
says afterward he read all the

891
00:43:37,520 --> 00:43:39,160
words of the law, the blessings
and the curses.

892
00:43:39,160 --> 00:43:42,000
According to all that is written
in the book of the Law, there

893
00:43:42,000 --> 00:43:45,240
was not a word of all that Moses
commanded that Joshua did not

894
00:43:45,240 --> 00:43:48,440
read before all the assembly of
Israel, the women, the little

895
00:43:48,440 --> 00:43:50,440
ones and the sojourners.
So there's this emphasis that we

896
00:43:50,440 --> 00:43:52,720
talked a lot about the law to a
lot of people.

897
00:43:52,720 --> 00:43:55,200
It's like no one was missing.
We didn't skip a chapter.

898
00:43:56,080 --> 00:43:57,480
No, no excuses.
That's right.

899
00:43:57,480 --> 00:43:59,280
Everyone's there.
It's a big deal.

900
00:43:59,600 --> 00:44:03,360
Like you said, Genesis 12, Abram
received promise of the land.

901
00:44:03,840 --> 00:44:06,280
Jacob returned safely after a
long exile.

902
00:44:06,400 --> 00:44:10,920
When he was coming back, Moses
read this at the same place.

903
00:44:11,800 --> 00:44:15,320
Joshua doing this is this
imagery of this very prominent

904
00:44:15,400 --> 00:44:17,200
part that everyone had to be
there.

905
00:44:17,320 --> 00:44:18,640
No one's going to miss out on
this.

906
00:44:19,040 --> 00:44:22,440
And that kind of is a good kind
of end.

907
00:44:22,920 --> 00:44:26,120
It's a halfway give or take
through of taking of the land.

908
00:44:26,400 --> 00:44:28,680
That's good, that's good.
We're getting there.

909
00:44:28,680 --> 00:44:31,160
Conquesting.
Conquesting, yeah, all the all

910
00:44:31,160 --> 00:44:33,640
these campaigns and we start to
really get into it more.

911
00:44:33,640 --> 00:44:36,640
Maybe a little teaser we can
talk about on the next episode

912
00:44:36,640 --> 00:44:38,400
is this, you know, the sun stood
still.

913
00:44:38,400 --> 00:44:40,080
What's this mean?
Another one of those, you know,

914
00:44:40,080 --> 00:44:42,200
that people go back and forth on
and there's like all these

915
00:44:42,200 --> 00:44:44,160
different ways.
But anyway, we spend a lot of

916
00:44:44,160 --> 00:44:47,240
time chapters 5 through 8.
That's what I'm doing.

917
00:44:48,800 --> 00:44:51,920
Thanks for listening to Take 2.
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918
00:44:51,920 --> 00:44:54,440
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919
00:44:54,440 --> 00:44:55,120
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