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| Joshua 6:15-16 |
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Lesson # Josh. 6:15-16 Study Material - Josh. 6:15-16 You must be in fellowship prior to your Bible study, so that the spiritual information you receive can become a source, of blessing to your soul and produce spiritual growth. Josh. 6:15-16 15 Then it came about on the seventh day that they rose early at the dawning of the day and marched around the city in the same manner seven times; only on that day they marched around the city seven times. 16 And it came about at the seventh time, when the priests blew the trumpets, Joshua said to the people, 'Shout! For the LORD has given you the city. The Israelites marched around the city once per day for six days and then they marched around the city seven times on the seventh day. They halted upon completion of the seventh revolution, the horns sounded a long blast of triumph, the people shouted at the top of their lungs, the walls of the city crumbled completely. No doubt many people standing on the walls died when the walls came down. Imagine the chaos, the screams of those in Jericho. Those fighting defiantly, those begging for mercy, yet were put to the sword. Old men and women, young children, and everyone of all ages in between, animals too, all were put to death. This is a harsh and gruesome picture. Not only were they killed mercilessly, but they were further burned completely. The entire city was put to the torch. Only the silver and gold, the things of value, were retrieved and no one received any of this booty, but it was to be placed in the treasury of God. Now I can just hear the bleeding hearts, 'How can a loving God do such a thing?' Yet this is a picture of reality. The reality which most people choose to ignore. Those in Jericho ignored it for seven days. Lets turn the clock back for just a bit. Abraham was given a promise. The promise was for title to the land. Ownership free and clear, yet Abraham wandered through the land never really owning it. The promise was a restatement of what God intended even prior to Abraham's being born. Lets look back quickly. Noah and his family came off of the Ark. We have not studied Isaac and Jacob, but they each in turn, at the end of their lives, granted ownership and blessing to their respective descendants. This is the pattern of heirship. In several passages in the Psalms the land of Egypt is referred to as the land of Ham. So we conclude among other things, that Noah gave certain parcels of land to his three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. The promise to Abraham on the land of Canaan, the curse on the descendants of Ham (Canaan) all lead to the further conclusion that those descendants of Ham (the Canaanites, etc.), who settled in the land of Canaan, did so in disobedience to Gods wishes. The Egyptians were not evicted from their land. It was given to them appropriately. The lands of Japheth were not taken from them. They too were given to them appropriately. Only in the land of Canaan were these lands given to the descendants of Shem, yet the descendants of Ham took them, where they had no right to do so. Further, these lands represent the land of promise, the land flowing with milk and honey. They represent the life in spiritual maturity, and that place belongs to God alone, and to those to whom He gives them to share (mature believers). Unbelievers have no right to this land, to this status of spiritual maturity, yet they take it of their own defiant will against God. One man, Joshua, leads the people across the Jordan, and he is a type, a representation, of another man that will come later in history, the unique man of the universe, the God/man, Jesus Christ. Joshua is the Hebrew word and equivalent of the Greek word for the name Jesus. Joshua was appointed the leader of Gods people, to lead them across the Jordan. Moses wrote the Law. Moses was a Levite. And Moses was not to be the one to lead the people across the river into the promised land. The Law does not save. It did not exist when the people crossed the Red Sea (salvation) and left the land of Egypt. Only God saves. The Law cannot advance one in the spiritual life. Moses did not lead the people across the Jordan (spiritual maturity). The law was written in the desert and that is where it is left behind - in the desert of ones life. Only Bible doctrine leads us to spiritual maturity. Nothing evil, nothing of human good, is allowed in the land either. Thus the land is purged of all that is not spiritual. This first example of the attack on Jericho is our first illustration of the purity of the spiritual life. The spiritual life is an absolute. You cannot be in fellowship and out of fellowship simultaneously. You are either in or out. There is no in between. Likewise you cannot be unsaved and saved simultaneously. You are either unsaved, or saved. There is no such thing as being half or partly saved. And furthermore, once you have believed in Christ, then you are saved and you cannot undo that belief no matter how bad a person you might become afterwards. No one can turn back the clock and not do that which they have already done, and that applies to thoughts too. No take backs. Evil tries to take from God that which belongs to God. Evil tries to take from Gods heirs, that which God has given to His heirs. God does all of the work. All we can do is accept the gift and shout in the triumph of that which God has done for us. To reject God is to embrace the gruesome results that we will see in the next few verses. All unbelievers will have a second judgment at the Great White Throne. That judgment (the lake of fire) will be far worse than anything that mankind has suffered in all of history combined. By the way the lake of fire is not some tavern with smokes, drinks, and women. It will be a place of excruciating pain, aloneness, fear, anxiety and so forth, and it will last forever with no escape. For those in Jericho there will be no escape. Gods orders are clear and unconditional - all will be destroyed save the gold and silver which these evil people took without right, from Gods land. The Israelites marched around the city for seven days, not six, not five, not two days. They did not just line up on that first day and charge. God could have easily made the walls fall down on any of the days, but seven is our number - the number of Gods rest, of completeness. God does all of the work. God gets all of the credit. Man has nothing to add to nor can he take anything away from the spiritual life. 
Now is the time to post a prayer. End Of Lesson Study to show thyself approved (mature) unto God, a workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly dividing (studying/discerning), the Word of truth. |
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