Ecclesiastes 3:8 tells us there is "time to love and a time to hate, a time for war, and a time for peace.” Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the Lord had spoken to Moses. And Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel according to their tribal allotments. “And the land had rest from war." At long last, the time...
Here
in Joshua 10, an astounding astronomical miracle really took place, by which
the motion of the heavenly bodies was, for several hours, suspended by
God’s omnipotent power. This particular
miracle – like many in the Bible – cannot be explained by human reasoning or
science. Nor can it be explained away
by those who resist God’s truth.
We cannot explain the physics or the mechanics by which God performed this...
The men of Israel looked them over and accepted the evidence. But they didn’t ask God about it.
They listened to their story of far-away travels. But
they didn’t ask God about it.
They believed their words of praise for God. But they didn’t ask God about it.
They made peace with them and formalized it with a
covenant. But they didn’t ask God about it.
It took only three days before Joshua and these men...
Joshua, the great man of faith, was suddenly fearful and dismayed. The dictionary defines “dismay” as “consternation and distress, typically that caused by something unexpected; a feeling of fear, disappointment, shock, or...
Thus says the LORD God of Israel, “there is an accursed thing in your midst.” Hidden among you, O Israel, are things that are despised and rejected by the LORD. God was angry that Israel had not been fully obedient to him in the conquest of Jericho. One of the people, Achan, secretly kept...
The destruction of Jericho demonstrated the kind of warfare that Israel was engaged in. This was no physical assault using the traditional implements of war. This wasn’t a case where the walls fell due to great force being applied. It wasn’t a windstorm, or an earthquake, or the vibrations caused by the trumpets...
Jesus
taught us that “Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.” (Matthew 23:12) In today’s reading we have an example of a humble
man who was exalted by God.
There is a critical moment in every transition from one leader to his/her successor. That moment is characterized by...
