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Welcome to Joshua study number
6 chapter 6 we're going to cover 27 verses Lord willing and the
church don't rise and we just kind of picture Joshua looking
out on the city of Jericho as we begin this Chapter, Joshua
has just circumcised the Israelites in a mass circumcision of all
males born over the past four decades as of the time of our
study here. And as they healed, they observed
Passover, and then Jesus showed up at the end of chapter five
in a pre-incarnate appearance, a theophany or Christophany.
And that paints a very nice picture foreshadowing the fact that we
must be circumcised in our hearts, a circumcision made without hands,
in order for Jesus to come into our lives. As Paul explained
in Colossians 2.11, in whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision
made without hands in the putting in, putting off the body of the
sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ. And now we have victory
in Christ. We battle sin daily. We battle
sin in this life, but he's overcome. We are saved. And when this life
is over, we'll be as he is and live in a world without sin. Even as we're in glorified bodies
during that millennial kingdom, we will be without sin even then.
And now We see the same sort of picture with Joshua. By the
way, we mentioned his name in Greek is Yeshua, or I'm sorry,
in Hebrew is Yeshua, in Greek it's Yeshu, in English it's Jesus. And so now Jesus, Joshua, leads
God's children to victory in Jericho, where we'll begin here
in chapter six after a word of prayer. Father, we thank you,
Lord, for this time in your book. We just ask you help us As we
read, we will learn and understand. As Paul said in Hebrews, we see
Jesus. We thank you for showing us these
amazing truths in your book. In Jesus' name, amen. And now
we come to one of the most famous chapters in the Bible that contains
the fall of Jericho. And verse one, now Jericho was
straightly shut up because of the children of Israel. None
went out and none came in. When an enemy would approach
Jericho, there had been a time they'd been confident and they'd
had peace, in a sense, in Jericho. They weren't worried about anything.
Those walls were world famous for being impregnable. But this
time they're shut up and quaking with fear. As we recall the words
of Rahab back in chapter two, verses nine through 11, she's
talking to these Israelite spies. And she said unto the men, I
know that the Lord hath given you the land and that your terror
is fallen upon us. And that all the inhabitants
of the land faint because of you. For we have heard how the
Lord dried up the water of the Red Sea for you when you came
out of Egypt. and what ye did unto the two
kings of the Amorites that were on the other side, Jordan, Sihon
and Og, whom ye utterly destroyed. And as soon as we had heard these
things, our hearts did melt. Neither did there remain any
more courage in any man because of you. For the Lord your God,
he is God in heaven above and in earth beneath. And so that's
what these people are feeling right now as we go in to verse
two, where outside of the walls of Jericho, we see this scene.
And the Lord said unto Joshua, see, I have given into thine
hand Jericho and the king thereof and the mighty men of valor.
So these weren't cowards or wimps, but they're gonna lose in Jericho. Let's keep reading, verse three
says, and ye shall compass the city, all ye men of war, and
go round about the city once. Thus shalt thou do six days. Verse four, and seven priests
shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of ram's horns. And
the seventh day ye shall compass the city seven times, and the
priests shall blow the trumpets And then verse five, and it shall
come to pass that when they make a long blast with the ram's horn,
and when you hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall
shout with a great shout, and the wall of the city shall fall
down flat, and the people shall ascend up every man straight
before him. This is all speaking prophetically
at this point. And, of course, this makes no
sense on paper. No one ever copied this battle
plan and tried to replicate it in the midst of a battle. Even
though, you know, much of what we have read and will read in
the Bible, especially from Joshua through 2 Chronicles, it's been
studied and replicated by military generals throughout the centuries.
Stonewall Jackson and some of those guys at West Point talked
about these things in their training. But it will work perfectly because
of one word, God. Do not try this at home. Don't
try this in the midst of a normal military excursion. The Jews in Israel shouldn't
try this right now as they're going into southern Lebanon and
Gaza as I speak here in October of 2024. God is here. Nothing is impossible
with God. Also, don't miss the fact that
the Ark represents His presence, the presence of Christ. That's
what the Ark represents. And you can't lose when Christ
goes with you. So now Joshua will give take the directive given to him
and he'll pass it on to the people. Verse six, and Joshua the son
of Nun called the priests and said unto them, take up the ark
of the covenant and let seven priests bear seven trumpets of
ram's horns before the ark of the Lord. Verse seven, and he
said unto the people, pass on and compass the city and let
him that is armed pass on before the ark of the Lord. And of course,
it's that simple. They did just that. Verse eight,
and it came to pass when Joshua spoke unto the people that the
seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of ram's horns passed
on before the Lord and blew with the trumpets and the Ark of the
Covenant of the Lord followed them. Verse 9 and the armed men
went before the priests that blew with the trumpets and the
rear ward came after the ark the priests going on and blowing
with the trumpets I Love a parade I don't really like a lot of
the modern parades. There's so much garbage they
put in there. I used to love those. As a kid, downtown Portsmouth,
Ohio, and they'd have the River Days parade at the end of the
summer, and you'd have all the big marching bands. You'd have
floats and clowns and people throwing candy at you and everything.
We just had a great time. Well, this would have been quite
a scene and quite a parade, but it wouldn't have been one that
the Jericodeans would have enjoyed. And yes, I made that word up.
The Jericodeans. I just like that. I think we
should all start calling them that. But they would have looked
out on this and been sick at their stomachs. I have no doubt
they had a sense of foreboding, again based on what Rahab had
said about how everyone there felt as the Israelites approached
the city. As we read this, it's going to
be an utter devastation. Some people call this genocide,
and technically it is. But these people are just one
of the tribes of people interchangeably referred to as Canaanites and
Amorites. And we'll discuss that more in
the aftermath, but just keep that in mind. These were terribly
wicked people. We'll come back to that in a
minute. Verse 10 says, And Joshua had commanded the people, saying,
Ye shall not shout, nor make any noise with your voice, neither
shall any word proceed out of your mouth until the day I bid
you shout. Then shall ye shout. Just as it is when I take a swig
of coffee, silence. Of course, it would be utter
silence when it comes to voices, but then they would hear the
sound of thousands of marching feet. It would have been very
intimidating. When I was a kid, the high school
marching band would come down over the hill into the football
stadium, and they would do a death march, and you'd hear the The
feet stomping as they marched, and the drums just drumming a
cadence, a very slow dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun,
dun. I just remember as a kid I'd
get chills. But it was kind of exciting then, I wasn't scared.
But that would have been the situation here, fear. Verse 11,
so the Ark of the Lord compassed the city, going about it once,
and they came into the camp and lodged in the camp. So that's
all there was for that first day. They set up camp for the
night, and then verses 12 through 14, and Joshua rose early in
the morning, and the priests took up the Ark of the Lord,
and seven priests bearing seven trumpets of ram's horns before
the Ark of the Lord went on continually, and blew with the trumpets, and
the armed men went before them, but the rear ward came after
the Ark of the Lord, the priests going on and blowing with the
trumpets. Verse 14, and on the second day, they compassed the
city once and returned into the camp, so they did six days. So that's all they did for six
days. Now at this point, some suggest that the citizens of
Jericho, as I call them Jerichodians, might have been getting a little
desensitized after six days of watching this go on, but on the
seventh day, they were basically caught off guard by what happens.
We don't know, no one knows exactly what was going on behind those
walls in the minds of the people, but we can guess pretty well.
And what the Israelites knew was that the six days of silent
marching was about to end. Verse 15, and it came to pass
on the seventh day that they rose early about the dawning
of the day and compassed the city after the same manner seven
times. Only on that day they compassed
the city seven times. So the previous six days they
marched around once went back and camped Not this time and
I'd have to believe that when they took that second trip. I
If there was anyone who had been desensitized by the previous
six days of single trips around, they would have taken notice.
And then by the time they got that seventh trip around, the
whole city would have probably been on edge. And then verse
16, and it came to pass at the seventh time, when the priests
blew with the trumpets, Joshua said unto the people, shout,
for the Lord hath given you the city. Don't miss that moment
here. I mean, after the trumpets sounded,
all the citizens of Jericho, the Jericho-dians, would have
heard his voice beyond the wall, speaking Hebrew. I don't think
any of them would have understood, but they heard his voice. I think
of a time You know you you might have been where you're up on
a hill and it's quiet But then all of a sudden you hear a little
voice of somebody down the trail down Below the hill a little
bit or maybe you were below and maybe it's a better picture This
city was probably up on the hill and you're down below, but you
hear someone up there. You know that kind of thing That's
the setting just a small voice in the distance and As we listen
in, as Joshua speaks, we know what he said because of our English
King James Bible. Verse 17, and the city shall
be accursed, even it and all that are therein to the Lord.
Only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all that are with her
in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent.
And in verse 18 says and ye in any wise keep yourselves from
the accursed thing Lest you make yourselves accursed when you
take of the accursed thing and make the camp of Israel a curse
and trouble it Now, this is the part you want to remember when
we get to the next chapter. Someone's going to ignore this
and violate this instruction. But the instructions were clear.
Verse 19, but all the silver and gold and vessels of brass
and iron are consecrated unto the Lord. They shall come into
the treasury of the Lord. This is a mass execution about to take
place of some of the most vile, wicked people on the planet.
And that's why God says you kill everything and even the stuff
that's worth something, you're going to set it apart. What they
do is they'll melt it down and then they'll put it in the treasury.
None of it can even touch the people. It's not so other than
picking it up to put it in the treasury They're not to take
it home put it on their person not to put on the jewelry or
anything like that Because these people were so wicked they were
among the most wicked people since the flood of Noah and we
know what God did to all the people and except for Noah and
his family of eight total at the flood of Noah. And this is
actually a culmination of a prophecy that God gave to Abraham when
he was still being called Abram back in Genesis 15. You can,
of course, go back and listen to our study on Genesis 15 for
more information if you want it. But Genesis 15, 13 and 14,
the Lord is speaking. And he said unto Abram, know
of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that
is not theirs and shall serve them. and they shall afflict
them 400 years." Of course, that's the children of Israel in Egypt.
And he goes on and says, and also that nation whom they shall
serve will I judge. And afterwards shall they come
out with great substance. And that's what happened. The
Israel, I love it, it said borrowed of the people, but they never
had to return it. And Pharaoh chases them, and Pharaoh and
his armies were totally destroyed when the Red Sea came down on
top of them. Then Abram was told, before this
ever happened, hundreds of years beforehand, 400 years beforehand,
And he was told that after he was dead and buried, in Genesis
15, 16, we read, but in the fourth generation, they shall come hither
again, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full. And
that is referring to all the Canaanite and tribes, they're
called Canaanites and Amorites interchangeably, and that would
include these Jerichodians, as I call them. So we're here. We're at the fulfillment of Genesis
15-16. The iniquity of the Amorites
is full. God is sick of it. I mean, if
you know anything about the long-suffering of God, you know that means that
these people were committing all of the lewd, wicked atrocities
listed in Leviticus 18. We urge you regularly, at least
several times we've told you, be familiar with that. Because
Leviticus 18 describes the people God is driving out of the land.
And so when people complain about, oh, God is so mean, you go back
and read that, and if you've got any sense of what you're
reading, terrible people. So far gone that they were beyond
saving. Read Proverbs 1, Romans 1, Sodom
and Gomorrah, and that's who you're reading about right here
in Jericho and all the Canaanites and Amorites. They were so bad
that as I said, I think last chapter, the best they had to
offer, I might've said this way back in chapter two actually,
but the best they had to offer was a whore named Rahab. That's the best they had to offer.
So nothing was to be left alive and anything of value would be
melted down and consecrated to the Lord and put into the treasury
of the tabernacle. Verse 20, so the people shouted
when the priests blew with the trumpets, and it came to pass
when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people
shouted with a great shout that the wall fell down flat, so that
the people went up into the city, every man straight before him,
and they took the city. Verse 21, and they utterly destroyed
all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old,
and ox and sheep and ass, with the edge of the sword. Now, This
one says about the walls falling down flat. There's Excavations
have been made archaeologists have found these walls Of course,
there's always these people who try to just somehow say oh, that's
not really Jericho or whether But there's plenty of evidence
for those who are not trying to resist God but as verse 21
says not only did the walls fall down, but they killed everything
living and And that sounds harsh. And some people, I don't like
that. Well, you'll have to lump it. God is God. He is holy. These people were
devils with skin and had so sexually abused and spiritually and physically
abused, even their children and even their animals, a thing called
bestiality, just for starters, that God was simply putting them
out of their misery. Unbelievers just about crawl
out of their scales when I say this, but it's a fact You see
all these innocent children Wiped out here. It seems terrible sounds
terrible, but they're all in heaven I really believe that
and if you don't you'll get over it when you get there and see
it for yourself, but God spares only What we can only figure is the
only real decent woman and her family, Rahab. Verse 22, but
Joshua had said unto the two men that had spied out the country,
go into the harlot's house and bring out thence the woman and
all that she hath as ye swear to her. And you remember it was
a scarlet thread that identified her home. Verse 23, and the young
men that were spies went in and brought out Rahab and her father
and her mother and her brother and all that she had, and they
brought out all her kindred and left them without the camp of
Israel. I can't recall, it'd be interesting
to know the number if that was eight, just like on the Ark of
the Flood, but at any rate, Joshua was a man of his word and they
left Rahab and her family outside of the walls and then went to
business and did what they did verse 24 and they burnt the city
with fire and all that was therein only the silver and the gold
and the vessels of brass and of iron they put into the treasury
of the house of the Lord and again historic fact It's established
biblically and in extra biblical writings and archaeological findings. But one thing I found in Easton's
Bible dictionary, it's part of the sword searcher software that
I use, and it says in one of the Amarna tablets, Adonai Zedek
writes to the king of Egypt informing him that the Abirai, which is
Hebrews, had prevailed and had taken the fortress of Jericho
and were plundering all the king's lands. He was probably wanting
help because he could see the Canaanite kings were all being,
you know, decimated. There are whole documentaries,
books, and all kinds of materials discussing these events. And
as I said, some try to explain these things away. They'll just
flat out contradict the biblical text. But any sane, fair-minded
reader will see that the proof is overwhelming in support of
our text. And although we find out in chapter seven that someone
actually didn't follow these orders in verse 24, we continue
verse 25, and Joshua saved Rahab the harlot alive and her father's
household and all that she had. And she dwelleth in Israel even
unto this day, because she hid the messengers which Joshua sent
to spy out Jericho. Unto the day, meaning the day
that this book was written, up to the time that Joshua And this
book of Joshua was written I believe in large part by Joshua himself
But Rahab not only dwelt in Israel until the day that the book of
Joshua was completed But the Savior of the world Jesus Christ
had her DNA Rahab It's called Rechab, R-A-C-H-A-B in the New
Testament, or King James Bible. She married Salmon, and they
had a little boy named Boaz who grew up to marry Ruth. And when
we come to the book of Ruth, that's what that whole book is
about. And Ruth 4, 21 and 22 tells us, and Salmon begat Boaz,
and Boaz begat Obed, and Obed begat Jesse, and Jesse begat
David. King David, of course, is in
the lineage of Jesus Christ. And then Matthew 1, 5, and 6
explains, just for clarification, that when you see that Salmon
begat Boaz, that's Rahab's husband. So she's the one who carried
the baby and delivered the baby, Boaz. And it says, and Salmon
begat Boaz, B-O-O-Z, that's Boaz in the New Testament. Salmon
begat Booz of Rahab, which is Rahab. And Booz begat Obed of
Ruth, and Obed begat Jesse, and Jesse begat King David. Now Matthew
is the lineage of Joseph, who was not the natural father of
Jesus, but Mary's lineage is given in Luke. It also says in
Luke 3, 31 and 32, which was the son of David, which was the
son of Jesse, which was the son of Obed, which was the son of
Boaz, which was the son of Salmon, who was married to Rahab. So
that son, Boaz, came from Rahab. is the lineage that produced
Mary, whose father was named Heli. So when Joseph married
the Virgin Mary, he became what we call the son-in-law of Heli. But that literally means that
Joseph became legally recognized as Heli's son by marriage. Thus, Luke was accurate in saying
in Luke 3.23, and Jesus himself began to be about 30 years of
age, being as was supposed, the son of Joseph, which was the
son of Heli. And right there in both genealogies
of Jesus, his biological mother, Mary, and his adoptive father,
Joseph, came from the line of Rahab and her husband, Salmon.
And with all that happening, unbeknownst to all involved,
by the way. They didn't know all this that
we're talking about with hindsight from the scripture. Verse 26,
and Joshua adjured them at that time saying, cursed be the man
before the Lord that riseth up and buildeth this city Jericho.
He shall lay the foundation thereof in his firstborn and in his youngest
son shall he set up the gates of it. You can read 1 Kings 16,
34, where that actually happened. And a guy named Hiel, the Bethelite,
built the city and his youngest son, well, he laid the foundation
there of an Abiram and his youngest son Segub and they died. It doesn't
say God wanted that to happen. He was prophesying and it came
true. And then verse seven closes. So the Lord was with Joshua and
his fame was noise throughout all the country. And so much
more we could say about that, but we'll close by just saying
Joshua was the man, the man of God. And maybe we'll say a few
things about this last verse when we pick up the next time
in chapter seven in our next Joshua study.
006 Joshua 6:1-27 (Joshua Studies)
Series Expository Study: Joshua
The very well known story of the fall of the walls of Jericho and the utter destruction of the "Amorite" people in the city.
Also Reference: Colossians 2:11, Genesis 15:13-14 and 16, (Leviticus 18), Ruth 4:21-22, Matthew 1:5-6, Luke 3:31-32, Luke 3:23, (1 Kings 16:34)
| Sermon ID | 10824175455451 |
| Duration | 25:59 |
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| Category | Radio Broadcast |
| Bible Text | Joshua 2:9-11; Joshua 6 |
| Language | English |
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