Category: Israel

Joshua 5:13-14 No Fight In Them

Joshua 5:13-14
And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, there stood a man over against him with his sword drawn in his hand: and Joshua went unto him, and said unto him, Art thou for us, or for our adversaries?
And he said, Nay; but as captain of the host of the LORD am I now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and did worship, and said unto him, What saith my lord unto his servant?

 

That this was in fact, the work of God and not the exercise of Israel against the Canaanites is obvious by at least three things that are recorded early on in this book:

Verse one says of the Canaanites that, because of the children of Israel, their hearts melted and they had no spirit in them.

There was no will in them to fight the Jews. There was no fight in them at all.

Verses two through eight says that the children of Israel circumcised every male among them not before, but after they entered into the Promised Land.

They would have been easy prey for the Canaanites had they had the spirit to attack them. This reminds me of the vicious dealings of Jacob’s children, the forefathers of these Jews, when they tricked the people of Shechem into circumcising and then killed them all while they were too incapacitated to fight. God exposed Israel to the same danger, but did not allow the Canaanites to exploit their opportunity.

Chapter six verses eight through nine says that, when Israel marched around the walls of Jericho, they announced their coming with priests blowing trumpets.

Not only did they expose themselves to the dangers of enemy soldiers on the wall and they did not attack, they let the enemy know they were there.

 

God was orchestrating the events between Israel and the Canaanites so that there was no real grudge the Jews had against the Canaanites, nor were the Canaanites particularly opposed to the Jews. Each side knew that this was the work of God in their midst.

 

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Joshua 5:13-14 No Fight In Them

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Why Israel Struggles with Palestine

Deuteronomy 19:8-9 KJV

And if the LORD thy God enlarge thy coast, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, and give thee all the land which he promised to give unto thy fathers;

If thou shalt keep all these commandments to do them, which I command thee this day, to love the LORD thy God, and to walk ever in his ways; then shalt thou add three cities more for thee, beside these three:

 

The subject of the chapter is those cities of refuge in Israel. God instructs them to divide the land into three parts and to designate a city of refuge in each part. Then God said that if He chose to give them all the land He had promised.

 

What? If He kept all His promise? Why wouldn’t He keep all His promise? That question is answered in the following verse. If Israel kept all of God’s Word and if Israel loved their God and if they walked in His ways, then He would give them all the land He had promised their fathers.

 

It occurs to me that this is the very reason Israel is in the position she finds herself today. They possess their land and they have their nation but they share it with enemies of their very existence. Their own temple site must be shared with people who wish Israel to not exist. They have their Promised Land but they don’t have all of it.

 

Not coincidentally, Israel today doesn’t love their God and walk ever in his ways. I do not deny that there are orthodox practicing Jews in Israel but I know that they are not the majority. I also know that, for today – right now, walking in God’s ways isn’t in Orthodox Judaism. Today both the Jew and the Gentile are to come to Christ and unite with Christians in a New Testament Baptist church.

  • Israel doesn’t have all God promised them.
  • Neither does Israel love God (in Christ) and ever walk in His ways.

 

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Israel, Palestine

 

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