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Joshua 10
“When the Lord your God brings you into the land you are about to enter and occupy, he will clear away many nations ahead of you: the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites. These seven nations are greater and more numerous than you. When the Lord your God hands these nations over to…
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Joshua 9
Some Bibles have little headings at the start of a chapter. My heading for this chapter would be: If ya can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em. 🤷♂️ Or – Israel falls for a psy-op. 🥸 Psy-op is short for “psychological operation.” It’s a military term for a tactic whereby you mentally manipulate your adversary to favor…
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Joshua 7-8
I was enjoying the happy ending of chapter 6 so much that I forgot to mention that Joshua pronounced a curse on Jericho: “Joshua laid an oath on them at that time, saying, “Cursed before the Lord be the man who rises up and rebuilds this city, Jericho. “At the cost of his firstborn shall…
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Joshua 6
We have come to one of the “tent pole” stories of the OT – Joshua and the Battle of Jericho. At the end of chapter 5 we left Joshua standing there barefoot with the Commander of Heaven’s armies. 🗡️🤨 Remember that the chapter break does not exist in the original text. If you ignore it,…
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Joshua 4-5
Ya know how poems have rhymes? And music has repeated motifs? We get that here. 🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵 You may have noticed some concepts in these chapters that connect back to the early chapters of Exodus. Here are some that I noticed: This echoes are intentional and designed by the Holy Spirit. They help us connect narratives.…
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Joshua 2-3
So I said in yesterday’s post that the conquest narrative of Joshua is the OT prophetic parallel to the conquest narrative of Revelation when Jesus leads His people in to inherit the earth. We run into our first similarity in these chapters: The Two Witnesses, uh, I mean “spies.” So Jesus/Joshua sends 2 men ahead…
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Psalm 91 & Joshua 1
If you’re ever in serious trouble you grab a phone and call 9-1-1. ☎️ When you’re in spiritual trouble, pick up your Bible and dial God’s 91:1 – “He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.” Psalm 91:1 ESV We sang this as a song…
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Deuteronomy 33-34
Moses blessing the tribes before he dies is the bookend of Jacob blessing his sons before he died. Some of the themes and phrasing are nearly identical. You may recall that Jacob prefaced his blessing with this: “Gather together so that I can tell you what will happen with you in days to come.”Genesis 49:1…
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Deuteronomy 31-32
This section is all about Yahweh vs. the other gods. Israel is literally only a month away from crossing the Jordan and beginning the conquest. Ever since leaving Egypt, they’ve been fairly isolated and on the move. There haven’t been many opportunities (like Peor) for other tribes to influence them into worshiping other gods. That…
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Deuteronomy 30
Isn’t this such a beautiful chapter?! 🤩 “So it will be when all of these things have come upon you, the blessing and the curse which I have placed before you, and you call them to mind in all the nations where the Lord your God has scattered you, and you return to the Lord…
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Deuteronomy 29
This chapter is like Sinai 2.0. The LORD renews the covenant with this new generation. And Moses reminds them of the miracles that the elders among them (elders being those in their 50s and 60s) – the miracles they witnessed as children when God rescued them from Egypt. Then he says, “But to this day…
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Deuteronomy 28
This is depressing. 😞 It’s like there’s a little sunshine then a storm rolls in and it gets super dark. I mean, Moses is talking cannibalism before it’s all over. 😳🫣 #blessed 🤩 vs. #thedonnerparty 💀 And the bad tragic horrific things listed as possible consequences for disobedience aren’t random. If you know your OT,…
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