Name: 聖句を読む。ヨシュア (Read Scripture: Joshua)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T06:48:09.000Z
Duration: 8 min 48 s
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Let's back up and remember the story so far,

So God chose Abraham and then his family became the people of Israel,

So through Moses, God rescued Israel out of Egypt,

he made a covenant with them at Mount Sinai

and he brought them through the wilderness.

So Israel then camped outside the promised land

and Moses called them to obey God’s commands

so that they could show all the other nations what God is like.

The book of Joshua picks up right after Moses has died

So the story of Joshua is designed with four main movements.

Joshua first leads Israel into the promised land,

and then once they are there, they meet all this hostility from the Canaanites

then after their victory Joshua divides up the promised land

and then the book concludes with these final speeches that Joshua gives to the people.

So let’s dive in and we will see how all of it flows together.

The first section begins with Moses’ death

and Joshua is appointed as Israel’s new leader,

and the author intentionally presents Joshua as a new Moses,

so like Moses, Joshua calls the people to obey the Torah,

which means the covenant commands that they were given at Mount Sinai,

and then Joshua sends spies into the land

just as Moses did back in Numbers chapters 13 and 14

In fact, some Canaanites turn and follow the God of Israel,

Joshua then leads all Israel across the Jordan river and into the land.

Just like the sea parted for Moses in the Exodus

and the priests carry the Ark of the Covenant across

so the people look back to their roots as God’s covenant people

and they celebrate their first Passover in the land.

But then, they turn prepared to go forward

and Joshua has this crazy encounter with a mysterious warrior,

who, it turns out is the angelic commander of God’s army,

and Joshua asks, “Are you for us? Or are you for our enemies?”

It makes clear that this whole story is not about Israel versus the Canaanites,

and Israel is going to play the role of spectators or sometimes supporters in God’s plan.

We find stories about all these conflicts that Israel has with different Canaanite groups,

and the first part retells the story of two battles in detail

and that is followed by a series of short stories

that condense years of battles into a few brief summaries.

So the first two battles are against Jericho and then Ai,

and they offer these contrasting portraits of God’s faithfulness versus Israel’s failure.

At Jericho, Israel is to take a completely passive approach,

so they let God’s presence in the Ark lead them around the city to music for six days

and just like Rahab turned to the God of Israel

maybe the people of Jericho would do the same, but they don't,

and so on the seventh day the priests blow the trumpets

and the walls come falling down leading Israel to victory.

The point of the story is that God is the one who will deliver his people;

Now the next story, of the battle of Ai makes the opposite point.

and he steals from Jericho some of the devoted goods that were to belong to God alone

It’s a pretty lame move after all that God has done for Israel,

and so Israel goes into battle with the city of Ai

and severely dealing with Achan’s sin that Israel gains victory.

And so together these two stories are placed right up front to make an important point.

they have to be obedient and trust in God’s commands.

Now the second part of the section begins with the Gibeonites, a Canaanite people group

and they do just as Rahab did as they turn to follow the God of Israel

This is in contrast to all these other Canaanite kings

who start to form alliances and coalitions and they want to destroy Israel.

So Israel engages them in battle and they win by a land slide.

So this whole section concludes with this summary list

of all of these victories won by Moses and then by Joshua.

Now, let’s stop for a second because odds are

that these stories and the violence in them, they are going to bother you,

and if you are a follower of Jesus, you’re bound to wonder, like,

didn’t Jesus said to love your enemies?

The main reasons are actually given earlier in the biblical story

is that the culture of the Canaanites had become extremely morally corrupt,

and they also widely practiced child sacrifice,

and so God didn’t want these practices to influence Israel,

Did God actually command the destruction of all the Canaanites, like a genocide?

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