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When you read this chapter or the
entire book, you can see God first giving promises, and then gives them steps
to achieve it and keeping it. Here also God promised Joshua that this city is
going to be in the hands of Joshua. He further gives those steps how to take
the city. In human imagination the steps might go as an idiotic idea, but that
is what God will do to shame the so called intelligent. They were asked to
round the city one time daily for 6 days with their mouth shut. On the 7th
day they were asked to round 7 times, where 6 times they should be silent. On
the 7th round they should shout according to the trumpets and then
God will give the city to them. They listened to it and when they started
shouting, the walls around Jericho city fell and they went and conquered the
city. Rahab and her family were saved because of the fact that she protected
the spies who went to get information about the city.
Archaeological department and
others may explain that the fall of Jericho was no miracle but a simple
scientific fact. God knew that a certain vibration would destroy the wall.
Miracle remains that the wall fell. You can search the proof through YouTube.
God accomplished the destruction with or without scientific means.
God put an invisible band around
the foundation of that city wall and tightened it, and when God does that to
the foundation of any structure, national or personal – beware. It is easy to
listen to God’s word instead of getting ideas from worldly intellectuals. When
your hear Gods word, step by step you does things which will be simple, but
will get victory even in the midst of highest persecution.
God gives us victories through
ways that seem utterly foolish to us. Even the message of Cross is foolish to
people. But those who believe in God and take that step will see God’s glory in
their life. “For the message of the cross
is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is
the power of God” – 1 Corinthians
1:18.
It is easy to leave the
guidelines God gave for us to live and mock it as foolish. But the time when
you start your life with God and have personal relationship with him, You will
understand the real taste of the salvation which Christ has given. Amen.