The Promise Land - PowerPoint Presentation

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The Promise LandSlide3
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Twelve Memorial Stones from

the Jordan

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Twelve Memorial Stones from

the Jordan (chapter 4)

When all the nation crossed over the Jordan, Joshua issued the following command (v.1)

Select

ONE

man from each

TRIBE

Take 12

STONES

from the river and place them here where we lay (v. 3)

The 12 STONES were to serve as

SIGN

of God’s faithfulness

What are other signs of God’s faithfulness? Slide7
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Twelve Memorial Stones from

the Jordan (chapter 4)

Memorials in stone were common in OT Israel

Jacob on

FOUR

occasions set up stones after a significant event in his life (Genesis 28:18; 31:45; 35:14; 20)

In Joshua, there are many different stone memorials (4:1-9, 20-24; 8:28 – 32; 10:27; 22:1- - 34; 24:26 – 27)

What was the purpose of a stone memorial? Slide11

Twelve Memorial Stones from

the Jordan (chapter 4)

Children would ask the question “What Does This Mean”? (v. 6)

Then parents would retell the story of what God has done (v. 7)

What are the things we can set up in our lives to encourage our children to

ask the question, “What Does This Mean?” Slide12
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Plains of Jericho is the area north of the Salt Sea that spreads out into a large flat plain of both sides of the Jordan river. Slide14

And when the priests bearing the ark of the covenant of the LORD came up from the midst of the Jordan, and the soles of the priests’ feet were lifted up on dry ground, the waters of the Jordan returned to their place (4:16 – 17)Slide15

The people came up out of the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and they encamped at

Gilgal

on the east border of Jericho (4.19

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What Does This Mean?

Israel passed over this Jordan on dry ground

YAWHEH dried up the waters of the Jordan for you until you passed over, just like he did at the Red Sea.

So that all the peoples of the earth may know that the hand of the LORD is might, that you may fear the LORD your God forever. Slide17

The New Generation Circumcised

(chapter 5:1 – 9)

When the Israelites crossed over the Jordan the Kings of the

Ammorites

and Canaanites lost their

courage

and

spirit

(5.1)

Before the battle of Jericho Joshua

CIRCUMCISED

all the men of Israel.

Why?

For 38 years circumcision had ceased and now as the covenant had been renewed so did the sign of the covenant. Slide18
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5:6

For the people of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, until all the nation, the men of war who came out of Egypt, perished, because they did not obey the voice of the 

Lord

; the 

Lord

 swore to them that he would not let them see the land that the 

Lord

 had sworn to their fathers to give to us, a land flowing with milk and honey. 

5:7

So it was their children, whom he raised up in their place, that Joshua circumcised. For they were uncircumcised, because they had not been circumcised on the way.Slide20

FIRST PASSOVER IN CANAAN

Israel arrived in the Passover Land on the 10

th

of Nissan (our March/April)

This is the day which the Passover Lamb would be selected (Exodus 12:13)

The males of Israel were circumcised so that the Passover could be performed properly (Exodus 12:48)

Why do you think God times everything this way?Slide21

And the manna ceased the day after they ate of the produce of the land. And there was no longer manna fro the people of Israel, but they ate of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year. (5.11 – 12)Slide22

The Commander of the LORD’S armySlide23

Who Is This Man?

He is the commander of the army of the Lord

He has a sword drawn indicating he is read for battle

Joshua worships him and calls him “my lord”

Joshua also removes his sandals just as Moses did in the presence of the burning bush.

The presence of this man makes the ground HOLY. Slide24

The Battle of Jericho

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Now Jericho was shut up inside and outside because of the people of Israel. None went out, and none came in

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You shall march around the city, all the men of war going around the city once, for six days. Seven priests shall bear seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark. (6.3-4)Slide27

And just as Joshua had commanded the people, the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets preceding the ark of the covenant marched around the city walls of Jericho (6.8)Slide28

The March of Jericho

The size of Jericho is estimated to have been 9 – 12 acres.

Its circumference may have been ½ mile to a mile.

A large processional could circle Jericho in less than an hour.

The Israelites were commended not shot or make your voice heard, until the seventh day.

Each night they would come back to camp and spend the night.

On the Seventh Day they would march around SEVEN times

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The Blowing of the Ram’s HornsSlide30

On the Seventh Day after the Seventh March, Joshua said to his people, “Shout, for the LORD has given you the city”

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Battle Instructions

All that is within the walls of Jericho is DEVOTED to destruction (6.17)

Except

Rahab

and her family (6:17)

Keep yourselves from the things devoted to destruction (6.18) Why?

Except: Silver, Gold, and every vessel of Bronze and Iron. They will go into the LORD’S TREASURY (6.19)Slide32

Devoted To Destruction

Verse 21 indicates what was to be destroyed – men, women, young and old, oxen, sheep, and donkeys, with the edge of the sword.

Destruction of Jericho is total.

Israel is an agent of God’s JUSTICE

Residents of Jericho are destroyed for not repenting of their unbelief, child sacrifice, ritual prostitution, and abominable practices even though they were given time to. Slide33

The two men who had spied went into

Rahab’s

house and brought her and all who belonged to her to live with them in Israel

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