Day 3/365 Bible in a Year

Toady's reading was Joshua 1-5. This book truely shows that God is 100% behind His followers 100% of the time.

In chapter 1 I was a little sad to see that Moses had died. But the good things was that even though he died, God gave Joshua the same promises He had given Moses. He would then lead the Israelites to the Promised Land.  He told Joshua to tell his peiople to pack up their belongings because in 3 days they would sbegin a long tripto Jericho. Everyone, of course is behind this command because it was given to Joshua from God. They respected Joshua.

Chapter 2 sent me on a crazy path of research. Joshua send 2 spies to Jericho to scope out the city and tell him what's up with all the people. Well, when they actually get to Jericho...they stay in a prostitutes house. Her name was Rahab.
When I said I went on a crazy path of research, this is what I was looking for:

Why on earth would they stay with a prostitute?!

The answer, I came to find was that they stayed there because automatically, it is a place men could go with no questions asked from people around them. Noone was nosey when they sasw a man walk into a prostitutes home, they "knew" what was going on. They really only THOUGHT they KNEW what was going on. There they could map out the city, stay the night when needed, and have a shelter. Also Rahab's home was in the wall of the city. So if need be for them to escape quickly or unseen, they could easily do so. Thirdly, Rahab was a servant of the Lord, though a prostitute, she had tiny faith, but God used her.

With that problem solved, I could move on.

The thing was they only had a limited time to scope the city out because someone with a big mouth openned it to the king of Jericho. He sent a notice to Rahab. He asked her to bring out the 2 men who were there as spies for the Israelites. She lied.
She told him they left not long ago down the road. She knew not where they had come from. But in all reality, she knew exactly who they were and she hid them on her roof under flax.

After the men left she let them down from the window by a scarlet rope and they promised her that if she left the rope there and kept her promises to protect them they would not kill her family when they came. They stayed in the hill counjtry for 3 days before returning to Joshua with the news. They told him everything.

Chapter 3 was more of the miracle God can do for His people. The people left to go to the river in the morning after the spies came back. They camped out on this side of the Jordan River and stayed there for 3 days. God told Joshua the priests would lead them to Jericho followed by Joshua, then the 40,000 strong army, then the people of Israel. The people needed to stay a half mile behind the Priest with the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord our God.
The priests walked to the bank and God told Joshua to tell them to take a few step into the river and stop. So they did, and God dried up the river for the Israelites to cross it. Joshua picked one leader from every tribe of Israel (12 tribes) and they picked up large stones from the bottom of the dry river. Then Joshua made a pile of stones in the river and the priests moved to the other side after everyone passed.
When the Israelites got to Gilgal they made a memorial for the river being dried up with the twelve large stones.

There the Israelite re-established the covenant with God, because all their warriors had died in the wilderness of that 40 year travel. The Lord told Joshua to circumcize all the men of Israel, so he did and they all stayed in Gilgal until they were healed. They celebrated Passover and ate of the crops. Joshua went near the town of Jericho and saw a man standing in front of him. He asked if he was friend or foe, and the man said niether. He was the commander of the Lord's army. Joshua fell on his face and told the commander he was at his command. What was it he needed to do? All he told him was to take his shos off, ge was on holy ground.

The commander of the Lord's army talking to me would have definitely freaked me out. But Joshua just feel at his feet and listened to what he had to say. He knew t was rally the commander of the Lord's army. Amazing!

Hope you joined me today. Have a great evenning guys!

Lanie