Joshua

Joshua

"God's Fights for Israel"

Objectives

• God fights for Israel, God is the one who drives out the Canaanites.

• God was punishing the Canaanites for their disobedience and idolatry.

• The campaign of Israelites

• Circumcision Teach your children to follow the Lord

• Inheritance from the Lord

• Importance of obedience to the covenant

• Understand hyperbole and the writings of the book of Joshua.

Purpose of the Book

God Kept his Promise to Abrahm

Joshua 21:43-45

Thus the Lord gave to Israel all the land that he swore to give to their fathers. And they took possession of it, and they settled there.  And the  Lord gave them rest on every side just as he had sworn to their fathers. Not one of all their enemies had withstood them, for the Lord had given all their enemies into their hands.  Not one word of all the good promises that the  Lord had made to the house of Israel had failed; all came to pass.

The Reason for God's Judgment on Canaan

Leviticus 18:24-25

24 “Do not make yourselves unclean by any of these things, for by all these the nations I am driving out before you have become unclean, 25 and the land became unclean, so that I punished its iniquity, and the land vomited out its inhabitants. 

Deuteronomy 12:29-31

29 “When the Lord your God cuts off before you the nations whom you go in to dispossess, and you dispossess them and dwell in their land, 30 take care that you be not ensnared to follow them, after they have been destroyed before you, and that you do not inquire about their gods, saying, ‘How did these nations serve their gods?—that I also may do the same.’ 31 You shall not worship the Lord your God in that way, for every abominable thing that the Lord hates they have done for their gods, for they even burn their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods.

Entrance into the land Preparation for Entering the Land (1-2)

• Joshua calls Israel to follow him and to follow the Lord

• Rahab protects the spies Crossing the Jordan (3-4)

• Follow the Ark of the Covenant

• Twelve stones to remind you that the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the Lord. 4:7

• At Gilgal For the Lord your God dried up the waters of the Jordan for you until passed over, as the Lord your God did to the Red Sea 4:23

Entrance into the land Preparation for Entering the Land (1-2)

• Circumcision (5:1-12)

• Parents had not circumcised them while in the wilderness leaving Egypt

• Sign of the covenant with God and Abraham

• Willing and obedient heart lacked in the parents of the Israelites

• Manna ceases from heaven as the people began eating the produce of the land.

Multiple Choice

The book of Joshua used strong language of destruction because the Israelites completely wiped out the people Israel.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

What stopped coming to the Israelites when they entered the Promised Land?

• Water

• Manna

• Manzannas

• Heavenly bread

Multiple Choice

On the banks of the Jordan River, Joshua had the Israelites do what before they enterd the Promised Land?

• Wash their hands

• Make new shoes

• Circumcise

• Sharpen their swords

Multiple Choice

Which word means exaggeration for comedic or dramatic affect?

• Hyptnosis

• Hyperbole

• Hyperspace

• Hypersensitive

Multiple Choice

What was the name of the harlot that helped the two spies in Jericho?

• Rahab

• Rebekah

• Rapunzel

• Reba

Multiple Choice

Why did God have the Israelites pile up 12 stones?

• As a boundary

• As an obstacle for enemies

• For exercise

• A memorial to God drying up the Jordan.

Multiple Choice

God had Israel destroy the Canaanites because he loved Israel more than Canaan.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

God punished Canaan because of their sexual sins and idolatry.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Circumcision was important to the Israelites because...

• Hygiene

• Sign of Abraham's covenant

• God like to torture people

• To make the people holy

Multiple Choice

The Commander of the Lord's Army was on Israel's side.

• True

• False

Conquest Stories

• The Commander of the Lord’s Army (5:13-15)

• Are you for us or our adversary?

• Who is the commander of the Lord’s Army?

• Holy ground

• Worshipped. No restriction or command to stop, must be Jesus?

• Jericho (6) God’s campaign

• Walking around and playing trumpets

• God’s command: Spoils of war for the Lord, leave them alone!

• Walls came down

• Rahab protected

Ai (7-8)

• Defeat at Ai (7:1-5)

• Confidence in themselves

• Didn’t consult the Lord

• Achan’s offense (7:6-26)

• The whole family punished

• Victory at Ai (8:1-29)

• Reading of the Law at Ebal and Gerizim (8:30-35) A constant reminder of God’s desire for faithfulness

Southern Coalition (9-10)

• Treaty with Gibeon (9)

• Deceived the leaders of Israel

• Didn’t consult the Lord Woodcutters and water bearers

• Kept their word

Southern Coalition (9-10)

• Battle at Gibeon (10)

• 5 kings against the Gibeonites

• God delivered the 5 kings to Israel (10:8) The sun stood still

• Email about NASA’s records sun standing still. In spite of the evidence, we trust the Word of God heir word

Northern Coalition (11)

• Horses and chariots

• God delivered the Northern Kingdoms into Israel’s hands

Inheritance of the Land

• Settlement for each tribe (13-17)

• Importance of the land

• Stay in the family

Old Joshua

• Regions to be conquered Philistines, Geshurites, Shihor River to Ekron Arahm, Aphek, Amorites, Gebalites, All Lebanon to the east, Baal Gad to Lebo

Inheritance of the Land

• Reuben, Gad, and Half-Manasseh in Transjordan (13)

• Caleb (14)

• Trusted God

• 85 years old Vigorous, and Strong

• The land on which your feet have walked will be your inheritance

Inheritance of the Land

• Judah (15)

• Manasseh and Ephraim (16-17)

• The remainder of Tribes (18-19)

• Cities of Refuge Established (20)

• Levitical Cities Allocated (21)

Covenant Matters

• Potential Violation in Altar Building (22)

  A reminder of the relationship and commitment of the Eastern tribes

• Covenant Exhortations to Tribal Leaders (23)

• A reminder of what the Lord has done for them

Covenant Matters

• A reminder of what will happen if Israel disobeys and follows the nations around them.

• Covenant Renewal at Shechem (24) 

Joshua 24:14-15

“Now therefore fear the Lord and serve him in sincerity and in faithfulness. Put away the gods that your fathers served beyond the River and in Egypt, and serve the Lord. 15 And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”