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Joshua 10-12
Skip Heitzig

Joshua 10 (NKJV™)
1 Now it came to pass when Adoni-Zedek king of Jerusalem heard how Joshua had taken Ai and had utterly destroyed it--as he had done to Jericho and its king, so he had done to Ai and its king--and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and were among them,
2 that they feared greatly, because Gibeon was a great city, like one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all its men were mighty.
3 Therefore Adoni-Zedek king of Jerusalem sent to Hoham king of Hebron, Piram king of Jarmuth, Japhia king of Lachish, and Debir king of Eglon, saying,
4 "Come up to me and help me, that we may attack Gibeon, for it has made peace with Joshua and with the children of Israel."
5 Therefore the five kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon, gathered together and went up, they and all their armies, and camped before Gibeon and made war against it.
6 And the men of Gibeon sent to Joshua at the camp at Gilgal, saying, "Do not forsake your servants; come up to us quickly, save us and help us, for all the kings of the Amorites who dwell in the mountains have gathered together against us."
7 So Joshua ascended from Gilgal, he and all the people of war with him, and all the mighty men of valor.
8 And the LORD said to Joshua, "Do not fear them, for I have delivered them into your hand; not a man of them shall stand before you."
9 Joshua therefore came upon them suddenly, having marched all night from Gilgal.
10 So the LORD routed them before Israel, killed them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, chased them along the road that goes to Beth Horon, and struck them down as far as Azekah and Makkedah.
11 And it happened, as they fled before Israel and were on the descent of Beth Horon, that the LORD cast down large hailstones from heaven on them as far as Azekah, and they died. There were more who died from the hailstones than the children of Israel killed with the sword.
12 Then Joshua spoke to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel: "Sun, stand still over Gibeon; And Moon, in the Valley of Aijalon."
13 So the sun stood still, And the moon stopped, Till the people had revenge Upon their enemies. Is this not written in the Book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and did not hasten to go down for about a whole day.
14 And there has been no day like that, before it or after it, that the LORD heeded the voice of a man; for the LORD fought for Israel.
15 Then Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to the camp at Gilgal.
16 But these five kings had fled and hidden themselves in a cave at Makkedah.
17 And it was told Joshua, saying, "The five kings have been found hidden in the cave at Makkedah."
18 So Joshua said, "Roll large stones against the mouth of the cave, and set men by it to guard them.
19 "And do not stay there yourselves, but pursue your enemies, and attack their rear guard. Do not allow them to enter their cities, for the LORD your God has delivered them into your hand."
20 Then it happened, while Joshua and the children of Israel made an end of slaying them with a very great slaughter, till they had finished, that those who escaped entered fortified cities.
21 And all the people returned to the camp, to Joshua at Makkedah, in peace. No one moved his tongue against any of the children of Israel.
22 Then Joshua said, "Open the mouth of the cave, and bring out those five kings to me from the cave."
23 And they did so, and brought out those five kings to him from the cave: the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon.
24 So it was, when they brought out those kings to Joshua, that Joshua called for all the men of Israel, and said to the captains of the men of war who went with him, "Come near, put your feet on the necks of these kings." And they drew near and put their feet on their necks.
25 Then Joshua said to them, "Do not be afraid, nor be dismayed; be strong and of good courage, for thus the LORD will do to all your enemies against whom you fight."
26 And afterward Joshua struck them and killed them, and hanged them on five trees; and they were hanging on the trees until evening.
27 So it was at the time of the going down of the sun that Joshua commanded, and they took them down from the trees, cast them into the cave where they had been hidden, and laid large stones against the cave's mouth, which remain until this very day.
28 On that day Joshua took Makkedah, and struck it and its king with the edge of the sword. He utterly destroyed them--all the people who were in it. He let none remain. He also did to the king of Makkedah as he had done to the king of Jericho.
29 Then Joshua passed from Makkedah, and all Israel with him, to Libnah; and they fought against Libnah.
30 And the LORD also delivered it and its king into the hand of Israel; he struck it and all the people who were in it with the edge of the sword. He let none remain in it, but did to its king as he had done to the king of Jericho.
31 Then Joshua passed from Libnah, and all Israel with him, to Lachish; and they encamped against it and fought against it.
32 And the LORD delivered Lachish into the hand of Israel, who took it on the second day, and struck it and all the people who were in it with the edge of the sword, according to all that he had done to Libnah.
33 Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish; and Joshua struck him and his people, until he left him none remaining.
34 From Lachish Joshua passed to Eglon, and all Israel with him; and they encamped against it and fought against it.
35 They took it on that day and struck it with the edge of the sword; all the people who were in it he utterly destroyed that day, according to all that he had done to Lachish.
36 So Joshua went up from Eglon, and all Israel with him, to Hebron; and they fought against it.
37 And they took it and struck it with the edge of the sword--its king, all its cities, and all the people who were in it; he left none remaining, according to all that he had done to Eglon, but utterly destroyed it and all the people who were in it.
38 Then Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to Debir; and they fought against it.
39 And he took it and its king and all its cities; they struck them with the edge of the sword and utterly destroyed all the people who were in it. He left none remaining; as he had done to Hebron, so he did to Debir and its king, as he had done also to Libnah and its king.
40 So Joshua conquered all the land: the mountain country and the South and the lowland and the wilderness slopes, and all their kings; he left none remaining, but utterly destroyed all that breathed, as the LORD God of Israel had commanded.
41 And Joshua conquered them from Kadesh Barnea as far as Gaza, and all the country of Goshen, even as far as Gibeon.
42 All these kings and their land Joshua took at one time, because the LORD God of Israel fought for Israel.
43 Then Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to the camp at Gilgal.
Joshua 11 (NKJV™)
1 And it came to pass, when Jabin king of Hazor heard these things, that he sent to Jobab king of Madon, to the king of Shimron, to the king of Achshaph,
2 and to the kings who were from the north, in the mountains, in the plain south of Chinneroth, in the lowland, and in the heights of Dor on the west,
3 to the Canaanites in the east and in the west, the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite in the mountains, and the Hivite below Hermon in the land of Mizpah.
4 So they went out, they and all their armies with them, as many people as the sand that is on the seashore in multitude, with very many horses and chariots.
5 And when all these kings had met together, they came and camped together at the waters of Merom to fight against Israel.
6 But the LORD said to Joshua, "Do not be afraid because of them, for tomorrow about this time I will deliver all of them slain before Israel. You shall hamstring their horses and burn their chariots with fire."
7 So Joshua and all the people of war with him came against them suddenly by the waters of Merom, and they attacked them.
8 And the LORD delivered them into the hand of Israel, who defeated them and chased them to Greater Sidon, to the Brook Misrephoth, and to the Valley of Mizpah eastward; they attacked them until they left none of them remaining.
9 So Joshua did to them as the LORD had told him: he hamstrung their horses and burned their chariots with fire.
10 Joshua turned back at that time and took Hazor, and struck its king with the sword; for Hazor was formerly the head of all those kingdoms.
11 And they struck all the people who were in it with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying them. There was none left breathing. Then he burned Hazor with fire.
12 So all the cities of those kings, and all their kings, Joshua took and struck with the edge of the sword. He utterly destroyed them, as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded.
13 But as for the cities that stood on their mounds, Israel burned none of them, except Hazor only, which Joshua burned.
14 And all the spoil of these cities and the livestock, the children of Israel took as booty for themselves; but they struck every man with the edge of the sword until they had destroyed them, and they left none breathing.
15 As the LORD had commanded Moses his servant, so Moses commanded Joshua, and so Joshua did. He left nothing undone of all that the LORD had commanded Moses.
16 Thus Joshua took all this land: the mountain country, all the South, all the land of Goshen, the lowland, and the Jordan plain--the mountains of Israel and its lowlands,
17 from Mount Halak and the ascent to Seir, even as far as Baal Gad in the Valley of Lebanon below Mount Hermon. He captured all their kings, and struck them down and killed them.
18 Joshua made war a long time with all those kings.
19 There was not a city that made peace with the children of Israel, except the Hivites, the inhabitants of Gibeon. All the others they took in battle.
20 For it was of the LORD to harden their hearts, that they should come against Israel in battle, that He might utterly destroy them, and that they might receive no mercy, but that He might destroy them, as the LORD had commanded Moses.
21 And at that time Joshua came and cut off the Anakim from the mountains: from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, from all the mountains of Judah, and from all the mountains of Israel; Joshua utterly destroyed them with their cities.
22 None of the Anakim were left in the land of the children of Israel; they remained only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod.
23 So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the LORD had said to Moses; and Joshua gave it as an inheritance to Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. Then the land rested from war.
Joshua 12 (NKJV™)
1 These are the kings of the land whom the children of Israel defeated, and whose land they possessed on the other side of the Jordan toward the rising of the sun, from the River Arnon to Mount Hermon, and all the eastern Jordan plain:
2 One king was Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon and ruled half of Gilead, from Aroer, which is on the bank of the River Arnon, from the middle of that river, even as far as the River Jabbok, which is the border of the Ammonites,
3 and the eastern Jordan plain from the Sea of Chinneroth as far as the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea), the road to Beth Jeshimoth, and southward below the slopes of Pisgah.
4 The other king was Og king of Bashan and his territory, who was of the remnant of the giants, who dwelt at Ashtaroth and at Edrei,
5 and reigned over Mount Hermon, over Salcah, over all Bashan, as far as the border of the Geshurites and the Maachathites, and over half of Gilead to the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.
6 These Moses the servant of the LORD and the children of Israel had conquered; and Moses the servant of the LORD had given it as a possession to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh.
7 And these are the kings of the country which Joshua and the children of Israel conquered on this side of the Jordan, on the west, from Baal Gad in the Valley of Lebanon as far as Mount Halak and the ascent to Seir, which Joshua gave to the tribes of Israel as a possession according to their divisions,
8 in the mountain country, in the lowlands, in the Jordan plain, in the slopes, in the wilderness, and in the South--the Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites:
9 the king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which is beside Bethel, one;
10 the king of Jerusalem, one; the king of Hebron, one;
11 the king of Jarmuth, one; the king of Lachish, one;
12 the king of Eglon, one; the king of Gezer, one;
13 the king of Debir, one; the king of Geder, one;
14 the king of Hormah, one; the king of Arad, one;
15 the king of Libnah, one; the king of Adullam, one;
16 the king of Makkedah, one; the king of Bethel, one;
17 the king of Tappuah, one; the king of Hepher, one;
18 the king of Aphek, one; the king of Lasharon, one;
19 the king of Madon, one; the king of Hazor, one;
20 the king of Shimron Meron, one; the king of Achshaph, one;
21 the king of Taanach, one; the king of Megiddo, one;
22 the king of Kedesh, one; the king of Jokneam in Carmel, one;
23 the king of Dor in the heights of Dor, one; the king of the people of Gilgal, one;
24 the king of Tirzah, one--all the kings, thirty-one.

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06 Joshua - 1998

Pastor Skip Heitzig expounds on the book of Joshua as a historical book, as the Israelites enter, conquer, and divide up the Promised Land, and also as a practical book on victorious living.

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Joshua, chapter 10, this evening. Father, now we come in this attitude of worship. The ground has been paved by our worship. We're open, our hearts are ready to receive, and we come after a busy schedule, concerns, worries, activities, those things that make life life, and yet some of those very things that take us away from real life. And so, Lord, we come to be refreshed. You've given us this book. You've given us your Word. Your will is in it. We see how men and women responded to you. We see what you did for them. And so, Lord, in this unique atmosphere of verse-by-verse Bible study, may your Holy Spirit who inspired the text now illuminate it to our own life situations. We pray not only that you would speak, but we pray that we would listen, in Jesus' name, amen.

In May I had the unique opportunity to climb Mount Sinai. I always wanted to do it. Got to climb other mountains, but Mount Sinai was sort of like, you know, of all the mountains you could climb that are really cool, that's, like, way up there. And to climb Mount Sinai, which takes better part of half a day, and then to look down over the valley, the "great and terrible wilderness," as Moses described it. And to see all of those millions of people encamped around that mountain out in the valley, and to look off into the horizon into just bleak desert and to imagine them wandering there for forty years. And, of course, when you're there you can see how they could wander for forty years because of the way the mountains and the valleys are situated. It all looks alike, every direction virtually. You could easily get lost.

And so they wandered for forty long years, complaining, murmuring, sometimes in idolatry, most of the time in unbelief. They persistently failed and yet God persistently loved them and said, "I'm going to bring you into this land." Of course, that one generation died, but God kept his promise to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, that their posterity, someone from their lineage, their offspring would occupy this Promised Land. I love what Moses said to the children of Israel while they were wandering. He said, "God brought you out of Egypt, that he might bring you in." And that's the work of God. He never starts something but that he doesn't finish it. If God brings you out of something, it's not just to leave you out in the wilderness, it's to bring you somewhere. He's got a goal, a purpose in mind for your life.

And so God brought you out, that he might bring you in. In Joshua we have seen---and I do need to backtrack just a little bit, because tonight I feel like I am a guest speaker on Wednesday nights. It's been a month that I've been gone off with other commitments that I had made some time back. But there's three major divisions to this book. First division is entering the land. That's the first five chapters. Those are just the first steps, the first directions from God. He sort of sets the pace and says, "Obey me. Here's my commandments. Meditate on them. Do what I tell you to do." Joshua passes them on and they take their first steps. They fight their first battles. And they get solidly entrenched within the land. That's the first five chapters, entering the land.

Second division is conquering the land. Beginning in chapter 6, all the way to the end of chapter 12, they take over what God has given them. To have a promise is one thing, to appropriate the promise personally is yet another thing. And, so, the conquests of Israel. The third major division begins in chapter 13; that's the settling or distribution of the land among the tribal allotments. Tribe by tribe they're divvied land for that tribe to occupy and be fruitful and to multiply in. Joshua has a strategy, actually, God has a strategy. He gives it to Joshua. Here's the strategy: divide and conquer, divide and conquer. He comes and enters the land midway. He cuts a large swath from the Jordan River to the main section of the land. The first stop from Gilgal at the Jordan is Jericho and they take over Jericho.

They move a little bit to the northeast to Gilgal---I'm sorry, from Gilgal, to Ai. And so having cut the land in communication and armament in half, the second step is to go south. And that's what we're going to see tonight. He'll go a little bit to the southwest to the city of Gibeon, and then he'll cut down through five city-states and take over that section just taking away the power of those five kings in the south. Then beginning in chapter 11 he moves north, goes up through Beth Shean at the bottom part of the Jordan River, midway up in the land to the Sea of Galilee, to Hazor, and he takes the northern section of the land. And so when the middle section, the southern, and the northern are finally taken, and the rest of the land just sort of lies there dormant, that's when they begin to settle.

Last time we met, last month, we saw that there was a group of people to the south known as the Gibeonites who decided, "Well, we're not going to fight Israel, because these are the guys that blow trumpets and walls fall down. So, we're not going to try to go against them. These are the people that routed, by God's grace, their God's grace, the city of Ai. And so what we're going to do is we're going to be very clever. We're going to lie to them. We'll try to deceive them. We'll tell them that we're foreigners, that we have old bread, old clothes, and they need to treat us kindly. Because they know that they have a commandment from their God, not to make peace be anyone that dwells within the borders of this land, only foreign dignitaries, foreign peoples can they make a settlement with.

"But they're out to destroy everyone in this land. So we'll act like we're from afar, and they'll feel sorry for us, and we will be able to join their ranks." Well, that's exactly what they did. They came and deceived them. And we saw how much like the devil they are. Satan's first strategy is a frontal attack, persecute them, destroy them, intimidate them. If that doesn't work, if you can't beat them, join them. So Satan fought against the church. The church grew. Then Satan joined the church and he's been in it ever since. And the way the church has become destroyed is by falseness, false doctrine, false behavior, etcetera, from within. And so sometimes the devil fights against us in a formal onslaught like a lion, 2 Peter, chapter 5, "a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour"---1 Peter, chapter 5, excuse me.

Sometimes, however, he comes like a deceiving serpent, 2 Corinthians, chapter 11, to beguile, and to deceive, to lie, to appeal to certain parts of our sin nature, to get us to compromise. And so that's what he does with the Gibeonites. But look at the last part of chapter 9 in verse 27. "And that day Joshua made them woodcutters and water carriers for the congregation, for the altar of the Lord, in the place which he would choose, even to this day." So these deceivers, these dwellers in Gibeon---remember, this is a mighty city you're going to read tonight, a royal city, or like unto a royal city. But Joshua cleverly put them in the tabernacle to serve the concerns of their worship, so they would be exposed to the worship music. They would be exposed to the Levitical sacrifices, the words of the priests, the truth of God.

I love it when people come to the fellowship, they say, "Man, I'm broke. I need a job." And some of them are unbelievers. We want them to work around here. And many of the people that are doing construction around here, unbelievers, it gives us the opportunity to expose them to our behavior, to our words. And we've been able to have great conversations as you just mention something and one of the workers will say, "You know, I have a question. Do you mind if I ask you a question?" "Not at all." Just to be able to plant those seeds. So here's the Gibeonites now attached to the congregation. We are in chapter 10 and what happened in chapter 9 has repercussions.

Since the Gibeonites have joined themselves by trickery to the nation of Israel, now in chapter 10 a united coalition of five different city-states in the southern area of Palestine, of Israel, get together to attack the Gibeonites. They thought, "You know what? These guys are traitors. They made a deal with our enemy. They're conspiring with our enemy. We're going to attack them." Why? Because if Gibeon, this mighty city is now on their side, nothing is going to stop them. "If we can nip this in the bud, and destroy this traitor city, then perhaps we can stop Israel." "And it came to pass what Adonai-Zedek," which is a name that is an interesting name. It means "the Lord of righteousness."

But this is now a "king," it says, "of Jerusalem heard how Joshua had taken Ai and utterly destroyed it---as he had done to Jericho and its king, so he had done to Ai and its king---how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and were among them, that they feared greatly, because Gibeon was a great city, like one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all its men were mighty. Therefore Adonai-Zedek king of Jerusalem sent to Hoham the king of Hebron, Piram the king of Jarmuth, Japhia king of Lachish, Debir the king of Eglon, saying"---now I'm sure I mispronounced all of these names from their original Hebrew. [laughter] But he said, " 'Come up to me and help me, that we may attack Gibeon, for it has made peace with Joshua and with the children of Israel.'

"Therefore the five kings of the Amorites"---the Amorites is a section of hilly country and the name is given to settlements, kings, city-states, and armies that settled in the mountain regions of the south. ". . . the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, king of Hebron, king of Jarmuth, king of Lachish, king of Eglon, gathered together and they went up, and all of their armies, and camped before Gibeon and made war against it." Now this is the very first mention in the Bible of the city of Jerusalem. It's there. In Genesis it's called Salem, but here it's called Jerusalem. "The foundations of peace" is what it means. And the very first time we reed of this great city of peace, it's at war. The city called "peace," "the foundations of peace," is at war from the very first time we see it. And guess what? It's been in conflict ever since.

Why do you think they're still having peace talks? As far as I ever remember hearing the term "Jerusalem" or "Israel" since I grew up, they've had peace talks, they've had battles, conflicts---"Maybe it'll work this time." I don't want to put a damper on the Middle East peace process. I pray for the peace of Jerusalem. I hope you do too. The Bible tells us to do that. At the same time I'm a great skeptic and I have the hunch, I have the founded belief, and I think it's a biblical belief, that there ain't gonna be no peace. Is that good English? [laughter] But it makes my point. In Jerusalem, the "City of Peace," there won't be any peace until the Prince of Peace is the King of peace in that area. [applause] So when I pray for the peace of Jerusalem, effectively I'm saying, "Come quickly, Lord Jesus."

And the more they have the negotiations, and the more we pray, the more the world longs for peace. And one is coming on the horizon that will make a covenant with the Jews. He will be an Antichrist. He will bring peace for a very short period of time before all hell breaks loose and all of the world will be thrown into anything but peaceful conditions until the Prince of Peace comes. Well, as you see in verses 3 through 5, this Adonai-Zedek, Lord of righteousness, hears what the Gibeonites have done, calls up his friends, and says, "Quick, man, we got to get together and fight the Gibeonites," because of what they had done. "We have to stop this key city." And so these four Canaanite kings ally themselves with Adonai-Zedek the king of Jerusalem and they encamp before Gibeon.

Now this city of Gibeon that one time was the former ally with these other five kings, because they are not allies with Israel, have become enemies to their former allies. So they're in a predicament. They're in quite a tight spot. And they're probably worried because they, after all, did trick the children of Israel. And, you know, the children of Israel could say, "You know what? You did trick us---bye. Have a nice battle, boys. And if they get wiped out, great. Our embarrassing failure will now be wiped out." Of course, that doesn't happen. I was studying this this week and I couldn't help but just see how economical God is in all this. You see, those five city-states down below, Joshua and the children of Israel would have had to pick each one of them off one at a time.

Have to go fight one, like they did Jericho, Ai, Gibeon, and they would just have to take one at a time and maybe ambush the other. But this is great, now they're all going to be together, and they're going to come up and fight against Gibeon. And so they'll be able to wipe all of them out in one battle in this coalition. It's just great economy how God puts it all together and allows a few steps to be taken out and accelerate the conquest of the land. What I love about this is God is redeeming, folks, a mistake. Right? They made a mistake in making a treaty with the Gibeonites. Remember what happened? They didn't pray. They didn't ask God. And God, you know, nailed them on that. They said---he said, "If you would have only prayed, you would have known, but you didn't consult the Lord."

And so they made a mistake. They made a failure. They have to honor their covenant. But now God is going to take this mistake accelerate now the conquest of the land. Romans 8:28 comes to my mind: "God is able to work all things together," even the mistakes, even the failures. And every time you make a mistake and the devil says, "You're toast! This is it. You're a failure," God sees beyond the mistake. God can even say, "You know, I can use that failure. I can use that mistake. I can work with that," and cause all things to work together. Verse 6, "And the men of Gibeon sent to Joshua at the camp of Gilgal, saying, 'Do not forsake your servants; come up to us quickly, save us and help us, for all the kings of the Amorites who dwell in the mountains have gathered together against us.' "

So a runner on foot ran to the camp down in Gilgal from the city of Gibeon with this report. "So Joshua ascended from Gilgal, he and all the people of war with him, and all the mighty men of valor.' Now the Gibeonites are an example. I think it's a good example for anyone to follow, especially an unbeliever. The Gibeonites were headed for destruction. You've got armies camped around them to kill them, to wipe them out, threatening their lives. What do they do? They quickly send to Joshua---what does the word "Joshua" mean? God is salvation, Jehovah is salvation. It's the Hebrew word for Yeshua. It's Jesus. It's the Greek word Jesus is the Hebrew word Joshua, same exact word, just two different languages.

So they quickly come to Jesus in the Old Testament, Jehovah is salvation, and want a promise for deliverance, and they stake their whole future on the promise that Joshua, Jehovah is salvation, gives to them. That's a good example. The world is headed for destruction. Your life, apart from Jehovah is salvation, Jesus Christ, is doomed for destruction. The only hope you have is to flee to Jesus and find that promise that he gives to protect you, to deliver you from future judgment, and bet your whole future, bet your whole eternal life on the promise. That's what they do and Joshua comes through. "The Lord said to Joshua," verse 8, " 'Do not fear them.' " You know, here's five kingdoms. " 'Do not fear them, for I' "---now "them" has more letters than "I," but "I" is a whole lot bigger in power than "them."

" 'Don't fear them," God says, " 'for I have delivered them into your hand; and not a man of them shall stand before you.' " I love the way God speaks in past tense before an event happens, don't you? "Oh, no big deal. It's done! By the time you get there, it's done." God is---because he's God and is omniscient and omnipresent and absolutely all-powerful, etcetera---can speak things that haven't happened as if it is past history. In God's vocabulary, in God's mind, the future is past. He lives in the eternal present. There's no time domain, so he could just look and say, "Done. Relax. Walk into it. Clean up." "Joshua therefore came upon them suddenly, having marched all night from Gilgal." Now that's a very revealing verse. He ordered an all-night march from Gilgal to Gibeon.

You have to understand what that means to really appreciate what's going to happen. Gilgal is twenty-five miles away. They walk all night---they can't take the taxi, they can't take the Jerusalem bus, nothing automated, no helicopters. They have to go on foot with all of their armaments, their swords, etcetera, and they have to walk all night, when they should be sleeping, twenty-five miles uphill. It says they "ascended." You almost have to be there to appreciate this. But they will ascend from below sea level, up to above sea level, the equivalent of a 4,000-foot ascent. So, it's, you know, it's sort of like climbing the local Sandia Mountains. You're going to ascend all night long, twenty-five miles, a 4,000-foot ascent, which means by the time you get there, you are dog tired. [laughter] You're already tired. You ought to be sleeping.

And you have to march all night, and then at the crack of dawn, fight five kingdoms. So it's good that God says, " 'Don't fear them, I have delivered them into your hand; not a man shall stand before you.' Joshua came upon them suddenly," so it's a surprise attack, an ambush, "having marched all night from Gilgal." So, no doubt, when they arrive they're tired, which gives God a perfect opportunity to fight for them, to give them strength. The heart of God is attracted to the weakness of man; the heart of God is repelled by the pride and the strength of man. God looks for weakness and shows himself strong on behalf of that weakness. "The eyes of the Lord," says the Scripture, "go to and fro throughout the entire earth, to show himself strong on behalf of those whose hearts are loyal [perfect] toward him."

Paul had a thorn in the flesh, was very weak, cried out to the Lord. God said, "No. I'm not going to take away your disease, your thorn in the flesh. My strength is perfected in your weakness." You know why? Because when you're weak, you can't trust yourself, you have to trust an outside source, in this case, God. And God likes it when you're at your wits' end, because you trust him totally. Now here's a perfect opportunity for God to give them the victory. And when it's all over, they can't say, "You know what? We're good. We're real good." They have to say, "God is good, because we were so tired. I was seeing two of them every time one would come." [laughter]

"So the Lord routed them before Israel," verse 10, "killed them with great slaughter at Gibeon, chased them along the road that goes to Beth Horon, and struck them down as far as Azekah and Makkedah." Surprise attack, which means the army flees west and they flee through a little pass, a very narrow canyon pass that empties out into the Valley of Aijalon. Now if I were to take you to the Valley of Aijalon today, you might be disappointed, because it's all filled with a new housing area. They've run out of room in Jerusalem, and between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem they're putting new housing bedroom communities everywhere. And so they filled the Valley of Aijalon with houses, but you could still get sort of the picture. But look at the verbs in verse 10. The Lord's the subject of all four of them.

The Lord "routed," "killed," "chased," and "struck" them down as far as these two cities. They're tired. This is God's doing, causing them somehow to have a panic attack. They're panicked, and he routes them, he chases them. They're frantic, which if you remember back in the Pentateuch, the first five books of Moses, God promised them: "Hey, listen, if you trust me, if you look to me, and if you obey me, I'll do that for you. I'll do that for you." Listen to what it says in Exodus 23. "I will send my fear before you, I will cause confusion among all people to whom you come, and will make all your enemies turn their backs to you." Isn't that great? God says, "I'm going to do this. I'm going to cause fear and confusion in your enemies, so they'll have to run from you."

Now, we see how God does that. In this particular case we have some very interesting precision artillery from heaven, smart bombs. And I mean smart bombs, not like what we had in the Gulf War, smarter than those. When I was in Baghdad, I was only there once. I wasn't saying last time, the one and only time in my life when I was there after the Gulf War. And I'm sitting in a taxi cab, and the guy was friendly, so I thought, "What have I got to lose? I should ask him some questions about the Gulf War." So I turned to him and I said, "Do you remember the Gulf War?" "Oh, yes, I remember it," he said. I said, "Do you remember those smart bombs that we sent over?" And it's almost like he lit up, because he did remember.

He goes, "Oh, I'll tell you the color of them. They're low flying. He had an orange---a white nose and orange fins, and they would go through the air slowly and then they'd turn on a dime. And then they'd turn again and strike their target. You could see them right above your head turning." But sometimes we didn't always hit the target precisely. Look at the next verse. Talk about smart artillery. "It happened, as they fled before Israel," verse 11, "they were on the descent of Beth Horon, that the Lord cast down large hailstones from heaven on them as far as Azekah, and they died. There were more who died from the hailstones than the children of Israel killed with the sword." So just in case they were tempted to say, "We were good. We were real good," God made sure he was good, and he was so precision in his aim.

Now it's obvious that these hailstones were miraculous. God is the source. And they're selective, right? It's not just, "Well, it was just one of those weird hailstorms in that part of the world." Well, if it was one of those weird hailstorms, it was really weird, because none of the children of Israel got hit, only the enemies. That's smart hail. [laughter] I couldn't help, as I read this, think about how this little verse is a preview of coming attractions, very unfortunate coming attractions. For in the future, once Jesus Christ comes and the archangel sounds his trumpet for the church and we're taken up, and there is a seven-year tribulation on the earth as Revelation describes in detail, there is coming a set of plagues toward the very end of the tribulation just before the second coming of Christ, and they're hailstones from heaven.

In Revelation 16:21 it says, "And great hail from heaven fell upon men, each hailstone about the weight of a talent [125 pounds]. Men blasphemed God because of the plague of hail, since that plague was exceedingly great." Have you ever gone to get a block of ice? Do they still sell those? When I was growing up, I worked at Hugo's Delicatessen, and we had an ice house that I had to be in charge of. I had to cut the blocks of ice when it was delivered and I'd sell them. Those big blocks, they're, you know, pretty stout. People would buy a block or two blocks, twenty-five pounds each. Imagine an ice block or two or three or four or thousands, weighing 125 pounds, careening at the earth from heaven, the kind of damage that that would do.

Now, what is interesting is in the Old Testament the consequence for blasphemy is stoning them to death. And in the great tribulation period---because of their blasphemy and their idolatry, they don't turn---God, according to law, stones the world, because of blasphemy and idolatry. And that's the last great plague before Jesus Christ comes. Verse 12, "Then Joshua spoke to the Lord in the day when the Lord delivered the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel: 'Sun, stand still over Gibeon; and moon, in the Valley of Aijalon.' So the sun stood still, and the moon stopped, till the people had revenge upon their enemies. Is this not written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and did not hasten to go down for about a whole day."

This is the last and greatest miracle recorded in the book of Joshua. After this they'll divide the land very thankfully, very gratefully. They'll have some commission charges at the end of the book: "As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord," etcetera. But this is the last and the greatest miracle. In fact, I would say this miracle has caused about as much consternation toward the Bible as what we're going to read Sunday morning; and that is, this idea of Jonah being swallowed by a great fish. People have trouble with this. People who deny the miraculous look at this and they go, "Come on, first of all, we know that sun doesn't need to stand still. The sun is not revolving around the earth; the earth is rotating on its axis 365 and a third times as it makes its journey around the sun. So this is ridiculous to speak of the sun standing still."

Well, the reason this kind of language is employed is this is what we call the "language of observation." This is not a science manual. And, by the way, I can show you science almanacs that still speak of "sunset" and "sunrise" times. And the reason we refer to that is because that's description by observation. We know the sun doesn't rise and set, we're moving around it, but this is just this simple language of observation. So that's as far as that is concerned. But the question arises then: "Are you saying that the earth stopped?" Because if the earth stops and just hangs around, major cataclysms would happen, right? It's like if you're driving down the road at sixty miles an hour and hit something or slam on the brakes, everyone not attached by a seat belt will go through the front windshield, everything's dislodged.

And so if the earth stops, you're going to have massive tidal waves, and everything that's not bolted down floats out into space. So how is this possible? So, people have looked at this verse and suggested some other possibilities. Let me just run them by, not that they're important, necessarily, but because people wonder about it. Here's a couple suggestions. First of all, they say this was prolonged light from the temporary tilting of the earth on its axis. What's the earth on its axis, twenty-three and a third degrees? So it's a temporary tilting, some say, that would suspend the light for a period of another twelve hours. Others have suggested a local, not a universal, but a local refraction of the rays the sun, that somehow the light was refracted in this part of the world just like there was a local darkness in Egypt in Exodus, chapter 10.

Others say, "No. This is an allegory. This is a parable. This is all myth. It's poetical. It just simply means God refreshed the soldiers." This is what I've heard: "God refreshed the soldiers by giving them strength to do what would normally take the whole day, and they did it in half a day, or what would normally take two days, to get it all done in a day. God just gave them strength. That's all it is. It's poetic for, 'God, give me more strength today.' " "Maybe it was an eclipse and God sheltered the sun at noon so that they could, you know, feel refreshed"---whatever. Perhaps---and this is a better explanation, though, again, I don't think it's all that important, but offer it up---there was a slowing of the rotation of the earth, not a cessation, a slowing.

Gleason Archer, who is an expert in Old Testament language, said that the word here in this phrase, "did not hasten to go down," in verse 13 means literally a retarding of the movement of the earth, not a complete stopping. Now, this could account for a lot. An article from the Dallas Morning News dated May 7, 1973, was found by Dr. Donald Campbell. The article said, quote: "A giant storm on the earth last year probably slowed the spinning of the earth for one rather long day." Two scientists report that it happened on August 4, 1972. Here's how the article concluded: "The length of day on any planet is governed by the time it takes to complete one full rotation. The faster it rotates, the shorter the day. So the earth must have been slowed down fractionally"; that is, on this August 4th day of 1972.

If you were the check records of Egyptians, the Chinese, and the Hindus, the ancient Indian populace, they have record of the long day in their annuls that coincides with a long day of the book of Joshua. There's a professor from Harvard Observatory, Professor Pickering, who says in the annuls, the chronology of history of rotation of the earth, there's one full---almost one full day missing. As you look back through history the astronomical records show almost one full day missing. I found an article---I didn't find an article, excuse me. It was faxed to me by one of you, somebody in the fellowship. "Scientists in Greenbelt, Maryland"---let me read this to you---"in checking the position of the sun, the moon, and the planets to see where they would be a hundred, a thousand years from now, so that they can launch satellites and predict their rotation."

They decided to run mathematical rotation checks for the future by looking back in the past." They took the records of the past and they did computer measurements backwards and forwards. As they went backwards, the computer stopped, not because of Y2K, this is now in reverse, [laughter] because there was a missing day or almost a missing day, twenty-three hours and twenty minutes missing in the record, which is interesting, because if you look at verse 13, look what it says: "The sun stood still, the moon stopped, till the people had revenge upon their enemies. Is it not written in the book of Jasher"---this is a poetical book, music and tales of kings of Israel that's mentioned in another place. "So the sun stood still and in the midst of heaven, did not hasten to go down for about a whole day."

Even those little Bible words can be so important, and it's just interesting in the light of the studies in Greenbelt, Maryland, of twenty-three hours and twenty minutes missing that they found this, and it says "almost." Okay, none of these explanations, though that last one is probably the best of what happened, none of them are really the issue. They aren't. I don't care about any of them. The really issue is: How big is your God? You can come up with this explanation---"Oh, okay, let me at least understand it, then I'll I believe God." Listen, if God can't do this miracle, God can't do any miracle. If God can't do this miracle, then God is confined to the very creation he made and he's not transcendent and defeats the whole ideology and definition of God. God is in control of his creation.

If God can't do this miracle, then forget the virgin birth, the inerrancy of Scripture, the resurrection of Jesus Christ, etcetera. How big is your God? Have you been so tainted and molded by the thinking of this age that you dare look at God by turning the telescope around? Remember doing that as a kid? You take the telescope and look through the wrong end, and everything that's close seems really small. And I think some Christians do that with God. "Oh, yeah, let's push God way out there, make him really small." I've often said---and I'm sure I'll say it again Sunday, because we're dealing with Jonah and the whale---if you can believe the first verse of the Bible, the rest is frosting on the cake: "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."

I suggest you deal with the creation issue and get that firmly established in your mind, the idea of creation versus evolution, and Hank has a great new book on it. Get that firmly established, that first verse of the Bible, that God created the earth. And you think, "You know what? That's a pretty good trick, creating from nothing the heavens and the earth." So, if there is indeed a God who did that, what's Joshua 10 all about? Big deal. I'm not saying that there's not room for honest questions about the nature of the miraculous, but there's no room for dealing with questions regarding the reality of the miraculous for the Christian. God is a God of miracles. C. S. Lewis the professor from Oxford at one time said, "The mind that asks for non-miraculous Christianity is a mind in process of relapsing from Christianity into mere religion."

Verse 14, "And there has been no day like that, before it or after it, that the Lord heeded the voice of a man; for the Lord fought for Israel. Then Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to the camp at Gilgal." A side note: the sun and the moon were the principal deities worshiped by the Canaanites. It would then seem to the Canaanites that their gods are obeying Joshua, that their gods are subservient to the God of Joshua. Hence, to speak, "Sun, standstill; moon, over the Valley of Aijalon," for them to get that message would be a very significant message, because their principal gods have no power. Verse 14 tells us the secret of this event: "the Lord fought for Israel." And, oh, he does, and Joshua takes advantage of it. Joshua will go after five kings, lock them up in a cave at Makkedah, roll the stone over them, defeat the cities, the armies.

Go back, kill the kings, put a big pile of stones in front of the caves as a memorial. Then he'll go north through Beth Shean, Hazor, the Sea of Galilee region, and conquer the north. An interesting note---because we're not going to read all of this section verse by verse. I'm kind of giving you a synopsis. He goes down after defeating these kings to two principal cities in the south: Hebron---have you heard of Hebron in the news? There's always a fight going on in Hebron, just a few miles from Jerusalem---and the town of Debir. Nothing is mentioned of Jerusalem, which means that as Joshua takes over the land and they settle in that area, Jerusalem is left under the occupation of the Canaanites, the Amorites, principally the Jebusites.

And it doesn't even become an issue till 2 Samuel, chapter 5, when David moves his kingdom from Hebron to the city of Jerusalem. Joab climbs up the water shaft, gets into the city, and overcomes it. By the way, if you ever come with us to Israel, we'll let you look up into the very water shaft---they've just dug it up the last couple years---from the city of Jebus and see where Joab climbed. And, you know, David would have looked up there, "Go for it!" Exciting to see it, but we'll get to that later. Verse 16, "These five kings had fled and hidden themselves in a cave at Makkedah. And it was told Joshua, saying, 'The five kings have been found hidden in the cave at Makkedah.' " Great, heroic kings, while their armies are fighting, they're hiding in the cave, because their gods stopped at the word of Joshua.

"So Joshua said, 'Roll large stones against the mouth of the cave, and set men by to guard them. Do not stay there yourselves, but pursue your enemies, attack their rear guard. Do not allow them to enter their cities, for the Lord your God has delivered them into your hand.' Then it happened, while Joshua and the children of Israel made an end of slaying them with a very great slaughter, till they finished, that those who escaped entered fortified cities. And all the people returned to the camp, to Joshua at Makkedah, in peace. No one moved his tongue against any of the children of Israel." Now after this battle, from verses 22 to 28, these five kings are killed by the sword and hung on trees. They place their foot on their neck and they make this big kind of a ceremony. They kill them.

They hang them. They take them off the tree by sundown. They put them in a cave, their bodies. It becomes their sepulchre and then they roll this---they put a pile of stones in front of it. And just want to bring this out, although we've already brought it out, but we're going to do it from time to time, because we look backwards from our western society. And we look backward and we think: "This is, like, so bogus, God." You're such a man of war, a God of war, a God of destruction. The Old Testament is the God of destruction and . . . ," etcetera. Keep something in mind that you may tend to forget: God gave the Canaanites 420 years to change. Abraham came in and God said, "I'm going to take you and the rest of your posterity into Egypt for about 420 years, until the iniquity of Amorites is complete," indicating God is saying, "They've been warned.

"You're here. They've heard about your God. I'm going to give them a lot of chance to turn to change. And when the iniquity, the sin of these people is at the extent that demands my judgment, if they turn to me, I'll spare them." And a few people in Jericho did, right? Rahab, her whole family, and they were spared because they trusted in God. And the rest of the country was judged by God, letting the children of Israel occupy the land that he promised them. "Then," in verse 29, "Joshua passed from Makkedah, and all Israel with him, to Libnah; and they fought against Libnah." Now, let me give you another great summary. From Joshua 10:29 all the way to the end of chapter 12, from here on out is simply a summary.

First of all, there's a summary of the southern conquest. Joshua is saying, "This is what we did when we went down south. We took this city and that city and those people and that people." And that will last all the way to verse 43 of chapter 10. Then chapter 11 is a summary of the northern conquest: "Then we turned north and went to Hazor, Beth Shean," blah-blah-blah. Chapter 12 is a summary of the kings, thirty-one of them are mentioned, thirty-one kings on the roster of the kings that they dispossessed. Now you might think, "Well, this is rather odd to have thirty-one separate kings in a country that's only 150 miles long by 50 miles wide." That's a lot of competition for kingdoms, right, for thrones? Don't think of kingdoms in terms of modern countries; they had ancient city-states.

You had relatively small cities enclosed with walls and there was a king of that city, like you have a mayor. That was the king of that city and they each had their little army. That's why they would form coalitions to fight against other large people groups. So there were thirty-one of these city-states. They're all mentioned in chapter 12. They had no central government. And that takes us to the end of chapter 12. Now, you can read all of that, what I just said, in encapsulated form on your own, and you can even look on the map. It might be a lot of fun to do. I've done that. But I'm trying to give you a summary so we can get into the third phase by next week. Two things stand out in this record, as I bring this to a close, two great things stand out of what we've just read: number one, God; number two, man.

Number one, God, God gave power. God fought the enemy. God routed them. It was God's power. Number two, the obedience of man. Joshua didn't stand back and fold his arms and just say, "You know what, God? I'm gonna sit here in Gilgal and just have my coffee. And we'll all sit here and when you're done let us know. We'll just take over the land." No. They had to fight. They had to obey. They had to march. But as to that first point, it was God's power. God gave the victory. Look at a couple verses with me. Look at verse 30 of chapter 10. "And the Lord also delivered it and its king into the hand of Israel." Verse 32, "And the Lord delivered Lachish into the hand of Israel." Verse 42, "All these kings and their land Joshua took at one time, because the Lord God of Israel fought for Israel."

Look at chapter 11, verse 6, "But the Lord said to Joshua, 'Do not be afraid because of them, for tomorrow about this time I will deliver all of them slain before Israel.' " Verse 8, "And the Lord delivered them into the hand of Israel, who defeated them." Second great truth is that Moses commanded Joshua to obey God: "Once you go in, wipe them out, take over the land, settle down and occupy it." They marched. They fought. The only exception was Gibeon, because of the trickery that Gibeon made with the children of Israel. With that in mind, turn over to a New Testament book, 2 Peter, chapter 1. I think I probably referred to this chapter more than I think I do. I don't know that that even made sense what I just said. I just said, "I think . . . more than I think I do." [laughter]

Well, I won't think about it, but I'll read it. Verse 3, "As his divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by glory and virtue, by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust." Do a couple of words stick out to you? God's power, God's promises---everything we need for life and godliness, God has provided. This is the first part. God is saying, "Here's my supply. I've given you promises. I've given you power." But you know what? Unless you take and use the power that God has given you, unless you step into and walk with the promises God is giving you, they're valueless.

The Bible is of no value unless we apply it. It's no value to us unless we apply it. It's like the guy who went to buy a chain saw, because he heard if he had a chain saw it would saw more wood quickly than his hand saw. So he bought the chain saw, came back a few days later just tired, exhausted. And he said, "Man, I took this chain saw and I cut two cords of wood with it, but it took me a lot longer than my hand saw." And so the guy behind the counter said, "Man, that doesn't make much sense. You should have gotten ten cords of wood done." So he said, "Wait here. Let me go outside and give me your saw." He took his saw and he went out there and he started it up." And the man who had bought it walked up and goes, "What's that noise?" [laughter] You see, he had the power saw, but he never turned on the power.

Can you imagine cutting cords of wood manually with a chain saw? [laughter] "What's that noise?" And so God can say, "Here's my power. Here's my promises," and we're running around when we see God's working through other people, going, "Wow! What's that noise?" That's the Holy Spirit. That's the promises and the power of God, but you actually have to utilize it. And so Peter says, verse 5, "But also for this reason, giving all diligence," some translations say, "putting in a maximum effort," "add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, to godliness brotherly kindness, to brotherly kindness love. For if these things are yours and abound, you will neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

"For he who lacks these things is shortsighted, even to blindness, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins." So the point is you and I can grow as much as we want. We have all the power, all the promises to grow and become mature and change the world and be partakers of the divine nature, but we have to cooperate with it. We have to obey. Verse 42 of chapter 10: "All these kings and their land Joshua took at one time, because the Lord God of Israel fought for Israel. Then Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to the camp at Gilgal," no doubt, thanking, rejoicing like they did when they first went to Gilgal, which means "circle."

And they set up an altar and they worshiped and they gave tribute, glory to God. God gives you the victory. When you get victory, when you make it through, whatever you're going through, when you make it through the other side, better not to say, "I'm good. I'm really good." But really the thing to say is, "Well, in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus." Give God the thanks, a tribute, the victory to God. Are you thanking the Lord? Do you have enough faith to thank the Lord in advance for the victory you're going to have? "But I'm in a battle right now." But he's promised you the victory. "Oh, but I don't see it." We're coming up on an interesting day in November, Thanksgiving.

You know what's interesting about it? During that period of time when Thanksgiving was inaugurated, no generation of Americans suffered more than that generation. Did you know that? They dug seven times more the amount of graves to bury their dead than houses to house the living, and yet they managed to call a day "Thanksgiving." We could learn a lot. We're pampered. We're spoiled. Yeah, we have our trials, but we have a great God. You might think, "Yeah, I could give thanks, but it's a whole a lot more fun to complain." [laughter] Some of you may think that way. It's a lot easier to complain. "We have a right to complain. It's their fault," or "It's God's fault. Why isn't God . . . ?" How about, "Oh, thank you, Lord, even for this trial, that I might grow."

"In everything give thanks" for the victory you're going to have. Let's pray. Lord, we thank you for these chapters and the lessons that we find and the man Joshua who was there those forty years, saw what the lack of faith could do, and was determined "I'll never live like that," leading a group of people into an unknown territory. And how the children of Israel must have talked those evenings at their camp in Gilgal, thinking, "Man, God was awesome today," how God routed them, how God confused them, how God brought us in and gave us the victory over five kingdoms instead of just one." Lord, I pray that we might learn to see your hand, to acknowledge it, to cooperate with your promises and your power, to move forward.




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