Archive for August, 2009

JOS 3:1 Early in the morning Joshua and all the Israelites set out from Shittim and went to the Jordan, where they camped before crossing over. 2 After three days the officers went throughout the camp, 3 giving orders to the people: “When you see the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, and the priests, who are Levites, carrying it, you are to move out from your positions and follow it. 4 Then you will know which way to go, since you have never been this way before. But keep a distance of about a thousand yards between you and the ark; do not go near it.”

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Rahab lied and got blessed – thus it must be OK to lie.Sorry but no.Then how can we account for this? 

 

 Who was wrong?Was Joshua told to send the spies?
Where the spies right in going to the house of a prostitute? What did they do there?
Was Rahab justified by lying?  (more…)

 

1. Get ready. Remember that they thought this was God’s will for them. So this passage says to us – get ready for God’s will for us.

JOS 1:10 So Joshua ordered the officers of the people: 11 “Go through the camp and tell the people, `Get your supplies ready. Three days from now you will cross the Jordan here to go in and take possession of the land the LORD your God is giving you for your own.’ “

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