The story of Achan returns us full circle back to what I explained earlier concerning holy property. And that is there is a similar nature between sacrifices devoted to God at the Tabernacle and holy property under HEREM or the ban during a holy war. In addition, there’s another important point we need to remind […]

“Y’hoshua, together with all Isra’el, took ‘Akhan, the son of Zerach, with the silver, the robe, the gold wedge, his sons, his daughters, his cattle, his donkeys, his sheep, his tent, and everything he had, and brought them up to the Akhor Valley.  Y’hoshua said, ‘Why have you brought trouble on us? Today Adonai will […]

“Y’hoshua said to ‘Akhan, ‘My son, swear to Adonai, the God of Israel, that you will tell the truth and confess to him. Tell me, now, what did you do? Don’t hide anything from me.’”-Joshua 7:19 Because of Achan’s crime, Israel has communally broken their faith with the Lord and now the big question up […]

In my last post I talked about how the Lord has held all of Israel responsible for the sin of just one man and that man was Achan who stole God’s holy property. However, there is another category of sin and guilt being dealt with here. I’m talking about the guilt that that results from […]

The story of Achan establishes a principle that drives the Christian world to anger and denial. What am I talking about? I’m talking about the fact that God has held ALL of Israel accountable for the sins of just one man, Achan. In other words, all Israel is bearing a kind of communal responsibility for […]