“Y’hoshua said to the two men who had reconnoitered the land, ‘Go into the prostitute’s house and bring the woman out with all that she has, as you swore to her.’ The young men, the spies, went in and brought out Rachav with her father, mother, brothers and all she had; they brought out all her […]

Today I’d like to take a look at a famous NT verse and show you exactly how it’s connected to the events we’re studying here in Joshua Chapter 6. The verse I want to highlight today is as follows: “For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an […]

“But the city and everything in it is to be set aside for Adonai and therefore to be destroyed completely; only Rachav the prostitute is to be spared, she and everyone with her in her house, because she hid the messengers we sent.”-Joshua 6:17 In verse 17, we run headfirst into a God-principle the gentile […]

“The next morning Y’hoshua got up early, and the cohanim took up the ark of Adonai.”-Joshua 6:12 Joshua Chapter 6 is jam-packed with Hebraisms and divine principles. In verse 12, we’re told that Joshua “got up early in the morning”. This isn’t some throwaway phrase we should lightly gloss over. This is a literary device […]

Let’s talk a little bit about shofars since they appear so frequently and play an important role in the Scriptures. A shofar is an animal horn, usually taken from a ram. The first thing you need to know is that when our English Bibles translate shofar into “trumpet”, that’s a mistake. Shofars were NOT musical […]