Today we begin Joshua Chapter 7.
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Joshua Chapter 7 deals with the battle to take the city of AI.
The leading character in this story is a man doomed for destruction named ACHAN.
This is a Bible story whose proper interpretation the institutional church knows absolutely nothing about.
Why?
Because it’s based on a God-principle and pattern that is firmly established in the Torah.
And since the church has taken up the doctrinal position that the Torah has been done away with, the true meaning of the events beings related here are ridiculously misinterpreted at best or completely lost at worst.
What God Principle am I talking about?
I’m talking about the Law of HEREM or “The Ban”.
You do remember what the Law of HEREM is, don’t you?
What?!
You mean to tell me you forgot already?!
Alrighty folks, let me explain.
In a nutshell, the Law of HEREM is the principle that states anything whether living (humans, animals etc.) or non-living (furniture, homes, weapons etc.) that has been devoted to God CANNOT be touched by humans.
It must be given back to God.
And since the Lord is a spirit and has no use for physical things, more often than not, those things devoted to Him (whether organic or inorganic) must be destroyed by being completely consumed by fire unto Him.
Got it?
Is it clear now?
Burn this teaching into the deepest recesses of your cranium because this principle is also carried forward into the New Testament and NOT in an obscure way.
However, if you don’t have a proper Torah background, you’re gonna miss it homie.
Check out these super famous verses Yeshua said when he was engaged in a little Torah talk with the religious homies of his day.
“They put to him this sh’eilah: ‘Rabbi, we know that you speak and teach straightforwardly, showing no partiality but really teaching what God’s way is. Does Torah permit us to pay taxes to the Roman Emperor or not?’ But he, spotting their craftiness, said to them, ‘Show me a denarius! Whose name and picture does it have?’ ‘The Emperor’s,’ they replied. ‘Then,’ he said to them, ‘give the Emperor what belongs to the Emperor. And give God what belongs to God!‘ They were unable to trap him by anything he said publicly; indeed, amazed at his answer, they fell silent.”-Luke 20:21-26
Well, there you have it folks!
The Law of Herem on full display within Yeshua’s own words here.
Whatever belongs to Hashem is Hashem’s Holy Property.
And if it is Hashem’s Holy Property, the Law of Herem applies to it.
In other words, the Lord’s holy property has a ban placed on it AND CANNOT BE LEGITIMATELY OWNED OR USED BY ANYONE ELSE.
Got it?
Of course, the opposite applies as well.
The Jewish religious leaders were well aware that the Law of Herem did NOT cover taxes to be paid to human governments.
And Yeshua knew it too.
So he was pointing out the obvious when he said…“Render unto Caesar what belongs to Caesar homies…” (that’s a paraphrase).
However, as so often happens when the Church doesn’t really understand the Torah principles being reflected in any given set of verses, they go hog wild and inject their own un-kosher interpretations into the text…
…resulting in fairly unambiguous matters being turned into a haze of theological confusion.
Things devoted to the Lord belong to Him alone and thus the Lord possesses full prerogative to decide what to do with them.
In the Book of Romans, Paul talks about the two extremes of Hashem’s character, how God is BOTH kind and severe.
The story of Achan here in Joshua Chapter 7 is a lesson of what happens when you decide to misuse God’s holy property and fall under the severe half of God’s nature.
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