Joshua 13:7 “I myself will drive them out before the People of Israel. All you have to do is allot this land to Israel as an inheritance, as I have instructed you. Do it now: Allot this land as an inheritance to the nine tribes and the half-tribe of Manasseh.” Joshua had been in the […]
Read moreJoshua 8:34-35 After that, he read out everything written in The Revelation, the blessing and the curse, everything in the Book of The Revelation. There wasn’t a word of all that Moses commanded that Joshua didn’t read to the entire congregation—men, women, children, and foreigners who had been with them on the journey. After Jericho […]
Read moreJoshua 10:13-14 The sun stopped in its tracks in mid sky; just sat there all day. There’s never been a day like that before or since—God took orders from a human voice! Truly, God fought for Israel. One might think that the promised land was handed to the Israelites on a silver platter. But that […]
Read moreJoshua 6:20 The priests blew the trumpets. When the people heard the blast of the trumpets, they gave a thunderclap shout. The wall fell at once. The people rushed straight into the city and took it. The Israelites finally arrived in the promised land. But as the saying goes: It was not a walk in […]
Read moreJoshua 3:15 and 17 When the priests got to the Jordan and their feet touched the water at the edge (the Jordan overflows its banks throughout the harvest), the flow of water stopped …. And there they stood; those priests carrying the Chest of the Covenant stood firmly planted on dry ground in the middle […]
Read moreNumeri 14:24 But my servant Caleb—this is a different story. He has a different spirit; he follows me passionately. I’ll bring him into the land that he scouted and his children will inherit it. We’ve already discussed what had happened when Moses sent 12 men into the Promised Land. Ten returned trembling and afraid of […]
Read moreDeuteronomy 31:7-8 Then Moses summoned Joshua. He said to him with all Israel watching, “Be strong. Take courage. You will enter the land with this people, this land that God promised their ancestors that he’d give them. You will make them the proud possessors of it. God is striding ahead of you. He’s right there […]
Read moreExodus 16:11-12 God spoke to Moses, “I’ve listened to the complaints of the Israelites. Now tell them: ‘At dusk you will eat meat and at dawn you’ll eat your fill of bread; and you’ll realize that I am God, your God.’” My claim to fame is successfully cooking sirloin for 200 people over hot coals […]
Read moreExodus 15:25 So Moses cried out in prayer to God. God pointed him to a stick of wood. Moses threw it into the water and the water turned sweet. Horatio Spafford was a very successful lawyer and businessman in Chicago in the 1800s. Things were going well for him and his family, but it didn’t […]
Read moreExodus 13:21-22 God went ahead of them in a Pillar of Cloud during the day to guide them on the way, and at night in a Pillar of Fire to give them light; thus they could travel both day and night. The Pillar of Cloud by day and the Pillar of Fire by night never […]
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