When we read the book of Joshua, we see that God has many plans for Joshua and the Israelites. Joshua leads the people after Moses and God’s plan is now in motion. First He instructs Joshua to cross the river Jordan and then go into battle for the Promised Land. In the following essay we will see how Gods Plan through Joshua, Moses and Rahab brought about the victories in their lives with the Lord guiding them.
God had a plan and a purpose to raise the nation of Israel that involved Joshua. One of the first plans (Joshua 3-4), after the wandering in the desert for 40 years, the Israelites came to the Promised Land near Shittim. Moses’ appointed Joshua as his successor. As Joshua became the new leader, he ordered everyone to wash themselves, and refrain from any sexual activity. This was part of the consecration. He then had them assemble behind the Ark of the Covenant. The Levite priests were instructed to carry the ark into the Jordon River.
As they stepped into the river, it opened up and then dried up all the way to the other side of the river bank. Before they stepped away from the river, God instructed Joshua to gather the tribes into twelve groups. Out of the various tribes, twelve men were instructed to pick up a stone
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There are generally two ways that this biblical history of Israel shows us. The first can be seen from the exodus as a salvation and the crossing as a symbol of death once they reached the other side of the Jordan River. The other view can be looked at with the crossing at the Jordon river as a symbol of salvation and when they occupied the land as the victory as a Christian. They had battles, giants to defeat, and through it all God was always there leading them. The obedience to God’s Plan helped them see the victory that was promised. Joshua led the people in obedience to God, when it was challenging and did not make sense. All of this resulted in great victories for
... middle of paper ... ... God desired for his nation to be prosperous and righteous, but he was unwilling to step in if they did not want Him in their nation. Israel had consistently fallen into idolatry, and they were unable to break the cycle.
Moses spends forty years following the instructions of God throughout Exodus. However, in Numbers, God tells him to speak to the rock and it will bring them water. Instead of speaking to the rock, he strikes it with his staff, like he did previously in Exodus. When he does not directly follow the instructions he was given, God responds by saying, “‘Because you were not faithful to me in showing forth my sanctity before the Israelites, you shall not lead this community into the land I will give them,’” (Numbers 20:12). Moses ends up being able to see the Promised Land, but never being able to set foot inside
...e to win the war. In the end, 6,000 Israeli lives were lost, but this was only a small part of the population, and the win only strengthened the country (Trueman, 1). The Jews were motivated to keep Israel since the Israelites had been exiled from the Promise Land for centuries, and were determined to recreate God’s plan for a model nation. This victory was a premonition to a successful future for the people of Israel.
God’s people found themselves in captivity in Egypt after the death of Joseph and the Pharaoh that had knowledge of the good done by children of Israel (Ex. 1:8-14). God saw the oppression of His people and sent Moses and Aaron to deliver His people from slavery (Ex. 3:10, 4:14-16).
In this periscope, Moses is encouraging the people and Joshua as they begin to enter the promised land. Moses is aware of his departure as leader and Joshua becoming his successor (Deut. 31:1-3). According to William Bridges transition process, Moses is preparing the people for transition in leadership. Moses words solidifies the need to let go of the way they did things under his leadership and embrace the leadership of Joshua (Deut. 31:7). The 40 years that the Israelites spent in the wilderness reflects what Bridges calls the “neutral zone”. The time in which they were in between letting go of the way things used to be under Moses leadership and beginning again towards the promise land under Joshua leadership. Once the Israelites entered the promised land the process of a “new beginning” under Joshua’s leadership is underway. The transition from Moses leadership to Joshua reflects Bridges transition process. In addition, it provides a valuable and biblical reference for pastoral
The Jewish religion probably received the most attention out of any other religion throughout time because they have fought over a specific piece of land that they call Canaan (modern day Israel) and believe that it is their land because God gave it to them. One of the most popular stories of the Old Testament explains the history behind the land of the Israelites, which is referred to as the story of Moses. The story of Moses parting the Red Sea is one of the most famous stories in the Old Testament. The Israelites had escaped slavery in Egypt and focused on reaching Canaan (Israel) the land that God had promised them. Before the escape, however, the Egyptians carried
One day, he saw a brutal attack upon a Hebrew by an Egyptian overseer; enraged by the attack Moses killed the Egyptian. Fearing to be killed for killing an Egyptian, he fled to Midian, where he married the daughter of a local priest. On one occasion while attending the sheep of his father-in-law on Mount Horeb, Moses witnessed a spectacle of a burning bush. This bush seemed some how not to consume. Wondering what was happening, he came closer to the bush and the local god Yahweh (Jehovah) told him that the Israelites were suffering, and that he had been chosen to release them from Egypt and lead them to the paradisal land, what is known now as Palestine and Syria. Moses had to introduce Jehovah to the Israelites, and after they had adopted him, he had to go to the Pharaoh and request the release of the people.
Joshua is first mentioned in the Bible in Exodus 17:8 when Moses told him to choose men to fight against Amalek. Joshua did as Moses told him, and he defeated him with the help of the Lord. Moses went up the mountain and prayed with the rod of God raised in his hand during the battle. If his hand started to drop, Amalek would get the upper hand. Moses kept his hand raised throughout the battle and the victory was Joshua’s. He destroyed Amalek, and his people.
As a one reads through the Old Testament, he will find the story as it unfolds of the children of Israel. Beginning in the book of Exodus the children of Israel are in Egyptian bondage and being forced to work as slaves. God appears to Moses in a burning bush and tells him that He [God] has heard His people and He is going to deliver them out of bondage. God at that time tells Moses that He has chosen him to be the leader of this people. After God brings ten plagues against Egypt the children of Israel are driven out of the land, and God promises to lead them to a land “flowing with milk and honey.” On their way to the “Promised Land” they cross the Red Sea in which Pharaoh and the Egyptian army is defeated by God. Then they go to Mount Sinai to receive the Law. After receiving the law they then go to the Promised Land, and there Moses sends twelve spies into the land. Ten of these spies come back and give a bad report to Moses and the children of Israel. Since they did this Israel was punished by God and made to wonder in the wilderness for forty years during which time all who were over the age of twenty perished. The only two that did not die was Caleb and Joshua who had come back with a good report, and told Moses and the children of Israel to go up at once and take the land. Once they had completed the wilderness wondering they returned to the Promised Land and took the land under the new leadership of Joshua. However, Israel did not drive out all the inhabitants as the Lord God had commanded them, thus the inhabitants that were not driven out would be a snare to them. Once they had established themselves in the land they began to chase after the gods of the inhabitants before them. God then sent judges to deliver them which ...
Exodus is the second of the five “books of Moses” that tells the story of the Exodus of Israelites from Egypt through the Sinai Desert. When Moses was born, the Israelites were oppressed by the Egyptian Pharaoh and bound to a harsh life of labor taking part in building some of the great public works of Egypt such as the pyramids, fortresses, and installations to regulate the flow of the Nile River. For fear that the Israelite population would continue to increase, the Pharaoh insisted that every male Hebrew child would be killed at birth. Ironically, during this oppressive period, Moses, the “future deliverer of Israel”, was born. To protect his life, his mother sent him down the Nile in a specially woven ark. He was found by the Pharaoh’s daughter who took him in and, to add to the irony, she hired his mother to be his foster nurse. The baby boy grew up and was adopted into the Pharaoh’s household and named Moses. His name is derived from the Egyptian root “mose” meaning “son”, but in the Bible, it is said to hale from the Hebrew root meaning “drawn out of the water.”
... like yet another example of being given a task that in Yahweh’s eyes the person seems not complete well enough, this time loosing the reward of the promise land. The only way to end up successful in the bible becomes to please Yahweh. It seems hard to understand why Yahweh chose not to let Moses into the promise land after Moses completed every task Yahweh told him to. An example being 7: 1-5 God told Moses, “Look at me. I’ll make you as a god to Pharaoh and your brother Aaron will be your prophet. You are to speak everything I command you, and your brother Aaron will tell it to Pharaoh. Then he will release the Israelites from his land.” 7: 10 “Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and did what God commanded.” Nevertheless in some way Moses failed to complete the task well enough and therefore readers need not to look to Moses as an example of success in the Bible.
God reveals His divine plan of redemption for Israel by the time we read Exodus chapter 20. The Lord’s mighty hand released the nation of Israel from their taskmasters. He brought them to His holy mountain and there He will personally write the Ten Commandments (Decalogue) and give them to Moses for the people. God pours out His sovereign law out on a tablet and written on the hearts of men. Through these laws, the LORD sets in motion His divine plan for social, religious and national order for all mankind. Fast forward a few millennia and see another member of the Godhead revealing a new set of edicts given in the Beatitudes, during the Sermon on the Mount. When people conform to Jesus will, they receive blessing. through comparing and contrasting the Ten Commandments with the Beatitudes we uncover amazing truths.
According to the book of Exodus in the Bible, Israel's future leader, Moses, was born at a very risky time. It was a time when the Jews in Egypt had increased in number and prospered so much that the Egyptian pharaoh decreed that every male Jew who was born at that time was to be killed. Moses was born a Jew. However, when his mother realized that, the time came for him to be born; she decided not to let him be killed and was eager to hide him. It was not possible though to keep him with her, for she would be found. Consequently, she decided to hide him among the reeds in the River Nile (Exodus 1-2 and QB VI...
Even though God saw people as evil, he wanted to show his grace. He wanted to separate certain people in the world as His chosen people. “He wanted a chosen people: 1. To whom He might entrust the Holy Scriptures. 2. To be His witness to the other nations. 3. Through whom the promised Messiah could come” (Mears 47). This covenant is made between God and Abram. This covenant marks the beginning history of Israel, God’s chosen people.
With God’s help the Biblical leaders Ezra and Nehemiah were able to fulfill their roles as leaders in the Jewish community. These men of God were chosen to be leaders to pray for the Israelites, relay Gods commands and encourage the people. As God’s leaders Ezra and Nehemiah carried out their respective duties even if fierce opposition awaited them.