“THE BOOK OF JOSHUA ~ a Type & Shadow” A-052 (07-06-22) Today: Joshua 10:24-28.
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This was episode #52, and we are looking at Joshua 10:24-28 as we continue this study.
● Joshua 10:24 (New English Translation) says, “When they brought the kings out to Joshua, he {Joshua} summoned all the men of Israel and said to the commanders of the troops who accompanied him, “Come here {or, Draw near} and put your feet on the necks of these kings.” So they came up and put their feet on their necks.”
● So again, if all we see is the literalness of scripture and its historical events, then we lose out on the deeper meaning of what Father is trying to unveil to us. From www.preceptaustin.org, it says, “The neck symbolized one's strength and thus to place one's feet on their necks was a symbolic gesture indicating complete defeat and subjugation and it was a custom in the Middle East.”
● To put one feet on the neck of kings, allegorically speaks of a type of “putting your foot down” and saying “NO” to thoughts that seem as if they are attempting to rule or control you. There have been times in my own life that thoughts seemed as if they were just pounding in my head like a tape-recording playing over-and-over again the problem or issues that I was trying to deal with.
● Joshua 10:25 (NET) says, “Then Joshua said to them {the captains of the men of war}, “Don’t be afraid and don’t panic! Be strong and brave, for the LORD will do the same thing to all your enemies you fight.”
● Sometimes the discovery of our troubling battles originate from within and not outside of us. It is not people, not the news, and not society, but only how you manage and deal with the thoughts within that trouble you day and night. One key that I discovered is that you must be at rest in your Father, knowing that He is watching over you and that you really can trust Him.
● The thing about God is that who He is; also is who He has always been; which is why who you are, is who you have always been as well. A footnote says, “God’s marvelous grace has appeared to all, bringing salvation.” This salvation was mankind moment of being “rescued” from wrong thinking that corrupts our course of direction in life; therefore, our thinking needs to change.
● Joshua 10:26 (NET) says, “Then Joshua executed them {Heb. struck them down} and hung them on five trees. They were left hanging on the trees until evening.”
● The thing we need to understand about the Old Testament is that it was written by men who viewed God and their spiritual encounter through their human-experience, with all of its hard-knocks and ups and downs. However, our Father is not full hard-knocks or ups and downs, but He is filled with love, compassion and grace.
● Joshua 10:27 (NET) says, “At sunset Joshua ordered his men to take them down from the trees. They threw them into the cave where they had hidden and piled large stones over the mouth of the cave. (They remain to this very day.)”
● From a study note (sn) it says, “For the legal background of the removal of the corpses before sundown,” we could look at Deuteronomy 21:22-23 which deals with putting people to death by hanging due to certain types of sin. But they were commanded that the body could not hang there overnight, believing that this would defile the land that God gave them.
● Joshua 10:28 (NET) says, “That day Joshua captured Makkedah and put the sword to it and its king. He annihilated everyone who lived in it; he left no survivors. He did to its king what he had done to the king of Jericho.”
● The question is this: Are there things that belong to Father-God as in the Eternal God-head? Yes, all things created belong to God. Those who are without excuse refers to the creation is able and empowered to thrive in all aspects of life, simply because God has made Himself known to mankind, and shown to us His “invisible attributes,” made visible, so that we are destined to conquer all unrenewed thinking within.
● I think the type and shadow in this passage has been clearly defined in that we experience thoughts that are easy to conquer. But also we have thoughts that are harder to deal with that others, and present themselves like “kings” that attempt to rule in our thinking. Oftentimes when we put our foot down, so to speak, upon the neck of difficult and challenging thoughts, we find that those lessor thoughts just seem to disappear. I hope you were enlightened and inspired to “dig deep into the well of Father’s mind within” as you watch this video lesson!