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We experience victory in life when we obey God completely.
15 Early on the seventh day, they started at dawn and marched around the city seven times in the same way.
That was the only day they marched around the city seven times.
16 After the seventh time, the priests blew the ram's horns,
and Joshua said to the troops, “Shout! For the Lord has given you the city.
17 But the city and everything in it are set apart to the Lord for destruction.
Only Rahab the prostitute and everyone with her in the house will live,
because she hid the messengers we sent.
18 But keep yourselves from the things set apart, or you will be set apart for destruction.
If you take any of those things, you will set apart the camp of Israel for destruction and make trouble for it.
19 For all the silver and gold, and the articles of bronze and iron,
are dedicated to the Lord and must go into the Lord’s treasury.”
Highlight how the seventh day differed from the previous six days for Joshua and the Israelite army:
All the instructions and activities that were given and transpired during the previous six days
were in anticipation of what happened on the climactic seventh day. .[The Israelites] did not march around Jericho only once
as they had done the previous six mornings.
On the seventh day they marched around it seven times just as the Lord had commanded them. This statement recalls the Lord’s repeated instruction to Joshua
to carefully observe the Lord’s instruction. (PSG, p. 40)
God is the Owner and Provider of everything.
He led Israel into the promised land.
It all belonged to Him,
so it was not unkind or unfair for Him to claim the spoils of war for Himself.
Rahab and her family were exceptions to God’s ban.
Share how God’s actions toward her reveal His faithfulness-
and how it can help us learn to trust Him more.
God had told them what He was going to do.
Now, it was time to see the fulfillment of His plan.