Caption transcript for Joshua (2023): “At Jericho” (4/8)

• 00:01 Joshua: The Lord told me we would march around the walls once a day for 6 days. On the 7th day, we will
• 00:11 encircle the walls 7 times. Then, and only then, will the entire company shout and the
• 00:16 shofar shall blow.
• 00:18 David Hart: Joshua fought the Battle of Jericho and the walls
• 00:21 came tumbling down, next on "Our Jewish Roots."
• 00:25 ♪♪♪
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• 01:00 ♪♪♪
• 01:02 David: We are so glad you've joined us today.
• 01:03 I'm David Hart.
• 01:04 Kirsten Hart: I'm Kirsten Hart.
• 01:06 Joshua Colson: I'm Joshua.
• 01:07 Caleb Colson: And I'm Caleb.
• 01:08 [speaking in Hebrew]
• 01:10 Welcome, my friends.
• 01:11 Guys, this is the episode everybody's been waiting for:
• 01:13 Joshua fought the Battle of Jericho.
• 01:16 Kirsten: It is.
• 01:17 Did you guys went to Sunday School, right?
• 01:19 Caleb: Well, yes.
• 01:21 Kirsten: Did you hear the song about Joshua?
• 01:23 David: Second grade. It's ingrained in my head.
• 01:25 Caleb: I wanna hear it.
• 01:26 David: Goes like this. You probably know it.
• 01:28 ♪ Joshua fought the Battle of Jericho, ♪
• 01:30 ♪ Jericho, Jericho. ♪
• 01:33 ♪ And the walls come a-tumbling down. ♪♪
• 01:36 Kirsten: That was a good addition there.
• 01:37 David: They didn't sing with us.
• 01:38 Joshua: I didn't sing with you because I was drawing in a
• 01:40 moment from my childhood.
• 01:41 My father was--
• 01:43 David: You missed your moment.
• 01:44 Joshua: Well, he was a DJ, my father,
• 01:45 and that was my favorite song.
• 01:47 And he would play that for me, so not only did he win Best Dad
• 01:49 on Earth but that just brought back all those nostalgic
• 01:50 memories, so.
• 01:52 Kirsten: It's an incredible story and song,
• 01:54 and you are Joshua, you're playing Joshua in this.
• 01:57 There's a lot of Joshua today.
• 01:59 Caleb: That's right.
• 02:01 This is a pinnacle moment in Joshua's life where he comes
• 02:03 across the commander of the armies of the Lord and it
• 02:05 changes his life forever.
• 02:07 Kirsten: Okay, real quick.
• 02:08 The commander is-- who do you think it is?
• 02:10 Caleb: I believe it's a theophany of Yeshua.
• 02:12 I mean, he said, "Take off your shoes.
• 02:13 You're standing on holy ground," just like when Moses talked with
• 02:16 God in the burning bush, and he bowed down,
• 02:18 he worshiped him, and he didn't say,
• 02:20 "No, stop," you know?
• 02:22 This was a pre-incarnate visual form of Yeshua.
• 02:25 Yehoshua meets Yeshua, and it just blows my mind.
• 02:28 It's amazing.
• 02:29 David: That's good.
• 02:30 Right now, let's go to our dramatic reenactment,
• 02:32 all about Joshua.
• 02:36 Joshua: The ram's horn, different shapes,
• 02:39 different sizes, all reminders of Adonai's sacrificial
• 02:43 provision of a ram in place of Isaac.
• 02:48 When we hear its sound, we recall the miracle
• 02:50 on Mount Moriah.
• 02:52 And now, as we face the imposing forces at Jericho,
• 02:56 the blast from the priest's horn will summon yet another miracle.
• 03:00 But first, the soldiers under my command must be readied.
• 03:10 Joshua: Needs sharpening. This one, replace it.
• 03:16 This is a poor sampling. You can do better than this.
• 03:21 See to it that your men are armed well for tomorrow.
• 03:24 They'll precede the priests and the ark of the covenant and see
• 03:27 to it that the priests have their shofar as well.
• 03:31 Can this be done by day's end?
• 03:33 male: I think so.
• 03:35 Joshua: That's not enough. We circle the city at sunrise.
• 03:39 I need to know that this can be done.
• 03:44 male: Yes, sir.
• 03:51 Joshua: I encountered an angel yesterday.
• 03:53 male: Sir?
• 03:55 Joshua: An angel.
• 03:56 He had a sword in his hands and said he was the captain of the
• 04:01 hosts of the Lord, of Adonai.
• 04:08 I've used this in many a battle, but I shudder to think how
• 04:14 quickly he could have overcome me.
• 04:18 male: What did you do?
• 04:20 Joshua: He told me to loosen my sandals,
• 04:23 I was standing on holy ground.
• 04:26 And I made haste to do just that.
• 04:29 male: Sir, I'll gather my men and prepare as you've requested.
• 04:33 Tomorrow we take Jericho.
• 04:34 Joshua: No, no. It won't be tomorrow.
• 04:40 The Lord told me we would march around the walls once a day for
• 04:44 6 days.
• 04:46 On the 7th day we will encircle the walls 7 times.
• 04:50 Then, and only then, will the entire company shout and the
• 04:55 shofar shall blow.
• 04:57 male: I'll prepare the ropes as well
• 04:59 so we can scale the walls.
• 05:00 Joshua: That won't be necessary.
• 05:02 male: Then how do take the city?
• 05:03 Joshua: The walls will fall on their own.
• 05:06 male: On their own?
• 05:07 Joshua: Yes, one stone upon another until the walls
• 05:12 are no more.
• 05:15 And then our armed men will enter and utterly destroy
• 05:18 this city.
• 05:22 Every man does as the Lord has commanded,
• 05:25 Jericho will soon be ours.
• 05:30 Go.
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• 05:39 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: And the walls came a-tumbling down.
• 05:42 Joshua called it some 3400 years ago and it happened just as he
• 05:48 foretold, right here in Jericho.
• 05:52 Walking among the ruins is to walk through the verses of
• 05:55 Joshua chapter 7 and consider the extraordinary faith of a
• 05:59 remarkable conqueror.
• 06:03 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: There are 20--20 discernible layers here
• 06:09 in what is, if not the oldest city in the world,
• 06:12 certainly one of the oldest.
• 06:16 Wanna be careful as I walk among these ruins.
• 06:19 Look here, you can see the remains of an old wall.
• 06:23 And this ruin speaks to an old wall.
• 06:25 I don't know that this is the one that tumbled 'cause it's one
• 06:28 of the 20 layers that are discernible.
• 06:30 This one's still standing here at a city called Jericho.
• 06:36 It's noted in the book, "Devarim," in the book of
• 06:38 Psalms, as the City of Palms and the reason is,
• 06:42 and the reason why, Jericho was inhabited so long ago is because
• 06:47 here there are copious springs roundabout and when there's
• 06:51 water, there's life, and when there's life,
• 06:54 there's people.
• 06:55 And when there's life and people,
• 06:57 there's palm.
• 06:59 It's a world that's springing forth from a wilderness,
• 07:02 that sprung forth many, many years ago.
• 07:06 And this, friends, was the first stop on the train when Joshua
• 07:13 and company make their entrance onto the stage of the historical
• 07:16 drama, a battle royal was waged here in Jericho.
• 07:22 But before the men got to fighting,
• 07:24 the Lord went ahead and did some fighting first.
• 07:27 We're told here before they get to the city of Jericho,
• 07:32 in the 5th chapter: "AND IT CAME TO PASS THAT WHEN JOSHUA WAS BY
• 07:37 JERICHO, HE LIFTED UP HIS EYES AND LOOKED,
• 07:40 AND BEHOLD, AND THERE STOOD A MAN OVER AGAINST HIM WITH HIS
• 07:43 SWORD DRAWN IN HIS HAND."
• 07:47 Joshua, we're told then, was curious whose side
• 07:51 this guy was on.
• 07:54 "HE SAID, 'ARE YOU FOR US?
• 07:55 ARE YOU FOR OUR ADVERSARIES?'
• 07:58 AND HE SAID,
• 07:59 [speaking in Hebrew]
• 08:04 HE SAYS, 'NO, I AM THE CAPTAIN OF THE LORD OF HOSTS.'"
• 08:11 Very interesting expression.
• 08:14 Joshua, in effect, has an experience.
• 08:18 He has a religious visitation.
• 08:22 I mention this because some people are tutored up
• 08:25 intellectually on things divine.
• 08:27 Others have an encounter.
• 08:30 And the leaders, the history-makers,
• 08:34 have some kind of experience with God showing up,
• 08:38 and in that conquest was the issue of the day.
• 08:42 Here, before it all gets going, the Lord shows up,
• 08:46 sends his messenger, angelic, if you will,
• 08:49 as the captain of the Lord of hosts who is going to go with
• 08:54 Joshua as Joshua went into the Promised Land.
• 09:01 Joshua, we're told, as we read on,
• 09:04 fell on his face and bowed down.
• 09:06 And that, by the way, is the proper response to the divine,
• 09:12 a kind of humility, a kind of being awestruck by it.
• 09:17 And he said the question,
• 09:20 [speaking in Hebrew]
• 09:26 He bows down and asks the question
• 09:29 of this heaven-sent emissary.
• 09:31 He says to him, "WHAT SAITH MY LORD TO HIS SERVANT?"
• 09:39 By the way, wouldn't the world be a better place if religious
• 09:42 leaders understood themselves as a servant subjected
• 09:47 to a higher authority?
• 09:49 In fact, the word "minister" itself comes
• 09:51 from the Latin "minus."
• 09:53 It means less than, that is a servant to.
• 09:56 And here's Joshua, the one who's vested with responsibility to
• 10:01 lead 2 million souls into the future.
• 10:05 And he bows down, he's humbled, and he says,
• 10:09 "WHAT IS YOUR WORD TO YOUR SERVANT?"
• 10:14 And we're told "THE CAPTAIN OF THE LORD'S HOST SAID TO HIM,
• 10:18 'PUT OFF THY SHOE FROM OFF THY FOOT;
• 10:21 FOR THE PLACE WHEREIN THOU STANDETH IS HOLY.'"
• 10:26 There's a famous song, in the Christian world anyways,
• 10:29 that we are standing on holy ground.
• 10:34 When people have a sense of dwelling amidst the sacred,
• 10:39 it evokes a kind of sincerity and piety that wouldn't
• 10:43 otherwise be there.
• 10:45 I say that, it used to be the church structures themselves
• 10:48 were built to denote a kind of sacred space,
• 10:52 that is to say it's sticks and bricks,
• 10:54 to be sure, but it's a dwelling.
• 10:57 The only utility of which is a place for worship,
• 11:01 that is to say sacred space, that is to say holy ground.
• 11:06 Would that we all were humbled the more so when we enter into
• 11:11 that space.
• 11:13 I think, personally, that if individuals were more humbled
• 11:16 in the face of divine, they might hear from him.
• 11:21 So many times, you know, people don't hear from the Lord.
• 11:25 God's voice is obfuscated by their own anxieties and secular
• 11:30 concerns, legitimate though those concerns may be.
• 11:34 If we are going to be more than conquerors,
• 11:38 we need the good Lord's help in going forth into the battle.
• 11:43 And I should say God is more predisposed to help those.
• 11:49 We're told that he raises up the humble.
• 11:52 We're told that he humbles the exalted.
• 11:57 And here's someone who is coming into his own as a world-class
• 12:02 leader, a religious leader, a military leader.
• 12:07 This man's life is gonna be characterized by results.
• 12:12 And I should say against all odds.
• 12:16 When Joshua began, when he scouted out the land,
• 12:18 people were intimidated by the locals.
• 12:21 They were not only intimidated by the size of the locals,
• 12:24 they were much bigger, but they were intimidated
• 12:27 by the fortifications.
• 12:29 And approaching Jericho, this walled city with large
• 12:34 inhabitants in it, Joshua was ready to jump into the fray.
• 12:39 But before he donned his own armor,
• 12:43 he approaches someone who's God's heaven-sent messenger
• 12:47 to him.
• 12:48 He humbles himself as unto the Lord,
• 12:51 and he worships God.
• 12:54 He's gonna rise up from that and do great things.
• 12:58 Would that we learn the lesson, for if we did,
• 13:03 like Joshua, we would be more than conquerors.
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• 13:20 Caleb: I think it's amazing that God is who he says he is,
• 13:24 outside time and space, because he set up far in advance for the
• 13:28 Israelites to come and take Jericho.
• 13:29 In fact, he heralded their coming into Canaan with all the
• 13:35 Canaanites saying, "It's amazing,
• 13:37 these Israelites are coming.
• 13:39 They came out of the Red Sea, you know,
• 13:42 on dry ground, and the plagues in Egypt,
• 13:44 and they wiped out King Sihon and King Og east
• 13:47 of the Jordan River," and their fame was just, you know,
• 13:50 to elevated levels, that the Canaanites were shaking in fear
• 13:54 that the Israelites had come to their doorstep.
• 13:56 And we know that because of one Gentile woman named Rahab.
• 13:59 Joshua: Now this part of the story you
• 14:01 probably remember well.
• 14:02 Joshua sends in 2 spies, not the 12 from original.
• 14:04 He learned that sometimes not all 12 have a good rapport.
• 14:07 These two were faithful men.
• 14:08 They went in, they found this establishment that probably had
• 14:13 a brothel attached to it, and they met this woman Rahab.
• 14:16 And what's so amazing about this woman besides the fact that she
• 14:19 was not Jewish and that she had a profession that would not have
• 14:22 made it into your Sunday morning lessons,
• 14:26 was the fact that she had faith and believed,
• 14:28 to the point that she was established in Hebrews chapter
• 14:31 11, the Hall of Fame of faith because of her actions of
• 14:34 declaring that their God, Adonai, was the true God.
• 14:37 Caleb: Yeah, I find it amazing that Gentiles are
• 14:40 grafted into the commonwealth of Israel.
• 14:42 This is always a part of God's plan.
• 14:44 We see that when God had Moses write down the book of the law,
• 14:49 they made a special establishment for foreigners to
• 14:51 come into a land, to not be abused,
• 14:53 to be a part of the commonwealth of Israel.
• 14:55 We see when they came out of Egypt,
• 14:57 Egyptians were grafted in.
• 14:59 They came with them.
• 15:00 We've seen the wilderness, Midianites were grafted in.
• 15:03 Rechabites and the Kinesites.
• 15:05 So God always had this plan that he wanted the Gentiles to be
• 15:08 included, and so Rahab, if you know your biblical history,
• 15:12 marries Salmon, son of Nahshon, who happens--they have a child
• 15:17 who's named Boaz, and Boaz marries Ruth and that goes
• 15:21 across the Messianic line.
• 15:22 The Messiah comes from this goy, from this prostitute named
• 15:26 Rahab, and this was all part of God's plan from the beginning.
• 15:29 Because of her faith, because without faith it is impossible
• 15:33 to please God.
• 15:35 Joshua: That has always been so mind-blowing to me.
• 15:37 We always ask the question, "Well, who am I?"
• 15:39 This woman did not wake up that day,
• 15:40 knowing this was about to happen.
• 15:42 She felt no worth, probably, in her profession,
• 15:45 the choices that she had made, but when the moment was
• 15:47 presented in front of her, she seized the moment and stood in
• 15:51 faith for it, and it changed not only her destiny,
• 15:54 but it changed a destiny to which the Messiah himself came
• 15:58 from her lineage, from that choice of faith.
• 16:00 Let's go back to Dr. Seif and find out the conclusion of what
• 16:04 happened in Jericho.
• 16:05 [shofar sounding]
• 16:11 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: They marched, they blew, and the walls
• 16:15 came a-tumbling down.
• 16:19 Children learn this story from a young age,
• 16:22 and it's a story about the miraculous.
• 16:25 It certainly is worth having a look at and it's good to be
• 16:29 reminded that God does the miraculous.
• 16:33 What's troublesome in the story, and I want to address it on the
• 16:36 front end when we look at the conquest of Jericho,
• 16:40 is that it says in chapter 6, verse 17, it says:
• 16:44 [speaking in Hebrew]
• 16:47 that is to say, a city that was devoted to utter destruction.
• 16:54 Other language for it is the city was placed under the ban.
• 16:57 That means everything dies, nothing is taken.
• 17:01 It's not a war in the conventional sense,
• 17:04 the way they were fought out in antiquity,
• 17:06 men fought men and the winner made off with the spoils of war,
• 17:10 the plunder: women, livestock, various goods and the like.
• 17:15 No, this was wholly devoted to the Lord.
• 17:19 It is something that invokes the ire,
• 17:23 understandably, of the conscience of moderns.
• 17:26 And as we look at the story, I wanna begin by tendering
• 17:29 something of an explanation for it.
• 17:32 In the violent Middle East, and if you look at Jericho,
• 17:36 it's right there at the edge.
• 17:38 There's worlds that collide.
• 17:40 North Africa, the armies came through this area.
• 17:44 Asia, Europe, these overland routes.
• 17:48 This was an area where armies came all the time,
• 17:52 and this sense of the way that this story unfolded not only
• 17:58 gives an explicit victory here in Jericho,
• 18:02 when I'm coming from here in Jericho,
• 18:04 not only that, it sends out a message into the region where
• 18:09 others are dispirited.
• 18:11 And those that are more apt to--those that are more
• 18:14 dispirited and fearful, they're more apt to be more reticent,
• 18:19 reluctant, it gives the Israelites an advantage here by
• 18:24 having a strong beginning on the front end.
• 18:28 It provides, as I'd said, something of an advantage that
• 18:30 wouldn't otherwise be there.
• 18:32 Well, I wanna speak to the moment in the biblical text,
• 18:36 not so much offer a defense for it,
• 18:39 as much as to unpack one or two elements of it.
• 18:43 We're looking in the book of Joshua and,
• 18:47 as I noted, we're in the 6th chapter.
• 18:50 It closes, by the way, in verse 27: "SO THE LORD WAS WITH
• 18:54 JOSHUA: AND HIS FAME WAS IN ALL THE LAND."
• 18:59 I noted that a decisive victory telegraphs strength and that
• 19:04 bodes well for the Israelite Armies.
• 19:06 But before we get there, in the 6th chapter,
• 19:11 we're told, if you'll go down with me please,
• 19:13 in verse 20, the story here that the priests and the people,
• 19:20 they blow the horns, they march, and we're told
• 19:23 "THE WALL FELL DOWN FLAT."
• 19:27 Now, the felling of the wall in Jericho here in this place
• 19:32 wasn't the victory.
• 19:34 You say, "What do you mean by that, Jeffrey?"
• 19:36 Well, the wall leveled the playing field, if you will.
• 19:42 The fact that the people in the city were on a wall,
• 19:45 they were up on the ramparts, it gave them a tactical advantage,
• 19:49 and the Israelites weren't used to taking cities.
• 19:52 They were gonna have to get them more used to it.
• 19:54 But what happens here, when the walls come down,
• 19:57 that's not the end of the war, it's just the beginning of it.
• 20:01 The Israelites still have to marshal their courage and they
• 20:06 have to go through the rubble and make their way in a world
• 20:11 where combat was man to man, hand to hand,
• 20:15 and that took courage.
• 20:17 The point is they still had to do it.
• 20:20 I know many, you know, religious people,
• 20:22 "O Lord, please do it," and "Lord--" and the Lord does it.
• 20:26 The Lord goes with his people, but that does not exempt them
• 20:31 from participating in the war effort.
• 20:35 You know, people pray for good jobs.
• 20:36 This is good. We should.
• 20:39 Doesn't hurt as well to get an education and put out a lot of
• 20:42 résumés and work at it.
• 20:43 It doesn't hurt.
• 20:45 Just expecting success to drop out of heaven,
• 20:49 I know you can hear that in church,
• 20:50 just come to this church, put your money here,
• 20:52 and all the bad things are gonna stop,
• 20:54 and it's all gonna come out of heaven.
• 20:56 Listen, I think if something sounds too good to be true,
• 20:58 it probably is.
• 21:00 It's not as simple as that, at least not here.
• 21:03 The one who tells this story doesn't believe that.
• 21:07 The one who tells this story gives a vision of God with us.
• 21:11 They still have to marshal the courage,
• 21:14 marshal the energies, and throw themselves against the trouble
• 21:18 of the day, and this they did.
• 21:20 We're told here the wall fell flat,
• 21:22 that is it levels the playing field so that "THE PEOPLE WENT
• 21:27 UP INTO THE CITY EVERY MAN STRAIGHT BEFORE HIM AND THEY
• 21:33 TOOK THE CITY."
• 21:36 I like this, by the way, of you see divine intervention,
• 21:40 you see the supernatural, you see men marshaling their
• 21:45 energies and throwing them against the troubles of the day
• 21:49 and doing what the Lord has put in front of them to do.
• 21:54 And that, my friends, is a good word to my way of thinking.
• 21:58 In this series, "Joshua, More Than a Conqueror," we're looking
• 22:05 at success in life.
• 22:06 How does that happen?
• 22:09 There's a lot of people that aren't enjoying success.
• 22:12 Friends, I think you might find a recipe for it here from the
• 22:18 ruins of Tel Jericho.
• 22:21 A story here of someone who seeks God,
• 22:24 that is Joshua.
• 22:25 He's reaching out to God.
• 22:27 God reaches down to him.
• 22:29 There's a divine messenger, there's a divine appointment,
• 22:32 there's courage, there's God going before them,
• 22:36 and there's Joshua leading his men on into the fray.
• 22:41 And at the end of the day, guess what happened?
• 22:45 They won.
• 22:48 Could there be applications for us?
• 22:49 I think there very well could be,
• 22:52 and I'll hope you'll find some in it.
• 22:54 Here's Joshua, Yeshua.
• 22:57 That, by the way, is the name for Jesus.
• 23:00 Can he lead you and me to have good success?
• 23:03 I think so.
• 23:06 There's a principle here in God's Word.
• 23:08 Learn it, live it and, like Joshua,
• 23:11 you'll be more than a conqueror.
• 23:14 ♪♪♪
• 23:17 ♪♪♪
• 23:27 Joshua: That is the namesake for the entire series,
• 23:29 "Joshua: More Than a Conqueror."
• 23:31 That is how Joshua and the Israelites made it into the
• 23:34 Hebrew Hall of Fame in Hebrews 11:30 when it says:
• 23:38 "By faith the walls of Jericho fell after the army had marched
• 23:41 around them for 7 days."
• 23:43 David: I love that.
• 23:44 I don't think it was by chance that 7 days was the number.
• 23:47 Any significance to that number?
• 23:49 Caleb: Actually, there is.
• 23:51 Research done by the famous Dr. David Livingston
• 23:54 and W. F. Albright tell a deeper archeological story
• 23:58 concerning this.
• 23:59 Back then, the kings of Canaan were seen as part divine,
• 24:03 you know, part godlike, and they probably were,
• 24:07 probably Nephilim, you know, these hybrid kings.
• 24:09 And you have the city of Jericho which was a royal city to the
• 24:13 Canaan moon god, Yarikh, and as legend goes,
• 24:17 according to this famous Ugarit legend that all these Canaanites
• 24:20 knew back then called the legend of Keret,
• 24:22 there was this divine king, Keret,
• 24:24 and he was spoken to by the god El that said,
• 24:27 "You go out and you find your bride at this city.
• 24:30 So here, take these armies."
• 24:32 They took the armies, they took these trumpeters,
• 24:34 and they went on two 6-day march intervals
• 24:36 'til they reached the city.
• 24:38 And on the 7th day, they give this loud shout before he takes
• 24:42 his bride.
• 24:43 And so I find this very interesting and you see,
• 24:46 obviously, the parallel with the Battle of Jericho,
• 24:48 how they marched around six times.
• 24:50 On the 7th day--they marched, you know, 6 times.
• 24:52 On the 7th, they gave this loud shout and it just--
• 24:55 it goes so much deeper than that because this Keret,
• 24:59 this divine king, who was called B'nai El,
• 25:02 the son of God.
• 25:04 And so, I'm telling you, those people in Jericho,
• 25:07 when they saw them marching around,
• 25:08 they may have been confused, but by the 7th day they knew that
• 25:11 Elohim was mocking the Canaanite gods but he was showing himself
• 25:15 strong as being the one true God and then those walls came
• 25:19 tumbling down.
• 25:20 David: And that he had a plan for that whole 7 days, yeah.
• 25:23 Caleb: It happened at their Feast of the New Year.
• 25:25 They were worshiping their gods.
• 25:27 What a better time for the one true God to show up and just
• 25:30 shake up their plans.
• 25:32 Kirsten: I've gotta say, I never knew that.
• 25:33 Thank you.
• 25:35 I mean, I know the, of course, you know,
• 25:37 seven is God's number and completion.
• 25:40 I had no idea about that. Fascinating, sorry.
• 25:42 Joshua: No, this is what I love about God, though.
• 25:43 Everybody says, "Well, to be a believer you have to just have
• 25:47 faith and forget about science and forget about proof."
• 25:50 God has gone to such great lengths to not only say,
• 25:54 "My Word is true," but then he goes and establishes it.
• 25:57 He mocks false gods, he--if you delve into the Scripture,
• 26:01 he proves himself every time.
• 26:03 Kirsten: And he continues to do that.
• 26:05 Joshua: Even today.
• 26:06 Kirsten: Thank you so much for your insight and what you've
• 26:08 brought to us, and I wanna ask you,
• 26:13 would you like to see what Jericho looks like now?
• 26:16 You can.
• 26:18 We, on our tours, every tour, we drive around Jericho and
• 26:23 these last few times, we've actually had the best pizza
• 26:25 in the world, right?
• 26:27 Right near Jericho.
• 26:28 Fascinating story, it's still there.
• 26:31 You have the opportunity to see it with your very own eyes,
• 26:34 plus the rest of the incredible, gorgeous Holy Land.
• 26:38 We go two times a year.
• 26:39 We would love for you to be on one of our buses with us.
• 26:43 David: Also the production of the dramatic reenactments
• 26:46 of Joshua, we wish we could just do it for nothing,
• 26:49 but we need your support, your financial support.
• 26:52 Just wanna say thank you so much for allowing us to continue what
• 26:55 we do and bring you more stories and more series.
• 26:58 Kirsten: Next week, Israel has its first defeat.
• 27:02 I don't even wanna talk about it.
• 27:03 Caleb: It's a sad story.
• 27:05 I don't wanna go into it, but we've got to.
• 27:06 Kirsten: Okay, we won't go into it yet.
• 27:07 We'll wait for next week.
• 27:09 David: Time to go.
• 27:10 Kirsten: Would you close us out?
• 27:11 Caleb: Shaalu shalom Yerushalayim.
• 27:13 Kirsten: Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
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