Caption transcript for Joshua (2023): “The Gibeonites” (6/8)

• 00:01 Joshua: What's done is done. I've made peace with the Gibeonites, despite the Lord's warning
• 00:09 to not do so with any of the Canaanites.
• 00:11 And now we're in covenant and we can't slay them.
• 00:14 David Hart: Find out more about how we can learn from our
• 00:16 mistakes, on today's episode of "Our Jewish Roots."
• 00:20 ♪♪♪
• 00:27 ♪♪♪
• 00:37 ♪♪♪
• 00:47 ♪♪♪
• 00:57 David: Thank you so much for joining us.
• 00:58 I am David Hart.
• 01:00 Kirsten Hart: I'm Kirsten Hart.
• 01:01 Joshua Colson: I'm Joshua.
• 01:03 Caleb Colson: And I'm Caleb.
• 01:04 [speaking in Hebrew]
• 01:05 David: Ah, that's good.
• 01:07 Kirsten: The "cha," you got the "cha" in there really well.
• 01:08 Caleb: I'm Jewish, eh.
• 01:10 Kirsten: You're Jewish, you should.
• 01:11 Joshua: Guys, don't you hate it when you're ready to
• 01:12 annihilate your mortal enemies and you find out at the last
• 01:14 second that they secretly disguised themselves and you
• 01:15 accidentally made a peace treaty with them,
• 01:17 like, 3 days previous?
• 01:18 Caleb: It happens all the time.
• 01:19 Kirsten: Just 2 days ago that happened.
• 01:21 Caleb: Terrible. Joshua: That's the worst.
• 01:22 Kirsten: Okay, but I've gotta ask you a question about this.
• 01:24 If God is a God of love and peace,
• 01:27 why wouldn't he want the Israelites to make peace with
• 01:31 the Canaanites?
• 01:32 Caleb: Well, that's a good-- yeah, a very good question.
• 01:35 It's very important. God is gracious.
• 01:37 He is loving.
• 01:39 And to look back at that, Genesis chapter 15 is when God
• 01:42 makes this covenant with Abram, promising him the Promised Land,
• 01:45 the territory of Israel, and he says--
• 01:48 he tells Abram the whole future, you know.
• 01:50 "Abram," he tells him, "guess what?
• 01:52 Your descendants are going to go into a foreign land where
• 01:54 they're gonna be captive for 400 years.
• 01:57 That 400 years is necessary because I've gotta give time for
• 02:00 those Canaanites to repent."
• 02:02 He gave them a 400-year time period to repent.
• 02:04 He said, "After that, then they'll go into the land and
• 02:07 possess it and wipe 'em out," but his grace is so amazing and
• 02:11 so sufficient for everyone.
• 02:12 David: That's good.
• 02:14 Right now, we take you to our dramatic reenactment where
• 02:15 Israel is deceived.
• 02:20 Joshua: It all seemed so believable.
• 02:22 I mean, I was fooled by the Gibeonites' evidence of a
• 02:26 lengthy journey from a so-called distant city.
• 02:29 It takes weeks for bread to look like this.
• 02:32 I should have known better. I've been deceived.
• 02:40 Joshua: How could I have believed such a tale?
• 02:43 male: Joshua, you weren't the only one.
• 02:46 We all believed.
• 02:49 This story of their long journey to make peace with us,
• 02:52 it seemed so right.
• 02:55 We just stumbled upon the truth.
• 02:58 Joshua: Dry moldy bread? Tattered sandals?
• 03:02 Evidence, they claim?
• 03:04 All the while they've been our neighbors.
• 03:07 What's done is done.
• 03:10 I've made peace with the Gibeonites,
• 03:12 despite the Lord's warning to not do so with any
• 03:14 of the Canaanites.
• 03:16 And now we're in covenant and we can't slay them.
• 03:20 male: Joshua, the Gibeonites have come in peace.
• 03:28 They've heard of Adonai and what he's done for us in slaying,
• 03:33 destroying Jericho and the city of Ai.
• 03:37 They were afraid they might be next.
• 03:39 Joshua: But they deceived us.
• 03:42 male: Our tribal leaders have met and offered a solution.
• 03:46 Joshua: And what might that be?
• 03:48 male: We need help at the tabernacle.
• 03:51 They can cut wood to sustain the flames of our altar and they can
• 03:56 carry water for us as well.
• 04:02 Joshua: Yes, yes, a wise decision.
• 04:06 And they can learn of a real journey of 40 years in the
• 04:11 desert, of the Lord's might, and miracles,
• 04:14 and of our bread which sustained us every step of the way.
• 04:18 male: And remember, they've already agreed
• 04:21 to be our servants.
• 04:26 Joshua: They're a frail, broken people,
• 04:29 but they have done well in fearing the Lord.
• 04:32 The Gibeonites will live and they'll serve the children
• 04:35 of Israel.
• 04:37 United together, we will be unbreakable.
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• 04:47 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Little is known of Gibeon's exact location
• 04:51 so we came to the general location of the Gibeonites just
• 04:54 southwest of what was the city of Ai.
• 04:58 Sheep still graze in this valley today as they probably did 3400
• 05:02 years ago when the city's residents used their clever
• 05:06 schemes in seeking peace with Joshua's invading forces.
• 05:14 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: It was a scandal,
• 05:16 an outrage, in fact.
• 05:20 Wasn't expecting it.
• 05:21 You read into the book of Joshua and you see the man,
• 05:25 the leader, is quite the strategist.
• 05:30 This is particularly evident with the last battle at Ai where
• 05:35 it's set up, there's a scheme at play,
• 05:38 it's thought out, well executed, and success.
• 05:43 The skirmish before that, the war before that at Jericho,
• 05:46 the strategy, but it's divine strategy.
• 05:50 In the battle of Ai, our leader is showing himself
• 05:53 to be just that.
• 05:56 And it's amazing, someone that smart still got duped,
• 06:03 and it came down to something like this.
• 06:08 Stale bread, if you can imagine that.
• 06:14 Hard to break, crusty.
• 06:17 Here's the real deal, well, the fresh bread,
• 06:21 you'd think someone would know the difference,
• 06:23 yesterday as today.
• 06:26 Well, it wasn't just the bread in the case of Joshua,
• 06:28 because when those from Gibeon came,
• 06:32 they came with tattered wineskins,
• 06:35 worn-out sandals, battered clothing,
• 06:39 stale bread, saying, "We're from a far country and we,
• 06:43 sir, want to make peace with you."
• 06:49 And why is that?
• 06:50 Well, momentum in sports and in war,
• 06:55 it's hard to get, but once you got it,
• 06:57 it is very eventful.
• 07:00 When b'nei yisrael, the children of Israel,
• 07:02 were making their way into the land of promise on the other
• 07:04 side of the Jordan, they scored decisive victories.
• 07:09 Once in, across the Jordan, in the land of Canaan,
• 07:13 then you have the story of Jericho,
• 07:17 a decisive victory, the battle of Ai, decisive victory.
• 07:22 The Hebrews are racking them up,
• 07:24 and the people round about are concerned.
• 07:28 Those from Gibeon, this place right here,
• 07:32 Al-Jib, it's known as that in antiquity in the 10th century,
• 07:36 David Ben Abraham Al-Fasi, a cartographer,
• 07:40 made note of this place.
• 07:43 Another person, an archeologist, in the 1950s,
• 07:48 excavated and found 56 jars, the handles of which were marked
• 07:53 with Gibeon, noting this place, these environs,
• 07:59 a people once lived here but now it's been covered up by the
• 08:03 sands of time, through the ages, but the story emerges in the
• 08:08 biblical pages.
• 08:09 We're told in chapter 9 and turn with me please,
• 08:12 in verse 3, that the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what was
• 08:18 happening and they were concerned.
• 08:22 They didn't wanna get annihilated,
• 08:23 so they concocted a scheme.
• 08:26 We're told in the text what I just told you in my narrative
• 08:30 that they presented themselves to the Hebrews,
• 08:33 saying that we're from a faraway place.
• 08:37 We're told in verse 5,
• 08:40 "[speaking in Hebrew]
• 08:44 THAT THEIR PROVISION WAS DRY," the bread was dry, we're told,
• 08:49 "[speaking in Hebrew]
• 08:51 AND IT BECAME CRUMBS."
• 08:54 So when they said they were from a faraway place,
• 08:57 they provided evidences thereof.
• 09:00 And what were they after in the process of so doing?
• 09:03 They wanted a treaty.
• 09:06 We're told in verse 6 as we read on,
• 09:09 what they say:
• 09:11 "[speaking in Hebrew]
• 09:14 WE'VE COME FROM A FARAWAY PLACE.
• 09:17 [speaking in Hebrew]
• 09:21 MAKE A COVENANT WITH US."
• 09:25 In antiquity, it wasn't the least bit uncommon for stronger
• 09:31 nations to enter into treaties with smaller peoples.
• 09:36 They're referred to as Suzerain Treaties,
• 09:39 a smaller, weaker entity makes peace with the larger,
• 09:43 and they carve out terms of endearment.
• 09:46 Now, if you were involved in some kind of contract and you
• 09:52 discovered that the other party entered into it deceitfully,
• 09:57 it wouldn't be beyond the pale of reason for you to want that
• 09:59 contract to be null and void.
• 10:02 When the Hebrews found out they got duped,
• 10:05 there was murmuring in the camp.
• 10:06 They weren't happy campers, if you will.
• 10:08 But still, interestingly, fascinatingly,
• 10:12 they kept the deal.
• 10:14 In verse 15 we're told
• 10:17 "[speaking in Hebrew]
• 10:21 AND JOSHUA MADE PEACE WITH THEM."
• 10:24 And then he goes on to say that he went out and
• 10:26 [speaking in Hebrew]
• 10:27 he cut a covenant with them, and then he kept it.
• 10:33 He was faithful, even when he discovered that they were not.
• 10:43 We live in a world today where there's covenant takers,
• 10:45 covenant makers, and covenant breakers.
• 10:48 Then, as now.
• 10:51 How do you deal with people and circumstance when people treat
• 10:55 you wrong?
• 10:56 Do you break? Do you renegotiate?
• 10:58 What do you do with all that?
• 11:00 Well, I want to explore this further.
• 11:03 I'm gonna tell you on the front end now that I think a secret to
• 11:08 success in life has to do with character, keeping covenant.
• 11:13 These people thought so as well and they made it
• 11:16 and they wouldn't break it.
• 11:18 And this, indeed, is a secret to success in life.
• 11:23 I wanna tease out some applications,
• 11:25 I want to explore the implications.
• 11:28 And like Joshua, I want to show you how,
• 11:31 with these principles, you can be more than a conqueror.
• 11:36 ♪♪♪
• 11:48 David: In our story today, it's all about deception,
• 11:51 deception, deception.
• 11:54 Not real good.
• 11:55 A lot of that going on, rampant.
• 11:56 Joshua: It's not real good.
• 11:58 And when you're deceived, you don't feel good when it happens
• 12:01 and Joshua didn't feel good either because he realizes in
• 12:03 this situation, this is the second time he's messed up.
• 12:05 First, at the battle of Ai because he didn't consult God.
• 12:08 But this time, the Gibeonites come to him and they deceive him
• 12:11 into being a different people.
• 12:13 He signs a peace treaty with them,
• 12:14 and then finds out he was tricked.
• 12:17 He's frustrated, he goes to them,
• 12:18 but what does he do?
• 12:19 He honors his covenant.
• 12:21 He had already given his word and he wasn't gonna go back
• 12:23 on it.
• 12:24 Caleb: That's right, and God brings about a great victory,
• 12:25 even though Joshua made a mistake.
• 12:28 You think the Israelites were mad when they were duped?
• 12:30 Well, the Canaanites were even more angry that one of their own
• 12:32 betrayed them and signed a peace treaty with the Israelites,
• 12:36 so they gather together five kings of the Amorites and they
• 12:39 go to wipe out the Gibeonites.
• 12:40 Well, the Gibeonites send a messenger to Joshua, saying,
• 12:42 "Please honor your vow.
• 12:44 Come and save us. We're about to be destroyed."
• 12:46 And Joshua doesn't give it a second thought.
• 12:48 He gets the entire army of Israel.
• 12:50 They march through the whole night and,
• 12:52 as they're coming upon this vast army,
• 12:54 God says, "Don't worry, Joshua.
• 12:55 I'm giving them into your hands."
• 12:58 He sends the army of the Amorites into confusion
• 13:01 and it becomes the greatest chase scene in all of history
• 13:04 for miles on end.
• 13:05 God's hurling down hailstones from the sky,
• 13:08 but there's a problem.
• 13:09 With all of these armies running away,
• 13:12 the sun is starting to set and they didn't have flashlights
• 13:14 back then, and if those armies got back to their fortified
• 13:17 cities, they'd be holed up in there forever.
• 13:20 So, Joshua decides that he's gonna command the sun and the
• 13:23 moon to stand still, and God listens to him.
• 13:28 Joshua: I wanna read this Scripture to you guys.
• 13:29 Joshua 10:14: "There has never been a day like it before or
• 13:33 since, a day when the Lord listened to a human being.
• 13:36 Surely the Lord was fighting for Israel!"
• 13:39 When this happened, Joshua wasn't indwelled
• 13:41 with the Holy Spirit.
• 13:43 Yeshua had not come, sacrificed, and left the Holy Spirit
• 13:46 as a comforter.
• 13:47 He stepped out in faith, knowing that God had commanded him to be
• 13:51 there to honor his covenant.
• 13:52 And when he spoke to the sun and moon,
• 13:53 God said, "I'm stopping these planets," and he stopped them
• 13:56 for 24 hours.
• 13:58 Caleb: That's right. It was an amazing victory.
• 14:00 They captured those five kings, and now we know,
• 14:04 they knew, that God was fighting on their side and God backed
• 14:07 them up.
• 14:08 But we're gonna go back to Dr. Jeffrey Seif in Israel
• 14:11 as he continues the story of the Gibeonites' deception.
• 14:16 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: When I think about how important the
• 14:19 little things are, I realize, truth be known,
• 14:21 there really are no such thing as "little things."
• 14:26 I mention that, you know, people talk about white lies,
• 14:29 just a little fib, or maybe there's just little ways that
• 14:34 people kind of drop the ball.
• 14:37 Maybe they don't keep their word,
• 14:39 just little things.
• 14:42 What if those little things aren't that little?
• 14:46 When I think of something that little,
• 14:49 I'm reminded the fact that it factors really large in the
• 14:54 story of Joshua where, when we're at Gibeon,
• 14:58 or dealing with those who dwell therein,
• 15:00 the Gibeonites, we learn that there's no such thing as a
• 15:05 little thing when it comes to someone keeping their word.
• 15:11 Interestingly, it's described in the Bible,
• 15:14 a pious person is someone who keeps their word,
• 15:17 they keep a vow, even to their own harm.
• 15:23 The Bible's a great story. We're looking at one here.
• 15:26 To recap it, Joshua enters into a contract with those from
• 15:33 Gibeon and it is a contract made by deceit, by stealth.
• 15:37 He was snookered.
• 15:39 It's interesting, by the way, a man who showed himself to be so
• 15:42 very strategic in his battle at Ai,
• 15:45 is duped by strategic people here.
• 15:48 Nevertheless, Joshua opts to keep his word.
• 15:53 Why is that there in the biblical text?
• 15:55 When I think of 7 years of conflict,
• 15:58 major conflict, things big, medium,
• 16:00 and small, why is it something that so small as this is given a
• 16:06 considerable amount of attention in a book like this?
• 16:09 I think it's because it's not small at all.
• 16:12 That if Israel is gonna be successful,
• 16:16 it's going to have something to do with a value system that
• 16:19 resonates within Israelites.
• 16:22 That is to say, a Judeo-- what we today refer to as a
• 16:26 Judeo-Christian ethic.
• 16:29 To be successful in life and, when I think of Joshua,
• 16:32 of course, you've heard me to repeat,
• 16:34 more than a conqueror, when I think of him,
• 16:37 I think there are salient virtues within him that sets him
• 16:41 apart from others, one of which is an intransigency,
• 16:46 that is to say, will not be moved from keeping his word.
• 16:52 Now I'm gonna look at the word in a second,
• 16:54 but before I get there, I wanna tell you,
• 16:56 just as a dad who raised boys, I told my sons,
• 16:59 not that they're gonna listen, but at least I communicated to
• 17:02 them, "You're gonna meet a girl, she's real cool,
• 17:05 real hot, real rich, real pious, whatever it is,
• 17:07 if she says she's gonna meet you at 5 o'clock and she's not
• 17:10 there, dump her.
• 17:12 You might think she's great, I think she's a Venus flytrap.
• 17:15 You're gonna land on her and get devoured.
• 17:18 I don't want my boys being with people that aren't good for
• 17:21 their word, even in small things.
• 17:24 Now, of course, I realize things come up,
• 17:25 that's why God created cell phones: people can communicate.
• 17:28 But with the lack thereof, if it's just someone who's not
• 17:31 known to be good for their word,
• 17:33 I don't want them in my family system.
• 17:36 The extent to which I can control that as the boys grow up
• 17:38 is open to question but at least I wanted them
• 17:40 to hear it from me.
• 17:43 And, you know, Yeshua said as much too.
• 17:45 He says, "You know, let your Yes be Yes,
• 17:47 and your No's be No.
• 17:48 You shouldn't even need to swear,"
• 17:50 in his, I call it Torah from the Top.
• 17:53 Others call it the Sermon on the Mount.
• 17:55 He is reflecting on the essence and substance,
• 17:57 the constitution for a Christian life,
• 18:00 a walk with the Lord, and foremost in all of that
• 18:04 is people mean what they say and they say what they mean.
• 18:10 When people swear, "I swear to God I'm gonna do--
• 18:11 I swear, I swear," they're coming from a value deficit.
• 18:15 It should be their word is sufficient.
• 18:16 They say they're gonna do it, and they do it.
• 18:18 But if you have to embellish it with,
• 18:20 "I promise I'll do this and that," it means in your mind you
• 18:23 don't think the person you're talking to is taking you
• 18:25 seriously, thus the need to embellish.
• 18:27 And why is that?
• 18:28 'Cause you've calculated the fact that your word doesn't have
• 18:31 equity in their mind and there's a reason for that.
• 18:34 You probably broke it down.
• 18:36 Well, I wanna look here in the text.
• 18:37 I'll read it in Hebrew first.
• 18:38 I'm in chapter 9 and verse 19,
• 18:42 and the word is out to keep the word.
• 18:44 And the people don't like it, but the prince's way in,
• 18:47 that is to say, Joshua sets the tone as the principal leader,
• 18:52 and then his lieutenants carry out his word.
• 18:55 You'll see people are murmuring in verse 18,
• 18:58 but in verse 19:
• 18:59 "[speaking in Hebrew]
• 19:03 ALL THE PRINCES OF THE CONGREGATION SAID TO THE PEOPLE:
• 19:08 [speaking in Hebrew]
• 19:12 WE HAVE SWORN TO THE LORD,
• 19:14 [speaking in Hebrew]
• 19:16 THE GOD OF ISRAEL," but we promise, we gave our word,
• 19:19 to the God of Israel, they say.
• 19:21 It's very, very interesting.
• 19:22 "[speaking in Hebrew]
• 19:26 NOW THEREFORE WE MAY NOT TOUCH THEM."
• 19:30 That is to say we cannot go back on our word.
• 19:35 It reminds me of the Lord.
• 19:36 He says if others are faithless, nevertheless he is faithful.
• 19:41 And to that end, let me just share a comment,
• 19:45 a pivot to a principle.
• 19:47 What it means to be Christian, essentially.
• 19:50 You know, you hear in the text, Rabbi Paul talks about
• 19:53 confessing with your lips that Jesus is Lord.
• 19:55 We talk about the sinner's prayer today.
• 19:58 I like it more as a commitment to a ligeance, to a sovereign.
• 20:03 That is, we call him Lord.
• 20:05 There's a social contract there that we,
• 20:07 as a subject, there's inherent commitments with that and,
• 20:11 by the way, there's reciprocity, there's commitments that come
• 20:14 from the sovereign by virtue of that.
• 20:18 Would that we learn to make sure there's no daylight.
• 20:21 Would that we kept it tight where there's integrity,
• 20:24 where there's correlation between what we say and what we
• 20:27 do, that is extremely important and if we learn that like
• 20:31 Joshua, we will be more than a conqueror.
• 20:39 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Was a windy day in Israel,
• 20:42 I had an opportunity to sit down and talk to Chaim Malespin.
• 20:45 We discussed integrity and how it plays out in the Israeli
• 20:49 Defense Forces.
• 20:52 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Chaim, I wanna speak to you
• 20:54 about those from Gibeon.
• 20:55 They deceived Joshua and the Israelis, didn't they?
• 20:58 Chaim Malespin: They did.
• 21:00 They tricked him with those tattered clothes.
• 21:01 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: They surely did.
• 21:03 And you know, even after they learned they were tricked,
• 21:06 the Israelis kept the commitment they made to them,
• 21:11 a commitment that was made through treachery, yes?
• 21:14 Chaim: Yes, but a commitment's a commitment,
• 21:15 and our word is our bond.
• 21:17 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: And with that,
• 21:19 I wanna talk to you, not just about strength, and certainly
• 21:23 the Israeli Army is known about that.
• 21:25 I wanna talk about strength of character,
• 21:28 that is to say, speaking and keeping what it is you say.
• 21:32 Can you talk to us about that
• 21:34 and how that works in the Israeli Army?
• 21:36 Chaim: So, I see that the strength of character
• 21:38 is this loyalty.
• 21:40 We talked about tenacity for the mission,
• 21:44 but this loyalty to our friends and to our land and to God,
• 21:48 essentially, is something that perseveres and drives through.
• 21:51 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: To that, I think there needs to be
• 21:53 congruity between what we say and what we do.
• 21:57 And in the military, there's the term
• 21:59 "band of brothers."
• 22:00 That's bantered around beyond the Israeli Defense Forces.
• 22:03 But there's a commitment to defend,
• 22:05 to protect, to work together, till death do we part.
• 22:08 And it really has to be us keeping our word, yes?
• 22:11 Last word's yours.
• 22:12 Chaim: Entebbe, '76.
• 22:14 Think how crazy and scary it was for our own prime minister's
• 22:16 brother, Yoni, to have died there,
• 22:19 to rescue those hostages, but they did it,
• 22:21 and we must continue to do our part in God's unfolding of his
• 22:24 prophetic plan for today.
• 22:27 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Thank you.
• 22:30 Caleb: Jeff and Chaim were absolutely right
• 22:31 about deception.
• 22:33 It is no fun and though the Gibeonites started their
• 22:36 relationship with the Israelites on bad terms,
• 22:39 God ends up honoring their covenant for all time.
• 22:42 And you see later on, during the history of the Israelites when
• 22:46 they were falling into the sin, the Gibeonites stayed true to
• 22:49 the Lord.
• 22:50 Saul tried to even break that covenant,
• 22:52 King Saul, and wipe out the Gibeonites.
• 22:54 But then God placed a curse on him saying,
• 22:55 "No, you can't do that.
• 22:57 I'm gonna keep the word that Joshua
• 22:58 spoke all those years ago."
• 22:59 It's absolutely amazing.
• 23:01 Kirsten: Gibeonites stayed true to their word and God
• 23:04 stayed true to his word that he would go with them and before
• 23:09 them, and I know Dr. Seif has taught,
• 23:12 Chaim has taught, for some reason I am stuck in my head
• 23:16 of what you guys talked about with the planet stopping
• 23:21 for 24 hours.
• 23:22 I mean, I've looked up a little bit of it and--
• 23:26 in the past, 'cause it fascinates me, that throughout
• 23:29 the world don't people put that it's in the record books?
• 23:31 Joshua: Well, once again, a lot of people will look at
• 23:34 miracles that have happened in the Bible and say that "this is
• 23:36 blown out of proportion.
• 23:38 It's folklore."
• 23:39 But Caleb has studied this a lot and there's actual proof that's
• 23:42 written down and other civilizations of this time
• 23:44 period stated it.
• 23:46 Caleb: The Orient, in China, the Emperor was saying,
• 23:47 "There was that day when the sun stood still that lasted
• 23:50 a whole extra 24 hours."
• 23:52 Throughout history, you see those accounts.
• 23:55 History verifies the Bible.
• 23:58 The Bible should be enough for us but,
• 24:00 time and time again, archeology and all this stuff ends up
• 24:03 proving what we already know to be true as believers in Messiah.
• 24:06 Kirsten: And that he will guard and protect
• 24:09 and do miraculous.
• 24:11 And the voice of the miraculous will go around the world and
• 24:14 everyone will notice.
• 24:15 They might not know what happened,
• 24:17 that was for Joshua, but it's documented.
• 24:19 I love that.
• 24:20 Joshua: Well, and as cool as it is,
• 24:21 the entire point of what he did wasn't to make the sun and the
• 24:25 moon stand still.
• 24:26 It was to give them an opportunity.
• 24:28 Everything that God does is for our better,
• 24:30 to save us.
• 24:31 He was trying to save us to bring about change,
• 24:34 and that whole situation with the Gibeonites when they had
• 24:37 fought this war and everything like that,
• 24:39 everything he did was for that purpose.
• 24:41 Caleb: And when they captured these five Amorite kings,
• 24:43 a very important lesson, they pulled them out of a cave.
• 24:45 They were hiding in the cave.
• 24:47 And Joshua commanded that they be stuck on the ground,
• 24:50 lay face first, and all the commanders of the Israelites
• 24:53 put their feet on the necks of these five Amorite kings.
• 24:56 And you may think that's sadistic,
• 24:58 but that was God trying to give them that mentality that the
• 25:01 enemy is under their feet.
• 25:03 Satan is under our feet, and we should walk like more than
• 25:07 conquerors, act like that every day,
• 25:08 have that confidence in who our Messiah is.
• 25:12 Kirsten: That's good, that's good.
• 25:14 David: Yeah, word that's been coming to my mind in this
• 25:15 program today is a lot of mistakes happened back then.
• 25:19 We make mistakes in our lifetime,
• 25:21 but God seems to turn it around for good.
• 25:23 Joshua: He always does.
• 25:25 That's the investment of the Father.
• 25:26 And that's again, we forget that God is our Father.
• 25:28 He's not just a person with a list of rules,
• 25:31 he is committed for you to grow to your full potential and
• 25:34 that's why he continued to do this throughout history
• 25:35 for mankind.
• 25:37 Even when he made a mistake, he was there to say,
• 25:38 "Okay, let's pick up that mistake and get better."
• 25:41 Kirsten: And we want this program to grow
• 25:43 to its full potential.
• 25:45 We have so many more stories to tell.
• 25:49 We have so many more series to film.
• 25:51 We need to go to Israel.
• 25:53 The Bible Bea--you guys, it's the Bearded Bible Brothers.
• 25:58 You guys have new insight to bring to us that will be
• 26:02 happening in the land of Israel.
• 26:05 This takes a lot of money. It just does.
• 26:09 And so, for our voice and your voice and your voice to continue
• 26:13 on, we need your above-and-beyond help and we
• 26:18 know that you're faithful and you will make sure that this
• 26:22 voice goes on for generations.
• 26:24 David: And I hate to change the subject here 'cause it's
• 26:26 been so good today, but we're excited about our fall tour
• 26:29 coming up.
• 26:30 We have friends who are returning,
• 26:32 actually, a whole church group of about 30 people are returning
• 26:36 to our fall tour.
• 26:38 We had such an amazing time with these folks.
• 26:40 They even--we even went to see them at the pastor's home
• 26:44 in Sacramento a couple of years ago.
• 26:47 Please join us on a tour to Israel.
• 26:49 It will change your life.
• 26:51 If you feel like there's no way that you can go,
• 26:54 I ask you to pray about it and see that the Lord can maybe do a
• 26:58 miracle in your life to have you join us on a tour to Israel.
• 27:02 We go both in the fall and the spring.
• 27:04 All the information is right here.
• 27:06 Kirsten: Okay, more next week, right?
• 27:07 Here we go.
• 27:09 Joshua: Yeah, more next week, and as we say
• 27:10 [speaking in Hebrew]
• 27:12 Kirsten: Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
• 27:17 David: Join us right now for additional content that is only
• 27:20 available on our social media sites.
• 27:23 Visit our website, levitt.com, for the current and past
• 27:26 programs, the television schedule,
• 27:29 tour information, and our free monthly newsletter which is full
• 27:33 of insightful articles and news commentary.
• 27:36 View it online or we can ship it directly
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• 27:40 Also on our website is the online store.
• 27:43 There, you can order this week's resource or you can always give
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• 27:49 Your donations to Zola Levitt Ministries helps us to support
• 27:53 these organizations as they bless Israel.
• 27:56 Please remember we depend on tax-deductible donations
• 27:59 from viewers like you.
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