WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:03.680 You're listening to The Bible Guys, a podcast where a 2 00:00:03.720 --> 00:00:06.440 couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun in 3 00:00:06.559 --> 00:00:14.160 practical ways. Hey, everybody, we are so excited. Look who's 4 00:00:14.199 --> 00:00:19.839 back me the tsar ball. Yeah, I'm back from my 5 00:00:19.879 --> 00:00:22.120 trip to New York with excuse me, with my dad. 6 00:00:22.280 --> 00:00:23.359 Okay, how was it? 7 00:00:23.359 --> 00:00:25.920 It was great. You know, he's eighty five. And we 8 00:00:25.960 --> 00:00:28.120 got into the ferry and he's like, oh, this is 9 00:00:28.120 --> 00:00:30.120 my first ferry ride. I'm like what. And we got 10 00:00:30.120 --> 00:00:31.399 into a cab and he goes, this is my first 11 00:00:31.440 --> 00:00:33.240 cab ride. I go, come on, wow. You got to 12 00:00:33.320 --> 00:00:35.119 the subway. He's like, this is my first subway ride. 13 00:00:35.399 --> 00:00:37.119 I'm like, are you kidding me? And then here's ready 14 00:00:37.159 --> 00:00:40.079 for this one. We checked into the hotel and this 15 00:00:40.119 --> 00:00:42.640 is before the Empire State Building. In the hotel, we 16 00:00:42.640 --> 00:00:44.240 were on the thirty fifth floor and he goes, this 17 00:00:44.320 --> 00:00:47.560 is the highest I've ever been. Oh wow, And I said, 18 00:00:47.600 --> 00:00:50.039 I go come on. Apparently he's never left Youngstown. 19 00:00:50.439 --> 00:00:53.280 He's talking about elevation, right, you guys, weren't he said. 20 00:00:53.079 --> 00:00:55.560 Other than a plane, this is the highest I've ever been. Yeah, 21 00:00:55.600 --> 00:00:58.399 well yeah, so isn't that crazy? So anyway, so he 22 00:00:58.960 --> 00:00:59.719 had a lot of first. 23 00:00:59.560 --> 00:01:01.399 Whole bunch of, first whole bunch of Then you went 24 00:01:01.479 --> 00:01:02.479 up on the empire stability. 25 00:01:02.640 --> 00:01:04.640 Well, actually I said it wrong. It's I went up. 26 00:01:04.640 --> 00:01:07.319 We went we opted for the one World Trade Center. 27 00:01:07.359 --> 00:01:10.680 Oh yeah, which was half the price and just to side. 28 00:01:11.280 --> 00:01:12.239 So yeah, it was great. 29 00:01:12.400 --> 00:01:15.920 That's cool, super View. Well, we're glad to have you back. 30 00:01:15.959 --> 00:01:18.400 We missed you. Yeah, Kyle did a great job. 31 00:01:18.920 --> 00:01:19.920 I didn't watch any of it. 32 00:01:20.159 --> 00:01:22.239 If you miss a little bit because I was on vacation. 33 00:01:22.560 --> 00:01:24.879 If you miss a little bit, we've got a great replacement. 34 00:01:25.400 --> 00:01:31.280 So you get a great replacement. You didn't say a substitution. 35 00:01:32.000 --> 00:01:37.959 You said words the matter. Words matter, Chris. It's a huge, 36 00:01:38.079 --> 00:01:40.359 just trained substitution and a replacement. 37 00:01:39.920 --> 00:01:43.560 Right right. Ye. Well, Hey, today's Desiree wants us to 38 00:01:43.599 --> 00:01:48.239 start off with a special dad joke segment because we're 39 00:01:48.239 --> 00:01:50.120 talking about Jericho, Jericho. 40 00:01:50.280 --> 00:01:52.519 That's right. The walls of Jericho came tumbling down. 41 00:01:52.640 --> 00:01:55.319 So she has everything centered around jerk who wrote who 42 00:01:55.319 --> 00:01:57.040 writes dad joke Jericho jokes? 43 00:01:57.079 --> 00:01:59.040 I don't know. I haven't looked at my name, I 44 00:01:59.079 --> 00:02:02.319 have not looked at my fingerspe Okay, but I'll go first, Okay. 45 00:02:03.159 --> 00:02:07.439 What's the Walls of Jericho's least favorite kind of music? 46 00:02:08.439 --> 00:02:08.879 I don't know. 47 00:02:09.400 --> 00:02:12.120 Heavy metal. They can't handle the sound of it. 48 00:02:13.560 --> 00:02:15.759 Heavy metal, they can't handle the sound of it. 49 00:02:16.400 --> 00:02:19.439 Oh, that's awful. Sound is in quote? 50 00:02:19.560 --> 00:02:29.080 Sound? Okay? Okay, I don't think anybody writes Jericho Jet jokes. 51 00:02:29.120 --> 00:02:31.599 The reason why there's not a market for this. 52 00:02:31.599 --> 00:02:34.360 Well, this says special episode edition, by the way, is 53 00:02:34.360 --> 00:02:37.159 what this is? Okay. Why was the archaeologist excited about 54 00:02:37.199 --> 00:02:39.759 the Walls of Jericho Why because they heard it was 55 00:02:39.759 --> 00:02:41.360 a groundbreaking discovery. 56 00:02:42.000 --> 00:02:42.680 Oh, these are bad. 57 00:02:42.960 --> 00:02:43.879 That's a rough one. 58 00:02:44.240 --> 00:02:48.319 These are rough, all right? Number two? Uh, what would 59 00:02:48.439 --> 00:02:53.199 be the wall of Jericho's favorite modern day reality TV show? 60 00:02:54.560 --> 00:02:57.840 Modern favorite modern day reality TV show? I don't know. 61 00:02:58.439 --> 00:03:03.120 Probably Extreme make Over Home Edition. They'd be exciting, they'd 62 00:03:03.159 --> 00:03:06.560 be excited to see a rebuild. I'm telling you that's 63 00:03:06.560 --> 00:03:08.280 a rough one. These cannot get any work. 64 00:03:08.599 --> 00:03:11.479 Okay, Well, I'm enjoying the fact that they're so terrible. 65 00:03:11.639 --> 00:03:13.240 Here we go help without this one. What do you 66 00:03:13.240 --> 00:03:15.080 call it when the Walls of Jericho throw a party? 67 00:03:15.400 --> 00:03:15.759 What's that? 68 00:03:15.919 --> 00:03:21.280 A crashing success? Gosh, the look on your face is fabulous. 69 00:03:21.280 --> 00:03:21.639 I love this. 70 00:03:21.719 --> 00:03:24.199 These are so bad. I don't just don't. I just 71 00:03:24.199 --> 00:03:26.599 don't understand how bad these can be. Okay. If the 72 00:03:26.639 --> 00:03:29.639 Walls of Jericho had a podcast of their own, what 73 00:03:29.719 --> 00:03:31.879 would be the first episode's topic? 74 00:03:32.719 --> 00:03:33.159 I don't know. 75 00:03:34.000 --> 00:03:36.319 The art of the fall? How to go down in 76 00:03:36.439 --> 00:03:37.280 history with style? 77 00:03:37.879 --> 00:03:41.280 Okay? Style? How about this one? What's the Walls of 78 00:03:41.360 --> 00:03:48.080 Jericho's favorite game? What's the Walls of Jericho's favorite game? 79 00:03:48.120 --> 00:03:50.000 I don't know, Jeff, what is the Wall of Jericho's 80 00:03:50.039 --> 00:03:53.680 favorite Jenga's the best one? 81 00:03:53.719 --> 00:03:54.479 That's good? So far? 82 00:03:55.080 --> 00:03:55.240 One? 83 00:03:55.360 --> 00:03:58.599 Okay, I wouldn't say good. Good news is there's only four? 84 00:03:58.719 --> 00:03:59.520 Do you only have four? 85 00:03:59.639 --> 00:03:59.800 Yes? 86 00:04:00.080 --> 00:04:03.960 Only we have five? So yes? So let the yes 87 00:04:04.159 --> 00:04:04.639 here you go. 88 00:04:05.080 --> 00:04:08.479 Why do the Walls of Jericho join a band because 89 00:04:08.520 --> 00:04:12.520 they knew how to bring the house down? Oh? Just terrible? 90 00:04:12.560 --> 00:04:13.319 Oh man, all right? 91 00:04:13.360 --> 00:04:14.479 What's yours? Uh? 92 00:04:14.960 --> 00:04:17.720 Very similar to your previous one? If the Walls of 93 00:04:17.759 --> 00:04:19.639 Jericho could give a ted talk, what would be the 94 00:04:19.639 --> 00:04:21.439 most outrageous title they could choose? 95 00:04:22.199 --> 00:04:24.319 Something? Let me get something about the Walls coming down? 96 00:04:24.600 --> 00:04:29.319 How to fall? How to fall gracefully and still be 97 00:04:29.360 --> 00:04:30.120 the talk of the town. 98 00:04:30.800 --> 00:04:32.399 Wow, The young one wins. 99 00:04:32.920 --> 00:04:36.720 Jenga is the winner. Yeah, yes, those were rough. Yeah, 100 00:04:36.800 --> 00:04:41.439 I don't know that I want any more special editions 101 00:04:42.399 --> 00:04:45.439 put on that. Yeah, that was a rough one. Well, 102 00:04:45.480 --> 00:04:46.399 welcome back, Chris. 103 00:04:46.600 --> 00:04:50.399 Yeah, thanks that it wasn't a very good welcome. 104 00:04:50.399 --> 00:04:53.560 Oh my goodness. We need to spare these poor people. 105 00:04:53.959 --> 00:04:56.560 Well, hey, you know what, listeners, if you're still with us, 106 00:04:56.800 --> 00:04:57.519 let's move on. 107 00:04:58.360 --> 00:05:00.600 If you haven't died of boredom. Yeah. 108 00:05:00.680 --> 00:05:04.600 By the way, I am wearing a Stony Creek shirt 109 00:05:04.800 --> 00:05:07.079 and for those who are watching, they can see it. 110 00:05:07.120 --> 00:05:10.199 For those obviously not watching, but I just wanted to 111 00:05:10.199 --> 00:05:13.000 put a simple plug out there. If you are listening, 112 00:05:13.160 --> 00:05:16.399 perhaps in our area in Michigan, and you're not a 113 00:05:16.560 --> 00:05:19.319 tender of Heritage Church, just now that if you live 114 00:05:19.439 --> 00:05:22.759 anywhere close to the Stony Creek area, Heritage Church is 115 00:05:22.839 --> 00:05:25.839 launching a brand new campus at Stony Creek High School 116 00:05:25.839 --> 00:05:26.759 September twenty second. 117 00:05:26.800 --> 00:05:29.079 There you go. Yes, I just figured out so you 118 00:05:29.079 --> 00:05:30.720 were wearing that shirt to send a message. 119 00:05:31.120 --> 00:05:33.600 No, I just noticed myself on TV and I thought 120 00:05:33.600 --> 00:05:35.639 two things. Number one, look at that good looking guy. 121 00:05:35.959 --> 00:05:38.000 And the second thing was I should probably mention something 122 00:05:38.240 --> 00:05:38.800 Stony Creek. 123 00:05:38.800 --> 00:05:40.800 So I thought you were sending messages with your T shirts, 124 00:05:40.800 --> 00:05:42.399 and I was thinking, last time you hear you had 125 00:05:42.439 --> 00:05:43.800 like a Godfather T shirt on. 126 00:05:44.360 --> 00:05:47.800 Oh yeah, the gun take the canola. 127 00:05:47.839 --> 00:05:51.319 Yeah yeah. So I was just thinking back all the 128 00:05:51.360 --> 00:05:53.519 different T shirts that you were wearing, where they all 129 00:05:53.519 --> 00:05:54.560 messages to us too. 130 00:05:55.079 --> 00:05:59.360 Hey, hey, the Italian shirt is don't mess with Italians. 131 00:06:00.199 --> 00:06:00.639 That's true. 132 00:06:00.839 --> 00:06:02.800 Times are everywhere, they are everywhere. 133 00:06:03.720 --> 00:06:07.600 Okay, so we are talking about the fall of Jericho, 134 00:06:08.279 --> 00:06:12.319 and just to remind our listeners, you know, you had 135 00:06:12.319 --> 00:06:16.480 the whole weekend to maybe let your brain clear out. 136 00:06:16.600 --> 00:06:23.319 So Moses has died. God selected Moses to lay hands 137 00:06:23.319 --> 00:06:25.439 on Joshua and say Joshua's going to be the leader. 138 00:06:25.439 --> 00:06:28.360 Then God reminded Joshua, be strong and courageous, obey everything 139 00:06:28.360 --> 00:06:31.279 I commanded you. Then they crossed the river Jordan after 140 00:06:31.319 --> 00:06:34.959 sending in some spies Rahab the whole rehab story. Then 141 00:06:35.000 --> 00:06:37.759 they crossed the river Jordan. God does this amazing miracle 142 00:06:37.800 --> 00:06:40.560 with the priests stepping into the water and the water stops. 143 00:06:40.600 --> 00:06:41.720 They walk across on dry. 144 00:06:41.560 --> 00:06:43.000 Ground and now sorry I missed that. 145 00:06:43.480 --> 00:06:47.800 Yeah, And now here they are at the gates of Jericho. 146 00:06:48.120 --> 00:06:51.279 This is where they met Rehab a few days or 147 00:06:51.319 --> 00:06:56.160 weeks before, right, And so we're going to read Joshua six, 148 00:06:56.360 --> 00:06:58.399 and we're gonna start off in verse one. It says, 149 00:06:58.560 --> 00:07:01.000 now the gates of Jericho were tightly shut because the 150 00:07:01.000 --> 00:07:03.600 people were afraid of the Israelites. No one was allowed 151 00:07:03.600 --> 00:07:06.120 to go in, out or in. But the Lord said 152 00:07:06.120 --> 00:07:08.920 to Joshua, I have given you Jericho, it's king and 153 00:07:09.000 --> 00:07:12.079 all its strong warriors. You and your fighting men should 154 00:07:12.079 --> 00:07:14.800 march around the town once a day. For six days, 155 00:07:15.240 --> 00:07:17.639 seven priests will walk ahead of the ark, each carrying 156 00:07:17.639 --> 00:07:20.040 a ram's horn. On the seventh day, you were to 157 00:07:20.040 --> 00:07:22.959 march around the town seven times, with the priests blowing 158 00:07:23.000 --> 00:07:26.120 the horns. When they hear the priests give one long 159 00:07:26.199 --> 00:07:29.160 blast on the rams horns, have all the people shout 160 00:07:29.199 --> 00:07:31.519 as loud as they can. Then the walls of the 161 00:07:31.519 --> 00:07:34.279 town will collapse, and the people will charge straight into 162 00:07:34.319 --> 00:07:37.759 the town. So Joshua called together the priests and said, 163 00:07:37.959 --> 00:07:39.920 take up the ark of the Lord's Covenant, and assigned 164 00:07:40.000 --> 00:07:43.519 seven priests to walk in front of it, each carrying 165 00:07:44.120 --> 00:07:46.800 a ramshorn. And then he gave orders to the people 166 00:07:46.839 --> 00:07:48.879 march around the town, and the armed men will lead 167 00:07:48.920 --> 00:07:50.360 the way in front of the Ark of the Lord. 168 00:07:51.000 --> 00:07:53.240 After Joshua spoke to the people, the seven priests with 169 00:07:53.279 --> 00:07:56.480 the rams horns started marching in the presence of the Lord, 170 00:07:56.560 --> 00:07:58.959 blowing the horns as they marched, and the Ark of 171 00:07:59.000 --> 00:08:01.680 the Lord's covenant follow behind them. Some of the armed 172 00:08:01.680 --> 00:08:03.920 men marched in front of the priests with the horns 173 00:08:03.920 --> 00:08:06.680 and some behind the ark, with the priests continually blowing 174 00:08:06.680 --> 00:08:10.920 the horns. Do not shout, do not even talk. Joshua commanded, 175 00:08:10.959 --> 00:08:13.160 not a single word from any of you until I 176 00:08:13.240 --> 00:08:15.720 tell you to shout, then shout. So the Ark of 177 00:08:15.720 --> 00:08:17.759 the Lord was carried around town once that day, and 178 00:08:17.759 --> 00:08:20.040 then everyone returned to spend the night in the camp. 179 00:08:20.160 --> 00:08:22.839 Joshua got up early next morning, priests again carried the 180 00:08:22.920 --> 00:08:24.519 Ark of the Lord. The seven priests with the rams 181 00:08:24.519 --> 00:08:26.519 horns marched in front of the Ark of the Lord, 182 00:08:26.519 --> 00:08:29.920 blowing their horns again. The armed men marched both in 183 00:08:29.959 --> 00:08:31.759 front of the priests with the horns and behind the 184 00:08:31.839 --> 00:08:33.960 Ark of the Lord. All this time the priests were 185 00:08:33.960 --> 00:08:37.360 blowing their horns. On a second day, they marched around 186 00:08:37.399 --> 00:08:40.039 the town once and returned to camp. They followed this 187 00:08:40.080 --> 00:08:44.120 pattern for six days On the seventh day, the Israelites 188 00:08:44.159 --> 00:08:46.080 got up at dawn and marched around the town as 189 00:08:46.080 --> 00:08:48.480 they had done before, but this time they went around 190 00:08:48.519 --> 00:08:51.440 the town seven times. The seventh time around as the 191 00:08:51.440 --> 00:08:54.360 priests sounded the long blast on their horns, Joshua commanded 192 00:08:54.360 --> 00:08:56.720 the people shout, for the Lord has given you the 193 00:08:56.720 --> 00:08:59.759 town Jericho, and everything in it must be completely destroyed 194 00:08:59.759 --> 00:09:02.279 as an offering to the Lord. Only rehab the prostitute 195 00:09:02.360 --> 00:09:04.200 and the others in her house will be spared, for 196 00:09:04.279 --> 00:09:06.759 she protected our spies. Do not take any of the 197 00:09:06.759 --> 00:09:09.679 things set apart for destruction, or you yourselves will be 198 00:09:09.679 --> 00:09:12.799 completely destroyed, and you'll bring trouble on the camp of Israel. 199 00:09:13.320 --> 00:09:16.639 Everything made from is a silver, gold, bronze, or iron 200 00:09:16.720 --> 00:09:18.799 is sacred to the Lord. It must be brought into 201 00:09:18.799 --> 00:09:21.279 his treasury. When the people heard the sound of the 202 00:09:21.360 --> 00:09:24.080 rams horns, they shouted as loud as they could. Suddenly, 203 00:09:24.120 --> 00:09:26.759 the walls of Jericho collapsed, and the Israelites charged straight 204 00:09:26.799 --> 00:09:29.840 into the town and captured it. They completely destroyed everything 205 00:09:29.919 --> 00:09:33.639 in it with their swords, men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep, goats, 206 00:09:33.679 --> 00:09:34.320 and donkeys. 207 00:09:36.000 --> 00:09:40.879 Yuck, there you go, yuck on the swords, killing everything. 208 00:09:40.919 --> 00:09:43.240 But I get it, I get it. 209 00:09:44.720 --> 00:09:45.320 But this. 210 00:09:48.679 --> 00:09:53.759 Chapter, yeah it was a war, Yeah for sure. Yeah, 211 00:09:53.799 --> 00:09:56.200 this chapter though, as I'm reading through it, as you're 212 00:09:56.200 --> 00:09:58.360 reading through it, I was actually thinking to myself, God 213 00:09:58.480 --> 00:10:03.320 is so specific and then it records so specifically, which 214 00:10:03.440 --> 00:10:06.279 brought to mind that you know, details matter, and that 215 00:10:06.480 --> 00:10:09.960 when God gives specific instructions, you know it includes the 216 00:10:09.960 --> 00:10:11.799 fact that they did those things. It could have just 217 00:10:11.799 --> 00:10:14.559 said and then they did everything God said, right, but 218 00:10:14.600 --> 00:10:17.600 they didn't. They took several verses to say, Okay, here's 219 00:10:17.639 --> 00:10:21.000 what happened. They got up, they went around, they blew 220 00:10:21.000 --> 00:10:23.000 the horns, they did this, and it goes through and 221 00:10:23.039 --> 00:10:26.039 it's almost, in some ways a little bit painful, you know, 222 00:10:26.159 --> 00:10:29.759 just to read all those details. But again, it is 223 00:10:29.919 --> 00:10:32.960 just a reminder to me whenever I read things like that, 224 00:10:33.600 --> 00:10:36.519 as I always think, why it seems like filler words, 225 00:10:36.879 --> 00:10:39.360 But it's not. It's just it's a reminder of God's character, 226 00:10:39.440 --> 00:10:44.159 who says, I'm giving you very specific instructions. Follow exactly 227 00:10:44.159 --> 00:10:47.279 what I say, and that translates into the promises of today. 228 00:10:47.519 --> 00:10:53.840 Yeah. Well, partial obedience is disobedience, right, right, So if 229 00:10:53.840 --> 00:10:57.320 you only obey part of it. Then it's you're not obeying, 230 00:10:57.360 --> 00:10:59.960 you're disobeying. And so God is very precise because he's 231 00:11:00.039 --> 00:11:03.000 going to do a miracle. He already he just told them, hey, 232 00:11:03.000 --> 00:11:06.080 get up and I'm going to send you and the 233 00:11:06.080 --> 00:11:09.399 the town has already been defeated, right, that's what he's 234 00:11:09.440 --> 00:11:11.200 letting them know. I'm going to give you the king. 235 00:11:11.240 --> 00:11:12.879 I'm going to give you the whole town. Now do 236 00:11:12.919 --> 00:11:15.159 everything I told you to do. And God is very 237 00:11:15.200 --> 00:11:19.519 precise in the process. And partly I think you know, 238 00:11:19.600 --> 00:11:24.320 it's tedious. It's seven days. They're accustomed to working six 239 00:11:24.360 --> 00:11:26.480 days and on the seventh day resting, and said this time, 240 00:11:26.519 --> 00:11:28.759 on the seventh day they have a victory, which is 241 00:11:28.879 --> 00:11:34.679 which is really something. But he gives him this tedious job. 242 00:11:34.960 --> 00:11:38.159 It's how many people. So it mentions the armed men 243 00:11:38.679 --> 00:11:40.919 as being distinct from all the rest of the people. 244 00:11:41.159 --> 00:11:43.559 So it sounds like all the people are marching around 245 00:11:43.559 --> 00:11:46.200 the city and that the armed men are in front 246 00:11:46.240 --> 00:11:48.159 and behind the arc. Is that how you're hearing it? 247 00:11:48.360 --> 00:11:52.200 Yeah, I am. I'm picturing that the priests and the 248 00:11:52.320 --> 00:11:54.000 ark were in the middle of the warriors. 249 00:11:54.200 --> 00:11:58.480 Yeah. So then if you're thinking even just a million people. 250 00:11:58.840 --> 00:12:01.000 You've seen Jericho before? Have you seen Jerico? 251 00:12:01.000 --> 00:12:01.440 I seen? 252 00:12:01.600 --> 00:12:05.879 Haven't you seen Jericho? So Jericho, the ancient city is 253 00:12:06.000 --> 00:12:09.519 not very huge. It's it's I mean, we're not talking 254 00:12:09.559 --> 00:12:12.919 like New York City, right, they call it a town, right, yeah, here, 255 00:12:13.159 --> 00:12:15.639 I would say, I bet you it's not a mile 256 00:12:15.759 --> 00:12:18.840 all the way around. Oh wow, right, it certainly does. 257 00:12:18.960 --> 00:12:21.080 Say my wife and I were just in Germany and 258 00:12:21.120 --> 00:12:23.120 we were in a medieval town. It's one of the 259 00:12:23.120 --> 00:12:27.120 best preserved medieval walled cities in the world, Rotenberg, and 260 00:12:27.159 --> 00:12:29.320 it's like two and a half miles I think around 261 00:12:29.320 --> 00:12:31.559 the outside. And when we were in there, we walked 262 00:12:31.600 --> 00:12:33.399 on the walls all the way around, you know, big, 263 00:12:33.440 --> 00:12:37.200 big part of it. And I was thinking about Jericho then. Now, 264 00:12:37.279 --> 00:12:40.320 of course Jericho's walls were thicker and they had, you know, 265 00:12:40.559 --> 00:12:45.600 all this, but still the idea was having seen Jericho, 266 00:12:45.799 --> 00:12:49.480 the ruins of Jericho, and then being in this city. 267 00:12:49.559 --> 00:12:52.120 I don't think that they were much different a mile 268 00:12:52.200 --> 00:12:55.120 or two around. So you're talking about a million people, 269 00:12:55.440 --> 00:12:58.679 maybe two, maybe three million people, depending on how you 270 00:12:58.720 --> 00:13:01.159 think the thing were and whether or not the women 271 00:13:01.200 --> 00:13:02.919 brought the children, you know, I don't know how it 272 00:13:02.919 --> 00:13:05.240 doesn't say all that, but it certainly seems like there's 273 00:13:05.240 --> 00:13:08.799 a bunch of armed people and a bunch of unarmed people, right, 274 00:13:08.879 --> 00:13:11.080 and they're walking around that. To me, if I was 275 00:13:11.120 --> 00:13:14.440 part of the unarmed group, it'd be a little intimidating 276 00:13:15.240 --> 00:13:18.840 to me. But then God says, be silent, don't say anything, 277 00:13:19.480 --> 00:13:22.679 don't don't say a word. Joshua tells the people, when 278 00:13:22.759 --> 00:13:24.440 was the last time we could even get five hundred 279 00:13:24.440 --> 00:13:26.120 people in our auditorium and not say a word? 280 00:13:26.480 --> 00:13:26.679 Right? 281 00:13:27.200 --> 00:13:30.799 Right? But he gave them all these very specific rules. 282 00:13:31.240 --> 00:13:33.559 And then the depth of the people. So if this 283 00:13:33.679 --> 00:13:35.480 is like, let's say, let's say it's big, Let's say 284 00:13:35.480 --> 00:13:36.960 it's way big. Let's say it's three miles all the 285 00:13:36.960 --> 00:13:40.720 way around the outside. I don't know how big. How 286 00:13:40.799 --> 00:13:44.879 deep would the people be? A million people walking around 287 00:13:44.879 --> 00:13:45.960 a three mile Well. 288 00:13:45.919 --> 00:13:48.279 Yeah, because they can't overlap each other, right, I would think, 289 00:13:48.679 --> 00:13:51.559 so they'd have to be a pretty wide yeah. 290 00:13:51.600 --> 00:13:55.360 Yeah. And then it's just blasting on rams horns. So 291 00:13:55.759 --> 00:13:57.639 when you hear horns, it's not like Trumpe's Duke to 292 00:13:57.679 --> 00:14:00.600 de dou stuff. It's just it's like you ever listened 293 00:14:00.600 --> 00:14:03.559 to like a soccer game or something, a European soccer 294 00:14:03.559 --> 00:14:06.440 game and all blowing, right, that kind of thing, that's 295 00:14:06.759 --> 00:14:08.879 that's the kind of noise. And you look out your 296 00:14:08.879 --> 00:14:13.080 window and it's it's, you know, several hundred yards deep 297 00:14:13.200 --> 00:14:17.120 of people just marching around in total silence, with a 298 00:14:17.120 --> 00:14:20.159 bunch of armed guys and a bunch of people blowing horns. 299 00:14:20.519 --> 00:14:24.679 It would be unbelievably intimidating. And it happens day after day. 300 00:14:24.840 --> 00:14:27.080 There's a lot of psychological warfare going on here, is 301 00:14:27.120 --> 00:14:29.360 what I'm saying. It had been incredibly because they'd never 302 00:14:29.360 --> 00:14:30.679 seen that tactic before. 303 00:14:30.679 --> 00:14:35.399 Right, well, who would That's a crazy tactic, right right? Yeah? 304 00:14:35.480 --> 00:14:37.559 And then of course you know, they probably had no 305 00:14:37.600 --> 00:14:40.399 idea that the walls were just going to miraculously crumble. 306 00:14:41.759 --> 00:14:43.399 And by the way, I don't know if your brain 307 00:14:43.799 --> 00:14:48.399 works like this, but when you hear rams horn, what 308 00:14:48.840 --> 00:14:49.480 were they blowing? 309 00:14:50.120 --> 00:14:50.200 Like? 310 00:14:50.279 --> 00:14:52.360 What? What? What was God meaning when he said blowing 311 00:14:52.360 --> 00:14:52.919 the rams horn? 312 00:14:53.559 --> 00:14:56.120 A horn made from a ram horn, from. 313 00:14:56.039 --> 00:14:56.879 A rams horn? Right? 314 00:14:57.000 --> 00:14:57.200 Yes? 315 00:14:57.320 --> 00:15:01.840 Okay, So then my mind immediately went to the rest front. No, No, 316 00:15:01.960 --> 00:15:04.360 I didn't, although I thought of that, yes, but actually, 317 00:15:04.399 --> 00:15:07.120 because there's a restaurant in an area called ramshorn. No, I 318 00:15:07.159 --> 00:15:10.639 went to this. I went to this. Did God make 319 00:15:10.720 --> 00:15:14.320 the ram knowing that one day its horns would be 320 00:15:14.399 --> 00:15:19.399 a horn? Or did God make the ram? And then 321 00:15:20.200 --> 00:15:22.639 and all of a sudden, mankind decided, Hey, if I 322 00:15:22.639 --> 00:15:23.960 put a little hole at the end of this and 323 00:15:24.440 --> 00:15:27.440 pucker up, it makes noise. And then God just decides 324 00:15:27.480 --> 00:15:30.360 to embrace the rams horn because this is this is 325 00:15:30.399 --> 00:15:32.679 an embraced kind of thing by God. God is like, yeah, 326 00:15:32.799 --> 00:15:35.279 take the rams horn. You use the rams horn. This 327 00:15:35.320 --> 00:15:37.879 is a chosen instrument by God. He didn't say bang 328 00:15:37.919 --> 00:15:41.799 on drums. So so I'm just thinking, like, is God 329 00:15:41.879 --> 00:15:46.559 embracing mankind's distortion of this rams horn? 330 00:15:47.120 --> 00:15:49.639 Is it a distortion or is it a clever use? 331 00:15:50.759 --> 00:15:52.480 Okay, I'll give you that clever use. 332 00:15:52.440 --> 00:15:55.759 Because we still call all the instruments that you blow 333 00:15:55.759 --> 00:15:57.399 into the end of it, you call it a horn, 334 00:15:58.000 --> 00:16:01.720 right right, But they're not actually horns now there right, 335 00:16:02.039 --> 00:16:04.559 So it's like somebody blows in it into this rams 336 00:16:04.559 --> 00:16:06.120 horn and then they go, hey, I like that horn. 337 00:16:06.200 --> 00:16:09.440 That's cool. Now everything trumpets, trombones, everything's a horn now 338 00:16:09.720 --> 00:16:10.360 French horns. 339 00:16:10.559 --> 00:16:14.360 Oh yeah, I guess I guess you would think of that, right, trumpet. 340 00:16:14.519 --> 00:16:16.480 Yeah, so it's kind of that that has nothing to 341 00:16:16.480 --> 00:16:17.960 do with this passage of the fact that they're playing 342 00:16:18.000 --> 00:16:18.519 rams horns. 343 00:16:18.559 --> 00:16:20.919 But yeah, yeah, hey, many many of you don't know this, 344 00:16:21.000 --> 00:16:24.159 but Jeff played trumpet on a level where he played 345 00:16:24.159 --> 00:16:27.080 in the was it Detroit Symphony or. 346 00:16:27.279 --> 00:16:30.200 No, I played with the Motor City Brass but we did. 347 00:16:30.240 --> 00:16:32.679 We did concerts with the Detroit Symphony and stuff like that. 348 00:16:32.840 --> 00:16:34.639 Yeah. Yeah, many people don't know that. 349 00:16:35.320 --> 00:16:37.960 Yeah, back in the day, that's why I paid for college. 350 00:16:38.200 --> 00:16:41.559 So I was playing the horn. So did you know 351 00:16:41.600 --> 00:16:44.440 I also took the trumpet. I do you played until 352 00:16:46.240 --> 00:16:47.039 was it middle school? 353 00:16:47.120 --> 00:16:49.399 Yeah? No, up until fifth grade? 354 00:16:49.600 --> 00:16:50.799 Okay, middle school? 355 00:16:50.799 --> 00:16:54.639 Start third, fourth, fifth grade, seventh from oh okay, yeah, 356 00:16:55.519 --> 00:16:57.320 so but I was terrible at it. 357 00:16:59.639 --> 00:17:01.480 Yeah, I had to put up with people like you 358 00:17:02.679 --> 00:17:06.680 still am you did? Yeah? But yeah. Anyways, so God 359 00:17:06.720 --> 00:17:08.400 has said I'm going to give this to you, and 360 00:17:08.480 --> 00:17:12.240 I think that that's the key element to this entire Oh. 361 00:17:12.359 --> 00:17:15.160 I just looked up. The circumference of Jericho is about 362 00:17:15.200 --> 00:17:16.359 two point eight miles. 363 00:17:16.599 --> 00:17:19.160 Okay, so you were right. Let's pretend it's big, he said, 364 00:17:19.160 --> 00:17:19.640 three miles. 365 00:17:19.720 --> 00:17:24.440 Ye, yeah, yeah, so uh. Anyways, my favorite verse on 366 00:17:24.480 --> 00:17:27.960 the whole the whole thing is that God said He's 367 00:17:28.000 --> 00:17:33.079 going to give them to you, right that I think 368 00:17:33.079 --> 00:17:35.359 a lot of times if you and I were looking 369 00:17:35.359 --> 00:17:37.400 and this is the very first battle, there's ten big 370 00:17:37.440 --> 00:17:40.240 cities they're going to have to take. Yeah, right, And 371 00:17:40.960 --> 00:17:43.240 if you and I were getting ready to march across 372 00:17:43.279 --> 00:17:46.359 the river, we're thinking how we're going to get all 373 00:17:46.359 --> 00:17:47.880 these people across the river. That goes, well, I'm just 374 00:17:47.920 --> 00:17:49.559 gonna send the priests that would ry it out. Oh 375 00:17:49.599 --> 00:17:52.240 that's fantastic. But then you'd think, well, I used up 376 00:17:52.240 --> 00:17:56.000 all my miracles, right, I mean, what are the chances? 377 00:17:56.079 --> 00:17:58.160 So now you're looking at this big city. It's three 378 00:17:58.200 --> 00:18:02.200 miles around on the outside, it's the biggest walled city. Right, 379 00:18:02.240 --> 00:18:04.200 this is gonna be thet The hardest fight we have 380 00:18:04.400 --> 00:18:06.160 is this one. This is gonna be the hardest. And 381 00:18:06.160 --> 00:18:08.039 that's the place God took us first. God took us 382 00:18:08.079 --> 00:18:11.880 after the most difficult battle first. And you know, I 383 00:18:11.920 --> 00:18:14.119 saw a thing here. It says that the walls were 384 00:18:15.160 --> 00:18:17.799 what was the walls were like twenty five feet high 385 00:18:18.200 --> 00:18:19.400 and twenty feet thick. 386 00:18:20.000 --> 00:18:21.240 Yeah, that's pretty crazy. 387 00:18:21.319 --> 00:18:24.559 That is twenty feet thick. Yeah, that's right. That's the 388 00:18:24.599 --> 00:18:28.880 width of a road almost, yeah, right, and twenty five 389 00:18:28.920 --> 00:18:33.200 feet high. This is a big walled city. And how 390 00:18:33.200 --> 00:18:35.720 you're gonna It's gonna be a terrible siege. We're gonna 391 00:18:35.720 --> 00:18:39.079 lose a lot of people. They have the advantage they 392 00:18:39.079 --> 00:18:42.599 are twenty five feet high, so they just shoot down 393 00:18:42.640 --> 00:18:46.000 with arrows, they throw spears, they dump hot oil on us, 394 00:18:46.079 --> 00:18:48.720 or whatever, you know what I mean. So you're thinking, oh, 395 00:18:48.759 --> 00:18:51.079 it's gonna be a really long siege. We're gonna have 396 00:18:51.119 --> 00:18:53.000 to just come around and not allow anybody in any 397 00:18:53.039 --> 00:18:55.720 starve them out right right, it's gonna be this miserable 398 00:18:55.720 --> 00:18:59.039 experience that God goes, Well, so I had this idea, Joshua, 399 00:18:59.119 --> 00:19:02.400 Right right, I've already given you the king, I've already 400 00:19:02.400 --> 00:19:04.319 given you the city. It's it's a done deal. Just 401 00:19:04.319 --> 00:19:06.759