Christian Faith- The Power of Your Spoken Words Part 10

49 In this episode, I continue to teach out of Joshua and pick up
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Joshua 6 :7-10


And he said to the people, "Proceed and march around the city,
and let him who is armed advanced before the ark of the
Lord." 


So it was, when Joshua had spoken to the people, that the
seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams' horns before
the Lord advanced and blew the trumpets, and the ark of the
covenant of the Lord followed them. 


The armed men went before the priests who blew the trumpets,
and the rear guard came after the ark, while the priests
continued blowing the trumpets. 


Now Joshua has commanded the people saying, "You shall not
shout or make any noise with your voice, nor shall a word proceed
out of your mouth, until the day I say to you, Shout! Then you
shall shout."
If you remember from the previous episode, Jesus came
and gave Joshua his "marching orders" and He didn't say anything
about the people having to be quiet.

I believe Joshua knew his people and as their leader, he knew it
would be best if they didn't open their mouths.

He was using his experience from when 40 years earlier he was one
of the 12 who was sent to spy out the lane.

Numbers 13:1,2
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, "Send men to spy out the
land of Canaan, which I am giving to the children of Israel; from
each tribe of their fathers you shall send a man, every one a
leader among them."

13:17-20
And a return from spying out the land after 40 days. Then Moses
sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said to them, "Go up
this way into the South, and go up to the mountains, and see what
the land is like whether the people who dwell in it are strong or
weak, few or many; 


whether the land they dwell in is good or bad; whether the
cities they inhabit are like camps or strongholds;


whether the land is rich or poor; and whether there are
forests there or not. Be of good courage. And bring some of the
fruit of the land." Now the time was the season of the first ripe
grapes.

13:25
 And they return from spying out the land after 40 days.


13:27-33
Then they told him, and said: "We went to the land where you sent
us. It truly flows with milk and honey, and this is its
fruit. 


Nevertheless the people who dwell in the land are strong; the
cities are fortified and very large; moreover we saw the
descendants of Anak there. 


The Amalekites dwell in the land of the South; the Hittites,
the Jebusites, and the Amorites dwell in the mountains; and the
Canaanites dwell by the sea and along the banks of the
Jordan."


Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses, and said, "Let us
go up at once and take possession, for we are well able to
overcome it."


But the men who had gone up with him said, "We are not able to
go up against the people, for they are stronger than
we." 


And they gave the children of Israel a bad report of the land
which they had spied out, saying, "The land through which we have
gone as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the
people whom we saw in it are men of great stature. 


There we saw the giants (the descendants of Anak came from the
giants) and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and we
were in their sight."