Joshua 6

Joshua 6

Joshua and Israel enjoy their first successful mission and God’s blessing. By the way the walls of Jericho fell down the people knew that this was God’s victory. The goal is accomplished by God’s blessing(6:20-21). God blessed Joshua and his leadership over Israel. Everyone knew Joshua was God’s man (6:27). Even in times of blessings, God expects his people to obey His word (6:19). Perhaps we all feel a bit of pride and overconfidence in the moments of God’s blessing, which can cause us to sin forgetting what God had said. Our pride pushes us to do things against what God wants. The spoils of the first battle are all to be given to the Lord (6:19).

Rahab is mentioned again as an exception to God’s “destroy everything” rule (v17).  I believe chapters 2-7 complete a single unit focus on the exceptions of Rahab and Achan.    God is the God who makes exceptions.  That statement there might seem blasphemous to some, but if it were not for the cross and the exception He makes for us all in Christ, we’d all be damned in our sin.  The exception made for Rahab is based on her faith despite the entire city being under judgement.  As I mentioned before, we are all damned under the penalty of sin.  But the conditions for Rahab are the same for us except that our focus of our belief God is through Jesus Christ.

Chapter seven and Achan’s sin ,in my view,  will complete this unit and the idea of God being the God of exceptions.