We’ll talk in a few lessons about what perhaps happened to that house when the wall came down.

She agrees and gives them directions back to Shittim and they leave in peace.Eventually the two spies make it back to camp. For more information, see our The Gospel Project for Kids Small Group Timeline and Map SetAs believers we should always be progressing on the spiritual journey. Read Joshua 2:1-14 To get a better idea of the Baptist Collegiate Ministry identity we as Virginia Tech students decided to create the profile of a typical student at the BCM. Receive the challenge (v. 2) "Moses my servant is dead. Browse Sermons on Joshua 2. The story of Naomi is the story of the destitute in every age. She was a prostitute who had faith in God, helped the Israelites, and even became the 35th great-grandmother of our Lord Jesus Christ. After Moses died, God challenged Joshua to possess the land. They give stipulations to her — Her family needs to stay in her house and she needs to tie a scarlet thread to her window. What could be hindering the answers to your prayers? The land is their’s. Please enter a valid email address. And before Moses could send them, the people came and asked as well.

Maybe God commanded Moses to send the spies. Do we see Rahab doing that? Please see below for details. Please enter a valid email address. He has given us His Spirit to live in us so we won't be alone. She had to tell all her relatives about the coming judgment and the promise of salvation, and this was a dangerous thing to do. So Joshua is getting encouragement directly from the Lord himself and also from God’s people, repeating God’s word to him. Then they returned to the camp of Israel and gave Joshua the good news that the fear of the Lord had brought the people of the land to a place of helplessness. God's presence becomes personal when we respect God's commands. We cannot treat Scripture as a buffet line in which we pick and choose what we will obey.God told Joshua not to vary from the law.

She was kind of their only help at this point. There are sharp strokes of misfortune, the sudden loss of health, an overwhelming catastrophe in business, or bereavement. It is with an army and in a war that Joshua is now to display Jehovah, and he must employ all the arts of the soldier. I.

God initially showed His presence as the house of Jacob left Egypt by an accompanying cloud or pillar of fire - but no more. Or it could be that these two young men – that’s what this book calls them later on – these two young men are in a place they shouldn’t be.

Rahab herself lived in the city of Jericho and she was a prostitute. So we can’t definitively state that sending the spies was wrong. Most of us fear the unknown, so often we settle for problems instead of facing our challenges. 12 didn’t really work out before. When these two men arrived in Jericho, they went to the home of a harlot. Nothing has changed today. I mean, after all, this is a walled city. He will pass from the passive to the active state. The part of the children of Judah was too much for them: therefore the children of Simeon had their inheritance within the inheritance of them. One of the huge purposes of God commanding his people to destroy the 7 nations was so that they won’t lead his people into idolatry. That these guys ended up in the home of a prostitute. They were a brand-new generation of people. What could have been more hopeless than the outlook for her? "God told Joshua that he was to obey the law of God.

Since poverty was prevalent in these areas, prostitution was the alternative to starvation.