"Let The Walls Fall Down" Series

There’s an old spiritualist says Joshua fought the battle of Jericho but the truth is God ought that battle. Remember Israel had to play the trumpets, March around and then shout. Israelites did not down those walls. God did.

Verses 6-9.

You see sometimes the best way to hear from God is to be quiet. Simply stop talking. Look at verse 10. They are instructed to remain silent until they hear a long blast on the trumpet-shofar and then they were told to shout. We hear God’s voice best when we are quiet.

So after six days of this, now the final day came. If you have been following closely, you may have noticed that when Joshua passed along God’s instructions, he never told them the walls would collapse. On each of the previous days they had marched-one surround the city and then returned to camp. On the Sabbath day they marched around the city seven times.

Look at verse 16 and 20. In the seventh time it happened when the priest with the trumpets, that Joshua said to the people: shout for the Lord has given you the city! First 20.

Hebrews 11:30 tells us that my faith the walls of Jericho fell, after the people marched around them for seven days. There’s a principle here that we should pay attention to and here is a question for you to consider: what is it that honors God it pleases him the most question obedience-obedience honors God more than anything. Samuel in the OT says one Samuel 15:22. Joshua did not tell the people how many times they were going to be required to circle the city nor did he tell them what the result of their marching would be. Too many times we give up when we are right on the verge of seeing God do something really powerful-so we miss it.

Florence Chadwick was the first woman to swim the English Channel in both directions in 1950. In 1952 she attempted to swim 26 miles between Catalina Island and the California coastline. As she began she was flanked by small boats. That watch for sharks and were prepared to help if she became tired. After about 15 hours, a thick fog said he and. She began to doubt her ability to continue so she told her mother, who was in one of the boats that she didn’t think she could. She swam for another hour before she asked to be pulled out, because she was not able to see the coastline due to the fog. As she sat in the boat she found out she had stopped swimming just 1 mile away from her destination.

Victory can be ours if we will simply refuse to quit when times grow hard.

Vs. 21. That is a difficult verse. We have to remember that Jericho had been given plenty of time to repent. Plenty of time to change their life style but they refused. They had sacrificed their children to the false god Molech; they used temple prostitutes as well as magic and sorcery to deceive. They had 4 generations to do the right thing but refused. We saw Rahab early in our study a few weeks ago and you will remember that she was given the opportunity to repent and she did. As a result God saved her life.