F. Attack
and the fall of Jericho (chapter 6).
We need to fight the good fight
for the truth (1 Tim ; 2 Tim
4:7).
1. The
difficulties in attacking the city.
a.
Israelites lived a nomadic lifestyle. Not good
in war.
b.
Canaanites were good in war. The wall of Jericho
was very firm and strong. It was tightly shut up.
2.
The methods in attacking Jericho.
a.
It was based on the promise of God.
b.
Follow the methods as instructed by God.
(a)
All the armed man march around the city once in
a day.
(b)
Seven priests carry trumpet of rams’ horns and
blow the trumpet in from of the ark.
(c)
The people have to keep silence and return to
the camp after marching around the city.
(d)
All have to march the city seven times on day
seven. When the priests sounded the trumpet for the seventh time, the people
shouted and the wall collapsed.
(e)
The revelation of spiritual war.
3.
Destroy every living thing in the city.
a.
Destroy men and women, and livestock (except for
Rahab’s family).
b.
Destroy silver and gold, and the articles of
bronze and iron—to be sacred to the Lord’s treasury.
c.
The reasons to destroy the Canaanites:
(a)
To kill all the Canaanites, take others as
plunder, subject them to forced labor; if they did not accept, to put to the
sword all the men in it (Deut 20:10-18).
(b)
The sin of the Canaanites had reached its full
measure, their faith and morality filled with wickedness and deterioration (Gen
15:16, 18:20-21, 32).
4.
The entire family of Rahab
was saved.
d.
Refer to chapter 2.
5.
Not to rebuild the city of Jericho.
e.
The city of Jericho
is always being occupied (Josh 18:21; Judg 3:13; 2 Sam
10:5; 2 Kgs 2:4-19). Forbid them to rebuild the city
walls, as the use of military infrastructure.
f.
After 600 years, in his days, Hiel of Bethel built Jericho.
He laid its foundation with Abiram his firstborn, and
with his youngest son Segub he set up its gates,
according to the word of the Lord, which He had spoken through Joshua the son
of Nun (1 Kgs 16:34).
(a)
The city of Jericho is the city of sin and
prefigures a person after s/he believes in the Lord and have purged their sins
by leading a holy life, and not to go back to sinful ways (Gal 2:18; Eph
4:20-32; Mt 13:22, 12:43-45; Heb 6:4-8).
