Jericho is shut up. No one goes out, no one comes in. The city is in lockdown before a single Israelite soldier approaches. And the battle plan God gives Joshua is: march around the city once a day for six days, seven times on the seventh day, then shout.
The plan is not military strategy. It is liturgy. Seven priests with seven trumpets, the ark of the covenant, the armed guard, circling the city in silence for six days. The city watching, unable to understand what is happening. On the seventh day, seven circuits, the trumpets, the shout. And the walls fall flat.
Thread 4 is in the obedience: Joshua and the people have to actually do this for seven days. The faith is expressed in the sustained obedience of an instruction that looks nothing like military sense. Hebrews 11:30 names it explicitly, by faith the walls of Jericho fell after they were compassed about seven days. Thread 5 is the conquest as the execution of the divine promise to Abraham: I have given you the land.
The walls of Jericho fall at a shout: the conquest begins not with siege engines and military strategy but with seven days of silent marching and a trumpet blast; the methodology is designed to make unmistakable that the victory belongs to God.
רְאֵה נָתַתִּי בְיָדְךָ אֶת יְרִיחוֹ (re'eh natatti be-yadkha et Yericho): see, I have given into your hand Jericho: natatti (I have given, perfect tense treating the victory as already accomplished; the divine perfect of certainty: what God has decreed is spoken as done; Joshua is being told to see what has already happened in the divine realm before it happens in the human realm)
threads t4 · t5 · see Genesis 15:18-21 · Deuteronomy 9:3 · Hebrews 11:30
Jericho is shut up. No one goes out, no one comes in. The city is in lockdown before a single Israelite soldier approaches. And the battle plan God gives Joshua is: march around the city once a day for six days, seven times on the seventh day, then shout.
The plan is not military strategy. It is liturgy. Seven priests with seven trumpets, the ark of the covenant, the armed guard, circling the city in silence for six days. The city watching, unable to understand what is happening. On the seventh day, seven circuits, the trumpets, the shout. And the walls fall flat.
Thread 4 is in the obedience: Joshua and the people have to actually do this for seven days. The faith is expressed in the sustained obedience of an instruction that looks nothing like military sense. Hebrews 11:30 names it explicitly, by faith the walls of Jericho fell after they were compassed about seven days. Thread 5 is the conquest as the execution of the divine promise to Abraham: I have given you the land.
The walls of Jericho fall at a shout: the conquest begins not with siege engines and military strategy but with seven days of silent marching and a trumpet blast; the methodology is designed to make unmistakable that the victory belongs to God.
רְאֵה נָתַתִּי בְיָדְךָ אֶת יְרִיחוֹ (re'eh natatti be-yadkha et Yericho): see, I have given into your hand Jericho: natatti (I have given, perfect tense treating the victory as already accomplished; the divine perfect of certainty: what God has decreed is spoken as done; Joshua is being told to see what has already happened in the divine realm before it happens in the human realm)
threads t4 · t5 · see Genesis 15:18-21 · Deuteronomy 9:3 · Hebrews 11:30
Jericho is shut up. No one goes out, no one comes in. The city is in lockdown before a single Israelite soldier approaches. And the battle plan God gives Joshua is: march around the city once a day for six days, seven times on the seventh day, then shout.
The plan is not military strategy. It is liturgy. Seven priests with seven trumpets, the ark of the covenant, the armed guard, circling the city in silence for six days. The city watching, unable to understand what is happening. On the seventh day, seven circuits, the trumpets, the shout. And the walls fall flat.
Thread 4 is in the obedience: Joshua and the people have to actually do this for seven days. The faith is expressed in the sustained obedience of an instruction that looks nothing like military sense. Hebrews 11:30 names it explicitly, by faith the walls of Jericho fell after they were compassed about seven days. Thread 5 is the conquest as the execution of the divine promise to Abraham: I have given you the land.
The walls of Jericho fall at a shout: the conquest begins not with siege engines and military strategy but with seven days of silent marching and a trumpet blast; the methodology is designed to make unmistakable that the victory belongs to God.
רְאֵה נָתַתִּי בְיָדְךָ אֶת יְרִיחוֹ (re'eh natatti be-yadkha et Yericho): see, I have given into your hand Jericho: natatti (I have given, perfect tense treating the victory as already accomplished; the divine perfect of certainty: what God has decreed is spoken as done; Joshua is being told to see what has already happened in the divine realm before it happens in the human realm)
threads t4 · t5 · see Genesis 15:18-21 · Deuteronomy 9:3 · Hebrews 11:30
Jericho is shut up. No one goes out, no one comes in. The city is in lockdown before a single Israelite soldier approaches. And the battle plan God gives Joshua is: march around the city once a day for six days, seven times on the seventh day, then shout.
The plan is not military strategy. It is liturgy. Seven priests with seven trumpets, the ark of the covenant, the armed guard, circling the city in silence for six days. The city watching, unable to understand what is happening. On the seventh day, seven circuits, the trumpets, the shout. And the walls fall flat.
Thread 4 is in the obedience: Joshua and the people have to actually do this for seven days. The faith is expressed in the sustained obedience of an instruction that looks nothing like military sense. Hebrews 11:30 names it explicitly, by faith the walls of Jericho fell after they were compassed about seven days. Thread 5 is the conquest as the execution of the divine promise to Abraham: I have given you the land.
The walls of Jericho fall at a shout: the conquest begins not with siege engines and military strategy but with seven days of silent marching and a trumpet blast; the methodology is designed to make unmistakable that the victory belongs to God.
רְאֵה נָתַתִּי בְיָדְךָ אֶת יְרִיחוֹ (re'eh natatti be-yadkha et Yericho): see, I have given into your hand Jericho: natatti (I have given, perfect tense treating the victory as already accomplished; the divine perfect of certainty: what God has decreed is spoken as done; Joshua is being told to see what has already happened in the divine realm before it happens in the human realm)
threads t4 · t5 · see Genesis 15:18-21 · Deuteronomy 9:3 · Hebrews 11:30
Jericho is shut up. No one goes out, no one comes in. The city is in lockdown before a single Israelite soldier approaches. And the battle plan God gives Joshua is: march around the city once a day for six days, seven times on the seventh day, then shout.
The plan is not military strategy. It is liturgy. Seven priests with seven trumpets, the ark of the covenant, the armed guard, circling the city in silence for six days. The city watching, unable to understand what is happening. On the seventh day, seven circuits, the trumpets, the shout. And the walls fall flat.
Thread 4 is in the obedience: Joshua and the people have to actually do this for seven days. The faith is expressed in the sustained obedience of an instruction that looks nothing like military sense. Hebrews 11:30 names it explicitly, by faith the walls of Jericho fell after they were compassed about seven days. Thread 5 is the conquest as the execution of the divine promise to Abraham: I have given you the land.
The walls of Jericho fall at a shout: the conquest begins not with siege engines and military strategy but with seven days of silent marching and a trumpet blast; the methodology is designed to make unmistakable that the victory belongs to God.
רְאֵה נָתַתִּי בְיָדְךָ אֶת יְרִיחוֹ (re'eh natatti be-yadkha et Yericho): see, I have given into your hand Jericho: natatti (I have given, perfect tense treating the victory as already accomplished; the divine perfect of certainty: what God has decreed is spoken as done; Joshua is being told to see what has already happened in the divine realm before it happens in the human realm)
threads t4 · t5 · see Genesis 15:18-21 · Deuteronomy 9:3 · Hebrews 11:30
Jericho is shut up. No one goes out, no one comes in. The city is in lockdown before a single Israelite soldier approaches. And the battle plan God gives Joshua is: march around the city once a day for six days, seven times on the seventh day, then shout.
The plan is not military strategy. It is liturgy. Seven priests with seven trumpets, the ark of the covenant, the armed guard, circling the city in silence for six days. The city watching, unable to understand what is happening. On the seventh day, seven circuits, the trumpets, the shout. And the walls fall flat.
Thread 4 is in the obedience: Joshua and the people have to actually do this for seven days. The faith is expressed in the sustained obedience of an instruction that looks nothing like military sense. Hebrews 11:30 names it explicitly, by faith the walls of Jericho fell after they were compassed about seven days. Thread 5 is the conquest as the execution of the divine promise to Abraham: I have given you the land.
The walls of Jericho fall at a shout: the conquest begins not with siege engines and military strategy but with seven days of silent marching and a trumpet blast; the methodology is designed to make unmistakable that the victory belongs to God.
רְאֵה נָתַתִּי בְיָדְךָ אֶת יְרִיחוֹ (re'eh natatti be-yadkha et Yericho): see, I have given into your hand Jericho: natatti (I have given, perfect tense treating the victory as already accomplished; the divine perfect of certainty: what God has decreed is spoken as done; Joshua is being told to see what has already happened in the divine realm before it happens in the human realm)
threads t4 · t5 · see Genesis 15:18-21 · Deuteronomy 9:3 · Hebrews 11:30
Jericho is shut up. No one goes out, no one comes in. The city is in lockdown before a single Israelite soldier approaches. And the battle plan God gives Joshua is: march around the city once a day for six days, seven times on the seventh day, then shout.
The plan is not military strategy. It is liturgy. Seven priests with seven trumpets, the ark of the covenant, the armed guard, circling the city in silence for six days. The city watching, unable to understand what is happening. On the seventh day, seven circuits, the trumpets, the shout. And the walls fall flat.
Thread 4 is in the obedience: Joshua and the people have to actually do this for seven days. The faith is expressed in the sustained obedience of an instruction that looks nothing like military sense. Hebrews 11:30 names it explicitly, by faith the walls of Jericho fell after they were compassed about seven days. Thread 5 is the conquest as the execution of the divine promise to Abraham: I have given you the land.
The walls of Jericho fall at a shout: the conquest begins not with siege engines and military strategy but with seven days of silent marching and a trumpet blast; the methodology is designed to make unmistakable that the victory belongs to God.
רְאֵה נָתַתִּי בְיָדְךָ אֶת יְרִיחוֹ (re'eh natatti be-yadkha et Yericho): see, I have given into your hand Jericho: natatti (I have given, perfect tense treating the victory as already accomplished; the divine perfect of certainty: what God has decreed is spoken as done; Joshua is being told to see what has already happened in the divine realm before it happens in the human realm)
threads t4 · t5 · see Genesis 15:18-21 · Deuteronomy 9:3 · Hebrews 11:30
Jericho is shut up. No one goes out, no one comes in. The city is in lockdown before a single Israelite soldier approaches. And the battle plan God gives Joshua is: march around the city once a day for six days, seven times on the seventh day, then shout.
The plan is not military strategy. It is liturgy. Seven priests with seven trumpets, the ark of the covenant, the armed guard, circling the city in silence for six days. The city watching, unable to understand what is happening. On the seventh day, seven circuits, the trumpets, the shout. And the walls fall flat.
Thread 4 is in the obedience: Joshua and the people have to actually do this for seven days. The faith is expressed in the sustained obedience of an instruction that looks nothing like military sense. Hebrews 11:30 names it explicitly, by faith the walls of Jericho fell after they were compassed about seven days. Thread 5 is the conquest as the execution of the divine promise to Abraham: I have given you the land.
The walls of Jericho fall at a shout: the conquest begins not with siege engines and military strategy but with seven days of silent marching and a trumpet blast; the methodology is designed to make unmistakable that the victory belongs to God.
רְאֵה נָתַתִּי בְיָדְךָ אֶת יְרִיחוֹ (re'eh natatti be-yadkha et Yericho): see, I have given into your hand Jericho: natatti (I have given, perfect tense treating the victory as already accomplished; the divine perfect of certainty: what God has decreed is spoken as done; Joshua is being told to see what has already happened in the divine realm before it happens in the human realm)
threads t4 · t5 · see Genesis 15:18-21 · Deuteronomy 9:3 · Hebrews 11:30
Jericho is shut up. No one goes out, no one comes in. The city is in lockdown before a single Israelite soldier approaches. And the battle plan God gives Joshua is: march around the city once a day for six days, seven times on the seventh day, then shout.
The plan is not military strategy. It is liturgy. Seven priests with seven trumpets, the ark of the covenant, the armed guard, circling the city in silence for six days. The city watching, unable to understand what is happening. On the seventh day, seven circuits, the trumpets, the shout. And the walls fall flat.
Thread 4 is in the obedience: Joshua and the people have to actually do this for seven days. The faith is expressed in the sustained obedience of an instruction that looks nothing like military sense. Hebrews 11:30 names it explicitly, by faith the walls of Jericho fell after they were compassed about seven days. Thread 5 is the conquest as the execution of the divine promise to Abraham: I have given you the land.
The walls of Jericho fall at a shout: the conquest begins not with siege engines and military strategy but with seven days of silent marching and a trumpet blast; the methodology is designed to make unmistakable that the victory belongs to God.
רְאֵה נָתַתִּי בְיָדְךָ אֶת יְרִיחוֹ (re'eh natatti be-yadkha et Yericho): see, I have given into your hand Jericho: natatti (I have given, perfect tense treating the victory as already accomplished; the divine perfect of certainty: what God has decreed is spoken as done; Joshua is being told to see what has already happened in the divine realm before it happens in the human realm)
threads t4 · t5 · see Genesis 15:18-21 · Deuteronomy 9:3 · Hebrews 11:30
Jericho is shut up. No one goes out, no one comes in. The city is in lockdown before a single Israelite soldier approaches. And the battle plan God gives Joshua is: march around the city once a day for six days, seven times on the seventh day, then shout.
The plan is not military strategy. It is liturgy. Seven priests with seven trumpets, the ark of the covenant, the armed guard, circling the city in silence for six days. The city watching, unable to understand what is happening. On the seventh day, seven circuits, the trumpets, the shout. And the walls fall flat.
Thread 4 is in the obedience: Joshua and the people have to actually do this for seven days. The faith is expressed in the sustained obedience of an instruction that looks nothing like military sense. Hebrews 11:30 names it explicitly, by faith the walls of Jericho fell after they were compassed about seven days. Thread 5 is the conquest as the execution of the divine promise to Abraham: I have given you the land.
The walls of Jericho fall at a shout: the conquest begins not with siege engines and military strategy but with seven days of silent marching and a trumpet blast; the methodology is designed to make unmistakable that the victory belongs to God.
רְאֵה נָתַתִּי בְיָדְךָ אֶת יְרִיחוֹ (re'eh natatti be-yadkha et Yericho): see, I have given into your hand Jericho: natatti (I have given, perfect tense treating the victory as already accomplished; the divine perfect of certainty: what God has decreed is spoken as done; Joshua is being told to see what has already happened in the divine realm before it happens in the human realm)
threads t4 · t5 · see Genesis 15:18-21 · Deuteronomy 9:3 · Hebrews 11:30
Jericho is shut up. No one goes out, no one comes in. The city is in lockdown before a single Israelite soldier approaches. And the battle plan God gives Joshua is: march around the city once a day for six days, seven times on the seventh day, then shout.
The plan is not military strategy. It is liturgy. Seven priests with seven trumpets, the ark of the covenant, the armed guard, circling the city in silence for six days. The city watching, unable to understand what is happening. On the seventh day, seven circuits, the trumpets, the shout. And the walls fall flat.
Thread 4 is in the obedience: Joshua and the people have to actually do this for seven days. The faith is expressed in the sustained obedience of an instruction that looks nothing like military sense. Hebrews 11:30 names it explicitly, by faith the walls of Jericho fell after they were compassed about seven days. Thread 5 is the conquest as the execution of the divine promise to Abraham: I have given you the land.
The walls of Jericho fall at a shout: the conquest begins not with siege engines and military strategy but with seven days of silent marching and a trumpet blast; the methodology is designed to make unmistakable that the victory belongs to God.
רְאֵה נָתַתִּי בְיָדְךָ אֶת יְרִיחוֹ (re'eh natatti be-yadkha et Yericho): see, I have given into your hand Jericho: natatti (I have given, perfect tense treating the victory as already accomplished; the divine perfect of certainty: what God has decreed is spoken as done; Joshua is being told to see what has already happened in the divine realm before it happens in the human realm)
threads t4 · t5 · see Genesis 15:18-21 · Deuteronomy 9:3 · Hebrews 11:30
Jericho is shut up. No one goes out, no one comes in. The city is in lockdown before a single Israelite soldier approaches. And the battle plan God gives Joshua is: march around the city once a day for six days, seven times on the seventh day, then shout.
The plan is not military strategy. It is liturgy. Seven priests with seven trumpets, the ark of the covenant, the armed guard, circling the city in silence for six days. The city watching, unable to understand what is happening. On the seventh day, seven circuits, the trumpets, the shout. And the walls fall flat.
Thread 4 is in the obedience: Joshua and the people have to actually do this for seven days. The faith is expressed in the sustained obedience of an instruction that looks nothing like military sense. Hebrews 11:30 names it explicitly, by faith the walls of Jericho fell after they were compassed about seven days. Thread 5 is the conquest as the execution of the divine promise to Abraham: I have given you the land.
The walls of Jericho fall at a shout: the conquest begins not with siege engines and military strategy but with seven days of silent marching and a trumpet blast; the methodology is designed to make unmistakable that the victory belongs to God.
רְאֵה נָתַתִּי בְיָדְךָ אֶת יְרִיחוֹ (re'eh natatti be-yadkha et Yericho): see, I have given into your hand Jericho: natatti (I have given, perfect tense treating the victory as already accomplished; the divine perfect of certainty: what God has decreed is spoken as done; Joshua is being told to see what has already happened in the divine realm before it happens in the human realm)
threads t4 · t5 · see Genesis 15:18-21 · Deuteronomy 9:3 · Hebrews 11:30
Jericho is shut up. No one goes out, no one comes in. The city is in lockdown before a single Israelite soldier approaches. And the battle plan God gives Joshua is: march around the city once a day for six days, seven times on the seventh day, then shout.
The plan is not military strategy. It is liturgy. Seven priests with seven trumpets, the ark of the covenant, the armed guard, circling the city in silence for six days. The city watching, unable to understand what is happening. On the seventh day, seven circuits, the trumpets, the shout. And the walls fall flat.
Thread 4 is in the obedience: Joshua and the people have to actually do this for seven days. The faith is expressed in the sustained obedience of an instruction that looks nothing like military sense. Hebrews 11:30 names it explicitly, by faith the walls of Jericho fell after they were compassed about seven days. Thread 5 is the conquest as the execution of the divine promise to Abraham: I have given you the land.
The walls of Jericho fall at a shout: the conquest begins not with siege engines and military strategy but with seven days of silent marching and a trumpet blast; the methodology is designed to make unmistakable that the victory belongs to God.
רְאֵה נָתַתִּי בְיָדְךָ אֶת יְרִיחוֹ (re'eh natatti be-yadkha et Yericho): see, I have given into your hand Jericho: natatti (I have given, perfect tense treating the victory as already accomplished; the divine perfect of certainty: what God has decreed is spoken as done; Joshua is being told to see what has already happened in the divine realm before it happens in the human realm)
threads t4 · t5 · see Genesis 15:18-21 · Deuteronomy 9:3 · Hebrews 11:30
Jericho is shut up. No one goes out, no one comes in. The city is in lockdown before a single Israelite soldier approaches. And the battle plan God gives Joshua is: march around the city once a day for six days, seven times on the seventh day, then shout.
The plan is not military strategy. It is liturgy. Seven priests with seven trumpets, the ark of the covenant, the armed guard, circling the city in silence for six days. The city watching, unable to understand what is happening. On the seventh day, seven circuits, the trumpets, the shout. And the walls fall flat.
Thread 4 is in the obedience: Joshua and the people have to actually do this for seven days. The faith is expressed in the sustained obedience of an instruction that looks nothing like military sense. Hebrews 11:30 names it explicitly, by faith the walls of Jericho fell after they were compassed about seven days. Thread 5 is the conquest as the execution of the divine promise to Abraham: I have given you the land.
The walls of Jericho fall at a shout: the conquest begins not with siege engines and military strategy but with seven days of silent marching and a trumpet blast; the methodology is designed to make unmistakable that the victory belongs to God.
רְאֵה נָתַתִּי בְיָדְךָ אֶת יְרִיחוֹ (re'eh natatti be-yadkha et Yericho): see, I have given into your hand Jericho: natatti (I have given, perfect tense treating the victory as already accomplished; the divine perfect of certainty: what God has decreed is spoken as done; Joshua is being told to see what has already happened in the divine realm before it happens in the human realm)
threads t4 · t5 · see Genesis 15:18-21 · Deuteronomy 9:3 · Hebrews 11:30
Jericho is shut up. No one goes out, no one comes in. The city is in lockdown before a single Israelite soldier approaches. And the battle plan God gives Joshua is: march around the city once a day for six days, seven times on the seventh day, then shout.
The plan is not military strategy. It is liturgy. Seven priests with seven trumpets, the ark of the covenant, the armed guard, circling the city in silence for six days. The city watching, unable to understand what is happening. On the seventh day, seven circuits, the trumpets, the shout. And the walls fall flat.
Thread 4 is in the obedience: Joshua and the people have to actually do this for seven days. The faith is expressed in the sustained obedience of an instruction that looks nothing like military sense. Hebrews 11:30 names it explicitly, by faith the walls of Jericho fell after they were compassed about seven days. Thread 5 is the conquest as the execution of the divine promise to Abraham: I have given you the land.
The walls of Jericho fall at a shout: the conquest begins not with siege engines and military strategy but with seven days of silent marching and a trumpet blast; the methodology is designed to make unmistakable that the victory belongs to God.
רְאֵה נָתַתִּי בְיָדְךָ אֶת יְרִיחוֹ (re'eh natatti be-yadkha et Yericho): see, I have given into your hand Jericho: natatti (I have given, perfect tense treating the victory as already accomplished; the divine perfect of certainty: what God has decreed is spoken as done; Joshua is being told to see what has already happened in the divine realm before it happens in the human realm)
threads t4 · t5 · see Genesis 15:18-21 · Deuteronomy 9:3 · Hebrews 11:30
Jericho is shut up. No one goes out, no one comes in. The city is in lockdown before a single Israelite soldier approaches. And the battle plan God gives Joshua is: march around the city once a day for six days, seven times on the seventh day, then shout.
The plan is not military strategy. It is liturgy. Seven priests with seven trumpets, the ark of the covenant, the armed guard, circling the city in silence for six days. The city watching, unable to understand what is happening. On the seventh day, seven circuits, the trumpets, the shout. And the walls fall flat.
Thread 4 is in the obedience: Joshua and the people have to actually do this for seven days. The faith is expressed in the sustained obedience of an instruction that looks nothing like military sense. Hebrews 11:30 names it explicitly, by faith the walls of Jericho fell after they were compassed about seven days. Thread 5 is the conquest as the execution of the divine promise to Abraham: I have given you the land.
The walls of Jericho fall at a shout: the conquest begins not with siege engines and military strategy but with seven days of silent marching and a trumpet blast; the methodology is designed to make unmistakable that the victory belongs to God.
רְאֵה נָתַתִּי בְיָדְךָ אֶת יְרִיחוֹ (re'eh natatti be-yadkha et Yericho): see, I have given into your hand Jericho: natatti (I have given, perfect tense treating the victory as already accomplished; the divine perfect of certainty: what God has decreed is spoken as done; Joshua is being told to see what has already happened in the divine realm before it happens in the human realm)
threads t4 · t5 · see Genesis 15:18-21 · Deuteronomy 9:3 · Hebrews 11:30
Jericho is shut up. No one goes out, no one comes in. The city is in lockdown before a single Israelite soldier approaches. And the battle plan God gives Joshua is: march around the city once a day for six days, seven times on the seventh day, then shout.
The plan is not military strategy. It is liturgy. Seven priests with seven trumpets, the ark of the covenant, the armed guard, circling the city in silence for six days. The city watching, unable to understand what is happening. On the seventh day, seven circuits, the trumpets, the shout. And the walls fall flat.
Thread 4 is in the obedience: Joshua and the people have to actually do this for seven days. The faith is expressed in the sustained obedience of an instruction that looks nothing like military sense. Hebrews 11:30 names it explicitly, by faith the walls of Jericho fell after they were compassed about seven days. Thread 5 is the conquest as the execution of the divine promise to Abraham: I have given you the land.
The walls of Jericho fall at a shout: the conquest begins not with siege engines and military strategy but with seven days of silent marching and a trumpet blast; the methodology is designed to make unmistakable that the victory belongs to God.
רְאֵה נָתַתִּי בְיָדְךָ אֶת יְרִיחוֹ (re'eh natatti be-yadkha et Yericho): see, I have given into your hand Jericho: natatti (I have given, perfect tense treating the victory as already accomplished; the divine perfect of certainty: what God has decreed is spoken as done; Joshua is being told to see what has already happened in the divine realm before it happens in the human realm)
threads t4 · t5 · see Genesis 15:18-21 · Deuteronomy 9:3 · Hebrews 11:30
Jericho is shut up. No one goes out, no one comes in. The city is in lockdown before a single Israelite soldier approaches. And the battle plan God gives Joshua is: march around the city once a day for six days, seven times on the seventh day, then shout.
The plan is not military strategy. It is liturgy. Seven priests with seven trumpets, the ark of the covenant, the armed guard, circling the city in silence for six days. The city watching, unable to understand what is happening. On the seventh day, seven circuits, the trumpets, the shout. And the walls fall flat.
Thread 4 is in the obedience: Joshua and the people have to actually do this for seven days. The faith is expressed in the sustained obedience of an instruction that looks nothing like military sense. Hebrews 11:30 names it explicitly, by faith the walls of Jericho fell after they were compassed about seven days. Thread 5 is the conquest as the execution of the divine promise to Abraham: I have given you the land.
The walls of Jericho fall at a shout: the conquest begins not with siege engines and military strategy but with seven days of silent marching and a trumpet blast; the methodology is designed to make unmistakable that the victory belongs to God.
רְאֵה נָתַתִּי בְיָדְךָ אֶת יְרִיחוֹ (re'eh natatti be-yadkha et Yericho): see, I have given into your hand Jericho: natatti (I have given, perfect tense treating the victory as already accomplished; the divine perfect of certainty: what God has decreed is spoken as done; Joshua is being told to see what has already happened in the divine realm before it happens in the human realm)
threads t4 · t5 · see Genesis 15:18-21 · Deuteronomy 9:3 · Hebrews 11:30
Jericho is shut up. No one goes out, no one comes in. The city is in lockdown before a single Israelite soldier approaches. And the battle plan God gives Joshua is: march around the city once a day for six days, seven times on the seventh day, then shout.
The plan is not military strategy. It is liturgy. Seven priests with seven trumpets, the ark of the covenant, the armed guard, circling the city in silence for six days. The city watching, unable to understand what is happening. On the seventh day, seven circuits, the trumpets, the shout. And the walls fall flat.
Thread 4 is in the obedience: Joshua and the people have to actually do this for seven days. The faith is expressed in the sustained obedience of an instruction that looks nothing like military sense. Hebrews 11:30 names it explicitly, by faith the walls of Jericho fell after they were compassed about seven days. Thread 5 is the conquest as the execution of the divine promise to Abraham: I have given you the land.
The walls of Jericho fall at a shout: the conquest begins not with siege engines and military strategy but with seven days of silent marching and a trumpet blast; the methodology is designed to make unmistakable that the victory belongs to God.
רְאֵה נָתַתִּי בְיָדְךָ אֶת יְרִיחוֹ (re'eh natatti be-yadkha et Yericho): see, I have given into your hand Jericho: natatti (I have given, perfect tense treating the victory as already accomplished; the divine perfect of certainty: what God has decreed is spoken as done; Joshua is being told to see what has already happened in the divine realm before it happens in the human realm)
threads t4 · t5 · see Genesis 15:18-21 · Deuteronomy 9:3 · Hebrews 11:30
Jericho is shut up. No one goes out, no one comes in. The city is in lockdown before a single Israelite soldier approaches. And the battle plan God gives Joshua is: march around the city once a day for six days, seven times on the seventh day, then shout.
The plan is not military strategy. It is liturgy. Seven priests with seven trumpets, the ark of the covenant, the armed guard, circling the city in silence for six days. The city watching, unable to understand what is happening. On the seventh day, seven circuits, the trumpets, the shout. And the walls fall flat.
Thread 4 is in the obedience: Joshua and the people have to actually do this for seven days. The faith is expressed in the sustained obedience of an instruction that looks nothing like military sense. Hebrews 11:30 names it explicitly, by faith the walls of Jericho fell after they were compassed about seven days. Thread 5 is the conquest as the execution of the divine promise to Abraham: I have given you the land.
The walls of Jericho fall at a shout: the conquest begins not with siege engines and military strategy but with seven days of silent marching and a trumpet blast; the methodology is designed to make unmistakable that the victory belongs to God.
רְאֵה נָתַתִּי בְיָדְךָ אֶת יְרִיחוֹ (re'eh natatti be-yadkha et Yericho): see, I have given into your hand Jericho: natatti (I have given, perfect tense treating the victory as already accomplished; the divine perfect of certainty: what God has decreed is spoken as done; Joshua is being told to see what has already happened in the divine realm before it happens in the human realm)
threads t4 · t5 · see Genesis 15:18-21 · Deuteronomy 9:3 · Hebrews 11:30
Jericho is shut up. No one goes out, no one comes in. The city is in lockdown before a single Israelite soldier approaches. And the battle plan God gives Joshua is: march around the city once a day for six days, seven times on the seventh day, then shout.
The plan is not military strategy. It is liturgy. Seven priests with seven trumpets, the ark of the covenant, the armed guard, circling the city in silence for six days. The city watching, unable to understand what is happening. On the seventh day, seven circuits, the trumpets, the shout. And the walls fall flat.
Thread 4 is in the obedience: Joshua and the people have to actually do this for seven days. The faith is expressed in the sustained obedience of an instruction that looks nothing like military sense. Hebrews 11:30 names it explicitly, by faith the walls of Jericho fell after they were compassed about seven days. Thread 5 is the conquest as the execution of the divine promise to Abraham: I have given you the land.
The walls of Jericho fall at a shout: the conquest begins not with siege engines and military strategy but with seven days of silent marching and a trumpet blast; the methodology is designed to make unmistakable that the victory belongs to God.
רְאֵה נָתַתִּי בְיָדְךָ אֶת יְרִיחוֹ (re'eh natatti be-yadkha et Yericho): see, I have given into your hand Jericho: natatti (I have given, perfect tense treating the victory as already accomplished; the divine perfect of certainty: what God has decreed is spoken as done; Joshua is being told to see what has already happened in the divine realm before it happens in the human realm)
threads t4 · t5 · see Genesis 15:18-21 · Deuteronomy 9:3 · Hebrews 11:30
Jericho is shut up. No one goes out, no one comes in. The city is in lockdown before a single Israelite soldier approaches. And the battle plan God gives Joshua is: march around the city once a day for six days, seven times on the seventh day, then shout.
The plan is not military strategy. It is liturgy. Seven priests with seven trumpets, the ark of the covenant, the armed guard, circling the city in silence for six days. The city watching, unable to understand what is happening. On the seventh day, seven circuits, the trumpets, the shout. And the walls fall flat.
Thread 4 is in the obedience: Joshua and the people have to actually do this for seven days. The faith is expressed in the sustained obedience of an instruction that looks nothing like military sense. Hebrews 11:30 names it explicitly, by faith the walls of Jericho fell after they were compassed about seven days. Thread 5 is the conquest as the execution of the divine promise to Abraham: I have given you the land.
The walls of Jericho fall at a shout: the conquest begins not with siege engines and military strategy but with seven days of silent marching and a trumpet blast; the methodology is designed to make unmistakable that the victory belongs to God.
רְאֵה נָתַתִּי בְיָדְךָ אֶת יְרִיחוֹ (re'eh natatti be-yadkha et Yericho): see, I have given into your hand Jericho: natatti (I have given, perfect tense treating the victory as already accomplished; the divine perfect of certainty: what God has decreed is spoken as done; Joshua is being told to see what has already happened in the divine realm before it happens in the human realm)
threads t4 · t5 · see Genesis 15:18-21 · Deuteronomy 9:3 · Hebrews 11:30
Jericho is shut up. No one goes out, no one comes in. The city is in lockdown before a single Israelite soldier approaches. And the battle plan God gives Joshua is: march around the city once a day for six days, seven times on the seventh day, then shout.
The plan is not military strategy. It is liturgy. Seven priests with seven trumpets, the ark of the covenant, the armed guard, circling the city in silence for six days. The city watching, unable to understand what is happening. On the seventh day, seven circuits, the trumpets, the shout. And the walls fall flat.
Thread 4 is in the obedience: Joshua and the people have to actually do this for seven days. The faith is expressed in the sustained obedience of an instruction that looks nothing like military sense. Hebrews 11:30 names it explicitly, by faith the walls of Jericho fell after they were compassed about seven days. Thread 5 is the conquest as the execution of the divine promise to Abraham: I have given you the land.
The walls of Jericho fall at a shout: the conquest begins not with siege engines and military strategy but with seven days of silent marching and a trumpet blast; the methodology is designed to make unmistakable that the victory belongs to God.
רְאֵה נָתַתִּי בְיָדְךָ אֶת יְרִיחוֹ (re'eh natatti be-yadkha et Yericho): see, I have given into your hand Jericho: natatti (I have given, perfect tense treating the victory as already accomplished; the divine perfect of certainty: what God has decreed is spoken as done; Joshua is being told to see what has already happened in the divine realm before it happens in the human realm)
threads t4 · t5 · see Genesis 15:18-21 · Deuteronomy 9:3 · Hebrews 11:30
Jericho is shut up. No one goes out, no one comes in. The city is in lockdown before a single Israelite soldier approaches. And the battle plan God gives Joshua is: march around the city once a day for six days, seven times on the seventh day, then shout.
The plan is not military strategy. It is liturgy. Seven priests with seven trumpets, the ark of the covenant, the armed guard, circling the city in silence for six days. The city watching, unable to understand what is happening. On the seventh day, seven circuits, the trumpets, the shout. And the walls fall flat.
Thread 4 is in the obedience: Joshua and the people have to actually do this for seven days. The faith is expressed in the sustained obedience of an instruction that looks nothing like military sense. Hebrews 11:30 names it explicitly, by faith the walls of Jericho fell after they were compassed about seven days. Thread 5 is the conquest as the execution of the divine promise to Abraham: I have given you the land.
The walls of Jericho fall at a shout: the conquest begins not with siege engines and military strategy but with seven days of silent marching and a trumpet blast; the methodology is designed to make unmistakable that the victory belongs to God.
רְאֵה נָתַתִּי בְיָדְךָ אֶת יְרִיחוֹ (re'eh natatti be-yadkha et Yericho): see, I have given into your hand Jericho: natatti (I have given, perfect tense treating the victory as already accomplished; the divine perfect of certainty: what God has decreed is spoken as done; Joshua is being told to see what has already happened in the divine realm before it happens in the human realm)
threads t4 · t5 · see Genesis 15:18-21 · Deuteronomy 9:3 · Hebrews 11:30
Jericho is shut up. No one goes out, no one comes in. The city is in lockdown before a single Israelite soldier approaches. And the battle plan God gives Joshua is: march around the city once a day for six days, seven times on the seventh day, then shout.
The plan is not military strategy. It is liturgy. Seven priests with seven trumpets, the ark of the covenant, the armed guard, circling the city in silence for six days. The city watching, unable to understand what is happening. On the seventh day, seven circuits, the trumpets, the shout. And the walls fall flat.
Thread 4 is in the obedience: Joshua and the people have to actually do this for seven days. The faith is expressed in the sustained obedience of an instruction that looks nothing like military sense. Hebrews 11:30 names it explicitly, by faith the walls of Jericho fell after they were compassed about seven days. Thread 5 is the conquest as the execution of the divine promise to Abraham: I have given you the land.
The walls of Jericho fall at a shout: the conquest begins not with siege engines and military strategy but with seven days of silent marching and a trumpet blast; the methodology is designed to make unmistakable that the victory belongs to God.
רְאֵה נָתַתִּי בְיָדְךָ אֶת יְרִיחוֹ (re'eh natatti be-yadkha et Yericho): see, I have given into your hand Jericho: natatti (I have given, perfect tense treating the victory as already accomplished; the divine perfect of certainty: what God has decreed is spoken as done; Joshua is being told to see what has already happened in the divine realm before it happens in the human realm)
threads t4 · t5 · see Genesis 15:18-21 · Deuteronomy 9:3 · Hebrews 11:30
Jericho is shut up. No one goes out, no one comes in. The city is in lockdown before a single Israelite soldier approaches. And the battle plan God gives Joshua is: march around the city once a day for six days, seven times on the seventh day, then shout.
The plan is not military strategy. It is liturgy. Seven priests with seven trumpets, the ark of the covenant, the armed guard, circling the city in silence for six days. The city watching, unable to understand what is happening. On the seventh day, seven circuits, the trumpets, the shout. And the walls fall flat.
Thread 4 is in the obedience: Joshua and the people have to actually do this for seven days. The faith is expressed in the sustained obedience of an instruction that looks nothing like military sense. Hebrews 11:30 names it explicitly, by faith the walls of Jericho fell after they were compassed about seven days. Thread 5 is the conquest as the execution of the divine promise to Abraham: I have given you the land.
The walls of Jericho fall at a shout: the conquest begins not with siege engines and military strategy but with seven days of silent marching and a trumpet blast; the methodology is designed to make unmistakable that the victory belongs to God.
רְאֵה נָתַתִּי בְיָדְךָ אֶת יְרִיחוֹ (re'eh natatti be-yadkha et Yericho): see, I have given into your hand Jericho: natatti (I have given, perfect tense treating the victory as already accomplished; the divine perfect of certainty: what God has decreed is spoken as done; Joshua is being told to see what has already happened in the divine realm before it happens in the human realm)
threads t4 · t5 · see Genesis 15:18-21 · Deuteronomy 9:3 · Hebrews 11:30
Jericho is shut up. No one goes out, no one comes in. The city is in lockdown before a single Israelite soldier approaches. And the battle plan God gives Joshua is: march around the city once a day for six days, seven times on the seventh day, then shout.
The plan is not military strategy. It is liturgy. Seven priests with seven trumpets, the ark of the covenant, the armed guard, circling the city in silence for six days. The city watching, unable to understand what is happening. On the seventh day, seven circuits, the trumpets, the shout. And the walls fall flat.
Thread 4 is in the obedience: Joshua and the people have to actually do this for seven days. The faith is expressed in the sustained obedience of an instruction that looks nothing like military sense. Hebrews 11:30 names it explicitly, by faith the walls of Jericho fell after they were compassed about seven days. Thread 5 is the conquest as the execution of the divine promise to Abraham: I have given you the land.
The walls of Jericho fall at a shout: the conquest begins not with siege engines and military strategy but with seven days of silent marching and a trumpet blast; the methodology is designed to make unmistakable that the victory belongs to God.
רְאֵה נָתַתִּי בְיָדְךָ אֶת יְרִיחוֹ (re'eh natatti be-yadkha et Yericho): see, I have given into your hand Jericho: natatti (I have given, perfect tense treating the victory as already accomplished; the divine perfect of certainty: what God has decreed is spoken as done; Joshua is being told to see what has already happened in the divine realm before it happens in the human realm)
threads t4 · t5 · see Genesis 15:18-21 · Deuteronomy 9:3 · Hebrews 11:30