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108) JOSHUA

CHAPTER 11

- More kings come to fight against Israel!

- God tells Joshua not to be afraid because he is going to give them to Israel!

- Joshua does according to God’s will!

- They are all defeated!

- Then he destroyed all the cities belonging to those kings!

- Everyone was killed without any survivors!

- And Joshua conquers all the land!

- In fact, God pushed all those kings to fight against Israel so they could be annihilated!

- And Joshua gives the land of Canaan as an inheritance to Israel!

- And finally the land was at rest from war!

 

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109) JOSHUA

CHAPTER 13

- Joshua is now old!

- Much of the land remains to be taken in possession!

CHAPTER 14

- This is a really interesting chapter because we are told about Caleb who was among the spies sent by Moses into Canaan like Joshua and like Joshua he was faithful to god!

- In this Chapter Caleb speaks and he is 85 and he is as strong as on the day Moses sent him out!

- And he is still fit for war and for other activities!

- And he asks for a territory as it was promised by God to him!

- And he says he will drive away the Anakim who have great fortified cities!

- So Joshua gives him Hebron!

- AND GOD PRESERVED HIM!

- SOMETHING TO REMEMBER!

 

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110) JOSHUA

CHAPTER 17

- The descendants of Joseph, Ephraim and Manasseh were blessed by God and they became numerous!

- So they asked for more territories!

- But they had to fight for them!

CHAPTER 18

- There were still seven tribes left of the Israelites whose inheritance had not been alloted!

- So Joshua sent men to do it!

CHAPTER 19

- Then they finished dividing the land for inheritance by its territories!

- And Joshua was given the city of Timnath Serah, a city he had asked for!

 

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111) JOSHUA

CHAPTER 20

- God tells Joshua to tell the Israelites to select the cities of refuge!

CHAPTER 21

- The Levites receive cities!

- A total of 48 cities with their pastures!

- So God gives Israel all the land that he had sworn to their forefathers !

- And he gives them rest!

- Thus everything comes true!

- And God was really the God of the promise or of the promises!

- SO WHY HIDING HIS REAL NAME!

- HOW DO YOU CALL THAT?

- CURSING GOD?

- IS THAT THE DEVIL’S WORK?

- WHAT A SHAME!

- JUST TO COMPLETE THE TOTAL CORRUPTION THROUGH MAN’S TRADITION VS GOD’S WORD!

- HOW MANY BIBLE TRANSLATIONS DON’T PARTICIPATE IN THIS CORRUPTION?

- UNBELIEVABLE BUT REAL!

- AND EVERYTHING IS CORRUPTED!

 

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112) JOSHUA

CHAPTER 22

- Joshua tells the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half tribe of Manasseh to go back to their territory on the other side of the Jordan!

- But he warns them to carry out the commandment and the Law of Moses and to love God by walking in all his ways!

- And they built an impressive altar on the frontier of the land of canaan!

- So the Israelites decided to go to war against them!

- Because it was an act of rebellion against God!

- But they said it wasn’t against God only if the rest of Israel refused them to cross the frontier to worship God!

- It was only to be a witness between all Israel!

- So the rest of Israel was satisfied!

- And there was no war between them!

- Interesting to see that the Israelites could speak together to settle a matter!

 

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113) JOSHUA

CHAPTER 23

- Joshua tells Israel not to forget what God did to them when he fought for them against all their enemies!

- And they could take possession of their land thanks to God!

- And they should carry out the Law of Moses!

- And they should keep away from the other nations!

- And they should not worship their gods!

- But if they turn back they will get into trouble!

- Before dying, Joshua tells them how God has revealed to them as the god of the promise or of the promises and he has always kept his word!

- But if Israel violates its covenant of God, he will bring upon them all the calamity he promised and will annihilate them!

- But Israel won’t listen and will pay a high price and God will finally reject them!

- It should be a warning for humanity!

- But the majority never listens!

- So man deserves what happens to him!

- Remember Noah and the rest of humanity!

 

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114) JOSHUA

CHAPTER 24

- Joshua tells us about what God has told him!

- He speaks about everything God did to Abraham and his descendants and Israel!

- How he saved them so many times from destruction!

- So they are told to keep faithful to God and to keep away from the gods of their forefathers or from the gods of their enemies!

- And the Israelites say they won’t abandon God and they won’t serve other gods!

- And Joshua warns them again, if they don’t keep faithful God will turn against them and will exterminate them!

- And Joshua dies at the age of 110!

- And Israel kept faithful to God during the days of the elders who outlived Joshua and who had known all of God’s deeds on behalf of Israel!

 

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- When I think about the Pentateuch, I always remember:

- Moses!

- This man is just incredible!

- He spent his time saving Israel from destruction!

- He spent his time warning Israel!

- He spent his time leading Israel!

- And what did they do in exchange!

- Only complaining against him!

- Because of them he couldn’t get into the promised land and he died before!

- What a shame!

- When I think about the book of Joshua, I always remember that:

- Joshua is the new leader of Israel who lead the Israelites into the promised land!

- Those who refused to get into the promised land have died and Joshua leads their descendants!

- They are busy fighting for their new homeland!

- Now it’s time to look at the period of Judges!

 

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Judges Chapter 1

- God chose Moses to lead Israel!

- Then Joshua was trained by Moses!

- After that he led Israel into the promised land!

- Then God chose Judah to lead Israel against the Canaanites!

- And Judah asked his brother Simeon to come with him and fight against the Canaanites!

- And God gave the Canaanites into their hands!

- But the Israelites couldn’t get rid of all the Canaanites so some kept living with Israel!

- We are only told that God was with Judah and the house of Joseph but they couldn’t get rid of all the Canaanites!

 

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Judges Chapter 2

- God’s angel asks the Israelites why they have made a covenant with the inhabitants of the land and why they haven’t pull down theirs altars and why they haven’t obeyed his voice!

- That’s why God will let them among them and they will mix with them and get into trouble!

- As usual the people start to weep loudly!

- So after Joshuas’s death, the Israelites start again to do what is bad according to God!

- They abandon god and they worship other gods!

- And he gives them into the hands of their enemies!

- then God raise up judges to save the Israelites from their enemies!

- But they refuse to listen even to the judges and keep worshiping other gods!

- When the judge die, the Israelites they again act more corruptly than their fathers!

- So God leaves their enemies among them to test Israel!

- Thus we can see it is getting worse and worse with Israel!

- They can’t stop from doing what is bad!

- On the contrary, they do worse and worse!

- They never understand!

- In fact, there is no difference with humanity!

- Well, in fact, there is a big difference because they had received a lot from God!

- They were too stupid to realize that like Adam and Eve!

- When you have everything, apparently you don’t care about it!

 

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Judges Chapter 3

- As God had warned them, the Israelites mixed with their enemies, they gave them their daughters and they took their daughters as wives!

- And they served their gods!

- There is no comparison between the relationship God had with Abraham and the one he had with the Israelites!

- The second would last because of the first one!

- And we can’t talk of the second one as a real relationship!

- The Israelites never respected their part of the covenant!

- They wanted to get everything without giving anything!

- Like humanity indeed!

- Thus God gave them into the hands of their enemies!

- When they called God for help he sent a savior, Othniel, Caleb’s youngest brother and he became a judge in Israel!

- Then Israel was at peace for 40 years!

- Then Othniel died!

- Then Israel started doing what was wrong again!

- And God gave them in the hands of their enemies!

- When they called God for help he sent a savior, Ehud, a benjaminite!

- Then Israel was at peace for 80 years!

- Then God sent Shamgar!

- Apparently many people don’t read the Bible!

- Or I don’t know what they read!

- How is it possible to call that thing a chosen people?

- It is disgusting!

- But what is the most disgusting?

 

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Judges Chapter 4

- Here we hear about Deborah, the first woman to be a judge in Israel!

- She tells Barak to lead the fight against the enemies of Israel!

- But Barak wants Deborah to come with him!

- So she tells him that God will give the glory to a woman who will kill Sisera the chief of the army of the enemies of Israel!

- It’s interesting to see that God would choose both men and women to have responsibilities in Israel!

 

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Judges Chapter 5

- Deborah and Barak sing a song about what has just happened!

Judges Chapter 6

- Again Israel goes against God!

- And God gives them into the hand of their enemies!

- And as usual they ask for god’s help!

- And God sends his angel to Gideon to tell him to strike their enemies!

- And he receives a sign from God!

- And God tells him to destroy the altar of Baal and build one for God and make an offering!

- The people of the city want to kill him!

- But Joash opposes them!

- And Gideon asks for more signs from God before fighting Israel’s enemies!

 

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Judges Chapter 7

- Gideon must fight against Midian!

- But God tells him there are too many soldiers!

- So he wants to reduce their number to show them that God gives them the victory!

- The Israelites who are afraid must go back home!

- 22,000 go back home and 10,000 remain!

- God says it is still too much!

- So he tells Gideon to send the men to drink!

- And those who drink like dogs go back home!

- And those who bend down on their knees to drink remain!

- Thus there are 300 men left!

- It is at night and the enemies are numerous!

- A man tells a dream indicating that Israel will win!

- When Gideon hears the dream and its interpretation, he bows down and worships!

- Then they get nearer the camp of their enemies and they blow their horns and smash large water jars to make a lot of noise!

- And they have torches and they shout the sword of God and of Gideon!

- And the enemies flee!

- And the Israelites chase them!

- And Gideon asks for the Israelites to go and chase their enemies!

 

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Judges Chapter 8

- The men of Ephraim are angry because they were not called to fight against Midian!

- But Gideon tells them God gave them Midian’s princes before so what he did was nothing compared to them!

- And they calm down!

- Gideon and his 300 men are tired but they keep pursuing their enemies!

- And he asks the men of Succoth and of Peruel for bread but they refuse so he tells them that when he has finished what he is doing, he will come after them!

- When he comes back, he captures and interrogates a young man from Succoth and he gets rid of Succoth and Peruel!

- Then the men of Israel wants Gideon to rule over Israel and his descendants!

- But he refuses saying God is the ruler of Israel!

- But then Gideon asks for gold and makes Ephod and all Israel commits spiritual prostitution and it becomes a snare to Gideon and to his household!

- Then Israel has rest for 40 years in the days of Gideon!

- Gideon becomes father of 70 sons because he has many wives!

- As soon as Gideon dies, Israel commits spiritual prostitution!

- And they forget God and Gideon and his household!

- I HAVE NO WORDS TO SPEAK ABOUT SUCH A DEGREE OF SHAME!

- HOW MANY PEOPLE DO REALLY READ THE BIBLE!

 

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Judges Chapter 9

- After the death of Gideon, one of his sons Abimelech proposes to his brotheres to rule over them!

- So they give him 70 pieces of silver!

- He uses the money to hire men and kills all his brothers with one stone except Jotham his youngest brother who hides!

- Then Jotham speaks to the leaders of Shechem!

- He asks them if they acted sincerely in making Abimelech king taking into account what his father did for them!

- Because Abimelech’s mother is Gideon’s slave girl!

- Then Jotham flees!

- And Abimelech rules over Israel for 3 years!

- To avenge the killing of Gideon’s sons, God lets hostility develop between Abimelech and the leaders of Shechem!

- Then they fight together and Abimelech killed all the men of Shechem and destroys the city!

- But when Abimelech attacks the city of thebez!

- There a woman throws a millstone on him and crushes his skull!

- And he asks his attendant to kill him so nobody can say a woman killed him!

- So the attendant kills him!

- Then all the men of Israel go back home!

- Finally God repays Abimelech and the men of Shechem for the evil they had done!

- Thus even if it takes time, God always repays those who do evil!

- When you go against God, he will repay each one according to what he did or not!

- Once again we have a warning!

- When time arrives for God to repay those who deserve it, it is no time to cry or weep!

- And it happens so many times till God finally rejected Israel!

- Remember Daniel’s prayer for the restoration of Jerusalem in spite of its mountain of sins against God!

- And God’s answer: THE RESTORATION OF JERUSALEM AND ITS DESTRUCTION!

- THE MESSAGE SEEMS CLEAR BUT NOT FOR EVERYBODY!

 

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Judges Chapter 10

- And Tola judged Israel for 23 years!

- And Jair judged Israel for 22 years!

- And again Israel committed spiritual prostitution!

- And God gave them into the hands of the philistines and the Ammonites!

- For 18 years!

- And finally they called to God for help!

- But God told them GO AWAY!

- So they removed the foreign gods from their midst and served God!

- And then the Ammonites prepared to fight again against Israel!

 

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Judges Chapter 11

- And Jephthah was the son of a prostitute!

- And he became a mighty warrior!

- And the elders of Gilead asked Jephthah to become their commander!

- Jephthah made a vow to God!

- If God was to give the Ammonites in Jephthah’s hands, the one coming out of the door of his house would become God’s!

- And Jephthah won and he took the control of 20 cities!

- When he came back home, his daughter came out to meet him!

- She was his only child!

- She would stay a virgin and served God!

- And it became a tradition on Israel, from year to year, the young women of Israel would go to give commendation to Jephthah’s daughter four days in the year!

 

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Judges Chapter 12

- The men of Ephraim are angry because Jephthah didn’t call them to fight against the Ammonites!

- They want to burn Jephthah’s house with him in it!

- But he says he called to them for help but they did not save him from their hands!

- So he went against the Ammonites with God’s help!

- So Gilead fights against Ephraim and Gilead wins!

- And the men of Gilead pursue them!

- To know they were from Ephraim they just had to ask them to pronounce a word they were unable to pronunce correctly!

- Finally 42,000 men were killed!

- Ephraim was a son of Joseph!

- Once again you can be a good person and tries to educate correctly your children but it doesn’t mean they will keep on the right track!

- That’s free will!

- Like Adam and Eve!

- The only difference is that they were perfect!

- And Jephthah judges Israel for six years and he dies!

- Then Ibzan judges Israel for seven years!

- And Elon judges Israel for ten years!

- And Abdon judges Israel for eight years!

 

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Judges Chapter 13

- Israel goes back to spiritual prostitution!

- And God gives them into the hands of the Philistines for 40 years!

- And God ‘s angel appeared to Manoah’s wife who was barren and childless!

- And he told her she was going to have a child!

- But she couldn’t drink alcohol or eat anything unclean!

- Because he was to become a Nazirite of God from birth!

- And he was to save Israel from the Philistines!

- And he was called SAMSON!