2. Goals of Our Study
To learn how God moved from man's problem of sin to His solution of Jesus on the cross
To understand how everything in the scriptures relates to, and points to, Jesus and the cross
To understand how everything in the Bible reveals God to mankind who He is and what He is like
Get a better understanding of how we got here tonight on the orange carpet

3. Main concepts of our study
"Scheme of Redemption" The plan of God, established before creation, to redeem mankind from sin
View the Bible as a novel, with 66 different chapters
The real division taking place at Genesis 3:6 rather than between Malachi and Matthew
This division covers two drastically different worlds: The world prior to sin and the world after sin

4. Main concepts of our study
Genesis 1-2: God and perfection, man and innocence
Genesis 3-12 – The Background of Redemption
Genesis – Redemption through Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph
Exodus 1-12 – Slavery In and Judgement On Egypt
Exodus – Two Month Journey to Sinai
Exodus 19-Numbers 10 – One Year at Sinai
Number – Unbelief
Number 15-Deut 34 – 40 Years of Wandering
Joshua – Canaan Conquered and Divided

5. Recap Spies sent into Jericho
Rahab acknowledges God’s power and actions that He has rendered since Egypt. A period of somewhere between years!
Rahab protects the Israeli spies
Rahab in the lineage of Jesus – Big deal!!
Israel crosses over the Jordan on dry land, and Joshua creates a monument from stones on the riverbed – We should do the same in our homes!

6. Recap
Joshua 1:10-15 – Joshua commanded all of the officers to inform the people to prepare themselves to cross the Jordan
Vs – They answered Joshua, saying, “All that you have commanded us we will do, and wherever you send us we will go. Just as we obeyed Moses in all things, so we will obey you; only may the Lord your God be with you as He was with Moses. Anyone who rebels against your command and does not obey your words in all that you command him, shall be put to death; only be strong and courageous.”

7. Joshua 6 – Destruction of Jericho
God’s instructions
For 6 days: All of the men of war, priests carrying the ark, and seven priests carrying and blowing 7 trumpets of ram’s horns were to march around Jericho one time
Seventh day: They were all to march around the city 7 times, at which point the priests were to blow the ram’s horn trumpets. Upon hearing the trumpets, the people were to shout and the walls of Jericho would fall down. Israel was to then attack the city.

8. Joshua 6 – Destruction of Jericho
Joshua 6:15-17 – Then on the seventh day they rose early at the dawning of the day and marched around the city in the same manner seven times; only on that day they marched around the city seven times. At the seventh time, when the priests blew the trumpets, Joshua said to the people, “Shout! For the Lord has given you the city. The city shall be under the ban, it and all that is in it belongs to the Lord; only Rahab the harlot and all who are with her in the house shall live, because she hid the messengers whom we sent.

9. Joshua 6 – Destruction of Jericho
Joshua 6:18-21 – But as for you, only keep yourselves from the things under the ban, so that you do not covet them and take some of the things under the ban, and make the camp of Israel accursed and bring trouble on it. But all the silver and gold and articles of bronze and iron are holy to the Lord; they shall go into the treasury of the Lord.” So the people shouted, and priests blew the trumpets; and when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, the people shouted with a great shout and the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight ahead, and they took the city. They utterly destroyed everything in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox and sheep and donkey, with the edge of the sword.

10. Joshua curses Jericho
Joshua 6:26 – Then Joshua made them take an oath at that time, saying, “Cursed before the Lord is the man who rises up and builds this city Jericho; with the loss of his firstborn he shall lay its foundation, and with the loss of his youngest son he shall set up its gates.”
1 Kings 16:34 – In [Ahab’s] days Hiel the Bethelite built Jericho; he laid its foundations with the loss of Abiram his firstborn, and set up its gates with the loss of his youngest son Segub, according to the word of the Lord, which He spoke by Joshua the son of Nun

11. Joshua 7 - Israel suffers defeat at Ai
Joshua sends spies to Ai. They report back that Ai is small and can be overtaken with men.
About 3000 are sent, but Ai fought back and struck down 36 Israelite men
Israel’s hearts “melted and became like water” (vs. 5)
Joshua tears his clothes, he and elders lay prostrate before the ark till evening

12. Joshua 7 - Israel suffers defeat at Ai
Joshua 7:7-9 – Joshua said, “Alas, O Lord God, why did You ever bring this people over the Jordan, only to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? If only we had been willing to dwell beyond the Jordan! O Lord, what can I say since Israel has turned their back before their enemies? For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it, and they will surround us and cut off our name from the earth. And what will You do for Your great name?”

13. Joshua 7 - Israel suffers defeat at Ai
We see Joshua having a Mosaic melt- down here. It’s his first major road bump and his first major consequence of sin in the camp
Is there anything that stands out to you about his statement to the Lord?
It sounds a lot like the Israelites of Joshua’s generation! “If only we had stayed in Egypt!”
He also invokes the Mosaic “All of Canaan will make a mockery of you, God!!”

14. Joshua 7 - Israel suffers defeat at Ai
Joshua 7:10-12 – So the Lord said to Joshua, “Rise up! Why is it that you have fallen on your face? Israel has sinned, and they have also transgressed My covenant which I commanded them. And they have even taken some of the things under the ban and have both stolen and deceived. Moreover, they have also put them among their own things. Therefore the sons of Israel cannot stand before their enemies; they turn their backs before their enemies, for they have become accursed. I will not be with you anymore unless you destroy the things under the ban from your midst.

15. Joshua 7 - Israel suffers defeat at Ai
Through a process of elimination (by lot), the Lord brought a man named Achan before Joshua who had kept some of the spoil (from Jericho) which he was not supposed to keep.
The punishment was to be a burning by fire, he and all that belongs to him
Through the process, the Lord reveals to Joshua that it is a man named Achan who has kept items that were under the ban

16. Joshua 7 - Israel suffers defeat at Ai
Achan confesses to keeping a number of items from clothing, to a large wedge of gold, and money. He buried them in the ground in his tent.
Joshua has the items located and brought, and then had Achan, his sons, his daughters, all of his livestock stoned to death. They then burned their bodies, his tent, and the spoil he took.
They then piled rocks on top of the remains and God turned from His wrath

17. Joshua 8 – Israel defeats Ai
The Lord gives Joshua a battle plan to set up an ambush
Joshua sent 30,000 valiant warriors to hide outside of the city of Ai at night
Joshua and some others approach Ai, but then act as if they’re fleeing when Ai’s warriors gave chase in order to draw them away from the city
When Ai’s warriors left, the men in ambush entered the city and set it on fire
Ai’s warriors saw the smoke and tried to come back, but they were killed by Joshua and the men with him

18. Joshua 8 – Israel defeats Ai
Israel killed both men and women, 12,000 in all, keeping the spoil and cattle for themselves as God commanded
Joshua hung the king of Ai and buried his body under a pile of rocks at the gate of Ai
Joshua then burned the city of Ai

19. Joshua fulfills a command of Moses
Deut 27:2-8 - So it shall be on the day when you cross the Jordan to the land which the Lord your God gives you, that you shall set up for yourself large stones and coat them with lime and write on them all the words of this law, when you cross over, so that you may enter the land which the Lord your God gives you, a land flowing with milk and honey, as the Lord, the God of your fathers, promised you. So it shall be when you cross the Jordan, you shall set up on Mount Ebal, these stones, as I am commanding you today, and you shall coat them with lime. Moreover, you shall build there an altar to the Lord your God, an altar of stones; you shall not wield an iron tool on them. You shall build the altar of the Lord your God of uncut stones, and you shall offer on it burnt offerings to the Lord your God; and you shall sacrifice peace offerings and eat there, and rejoice before the Lord your God. You shall write on the stones all the words of this law very distinctly.”

20. Joshua fulfills a command of Moses
Joshua 8: Then Joshua built an altar to the Lord, the God of Israel, in Mount Ebal, just as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded the sons of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of uncut stones on which no man had wielded an iron tool; and they offered burnt offerings on it to the Lord, and sacrificed peace offerings. He wrote there on the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he had written, in the presence of the sons of Israel. All Israel with their elders and officers and their judges were standing on both sides of the ark before the Levitical priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, the stranger as well as the native.

21. Joshua fulfills a command of Moses
Joshua 8: Half of them stood in front of Mount Gerizim and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, just as Moses the servant of the Lord had given command at first to bless the people of Israel. Then afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessing and the curse, according to all that is written in the book of the law. There was not a word of all that Moses had commanded which Joshua did not read before all the assembly of Israel with the women and the little ones and the strangers who were living among them.

22. Joshua fulfills a command of Moses
Why was this a good thing for Israel?
Served as a reminder of the law
Rejoined them back to the promises and curses of God

23. Coming up
Continue discussion of the conquest of Canaan