1. God’s battle plan
Joshua 6:1-5

2. Joshua 6:2
The LORD said to Joshua, “See, I have given Jericho into your hand, with its king and the valiant warriors.”

3. Joshua 6:2
The LORD said to Joshua, “See, I have given Jericho into your hand, with its king and the valiant warriors.”
Meaning: to see, look at, inspect, perceive, consider
Grammar: Stem - Qal Mood - Imperative

4. The Condition of Jericho
The inhabitants are all in the city
The doors and gates are closed and lock
The city is full of supplies to get them through the siege
The city will not be plundered or looted [6:17-19]
It will be burned as a first fruits sacrifice to God [6:24]

6. Archaeological Advances
In the mid 1800's (circa ) a noted British engineer, named Charles Warren, decided to investigate a rather striking tell just northwest of the Dead Sea
The next major excavation occurred in and 1911, when a team from Austria and Germany continued excavations
Then John Garstang took over the site in 1930
Gartang then asked an up and coming British archaeologist, Kathleen Kenyon to study his findings

7. Archaeological Advances
After pressure was put on Ms. Kenyon, she revised her conclusions
Then Dr. Bryant G. Wood reexamined Kathleen Kenyon’s findings, especially the basis of her redating of the key layer of city sediment

8. All of these findings would prove that:
The city was strongly fortified
The attack against the city occurred shortly after harvest time, that is sometime in the spring
The inhabitants had no time to take their food and flee or else they chose not to
The siege of the city was short
The walls were somehow leveled
The city was not plundered
The city had been burned

13. Joshua 6:2
The LORD said to Joshua, “See, I have given Jericho into your hand, with its king and the valiant warriors.”

14. Joshua 6:2
The LORD said to Joshua, “See, I have given Jericho into your hand, with its king and the valiant warriors.”

15. Lessons Being Taught
But even though God has given the City into the hands of His people, they will still have to fight for it
Because in fighting for what God has given to the believer, he learns to trust in and rely on his God
However the most important weapon that the believer has and what makes him strong is radical obedience

16. Understand where Joshua’s obedience was built
By the faith he had developed in his God
By the experiential knowledge that he had of his God
By the love that he had for his God
And by the fear that burned in his heart for his God

17. Building a Relationship With the MasterC F E A R of
GOD F A IT H K N O W I G L O V E
Salvation by God’s Grace by Means of Our Faith
Jesus’ Substitutionary Death
Jesus’ Literal Resurrection
The Virgin Birth of Jesus Christ
The Deity of Jesus Christ
Verbal and Plenary Inspiration of the Scriptures
The Deity of Jesus Christ

18. F E A R of
GOD K N O W I G O B E D I N C F A IT H L O V E

19. The Sequence of God’s Plan
Humble and submissive worship [on the plains of Jericho]
(Eph. 3:14)
Walking with God [around the city for six days]
(Eph. 4:1, 17, 5:2)
Then heavenly warfare [the seventh day and the taking of the city]
(Eph. 6:10ff)

20. Conclusion
Like Joshua and the people, we have already been given our inheritance and must overcome the enemy to claim it and to be able to enjoy it