Joshua 5 Its a new land

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Joshua 5Its a new land
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Joshua 5Its a new landIts a new beginning
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Joshua 5Its a new landIts a new beginning

• (Josh 51 NKJV) So it was, when all the kings of
  the Amorites who were on the west side of the
  Jordan, and all the kings of the Canaanites who
  were by the sea, heard that the LORD had dried up
  the waters of the Jordan from before the children
  of Israel until we had crossed over,

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Joshua 5Its a new landIts a new beginning

• (Josh 51 NKJV) So it was, when all the kings of
  the Amorites who were on the west side of the
  Jordan, and all the kings of the Canaanites who
  were by the sea, heard that the LORD had dried up
  the waters of the Jordan from before the children
  of Israel until we had crossed over,

that their heart melted and there was no spirit
in them any longer because of the children of
Israel.
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Joshua 5Its a new landIts a new beginningHow
about a Spiritual new beginning
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Joshua 5Its a new landIts a new beginningHow
about a Spiritual new beginning

• (Josh 52-3 NKJV) At that time the LORD said to
  Joshua, "Make flint knives for yourself, and
  circumcise the sons of Israel again the second
  time." 3 So Joshua made flint knives for
  himself, and circumcised the sons of Israel at
  the hill of the foreskins.

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Joshua 5Its a new landIts a new beginningHow
about a Spiritual new beginning

• (Josh 53 NKJV) So Joshua made flint knives for
  himself, and circumcised the sons of Israel at
  the hill of the foreskins.

So how is this a Spiritual new beginning?
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Notice how Paul compares circumcision and baptism
So how is this a Spiritual new beginning?
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Notice how Paul compares circumcision and baptism
So how is this a Spiritual new beginning?

• ((Col 211-12 NKJV) In Him you were also
  circumcised with the circumcision made without
  hands, by putting off the body of the sins of the
  flesh, by the circumcision of Christ,

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Notice how Paul compares circumcision and baptism
So how is this a Spiritual new beginning?

• ((Col 211-12 NKJV) . . . by the circumcision of
  Christ, 12 buried with Him in baptism, in which
  you also were raised with Him through faith in
  the working of God, who raised Him from the dead.

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Notice how Paul compares circumcision and baptism

• ((Col 211-12 NKJV) . . . by the circumcision of
  Christ, 12 buried with Him in baptism, in which
  you also were raised with Him through faith in
  the working of God, who raised Him from the dead.

So thinking in reverse order, time wise,
circumcision was, for them, what baptism is for
us.
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Joshua 5Its a new landIts a new beginningHow
about a Spiritual new beginning

• (Josh 53 NKJV) So Joshua made flint knives for
  himself, and circumcised the sons of Israel at
  the hill of the foreskins.

But what about flint knives?
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Before the use of iron was common, all the
nations of the earth had their edge-tools made of
stones, flints, etc. Our ancestors in these
countries made their arrow and spear-heads of
flint these I have often seen turned up by the
plough. -- Adam Clarke
But what about flint knives? -- Adam Clarke

• In the lately discovered islands this is found to
  be a common case.

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But we cannot suppose that at the time here
referred to the Israelites were destitute of
iron, and were therefore obliged to use knives
made of stone or flint, their different
manufactures in the wilderness prove that they
must have had both iron and steel. -- Adam Clarke
But what about flint knives?

• So why not steel knives?

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Why then use knives made of stone? Probably it
was unlawful to use metal of any kind in this
religious rite and indeed this seems likely from
the circumstance of Zipporah (Exo_425) taking a
sharp stone and circumcising her son and we
find, from the most ancient and authentic
accounts, that the Egyptians considered it
unlawful or profane to use any kind of metal to
make incisions in the human body, when preparing
it for embalming

• So why not steel knives?

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Bible Answer?I really dont know of one, but
there are other answers that are hinted at, but
not clear.

• So why not steel knives?

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Bible Answer?I really dont know of one, but
there are other answers that are hinted at, but
not clear.How about this scripture (Exo
2025 NKJV) 'And if you make Me an altar of
stone, you shall not build it of hewn stone for
if you use your tool on it, you have profaned it.

• So why not steel knives?

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Bible Answer? (Exo 2025 NKJV) 'And if you
make Me an altar of stone, you shall not build it
of hewn stone for if you use your tool on it,
you have profaned it. Hewn stone would seem to
imply steel of some kind, but God gives no
explanation as why you have profaned it.

• So why not steel knives?

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Joshua 5Its a new landIts a new beginningHow
about a Spiritual new beginning
But was it really the second time?

• (Josh 52 NKJV) At that time the LORD said to
  Joshua, "Make flint knives for yourself, and
  circumcise the sons of Israel again the second
  time.

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Joshua 5Its a new landIts a new beginningHow
about a Spiritual new beginning
But was it really the second time?

• (Josh 54 NKJV) And this is the reason why
  Joshua circumcised them All the people who came
  out of Egypt who were males, all the men of war,
  had died in the wilderness on the way, after they
  had come out of Egypt.

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Joshua 5Its a new landIts a new beginningHow
about a Spiritual new beginning
But was it really the second time?

• (Josh 55 NKJV) For all the people who came out
  had been circumcised, but all the people born in
  the wilderness, on the way as they came out of
  Egypt, had not been circumcised.

So we are asking, How is this a second time?
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Joshua 5Its a new landIts a new beginningHow
about a Spiritual new beginning
An explanation by Albert Barnes

• An explaCircumcise again ... - i. e. make that
  which once was a circumcised people but is not so
  now, once more a circumcised people.

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Its a new landIts a new beginning
How did they get here?

• (Josh 56 NKJV) For the children of Israel
  walked forty years in the wilderness, till all
  the people who were men of war, who came out of
  Egypt, were consumed, because they did not obey
  the voice of the LORD to whom the LORD swore
  that He would not show them the land which the
  LORD had sworn to their fathers that He would
  give us, "a land flowing with milk and honey."

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Its a new landIts a new beginning
Now its time to move on.

• (Josh 57-8 NKJV) Then Joshua circumcised their
  sons whom He raised up in their place for they
  were uncircumcised, because they had not been
  circumcised on the way. 8 So it was, when they
  had finished circumcising all the people, that
  they stayed in their places in the camp till they
  were healed.

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Its a new landIts a new beginning
It must have been a time of great forgiveness!

• (Josh 57-8 NKJV) . . . for they were
  uncircumcised, because they had not been
  circumcised on the way.
• (Gen 1714 NKJV) "And the uncircumcised male
  child, who is not circumcised in the flesh of his
  foreskin, that person shall be cut off from his
  people he has broken My covenant."

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Its a new beginning
And yes, there is hope for such a person!
(Gen 1714 NKJV) "And the uncircumcised male
child, who is not circumcised in the flesh of his
foreskin, that person shall be cut off from his
people he has broken My covenant.

• (Josh 59 NKJV) Then the LORD said to Joshua,
  "This day I have rolled away the reproach of
  Egypt from you." Therefore the name of the place
  is called Gilgal to this day.

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Its a new beginning
Gilgalso close to Jericho!

• (Josh 59 NKJV) Then the LORD said to Joshua,
  "This day I have rolled away the reproach of
  Egypt from you." Therefore the name of the place
  is called Gilgal to this day.

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Its a new beginningIts Passover Time

• (Josh 510 NKJV) Now the children of Israel
  camped in Gilgal, and kept the Passover on the
  fourteenth day of the month at twilight on the
  plains of Jericho.

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Its a new beginningIts Passover Time

• (Josh 510 NKJV) Now the children of Israel
  camped in Gilgal, and kept the Passover on the
  fourteenth day of the month at twilight on the
  plains of Jericho.

How Fitting. The original Passover saw their
parents delivered from Egypt. Now they are
realizing what it was all about. Freedom, and a
new land.
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Its a new beginningIts Passover TimeBut it
is a new Spiritual beginning

• (Josh 510 NKJV) Now the children of Israel
  camped in Gilgal, and kept the Passover on the
  fourteenth day of the month at twilight on the
  plains of Jericho.

How Appropriate. The Passover was a religious
ceremony. Worship was placed before war and
conquest.
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Its a new beginningIts Time To eat in a new
land.

• (Josh 511 NKJV) And they ate of the produce of
  the land on the day after the Passover,
  unleavened bread and parched grain, on the very
  same day.

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Its a new beginningIts Time To eat in a new
land.

• (Josh 511 NKJV) And they ate of the produce of
  the land on the day after the Passover,
  unleavened bread and parched grain, on the very
  same day.

Nothing is mentioned, but think! What entitles
them to the food of the land? Did they purchase
the food, or have they taken it as conquers?
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They had loathed the manna. Now its over!

• (Num 114 NKJV) Now the mixed multitude who were
  among them yielded to intense craving so the
  children of Israel also wept again and said "Who
  will give us meat to eat?

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They had loathed the manna. Now its over!

• (Num 115-6) "We remember the fish which we ate
  freely in Egypt, the cucumbers, the melons, the
  leeks, the onions, and the garlic 6 "but now
  our whole being is dried up there is nothing at
  all except this manna before our eyes!"

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But Those that loathed the manna Never entered
the Promised Land!

• (Num 115-6) "We remember the fish which we ate
  freely in Egypt, the cucumbers, the melons, the
  leeks, the onions, and the garlic 6 "but now
  our whole being is dried up there is nothing at
  all except this manna before our eyes!"

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No More Manna!

• (Josh 512 NKJV) Then the manna ceased on the
  day after they had eaten the produce of the land
  and the children of Israel no longer had manna,
  but they ate the food of the land of Canaan that
  year.

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No More Manna!

• (Josh 512 NKJV) Then the manna ceased on the
  day after they had eaten the produce of the land
  and the children of Israel no longer had manna,
  but they ate the food of the land of Canaan that
  year.

But those who complained the most never ate the
bread of Canaan
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Who is really in charge?

• (Josh 513 NKJV) And it came to pass, when
  Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted his eyes
  and looked, and behold, a Man stood opposite him
  with His sword drawn in His hand.

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Who is really in charge?

• (Josh 513 NKJV) And it came to pass, when
  Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted his eyes
  and looked, and behold, a Man stood opposite him
  with His sword drawn in His hand. And Joshua went
  to Him and said to Him, "Are You for us or for
  our adversaries?"

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Who is really in charge?

• (Josh 514 NKJV) So He said,
• And Joshua fell on his face to the earth and
  worshiped, and said to Him, "What does my Lord
  say to His servant?"

"No, but as Commander of the army of the LORD I
have now come."
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Who is really in charge?

• (Josh 515 NKJV) Then the Commander of the
  Lord's army said to Joshua, "Take your sandal off
  your foot, for the place where you stand is
  holy." And Joshua did so.

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And We must remember!

• (Exo 34 NKJV) So when the LORD saw that he
  turned aside to look, God called to him from the
  midst of the bush and said, "Moses, Moses!" And
  he said, "Here I am.

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And We must remember!

• (Exo 35 NKJV) Then He said, "Do not draw near
  this place. Take your sandals off your feet, for
  the place where you stand is holy ground."

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And We must remember!

• (Exo 35 NKJV) Then He said, "Do not draw near
  this place. Take your sandals off your feet, for
  the place where you stand is holy ground."
• Yes, you remember when God called Moses to go to
  Egypt to lead His people out.

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Who is really in charge?

• (Josh 515 NKJV) Then the Commander of the
  Lord's army said to Joshua, "Take your sandal off
  your foot, for the place where you stand is
  holy." And Joshua did so.
• Now the Lord is speaking through the Commander
  of the Lord's army, and Joshua is ready to lead
  under God.

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Joshua 5 What a Beginning!

• They have eaten the Passover in the land of
  Canaan. They put religious services before
  military conquest.

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Joshua 5 What a Beginning!

• They have eaten the Passover in the land of
  Canaan. They put religious services before
  military conquest.
• They have all been circumcised.

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Joshua 5 What a Beginning!

• They have eaten the Passover in the land of
  Canaan. They put religious services before
  military conquest.
• They have all been circumcised.
• They have eaten the bread of the land the days
  of manna are over.

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Joshua 5 What a Beginning!

• They have eaten the Passover in the land of
  Canaan. They put religious services before
  military conquest.
• They have all been circumcised.
• They have eaten the bread of the land the days
  of manna are over.
• The real Commander of the Lords Army has
  appeared.

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Joshua 5 What a Beginning!

• They have eaten the Passover in the land of
  Canaan. They put religious services before
  military conquest.
• They have all been circumcised.
• They have eaten the bread of the land the days
  of manna are over.
• The real Commander of the Lords Army has
  appeared.
• Joshua stands on Holy Ground.