Joshua 24 - Covenant Renewed at Shechem | Bible Podcast, David Alley, Peace Christian Church
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Show Notes
In this video listen to Joshua 24 read by David Alley, followed by comments and prayer.
In Joshua 24 his dying words continue in a second chapter. Here we find the most famous verse in the entire book of Joshua, written on the walls of the homes of believers, and on church walls and more. Joshua says “as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.” Serving other gods in antiquity was a more obvious thing than the other gods so many follow now.
Today it's possible to say the above with apparent sincerity and to be entirely wrong about it. People worship many things and their hearts follow many things that don’t look idolatrous. The twenty four chapters represent about 25 years of time, so the book closes at around about 1381 BC. At this point the book ends with three burials. Burial 1 - Joshua is 110 years old, a picture of Christ.
Here he is labelled for the first time, with “servant of God” a title Moses was labelled many times with. May be all be servants of God. Burial 2 - Joseph also lived 110 years, the perfect age for an Egyptian. Burial 3 - Eleazar - the high priest of the righteous generation. Now the good generation is passing and the future awaits. This book represents many things. It represents the idea that God keeps his promises. What God said to Abraham 470 years earlier has come to pass. (430 plus 40)
And it is a picture of Christ who brings the people into the fulfilment of the promises. Without Christ we cannot inherit anything from God. The book starts with them living in the desert, and ends with every single person successfully living in a new land, each with an inheritance. And this is a picture of GOd’s great plan for all of humanity too.
This generation also was the good generation who didn’t grumble or complain, and who obeyed the Lord, unlike the generations before or after. Such are the people who are led by Christ. What a remarkable book, outlining all that God had done, and continues to do for us today.