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Year Joe, straight from the broadcast studio and then the
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static this ain't no beat sound story. So as prophetic
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encrypt the signals from the saddles of the party, we
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did where the trot got secret snow parted, microphone alchemists
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scriptures with a twist peat the frequency seeds in the
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midst we dropped fass like plagues revelations in the catus,
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broadcasting truth while they trapped in surveillans wisdom with a
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watchman's blade, forth what sound while your whole system fad
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blood moons that for love echoes in the pond sas
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far sopping through the fault lines of time. We ain't mainstream,
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we ain't just stream safer with the prophets to code
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the dreams. So with you trom in better guards of
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mind as broadcasting seeds and were breaking the design. Yeah, yeah,
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yo yo, straight from the broadcast.
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You ever notice how sometimes I'm benetten and this is
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broadcasting Seeds, a show about the corners of reality. They
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stopped teaching you in school because those corners make people uncomfortable.
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So tonight we walk into one of those corners where
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the divine and the absurd cross swords where Heaven acts
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like a general with the plan and the Sun takes orders.
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Picture Joshua, ragged, sunburnt, carried the smell of campfire and
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his clothes, he looks up outside Jericho and finds a
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man standing with the drawn sword. Not a general of men,
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a commander of the lord's army, who says, in effect,
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I'm not on your team, and I'm not on the
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other team either. Now that encounter sits in the text
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like a bruise that you just can't ignore. Then there's Jericho,
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the city that fell not to siege engines, but to rhythm,
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trumpets and a shout, the walls folded like something made
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of paper and breeze. Later, on a different field of battle,
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Joshua looks up into the sky and says roughly, Sun,
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you hang there, will you? And the text tells us
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the sun stood still until the nation finished avenging itself.
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So what do we do with scenes like this where
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celestial officers show up, walls obey sound, and the sun
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apparently takes a break on command. Tonight we will treat
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the Book of Joshua like a map and then walk
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its strange terrain. Theology, archaeology, physics, adjacent speculation and the
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ethics of holy war and what this all means when
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you try to square the supernatural with the everyday human heart.
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If you dig this kind of deep weird like share
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and drop of reviews wherever you get podcasts, that's how
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barb broadcasting seeds grows, and it helps me bring you
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more episodes that pop the sacred and then write back
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notes about what bleeds out. So Section one, the Commander
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in the Shadows who leads Yahweh's army. There's a moment
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just before the siege of Jericho that barely gets a
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page in most Bibles, but if you pause long enough,
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it's one of the most loaded supernatural encounters in all
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of scripture. Joshua standing alone near Jericho, probably scouting, probably tired,
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and out there on the barren ridge, he sees a
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man with a sword drawn, not sheathed, not resting drawn.
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That detail matters. In the ancient world. You didn't draw
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your blade unless something was about to happen. So Joshua
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does what any good commander would do. He calls him out,
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are you for us or for our enemies? And the
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answer is neither. But as commander of the army of Yahweh,
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I have now come. That's Joshua five fourteen. And it
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might be the most cryptic. Don't ask me which team
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I'm on reply in history, the text says, Joshua falls
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face down and worships. This isn't casual respect, it's reverence.
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And here's where the theological fork in the road appears.
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Some scholars say this commander was the archae angel, the
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arch archangel Michael, Israel's celestial protector mentioned in Daniel and Revelations. Others,
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and I tend to lean this way, see it as
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something much more a Christo fanny, an appearance of the
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pre incarnate Christ himself. Why because the being accepts worship.
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Angels don't do that. When John tried to worship one
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in Revelation nineteen, the angels shut him down hard. Don't
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do that worship God. But this commander didn't reject Joshua's posture. Instead,
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he tells him to take off his sandals because the
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ground itself is now holy. Sound familiar. That's exactly what
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God told Moses at the burning Bush in Exodus three.
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So here's the picture, before the walls fell, before the
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trumpets blared, Heaven's chain of command was already being revealed.
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The human commander Joshua was reporting in to the divine
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commander in chief. And this wasn't just symbolic. The Hebrew
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word for army is savia. Doesn't mean just foot soldiers.
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It means the host of heaven, angelic battalions, a cosmic
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military apparatus that moves when God moves. Now why does
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that matter, Because every rains the whole conquest of Canaan.
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It wasn't merely a land grab. It was a spiritual operation.
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The visible war was only half the story. The other
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half was unseen. You had entities, powers, and principalities entrenched
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in the land. And when Joshua's army crossed the Jordan,
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they weren't just fighting Canaanites. They were taking back territory
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corrupted by ancient spiritual influence. What due aroondom Me thirty
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two calls gods of the nations. Even doctor Michael Hauser,
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a respected biblical scholar, argued that this campaign was about
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reclaiming sacred geography, places ruled by fallen divine beings. Since
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Babel Joshua's wars weren't just battles of swords and shields
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They were the visible reflection of a divine reclamation project.
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And maybe that's the bigger lesson here, that spiritual warfare
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isn't some abstract Sunday School concept. It's structured, it's disciplined,
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it has hierarchy. There are ranks, orders, and divine timing.
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In other words, Heaven doesn't just wing it. Joshua wasn't
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just a soldier. He was a participant in a much older,
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larger war, one that began before humans ever picked up
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a weapon. So as we move forward, remember that the
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commander didn't come to take sides. He came to take over.
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And the real question might not be whose side is
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God on, but who is truly aligned under his command?
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Section two Jericho, The Frequency of Faith and the Collapse
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of Empire. When people talk about Jericho, they often imagine
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a children's story, a marching band, a shout, and some
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cartoon walls tumbling like building blocks. But if you strip
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away the Sunday School varnish, this story reads like something
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that belongs in both a war chronicle and a quantum
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physics textbook. The Israelites had just crossed the Jordan. No
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siege towers, no battering rams, no engineers, just a nomadic
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army following a box overland with gold the ark of
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the Covenant that symbolized the literal presence of Yahweh. And
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when they reached Jericho, a heavily fortified city with double
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walls and watchtowers, God gave Joshua what sounded like an
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absurd strategy. March around the city once each day for
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six days. On the seventh day, march seven times. Blow
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the trumpets and then shout, and the walls will fall.
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No catapults, no infiltration, just sound. Now, if you think
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about that militarily, it's nonsense. But if you think about
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it metaphysically or even scientifically, it starts to hum with possibilities.
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Let's start with the sound itself. The trumpets they used
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weren't brass band instruments. They were shaffars. They were rams
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horns that produced a low resonant blast. Ancient Near Eastern
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cultures believe that sound could disturb the unseen world. The
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Canaanites used chants to and whales in rituals for the
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same reason, but the Israelites were told to use sound
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in obedience, a sacred frequency commanded by Galway himself. Modern
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physics tells us that sound is vibration energy traveling through matter.
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Under the right conditions, certain frequencies can literally shatter solid objects.
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Think about opera singers, cracking glass, or more advanced examples
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like military. Modern military researchers have explored acoustic resonance weapons
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that use focused sound to incapacitate or even destroy structures.
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So now hundreds of shofars echoing through a narrow valley
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bouncing off limestone walls, while thousands of voices roar in
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unison could sound to play the physical role. Possibly, But
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what makes Jericho unique is the faith and frequency worked together.
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The command wasn't just about decibels. It was about obedience, timing,
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and alignment with divine will. When faith and obedience move
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and sink, strange things tend to happen. You could say
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Jericho's walls didn't fall because of sound, but through it,
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like a spiritual resonance event where heaven and earth briefly harmonized.
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Archaeology adds another wrinkle. Excavations at Jericho, particularly those by
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John Garstag and later Bryant Wood, found a city whose
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walls had collapsed outward, a rare direction for destruction, usually
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invading forces knock dwalls inward. Outward collapse suggests something else,
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maybe an internal shockwave or pressure wave from beneath or
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even within. Whether that's divine intervention, tectonic coincidence, or the
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spiritual equivalent of a sonic boom, that depends on your worldview.
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But the symbolism here runs deeper than rebel. Jericho was
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the gateway fortress of Canaan, the first major obstacle between
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Israel and the Promised Land. Huh. Taking it down without
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a single sword swing wasn't just efficient, it was psychological warfare.
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It told the world and the unseen powers behind it
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that Israel's God didn't play by human rules, and that's
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the uncomfortable part for modern minds. This story suggests the
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creation itself response to divine the command. Sound, vibration, and
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faith aren't just metaphors. They're the mechanics of spiritual reality.
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The universe doesn't ignore obedience, it resonates with it. When
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Joshua's people shouted, the vibration wasn't just in the air,
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It was in the moral and spiritual fabric of creation.
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The walls didn't crumble because of noise. They collapsed under
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the weight of divine authority being released through sound. So
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next time you think faith is passive, remember Jericho. Sometimes
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faith sounds like thunder, and sometimes it sounds like the
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frequency that undoes empires. Section three, The Day the Sun
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stood still, Time, war, and divine intervention. Now we move
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from the walls of Jericho to the sky itself to
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one of the most baffling verses in all of scripture.
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Joshua ten Israel is in the middle of a desperate
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battle with the Amorak Kings. The days getting late, the
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shadows are stretching long, and Joshua knows if the sun
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goes down, the enemy will slip away into the dark.
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So he does something only a man convinced of Heaven's
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backing would dare to do. He prays out loud, not quietly,
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not symbolically, and commands the universe sun stands still over
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give Gibbeon and moon over the valley of Ajalon. And
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according to the text, it happened the sun stood still
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and the moon stopped until the nation took vengeance on
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their enemies. There has never been a day like this
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before or since. When the Lord listened to a human
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being Joshua ten twelve through fourteen. So let that sink in.
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The writer isn't talking metaphor here. He's describing an astronomical suspension,
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time itself kneeling before divine authority. Now, theologian, skeptics, and
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scientists have all taken their swings at this one for centuries.
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Some say it's poetic language. Maybe the light lasted longer,
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maybe the reflection, maybe a localized optical illusion. Others have
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suggested a long silver eclipse, atmospheric refraction, or some kind
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of rotational slowdown. But every explanation hits the same wall.
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If this was literal, it wasn't just an odd sunset.
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It was a cosmic event that broke the clock of
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creation for a moment. There's an old Nasi myth, widely
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circulated and thoroughly debunked, about computer finding a missing day
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in Earth's rotation. It makes for a great sermon story,
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but no, NASA didn't stumble into Joshua's miracle in it
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in a database. Still, the persistence of that rumor says
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something about how deeply this story resonates with people. We
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want it to be true, not just theologically, but physically.
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We want to know that time itself can be rewritten
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if God wills it. Now here's where things just get interesting,
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and ancient civilizations are around the same rough time frame.
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The Chinese, the Mayans, even the Aztecs. There are records
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of a long day or a missing night. Correlation isn't proof,
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but it's enough to make historians scratch their heads a
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little bit. If multiple ancient people saw something strange in
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the sky, maybe Joshua wasn't the only one witnessing the impossible.
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Then there's the quantum thought experiment. What if God didn't
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stop time? What if he bent it? What if what
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Joshua experience wasn't cosmic suspension but temporal dilation, a moment
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when divine will altered human perception, slowly slowing reality for
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those who needed more daylight, while the rest of the
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universe ticked along as usual. Einstein's relativity tells us time
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is elastic, not absolute. So if physics allows her time
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to bend, it's not unthinkable that the Creator could twist
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it on his command. And maybe that's the point. The
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miracle wasn't just in the sky, it was in the partnership.
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God didn't act despite Joshua, he acted because because of him,
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the Lord listened to a man. The verse says that
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line hints like a thunderclap. It's the audacity of faith,
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a human voice changing the tempo of heaven. In the
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ancient mindset, celestial bodies were more than just rocks or fireballs.
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They were cosmic rulers. But by commanding the Sun and
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Moon to stand still, Joshua wasn't just buying battle time.
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He was symbolically declaring Yahweh's dominion over every other soul
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called God in the heavens. The Sun, God, the Moon God,
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all of them froze under divine authority. So whether you
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see this as physics defying intervention, mythic hyperbole, or the
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ultimate show of divine sovereignty, one truth old stea heaven
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listens to bold faith. The Sun stood still that day
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not for spectacle, but for obedience, for a man who
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believed that if God promised victory, even time would make
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a way for it. Section four, The Divine Council and
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Celestial Warmat If you've stuck with me this far, you've
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seen army. God's army move on the ground, his voice
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move through sound, and his will move through time. Now
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we pulled back even further, way past the battlefield, past
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the walls, past the orbit of the sun itself, into
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the unseen boardroom of creation. This is where it gets.
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It's very weird and very ancient. The idea of a
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divine council that Yahweh presides over, a heavenly assembly of