Oct. 12, 2025

Joshua: Angel Armies and the Sun That Stood Still

Joshua: Angel Armies and the Sun That Stood Still

This episode explores the complex themes within the biblical book of Joshua, examining the intersections of divine authority, faith, and the nature of warfare. It delves into the supernatural encounters of Joshua, the miraculous fall of Jericho, the day the sun stood still, and the implications of these events in both ancient and modern contexts. The conversation challenges listeners to consider the ongoing spiritual battles and the nature of divine intervention in the world today.

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static this ain't no beat sound story. So as prophetic

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the dreams. So with you trom in better guards of

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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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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

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spiritual beings who help administer creation, isn't new age spin.

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It's in the Bible, hidden in plain sight. Psalm eighty

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two says God stands in the assembly of l in

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the midst of gods, he renders judgment. Deuterotomy thirty two,

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eight and nine describe how God divided up the nations

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according to the number of these sons of God. In

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that worldview, the earth isn't just divided by borders. It's

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it's divided by spiritual jurisdiction. Each nation, each region had

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a delegated spiritual authority, call them lesser elohem or like

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little g gods and angelic princes, or in darker cases,

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fallen powers. But Israel, Israel was Yahweh's own portion. The land,

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the covenant, and the people were his direct domain. That's

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the real subtext of Joshua's conquest. It wasn't just about land.

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It was a reclamation campaign. Canaan wasn't merely inhabited by

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people who worshiped idols. It was a territory under the

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governance of spiritual rebels, powers that had once been part

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of God's court and decided to run their own empires.

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Michael Heiser in The Unseen Realm makes a compelling argument

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that the conquest of Canaan was a divine repossession of

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sacred geography. The phrase driving out the nations isn't just

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political rhetoric, spiritual eviction. Every victory, every fallen city, represented

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Yahweh taking back turf from the cosmic squatters who had

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claimed it. And think about the symbolism here. Joshua's name,

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Yeshua means Yahweh saves, ye Ho shuah Yehoshua Joshua means

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Yahweh saves. It's the same root as Yeshua Jesus. The

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physical conquest under Joshua mirrors the spiritual conquest under Christ.

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One drove out giants and idols, the other drove out

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demons and death. Both were reclaiming what rightfully belonged to God.

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Now this framework divine council cosmic hierarchy, spiritual territories isn't

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just Old Testament mythology. It shows up in Daniel when

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the Prince of Persia resists Gabriel's message for twenty one

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days and Michael, the Great Prince who stands guard over

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your people, steps in. It's angelic warfare mapped into geopolitics,

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real nations, real conflicts, but influenced by something unseen. It

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makes you wonder how much of what we call world

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affairs are still reflections of that same invisible tug of war,

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the powers behind thrones, behind ideologies, behind chaos itself. Maybe

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the Divine Council isn't ancient history. Maybe it's still convening

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and the nations are just pawns in the same celestial

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chess match. And here's the strained symmetry. The Book of

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Joshua begins with the commander of the Jahweh's army standing

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before a man and declaring sovereignty. Revelation ends with a

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rider on a white horse leading the armies of Heaven

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to finish what Joshua started, the final reclamation of the

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world itself. So when we talk about Joshua's War, we're

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not just talking about Bronze Age tribal conflicts. We're looking

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at an operation ordered from a divine war room, part

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of a campaign that stretches from the ancient Near East

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to the present spiritual landscape. The names change Canaan, Persia, Babylon, Washington,

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but the pattern remains. There are still rulers, authorities and

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powers in high places. There are still jerichos that need

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to fall, and there are still commanders giving or the

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Only real question is whether we recognize which side we're

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standing on, and whether we're following orders from heaven or

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from the shadows. Section five The paradox of Holy War, Judgment, redemption,

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and the modern battlefield. So when we talk about Joshua's conquest,

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it's easy to get lost in the spectacle. You've got

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collapsing walls, angelic generals, and frozen suns. But beneath all

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that wonder lies a brutal reality that has bothered scholars

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and believers alike for centuries. How do we reconcile a

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god of love with a god of war? Joshua's campaign

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was but every measure, by every measure, a war of

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total destruction. Entire cities were burned, populations wiped out, The

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term used is harem the ban, meaning devoted to destruction,

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not for greed, not for conquest, but for holiness. And

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that's where the paradox begins. Through from our modern lenses,

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it feels almost irre irreconcile, irreconcilable. But to understand why

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it's happened, you have to remember the spiritual framework we've

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built across the last three sections. The Canaanite nations were

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just weren't just rebellious people they represent represented an ecosystem

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of corruption, child's sacrifice, ritual blood letting, temple prostitution, and

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demonic worship that had saturated the land. In other words,

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it wasn't just moral decay, it was spiritual infestation. The

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command to devote to destruction wasn't genocide. It was an

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exorcism on a national scale. Yahweh was purging a land

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that had been spiritually poisoned for generations, the same way

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Jesus later casts demons out of a man so corrupted

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he lived among tombs. This was that, but magnified to

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the scale of nations. Now that doesn't make it comfortable,

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and it shouldn't. The Book of Joshua isn't meant to

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be sanitized. It's meant to show us that holiness costs blood,

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that judgment is an abstract. It's straight, messy, devastating, and final.

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But it also sets the stage for something much greater,

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the transition from physical conquest to spiritual warfare. Joshua waged

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wars with swords and trumpets. Jesus waged war with truth

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and sacrifice. One drew blood to claim land, the other

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shed his own blood to reclaim souls. It's the same

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cosmic war, just fought in a different theater. Paul echoes

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this when he writes in Ephesian six, our struggle is

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not against flesh and blood, but against rulers, against the authorities,

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against the powers of this dark world, and against the

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spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. Joshua's war

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was physical, but it mirrored the invisible reality, a rehearsal

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for the final act, when Christ would descend upon the realm,

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confront the powers head on, and disarm them, not through

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destruction but through resurrection. So how does this translate into

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our world, a world of drones and psyops and information wars. Because,

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make no mistake, warfare has evolved, but the spirit behind.

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It really hasn't the same principalities that inspire, empowers, empires

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and idols now operate through algorithms, propaganda, and moral confusion.

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It's not about territory anymore. It's about consciousness. The battlefield

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has shifted to the human heart and mind, and that's

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where the story of Joshua becomes prophetic. His generation was

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called to purge physical idols, ours is called to purge

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digital and ideological ones. His trumpet blast tore down walls

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of stone. Our voices must tear down walls of deception.

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The commander of the Lord's army still walks among us,

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but instead of wielding a drawn sword, he calls us

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to wield discernment, conviction, and the word itself. The sun

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that stood still becomes a metaphor for time extended by grace,

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for God halting the natural order so his people could

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finish the mission. Maybe that's where we are now, in

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that extended day, a pause in history before the final

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light fades and judgment resumes. So when you read Joshua,

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don't just see a warrior covered in dust and blood.

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See a type, a symbol of something cosmic and ongoing.

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His mission wasn't just to occupy by land, to prepare

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the way for the for the ultimate Joshua Yeshua to

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come and finish the war once and for all. And

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maybe that's the real sun that stood still, not a

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celestial event, but a divine mercy, a delay in the

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setting of judgments so that redemption could reach us. Maybe

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the question isn't why would God wage war? Maybe it's

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what if war was the only language evil would understand.

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Joshua's story reminds us that the line between judgment and mercy,

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destruction and deliverance runs right through the heart of every battle,

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ancient or modern. So you've just served the story of Joshua, Commander,

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the servant, the witness to miracles so vast that even

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the heavens stopped spending for a day. But if you've

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been listening closely, you know this wasn't just about swords, trumpets,

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and ancient walls. It was about something far deeper, a

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pattern repeating through history right up to where you're standing now.

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Joshua's concept was a story of what happens when Heaven

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breaks through the veil of the natural world, When the

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commander of the Lord's army, the same one who stood

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before him with a drawn sword, reminds us that there's

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a chain of command stretching far beyond our understanding, and

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that war, the one Joshua fought, the one we're still fighting,

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isn't about land anymore. It's about allegiance. Maybe the walls

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of Jericho today aren't stone and mortar, but they're built

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from fear, apathy, or the illusion that the unseen world

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is just myth. But every wall can fall, every deception

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can crumble when truth is carried in faith and the

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trumpet sounds from within the soul. So as you move

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through your week, remember this. You're living in the long

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shadow of Joshua's sun, the day that refused to die

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so God's people could finish their battle. Maybe that's what

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this whole modern age is, one long sunset, or grace

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holds the light just a little longer before the final

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night begins. And that's what broadcasting Seeds is all about,

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finding those moments where history, faith and mystery all collide

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and asking what they mean for us right now in

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this strange in between we call modern life. So if

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this episode stirred something in you, if you if it

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challenged how you see the world, or maybe reminded you

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that there's still a divine hand guiding history. Could you

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do me a favor like share and review the show.

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That's where we grow this thing. That's how the seeds

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reach new ground. So until next time, keep your eyes open,

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your spirit sharp, and your heart anchored in the truth.

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Because in a world full of noise and shadow, discernment

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is your strongest weapon.

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Refuse to move. Heaven elispread. War wasn't just unner the day,

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it was everywhere.

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Ah, it wasn't frue.

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Going steel me sky, Faith meets flesh from battling demons.

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Wearing power and dressed. Kingdom's fault when no beating, It

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speaks Trump to.

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Taco through the hearts of the week, byre brenda, heavens

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and commands from the throne, The angels alarm, one of

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the shadows and crone and walk of blight, and the

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world gone blind, bin.

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Time fro still, and the sun redefined, and.

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The sun stood still. We stood unbroken, Heaven roared in

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the earth.

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What sage?

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Every war fell, every person's broken faith.

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That's how the war was waged. Bet, that's how the

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war was waged.

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Blood beat, that's how.

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The war was waged modern prophets with digital scars, fighting

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holy wars and the neon stars.

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Scrolls turned screens, sores turned words. Truth gets very body

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the last year her, But I see Angel's information, not infect.

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The cool wings cutting through the sky the thing.

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But listen, did this reconfire made them? Joshua were raised

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a gampiga. Stand down the towers and burn the coked

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hurts the systems. That's still the soul. We fight on sane,

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We fight on sane, We fight a thing.

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We fight. The commander calls from the light above.

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The war was holy, but the weapon is love. When fighters,

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when fins, But it's not us down.

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We supped her sad Heaven drew its battle plans, begin

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of confute. Drop it sound. Every strong hold fallen down,

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every strong hold fallen down, and strong falling down.

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The war isn't over.

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It just changed uniforms.

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Stay watchful, stay honored.

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