Just as when Moses appointed judges to help manage the legal issues of the people without first consulting God, Joshua (the new human leader of the congregation) is deceived into making a peace treaty with some of the inhabitants of the Promised Land.

Jesus is condemned & crucified, and his body buried & put under guard.

Defeat at war is blamed on idolatry & now victory is attributed to faithfulness, but it reads more & more like 20/20 hindsight to rationalize both. The phrase “as it is this day” reveals the presence of revisions of the narrative while reflecting on past events.

The Lord can part the Red Sea, the Jordan River, feed the people with manna, and even crack open the ground to devour the unfaithful yet we see human hands carrying out the death penalty on those who offend in religious dogma; what happened to ‘thou shall not kill’?? 🤔

Morality is not a constant unchanging thing and the efforts of Rahab, the “working girl” are an example of that fact.

Circumcision isn’t the first or only surgery mentioned in the Bible.

Just as some statues previously given were labeled as “forever” and yet have been lost to time, the people are now commanded to set up memorials as reference points “forever” yet also seem to be lost to time, or perhaps covetousness.

The congregation is treated to a supernatural crossing of the Jordan River to enter the “Promised Land”.

The Profound Prostitute, Rehab : Once again not only is sex work, specifically prostitution, not condemned or even frowned upon when the Biblical forefathers engage in it but this time the working girl turns out to play a pivotal role as heroine in the narrative.

Sometimes in life we feel forsaken by friend & family, a feeling Jesus can relate to as he was betrayed, forsaken, and even denied by His own disciples at a time He identified as being, “sorrowful even to the point of death”.