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The Battle of Jericho



Joshua 6:1:27
Bishop Adipo always insisted we should not read the bible like a story book but we should try and put ourselves in the shoes of those in the story. Joshua 6:1-27 narrates the story of how Israelites under the leadership of Joshua won the battle over the army of Jericho when the walls of Jericho broke down. This happened when Joshua was instructed lead the Israelites in matching around Jericho wall once every day but on the seventh day they were to match seven times, and on the seventh round they were to shout and praise the Lord. The amazing miracle happened; the famous strong and thick wall of Jericho came tumbling down.
Let’s think about it literally. Joshua is our leader and we are supposed to conquer the city of Jericho. But the history says it is impossible to go through the famous wall of Jericho because its height is like a four storey building and so wide that the chariots rally are taking place on it (in our case it would be safari rally). It could have been either 2 or 3 lane wide). Picture this, all of us are stressed out wondering what strategies we should use to go through Jericho wall, our army is trying to get modern weapons which seem impossible then our leader Joshua summons us for a meeting to discuss the strategy. Then Joshua says, ‘While I was praying God gave me a strategy’. So we all get excited so we ask, ‘are we going to bomb it? What are we going to do?”. So we give Joshua all the ideas we have in mind. But he says, ‘No, this is what God says we should do. We will only go round the wall of Jericho once a day every day and on the seventh day we will go round seven times and on the last round we will shout, make noise and praise God. Then the wall of Jericho will shake and break down?
All of us would stare at Joshua in shock. We would ask ‘Where on earth did he get that stupid idea from? What would you think? Literally, I would think Joshua is out his mind or is drunk. How would going round the wall shake it down serious Joshua? Don’t you think bombing it is more logical? What will people think of us? The army of Jericho will laugh at us. I think it was not easy for the people of Israel and even Joshua to take a step and do what was seen as one of the most stupid strategies in the battle. But their trust in God resulted in the wall of Jericho breaking down. God can use the most despised person or idea to do greater things.
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