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February 11, 2025 Daily Reading- Read the Bible in 1 Year
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Thank you for joining me today! Today's reading comes to us from Joshua chapters 6-8. Today we will read about God giving His people TWO cities, the cities of Jericho and Ai. We will read about the amazing way God just GAVE these two cities to His people. We will learn about the consequence when a man did not obey God and instead took some items from Jericho when everyone was told NOT to. We will also see God's forgiveness again after the sin was corrected. In today's discussion and personal application we will talk about not copying what we see others doing wrong as well as making sure we are always doing our BEST for God, even when we see something as being potentially "easy" for us to do.
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Introduction to Bible Reading
00:00:03
Speaker
Hi there, everyone. Welcome to a very late edition of our daily Bible reading. Today is Tuesday, February 11th, 2025, and you are here with Robin at In the Family Way Coaching. Thank you for joining me today, or maybe it's now tomorrow since I didn't get this up until very late, in which case, thank you for being here regardless of what time you're able to get to this reading.
Reading from 'Day by Day Kids Bible'
00:00:29
Speaker
I am here for our daily reading but and we are reading out of the Day by Day Kids Bible, which is written by Karen Henley. And if you have your calendar out, now is a good time to go ahead and mark off your calendar for the day as you're about to read the Bible.
00:00:49
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Well, since we're all conversational here, I will tell you today was my day off. So it is hard for me to get to these because I will sleep late, which I don't get to do as often anymore. I'm always working and working. And so I i slept late and then I enjoyed my coffee for a really long time and then I was just doing a bunch of probably nothing and then I left about three o'clock to go meet my husband because he's off at four so we could meet for dinner and go to an early movie at five because I love to go see half-price movies at our local movie theater.
00:01:26
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And then I had to run some errands before I headed home. So here I am, it's very late, and I'm sorry for that. ah You know that sometimes I get these out kind of on the late side because I have real life too. But thank you so much for being here, and I appreciate your being here.
Listener Appreciation
00:01:44
Speaker
So thank you for whether you're here on TikTok or on Spotify, watching by my site, or if you are listening via your favorite podcast. I am so glad that you are joining me.
Discussion on the Fall of Jericho
00:01:56
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We are going to be reading about the the City of Jericho today. Very exciting. Some of us may be familiar with that story. And I'd like us to keep our ears open for some directions by God that were not followed. And we want to keep our ears open for that, as well as the faithfulness of God to have us take care of Rahab,
00:02:23
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ah When she helped the men and when they were out spying to check out the city to see how they were faithful to save her. And let's see, what else should we be keeping our ears open for? Hmm.
00:02:41
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I was a little bit confused on on something with one of the directions that God gave to Joe Joshua. And so I did some more research on it. So I'll discuss that a little bit at the end of our reading today. All right. Well, let's get going.
00:03:02
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Today's reading comes to us from Joshua, chapters six, seven, and eight. So if you are curious about any additional details, I encourage you to head up your big Bible and check out Joshua, chapters six, seven, and eight.
00:03:20
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The first section is entitled, Falling Walls. And it comes to us from chapter six.
00:03:29
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The people of Jericho kept the gates to their city closed up. They didn't want God's people to come in. So nobody went out of the city and nobody went into the city. God told Joshua, I'm giving you the city of Jericho. Take your army, march around the city one time every day. Do this for six days.
00:03:54
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Seven priests should carry horns. They should walk in front of my arc box. On day seven, march around the city seven times. The priests should blow their horns. Then they should make a long blow on the horns. When the people hear the horns, they should shout. The city wall will fall down. Your people can go right in.
00:04:25
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So Joshua told the people God's plan. Go ahead, he said. March around the city. Let the guards and priests go in front of the ark box. So the guards marched out. Then the priests with their horns marched out. Then the priests carrying God's ark box went out. Then the other guards went out. And the priests started blowing their horns.
00:04:53
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But Joshua told the people, don't say a word. Wait until I tell you to shout. Then you can shout. So they went around the city once. Then they went back to camp. They stayed there that night. Early in the morning, they marched around the city again. Then they went back to their camp. And they did that same thing for six days.
00:05:23
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Day number seven came and they got up early. They marched around the city again, but this time they went around seven times. Then the priests sounded a long blow on their horns.
00:05:39
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Joshua called, everybody shout, God is giving you this city, but save Rahab and everyone in her house. As we promised, she hid two of our men and don't take things from the city for yourselves. So the horns blew and the people shouted. Then the wall of the city fell down. Joshua and his men went right into the city.
00:06:09
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Joshua called the men who had stayed at Rahab's house. Go save Rahab, he said. So they went to Rahab's house and they brought out Rahab and her family. Joshua's army burned the whole city. Then Joshua said, no one should build this city again. If they try, bad things will happen to them. God was with Joshua.
00:06:37
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Everyone in all the land heard about him.
Theft and Consequences at Jericho
00:06:42
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Chapter seven, who stole the gold? Now one man took some things from Jericho. These things were to be given to God. So God was angry at his people. Then Joshua sent men to look at the city of Ai. So Joshua told the men,
00:07:05
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to go look, and the men came back and said, it's small, just take a few men to the town. So Joshua didn't send the whole army. A group of men went against the town, but the people of Ai chased them off. They chased them to the valley of stone cutting, and some of God's people got killed. And now God's people started getting scared.
00:07:34
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Joshua went in front of God's ark box. He lay down with his face to the ground and he stayed there all day. The leaders did the same thing too. And then Joshua prayed, God, why did you bring us here to kill us? The other nations will hear about this. They'll come and fight us. They'll kill us all. Stand up, said God. Why is your face to the ground? My people have done wrong.
00:08:04
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They took some things I told them not to take. That's why they can't win against their enemies. You'll have to get rid of what they took. If you don't, I can't be with you. Then God told Joshua, call the family groups. Tomorrow morning, they will come before me. I'll get rid of the person who stole these things. So the family groups came out early the next morning.
00:08:33
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God pointed to the family group of Judah. Out of that family group, God pointed to one man. Joshua said to that man, tell me what you did, don't hide it. It's true, said the man, I sinned. I saw a beautiful coat in Jericho. I also found silver coins and a block of gold and I wanted them.
00:09:02
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So I took them and hid them in the ground under my tent. Joshua sent some men to the tent. They found the things that the man had stolen. They brought them back to Joshua. Then God's people took the man, his tent, everything he had, and they went down to a valley. And there they killed the man and set fire to everything he had The people piled rocks over everything. And they called this the sad valley.
The Battle of Ai and Lessons Learned
00:09:40
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Joshua chapter eight, the fight at eye. Then God told Joshua, don't be scared anymore. Don't give up. Take your whole army. Go out to fight the city of eye. I'm giving that city to you.
00:09:59
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So Joshua chose some of his best men. He told them this plan, listen, he said, you go behind the city, but don't go very far, then be ready.
00:10:12
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I'll take the main army and we'll come up to the city to fight. The men of the city will come out to fight, said Joshua, and we will run from them and they will chase us. When they have all left, that's when you'll go into the city and God will give it to you. Then set the city on fire. The first group of men went out that night and Joshua and the rest of the men stayed in the camp.
00:10:40
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Early the next morning Joshua called the men together. He led them out and they marched to Ai. By that night they were in the valley by the city. The king of Ai saw them there, so the next morning he led his men out. Joshua and his men began to run away toward the desert and the men from the city chased them. They left their city open. Then God told Joshua, hold out your spear.
00:11:09
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So Joshua held out his spear and that was the sign that his other men were waiting for. They were behind the city and they saw Joshua's spear and they ran into the city. They took it and set fire to the city. Then the men from the city looked back. They saw smoke going up from their city. Joshua and his men began to fight them and God's people won.
00:11:37
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And that's the end of our reading today.
00:11:44
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That was very exciting.
Science Behind Jericho's Walls
00:11:45
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We saw two cities taken by God's people in one session today. That was quite a bit. One of the things that I wanted to share about the city of Jericho.
00:11:59
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is that people have done studies now on ah how it was could have been possible as people try sometimes to disprove what we read about in the Bible. What they find is that they are absolutely finding that they have happened and that they are true.
00:12:17
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And I love that. So god will God knows everything. So he knows how everything works. And so he knows things we don't know. And he certainly knew about things and understood things more so than the people did thousands of years ago. So what we know now about sound is that sound, you can actually feel it.
00:12:43
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Like when you hear a bass, you can feel it. You can feel it deep inside. It makes like your whole heart beat. You can feel it. It vibrates inside your body. And the music, the horns that were played, they created such a sound that the the sound is what and we are told knocked the city walls down.
00:13:08
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And so what they've done studies on that and found that absolutely, that that is accurate, that the sound was capable of doing so. And so God uses what we might say are ordinary means to do extraordinary things. And it doesn't make it any less miraculous. It's just that sometimes God uses things and with the way things are in order for them to be miraculous.
00:13:40
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And let's see, what else? So we find here today that a man took some things after the city of Jericho fell and they were supposed to burn the whole city. And that man took some things. And it says that those things were supposed to belong to God. So I was a little bit confused that if they were supposed to belong to God and he took them, why did they burn them? And ah so when I looked it up in the big Bible,
00:14:08
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ah What it told me is that a lot of times when something was devoted to God, it was to be burned from these cities. So that's why everything was meant to be burned. And so when the man took it, it was almost like he said, oh, it's a shame that these should be wasted and burned, but they weren't being wasted. They were devoted to God. And these were things that had belonged to evil people.
00:14:36
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that they were being the cities were being given to them so that they could destroy them because the people were so bad. And that was what Moses had cautioned them about, is that not to think that they were getting these cities and this land because they were so good. It was because the God was taking it from people who were so bad.
00:14:56
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And so they were worshipping idols and doing terrible things. You remember we read about that. And so a lot of times people would have gold and silver and other things like copper and bronze, and they would have these things in their idols temples.
00:15:13
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And so they they would have been tempting for the people to take as riches. And God said not to take them that they were not for the people to take. They were to be destroyed. They were to be devoted to him. So that whole city and everything in it was to be burned.
00:15:29
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So when the man sinned, it was important that God got rid of the man who sinned against him, because if other people had been seen later on as they were traveling, the things that the man had taken, and then they said, Oh, well, he took those things. It's okay. Nothing happened to him. And we were told not to do it. And then they would have been tempted to sin too.
00:15:52
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And that was another one of the things that God had cautioned them through Moses to not do, remember, is not to do or copy bad things that we see other people doing. So God needed to make an example.
00:16:06
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as well and show that he was not going to just let even one person get away with stealing when he told them that they were not supposed to do something. That meant everybody. It didn't mean everybody but one or everybody but a couple or it was all right if some people did it. And it's not okay if we do things either. When God says that something is wrong and we see other people doing it,
00:16:30
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And it doesn't seem like they're getting in trouble for doing it. That doesn't make it right in God's eyes. And we are not to copy doing bad things. So that was the consequence was that God got rid of that person and all of those things that were supposed to be burned in the city were then burned later on.
00:16:53
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So I wanted to point that out that that was where I was a little bit confused and I wanted to make sure that we understand what we're reading because it doesn't do us any good to read about the Bible if we don't understand what we're reading, right?
God's Faithfulness and Human Obedience
00:17:04
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That's what I love about this day by day kids Bible is that for the most part, everything is much easier to understand, but even still some things can be a little confusing. And so wherever possible, I want to make sure that if it seems like something could be confusing that I offer explanation for that.
00:17:25
Speaker
All right well let's see and I said to keep our ears open for us for the God's people being faithful to Rahab's family and they were they made sure to keep their promise that they were honest and they saved Rahab's family and Rahab becomes very important actually she was honored by having saved the people the two men and letting them get back so that they could give the information to the men there. Later on, she will be very important. And we'll read about that later. I don't want to give too much away.
00:18:08
Speaker
So there we go, I think that's it. Oh, it was also very important that, ah did you notice that when Joshua initially tried to take the city of Ai, that he sent his men out to go look at the city like they had with Jericho? But when the men came back, they said, oh, it's not very big, you don't need to send a lot of people. But when God sent them back, how many people did he send?
00:18:37
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He told them to take the whole army. And when the people went out and they saw, oh, it's not very big, don't so don't send up the whole army, you just need to send some men. God was making this a group, a fair. Everybody needed to work together. They needed to do all of their best. And it seemed that they were getting a little bit arrogant by only sending some of their people. And so I want our application there to be, is that when God sends us out to do something, even if it looks like it's easy, don't put out only a little bit of effort because you think, oh, it's not very hard. I don't have to try very hard to do that.
00:19:17
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God wants our best. He always wants us to do our best. And it wasn't just the fact that ah that that man had sinned. First of all, it was a big part that that man had sinned and that that was keeping them from winning. So even if they had sent out the entire army, they would not have initially won it with that man having committed that sin and having those ah objects with them.
00:19:42
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God said that he stole and that was not okay. He could not be with them. And the only way that they were going to win was if they were with him, he was with them. And so we want to make sure that we are on the winning side. So like we talked about yesterday, so let's make sure that we are right with God and we are following his ways and then God will be with us. And, uh,
00:20:08
Speaker
Then he was so faithful to forgive them as always after they had done what they were supposed to do to correct the error. God was faithful to them and he did give them the city, but they needed to all go out and do their best. It wasn't just a a job for a couple of people to do. And so I wanted that to be our takeaway today is that we need to always do our best.
00:20:35
Speaker
Well, thank you very much for being
Encouragement and Archeological Insights
00:20:37
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here with me today. I hope you've enjoyed today's reading and that you are encouraged to always do your best and that you are encouraged by hearing that we have done in our archeology research. That's what we call looking at ah ruins and like that from a long time ago and studying the people from a long time ago is archeology. And I hope that you are, um,
00:21:04
Speaker
happy and and just let's praise God that he does know everything and so he knew how to knock those walls down with just the sound of the trumpets and the shouting from the people. So that was amazing and I hope that you are happy to hear that what God did today.
00:21:30
Speaker
Every day we read, God does amazing things. Isn't that amazing? It's not just story. It's about what happened is that God does amazing things and he's with them. And every day that we read, there is something going on that's exciting. And I um can't wait to just keep going and see all the rest of the things that happened this year.
00:21:54
Speaker
even just this week. So I will look forward to reading with you again tomorrow. Thank you for being here with me today. And even if you don't get to it until the 12th, that's okay. Thank you for joining me here. And I will see everybody again tomorrow.