I was paging through the book of Joshua in the bible the other day and the fall of Jericho caught my attention, so I read it more closely. It starts like this: Now when Joshua was near Jericho, he looked up and saw a man standing in front of him with a drawn sword in his hand. Joshua went up to him and asked, "Are you for us or for our enemies?" "Neither," he replied, "but as commander of the army of the Lord I have now come."
WOW!!! Can you imagine that!!!? I mean, of course there are a ton of other cool moments that it would be great to see (the transfiguration, the burning bush and probably a ton of others now that I think of it), but seriously, The angel who is the commander of the army of the Lord. Okay, first of all angels...? How powerful must they be? And God? No one/Nothing more powerful! And this guy is the commander of God's army? Wow! All I'm saying is that is one moment in history that I would have liked to been there for!
6 comments:
I would ask him, since he is neither for or against us, why does he help me. What make Joshua or Israel special in that moment?
david, great question!
mason, nice blog. it's on my list now
Is that a real question, or is that rhetorical? You of all the people I know should know that Israel was special. Not just in that moment, but God chose them to be "special" all the time.
So since they were obviously special why would the angel say he is not for them since so many times it is written that God fought for them and defeated their enemies?
Good question. I'd like you to answer that for me sometime...
I will think about it some more. I have some thoughts but I want to process this some more. I think it could speak some truth to how we view God and ourselves.
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