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A new generation arises, who’s roots were in an enslaved, broken nation, totally dependent on a dominant leader, and matures and assumes power through wars, conquest and settling of the land.<\/p>\n

Five weeks of touring the land with Joshua have come to an end. Let’s take a look back and try to understand the experience in its entirety.<\/p>\n

The Book of Joshua reminds me of a young child learning to ride a bike. Joshua and the Israelites are making their first halting efforts in the Land of Israel. Not yet pedaling on their own, not yet able to get along without the immediate presence of Moses and God, but already grappling with sovereignty and independence, which include a few tumbles.<\/p>\n

There are very few miracles in this book. Miracles represent God’s patronage and watchful eye, which guarded the people during forty years in the desert. Jericho continued that model: neither Joshua nor the people conquered Jericho. Marching around the walls with shofars was much more of a prayer than a plan of attack. A prayer to God to fight their battles. It should have been otherwise: crossing the Jordan should have transferred authority from God to the people. But you can’t just throw such an ill prepared people directly into the fray of freedom. Jericho was the training wheels, before taking them on the open road. The pursuit of the enemy in the first real war against the kings of the South, will be forever remembered because of Joshua’s cry: \u201cStand still, O sun, at Gibeon, O moon, in the Valley of Aijalon!\u201d This plea is calling out to Dad not to leave me alone, but to hold onto the bike, because I am not sure of my own abilities.<\/p>\n

Like the education of any child, there are successes and there are failures. There are years of conquest and settlement, and there are tribes who slack off. “Joshua was now old, advanced in years\u2026and very much of the land still remains to be taken possession of” (13:1). Maturity necessitates dealing with weakness, with failure, with internal conflicts and with partial successes. The book will not end with the blowing of trumpets. The death of Joshua, unlike that of Moses, does not describe a harmonious situation, but rather the gathering of storm-clouds, portending what will occur in the next book. There is no passing of the baton – it is the end of central leadership, to be followed by tribal responsibility, with local leaders.<\/p>\n

Will this succeed? Not clear. But it had to happen, to make sure that not only did we leave Egypt, but that Egypt left us as well. Hundreds of years of servitude created a nation of slaves, with souls that wanted to run away from independence and responsibility. The first stage of leaving Egypt required a strong leader for a people with no backbone. Forty years in the desert allowed a new generation to arise, and so the people who entered Egypt had not been crippled by slavery. 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