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We are continuing our journey through the Old Testament, specifically dealing with the tough passages on death.
Our series is called Killing Stuff and today’s message is on Killing Kingdoms.
There are a number of places in the Old Testament where large groups of people, even entire nations are killed and we need to explore these to see what God was up to—and honestly what God is still up to.
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INTRO
LOOK AT BIBLE VID.
NEED TO PRESENT 2 VIEWS (Genocide or not?)
a. Story of Joshua
Review accusation of Genocide ala book of Joshua.
III. , the promised land was topological in Joshua.
makes clear that the Israelites had already been unfaithful during the conquest, and where Joshua’s family was faithful, the people of Israel were not and would not be going forward (cf.
Judges).
Therefore, even for Joshua, as he reviewed the Abrahamic covenant, it’s clear that he foresaw a more ultimate fulfillment ala Hebrews.
I’m going to apologize to my note-takers out there.
Your points were the points of the message as of Thursday morning, but I reorganized and those points won’t serve you well today.
b.
Story of Palm Sunday
“This means that we’re not waiting for an earthly city but a heavenly one (, ; ), which has been won for us through the conquest of God’s anointed Son—Christ.
Therefore, the Christian has no justification for crusades or the establishment of earthly kingdoms.”
(BTLC, Lawrance)
If the promised land is a type, then the conquest needs to be taken seriously.
It is a warning to Israel and to the nations that devotion to YHWH is essential to avoiding judgment.
CONCLUSION???
Anyway, in the Bible, we see themes show up repeatedly.
One of those themes is the war between good and evil.
And all throughout the biblical story, we see these episodes where God calls His people into a land, but the land is full of evil.
It happens over and over as you’ve probably noticed through the past few weeks dealing with Noah, and Abraham, and Sodom and Gomorrah and all that.
Can I make a Palm Sunday Reference here?
As Israel came into the Promised Land and faced opposition, so Jesus came into Jerusalem and faced the opposition of the Jews.
This too is a type of the 2nd coming when Jesus returns to earth to reign forever on the earth.
But, in this second coming, the Kingdom of God’s people will not have a false sense of hope that changes with the wind, but an eternally binding hope, sealed by the Holy Spirit.
Not a blind hope that fails, but a hope strengthened by the promises of God.
And so we await the triumphal entry, the true entry—quote 2 Thessalonians.
Deal with more of the typology.
c.
The second coming.
Michael Lawrence, Biblical Theology in the Life of the Church: A Guide for Ministry, 9Marks (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2010), 191.”
Emphasize that Jesus does not come in secret (rapture).
There’s 3 things you need to make a Kingdom.
God wanted His Kingdom to be supreme on the earth.
Let’s look at His Kingdom—reword—so on a so forth…
The first thing that God has been doing is preparing the Land for His people to live.
I.
The Land
I.
The Land
…for His people to live.
In the Bible, we see themes show up repeatedly.
One of those themes is the war between good and evil.
And all throughout the biblical story, we see these episodes where God calls His people into a land, but the land is full of evil.
It happens over and over as you’ve probably noticed through the past few weeks dealing with Noah, and Sodom and Gomorrah and all that.
Well, we are going to start with the land that God told Joshua to lead God’s people into.
This was the land that was promised to the descendants of Abraham.
We read this in Joshua 1:
…Joshua to take over.
Joshua
…to lead God’s people into.
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The people were promised the land of Israel by the Lord
After the death of Moses the servant of the Lord, the Lord said to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses’ assistant, “Moses my servant is dead.
Now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, you and all this people, into the land that I am giving to them, to the people of Israel.
Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given to you, just as I promised to Moses.
From the wilderness and this Lebanon as far as the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites to the Great Sea toward the going down of the sun shall be your territory.
(, ESV)
(, ESV)
When the Israelites had finished their wandering for 40 years in the dessert and they approached the Promised Land, Moses died.
And God called Joshua, Moses’s assistant to take over for him.
And the Lord told Joshua how much land Israel was going to get.
[ISRAEL VS.
PROMISED LAND]
It was actually a lot of land for a nation in these days.
In some ways, the Promised Land was where modern day Israel is located, today.
But God actually promised a much larger plot of land to Israel.
b.
At the triumphal entry, the people still saw the land as the land promised to Abraham.
They had a myopic view of God’s Kingdom.
You can see this on the map.
At some points in time Israel had a little more than what they have today, but Israel was never able to conquer all the land God wanted to give to them.
You can see this on the map.
At some points in time Israel had a little more than what they have today, but Israel was never able to conquer all the land God wanted to give to them and there’s reasons for that we are about to get to.
Here’s why I think they never took hold of the land.
They never took hold of the land, because they didn’t believe God.
And here’s why I think they never took hold of the land.
They never took hold of the land, because they didn’t believe God.
And here’s why I think they never took hold of the land.
They never took hold of the land, because they didn’t believe God.
God called Israel to join Him in the battle against the wicked nations who were in the land, and they didn’t do it.
They sort of did it, but they didn’t fully do it.
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Here’s what happened.
Joshua led the people into the Promised Land and the first city they came to is Jericho.
Now, Israel didn’t have a human king like other nations; the Lord was their King and so the Lord himself showed up.
And he told Joshua that He is the commander of the Lord’s army and Joshua realized who he was talking to and he began to worship Him.
Israel had God as their King, a perfect King.
And that King showed up to command his armies.
So the King led the people of Israel to utterly devastate Jericho.
Look what it says,
Then they devoted all in the city to destruction, both men and women, young and old, oxen, sheep, and donkeys, with the edge of the sword.
(, ESV)
Then they devoted all in the city to destruction, both men and women, young and old, oxen, sheep, and donkeys, with the edge of the sword.
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