Josué 6
Wayne Barber · Citado em PreceptAustin
Josué 6
Barber - True faith trusts God implicitly. The Lord did not say “I shall give Jericho into your hand,” but “I have given it into your hand.” He not only will do it, but as far as He is concerned it is as good as done. The outcome is sure. Our obedience is all that is required to make this promise a reality. (Joshua: A Devotional Exposition)
Josué 6
Barber - The wall was approximately thirty feet high. The part of the wall on which Rahab’s house had been built did not collapse. Most writers believe that the walls fell down because of an earthquake. If so, then the quake occurred at precisely the time the men uttered their war cry (which would be a remarkable miracle of timing). The Israelite encampment approximately 1.5 miles away was unaffected, and the sheep and cattle did not panic or stampede. I was taught that if Christians would surround their problems with prayer the difficulties they faced would “fall down flat” in the same way the walls of the city of Jericho had collapsed before the Israelites. This teaching was applied specifically to missions with the expectation that the “walls” of heathenism would crumble before the prayers of God’s people. Unfortunately the proponents of this teaching did not go back to the text of Scripture to verify that this is what the passage taught. Joshua had said to the people, “You shall not shout nor let your voice be heard nor let a word proceed out of your mouth, until the day I tell you, ‘shout!’ Then you shall shout!” Happily for us there are verses in the New Testament that do encourage us to pray for ourselves as well as for others, but to use the conquest of Jericho as an example of successful prayer is to stretch the teaching of this passage. What is remarkable is the combination of faith and obedience on the part of the priests and the people (cf. Hebrews 11:30). And faith in the overriding providence of God gave the Israelites confidence that the soldiers in Jericho would not sally forth and engage them in battle while they were marching around the city. (Joshua: A Devotional Exposition)