The NXR Podcast - August 31, 2023


DAILY TRUTH - Jesus & The Five Amorite Kings


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4 minutes

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190.0792

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912

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56


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00:00:25.480 we don't finish fights anymore we don't but israel did and that's why god stops the sun and the moon
00:00:36.220 and the sky and he also sins through joshua and his command sends israel to pursue all their
00:00:42.540 adversaries unto the bitter end so that they could not make it back into their cities and mount up a
00:00:48.800 new attack on a future day. This is verse 16. These five kings fled and hid themselves in the
00:00:55.840 cave of Makeda. And it was told to Joshua, the five kings have been found hidden in the cave of
00:01:01.020 Makeda. And Joshua said, roll large stones against the mouth of the cave and set men by it to guard
00:01:07.140 them. But do not stay there yourselves. Pursue your enemies. So put these big stones there. That way
00:01:13.800 now the kings are locked in. Now you can go and help your brothers and pursue your enemies. Pursue
00:01:18.520 your enemies attack their rear guard. That means run them down as they're on the run, retreating.
00:01:23.700 Do not let them enter their cities for the Lord your God has given them into your hand. When Joshua
00:01:29.120 and the sons of Israel had finished striking them with a great blow until they were wiped out, and
00:01:34.620 when the remnant that remained of them had entered into their fortified cities, then all the people
00:01:39.720 returned safe to Joshua in the camp of Makeda. Not a man moved his tongue against any of the people
00:01:45.960 of Israel. So the picture is what we saw in verses 8 through 15. The Lord is mighty in battle. He's
00:01:52.160 the one who supernaturally gives success, and he puts the enemies of Israel in a panic. He causes
00:01:57.960 great hailstones to rain down so that more die by the hailstones than by the sword of Israel.
00:02:03.100 And then lastly, he lengthens the day so that they wouldn't just deal a great blow to their
00:02:08.860 adversaries, but so that Israel could actually finish the fight. And now we see practically
00:02:13.960 Joshua saying, all right, we've got the kings, the five kings of these five Amorite tribes.
00:02:19.260 They ran and hid like cowards in a cave. Instead of guarding them, let's get every man that we can,
00:02:24.260 every fighting man to go and pursue the enemy tribes that are on the retreat right now. So
00:02:30.920 they don't make it back to their cities. So we'll close this in with large stones, this cave where
00:02:36.280 the five kings are hidden. And then we can come back to this later. Now join your brothers and
00:02:41.000 they pursue them. And it seems as though from the text, they kill most of the Amorite soldiers,
00:02:45.700 a few, it says a remnant, make it back to their cities. But what we're meant to understand is
00:02:50.220 that the few that make it back to their Amorite cities are so few that they won't be able to mount
00:02:54.600 a counter-attack and they'll fold like a cheap suit under, you know, under siege from Israel.
00:03:00.760 So it's like, all right, so now we can take out the cities. We'll do that on another day. Let's
00:03:04.280 regroup back in Makeda where the cave is, where the stones are, where the five kings are locked
00:03:08.780 inside. Now remember, as we're preaching through this, Joshua is a type of Christ. There's multiple
00:03:14.340 different levels of symbolism, typology, and one of them is this. Joshua is a type of Christ,
00:03:22.140 meaning he signifies in many ways Jesus. And what we have here is with Christ, we know the gospel
00:03:29.460 narrative that Christ, he was crucified on a Roman cross, and that he was put into a tomb, a cave,
00:03:36.480 and a stone was rolled in front of the mouth of the cave, right?
00:03:40.740 And here we have Joshua, a type of Christ.
00:03:44.020 He's not going into the tomb.
00:03:45.620 He's not going into the cave,
00:03:46.920 but he is subjecting his enemies, five other kings,
00:03:49.920 and the stones are being rolled in front of the mouth of the cave
00:03:52.840 so that they can't get out.
00:03:53.940 The difference is this.
00:03:55.280 You have five kings going into a tomb with stones rolled in front of it.
00:03:59.660 And those five kings, they come out to be put to death
00:04:02.780 under Joshua, who is a type of Christ
00:04:05.840 who is stronger than they are.
00:04:08.080 And yet in the gospel narrative,
00:04:09.860 the antitype, who is Christ himself,
00:04:11.900 he went into a tomb,
00:04:13.040 a stone was rolled in front of that tomb,
00:04:14.840 but he's not brought out of that tomb
00:04:17.020 in order to be put to death.
00:04:18.320 He goes in already dead and comes back out alive.
00:04:22.360 The stone cannot hold him
00:04:24.000 and he doesn't come out to be put to death,
00:04:26.160 but he comes out to live and to live forevermore.
00:04:29.320 That Jesus is the greater King.
00:04:31.340 He is the king of all kings.
00:04:34.240 And so it's beautiful, I think,
00:04:35.340 seeing some of the parallels of the tomb,
00:04:37.480 the cave, the stones,
00:04:38.820 and five kings brought out to be put to death.
00:04:41.460 One king, the king of kings,
00:04:43.220 brought in already dead,
00:04:45.060 but coming out alive and living forevermore.