Jos 3:10-11 | KingComments | STEP | Joshua has to order the priests from the LORD what they have to do. He asks the priests to come closer, that they may hear “the words of the LORD your God”. What Joshua says are the words of God because he passes on what God has told him. When they go through the Red Sea, it is to escape their enemies. Now they go through the Jordan and that is to meet their enemies and fight against them. God will make Himself known as the living God. He will go out ahead of them and drive out for them the seven nations that claim the land for themselves ( ). These seven nations represent a perfection –of which the number seven speaks – in evil. The living God will visibly in “the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth” cross over ahead of them. His first goal is to go “into the Jordan”. God goes ahead of His people in every way He wants them to go and then goes up with His people ( ). He, Who is the Lord of “the world …, and all it contains” ( ) because He is the Creator, died first, and then gave the promised land to all who are His people. The people are called by a “behold” to look at the ark. Thus we are called upon to look at the Lord Jesus Who died for us, to rise again and bring us into our ‘promised land’.

‏ Joshua 3:10-11

The Ark Must Cross over Ahead

Joshua has to order the priests from the LORD what they have to do. He asks the priests to come closer, that they may hear “the words of the LORD your God”. What Joshua says are the words of God because he passes on what God has told him.

When they go through the Red Sea, it is to escape their enemies. Now they go through the Jordan and that is to meet their enemies and fight against them. God will make Himself known as the living God. He will go out ahead of them and drive out for them the seven nations that claim the land for themselves (Deu 7:1). These seven nations represent a perfection –of which the number seven speaks – in evil.

The living God will visibly in “the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth” cross over ahead of them. His first goal is to go “into the Jordan”. God goes ahead of His people in every way He wants them to go and then goes up with His people (Isa 43:2a). He, Who is the Lord of “the world …, and all it contains” (Psa 50:12b) because He is the Creator, died first, and then gave the promised land to all who are His people.

The people are called by a “behold” to look at the ark. Thus we are called upon to look at the Lord Jesus Who died for us, to rise again and bring us into our ‘promised land’.