The Lord of Hosts

When Joshua was near Jericho, he looked up and saw a man standing in front of him with a drawn sword in His hand. Joshua approached Him and asked, "Are You for us or for our enemies?"
"Neither, " He replied. "I have come as commander if the Lord's army."
Then Joshua bowed with his face to the ground in worship and asked Him, "What does my Lord want to say to His servant?"
The commander of the Lord's army said to him, "Remove the sandals from your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy." And Joshua did so. Joshua 5:13-15

The man may well have been Jesus, as whenever an angel was sent he refused to have himself worshipped. Also this experience mirrors Moses' experience with God before he went back to Egypt to set the people free.

Joshua was about to receive direction as to how he was to deal with Jericho. The orders given were strange indeed and would have intrigued the Israelites  and severely bothered the inhabitants if Jericho. Imagine them thinking,
"What sort if magic is this?"

The Lord told Joshua to have the Israelites walk around the wall once for six days and on the seventh day seven times, then sound the trumpets and the people to shout. Then the walls would fall down. This actually happened. The Israelites would surely know they had a mighty God on their side and their enemies would have wanted to hide.

What mighty things does our God want to do with us? What must we do to see them happen? Are we captivated by Him or the things of the world? Is a shift required?

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