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Caption transcript for Joshua (2023): “At Ai” (5/8)

• 00:03 David Hart: Welcome to "Our Jewish Roots." ♪♪♪
• 00:25 ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪
• 00:35 ♪♪♪
• 00:45 David: Shalom, and thank you for joining us today.
• 00:47 I'm David Hart.
• 00:48 Kirsten Hart: I'm Kirsten Hart.
• 00:50 Joshua Colson: I'm Joshua. Caleb Colson: And I'm Caleb.
• 00:51 [speaking in Hebrew]
• 00:53 Welcome, friends.
• 00:54 Joshua: That's some good Hebrew, brother.
• 00:55 David: "Friends." I got that part, yeah.
• 00:57 Kirsten: Friends. And you are our friends.
• 00:58 Joshua: Thank you.
• 00:59 Kirsten: You are friends of Zola Levitt Ministries for over
• 01:01 17 years even though you might be new,
• 01:04 literally, on this platform, on this stage.
• 01:06 Joshua: It was weird to start in elementary school,
• 01:08 but, you know, after havin' this kind of pedigree,
• 01:10 it's been fantastic.
• 01:11 Today I'm excited because we are talking about gambling.
• 01:16 You say, "Gambling, how's that in the Bible?"
• 01:18 Well, "casting lots."
• 01:20 Caleb: "Lots," yes.
• 01:21 Joshua: Now, I've never been a fan of gambling.
• 01:22 The idea of givin' away something and not necessarily
• 01:24 gettin' somethin' in return does not appeal to me,
• 01:26 but there's some people out there that have done it,
• 01:28 and Achan is one of these guys.
• 01:29 "Casting lots," in the Bible, God uses it a lot of times
• 01:33 to catch people.
• 01:35 Caleb: To catch 'em and figure out "who's the one?"
• 01:36 You know, in Jonah, they were like,
• 01:37 "Who is the bad guy on board?
• 01:39 Why is God judging us?" It was Jonah.
• 01:40 They cast lots over Yeshua's robe,
• 01:43 so you know it's not very good,
• 01:44 but God still used that as a method.
• 01:47 Even for selecting the delineation of the 12 tribes'
• 01:49 territory, there was lots being cast,
• 01:51 so that plays into the story later on.
• 01:54 Kirsten: God is using you.
• 01:56 He's also using Dr. Seif in Israel
• 01:58 to teach us our lesson today, our lessons.
• 02:01 And thank you for being here. We're glad you're on board.
• 02:05 David: Right now, we take you to our dramatic reenactment,
• 02:07 followed by Dr. Seif's teaching in Israel.
• 02:09 Let's go there now.
• 02:11 ♪♪♪
• 02:16 Joshua: Jericho was a miracle.
• 02:18 But why?
• 02:20 Why did Achan have to stain the memories of victory by hoarding
• 02:24 all that silver and gold?
• 02:28 Adonai, you are forgiving in our succeeding loss
• 02:31 at the city of Ai.
• 02:33 Lesson learned.
• 02:36 But I grieve.
• 02:39 I so grieve the loss of my men.
• 02:44 ♪♪♪
• 02:52 male: Sir, our loss at Ai was not your fault.
• 02:56 You rent that cloak because Achan coveted the plunder
• 02:58 of Jericho.
• 03:02 Joshua: But I'll never forget.
• 03:05 Thirty-six men lost forever--because of greed?
• 03:13 The Lord gave us Jericho, but he never ever said that we could
• 03:18 keep the bounty.
• 03:20 It belonged to the Lord--all of it.
• 03:24 The city of Ai would've been ours as well if not for the
• 03:26 sinful plunder of Achan.
• 03:30 Let this be a reminder, may it never happen again.
• 03:35 male: There are only 3,000 in that city.
• 03:37 We should've taken it easily.
• 03:40 Joshua: If and only if the Lord is well pleased
• 03:44 with our efforts.
• 03:46 "It is not by might," says the Lord.
• 03:50 Come.
• 03:51 ♪♪♪
• 04:00 Joshua: We can still take the city of Ai.
• 04:03 Sit.
• 04:05 Let me show you what God has told me.
• 04:09 We are here. Ai is here.
• 04:12 You will lead your men to the back of the city at night to
• 04:15 this side of Bethel, and wait until I summon you.
• 04:18 male: And you, sir?
• 04:20 Joshua: I will lead my men the following day north,
• 04:23 and we camp here.
• 04:25 In the morning, my men set up in the valley across from the city,
• 04:31 whereupon the men of Ai will see us and pursue us.
• 04:36 male: An ambush.
• 04:38 The city will be left vacant, unarmed.
• 04:40 Joshua: Yes, but you will not besiege the city until I turn
• 04:44 and raise my spear, then you will set the city on fire.
• 04:50 They will see the smoke ascending.
• 04:53 Then, my men and I, we will attack the confused lot,
• 04:57 utterly destroying them.
• 05:01 male: Magnificent plan, sir. The battle is ours.
• 05:05 Joshua: Learn this lesson: The plan is not mine,
• 05:08 and it is not yours.
• 05:11 The battle is the Lord's.
• 05:17 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: It's been a miraculous journey.
• 05:19 The Jordan River has dried up to facilitate its crossing.
• 05:23 The mighty walls of Jericho have fallen down,
• 05:26 and now, with heaven-sent cunning,
• 05:29 Joshua leads his men to yet another victory
• 05:32 at the city of Ai.
• 05:36 Ai went up in flames finally.
• 05:40 Israel got burned beforehand however,
• 05:42 and in another sense, and we're gonna tell
• 05:45 that story here today.
• 05:47 It's a tragic story actually.
• 05:49 Victory is one thing. Defeat's another.
• 05:51 In the Bible, we get a little bit of both.
• 05:55 Actually, in the Scripture, if you look at the miraculous
• 05:59 victory, so far, the parting of the sea,
• 06:01 the Jordan, the Israelites crossing through,
• 06:05 yes, that's 17 verses for that.
• 06:08 If you look at the miracle in the war at Jericho,
• 06:12 a sum total of 27 verses for that.
• 06:16 The battle of Ai, a small city, it shouldn't have taken much.
• 06:21 It was a tragedy.
• 06:23 Eighty-one verses, by my reckoning,
• 06:27 for that in the Hebrew Bible.
• 06:30 Why is it that something that went horribly wrong,
• 06:34 initially, that should've been relatively easy,
• 06:37 why does the text give so much attention to that?
• 06:41 I wanna look at that because there's a lesson to be learned
• 06:45 from that, in my opinion, and I think that Joshua wants us to
• 06:50 know that lesson because there's so much spent on a world
• 06:54 that went bad.
• 06:56 And the first, however, you look at the end of chapter 6,
• 07:00 in the book of Joshua, it ends on a good note.
• 07:04 [speaking in Hebrew]
• 07:07 "And the Lord was with Joshua."
• 07:10 And so it seemed, obviously, after a great miracle,
• 07:13 we're told--
• 07:15 [speaking in Hebrew]
• 07:18 "And his fame spread throughout the land."
• 07:21 It ends on a very good note and then pivots.
• 07:25 By the time we get to chapter 7, we leave a triumph,
• 07:30 and we go to a tragedy.
• 07:33 It should've been an easy victory.
• 07:35 The literature tells us it didn't take much.
• 07:37 The next stop on the train was a city called Ai,
• 07:40 a small town.
• 07:42 Dispatch a small group for all intents and purposes.
• 07:45 Should've been easy, but it went bad,
• 07:48 and people wondered why.
• 07:51 Why failure? Why does it happen?
• 07:54 Well, we're told in verse 1--
• 07:57 [speaking in Hebrew]
• 08:01 We're told, "The children of Israel committed a trespass
• 08:06 concerning the devoted thing."
• 08:09 Wanna explore that for two reasons.
• 08:11 Number one, what's "the devoted thing"?
• 08:13 That is that the spoils of war were not to go to the people who
• 08:19 were enacting the war, that it was to be holy,
• 08:22 devoted over to God.
• 08:25 The other thing that's interesting,
• 08:26 it says, "The children of Israel committed a trespass."
• 08:29 But not really.
• 08:31 I say that because, when you read on--
• 08:33 [speaking in Hebrew]
• 08:35 "and took Achan of the devoted thing."
• 08:38 [speaking in Hebrew]
• 08:40 as it goes on to say after listing his lineage.
• 08:43 It's interesting.
• 08:44 There was one man that sinned, but tragically,
• 08:48 they all were held to be culpable for it.
• 08:53 That is to say, they went to war.
• 08:55 They weren't supposed to take plunder.
• 08:57 They weren't supposed to take spoils of war, booty.
• 08:59 They weren't to have it. This is a religious issue.
• 09:02 It's not to be--this isn't an opportunity for
• 09:05 self-aggrandizement.
• 09:06 It's not a time for self-gain.
• 09:08 But he saw some loot, and he took it,
• 09:11 and he seized it, contrary to the command,
• 09:14 contrary to what he was told, and this caused a great loss for
• 09:21 the Hebrews.
• 09:23 The rabbis, out of this, look at what's referred to as collective
• 09:28 responsibility: "One man sins," as I've said,
• 09:31 "they all pay the price."
• 09:33 And in the Jewish world, this carries on in a modernity too.
• 09:36 It's understood that every Hebrew carries the name.
• 09:41 Everyone's an ambassador of the people.
• 09:44 I liken it to, you know, if someone has a plumber and it's a
• 09:48 bad plumber, rips people off, they'll say,
• 09:50 "Listen, we'll never call that plumber again," but if the
• 09:53 plumber is wearing a yarmulke, if he's a Hebrew and he rips the
• 09:56 people off, doesn't do a good job,
• 09:58 people will say, "Eh, those Jews."
• 10:00 There's a sense in which he represents everyone,
• 10:04 and that certainly is the case here.
• 10:07 The imperative for individuals to live virtuous lives,
• 10:13 to keep their word, that sterling virtue,
• 10:18 the more so in antiquity,
• 10:19 was inculcated into the younger generation.
• 10:23 There was a premium on acting righteously.
• 10:27 To be "righteous" didn't mean just to go to church on Sundays
• 10:30 or a synagogue on Saturday.
• 10:32 To be "righteous" meant to live with sterling character;
• 10:36 that is to say, above reproach; that is to say,
• 10:40 following instruction, and in this case here,
• 10:44 "Don't seize that which doesn't belong to you."
• 10:48 It comes in different forms.
• 10:50 Robbery, you're taking it from a person.
• 10:52 Theft, you're taking it from an outside property.
• 10:56 Robbery, you're taking it off of a person.
• 10:57 Burglary, you're taking it from inside of a dwelling,
• 11:00 I should say.
• 11:01 There's different ways in the penal code in America that we
• 11:05 speak of "seizure."
• 11:06 It's interesting in the Hebrew Bible where the whole notion of
• 11:11 theft, taking what doesn't belong to you,
• 11:15 it's egregious in so many ways.
• 11:19 And so it is, the Battle of Ai, which should've been an easy
• 11:22 picking, it turned out bad.
• 11:25 The Hebrews were defeated decisively.
• 11:28 Later, they're gonna regroup, learn the lesson.
• 11:31 It's gonna be noted in the text the problem was Achan.
• 11:35 That's gonna be dealt with, and then we'll go on to good
• 11:38 success, a story that we'll look at in the next segment as we
• 11:42 look at being "More than a Conqueror."
• 11:45 ♪♪♪
• 11:54 Joshua: Dr. Seif nailed it on the head.
• 11:57 God wasn't with them in this battle,
• 11:59 and that is why they lost.
• 12:01 And all the other battles, God was with them.
• 12:02 Why was God not with Joshua this time?
• 12:04 Well, there's three things that Joshua kind of messed up on that
• 12:07 he didn't do.
• 12:08 Number one, Joshua was always supposed to consult with God
• 12:11 first on whether or not he should go into battle.
• 12:13 He didn't do that this time. He listened to his spies.
• 12:16 Caleb: He would've known that there was a problem if he
• 12:18 would've consulted God.
• 12:19 Joshua: If he would've consulted God.
• 12:20 The second problem that he had was he didn't send in every
• 12:23 able-bodied man as God had instructed.
• 12:26 He sent in a small garrison of 3,000 men,
• 12:29 and because he did this, 36 men died.
• 12:31 Now, you may not think that 36 men,
• 12:33 with the 3,000 fighting, is a big number,
• 12:36 but think about this: They were undefeated up to this point.
• 12:38 Israel had not lost a man in battle.
• 12:41 So for 36 men to die on the battlefield,
• 12:44 this shook Joshua up, and it shook the people up because
• 12:46 "Is God not with us now?
• 12:47 What's going on?"
• 12:49 But the third problem that Joshua did was,
• 12:51 kind of, the old Jewish tradition,
• 12:52 "Woe is me."
• 12:54 "Oy vey, what happened? Why did you leave me?
• 12:56 You said I was gonna do this."
• 12:57 I got the sackcloth and, you know, all this stuff.
• 12:59 And instead of fixing the mistakes,
• 13:02 God said to him, "Stand up and be a man and go get the sin out
• 13:05 of your camp.
• 13:06 Go do what I said to do."
• 13:07 And if he had done that instead of this third thing,
• 13:10 then none of this might've happened.
• 13:11 Caleb: And people might be thinking,
• 13:13 "What was the importance of not taking the plunder from Jericho?
• 13:17 It doesn't sound like a real big deal," but it was severe to God.
• 13:21 This was supposed to be the firstfruits offering
• 13:24 of their plunder.
• 13:25 It was supposed to be the first tithe that they gave to God.
• 13:29 And in trusting God and giving him all of that plunder,
• 13:32 it was a promise that he would give them more,
• 13:35 that he would give them more victories.
• 13:37 And I know a lot of pastors like to jump on the bandwagon for
• 13:40 "See, ya don't take the tithe from God.
• 13:42 That belongs to God," but this is a completely different
• 13:46 system, if you would understand, from the Old Testament to what
• 13:49 we have in the New.
• 13:51 If you've ever heard us on "Bearded Bible Brothers,"
• 13:54 our online social media series, we've talked about tithe and
• 13:56 offering a lot, and it's important to understand that we
• 13:59 cannot fulfill the criteria of tithe that is listed
• 14:03 in the Old Testament.
• 14:04 Joshua: It's too much.
• 14:05 Caleb: It's too much. It's not even 10%, guys.
• 14:07 It's like 20% to 30%, depending on the yearly cycle,
• 14:10 and there's animal sacrifices involved.
• 14:12 You have to have a temple present,
• 14:14 and you would give the sacrifice to God.
• 14:16 The priest would, you know, do what he was supposed to do.
• 14:19 He would give you a portion back.
• 14:20 How many pastors do you know would give you your tithe back?
• 14:22 "Here, you can have this. We don't really need it all."
• 14:24 It doesn't happen today, and, thus,
• 14:26 if you place yourself under the law,
• 14:30 then you have to fulfill all the criteria under the law,
• 14:33 and it's no longer a matter of the heart.
• 14:35 That's why the New Testament system,
• 14:37 since Messiah fulfilled all the old,
• 14:39 is now about the heart, giving of your heart.
• 14:42 Joshua: Giving in an offering,
• 14:44 giving of your time, of your gifts.
• 14:46 When you see a need, reaching out in that gift in what the
• 14:49 need is, money isn't always the need at the time,
• 14:52 and so when Yeshua said he wants you to give,
• 14:55 he wants you to give of your heart freely,
• 14:57 joyfully, and that's what he's looking for now,
• 14:59 not to be bound by the law and to do something simply so that
• 15:02 you can mark something off of your list because that doesn't
• 15:04 please him.
• 15:06 It pleases him that you've chosen to step out and to give
• 15:08 of yourself in an offering where a need is needed to be met.
• 15:11 Caleb: That's right.
• 15:13 Now we're gonna go back to Jeff in Israel,
• 15:14 where he's gonna reveal the results,
• 15:16 the conclusion of removing that sin from the camp.
• 15:21 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: After Achan was found out,
• 15:23 he was summarily executed.
• 15:26 And with that lesson learned and that issue tended to,
• 15:30 then the children of Israel again commenced
• 15:33 with the taking of Ai.
• 15:36 And there's a kind of genius in this too.
• 15:38 It lacks the miraculous component that we saw with the
• 15:43 crossing of the Jordan earlier and we saw with Jericho.
• 15:47 There, it's clear there's divine agency at play.
• 15:52 Here you have the angel of the Lord still going before the
• 15:55 people of the Lord, but it really manifests with a kind
• 15:59 of creative genius, a strategy.
• 16:02 The name of the game is to get these from Ai
• 16:05 outside of the city.
• 16:07 So Joshua kind of plays the hand.
• 16:10 He strategizes to secure their departure.
• 16:16 They had already defeated the Hebrews,
• 16:18 so there's a frontal assault where the Hebrews retreat,
• 16:23 and those in Ai come out of the city of go get 'em.
• 16:26 Meanwhile, there were others set in ambush,
• 16:28 and when the city is vacated, they torch the city.
• 16:32 They burn the city.
• 16:34 The people look back, and they realize they've been had,
• 16:37 and now they're squeezed in both directions where the net result
• 16:42 is there is a decisive victory at Ai,
• 16:45 and then the king of Ai, who survives the battle,
• 16:47 is executed afterward.
• 16:49 Now, I don't want to glory in anybody's death.
• 16:52 That's not the point here, and I don't even think it's the point
• 16:56 of the story at Ai because it's bookended by a religious
• 17:01 principle more so than it is a military victory.
• 17:06 I mention that because, in the first segment--and then I
• 17:10 developed it a little more here just at the start--there was a
• 17:13 problem with Achan, who disobeyed,
• 17:17 and the disobedience cost him and Israel dearly.
• 17:23 That issue was tended to then,
• 17:25 and the Hebrews enjoyed good success.
• 17:28 And, again, in this series, we're looking at being
• 17:31 "More than a Conqueror."
• 17:32 Well, maybe there's a correlation between success
• 17:35 and compliance.
• 17:37 It seems to be the case because, before we get out of this story,
• 17:41 the appendage to it in the 8th chapter,
• 17:45 it's interesting in verse 30.
• 17:47 I wanna look at it and then pivot to 32,
• 17:50 'cause there's something here that is very important.
• 17:52 We're told in the Hebrew Bible--
• 17:54 [speaking in Hebrew]
• 17:58 That is, "After this," we're told that "Joshua built an altar
• 18:03 to the Lord."
• 18:04 We saw fire to begin with, and I'm sitting behind one now,
• 18:08 but here, "miz'Bech" has built an altar,
• 18:12 and then we're told in verse 32--
• 18:15 [speaking in Hebrew]
• 18:21 and there's an altar that's built, and on it,
• 18:24 he'll write the Mishneh Torah.
• 18:28 Now, the rabbis say, you know, "What are we looking at here?
• 18:31 Are we looking at just the Ten Commandments?"
• 18:33 Some say that.
• 18:34 Some says the 613 commandments. Some say the whole of the Torah.
• 18:41 There are these stones that are taken and carved out,
• 18:44 some say, miraculously.
• 18:46 The point is, is after the battle, Achrei Mot,
• 18:49 "after the death," then you have the publishing of the Torah,
• 18:55 and the point is there's a kind of insistence that obeying Torah
• 19:01 takes precedence.
• 19:03 We're told in English that "he wrote there upon the stones a
• 19:07 copy of the law of Moses."
• 19:10 [speaking in Hebrew]
• 19:14 "that he wrote before, or in the face
• 19:16 of, all the children of Israel."
• 19:21 There's two compliant stories here that I think the author
• 19:25 wants us to understand to be a secret to success.
• 19:30 There's a correlation between obedience and success in life,
• 19:35 obeying the command.
• 19:37 You hear in Scripture--
• 19:38 [speaking in Hebrew]
• 19:40 "Hear, O Israel," and it's said over and over again,
• 19:44 and for that matter, Jesus, Yeshua,
• 19:46 is on record over and again, saying,
• 19:48 "He who has ears to hear, let him hear."
• 19:51 Of course, people have ears, and the eardrums vibrate.
• 19:54 They hear, but they don't really hear.
• 19:58 But the rabbis say, "The hearing isn't just good enough.
• 20:01 Hear it that you may do it, that you may observe it."
• 20:05 There's the next step.
• 20:06 You have to begin by hearing, and then doing,
• 20:10 and the doing translates into success in life.
• 20:15 That is to say, follow the divine instruction.
• 20:21 [speaking in Hebrew]
• 20:22 Solomon the king of Israel
• 20:24 is said to have put together a collection of short,
• 20:27 pithy, wisdom sayings.
• 20:31 There's a genre type of literature,
• 20:33 sappy--literature, wisdom literature.
• 20:36 You look at Proverbs, Ecclesiastes.
• 20:40 It's an example of wisdom literature,
• 20:42 and it starts off "Hear, my son, your father's instruction.
• 20:48 Obey your mother's teaching."
• 20:50 And here's the heavenly Father, and it's all commended in the
• 20:55 Biblical text.
• 20:56 There's an imperative to hear the command,
• 21:01 and by the way, to that end, that's why attending a house of
• 21:03 worship's important, and what's important in that house of
• 21:07 worship is a minister that opens up the Word,
• 21:11 and people can hear them, and they're commended to the mind's
• 21:15 eye of constituents, and why is that?
• 21:18 Because there really is a correlation when it comes to
• 21:22 success in life between hearing the divine command and doing it.
• 21:28 Good things can happen, not just to the Jew,
• 21:31 as in the case of this conquest at Ai,
• 21:34 not just to the people like me but people like you,
• 21:39 all of us, when we hear, when we do,
• 21:43 like Joshua then, we can be more than conquerors.
• 21:50 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Chaim Malespin is an officer with the
• 21:53 Israeli Defense Forces, and I had an opportunity to sit down
• 21:56 and talk to him about being more than a conqueror.
• 21:58 Here, particularly, he gave voice to the importance of
• 22:01 learning to strategically think outside of the box.
• 22:06 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Sarge, good to be with you today.
• 22:07 Thank you for being here.
• 22:09 Chaim Malespin: Thank you for havin' me.
• 22:10 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Question, the Battle of Ai,
• 22:12 very, very strategic.
• 22:14 I mean, it seems, to me, there is a leader of the Israeli
• 22:17 Defense Forces that's thinking outside of the box.
• 22:20 There's genius there.
• 22:22 How much of an emphasis is placed on strategy
• 22:25 in military today?
• 22:28 Chaim: Absolutely, there is, and there's also this thinking
• 22:30 outside the box in solving problems,
• 22:33 even doing something that might seem like not the conventional
• 22:36 way such as in October 17, 1973, Yom Kippur War.
• 22:39 I remember down in the Sinai Peninsula,
• 22:42 the Suez Canal, they said, "Let's do a water bridge that
• 22:46 floats on the water and drive the tanks across,
• 22:48 and let us surround the Third Army of the Egyptians."
• 22:51 And everyone thought, "How's that ever gonna work?"
• 22:53 But we did.
• 22:54 We carried that out, and that helped us win the entire Sinai
• 22:56 Peninsula and--which we then later gave back,
• 22:59 but it's thinking outside the box.
• 23:01 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Yeah, strategy and a little bit of
• 23:02 chutzpah, yes?
• 23:04 Chaim: Precisely.
• 23:05 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Now, I wanna pivot from that because
• 23:07 we're watching this program; people are watching it,
• 23:09 and need biblical medicine for their life's assorted hurts.
• 23:14 Would people do well to learn to think outside of the box to get
• 23:17 some creative solutions and move forward with those?
• 23:21 Chaim: Well, absolutely, and I think a lesson from the Bible
• 23:24 is, when you trust in your commander--he's our commander.
• 23:26 Of course, Yeshua is our friend, our Savior,
• 23:29 but he's also our commander, and when something is said,
• 23:31 we have to say, "I will see this mission through,
• 23:33 and I will trust the orders that I've been given from above."
• 23:36 And I love how Orde Wingate-- this man, he's a Christian man.
• 23:40 You'd think, "Why would he care about training the IDF?"
• 23:42 He started when it was the Irgun,
• 23:43 the Palmach, the Lehi, and the Haganah.
• 23:46 And he trained these people even against the British Army orders
• 23:50 sometimes, would train these guys,
• 23:51 and he actually was in Ein Harod,
• 23:53 which is Gideon's Spring, and he got so inspired by how these
• 23:57 biblical characters were able to go and advance and take ground
• 24:02 and see the mission to successful fruition.
• 24:06 Kirsten: Dr. Seif and Chaim, thank you for your insight.
• 24:09 When we're on tour, Chaim comes with us.
• 24:12 Chaim teaches us, and he tells us about the victory after
• 24:15 victory after victory the IDF still has.
• 24:18 God's hand is still on them.
• 24:20 Caleb: That's right. Kirsten: It's fantastic.
• 24:22 David: Can I go back to Achan here where Dr. Seif
• 24:24 was teaching?
• 24:26 His punishment was pretty severe--death.
• 24:28 Can you explain that?
• 24:30 Caleb: Well, the punishment was--
• 24:31 Kirsten: Death for generations, right?
• 24:33 Caleb: Death for generations.
• 24:34 You know, the law was a severe taskmaster to bring us
• 24:37 to Messiah.
• 24:38 It was harsh so that people could understand the severity of
• 24:40 sin, but we're talking about a generational curse here,
• 24:43 and God warned Moses that a generational curse passed to the
• 24:46 fourth generation of the bloodline--
• 24:49 that iniquity would perpetuate.
• 24:51 So, if, you know, your forefather,
• 24:52 he was a--you know, he was a liar,
• 24:54 a cheater, a thief, a murderer, you would have that inclination
• 24:58 as a son to carry on that same sin when you would grow up,
• 25:02 and so there was no way to cut off those sins back then.
• 25:05 The blood of Yeshua hadn't been applied yet,
• 25:08 so it was harsh.
• 25:09 They had to cut off the family line.
• 25:11 That's kind of why it was so severe,
• 25:12 and God told 'em to go and take--you know,
• 25:14 wipe out every man, woman, and child from Canaan,
• 25:17 break that curse, and that's why they killed Achan
• 25:19 and his whole family.
• 25:20 Kirsten: That is so tough. We're grandparents.
• 25:23 We have three grandkids.
• 25:24 I can't imagine, if Dave did something
• 25:28 a little sketchy, that our grandkids have to suffer.
• 25:31 I mean, that's huge. That's harsh.
• 25:33 Joshua: This shows why the law was the law.
• 25:37 Man wanted to be able to earn it on his own.
• 25:39 "How can I have salvation for myself?"
• 25:42 And God said, "This is what perfection requires."
• 25:44 The entire point of seeing the severity of the law was,
• 25:48 if you really wanna earn it, you're gonna have to live
• 25:51 perfectly, and if you don't live perfectly,
• 25:53 you're gonna have to commit sacrifices that are gonna
• 25:56 seem atrocious--your entire family line if you sin this way.
• 26:00 When Yeshua came and he gave his blood on that cross for us,
• 26:03 when he lived perfectly in every aspect of the law like no man,
• 26:06 woman, or child had ever done in history,
• 26:09 he paid a price that enabled us to no longer have to live with
• 26:14 that severity hanging over our heads.
• 26:16 So often, we look today up at God,
• 26:18 and we shake our fists at the heaven and say,
• 26:20 "How could a good God let this happen?"
• 26:23 But that good God gave his only Son for us so that
• 26:26 if we messed up in our lives, we wouldn't have to have our entire
• 26:30 family line sacrificed to stop sin from polluting
• 26:34 further generations.
• 26:35 Yeshua died for us.
• 26:37 You don't have to live under the curse any longer.
• 26:40 All you have to do is ask for forgiveness.
• 26:44 Submit your heart to him, and your life,
• 26:48 your legacy is sealed by his blood for eternity,
• 26:53 and that is why we live freely today under that redemption,
• 26:57 under that price that was paid, and you can too as well.
• 27:01 David: I've gotta say, I love singing about amazing grace that
• 27:04 we experience these days.
• 27:06 Kirsten: Great teaching.
• 27:08 Thank you for your heart message.
• 27:09 More next week.
• 27:11 Next week, the Israelites get tricked.
• 27:14 Caleb: Another bad setback.
• 27:15 Kirsten: But, for now, would you close us out?
• 27:17 Caleb: Oh, yes.
• 27:18 Joshua: Yes, well, as usual, we say--
• 27:20 [speaking in Hebrew]
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