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The Story of the Old Testament

The Story of the Old Testament. Session 4: Joshua, Judges, Ruth (The Promised Land). Recap Of Covenants. #1 Adamic Covenant Genesis 2 #2 Noahic Covenant Genesis 9. Recap of Covenants. #3 Abrahamic Covenant Genesis 12, 15, 17 #4 Mosaic Covenant Exodus 19-24. Recap Of Covenants.

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The Story of the Old Testament

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  1. The Story of the Old Testament Session 4: Joshua, Judges, Ruth (The Promised Land)

  2. Recap Of Covenants • #1 • Adamic Covenant • Genesis 2 • #2 • Noahic Covenant • Genesis 9

  3. Recap of Covenants • #3 • Abrahamic Covenant • Genesis 12, 15, 17 • #4 • Mosaic Covenant • Exodus 19-24

  4. Recap Of Covenants • #5 • Davidic Covenant • 2 Samuel 7 • #6 • New Covenant • Jeremiah 31:31-34; Ezekiel 36:22-32 (hints before this – e.g., Deut. 30:6)

  5. Joshua • As we begin Joshua, where are we in the fulfillment of God’s promises to Abraham: • Land – a new generation, with a new leader, stands at the edge of the land poised for conquest! • Numerous offspring – fulfilled! • Worldwide blessing - closer than ever, Israel as God’s covenant people, his treasured possession, are to mediate the Lord’s presence (blessing) to the nations by being a kingdom of priests & a holy nation!

  6. Israel Enters the Promised Land (1-5) • Joshua Commissioned (1:2) • “Moses my servant is dead. Now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, you and all this people, into the land that I am giving to them, to the people of Israel.” • The Lord’s Presence Promised (1:5) • “Just as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not leave or forsake you.”

  7. Israel Enters the Promised Land (1-5) • The Lord’s covenant promises central (1:6) • “Be strong and courageous, for you shall cause this people to inherit the land that I swore to their fathers to give them.” • Reminder that only obedience enjoy the blessing of the Lord’s covenant promises (1:7-8) • “[D]o according to all the law that Moses my servant commanded you. Do not turn

  8. Israel Enters the Promised Land (1-5) • from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may have good success wherever you go. This Book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.”

  9. Israel Enters the Land (6-11) • Joshua sends spies into the land (2:1) • Rahab protects the spies because she has cast her lot in with Israel and put her faith in Israel’s God (2:9-11) • “I know that the Lord has given you the land, and that the fear of you has fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away before you. For we have heard how the Lord dried up the water of the Red Sea before you when you

  10. Israel Enters the Land (6-11) • came out of Egypt, and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon and Og, whom you devoted to destruction. And as soon as we heard it, our hearts melted, and there was spirit left in any man because of you, for the Lord your God, he is God in the heavens above and on the earth beneath.”

  11. Israel Enters the Land (6-11) • Rahab’s confession takes us back to Exodus 9:15-16 • “For by now I could have put out my hand and struck you and your people with pestilence, and you would have been cut off from the earth. But for this purpose I have raised you up, to show you my power, so that my name may be proclaimed in all the earth.” • Alignment with line of restoration=salvation

  12. Israel Enters the Land (6-11) • Spies give a faith-filled report (2:24) • “Truly the Lord has given all the land into our hands. And also, all the inhabitants of the land melt way because of us.” • The Lord parts the Jordan as He parted the Red Sea (3:7-17) • Israel obeys the Lord in circumcising the males of the wilderness generation & in observing the Passover (5:2-10) because only the obedient experience the blessing of fulfillment

  13. Israel Takes Possession of the Land (6-11) • The First Battle in the Land – Jericho (6) • Victory pronounced (6:2) • “See, I have given Jericho into your hand, with its king and mighty men of valor.” • Strange strategy given (6:3-5) • March around the city, blow trumpets, and shout • Schreiner: “The bizarre strategy confirmed that Israel could not attribute

  14. Israel Takes Possession of the Land (6-11) • victory to its own military prowess. Their victory was a gift of grace-an astounding work of the Lord.” • Victory realized through obedience • The people did as the Lord commanded. For six days, the people marched around Jericho. On the seventh day, the people raised a collective shout of faith and the walls of Jericho “fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man

  15. Israel Takes Possession of the Land (6-11) • straight before him, and they captured the city.” (6:20) • Reason for complete destruction of certain Canaanite cities – Back in Genesis 15! • “Know for certain that your offspring will be sojourners in a land that is not theirs and will be servants there, and they will be afflicted for four hundred years. But I will bring judgment on the nation that they

  16. Israel Takes Possession of the Land (6-11) • serve, and afterward they shall come out with great possessions. As for you, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age. And they shall come back here in the fourth generation, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.” (Gen. 15:13-16) • This reality puts God’s incomprehensible and all-encompassing sovereignty on full display!

  17. Israel Takes Possession of the Land (6-11) • Achan’s Disastrous Disobedience (7:1-26) • Took items under the ban & “the anger of the Lord burned against the people” (7:1) • Israel defeated by Ai – 36 men die • Israel spiraled in fear (hearts melted) • Joshua doubts and calls out to the Lord – “Alas, O Lord God, why have you brought this people over the Jordan at all, to give us into the hands of the Amorites, to destroy us? Would that we had been content to

  18. Israel Takes Possession of the Land (6-11) • dwell beyond the Jordan! O Lord, what can I say, when Israel has turned their backs before their enemies! For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it and will surround us and cut off our name from the earth. And what will you do for your great name?” (7:7-8) • Achan’s entire family put to death (7:25-26)

  19. Israel Takes Possession of the Land (6-11) • Schreiner: Israel “would experience the same fate as the inhabitants of Jericho if they violated the provisions of the covenant.” • “Israel has sinned; they have transgressed my covenant that I commanded them; they have taken some of the devoted things; they have stolen and lied and put them among their own belongings. Therefore the people of Israel cannot stand before their

  20. Israel Takes Possession of the Land (6-11) • enemies. They turn their backs before their enemies, because they have become devoted for destruction. I will be with you no more, unless you destroy the devoted things from among you.” (7:11-12) • Defeat Turned To Victory (8:1-2) • After justice of the Lord satisfied through judgment, the Lord gives Israel victory over Ai

  21. Israel Takes Possession of the Land (6-11) • Deuteronomy 28 Comes to Life!

  22. Israel Takes Possession of the Land (6-11) • “[A]ll Israel, sojourner as well as native born, with their elders and officers and their judges, stood on opposite sides of the ark before the Levitical priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, half of them in front of Mount Gerizim and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, just as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded at the first, to bless the people of Israel. And afterward he read all the words of the law,

  23. Israel Takes Possession of the Land (6-11) • the blessing and the curse, according to all that is written in the Book of the Law. There was not a word of all that Moses commanded that Joshua did not read before all the assembly of Israel, and the women, and the little ones, and the sojourners who lived among them.” (8:33-35)

  24. Israel Takes Possession of the Land (6-11) • Gibeonite deception (9:3-21) • While the majority of the peoples in Canaan responded in rebellion to the revelation of the Lord’s glory through his awesome acts on behalf of his people (9:1-2), the inhabitants of Gibeon responded like Rahab and made a covenant with Israel so that they would not be destroyed by them.

  25. Israel Takes Possession of the Land (6-11) • Gibeonite faith (9:24) • “[I]t was told to your servants for a certainty that the Lord your God had commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you-so we feared greatly of our lives because of you and did this thing.” • Another echo of Exodus 9:15-16!

  26. Israel Takes Possession of the Land (6-11) • Israel’s Foolishness in Entering Covenant • Exodus 34:12 - “Take care, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land to which you go, lest it become a snare in your midst.” • Consequence of Israel’s Foolishness • Pulled into a war between Gibeon and the 5 kings of the Amorites (Joshua 10)

  27. Israel Takes Possession of the Land (6-11) • God’s Grace Triumphs Over Israel’s Foolishness • “Do not fear them, for I have given them into your hands. Not a man of them shall stand before you.” (Joshua 10:8) • Israel prevails primarily because of a hailstorm sent from the Lord (10:10-11) • The rest of Joshua 10 outlines the “Southern Campaign”

  28. Israel Takes Possession of the Land (6-11) • The Southern Campaign (10:29-42) • Libnah(10:29-30), • Lachish (10:31-32), • Horamking of Gezer(10:33), • Eglon (10:34-35), • Hebron (10:36-37), • 10:38-39), and • “the whole land, the hill country and the Negeb and the lowland and the slopes, and

  29. Israel Takes Possession of the Land (6-11) • all their kings. He left none remaining, but devote to destruction all that breathed, just as the Lord God of Israel commanded. And Joshua struck them from Kadesh-barnea as far as Gaza, and all the county of Goshen, as far as Gibeon. And Joshua captured all these kings and their land at one time, because the Lord God of Israel fought for Israel.” (10:40-42)

  30. Israel Takes Possession of the Land (6-11)

  31. Israel Takes Possession of the Land (6-11) • Joshua 11 traces the Northern Campaign

  32. Israel Takes Possession of the Land (6-11) • At the end of Joshua 11, we encounter profound words of fulfillment: “So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the Lord had spoken to Moses. And Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel according to their tribal allotments. And the land had rest from war.”(11:23)

  33. Israel Makes the Land Their Home (12-22) • Review & Introduction to Third Section • 1-5 – Israel Entered Land • 6-11 – Israel Took Possession of Promised Land • 12-22 – Israel Makes Promised Land Home • Work Left to Do – Land Yet to Conquer (13:1) • The Lord Will Go Before Them (13:6) • “I myself will drive them out from before the people of Israel. Only allot the land to Israel for an inheritance, as I have commanded you.”

  34. Israel Makes the Land Their Home (12-22) • ½ of Manasseh, Reubenites, Gadites take inheritance East of the Jordan • Promised Land Divided Among Other Tribes (save the Levites) (13:7-8, 14) • Entered, taken, possessed, now owned as an inheritance!

  35. Israel Makes the Land Their Home (12-22)

  36. Israel Makes the Land Their Home (12-22) • The Experience of Fulfillment (21:43-45) • “Thus the Lord gave to Israel all the land that he swore to give to their fathers. And they took possession of it, and they settled there. And the Lord gave them rest on every side just as he had sworn to their fathers. And they took possession of it, and they settled their. And the Lord gave them rest on every side just as he had sworn to their fathers. Not one of all their

  37. Israel Makes the Land Their Home (12-22) • enemies had withstood them, for the Lord had given all their enemies into their hands. Not one word of all the good promises that the Lord had made to the house of Israel had failed; all came to pass.”

  38. Israel Dwells in the Land (23-24) • In Joshua 23, Joshua Reminds Israel that: • they have possession of the Promised Land because the Lord fought on their behalf (23:3); • that he allocated a portion of the Promised Land to the respective tribes as an inheritance pursuant to the Lord’s instructions (23:4); • that the Lord will drive out the peoples that still remain in the Promised Land so

  39. Israel Dwells in the Land (23-24) • that they can fully come into their inheritance (23:5); • they must “be very strong to keep and to do all that is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, turning aside from it neither to the right hand nor to the left” so that they (a) don’t become led astray by the surrounding nations and (b) can continue to “cling to the Lord your God”

  40. Israel Dwells in the Land (23-24) • and “[b]e very careful . . . to love the Lord your God” (23:8-11); • if they turn from the Lord and cling to the gods of the nations then they will experiences the curses set forth in Leviticus 26 and Deuteronomy 28 (23:12-13, 15-16); • “not one word has failed of all the good things that the Lord your God promised concerning you. All have come to pass for you; not one of them has failed.” (23:14)

  41. Israel Dwells in the Land (23-24) • In Joshua 24:2-13, Joshua recounts the Lord’s progressive fulfillment of his redemptive promises: • Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘Long ago, your fathers lived beyond the Euphrates, Terah, the father of Abraham and Nahor; and they served other gods. Then I took your father Abraham from beyond the River and led him through all the land of Canaan, and made his offspring many. I gave him Isaac. And to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau.

  42. Israel Dwells in the Land (23-24) • And I gave Esau the hill country of Seir to possess, but Jacob and his children went down to Egypt. And I sent Moses and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt with what I did in the midst of it, and afterward I brought you out. • Then I brought your fathers out of Egypt, and you came to the sea. And the Egyptians pursued your fathers with chariots and horsemen to the Red Sea. And when they cried to the Lord, he put darkness between

  43. Israel Dwells in the Land (23-24) • you and the Egyptians and made the sea come upon them and cover them; and your eyes saw what I did in the Egypt. And you lived in the wilderness a long time. Then I brought you to the land of the Amorites, who lived on the other side of the Jordan. They fought with you, and I gave them into your hand, and you took possession of their land, and I destroyed them before you. Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and fought against Israel. And he sent and invited Balaam the son of Beor to

  44. Israel Dwells in the Land (23-24) • curse you, but I would not listen to Balaam. Indeed, he blessed you. So I delivered you out of his hand. And you went over the Jordan and came to Jericho, and the leaders of Jericho fought against you, and also the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Grigashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. And I gave them into your hand. And I sent the hornet before you, which drove them out before you, the two kings of the Amorites; it was not by your sword or by your bow. I gave you a land on

  45. Israel Dwells in the Land (23-24) • which you had not labored and cities that you had not built, and you dwell in them. You eat of the fruit of vineyards and olive orchards that you did not plant.” • In light of the Lord’s relentless faithfulness to them, the people of Israel are called to respond in faith: “Now therefore fear the Lord and serve him in sincerity and in faithfulness. Put away the gods that your fathers served beyond the River and in Egypt, and serve the Lord.” (24:14)

  46. Israel Dwells in the Land (23-24) • Joshua famously declares his alignment with the Lord: “[A]s for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”(24:15) • The people of Israel claim that they will obey (24:16-18) • Joshua makes it clear that they will not obey but, rather, rebel, experience the curses that naturally flow from that rebellion (24:19-20) • Joshua dies, Joseph’s bones buried, Joshua’s generation obeyed the Lord (24:29-33)

  47. Where are We At the End of Joshua? • Land – we are finally in the Promised Land, this promise has been fulfilled! • Numerous offspring – we are an exceedingly numerous people, this promise has been fulfilled! • Worldwide blessing – partial fulfillment by people mediating the Lord’s presence to the nations by being his treasured possession, kingdom of priests, holy nation (e.g. Rahab, Gibeonites)

  48. Judges: The Story Continues • As we begin Judges, we pick the story up right were we left off in Joshua. • 2/3 of the Lord’s promises to Abraham have been fulfilled, progress is being made on the third promise, and Joshua is dead

  49. Cycle of Rebellion, Judgment, Repentance, Salvation Introduced (1:1-3:6) • While Judges begins with the optimistic mood carried throughout the book of Joshua (1:4-26), the mood quickly changes • 7 of the 12 tribes are mentioned in the last ½ of Judges 1 as failing to complete the task of driving the Canaanites from their respective portions of the Promised Land!

  50. Cycle of Rebellion, Judgment, Repentance, Salvation Introduced (1:1-3:6) • The angel of the Lord confronts Israel’s in Judges 2:1-3: “I brought you up from Egypt and brought you into the land that I swore to give your fathers. I said, ‘I will never break my covenant with you, and you shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; you shall break down their altars.’ But you have not obeyed my voice. What is this you have done? So now I say, I will not drive them out before you, but they shall become thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare to you.”

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