OUR FATHER WHOSE GREAT POWER MAKES A WAY FOR US

Joshua chapter 4 verses 11 - 12 says this;

The people hurried over, and as soon as all of them had crossed, the ark of the Lord and the priests came to the other side while the people watched. The men of Reuben, Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh crossed over, ready for battle, in front of the Israelites, as Moses had directed them.

This passage captures the moment when the nation of Israel finished crossing the Jordan River into the promised land. The first across were the men of Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe  of Manasseh who were armed and ready for battle. The rest of Israel hurriedly crossed and finally,  the priests who had been been standing in the middle of the river holding the ark of the Lord, crossed as well.

While the priests were still standing in the Jordan, the Lord commanded Joshua to select a  man from each of the 12 tribes  and direct them to go to the middle of the river bed and pick up a stone and carry it on their shoulder back to their camp as a memorial of when the Lord, in His great power, dried up the Jordan river for the children of Israel to cross.

As Joshau said in the book of Joshua chapter 4 verses 24 - 25;

For the Lord your God dried up the Jordan before you until you had crossed over. The Lord your God did to the Jordan what he had done to the Red Sea when he dried it up before us until we had crossed over. He did this so that all the peoples of the earth might know that the hand of the Lord is powerful and so that you might always fear the Lord your God.

Amen.