OUR FATHER WHOSE KINGDOM IS ESTABLISHED BY HIS OWN HANDS (May 23rd 2024)

The book of Joshua chapter 6 verses 4 - 5 says this;

Have seven priests carry trumpets of rams’ horns in front of the ark. On the seventh day, march around the city seven times, with the priests blowing the trumpets. 

When you hear them sound a long blast on the trumpets, have the whole army give a loud shout; then the wall of the city will collapse and the army will go up, everyone straight in.”

The fortified city of Jericho was the first settlement that the children of Israel confronted when they crossed the Jordan river into the promised land.

The city was impenetrable by conventional means due to its thick and high walls and because of the threat of the approaching Israelites, the gates were securely barred.

The Lord instructed Joshua to have the armed men march around the city for six days accompanied by the ark of the covenant being carried by the priests with seven of the priests carrying rams horns.

Our passage instructs that on the seventh day, the army and the priests were to march around the city seven times with the horns being blown and when a long blast of the horns was heard, the army was to shout loudly.

This action would then cause the walls of Jericho to collapse.

Heeding the instructions of the Lord in the natural realm results in the machanisms of the spirit realm deploying weapons borne without hands and the victories of the kingdom of God are assured.

This action without human hands to defeat the enemies of the kingdom of God in a final confrontation is foretold in the book of Daniel chapter 2 verse 44 - 45 which says;

“In the time of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people. It will crush all those kingdoms and bring them to an end, but it will itself endure forever. 

This is the meaning of the vision of the rock cut out of a mountain, but not by human hands—a rock that broke the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver and the gold to pieces.

“The great God has shown the king what will take place in the future. The dream is true and its interpretation is trustworthy.” 

Amen.

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