A
depiction of the Angel of the Divine Presence, Melekh HaMaschiach
(King Messiah), the Captain of the Host who appeared to Joshua
Today,
reply is on the sacred events (miracles) recorded in the Bible where
Joshua is visited by the Captain of the Host, and GOD caused the sun
to remain in the sky shining over a battle on the earth. Readers are
to understand that GOD is active against sin, and will pursue sacred
law through judgment and warfare as one who is jealous, immutable,
righteous, and sovereign. The seven tribes that occupied Canaan were
in covenant relationship with GOD before Moses and the others left
Egypt. GOD promised their territory would be given to the
descendants of Abraham, because the seven tribes betrayed their
divine covenant partner through pride, idol worship, and sin. All of
their peoples were to be removed from the land by Moses, Joshua, and
the tribes of Israel. Developing believers and those who mistakenly
impose secular knowledge,
mechanical process, and natural law upon the sacred events of
Scripture repeatedly misapply the accounts provided to make visible
the character, eternal purpose, and exalted substance of divinity.
The focus of the holy writings are not human conflicts, conquest, and
self-promotion; rather, they highlight the appearance and
interventions of GOD that make divinity known throughout Creation,
existence, and life. It is written: Joshua 10: 10-14, King James
Version (KJV): 10 And the LORD
discomfited them before Israel, and slew them with a great slaughter
at Gibeon, and chased them along the way that goeth up to Bethhoron,
and smote them to Azekah, and unto Makkedah. 11 And it came to pass,
as they fled from before Israel, and
were in the going down to Bethhoron, that the LORD
cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they
died: they were
more which died with hailstones than they
whom the children of Israel slew with the sword. 12 Then spake
Joshua to the LORD
in the day when the LORD
delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said
in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou,
Moon, in the valley of Ajalon. 13 And the sun stood still, and the
moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their
enemies. Is
not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the
midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day. 14 And
there was no day like that before it or after it, that the LORD
hearkened unto the voice of a man: for the LORD
fought for Israel. A fighter in the “Yahoo! Answers” public
forum on Religion & Spirituality who uses the ID “thesun”
(Level 6 with 5,680 points) posted the following:
If
the Bible is divinely inspired by God the creator, why did Joshua ask
God to stop the sun in the sky to make the day last longer..?
Instead
of asking god to stop the world from turning for a while so he could
finish slaughtering the Canaanites?..it is obvious that it was
written by someone who thought that the earth was the centre of all
creation and the sun revolved around it.
THE
GOLDEN ARROW: And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and
he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in
righteousness he doth judge and make war. His eyes were as a
flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a
name written, that no man knew, but he himself. And he was
clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The
Word of God. And the armies which were in heaven followed him
upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. And out
of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the
nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth
the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. And he
hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF
KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS. (Revelation 19: 11-16, KJV)
And
I saw Shomayim having been opened, and, hinei, a sus lavan (white
horse) and the one riding on it is called Ne’eman and Yashar, and
in Tzedek [DANIEL 9:25] He judges and makes milchamah (war). [SHEMOT
15:3; TEHILLIM 96:13; YESHAYAH 11:4] And the Eynayim of Him are as a
flame of eish, and on the head of Him are many atarot, and He has a
Name inscribed of which no one has da’as except Himself. And He is
robed in a kaftan dipped in dahm, and His Name is called, “The DVAR
HASHEM.” [YESHAYAH 63:2,3] And the Tzivos Hashem (the Army of
Hashem), the Tzivos HaShomayim, were following Him on susim levanim
(white horses). They were dressed in fine linen, lavan (white) and
tahor (clean). And out of the peh (mouth) of Him goes forth a sharp
cherev, that with it He may strike the Goyim, and He will shepherd
them with a shevet barzel, and He treads the press of the yayin of
the fury of Charon Af of Hashem, El Shaddai. [YESHAYAH 11:4; TEHILLIM
2:9] And He has on His kaftan and on His thigh a name inscribed:
MELECH HAMELACHIM AND ADON HAADONIM. (Hisgalus 19: 11-16, Orthodox
Jewish Bible, OJB)
THE
DOUBLE DAGGER: The Sovereignty Of GOD (11/24/2019); Divine Anger at
Harvest? (05/26/2019); Judgment Against The Canaanites (08/01/2018);
Sacred Operations By GOD (04/12/2018); GOD Is Imparting Truth
(10/30/2017); Sun Worship? (07/27/2015); Time Before the Sun?
(04/14/2013)
“thesun”,
the focus of Scripture is neither mankind nor the earth. Here are
some ideas that may be new for many readers, yet, have been available
through those in covenant relationships with GOD as carefully
preserved oral and written accounts for many centuries. Among mature
Christian and Messianic believers astronomical and material Creation,
the created beings and living creatures of heaven and earth, all
things that have existence and life (angels, animals, spiritual
beasts, etc.) are to be understood as instruments and tools used by
divinity to express divine prerogative, eternal purpose, sacred
presence, and the sovereign will of GOD. The holy writings document
the operations, process, and substance of GOD (we also say, divine
fullness; the Godhead; the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit) provided
as divine order and priesthood that appear both in heaven and on the
earth. Divinity remains invisible, incorruptible, and undetectable
by finite human tools of the flesh and mind (e.g., smelling, tasting,
touching, intellect, logic, carnal reason). Even so, the Bible is a
record of GOD appearing on the earth through thousands of events,
occurring within thousands of lives, over the course of thousands of
years. As companions to divinity, men are to resemble, reflect, and
reveal the image of GOD, and the likeness of his character and nature
presented in Jesus Christ. Divine fullness is made knowable, known,
accessible, and approachable to the living through devices that
include discovery, fellowship, gradual growth, judgment, sacred
practice (e.g., fasting, offerings, praise, prayer), study, unselfish
service, and the endurance of suffering. More than this, the tools
of divinity that include birth, damnation, death, and resurrection of
the dead also feature imparting sacred substance from the makeup of
GOD. Endowments of inseparable aspects of divine fullness are
imparted to the living such as balance, completeness, faith,
holiness, integrity, longsuffering, lovingkindness, oneness without
sameness, personhood, wisdom, and wrath against sin. Consider again
the following that uses language from the Bible, and a selection from
the music ministry of Wintley Phipps:
(1.)
Joshua 5: 13-15, King James Version (KJV): 13 And it came to pass,
when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked,
and, behold, there stood a man over against him with his sword drawn
in his hand: and Joshua went unto him, and said unto him, Art
thou for us, or for our adversaries? 14 And he said, Nay; but as
captain of the host of the LORD am I now come.
And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and did worship, and said
unto him, What saith my lord unto his servant? 15 And the captain of
the LORD’s
host said unto Joshua, Loose thy shoe from off thy foot; for the
place whereon thou standest is holy. And Joshua did so.
Yehoshua
5: 13-15, Orthodox Jewish Bible (OJB): 13 And it came to pass, when
Yehoshua was there by Yericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked,
and, hinei, there stood an ish in front of him with his cherev drawn
in his yad; and Yehoshua went unto him, and said unto him, Art thou
for us, or for our adversaries? 14 And he said, Lo (no); but as Sar
Tze’va Hashem am I now come. And Yehoshua fell on his face to the
ground, and did prostrate himself, and said unto him, What saith
Adoni unto his eved? 15 And the Sar Tze’va Hashem said unto
Yehoshua, Take off thy sandals from off thy feet; for the makom
whereon thou standest is kodesh. And Yehoshua did so.
(2.)
Exodus 23: 20-24, KJV: 20 Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to
keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have
prepared. 21 Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for
he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in
him. 22 But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I
speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary
unto thine adversaries. 23 For mine Angel shall go before thee, and
bring thee in unto the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the
Perizzites, and the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites: and
I will cut them off. 24 Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor
serve them, nor do after their works: but thou shalt utterly
overthrow them, and quite break down their images.
Shemot
23: 20-24, OJB: 20 Hinei, I send Malach before thee, to be shomer
over thee in the derech, and to bring thee into the place which I
have prepared. 21 Pay heed to him, and obey his voice, provoke him
not; for he will not pardon your peysha’im; for My Shem is in him.
22 But if thou shalt indeed obey his [bat] kol, and do all that I
speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary
unto thine adversaries. 23 For My Malach shall go before thee, and
bring thee in unto the Emori, and the Chitti, and the Perizzi, and
the Kena’ani, the Chivi, and the Yevusi; I will cut them off. 24
Thou shalt not bow down to their elohim, nor serve them, nor follow
after their works; but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and
completely break down their matztzvot (memorial columns dedicated to
idols).
(3.)
1st Timothy 3: 16, KJV: 16 And without controversy
great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh,
justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles,
believed on in the world, received up into glory.
Timotiyos
I 3: 16, OJB: 16 And confessedly great is the sod of chasidus [in
Moshiach 3:9], who was manifested in basar, was vindicated [proven
just] by the Ruach HaKodesh, was seen by malachim, was proclaimed
among the Nations, was believed on in the world, was taken up in
kavod.
There
is far more that should be said, correctly examined, and spiritually
apprehended. (For example, (4.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_z3ffJcyO9I.)
Even
so, I trust this fragment will be useful. Be it unto you according
to your faith.
Orthodox
Jewish Bible (OJB) Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2008, 2010, 2011 by
Artists for Israel International
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