Keeping Up With The Scarlet Thread

All right, let's pray and we will get started.

Oh Lord our God.

How blessed are we not only have you given us your word which offers and imparts to us all the fruits of the redemption

of?

Your dear son Jesus Christ.

But you have opened our eyes so that we may know your grace and in firm confidence receive it.

Though the world the law our heart and our consciences condemn us.

What do we care?

Your word declares us free of all guilt.

Keep us in such faith unto the end and grant that all the members of our congregation may appreciate the great

treasure Which they possess in the gospel help them and us to triumph over all the

attacks of the devil the world in our flesh and finally to depart this life in peace and to Be received into your

eternal kingdom.

Hear us for the sake of our risen and victorious champion Jesus Christ our Lord.

Amen.

All right before we dive into the lesson I'm not sure why it's not showing up in my app.

They just updated the The Google Street View, but the Dome of the Rock

this is the inside of the Dome of the Rock which is on the Temple Mount and If you wanted to know what

this is, it's it also has you can see the the prayer spaces here.

This is it also doubles as a mosque.

But the big feature on the inside of it is this rock and what that rock is.

That is the very top part of Mount Moriah.

Mount Moriah and Mount Moriah is the place where Abraham was going

to sacrifice Isaac and God intervened and stopped him from doing that

and provided the ram for the sacrifice that day and So then you'll note then when you look at

the Old Testament We know that the Temple Mount itself was built on Mount Moriah.

That's and so this is the cap top of it and in Judaism.

This rock is known as the foundation stone.

It's the foundation stone.

So when people are praying on the Western Wall that they're there as close as they can get

to offer prayers To the foundation stone as is permissible at the moment.

Okay, so the Muslims own this site is the best way I can put it and

It's debatable as to whether or not the Dome of the Rock is sitting where the actual Old Temple sat

Herod's Temple and Solomon's Temple, but that's the inside of it and so, you know, I tell you I always travel places with other people's

vacation photos and You know virtual reality gives us the ability to you know to see things like this

and to go there.

So you can now say you've seen the inside of the Dome of the Rock.

Yeah, I honestly do not know I don't know that looks like something for

Google, you know.

But I don't know the actual dates.

Okay, so the so they have lights on the rock.

So that's what you're seeing is the lights pointed to the camera and the lights over here.

But the rock itself you can make out it, you know, it's right there.

So that's that's the actual rock itself.

Yes.

Um, well the Muslims claim

that they are an Abrahamic faith and they they claim a lineage to Abraham

not through Isaac, but through Ishmael and.

And so if you've read the Quran the Quran talks about Abraham and talks about these things and so for them

this is considered a holy site and.

When the Muslims conquered Jerusalem You know.

They they set up their own they had set up their own spaces.

So you'll note then the point in the sermon today was that the Temple Mount

God's name doesn't dwell there anymore.

Forgiveness of sins isn't there and Jesus is crucified just outside the city gates

still on the slopes of Mount Moriah.

Golgotha is on the slopes of Mount Moriah.

So the that fact is also quite fascinating when you put it all together.

Uh -huh.

I don't know if that if I would have to go back and reread the Quran.

They do claim no, I think that I think they got the story about offering Isaac correctly but

they they basically claim a pure lineage and that the true religion of

Allah comes down through Ishmael and they connect themselves through Ishmael back to Abraham.

So that their claim is that they are an Abrahamic faith and to which I would say yeah.

No, they have not they don't have anything even remotely approaching the same faith as Abraham had.

So.

Okay.

All right, 10 22.

It's a thousand years old.

So that's been there for a while and You'll note then that in order to rebuild a temple

the Muslims by the way, the Muslims are the ones who control the Temple Mount and.

And.

In order for a temple to be built on the Temple Mount there has to be a dramatic change and I don't think they can Do that without

basically setting the entire Middle East on fire, you know, you know.

The nuclear option I think would be on the table if they if they made such a move.

So.

Yeah.

All right.

You had a question.

Uh -huh.

Yeah,

the

the vision in Ezekiel of this temple doesn't fit anything on earth.

It doesn't fit anything on earth at all.

In fact, one of the things that's fascinating is is that when you read the details of that temple There's a river flowing from that

temple that makes it so the Dead Sea comes to life.

You know, and you know, it's just it's very fascinating when you put it all together so the temple that

Ezekiel sees is a vision of something and and so Ezekiel Daniel Book

of Revelation.

These types of visions are considered to be apocalyptic.

So that means that the the temple that is being revealed in the book of Exodus

It is a symbol of something different.

Okay, so there are people who in evangelicalism, especially in the

dispensational camp who believe that the temp the temple in

Ezekiel's vision is prophesying a third temple in Jerusalem.

But when you look at the details of that doesn't make any sense because there's such Supernatural things going on with this thing that

it's not it's not like any earthly building period.

And.

Right, right.

Yeah, so in so then the question is if it's pointing to something what's it pointing to.

Most likely is pointing to Christ.

You know, you're gonna find the fulfillment of the temple in Christ.

And so you're seeing dimensions and he's told to measure it and and you know.

It's got these perfect dimensions and things like that.

But this it but it has to be pointing to Christ.

He's the he's the fulfillment because he is the temple.

There is no temple now and I've said it before and I'll say it again.

It would be a really bad thing if they rebuild a temple in Jerusalem a really bad thing because talk about total

confusion.

Because now we're going back to the types and shadows.

Christ is the fulfillment of it and it's fascinating that the Reformers.

You know, they they basically their read of Scripture, especially

Jesus's prophecy in Matthew 24.

That there would be no stone left on top that they they saw Christ's

judgment and destruction of the temple in Jerusalem as historically definitive and.

And so the way the Reformers understood it is in talking about the temple.

They say that thing was taken down by God and and they thought it would never be rebuilt.

So.

You know, we'll see if that's the case.

But if it is if it's ever rebuilt, it's gonna just be a complete theological mess.

Yeah.

Yes God at that

time and then how late in to

the present history to this stoning not become something.

Okay, so Mosaic Covenant there are certain

sins and crimes one commits that are punishable by death and The way death

was exacted was through stoning.

That was that was the means by so we have electric chair.

We have we have hanging we have other things the the way God wanted.

Death to occur in these cases was through stoning.

It was it was an entire community event which which Means that the people

participating were acting in God's justice.

But that serves kind of as a warning to the entire community so that practice

was practice up to I would say until you see the Greeks and the Romans

kind of taking over.

Because when the Greeks and Romans take over the capital capital Sentences were carried

out by the governing authorities not Not by the Jews.

And so when when Jesus is on trial you see evidence of this.

And and so you see Pilate saying listen, you know, this this is a matter concerning your law.

You know.

You you you go and tend to this yourself and the response of the Pharisees is is that this man's guilty of

a crime?

Demanding death and we don't have the authority to to execute that to execute him.

And so you especially in the Roman period then Jews are not practicing stoning

apart from any participation with Rome.

Rome has to sign off on and in Rome has their own way of Because they're the governing authority and then

that stays in place.

Until after the Jewish Wars when the Jews are defeated in 70 with the destruction of

the temple the the mass suicide Masada that that

happened and at that point The Roman Emperor made the decision that the Jews had to

get out and so they literally took the Jews and they scraped them out of Judea and they changed the name of

Judea to something completely different, you know, like Syria Palestine or something to that effect,

but.

So.

Then then those Jews they are they're called Jews of the dispersion.

They are the part of the Diaspora and Jews have been in Diaspora mode until

1948 with the re -establishing of the nation -state of Israel, so.

You know, so.

Stoning as a practice by the Jews.

Autonomously ends when they lose their autonomy and they they are under the

under the rule of empires.

Okay, you know.

No, all right, let me grab my coffee real quick here.

It's important stuff.

Okay.

We are in the book of Leviticus.

And.

The Sunday school lesson online last week was just so fun.

Because we're in that part of Leviticus that I call these the bio passages, you know.

What do you do with people with skin diseases and discharges and and all the kind of stuff.

And you're gonna note.

There's like a thousand different ways in which somebody can be declared unclean and part

of then the the job of the priest is to.

Examine a.

Skin disease.

Examine the skin disease and determine whether or not.

It's it's of a particular type of disease that makes a person clean or unclean.

And last week as we were working our way through These passages we noted that God doesn't give an explanation of how

viruses work or bacteria work however, when somebody comes down with a communicable

disease that could potentially be.

You know that makes somebody unclean.

First order of business on certain diseases is you quarantine the person?

So that you have to quarantine the person and it's like a mandatory two -week quarantine.

It's a two -week quarantine with with a re -examination seven days later.

And then a final examination on the 14th day and that 14th day examination is going to determine whether or

not that person's clean or unclean on an ongoing basis and Then you know and so you get that but the

the issue then is when somebody is declared Unclean how

does one become.

What is it?

What is the ways in which somebody becomes clean.

And so we're going to take a look at some of that, but I'm very happy that I am a

New Testament pastor not an Old Testament Levite because Having to examine skin

diseases and things like that just doesn't seem like it would be any fun.

So all of 13 was talking about that how you pronounce a person unclean if there's you know Skin in one's

boil and it heals the place of the boiler comes a wet White swelling or a reddish white spot it shall be shown

to the priest and the priest shall look if appears deeper than the skin.

His hair is turned white then the person shall be pronounced him unclean.

We went through all these details last week.

That being the case.

Okay, we talked about different diseases in the head.

This is a long chapter, too.

We talked about the diseases in the garments good chapter 14.

So you always spoke to Moses saying this shall be the law of the leprous person for the day of his cleansing.

He shall be brought to the priest the priest shall go out of the camp the priest shall look.

Then if the case of the leprous disease is healed in the leprous person.

So note the priest now is visiting the leper colony the priest shall command them to take for him who is to be

cleansed to live clean birds cedarwood scarlet yarn and hyssop

that is a fascinating list of ingredients fascinating list of

ingredients.

So somebody's cleansing and you're gonna note this Saint the same group of ingredients

cedarwood Scarlet yarn and hyssop if you look at your cross references.

These are also going to be mentioned again in the book of Numbers chapter 19.

Numbers chapter 19 and this that Numbers chapter 19 is the

passage related to.

The.

People who are unclean as a result of being in the presence of or touching a dead body.

So you got you're the cleaner you're unclean and if you're unclean there's a whole

list of things you must do in order to be declared clean and.

Here we've got three.

What I would say like Just ever so.

Thin.

Typology the pointing back to Christ.

But it's worth bearing out.

You know taking a harder look at how this all plays out.

So.

Cedarwood.

All right.

For lack of a better way of putting it.

We'll just say that's a type and shadow of the cross.

This is a standard hermeneutic technique used by the Church Fathers when wood shows up

in the Old Testament.

You're in some relation.

You're gonna you're gonna be able to connect it to the cross.

Okay, so we've got the cross present.

But now let's talk about scarlet yarn.

Scarlet yarn, huh.

Robes.

Yeah, this guy we call it the scarlet, you know following the scarlet thread of Christ.

Let's take a look at a couple of passages.

To kind of bear this out so we can see where this shows up in the book of Judges.

Joshua chapter 2.

Joshua chapter 2 we see a scarlet cord show up there and it's worth

looking at.

Joshua chapter 2 it says Joshua the son of none.

I guess that means he had no parents so.

Yeah, I'll be here all week anyway.

So Joshua the son of none.

He sent two men secretly from Shittim as spies saying go view the land especially Jericho.

So Moses is dead in the book of Joshua.

We're gonna have the conquest of Canaan and the first city that's going to be destroyed is Jericho.

And Jericho stands out as far as any of the any of the

Destruct the places that are destroyed by the Israelites because this city is fully

devoted to Destruction.

And so when you put the the typological pieces together on this letting kind of scripture interpret scripture.

We'll start with the idea of the of the promised land.

Is the promised land a postage stamp sized piece of real estate on the eastern side of the

Mediterranean between Syria and Egypt.

No.

That postage size piece of property is a type and shadow.

The real promised land is the new earth and You know.

And so it says explicitly in Hebrews 11 that Abraham and others that they

died Not having received the promises and they were looking for a country and a city

whose Builder is God and they did they died not having received the

promises but having greeted them from afar so the the promised land then

in the Old Testament is a type and shadow of the new earth of The

promised land that we have, you know.

Because we have eternal life.

Well, we're not all gonna live in a tiny little District on the eastern side of the

Mediterranean on the new earth because that the promised land is Indicative

of the whole earth itself.

So you get the idea now that being the case.

If you remember a couple weeks ago Moses died and he did not make it into the promised land.

The one through whom God gave the law God's law condemned him

Because he fell short.

So he his carcass is just shy of the border.

I mean he didn't make it and you can't be saved by the law.

But who's the one who then brings the children of Israel into the promised land?

Joshua.

That's Jesus's name Yeshua.

So Jesus is the one who brings all of us into the promised land and the fact that Joshua Here

is the one bringing the children of Israel into the promised land again is pointing us to Christ which then begs the question

What is Jericho representative of and I would I would argue based upon the details and we'll see this.

That based upon the details that the fall of Jericho itself is a type and

shadow dress rehearsal of Jesus's return in glory to judge the

living and the dead and it represents the total destruction of the of the present creation

and.

And there's connector points to it.

And then the person who survives and her family who survived are.

That that woman in particular is a type and shadow of the Bride of Christ.

We'll kind of flesh this out.

This all has connection.

So we'll continue so she they send out spies go view the land, especially Jericho.

And they went and came into the house of a prostitute whose name was and you got to pronounce it this way.

Rahab Rahab.

That's her name.

We want to say Rahab, you know, Rahab is not how you pronounced her name, you know.

People would see her in the street.

They would not say hey Rahab.

How's it going?

It's Rahab Rahab.

Yeah, yeah, it's a it's a it's a hate.

Yeah.

All right.

So.

She was a prostitute name was Rahab.

She lodged there and it was told to the king of Jericho behold the men of Israel have come here tonight To search out the

land.

So the king of Jericho sent to Rahab.

Saying bring out the men who have come to you who entered your house for they have come to search out all the

land.

But the woman had taken the two men and hidden them and she said true the men came to me.

But I did not know where they were from and when the gate was about to be closed at dark the men went out.

I do not know where the men went.

Pursue them quickly for you will Overtake you will for you will overtake them.

But she had brought them up on the roof and hid them with the stalks of flax and she laid.

That she had laid in order on the roof.

A little bit of a note.

I've made this point before that sometimes as in this cursed creation.

The only way you're going to get out of a situation is by having to sin.

She flat -out lied to these guys.

She straight -up lied.

But had she told the truth they would have been murdered.

So this falls into one of those interesting catch -22s where when we talk about this.

It is it is more important to save somebody's life.

In a situation David did this.

Rahab did this as well it's so if you were living in Nazi Germany at the time and the Nazis and you were

hiding Jews in your basement and The Gestapo knocks on your door and they ask you are you hiding

any Jews in your basement?

You say no, I am NOT.

You're welcome to look if you like, you know something to that effect you know in a situation like that you you're not

getting out of this without sinning and.

So it is better to save life in that situation.

Than to have it perish and so in that situation you sit there and you you go.

Okay great now I lied to the Gestapo.

What do you what am I supposed to do?

Come see your pastor confess your sin will give you an absolution, you know, there's sometimes that that's how this

world operates.

Some yeah.

Mm -hmm. Yeah. Yeah.

Right.

That is a good way to put it.

We do not owe the truth to people who will use it for evil.

Yeah.

So.

Yeah, so notice in love for neighbor.

She.

Didn't tell the truth to the people who were interrogating her and she sent them off on a wild goose chase as well.

Kind of fascinating now.

She had brought them up to the roof hid them with the stalks of flax that she had laid in order on the roof.

So the men pursued after them on the way to the Jordan.

As far as the Fords.

Or I guess it would be the fjords, right?

Never mind, and the gate was shut as soon as the pursuers had gone now before the men lay down.

She came up to them on the roof and she said to them.

I.

Know that Yahweh has given you the land and that the fear of you has fallen upon us that all the

inhabitants of the land Melt away before you.

For we have heard how Yahweh dried up the water of the Red Sea before you when you came out of Egypt.

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.

There was no spirit left in any man because of you for the Lord your God.

He is God in heavens above and on the earth beneath.

Ah.

That's fascinating.

God is God.

Does that sound like a confession of faith to you?

She believes in the one true God.

She believes.

Now remember her vocation is an ancient one.

You know one of the oldest if I'm not mistaken how they talk about it and one that is quite sinful and yet She

believes in the one true God.

So the Lord he is God in heavens above and on the earth beneath.

So, please swear to me by Yahweh that as I have dealt kindly with you You also will deal kindly

with your father's house and give me a sure sign that you will save

alive my father and mother my brothers and sisters and all who belong to them and deliver our lives from death

and The men said to her our life for yours even to death if you do not tell this business of ours.

Then when Yahweh gives us the land we will deal kindly and faithfully with you.

Then she let them down by a rope through the window for her house was built into the city

wall.

So that she lived in the wall and she said to them go into the hills or the pursuers will

encounter you and hide there For three days until the pursuers have returned.

Pay attention to that three -day stuff.

It's kind of important in Scripture.

Afterwards you may go your way.

The men said to her we will be guiltless with respect to this oath of yours.

That you have made to us where behold when we come into the land.

You shall tie this scarlet cord in the window through which you let us down and you shall

gather into your house your father.

Your mother your brothers and all your father's household.

If anyone goes out of the doors of your house into the street His blood shall be on his own head

and we shall be guiltless.

Interesting.

You'll note then that this scarlet cord Plays the same function

that the blood of the Passover lamb played at the very first Passover when the blood was taken and

put on the lintels of the door posts and Those inside the

house.

They were to stay inside the house when the destroyer came through and as the destroyer came through if the destroyer

saw the blood of the lamb on Your home He passed

over if you were outside and you were firstborn you're dead same

kind of function then so rather than blood on the window now, we've got a scarlet cord hanging out and

As God is coming in with the children of Israel with Joshua and the children of Israel.

This is for the purpose of devoting that entire city to destruction.

Yet despite the fact the entire city is dedicated to destruction.

Those in the home with the scarlet cord Will not be destroyed.

They shall live.

Hmm now think about when Jesus returns in glory to judge the living and the dead.

When Christ returns he sends out his angels.

Right.

Those who believe are brought to be with Christ in the air.

Those who do not believe they are devoted to destruction.

What's the common denominator?

What's the difference between them?

Believers have the blood of Christ applied to them.

And their sins are forgiven and pardoned.

Though your sins be as scarlet though.

I will make them white as snow.

And here you have this prostitute lady Who's clearly her sins are up there as far as

Scarlet and yet her sins are now outside of her hanging from her window.

They are forgiven by the God who is slow to anger abounding in

steadfast love who pardons iniquity and Rahab is a

type and shadow of the bride of Christ.

I'll explain how that works in a minute.

But now we see how the cord plays into it.

Yeah.

This is where I get confused over Passover.

Okay

Yeah.

Yes.

Correct.

Or for the firstborn.

Uh -huh.

Yep.

Was it.

Are you thinking of Moses?

Yeah, yeah.

Don remembers them long before his horse -thieving days.

Yeah.

Yeah, so Moses is his own type and shadow.

So Moses when he's born, he's put into a wicker basket which funny enough in the Hebrew.

It's not called a basket.

It's called an ark.

It has the same exact Word used for it as Noah's Ark.

So Moses was put into an ark and he was saved through water.

So you have a picture of Baptist saving baptism there and in his case, he's an infant Infant

baptism.

I'm just saying, you know.

It's just there in the types and shadows let that kind of hang in outer space for a minute if you would.

But you get the idea.

So but the the Passover is Is pointing us back to Christ because it

explicitly says in the New Testament Christ our Passover lamb has been

slain.

So.

The Passover lamb of the first Passover and all the subsequent ones that follow.

They all point to the Passover lamb who's Christ whose blood now on you

Causes the destroyer to pass over you and you don't come into judgment.

You are saved.

You see it same with a scarlet cord.

You'll notice that God does the same thing using different, you know different pictures.

But all kind of the same motif.

So here we've got.

Rahab.

It's if anyone goes out his blood and being on his own head.

So you've got to put the scarlet cord.

But if anyone is anyone is laid on anyone who is within the house his blood shall be on it on his head.

And if you tell this business of ours Then we shall be guiltless with respect to your oath that you have made us swear.

And she said according to your words be so Be it so.

Then she sent them away and they departed and she tied the scarlet cord in the window.

She did this by faith.

By faith, let me let me do something real here Rahab and we're gonna do

a.

Okay, so you're gonna note.

Hebrews 1131 mentions Rahab by faith.

Rahab the prostitute did not perish with those who were disobedient because she had given a friendly welcome to

the spies and Her hanging that cord out of her window.

She did that by faith, too.

Was there some connection between she's a prostitute, she's going to

go home, and Amsterdam is a red -light district?

Oh, I hope not, but.

Why do they use a red light?

I have no idea why they use a red light, but I would say that's eerily appropriate.

Let's that's right.

Yeah.

Okay.

Yes.

I have not visited that district.

Um, I'm just gonna take it on good authority that it's a red -light district.

But yeah, you know, but the thing is is that when we think about funny enough I think even the prostitute in the book of

Revelation she wears scarlet, you know.

It's it this it's this weird connection with that color and prostitution.

Now coming back then let's take a look at the fulfillment of this and I want you to see some of the bigger typology here.

And let me do this.

I need Second Thessalonians four.

I think it is.

Hold on a second here.

Maybe not.

It's probably first.

Thessalonians four.

Yeah first Thessalonians four.

I Gotta learn how to spell.

There we.

Okay one more thing I.

Hate when this auto fills for me because it fills me with the wrong thing.

All right now consider this.

This is one of the major this.

There's some other pieces of this I want to throw in here.

Paul writes first Thessalonians 4.

We don't want you to be uninformed brothers about those who are asleep.

So notice when we talk about Christians when they die in the faith.

We talk about them being asleep.

So that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope for since we believe that Jesus died and rose again.

Even so through Jesus God will bring with them those who have fallen asleep.

For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord that we who are alive Who are left until the coming of the

Lord will not proceed.

Those who have fallen asleep.

For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with the cry of command.

Okay.

Other you can talk about that cry of command as being a shout if you would a shout or a cry of command

with the voice of an archangel and with the sound of the trumpet of God and The dead in Christ will

rise first.

So when Christ returns and we confess it when we confess those creeds.

We believe that he will return in glory to judge the living in the dead.

When Jesus returns that day He shows up.

No one's going to be expecting him.

That's why I think it's a Thursday.

Just saying no one's thinking it on Thursday.

But he shows up and in the whole world will hear the shout the cry of command of the voice of the

archangel as well as the trumpets of God.

And what's fascinating is with the fall of Jericho you have this shout as well as

the trumpets that play a role then and which is part of the reason why I'm convinced that The fall of

Jericho is a dress rehearsal for Jesus's return in glory.

Now all that being said fast forward in Joshua to Joshua chapter 6 and we'll look at the fall of

Jericho and the ultimate Salvation of Rahab and then we'll figure out what happened to this lady

because it's oh, it's very fascinating.

Now Jericho was shut up inside and outside.

Because of the people of Israel none went out none came in.

Yahweh said to Joshua see I've given Jericho into your hand with its king and mighty men of valor.

You shall march around the city all the men of war going around the city once.

Thus shall you do for six days?

Seven priests shall bear seven trumpets of ram's horns before the ark on the seventh day.

You shall march around the city seven times and the priests shall blow the trumpets.

Now a little bit of a note.

The ark being made of acacia wood and overlaid with gold is a kind of a picture and type and

shadow of Christ himself.

God incarnate God in human flesh and then on the top of it is what the mercy seat.

So, you know This is the the the Ark of the Covenant is is is so depictive of Christ

that it's not even funny.

And so going before this this depiction of Christ in the form of the ark you have the the

trumpets being blown.

So when they make a long blast with the ram's horn when you hear the sound of the trumpet then all the people shall shout

with a great shout and The wall of the city will fall down flat and the people

shall go up everyone straight before him.

So Joshua the son of Nun called the priests and said to them take up the Ark of the Covenant and let seven

priests bear seven trumpets of ram's horns before the Ark of Yahweh and He said to the people go

forward march around the city.

Let the armed men pass on before the Ark of the Lord.

Now a little bit of a note here when it comes to biblical numbers, there's just a few of them for real

and We it's important to recognize how the numbers work.

Six days God created the heavens and the earth the seventh day he rested.

So when we talk about seven days oftentimes those seven days are going to be Indicative of or in

some symbolic type and shadow way pointing to the present creation.

Jesus is raised on the eighth day.

He's the firstborn of the new creation.

Eighth day is new creation talk.

Okay, and so you're going to note here that they are to do this walking around at once

six days and Then on the Sabbath day the day you would expect there to be

rest on The Sabbath.

There is no rest.

This is a day of total work total work Destruction fighting

everything on the Shabbat itself, which is totally unexpected.

Not expected at all.

But it has to be this way if if kind of like the way God uses these numbers is going to be consistent.

So on that seventh day that seventh day rather than there being rest taking place it

is the total destruction of Jericho everything set to the sword and This is going to

include the young the old every animal everything no Plunder is to be taken by

the people of Israel.

The whole city is devoted to destruction whole city.

Again, this is like a dress rehearsal for the end of the world.

So Joshua commanded the people the seven priests buried the seven trumpets of the ram's horns before the Lord.

They went forward blowing the trumpets.

With the Ark of the Covenant of Yahweh following them the armed men were walking before the priests Who are blowing the trumpets and the rear

guard was walking after the Ark while the trumpets blew continually.

But Joshua commanded the people you shall not shout or make your voice heard.

Neither.

Shall any word go out of your mouth until the day I tell you to shout then you shall shout.

So he caused the Ark of Yahweh to circle the city going about it once and they came into the camp and

they spent the night in the camp.

Then Joshua rose early in the morning and the priests took up the Ark of Yahweh and the seven priests burying the seven

trumpets of ram's Horns before the Ark of Yahweh walked on.

They blew the trumpets Continually and the armed men were walking before them and the rear guard was walking after the

Ark of Yahweh.

While the trumpets blew continually the second day they marched around the city once and returned into the camp.

So they did for six days on the seventh day.

They rose early at the dawn of the day.

This is super duper important.

Okay.

The time actually even matters in the Jewish way of counting time.

When does the Dave a new day begin?

Sunset sunset.

So the brand new day begins in darkness.

Okay.

The day begins in darkness and so you'll note then.

They are to wake up and do this at the crack of dawn with the first light of the

Sun.

So even the time of day is telling us something about that and here's kind of the

picture then.

Putting it all together.

We presently exist in this present darkness.

This is how Paul writes about it, but the day is dawning and so over and again scripture will

reference the return of Christ as the dawning of the Sun as the breaking out of the

light so that everybody can see it and even here in the type and shadow you can see that the

Very early at the dawn of the day as soon as the Sun comes out.

Then you start marching around the city in the same manner seven times.

It was only on that day That they marched around the city seven times and at the seventh time

when the priests had blown the trumpets Joshua said to the people shout

for the Lord has given you the city and The city and all that is

is within it shall be devoted to Yahweh for destruction.

Only Rahab the prostitute and all who are with her in her house Shall

live because she hid thee and here's the weird word.

Listen to this one.

It's not even spies.

Because she hid the malach.

She hid the angels.

The messengers who whom we sent

now, that's kind of a fascinating thing.

Doesn't say spies it says The angels the messengers whom we

sent now, that's an interesting path.

That's an interesting kind of idea.

This kind of invokes if you would.

What is it about the Bride of Christ?

God sends messengers.

God sends people who preach the gospel and those who believe

protect guard.

Keep them from danger and harm.

That's kind of the idea.

God sends the messengers so in the same way then Rahab it says that these were messengers.

These were these guys were spies, but here the Hebrew says that they were they were a malach they were

messengers.

They were angels but you keep yourselves from the things devoted to destruction lest when you have

devoted them you take any of the devoted things and make The camp of Israel a thing for destruction and bring trouble upon it

all the silver the gold every vessel of bronze iron.

They are holy to Yahweh.

They shall go into the treasury of Yahweh.

So the people shouted and The trumpets were blown.

With the cry of command with the trumpets.

You see you see the same same motifs.

And.

As soon as the people heard the sound of the trumpet the people shouted a great shout.

The wall fell down flat.

So the people went up in the city every man straight before him and they captured the city.

And then they devoted all In the city to destruction both men and women young and old oxen

sheep donkeys with the edge of the sword.

But the two men who had spied out the land Joshua said go into the prostitutes house.

Bring out from there the woman and all who belonged to her as you swore to her.

So the young man who had been spies went in and brought out Rahab and her father and mother and brothers and

all bull who belonged to her and they brought all her relatives and put them outside the camp of Israel.

And they burned the city with fire and everything in it.

Only the silver the gold the vessels of bronze and of iron they put into the treasury of the house of Yahweh, but

Rahab the prostitute of her father's household and all who belonged to her Joshua

Joshua saved alive.

Great verb.

They were saved and.

She has lived in Israel to this day because she hid the messengers whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.

So here you got this prostitute woman who's Clearly got vocational

issues.

Her sins be a scarlet.

There's a scarlet cord that saves her.

It says Joshua saved her alive.

She isn't even a Jew.

And What happens to her next.

What's the next thing that happens to her.

Because I told you she I think really?

Represents the Bride of Christ if this is the end of the world if this is type and shadow of the end of the world.

And if she's the Bride of Christ.

Huh?

Oh.

It's gonna be it's even better than that.

What happens at the end of the world.

What's the big blowout party at the at the at the new creation at the end of the world?

What's it called? marriage feast of the Lamb.

Right.

There's a marriage it takes place.

So if she is type and shadow of the Bride of Christ and if this is representative of the end of the world

next order of business is the marriage feast of the Lamb and The bride and the groom getting together

and being married.

That's exactly what happens next.

Let me explain Matthew chapter 1 the book of the genealogy of

Jesus Christ the son of David the son of Abraham.

Abraham was the father of Itzhak.

Itzhak the father of Yaakov.

Yaakov the father of Judah his brothers in Judah the father of Perez and Zerah by

Tamar and Perez the father of Hezron.

Hezron the father of Ram.

Ram the father of Amminadab.

Amminadab the father of Nashon.

Nashon the father of Salmon.

Salmon the father of Boaz by Rahab.

She.

Marries that guy who's next in line in the direct ascent of

Christ.

That's.

Amazing that is.

Unbelievable.

Now it shows us kind of humbly and I mean in the not very flattering picture.

That the Bride of Christ Because of our sin because of our idolatry because of our rebellion

our sin is really shameful.

Shameful to the point where it's described in terms of prostitution.

And that's really graphic.

It's not very flattering and we do not like to think of ourselves in that way.

But there is a way in which you can talk about the Bride of Christ as a forgiven.

Whore.

And that's all of us and that's all of us

though our sins be as scarlet.

He will make them white as snow.

And so you can see here then.

And this is then let me show you this kind of other picture then of Of Christ's

love great love for his bride.

Husbands love your wives as Christ loved the church.

This is Ephesians 5 25.

And gave himself up for her.

That he might sanctify her Having cleansed her by the washing of

water with the word So that he might present the church to himself in

splendor without Spot or wrinkle or any such thing so that

she might be holy and without blemish.

And so you see then this picture of Baptism where Christ takes his

bride and though she is filthy in sin He takes the waters of baptism

and he washes her and cleans her and clothes her in splendor.

It's a beautiful picture of Christ's love for you and Christ's love for me.

Because collectively we are the Bride of Christ.

We are.

Rahab we

didn't even get to the hyssop.

We'll have to do the hyssop next week.

We'll do hyssop next week, but that's that's.

What's when you unpack that scarlet yarn.

This is what you come up with this Amazing picture of the mercy the grace the love of Christ

who washes us and cleanses us forgives us and loves us.

Not because we were so worthy.

Because he is so he's just that loving and kind.

All right, we'll pick this up next week.

You.