Read: Joshua 11:1-12:24; Luke 17:11-37; Psalm 84:1-12; Proverbs 13:5-6
The other kings heard about Joshua’s great wins so they formed an alliance against Joshua. They came out in a huge army, greater than Joshua’s, but God told Joshua not to worry because by the next day, they would have taken them all. Joshua was courageous and went out against them. God gave him victory and he killed everyone of them just like God had told him. He took the land and divided it up among the tribes and the land had peace. There were 31 kings in all which stood for shame, witchcraft, lust, death, high place, generational, restraint, a wall, just to name a few.
In Luke, Jesus healed 10 lepers and sent them to the priest to do the ceremony to allow them back into the temple. One of them came back to thank Jesus. This man was not a Jew so he wouldn’t have gotten an audience with the priest. By coming back to Jesus he was showing that Jesus was his priest. This was also a picture of all the people that Jesus healed of terrible diseases and demons. About one out of ten actually believed that Jesus was the Messiah. The rest just went back to their lives without a savior.
The Pharisees asked Jesus when the kingdom of God would come. Jesus explained that the kingdom of God was not something they would be able to see with their natural eyes, they would have to have spiritual eyes to see it because the kingdom of God would be inside people. To his disciples, Jesus explained that the big things God does on the earth are missed by the masses but revealed to the remnant.
Lord, give us spiritual eyes to see what you are doing in the kingdom.
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