Day 53 – November 9, 2023: Joshua 10-12 and Acts 10-12

I hope you don’t mind bloodshed, but we find ourselves with the Gideonites who had made a treaty with Israel and now were being ganged up on. Isreal comes to the rescue and with that momentum keeps going and completely annihilates anyone in their path. Thirty one kings are destroyed by Israel and their lands are taken and their people wiped out. This allows Isreal to inhabit the land without any problem. That is basically what happens in these chapters. Israels settles in the land as a result of God giving them their enemies before them and telling them to destroy them completely. This was done.

We find the Scripture that I call pigs in a blanket. Peter is given a vision that seems to apply to the animals that have been considered to be unclean up to now, because Leviticus told us so, but God tells Peter that what God has made cannot be called unclean. But it is actually about people, those who are not Jewish which Scripture calls the gentiles. We are the gentiles. Before the kingdom of God was relegated to the people of God, but no longer. We see the Holy Spirit descends upon Cornelius and his entire household which tells us that all people are able to inherit the kingdom of God. That is a complete game changer.