Tough Questions about Joshua

[Christ4Ever]

So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the LORD had said to Moses; and Joshua gave it as an inheritance to Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. Then the land rested from war. Joshua 11:23 NKJV

The toughest question asked about the book of Joshua is, “Did these events really take place?” Yes.

The second toughest question is, “Did God really order the obliteration of the people in all these cities and kingdoms?” Yes, again. It’s been six hundred years since a former idol worshipper from Ur believed the Lord, and He “credited it to him as righteousness” (Genesis 15:6 NIV). It’s been 430 years since the Lord announced the time and place of judgment for rejecting the Lord. Rahab is not given four hours or days to repentant or die. And her people, and neighboring cities and kingdoms, are not given four weeks or months. “The Lord is patient” is an understatement of immense proportions.

The third toughest question is, “How could an all-powerful and loving God wipe them all out?” Precisely because the Lord is all-powerful and loving…and much more. Even with the whole bible in hand, it is difficult to comprehend God’s infinite mercy, grace, and forgiveness. It’s rarer to grasp His eternal joy and peace. But that doesn’t change who God is!

Prayer: Lord, You want me to find real answers to the toughest questions in You and in Your Word. I do.

 

[Brad Huber]

There was a deeper evil in the lands that had to be wiped out, and that evil was in the blood lines of the people of that area. When satan learned of God giving the land to the descendants of Abraham, he began his work there to corrupt both the land and its people. Not just the normal corruption that man tends toward, but the same kind of corruption that went on prior to the Great flood. Giants in the land, giants of the nature that were the apex of reasons that God destroyed the world in the flood. Satan, finding out that the land was promised to Abrahams descendants, made the same thing begin to happen there. God was not ready to destroy the whole earth again, so the land had to be cleared of not only the giants, but of the bloodline of the giants, those who had the genes of giant-ism even though not giants.

 

[B-A-C]

If you believe the uncanonized book of Enoch, many of these people in Canaan were giants.
Possible off-spring of rebellious angels.

Gen 6:1; Now it came about, when men began to multiply on the face of the land, and daughters were born to them,
Gen 6:2; that the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose.
Gen 6:3; Then the LORD said, "My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; nevertheless his days shall be one hundred and twenty years."
Gen 6:4; The Giants were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.

The "sons of God" are taken to be angels. "the daughters of men" are taken to be humans.

Jude 1:6; And angels who did not keep their own domain, but abandoned their proper abode, He has kept in eternal bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day,
Jude 1:7; just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, since they in the same way as these indulged in sexual immorality and went after strange flesh, are exhibited as an example in undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.

I have noticed some Bible don't include the part about the angels being sexually immoral here, but most do.

The spies that came back from Canaan said...

Numb 13:33; "There also we saw the Nephilim (the sons of Anak are part of the Nephilim); and we became like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight."

But by the time we get to Joshua 11.

Josh 11:21; Then Joshua came at that time and cut off the Anakim from the hill country, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab and from all the hill country of Judah and from all the hill country of Israel. Joshua utterly destroyed them with their cities.
Josh 11:22; There were no Anakim left in the land of the sons of Israel; only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod some remained.
Josh 11:23; So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the LORD had spoken to Moses, and Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. Thus the land had rest from war.

Anakim = giants.

Out of all the lands on the Earth, why did the giants pick Canaan? The thought here is Satan wanted to keep the Jews from inheriting the promised land. He wanted to make God a liar, so he put the giants there.

 

[Admon Mikha'el]

So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the LORD had said to Moses; and Joshua gave it as an inheritance to Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. Then the land rested from war. Joshua 11:23 NKJV

The toughest question asked about the book of Joshua is, “Did these events really take place?” Yes.

The second toughest question is, “Did God really order the obliteration of the people in all these cities and kingdoms?” Yes, again. It’s been six hundred years since a former idol worshipper from Ur believed the Lord, and He “credited it to him as righteousness” (Genesis 15:6 NIV). It’s been 430 years since the Lord announced the time and place of judgment for rejecting the Lord. Rahab is not given four hours or days to repentant or die. And her people, and neighboring cities and kingdoms, are not given four weeks or months. “The Lord is patient” is an understatement of immense proportions.

The third toughest question is, “How could an all-powerful and loving God wipe them all out?” Precisely because the Lord is all-powerful and loving…and much more. Even with the whole bible in hand, it is difficult to comprehend God’s infinite mercy, grace, and forgiveness. It’s rarer to grasp His eternal joy and peace. But that doesn’t change who God is!

Prayer: Lord, You want me to find real answers to the toughest questions in You and in Your Word. I do.

There are 36 of Tribes of Giants mentioned in the Bible:

1. Amalekites
2. Amorites
3. Anakims
4. Ashdothites
5. Aviums
6. Avites
7. Canaanites
8. Caphtorims
9. Ekronites
10. Emins
11. Emins
12. Eshkalonites
13. Gazathites
14. Geshurites
15. Gibeonites
16. Giblites
17. Girgashites
18. Gittites
19. Hittites
20. Hivites
21. Horims
22. Horites
23. Jebusites
24. Kadmonites
25. Kenites
26. Kenizzites
27. Maachathites
28. Manassites
29. Nephilim *
30. Perizzites
31. Philistines
32. Rephaims
33. Sidonians
34. Zamzummins
35. Zebusites
36. Zuzims

* The Nephilim:
The word Nephilim does not appear in the Bible, nor any Hebrew pronunciation of any words translated in the Bible. But the word Nĕphiyl, pronounced Nepheel does in the first mention of Giants in Genesis6:4, and in Numbers 13:33 when describing the Giants of the promised land, Cannan. These giants were apparently the original giants spawned by the Gregori, the giant angels who mated with human females.

So, the people that God commanded to be wiped out were not human, His plan did not include hybrid people, chimeras or any other of that type of being...They were totally dedicated to Satan and his plan...They needed to be wiped out just for the preservation of the human race. That shows Gods love.

 

[Brad Huber]

There are 36 of Tribes of Giants mentioned in the Bible:

1. Amalekites
2. Amorites
3. Anakims
4. Ashdothites
5. Aviums
6. Avites
7. Canaanites
8. Caphtorims
9. Ekronites
10. Emins
11. Emins
12. Eshkalonites
13. Gazathites
14. Geshurites
15. Gibeonites
16. Giblites
17. Girgashites
18. Gittites
19. Hittites
20. Hivites
21. Horims
22. Horites
23. Jebusites
24. Kadmonites
25. Kenites
26. Kenizzites
27. Maachathites
28. Manassites
29. Nephilim *
30. Perizzites
31. Philistines
32. Rephaims
33. Sidonians
34. Zamzummins
35. Zebusites
36. Zuzims

* The Nephilim:
The word Nephilim does not appear in the Bible, nor any Hebrew pronunciation of any words translated in the Bible. But the word Nĕphiyl, pronounced Nepheel does in the first mention of Giants in Genesis6:4, and in Numbers 13:33 when describing the Giants of the promised land, Cannan. These giants were apparently the original giants spawned by the Gregori, the giant angels who mated with human females.

So, the people that God commanded to be wiped out were not human, His plan did not include hybrid people, chimeras or any other of that type of being...They were totally dedicated to Satan and his plan...They needed to be wiped out just for the preservation of the human race. That shows Gods love.

All of the giants were hybrids. The angels were not able to reproduce on their own, their life was so long, it would seem like an eternity to us, but it would not be logical for God to allow them to have children, there were be less life available if they were so allowed. The fallen angels somehow figured out how to approximate male ***** (they had lots of knowledge) and impregnated some human females (they were not able to make their own wombs that worked right) and that is what caused the race of giants which were designed to destroy the human race and take over the special planet that God created for us. They were killed in the great flood (lots of weight doesnt do well in lots of water, heavy land creatures will die off), but perhaps some experiments were likewise done to some aquatic creatures that still had the giant genes and were able to be transfered back to land creatures some time after the flood.

 

[Admon Mikha'el]

All of the giants were hybrids. The angels were not able to reproduce on their own, their life was so long, it would seem like an eternity to us, but it would not be logical for God to allow them to have children, there were be less life available if they were so allowed. The fallen angels somehow figured out how to approximate male ***** (they had lots of knowledge) and impregnated some human females (they were not able to make their own wombs that worked right) and that is what caused the race of giants which were designed to destroy the human race and take over the special planet that God created for us. They were killed in the great flood (lots of weight doesnt do well in lots of water, heavy land creatures will die off), but perhaps some experiments were likewise done to some aquatic creatures that still had the giant genes and were able to be transfered back to land creatures some time after the flood.

Yes The giants were hybrids...They were half human and half angel..of course the angels reproduced on their own....The bible says so. Yes Lots of giants died in the flood...but all of them? I seriously doubt it. Every living thing that God had made died in that flood...

Genesis 7:4

For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth with the exception of the eight people and the animals that God brought onto the ark. Here's a question for you though....Did God create the giants? No....Then many could have survived...Some could even have been off the planet at the time.

 

[Admon Mikha'el]

There was a deeper evil in the lands that had to be wiped out, and that evil was in the blood lines of the people of that area. When satan learned of God giving the land to the descendants of Abraham, he began his work there to corrupt both the land and its people. Not just the normal corruption that man tends toward, but the same kind of corruption that went on prior to the Great flood. Giants in the land, giants of the nature that were the apex of reasons that God destroyed the world in the flood. Satan, finding out that the land was promised to Abrahams descendants, made the same thing begin to happen there. God was not ready to destroy the whole earth again, so the land had to be cleared of not only the giants, but of the bloodline of the giants, those who had the genes of giant-ism even though not giants.

That's right Brad...but that did not complete the job, did it?