{"id":13715,"date":"2023-02-20T00:34:49","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T00:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=13715"},"modified":"2023-02-20T00:34:49","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T00:34:49","slug":"joshua-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/13715\/joshua-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Joshua 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">During the meeting this morning you quoted Romans 5:29,\u00a0\u201c<em>But one is a Jew inwardly, and circumcision is of the heart, by the Spirit, not the letter, whose praise is not of men, but of God.\u201d\u00a0<\/em>That reminded me of what we read this past week for our Old Testament assignment, and I have a question about it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">In Joshua chapter 5, God commanded Joshua to circumcise the children of Israel for a second time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Joshua 5:4-5 says,\u00a0<em>And this is the reason that Joshua circumcised them: all the people who came out of Egypt, the males, all the men of war, had died in the wilderness along the way after they came out from Egypt,<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><em>5.and all the people who came out were circumcised, but all the people who were born in the wilderness along the way as they came out from Egypt had not been circumcised.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">There must have been a good reason why Moses did not have them circumcised on the eighth day while in the Wilderness, the Bible doesn\u2019t tell us. But it made me wonder if there could be a connection with what you said previously on one of the Old Testament CDs.*<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">You said that Moses was not able to bring the people into the Promised Land, which was a symbol of the Law not being able to save us.\u00a0\u00a0Moses had to turn it all over to Joshua, and then Joshua took God&#8217;s people in.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Thinking along those lines, with Moses representing the Law and physical circumcision could that second circumcision by Joshua represent the spiritual circumcision of the heart by Jesus when we receive the Spirit?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Thank you!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Amy French<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">==========<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #0013a3\"><em>Excellent observation, Amy!\u00a0 Yes, that second circumcision represents the one that Jesus gives.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #0013a3\"><em>I have always assumed that Israel could not circumcise their children in the wilderness because they never knew when the cloud would move. It is interesting to think on what that uncertainty represented, spiritually, before the Spirit came in Acts 2.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0013a3\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* <span style=\"color: #3366ff\">https:\/\/www.goingtojesus.com\/gtj_otcourse-1010.html<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor John, During the meeting this morning you quoted Romans 5:29,\u00a0\u201cBut one is a Jew inwardly, and circumcision is of the heart, by the Spirit, not the letter, whose praise is not of men, but of God.\u201d\u00a0That reminded me of what we read this past week for our Old Testament assignment, and I have a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13715"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}