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So to keep it moving, let's just get into it.

Let's open the word prayer.

I meant to do it when we first started.

I'm negligent here.

As a borrower, as Father, we just thank you for the opportunities before us.

We pray, Father, you make us ever more effective stewards of these opportunities.

You pray, Father, you guard our thoughts and words that the results will be pleasing in

your sight and that it will accomplish your purpose.

We bring before you ourselves in this opportunity.

We also pray, Father, for all those that we'll see and hear the resulting publications, just

in advance.

You know who they are, Father.

We just pray that your purpose will be accomplished in every life as we just commit these things

into your hands.

In the name of Yeshua, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

Amen.

So we're going to get into hour six of Learn the Bible in 24 Hours.

And this is the session where they're in the land.

We've been through the creation.

We've been through the call of Abraham.

We've called them.

They go down to Egypt as a family.

They come out as a nation.

They blow it at Kiddish, Baniya, and they wander for 40 years.

Now they're at the threshold.

They're finally at the gate the second time.

First time they blew it, the second time they're going to do better.

And interestingly enough, if you study the summary of the Old Testament given by Stephen

in Acts 7, it's very interesting to outline his sermon.

They never let him finish so he doesn't get to his final point.

But if you notice his whole presentation was Israel always blows it the first time, makes

it on the second.

Blows it on the first time, makes it on the second.

Blue to Kiddish, Bardina, and he goes through.

And of course, on Christ's first coming, they crucify him.

He doesn't get to the second coming, but the second coming of course they are going

to petition him and they're going to be fulfilled.

And people ask me why is Israel chosen people, God chosen?

And it's clear that's what the whole Bible is all about.

That's what the Old Testament is, the story of a nation and that nation brings forth a

person and the whole Bible is about that person, the person of Jesus Christ.

The Creator Himself became man and dwelt among us.

And that's what this is all about.

But here we are in the land.

And we're going to now be in the, we've been through the Torah.

We're now going to be in the book of Joshua and we're going to get judges and Ruth.

Ruth occurs during the period of the judges and it's going to be the dessert of the evening.

We'll go through this other stuff, but you're hanging there for Ruth.

It's worth the whole trip.

But of course, we're moving now from Exodus time up to the time of David.

So Joshua enters the land, overcomes the land.

And in there we're going to have a little addenda.

We'll talk about the sun standing still.

A lot of Christians have a problem with this.

Joshua, the Bible says the earth stopped rotating.

No, it doesn't.

It says there's a long day and you can do that by changing the procession of the earth a bit.

But we'll get to that there, but it's going to be a surprise to many.

Then he enters the land, overcomes the land and then divides the land.

That's what the book of Joshua is all about.

Then we get to the generation that followed Joshua.

Joshua did all in all a pretty good job.

But his descendants really mess up.

We have 450 years of doing what was right in their own eyes.

Whatever that means, we'll get to that.

Sending, suffering, repentance and deliverance is the pattern.

Again and again, they sin, they suffer for it, they repent, a deliverance come, gives

them some relief.

But then the whole cycle repeats again.

But then as a climax to this period, we get to Ruth.

And this period that we're looking at is the bridge between the entering land and the

monarchy which will follow because after this will come Samuel and so forth.

The book of Ruth is a love story that is even celebrated in colleges as a piece of

literature, quite apart from the Bible.

It's often portrayed as one of the most elegant pieces of literature.

But as you get into it, you're going to be, every line is full of surprises.

And we'll get to there.

Joshua entering the land, he actually crosses the Jordan with his gang.

And the first thing he does at Gilgal is a surprise.

He circumcises the nation.

And a shock to realize after all of that, they were uncircumcised.

The first generation died away.

The children in large measure weren't circumcised.

These are Israelis.

And so they have a circumcision thing.

It's also here where the manna ceases.

Up till now, they've gotten the supernatural bread every day.

That now stops because they're now in the land, the land of milk and honey.

But also as the enter land, they get a very, very interesting night visitor that most people

miss and we'll get into that.

And that's the first five chapters.

Verses 6 through 12, they're going to overcome the land.

And then they're going to occupy the land and they'll enjoy the victory of faith.

So entering the land, they cross the Jordan, Joshua, among other things, makes a little

mound of 12 stones.

He actually does that twice, by the way.

And this monument of 12 stones, many people miss in New Testament in John chapter 1, John

the Baptist is baptizing in the Jordan.

In fact, in John 1 verse 28 says, these things were done at Bethabara beyond the Jordan where

John was baptizing.

The word Bethabara means the house of passage.

John the Baptist is baptizing the very place that Joshua brings the people into the land.

When you get to Matthew, it quotes John the Baptist saying something additional.

It says, we have Abraham to our Father for I say unto you that God is able to these

stones to raise up children unto Abraham.

When people read that, they don't connect the dots.

The stones he's probably pointing to are probably the very stones that Joshua set up

one stone for each of the 12 tribes.

So it closes the loop for you if you follow me.

Watch for those things as you study your Bible and it'll tie it together.

And then of course you have the circumcision at Gilgal, the manna, the manna, ceases then.

So we have the strange visitor.

Now this visitor, I visualize this as Joshua wandering around in the evening one night and

he encounters this guy with a sword drawn.

And Joshua challenges him like a sentry.

Are you for us or for our enemies?

And the person there says, I am the captain of the Lord's Host.

Now don't let that word throw you.

When we hear captain, most of us in the military think of a field grade officer.

The word captain here means the top guy, the commander.

He's the commander of the Lord's Host.

And he's got a sword drawn.

And he tells Joshua, take off your shoes, you're on hallowed ground.

Well first of all, you need to understand when you read your Bible, you'll discover

that angels do not allow themselves to be worshiped.

Several times Daniel, John, wherever they go to worship, see thou do it not.

Are you with me?

Angels do not allow themselves to be worshiped.

There's one exception.

That's an angel because he loud they got into a lot of trouble.

Satan will get there when time comes.

But angels do not allow themselves to be worshiped.

This guy commands Joshua to worship him.

In fact, uses a phrase that he knew Joshua would associate with what happened 40 years

ago by the burning bush.

Okay?

And also Mount Sinai.

Joshua was with Moses by the way.

Take off your shoes, you're on hallowed ground.

So obviously Joshua connects the dots.

This is the guy that's going to actually lead the battle the next morning of Jericho.

Jericho, the nation Israel is populated by originally 10 tribes, now 7.

And the most powerful of them were the Amorites.

And the capital of the Amorites was Jericho.

And Yara, which means the house of the moon god.

House of the moon god.

That's what Jericho means.

Where is the capital of the PLO today in Jericho?

What's the symbol of Islam?

The moon god.

You're kind of interested, isn't it?

The conquest of Canaan.

Conquest of Jericho involves the failure of AI, the battle of Beth Horan, the division

of land.

You can't go through it all obviously.

I've taken just the highlights here.

The conquest of Jericho, Mary, Mount Yara, the house of the moon god.

It's interesting Joshua sends in two spies.

Why didn't he send 12 like Moses did?

Well, maybe they were 10 of them were useless.

He two were enough if he had the right ones, right?

But did they bring back intelligence upon which he built his battle plan?

I don't think so.

I wouldn't call him spies.

What did they accomplish?

They got Rahab saved.

Call him witnesses.

So he sends in two swelters.

They're sheltered by Rahab.

So I'm going to call these guys witnesses.

You'll see why in a minute.

Then the battle plan.

I want you to visually.

I often, I once talked to the guy that manages, I happen to be sitting on a plane with the

guy that handles Bill Cosby's stuff.

I said, Bill Cosby did such a fabulous job on Noah.

I remember that thing he did with Noah.

He should take Joshua's staff meeting.

Can you imagine the staff meeting?

We're going to go against the capital of the most powerful adversary.

And here's this battle plan.

We're going to march around the city once a day for six days, keeping silent.

Then on the seventh day, we're going to march around seven times.

And then after the seventh time, we're going to blow our trumpets and yell and the wall's

going to fall down.

Really?

I mean, can you visualize his generals saying the boss is off his rocker, the lights are

on, but no one's home.

What's going on here?

That's the battle plan.

I don't know how he sold it to his troops, but he obviously did.

But he's also told, don't take any spoil.

Don't take any accursed thing.

And of course, you know the story of Jared, that's exactly what they do, right?

And so it goes.

The next one, the next challenge is AI.

By now they're feeling their oats.

They're feeling great.

They got a lot of confidence in themselves.

Big mistake.

Don't have confidence in yourself.

And they underestimated the enemy.

That way, 3000 guys should be enough for this one.

And they get clobbered.

They actually lose 36, but of course, accomplished nothing.

This is the only loss in their seven-year campaign.

Is it AI?

Why?

Joshua praise.

The Lord says that to Joshua, get the up.

Why do you lie there on your face?

I love this.

Do your homework in numbers.

Turns out they found out that Aiken, one of the guys, had smuggled some forbidden loot.

He violated God's injunction.

He broke the rules.

And because of that, they failed.

That's scary, by the way.

God means what he says and says what he means, right?

We need to learn that.

So the sack of AI follows, after stoning Aiken and his family and his belongings, a second

attack was undertaken.

This time, they take 10 times as many people, 30,000 guys, with a 5,000 man ambush force,

and they wipe out the city.

Big success.

For lots of other battles, up north, but the big, the watershed battle, the battle of

Midway, so to speak, of the conquest is the Battle of Beth Horon.

The kings, by now, have confederated themselves under a guy who calls himself Adonai Zidak,

the Lord of righteousness, really.

He's the king of Jerusalem.

He gets defeated in this battle by stones of fire from heaven.

In fact, the day isn't long enough for them to complete their out.

So Joshua asked the God to have the sun stand still, make the day longer so we can finish

the job.

The sun's commanded to stand still, or to give them time.

And the scripture says, the sun and the moon extended an entire, a length of a day, an

entire period of time.

The kings, by the way, subsequently run and hide in a cave and are dealt with later.

And this will complete the southern strategy and the rest of the campaign is mappa.

But let's get back to this sun standing still.

A lot of people are upset by that.

In fact, the more you know about science and our solar system, the more trouble some that

is.

You tend to visualize the earth stopping, the inertia.

You just can't visualize it.

Let's realize first of all, by the way, that earth does not have to stop spinning to have

the day longer.

A change in precession would accomplish that apparently.

But one thing, as you start studying this, you discover some interesting things.

All ancient calendars, I can give you 14 of them, were originally based on 360 day years.

All ancient calendars change after 701 BC for some unexplained reason.

Another thing you'll notice if you do your homework is the planet Mars was terrified,

just terrified the ancient cultures.

The ancient cultures worshipped Mars.

He was called the God of War.

That still occurs in our language.

You speak of martial arts.

The word is still there.

It's saying the same thing.

There is a hypothesis by some experts, some scientific experts, that there was a near

pass by in the orbit of Mars and the earth.

And let me get into that a little bit.

The belief now, by some, is that earth and Mars were originally on resonant orbits.

Now resonance is a concept you people in music know about.

If you have a tuning fork on one side of the room and you hit it, a tuning fork of the

same frequency, and the other side of the room will pick up on that.

They'll get in resonance.

That's the way your radio twos in certain stations.

Makes your circuits resonant to the frequency of that particular station.

So that's what they've discovered.

As they've learned about orbital mechanics in our modern age, they've discovered orbits

also influence each other and they can be in orbital relationships, in resonant relationships.

And the belief is that earth had a 360 day year and Mars is 720.

They were on resonant orbits.

However they had, the orbits were such they had near pass by of each other every 108 years.

And one would give energy to the other depending which one's coming in or which one's going

out.

And it turns out by modeling this, it accounts for catastrophic events on a number of occasions

through history, at least seven of them.

That's what put them on the trail of this thing.

And these energy transfers apparently stabilized finally in 701 BC.

And changing processions all necessary.

Let's take a look at this.

Earth is on orbit around the sun, an elliptical orbit.

And Mars is also on elliptical orbit around the sun.

And it's a resonant orbit.

Earth's on 360 days, Mars 720.

In the spring, typically on March 20, 21, every 108 years, they'll be a near pass by.

In the spring one, it happens after parahillion after the closest part of the sun.

And the one that's ahead loses a little energy.

The earth gains a little, Mars loses a little.

The second pass by, again, 108 years between these things, is in the fall, October 25th.

Yeah, October 25th.

This time, Mars is coming from the outside of afehelion that is furthest from the sun.

It passes behind the earth causing earth to lose some energy, Mars to pick up some energy,

so it was slingshot effect sort of.

And so what this causes then, these transfers occur every 108 years.

Some amount, some add some less.

And this has all been modeled, by the way, to some extent, quite a detailed extent.

When they finally stabilize, the earth is no longer 360 days, 365 and a quarter days.

Mars is no longer 720, it's now 687.

But that means the calendar is on the earth, the adjustment.

The Romans, of course, add 500 and a quarter days.

Other calendars do it slightly differently.

The Hebrew ones do are really, they add a month.

Sometimes every 19 years, a very weird thing.

And all the rabbis have books, they expect white and hezekiah do it that way.

And they don't explain why do you have to do anything at all, why do you have to change?

They don't talk about that.

Well this has been very detailed, makes some very interesting reading.

But it sounds like just a conjecture, except thanks to Jonathan Swift, it seems to be substantiated.

And let's back up a little talk about early telescope technology.

In 1610, as when Galileo invented the telescope and discovered the four moons of Jupiter and the Saturn's rings, pretty obvious.

And about 1781, Herschel has a better telescope by then, he discovers Uranus.

1787, he finds two moons of Uranus.

1789, two more moons of Uranus.

And 1846, Leville discovers Neptune and one of its moons.

It's an 1877, when Ace of Hall, with a brand new telescope at the US Naval Observatory,

discovers the two moons of Mars and makes astronomical history.

They didn't know it had two moons.

The reason they didn't, they're very, very small.

One is only eight miles in diameter and it's almost black.

It has a reflectivity or albedo of only 3%.

And what's strange about this is that the small one is going backwards.

It's the only one that goes backwards in the entire solar system.

And you say, okay, so what?

So you got this.

By the way, it means fear and panic, and Greek, by the way, appropriate for the God of War.

But anyway, most of you know, Gulliver's travels, riding by Jonathan Swift.

He lived between 1667 and 1745.

And in 1726, he wrote Gulliver's travels.

And most of us know that there are several voyages of Gulliver in his books.

We all know the little pews, the little people.

That's the one that makes the cute little movies and stuff.

By the way, these things were intended as political satire, not children stories.

Through the years, they become popular children stories.

But in his third voyage of Gulliver, he's said to go to a place called La Puta where the astronomers

there brag that they know about the two moons of Mars, the astronomers in London don't.

And they go on talk about the size, the revolution, and the orbits of the two moons of Mars.

Within a 20% accuracy, by the way.

You say, well, so what?

Well, the problem is this.

Jonathan Swift published Gulliver's travels in 1726, 151 years before they were discovered by astronomers.

Now, how do you explain that?

Well, one conjecture is, well, he was just lucky.

I don't think so.

The numbers are in his little story, and surprisingly within 20%.

And the fact that one's going backwards is astonishing.

How would he guess that?

So the other possibility is that did he guess it?

I don't think so.

Did he really know that?

I don't think so.

He knew Herschel.

These people knew each other.

And the astronomy world didn't know there were two moons of Mars.

And I don't think Jonathan Swift did either.

I suspect he drew on some legends to color and embroider his political satire.

That's all going.

What he didn't realize is that the things he was drawing among where eyewitness accounts.

And in order to see the two moons of Mars, Mars would have to be close enough to the Earth to see with a naked eye the two moons of Mars.

And so this is a strange corroboration of the series of long day.

Let's go back to Joshua.

There's a third of a million men at Beth Horan.

On October 25th of 1404 BC, Mars is on a polar pass at only 70,000 miles from the Earth.

It appears to rise 50 times the size of the moon.

There are severe earthquakes and land tides.

By the way, do you know that we know there's lotion tides?

Did you know they're land tides?

They're only about an inch, so you don't notice them, but they're there.

They can be measured.

Anyway, here we have severe earthquakes and land tides.

And there's a polar shift of about five degrees, which would lengthen the day.

And meteors follow about two to three hours later, at about 30,000 miles an hour.

And the meteors are amazing because they hit only Israel's enemies.

I want you to think about that.

God put them in orbit whenever, but in such a way as to anticipate the enemies of Israel to act, they're act as, you know, like fire from Heaven.

And wipe out Israel's enemies, bizarre.

What's interesting is that this legend of the long day, isn't just in the Bible,

we're indebted to Emmanuel Villacowski, who discovered the legends in China of the long night, about the same time.

The long night of China, so these things are...

But the campaign, of course, in the South we have the various treaty...

They had a treaty with the B... give you nights, the Battle of the Beth Harn and all that.

And then there's some quick surprise attacks they get into in the South.

In the North, we have a Haters Alliance, a slower guerrilla war going up up there.

But in any case, before the things over, they conquer the land.

The book of Joshua has also been contrasted with the book of Ephesians, of victorious Christian living.

In Joshua, we have Israel and Ephesians, we have the Church.

In Joshua, they're entering and possessing.

In Ephesians, we are to enter and possess our possession.

In Joshua, there's an earthly inheritance.

In Ephesians, speaks of our heavenly inheritance.

Joshua, it's given in Abraham.

Of course, Ephesians is given in Christ.

Each is opened by a divinely appointed leader.

Each is given grace and received by faith.

Each has a sphere of striking divine revelations in both books.

So Alan Redpath has made a book called victorious Christian living.

He contrasts the two books as parallels.

Each is a scene of warfare and conflict.

Ephesians, of course, as Ephesians 6, our armor of God.

We are also in a war for a spiritual warfare.

So that's interesting.

But there's another comparison.

I want to tell you, frankly, up front,

I can't find anyone that agrees with me.

And I don't mean they disagree with me, but I can't find any commentary that highlights

the fact that Joshua is a model of the book of Revelation.

First of all, Joshua is Yahoshua.

It's the name of Jesus on the book.

Yahoshua is a variant, ineffective Yahshua.

In each book, you've got a military commander dispossessing the land of its usurpers.

In Joshua's the land of Canaan, the revelation is the planet Earth.

In each case, it's a seven-year campaign.

And it's against seven of an original ten nations in each case.

What's strange is you studied Jericho, the Torah is ignored in Jericho.

They're not supposed to do anything on the Sabbath.

That's ignored in Jericho.

In the Torah, it says the Levites are not to go to war.

They lead the procession in Jericho, and I could go on and on.

And it's in Joshua.

First sends in two witnesses.

What did they accomplish?

Now, battle plan intelligence, they got Rahab saved,

who gets on the family tree of David, by the way.

And there's seven trumpet events.

They keep silent until the seventh deal here.

It's interesting when you get to Revelation 8, before the trumpet judgments,

there's silence in heaven for half an hour.

You've got the same echoing, the same structure here.

It goes more than that.

In Joshua, the enemies are confederated under a leader in Jerusalem,

Adonai Zidek, the Lord of Rightes, of course, in Revelation of the Antichrist.

They're ultimately defeated with hailsons of fire in heaven,

in both cases, with signs in the sun and the moon, and so forth.

And in both cases, the king's hide in caves.

In fact, Revelation 6 rocks fall on us and hides us from the wrath of the land.

The parallel, once you see a little of it, when you study Joshua and study Revelation,

you'll be startled with how apparently, deliberately,

structurally parallel the two books are.

Well, after the conquest of the land, of course, they divide the land.

The tribes are allocated. They're portions by casting lots.

We've got Manasseh up there in the north in Gadd,

and the half tribe of Manasseh in Gadd and Ruben

on the, that are east of the Jordan.

And then we have all the rest of them being Ephraim, of course.

It becomes idiomatic of the whole northern group.

Dan is given a place that's west of Benjamin, but he can't hold it.

And when Samson finally dies, he doesn't accomplish much,

but a bunch of pranks. They can't hang on to it.

So they go up north to a place called Laish,

and so Dan really settles in the north part of the country,

but they don't really help much during the judges, Ebera, upset,

because Dan doesn't even leave his ships.

What's he doing in ships in the first place?

And so Dan spins off from the Commonwealth of Israel.

He's one of the reasons why he's not mentioned in Revelation

when the 12 tribes are listed, strangely enough.

There's a whole thing about that we'll deal with when we get there.

Then we've got Benjamin and Judah in the south and Simeon in the south.

So we have the various tribes.

Now the Levites don't get in the inheritance of land.

They get 48 cities instead, because the lords of their inheritance.

Six of those cities are designated as cities of refuge,

and three east of the Jordan, three west of the Jordan.

And we want to talk a little bit about cities of refuge.

I said, well, all these strange things,

they sound strange to our ears until we understand how they point to Jesus Christ.

The idea of a city of refuge, see, they didn't have prisons.

They didn't have a police force.

You killed somebody, the next of kin came after you.

That was the way it worked.

Well, suppose it was an accidental death, what we would call manslaughter.

Well, if you accidentally killed someone, what you did immediately

is you high-tailed it to one of the cities of refuge.

And if you could, I'm assuming now this is not premeditated murder,

if it's what we call manslaughter.

And what you did is, if you could get to the city of refuge,

you were secured there in safety from the Avenger of blood.

The next of kin would be after you, but if you can take refuge in the city of refuge,

if you can visit the city fathers, this was a manslaughter thing,

as long as you're in the city, you're safe.

If you left the city, you're fair game.

That's why it's called the city of refuge.

And this situation stayed as it was until the high priest down in Jerusalem died.

Now, you'll look most commentaries as if this got, you know, just a quaint tribal custom here.

But wait a minute, what's the high priest got to do with the situation?

One way or the other?

You follow me? It's a strange situation.

Well, let's take a, let's analyze this a little bit, see if it applies to us.

Let's talk about the crucifixion of Christ.

Was it premeditated murder or was it manslaughter?

From God's point of view, it was premeditated.

It was foreordained before the honey.

It was God's, it was by His determined counsel and so forth.

From our point of view, what did you say, Father forgive them for what?

No, not what we do.

So we can collect, use that and say, okay, this is at least man, from our point of view, it's man's, it's manslaughter, not premeditated.

Okay, so the next question is, where is our city of refuge?

It's in Jesus Christ, of course.

For how long is it stay until the high priest died?

Who is our high priest?

What did he die right then?

So you can, you can, you can, if you see that, great.

That's, there's another little quaint thing that deserves comment, and that's the daughters of Zellafahod.

When Moses was establishing the laws of inheritance, a guy by name of Zellafahod came to Moses, I got a problem, I only have five daughters, no sons.

How are they going to inherit?

Moses does the right thing, he goes to the Lord, the Lord tells it says, make an exception.

So there's an exception written in the Torah for the daughters of Zellafahod.

And on the rules of, if a, if a man has no sons and the daughters marry within the tribe, the, the inheritance will flow through to her husband.

You follow me?

That's what it's basically says.

It was requested by Moses in Numbers 27, and when you get to the land, and Joshua's laying out the land here, these five daughters come to say, by the way, check the records, read the fine print, we got an exception.

Joshua does, he sure enough you do.

And that's in John, that's in Joshua 17.

What most people who read this don't understand is how this worked.

What happened was if the, he had no sons, when the daughters married, the father of the bride adopted the husband as his son by adoption.

And you'll find that in Ezra 2 and Nehemiah 7 and a number of other places.

It's amazing how you can go through most commentators, and I can find any that really understand, they say, this is just a quaint tribal custom.

They don't, they don't attach any significance to this theologically.

Every detail in the Bible is there by deliberate design.

That's my challenge to you.

Check it out.

It turns out the claims of Christ hang on this.

This anticipates the linge of Christ because there's a blood curse on the line of Joseph, but Jesus is not a son of Joseph.

He's, he's just the legal father of Jesus.

He's, that's why you have a virgin birth.

He's born of Mary.

Mary's father was Helai.

She was the only, she, she had no brothers.

When Mary, Mary's Joseph, Helai adopts Joseph as his son.

And that's how the line of, that's, when you go to Matthew, Matthew has the Jewish line from Abraham down through Joseph to Christ.

Luke being a doctor and interested in his humanity starts at Adam, because all the way from Adam to Abraham.

From Abraham to David they're identical.

But at David, Luke takes a left turn and goes through a second, the second surviving son of Bathsheba, not the first one which was Solomon, and down through Mary.

And so the point is Jesus is of the house and lineage of David, but those are two different lines.

So we'll get into that when we get in the book of Luke.

But all this hanging on the daughters of Zellifah, this quaint little strange thing in the Torah, all these little rules you find, one way or another, we'll point to Jesus Christ.

The Book of Judges follows, and this is a very dismal book.

The 450 years following the conquest, the next generation blow it again and again and again.

They don't follow through.

There are 400 years segments of the nation's history, from the birth of Adam to the death of Joseph, about 400 years.

Death of Joseph to Exodus about 400 years.

Exodus to the monarch is about 400 years.

So these are just horseback kind of numbers.

And from the monarchy to the exile is also about 400 years.

So these are just a rough feeling for the things.

But the Book of Judges is a record of occasional deliverers rather than a succession of governors.

It was probably written by Samuel before the accession of David.

And the whole pattern in Judges is dismal.

They sin and they get oppressed by their indigenous tribes, and then they repent and deliver a comes and gives them some relief, but then they fall right back into it.

The recurring phrase in the Book of Judges is, everyone did what was right in their own eyes.

That doesn't sound too insidious on its own.

You need to realize where it stands.

It's a scathing indictment.

Everyone did what was right in their own eyes.

This is value relativism.

And it led to chaos.

The only person that decides it's right and wrong is God.

And you're right or wrong if you're conformed to God's rules or you're not.

And so that's really the repeated refrain all the way through the Book of Judges.

And there is a, this is the cost of compromise.

See another generation arose and they were unwilling to help the rest.

They were living among a deltors and they became contaminated with the idolatry.

God had told them to wipe out every man, woman and child of certain tribes because they were nephalim among them.

And they didn't do that.

They made peace with them.

And if you study the Book of Judges, you'll discover their failures are up on the Golan Heights, up in Bishan.

They're also in the core middle area and they're also down in the Gaza Strip.

And when you look, when you do it, study it by a geographic, you'll see it's exactly the same thing today.

Those places where they didn't deal with it back then, they're now suffering for it.

And interesting.

Demons are territorial.

And of course the surrounding nations around, I'm just summarizing the whole judges thing.

The surrounding nations exploited their degeneracy.

They had incomplete mastery.

They made inappropriate military alliances.

They intermarried with these pagan groups and they had, that led to apostasy and idolatry.

And God occasionally intervenes and they interrupted their sirens slide into failure.

That Book of Judges is a grim one.

Lot of lessons.

There are six servitudes.

These are not accidents.

They're brought about by God as punishments.

And the privileges are not a license to sin.

And there's a pattern out through Book of Judges.

They sin, they suffer, they repent and then they're delivered.

And they started well but they finished dismally.

They were without a king.

God was supposed to be their king.

But everyone did what was right in their own eyes.

What you also notice is the degradation of the role of woman.

Deborah was a military commander early in the book.

Jeff gets set aside for some silly reasons and then the concubine gets set aside for some reason.

There are silly reasons and then the concubine gets raped and killed in that dismal thing

near the end.

There are six servitudes.

In the Book of Judges, the Mesopotamia, there was a liver otheneal.

Then the Moabites had a place for time and who delivers them.

Then the Kenites and Deborah delivers them from them.

Many of them have the famous Gideon thing.

Jeff then ammonites, the Philistines.

There are six of these.

They had up to 111 years out of the total calendar time in which they are in servitude.

I'm going to come back to that later.

In the summary I'll show you.

It turns out that the history of Israel is always in 490 year segments.

From Abraham to the Exodus is a period of time.

The promise was 75 years before we have Isaac and all that and get to the Exodus.

So you got a total of 505 years.

If you have 15 years, Ishmael was the usurper.

When you subtract the 15 from 505 you get 490.

Okay, well so what?

Well, Exodus to Temple turns out to be 601 years.

594 from 1 Kings 6 on and then completed in 1 Kings 6, verse 38.

So you got seven there.

So we got the net of it.

You got 601 years there.

But you've got these servitudes between Exodus and the Temple of 111.

They put them all in here.

There's 111 of those.

So again you got 490 years.

You're going to discover later that Israel is always 490 years if you subtract the time

that they are out of the land.

And we're in that parenthesis before the final seven years to make up the final 490.

So we'll get to that later.

There's this sordid chapter in the end of the book of Judges.

The Levite and the Sconcubine.

There's this Levite.

He happens to be geographically in the tribe of Benjamin.

But he travels.

He's traveling to repair his marriage.

He's unable to find safe lodging.

So he's out on the street at night.

His concubine is raped and left for dead.

In fact left dead.

And he's so upset.

He cuts her in 12 parts and sends it to the 12 tribes of Israel.

The tribes are absolutely shocked at the Benjaminites.

So the outraged tribes, it becomes a big cause to the lab.

And they attack the Benjaminites only to wake up to the reality.

They almost eliminate the tribe of Benjamin.

The payment swings the other way.

They all pitch in.

There's only 600 left of the Benjaminites.

So they all pitch in to get brides for the remaining Benjaminites to save the endurance of the tribe of Benjamin.

And so all the tribes assist in getting brides for these 600.

Strange, strange.

But if nothing else describes the sad state of affairs in Israel.

But let's not leave it there.

Let's have our dessert and get into the book of Ruth.

Little book.

A Romance of Redemption.

It opens up in the days where the judges rule.

So this is not period.

It's the ultimate love story that emerges out of this mess.

At the literary level, it is widely venerated in colleges.

It just has an element of literature, like part from the biblical implications.

At the prophetic and personal level, it's an incredible gem.

It has prophecy and also has personal implications for each of us.

Strangely enough, even though it's in the Old Testament, and the church is not visible in the Old Testament,

this is one of the most significant books of the Old Testament regarding the church.

I'll show you why.

One of the things it includes as part of the story is the role of this strange thing that in Hebrew they call the goel.

The kinsman Redeemer.

What is he?

What does he do?

What's that all about?

And I want to suggest to you that this book is an essential prerequisite before you study Revelation chapter 5.

You won't understand what's going on unless you read the article of the book of Ruth.

A little background in the genealogies in the Bible, the tenth man is always significant.

From Adam to Noah, we talked about that before.

From Shem to Abraham is obviously significant.

From Isaac to Boaz, he turns out to be the tenth again.

So he turns out to be a very significant guy.

He's going to be a type or foreshadowing in a sense of Jesus Christ.

And so the tenth man is always important.

Now, the book of Ruth, first chapter is about loves resolve, where Ruth cleaves to her mother-in-law Naomi.

Second chapter is loves response, where she then gleeens on behalf of her mother-in-law because of her destitute there in Bethlehem.

And then we have loves requests.

Out of this comes an opportunity.

And there's this very misunderstood scene in the threshing floor, we'll get to.

And then there's a climactic scene which has some surprises for everyone in chapter 4.

The redemption of both the land and the bride, and we'll talk about that when we get there.

For chapter 1, there's famine in Bethlehem, so Naomi and her husband, Olimalek, and their two sons, male and an Aquilian, go to Moab because things are better there.

And in Moab, these two sons take up Moabite daughters as wives.

And Olimalek dies, leaving Naomi as a widow, and her two sons also die.

Rather weird names, unhealthy and puny apparently is what the names mean.

It speaks for itself, I guess.

Naomi's name means pleasant, and I would suggest it means pleasant land because she's going to turn out to be in a sense a type of Israel.

But she's in Moab, she's in exile.

And she's destitute.

But ten years have gone by, she now hears things are better back at home in Bethlehem.

So she's going to go back home.

And her two daughters in law want to go with her.

That tells you a lot about Naomi.

Two daughters in law would want to stick it out with her.

She talks him out of it.

And one of them, Opa, ultimately does return to her own people.

But Ruth refuses, she's obstinate.

And she decides to stay with her mother-in-law, and her testimony is worth quoting.

Ruth said to Naomi, in treatment not to leave the in order to return from following after thee, for whether thou goest, I will go, and where thou lodest, I will lodge.

Thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God.

And where thou dias will I die, and there will I be buried, the Lord do so to me, and more also.

If ought but death part, be in me.

What a statement.

And Naomi realizes she's resolute, so she yields, and she goes back.

So they go back to Bethlehem.

You have to learn, one of the reasons the books of value, you have to learn some laws.

One of them is the law of cleaning.

The rules were that if you were having a piece of land, your reapers could go through once and only once.

What they missed was left, was for the widows, and orphans, and destitute.

That was called the law of cleaning.

You'd go through once, but you weren't allowed to go back and skim it.

That was what you inherently would miss belonged to the destitute.

That's in Leviticus 19, Deuteronomy 24 at several places.

So Naomi and Ruth are destitute.

They're back in the land, but trying to make it, and so Ruth being younger, goes to glean.

And so they, and she happens upon the field of boas.

I love that word happens.

You know what the rabbis say, they say coincidence is not a kosher word.

Or a way we say it, there's no accidents in God's kingdom.

It turns out she happens on the one field that's going to change the destiny of the world.

Boas, by the way, means in him is strength.

And it's a very interesting name because one of the two pillars in the temple are named Boas for some significant reasons.

We'll get there later.

He's introduced to Ruth by an unnamed servant.

And I'm fascinated.

We're going to discover, of course, Boas is in the role of the Lord of the harvest.

Ruth, of course, will end up becoming his Gentile bride.

The unnamed servant is the one that introduces her to Boas.

And the Holy Spirit always is an unnamed servant.

If we went through that in Genesis, you may recall, here it happens again.

Jesus says, explains why.

The Holy Spirit will never testify of himself.

And when Boas finds out that Ruth is there, he instructs, he tells her, if don't be in any other field, stay here.

And he instructs his young men not to touch her.

And also, to drop handfuls on purpose.

In other words, to make sure there's plenty they miss that she can glean for herself in her mother-in-law.

And so you begin to see there's something going on here.

Boas will turn out to be the role of a goel.

It's a Hebrew term meaning the kinsman Redeemer.

And he has some interesting, you have to do, to get into this, you have to understand the law of redemption.

And also the law of Levarite Mary.

The two of the laws in the law of redemption was that if a person had to sell his land, that is Lisa, in effect, because he was destitute,

the next of kin could come and redeem the land for the family, if he chose to.

But he had to be able, he had to be willing, and he had to be able to take all the obligations of the lost guy to do that.

So that's what the, it was an option, an optional responsibility, so to speak, of the law of redemption.

The law of Levarite Mary is the one we talked about.

That's where a guy, if a guy dies, his brother is supposed to take, if he can, take the woman to raise up seed for the dead brother.

And so that's what the Levarite Mary was.

Anyway, so in chapter two, by the way, when Ruth comes home with all this stuff, Naomi smells a fish here, what's going on?

And she finds out that Naomi's been in Boaz's land, and she only realizes that Boaz is a kinsman.

And she realizes here's an opportunity, not just for herself, but also for her daughter, who's so faithful.

And so she says, do what exactly as I had struck you, and you get to chapter, this all sets the stage of chapter three, the famous thrashing floor scene.

So see, Naomi recognized the opportunity for the redemption of her land that she wants, but also for a whole new life for Ruth.

So she instructs Ruth on what to do.

So in accordance with instructions, Ruth approaches Boaz to fulfill the role of the go-ell.

And what happens, she tells her, the thrashing floor takes place on a saddleback where there's a wind all the time.

And what you did at the end of the day, you took the grain that had been harvested and you threw it up into the wind, and the good stuff, the heavy stuff would fall in a pile down and wind a little bit, the light stuff, the stuff you don't want would fall further downwind.

If you did this right, you ended up with two piles, the one that closed her in, you'd bag for a market, and the one further down you'd burn to keep away vermin and so forth.

But all this was done in the atmosphere of a carnival feast in the evening.

So after the partying and all that, they would sleep, but the owner of the material would sleep by the, and probably the ski guys would sleep by the grains that wouldn't be stolen.

And so it was an overnight slumber party kind of thing.

What the owner tells you to do, watch where he sleeps, and when it's all quiet, you go and sleep at his feet. He'll tell you what to do.

And so he does, in the middle line, he wakes up and hears Ruth, and he shook.

And she, she, when people read that, it sounds like she is propositioning him sexually. No, it's worse than that.

She's asking him to do his kinsman's part.

To spread your skirt over me is his expression. You need to understand that culture.

Hems were, were the badge of authority resided. We think of authority as stripes on a sleeve or on a shoulder.

In ancient Israel, it was on the border of your garment.

That's when David cuts the hem of Saul's garment. He's cutting his genealogy away.

The hem, when the woman in the issue of blood, if she can touch the hem of Christ, her mind is, that's where his authority is. See, the hem's where the authority.

When God speaks in Isaiah, God speaks of Israel, putting his skirt over Israel, putting his authority and protection over her.

She asks him to put his skirt over her. People misunderstand that without the background.

What she's asking him to do is marry her to raise up seed, because he's a kinsman.

And he says, he, he's flattered. He's flattered, she doesn't.

But unfortunately, there is someone, a closer kinsman, that he has to clear the way for it first.

And so, she wants, she wants him to fulfill the role of a go-ell. But there's a nearer kinsman in the way.

And when you get through the story, see by now you got this love story going, she wants to be married.

And when he says there's a nearer kinsman, you know, that's, that's a cloud. That's your plot problem. What's going to happen here? We'll get to that.

And what he, what he does do, he gives her six measures of, of meal, barley, to take back to Naomi.

You and I miss that. But Neil, when she gets back, Naomi recognizes what that means.

She says that means he won't rest until this is resolved. See the six days God worked and the seventh he rested.

There's six, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a code, a code that Naomi picks up and understands when she gets home.

So, on these two chapter four, the big deal, Boas confronts this guy that's the nearer kinsman.

And, and, and, and looking for somebody redeem it, he's all redeeming it.

See at this point, by the way, if you're getting the real picture here, you've got a picture, you know, Boas is sort of a Charles Heston or Harrison Ford kind of guy.

The nearer kinsman is probably what Danny DeVita or something.

And he said, I wanted to do it. Boy, says, wait a minute. Whoever takes that has to take all the obligation, you'd have to take Ruth as a bride.

But he can't do that because of Lamar's own inheritance. So he passes.

And he passes by giving the symbol of his passing is to give, take a shoe and give it to, to Boas.

And of course, to him it's a disgrace, but to Boas it's a marriage license. See.

And so he, that's, that's the big win because Boas now, they wrote his clear for him to take Ruth as a bride.

And so the guy yields a shoe is to relieve the obligation, Boas steps up.

He purchases the land for Naomi and he purchases, that's the word used, Ruth as a bride, a Gentile bride.

She's a bull by us, right? Do you see, do you see the symbolism starting to unfold here? You haven't seen the half of it.

Okay. At the big celebration where Ruth and, and Boas are being married, somebody says, may your house be like Perez.

Now, if you don't know your story, it sounds like a toast, isn't that great?

But if you've read Genesis 38, you know what a sordid thing the birth of Perez was?

That's where Tamar gets Judah to, on a, on a, on a, on a, not realizing it, have incest with her, to have a child.

Remember that whole thing. And, um, uh, Perez is the illegitimate son of Tamar.

Here they may, your house be like Perez. You would, if that, someone said that, do you say, same to you, fella? You know?

No, it's actually a strange prophecy buried in Ruth here. Let the house be like the house of Perez,

whom Tamar burned a Judah of the seed of which the Lord shall give the of this young woman.

You need to know in Deuteronomy 23, it says,

A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord, even to his tenth generation, shall he not enter to the Lord.

In other words, it takes generation, ten generations to purge the illegitimacy, if you will.

Well, if you go through here and you see Perez, Hezeron, Ram, Aben and Ab, Nashon, Solomon, Boas, Obed, Jesse and David.

You've got ten generations. In fact, you may recall that Boas, Obed, Jesse and David were encrypted in Genesis 38 behind the text.

We looked at that then. But we have here, um, the tenth generation of to Perez is David.

And, um, so here we have a prophecy in the book of Ruth. This isn't the time of Judges of David being the king.

The second time this comes up, it came up in Genesis 38, but it also comes up here.

And, uh, this is in the time of the Judges. Interesting little thing.

Now, there's more to it. The Goal Kinsman dreamer course, the Kinsman had to be, he had to be a Kinsman.

He had to be able to perform. He has to be willing to perform. There's two different things.

And he has to be, assume all the obligations.

And Jesus Christ is our Kinsman. He became man and dwelt among us.

He has to be able to perform. He could perform because he's sinless on our behalf.

He had to be willing and he was. He loved us that much.

And he had to assume all of our obligations, which he did.

So that's why this thing is fitting the model here.

Boas is the Lord of the harvest. He's the Kinsman Redeemer.

Watch the Naomi. She's Israel. Because of his redemption, Israel's returned to the land, her land.

And Ruth, of course, is the Gentile bride. You want to, how can Boas, a good self-respecting Israeli leader,

take on a Gentile bride? You have to know who Boas's mother was.

His mother was Rahab, the harlot of Jericho.

So in order he had to see what the law could not do, grace can.

Some other observations. In order to bring Ruth to Naomi, Naomi had to be exiled from her land.

Now that's kind of interesting. Think that through.

What the law could not do, grace did. It was illegal to marry a Moabite.

But our Kinsman Redeemer did.

And Ruth does not replace Naomi. They have different destinies.

Ruth learns of Boas's ways through Naomi, but Naomi meets Boas through Ruth.

Think that one through.

And no matter how much Boas loved Ruth, he had to wait for her move.

Jesus is waiting for your move. Do you receive him? Do you accept him?

So that he can be your Kinsman Redeemer?

It's interesting that Boas, not Ruth, confronts the near Kinsman.

The law required the estranged girl to confront the near Kinsman.

No, Boas did it for you, for him, for her. And he does it for us.

He makes intercession for us.

It's interesting how much the model fits, and it's also interesting how much the model is twisted to fit the real reality we have.

Some final remarks. The book of Ruth turns out to always be read at the Feast of Pentecost.

The Feast of Chavote. How interesting. The Feast of Chavote was the birth of the Church, and the Book of Ruth in a sense anticipates the Church.

And you can't really understand what's going on in Revelation chapter 5,

where the Lamb takes the title deed of the earth and takes possession of that which he brings.

And unless you understand these things, the Book of Ruth.

You and I are beneficiaries of a love story that was written in blood on a wooden cross,

erected in Judeus, some two thousand years ago. Book of Ruth profiles that for us.

Panorama of history. Next time we're going to get into David and the monarchy.

The monarchy will be first and second Samuel, first and second Kings, first and second Chronicles.

We're going to conclude the reign of Saul in the Davidic dynasty, David Solomon the Temple.

That's our task for our number seven. Let's stand for closing word of prayer.

Joshua judges in Ruth. Judges' dismal story. All of them full of lessons in terms of understanding God's total plan.

Also lessons for us personally. The failures are lessons of failure.

And we don't understand that. And what the remedies for failure are. We don't understand that.

We are in a warfare, just like Joshua was. Spiritual warfare. That's what Ephesians 6 is all about.

So the very, very pregnant period that we've gone through here.

But there's no little book that will charm you more than if you dig into the Book of Ruth.

I've taught it probably a hundred times. And every time I go through it, I see another insight.

It's inexhaustible. So is the Gospel of John. Have that very conspicuous characteristic.

Let's bow our hearts. Father, we just thank you for your word. We stand in awe of your word

and the extremes you've gone to that we might have your illumination.

We thank you, Father, for these little treasures you've hidden around every corner.

But we do pray, Father, through your Holy Spirit, you would illuminate all of this to put it in perspective for our lives.

That we might understand what it is you would have of us in the days that remain.

And we pray, Father, that you would just reignite in each of us.

A new passion, a new hunger for your word. That we might grow in grace and the knowledge of our Lord and Savior.

And that we might be more fruitful stewards of the opportunities before us.

We do pray, Father, that you just open our hearts and lives to your word.

As we commit ourselves into your hands, without any reservation, in the name of Yeshua, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen.