Step into the Promised land and See the Walls of Jericho Fall

God gave me a blueprint to build something months ago, but it’s a mammoth task, unthinkable and impossible with my current means. Well, that’s usually a sign the idea is from God, and if it happens it’s definitely by God.

Then recently I felt led to take a step to commit to something, which felt like a small step to that big blueprint—the small beginnings to build up my confidence and faith before that big step eventually. I prayed for a word, a confirmation, because even if it’s small it’s still a step of faith for me. There’s one that vividly stood out. I asked my prophetic daughter for a bible story and she said, “The walls of Jericho came to mind.” My first thought was, am I supposed to prayer walk the place seven times in such a public place? The security might come for me.

You shall march around the city, all you men of war; you shall go all around the city once. This you shall do six days.And seven priests shall bear seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark. But the seventh day you shall march around the city seven times, and the priests shall blow the trumpets.

Now Joshua had commanded the people, saying, “You shall not shout or make any noise with your voice, nor shall a word proceed out of your mouth, until the day I say to you, ‘Shout!’ Then you shall shout.”

Joshua 6:3-4, 10 (NKJV)

After some time, I finally went to Google about it. The first article (biblestudytools.com) I read made my spirit jump, “Upon crossing the Jordan, Jericho is the first city the Israelites conquer with Joshua as their leader. Jericho was the gateway city to Canaan that the Israelites came to when they entered the Promised Land… the Israelites have finally entered the land promised to them by God.”

Jericho was the first city the Israelites conquered after entering the Promised Land. The fallen walls of Jericho were the testament of God fulfilling His promise to them.

So I took that step of faith in a quiet confidence, but like Peter who walked on the water to go to Jesus, I became afraid when the wind of disruptions came my way. Is regret coming into the picture too? Fear and doubts filled me and I became so frustrated and felt like I was sinking into deep waters.

So He said, “Come.” And when Peter had come down out of the boat, he walked on the water to go to Jesus. But when he saw that the wind was boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink he cried out, saying, “Lord, save me!”

And immediately Jesus stretched out His hand and caught him, and said to him, “O you of little faith, why did you doubt?” And when they got into the boat, the wind ceased.

Matthew 14:29-32 (NKJV)

I grabbed Jesus’s hand and continued to walk on. But to be honest, I am tapering my expectations and hope of a blessing because of my past failures. I have a lingering doubt – I doubt I will take the spoils of Jericho and prosper. Then I read about this – the selected spoils would be consecrated and go into the treasury of the Lord (Joshua 6:18-19, 24). Ah, reminded me about tithing the first fruits. The spoils from the first city conquered. So then, I shall hold loosely whether I will prosper from it.

And you, by all means abstain from the accursed things, lest you become accursed when you take of the accursed things, and make the camp of Israel a curse, and trouble it. But all the silver and gold, and vessels of bronze and iron, are consecrated to the Lord; they shall come into the treasury of the Lord.”

… But they burned the city and all that was in it with fire. Only the silver and gold, and the vessels of bronze and iron, they put into the treasury of the house of the Lord.

Joshua 6:18-19, 24 (NKJV)

I wonder why they were commanded to march around the walls silently, not in shouts and songs. They’re not in total silence, however, because “the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the Lord advanced and blew the trumpets, and the ark of the covenant of the Lord followed them” (Joshua 6:8). According to Google’s AI, “In the Bible, trumpets have many meanings, including a call to action, a sign of celebration, and a warning of impending judgment.”

They had been in the wilderness for the longest time, and I assumed deferred hope had made their heart sick. So perhaps it’s at the sound of the trumpet and the mere walk in silence around Jericho that God is preparing their hearts to receive what’s to come in expectations. To prepare their hearts to battle in faith, battle with victory in mind. Also in our silence, our minds and hearts are quietened from busyness and distractions – we seek Him more, talk to Him more, and our hearts become more meditative over His Word and more sensitive to His voice.

So the people shouted when the priests blew the trumpets. And it happened when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat. Then the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.

Joshua 6:20 (NKJV)

Following the last trumpet, the people shouted. To me, it’s the shout of victory before the battle. In 1 Corinthians 15:51-52, Paul also wrote about a last trumpet and the ultimate victory for all His people.

Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed— in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.

1 Corinthians 15:51-52 (NKJV)

Do you hear the trumpet’s call to go into battle? Yet, in preparation for the battle, God could be calling us first to quieten our minds, heart and soul – to prayer walk with Him, sit at His feet, or whatever it is to enter into the secret place with God to seek His heart and face. To be armed with the spiritual armour of God before charging into victory.

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