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Jericho
will soon be under final Lockdown!!
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This
is an exposé of the city of Jericho ancient and modern!!
In the Old
Covenant of the Holy Bible, the city of Jericho is a type of the entire
world at the end of time; the king of Jericho represents the Vatican and Islam,
Joshua is the Returning Messiah, and the Scarlet Cord in the window represents
the only lifeline to safety.
470 years prior
to the Fall of Jericho in 1577 B.C., JEHOVAH promised the Land of Canaan to
Father Abraham. Satan had almost 500 years to prepare the land against an invasion
by the descendents of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel....Jericho was the strongest
and most heavily fortified city in the entire Promised Land.
When JEHOVAH
dried up the Jordan River and all Israel crossed over, the city of Jericho was
placed under LOCKDOWN:
Now Jericho
was securely shut up because of the children of Israel; none
went out, and none came in. And JEHOVAH
said to Joshua: See! I have given Jericho into your hand, its king, and the
mighty men of valor. (Joshua 6:1-2).
Before
this lockdown, Joshua sent out 2 men to scout
out the city:
And
Joshua the son of Nun sent out of Shittim two men to scout
secretly, saying, Go view the land, even Jericho. And they went,
and came into an harlot's house, named Rahab, and lodged there.
And it was told the king of Jericho, saying, Behold, there
came men in hither tonight of the children of Israel to search out
the country. (Joshua 2:1-2).
These 2 men
symbolize the Holy Spirit searching out the hearts of men and women for any
that wanted to escape the coming destruction of Jericho.
To their amazement,
they found a harlot who was fully convinced that JEHOVAH was the one
true God of the universe:
Rahab hid the
spies up on the roof of her house and then made her great confession of Faith:
And she said
unto the men, I know that JEHOVAH hath given you the land, and that your terror
is fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land faint because
of you.
For we have heard how JEHOVAH dried up the water of the Red Sea for you, when
ye came out of Egypt; and what ye did unto the two kings of the Amorites,
that were on the other side of Jordan, Sihon and Og, whom ye utterly destroyed.
And as soon as we had heard these things, our hearts did melt, neither
did there remain any more courage in any man, because of you: for
JEHOVAH yourGod, he is God in heaven above, and in earth beneath.
(Joshua 2:9-11).
Rahab
risked her life by hiding the scouts from the king of Jericho and
then she helped them escape via a scarlet cord.
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Rahab
hid the scouts on her rooftop. |
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Rahab
hid the 2 scouts and then helped them escape via a scarlet
cord tied from her window. |
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The
scouts escaped via the scarlet cord. |
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The
scouts promised to spare her life, and all that was in her house,
if she tied the scarlet cord in the window:
So the men
said to her: We will be blameless of this oath of yours which you
have made us swear, unless, when we come into the land, you bind
this line of scarlet cord in the window
through which you let us down, and unless you bring your father,
your mother, your brothers, and all your father’s household to your
own home.
So it shall be that whoever goes outside the doors of your house into the
street, his blood shall be on his own head, and we will be guiltless. And
whoever is with you in the house, his blood shall be on our head if a hand
is laid on him. And if you tell this business of ours, then we will be free
from your oath which you made us swear. (Joshua 2:17-20).
Rahab's lifeline
for her and her family was the scarlet cord in her window.
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Rahab
tied the scarlet cord in her window. |
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Rahab was
told to tie the scarlet cord
in her window in order to escape the destruction of the
city.
Soon
after the scouts escaped, the siege of Jericho began.
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Soon
after the scouts escaped and returned to Joshua, the siege of Jericho
began. 7 priests bearing 7 trumpets marched around the city once for
6 days. On the 7th day, they marched around the city 7 times and the
people gave a GREAT SHOUT.
The battle
cry or GREAT SHOUT that destroyed Jericho was the Hebrew word HALLELUJAH. Hallelujah
is a composite word which means PRAISE JAH and is found many places throughout
the Holy Bible. In the Old Covenant, Jerome translated it as Praise the Lord
and in the New Covenant as Alleluia:
HALLELUJAH
(Praise JAH).
(Psalm 150:1).
The
ground opened up under the walls and the Israelites went straight
up and took the city by storm.
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The
ground opened up under the walls when the priests shouted
and blew the trumpets. |
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When the
trumpets blew and the people shouted
HALLELUJAH, the ground opened up and swallowed
the walls just like the Twin Towers in New York City.
Every
living thing died in the city except for Rahab and her
family. |
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The
city was totally destroyed by fire. |
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Only Rahab's
house survived the collapse of the wall. Joshua saved her alive and all that
was with her in her house:
But
Joshua had said to the two men who had scouted out the country,
Go into the harlot’s house, and from there bring out the woman and
all that she has, as you swore to her.
And the young men who had been scouts went
in and brought out Rahab, her father, her mother, her brothers,
and all that she had. So they brought out all her relatives and
left them outside the camp of Israel.
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 JEHOVAH.
And Joshua spared Rahab the harlot, her father’s household, and all that she
had. So she dwells in Israel to this day, because she hid the messengers whom
Joshua sent to spy out Jericho. (Joshua 6:22-25).
Rahab was later
granted full citizenship; she married a prince of Israel named Salmon, and she
was the great-great-great-grandmother of King David and an ancestor of the New
Covenant Joshua. She is an example of how JEHOVAH/JOSHUA saves His people from
their sins!!
The Scarlet
Cord symbolizes the Blood of Joshua!!
The Scarlet
Cord symbolizes the Blood of the New Covenant Joshua. Joshua of Nazareth also
came to seek and save those who were lost:
And Joshua
said to him, Today salvation has come to this house, because he also is a
son of Abraham; for the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which
was lost. (Luke 19:10).
Joshua was
known as the friend of sinners and of despised Jews who collected taxes for
the Romans:
Now it happened,
as He was dining in Levi’s house, that many tax collectors and sinners also
sat together with Joshua and His disciples; for there were many, and they
followed Him. (Mark 2:15).
Redemption from sin is possible only through the
Blood of Joshua:
Forasmuch
as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and
gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;
But with the precious blood of Christ, as of
a lamb without blemish and without spot. (I St. Peter 1:18-19).
And from
Joshua the Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of
the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us,
and washed us from our sins in his own blood.
(Revelation 1:5).
The final lockdown of Jericho will begin very,
very soon.
The Final
Lockdown of Jericho will take place soon!!
In Daniel chapter
12 it says that before the end of time there will be a time of trouble such
as never was in the history of the world:
And at that
time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children
of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since
there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall
be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book. (Daniel
12:1).
During the
New Covenant era, Joshua the great High Priest is SEATED at the right hand of
God:
But this
man (Joshua), after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down
on the right hand of God. (Hebrews 10:12).
Joshua the
great high priest is still sending forth his messengers to doomed Jericho:
And he said
unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.
He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not
shall be damned. (Mark 16:15-16).
Once lockdown
begins, it will be too late to call upon the Lord Joshua:
Strive to
enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter
in, and shall not be able. When once the master of the house is risen up,
and hath shut the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the
door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you,
I do not know you or where you come from. (Luke 13:24-25).
The parallels
between the Fall of Jericho and the end of the world are many.
The
7th trumpet and shout proclaim
the doom of Jericho!!
The Book of
Revelation is a continuation of the Book of Joshua. The parallels are obvious.
Unfortunately, you won't hear many sermons on the Book of Joshua because most
preachers believe Joshua commanding the sun to stand still was UNSCIENTIFIC!!
For those who
have scarlet cords in their windows, the coming
conquest of Jericho is not a time of feinting and fear:
And the seventh
angel sounded; and there were great voices in
heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our
Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever. (Revelation
11:15).
For the Lord
himself shall descend from heaven with a shout,
with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet
of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: (I Thessalonians
4:16).
Now this
I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither
doth corruption inherit incorruption.
Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be
changed,
In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, (Gk. rapid) at the last trumpet:
for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall
be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. (I Corinthians
15:51-52).
And he shall
send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet,
and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end
of heaven to the other. (Matthew 24:31).
The GREAT SHOUT
that heralds the fall of Jericho is HALLELUJAH:
And after
these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying,
HALLELUJAH; Salvation, and glory, and honour, and power, unto the Lord
our God.
For true and righteous
are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the
earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at
her hand.
And again they said
HALLELUJAH, And her smoke rose up for ever and
ever. (Revelation 19:1-3).
And I heard
as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters,
and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, HALLELUJAH:
for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth. (Revelation 19:6).
If you wait
until the final lockdown of Jericho, it will be too late to get your scarlet
cord lifeline!!
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