They ought to awaken us when we become sleepy, and warn us when we become careless, and draw us back when we approach the edge of the precipice. The words are solemn, and full of food for thought. ![]() Under the authority of the Word of God he defied the Lord so that Jehovah’s anger burned against Israel. 6:17) and ‘All the silver and the gold are sacred to the Lord and must go into his treasury’ (Josh. At what time did he make God angry? Immediately after he heard Joshua his leader saying clearly to himself and to all the people, ‘The city and all that is in it are to be devoted to the Lord’ (Josh. Where did he provoke God? In the city of Jericho itself as its walls fell down and the people of God took it with scarcely any bloodshed. When did his actions call for God’s anger to burn towards all the people? The very day that Jehovah gave them a glorious victory. Who is this man who provoked the Lord’s anger so that it burned against Israel? He was a member of one of the most prominent families of the tribe of Judah. So the LORD’s anger burned against Israel.’ We are told that he acted unfaithfully by taking some of the devoted things that should have been consecrated to the Lord. ![]() His background and behaviour are revealed to us in the text Joshua 7:1, ‘But the Israelites acted unfaithfully in regard to the devoted things Achan son of Carmi, the son of Zimri, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took some of them. ![]() The man named Achan is set out for us in the Bible as a beacon to the whole church of Christ. ‘Don’t live like this,’ is the message flashed by those hazard lights ‘Look at the patterns of these people’s lives,’ the examples declare. Whatever we read in the Scriptures is there for our learning, both the warning beacons and the godly examples.
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