{"product_id":"guidebook-x-book-of-xxxxxx","title":"GUIDEBOOK | [06] | Joshua","description":"\u003cp\u003eJoshua and Jesus are the same name. Not a similar name..the same one. In Hebrew it is Yehoshua..\"YHWH saves.\" Carry it into Greek and you get Iēsous. English only ended up with two different words because Joshua reached us through Hebrew and Jesus reached us through Greek. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn other words, the man chosen by God to bring Israel into the promised land was literally carrying the name Jesus more than a thousand years before He was born in Bethlehem.I assumed that was a stretch until I sat with how deliberately the book is built around it. Moses takes Israel to the edge of the land and dies outside of it. The Law could expose, command, and prepare..but it could never bring anyone in. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd consider the order God works in: before a single wall falls, God tells Joshua, \"I have given Jericho into your hand.” He speaks about the victory as something already finished, before Israel has done a single thing. The land is handed to them as a promise..and they still have to go take hold of it. That gap between what God has already given and what they still have to possess runs through the entire book.\u003cbr\u003eBut the promise stops short. Hebrews 4:8 says that if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have later spoken of another day. The land was real. It just was not the final rest. (Read that verse in the King James and you'll find the translators print the name as \"Jesus\"..because in the Greek, it is.)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe first Joshua brought them into the promised land but couldn’t bring his people all the way home. That was always the work of the greater Joshua..the One he was named after. A great reminder that if the story doesn’t end in God’s goodness…the story isn’t \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eover yet…\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e#BookOfJoshua #BibleStudy #BiblicalTypology #JesusChrist #ControversialChristian\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Controversial.Christian","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48781176045782,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0819\/7963\/7974\/files\/1_fd6119f3-f8a1-4266-93b9-d496de567eac.png?v=1783318653","url":"https:\/\/controversial-christian.myshopify.com\/products\/guidebook-x-book-of-xxxxxx","provider":"Controversial.Christian","version":"1.0","type":"link"}