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Jericho Is A Type Of Babylon
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There’s a type in God’s Word, that we should look at to lead into this thought that we’re dealing with. Israel, when they crossed Jordon into Canaan, is a type of entering into our spiritual rest in Christ. The first thing they ran into, was the wicked city of Jericho, with walls so many feet high, so thick and so wide. God told them to march around that city seven days and seven times the seventh day, and as they went around each day to have the priest blow the trumpet. The priest blowing the trumpet had as much part in the walls falling, as any other part of God’s plan. Had that been left out, the walls would have stood, just as they were after the seven days had passed. There was only one saved out of Jericho: the harlot Rahab, who believed God’s message.

The Word of God teaches us that Jericho is a type of spiritual Babylon---almost the first obstacle that people of God run into today, after they enter their spiritual rest and consecrated to God’s will. Rahab, a harlot, confessed her condition, had faith in God’s message and came out of the city before God destroyed it.

The Word of God tells us, that a man or woman who joins himself (spiritually) to any portion of Babylon’s harlot daughters: becomes a harlot (spiritually). God’s message to his people is to “come out of her”. Joshua followed God’s plan and marched around the city seven days with the priests blowing the trumpets each day, and seven times the seventh day. This is a type: Babylon is fallen---not, has fallen. Too many people go out and preach Babylon has fallen. The Word does not say: Babylon has fallen. It says: Babylon is fallen. In about 1880, when the resurrection of the two witnesses took place, just a tenth part of the city fell. There’s nine tenths of it still to go. She had to be marched around seven days and seven times the seventh day.

This is the seventh day. The saints have marched around Babylon seven times and now we have the last day and the seventh seal light. The truth is marching around her the seventh time and the seventh day. Read Isaiah, the 30th chapter and the 26th verse: “Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be seven fold as the light of seven days in the day that the Lord bindeth up the breach of His people and healeth the stroke of their wound.” What has been the breach of God’s people? False religions that divided them and tore them asunder and left them in captivity in different sects and divisions have been preached to them by false shepherds until the generations have lost sight of the true church, the one bride of Christ.

But God is binding up the breach. He said that in “that day” the light of the moon would be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun would be seven fold, or seven days in the one day at the close. [ The End ]

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