Seize the Moment – Day 678
The Defeat of the Giants!
Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Monday, January 24.
Is there a “giant” from your past that needs to be defeated so that you can answer God’s call upon your life?
Joshua 11:21-23 concludes the conquest of the Promised Land with the defeat of the giants – the Anakim:
Then Joshua came at that time and cut off the Anakim from the hill country, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab and from all the hill country of Judah and from all the hill country of Israel. Joshua utterly destroyed them with their cities. There were no Anakim left in the land of the sons of Israel; only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod some remained. So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the Lord had spoken to Moses, and Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. Thus the land had rest from war.
This was a necessary conclusion to the conquest. Numbers 13:32-33 records how it was the Anakim who struck such a fear in the spies that they gave the bad report, causing the people to rebel against God and their forty years of wilderness wandering:
So they gave out to the sons of Israel a bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying, “The land through which we have gone, in spying it out, is a land that devours its inhabitants; and all the people whom we saw in it are men of great size. There also we saw the Nephilim (the sons of Anak are part of the Nephilim); and we became like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight.”
In Deuteronomy 9:1-3, God spoke directly to the people’s fear of the giants when they stood at the entrance of the Promised Land. God knew of their historical fear and was pledging His protection, which he fulfilled in Joshua 11:21-23.
God bless you!