Joshua's
Farewell
Address
By
Holy Caleb De Warrior
Joshua's Farewell Address
Now it came to pass, a long time after the Lord
had given rest to Israel from all their enemies round about, that Joshua was
old, advanced in age. And Joshua called for all Israel, for their elders, for
their heads, for their judges, and for their officers, and said to them:
"I am old, advanced in age. You have seen
all that the Lord your God has done to all these nations because of you, for
the Lord your God is He who has fought for you. See, I have divided to you by
lot these nations that remain, to be an inheritance for your tribes, from the
Jordan, with all the nations that I have cut off, as far as the Great Sea
westward. And the Lord your God will expel them from before you and drive them
out of your sight. So you shall possess their land, as the Lord your God
promised you. Therefore, be very courageous to keep and to do all that is
written in the Book of the Law of God given through Holy Moses, lest you turn
aside from it to the right hand or to the left, and lest you go among these
nations, these who remain among you.
“You shall not make mention of the name of
their gods, nor cause anyone to swear by them. You shall not serve them nor bow
down to them, but you shall hold fast to the Lord your God, as you have done to
this day. For the Lord has driven out from before you great and strong nations;
but as for you, no one has been able to stand against you to this day. One man
of you shall chase a thousand, for the Lord your God is He who fights for you,
as He promised you. Therefore, take careful heed to yourselves, that you love
the Lord your God. Or else, if indeed you do go back, and cling to the remnant
of these nations — these that remain among you — and make marriages with them,
and go in to them and they to you, know for certain that the Lord your God will
no longer drive out these nations from before you. But they shall be snares and
traps to you, and scourges on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you
perish from this good land which the Lord your God has given you.
"Behold, this day I am going the way of
all the earth. And you know in all your hearts and in all your souls that not
one thing has failed of all the good things which the Lord your God spoke
concerning you. All have come to pass for you; not one word of them has failed.
Therefore, it shall come to pass, that as all the good things have come upon
you which the Lord your God promised you, so the Lord will bring upon you all
harmful things, until He has destroyed you from this good land which the Lord
your God has given you. When you have transgressed the covenant of the Lord
your God, which He commanded you, and have gone and served other gods, and
bowed down to them, then the anger of the Lord will burn against you, and you
shall perish quickly from the good land which He has given you."
It was ourselves, the Israelites, that conquered the
Promised Land. Therefore, it was necessary that we should not hide but fight
the battle. Also, any nations that are provoking God, who refused to repent,
shall be conquered. All of them were recorded and all their strongholds were
pulled down.
A Very Good Example
Son of man, you have seen the advice that should be
given by the departing Saints to those left behind.
How many times have the pastors and reverend fathers
done such a thing?
Does this their failure not reveal to you that the
Holy Spirit is not with them?
Chukwudi: They do
not have the Holy Spirit.
Son of man, what was written as Joshua’s farewell
address is true.