Things in the Bible not really in the Bible …and a few surprises

Oops of the Day

There was only one Joshua in the Bible and he was the one who led the Israelites into the  land that had been promised to Abraham centuries earlier, and conquered it.

Numbers 13:16  –  Zechariah 3:1-10  –  Matthew 1:21 – 2nd Corinthians 5:21  –   Hebrews 2:9  –  Hebrews 4:14-16  –  Revelation 5:5

Fact of the Day 

Yes, no, and no.  There were three Joshuas.  And one of them did lead the former Israelite slaves into their promised land upon crossing the Jordan River from today’s nation of Jordan.  He was a general.  His father named him Hoshea, meaning one who saves.  But Moses renamed him Joshua – Jehovah saves.

The second Joshua in the Bible  was a high priest.  The prophet Zechariah had a vision of high priest Joshua  who was clothed with sin.   Symbolically he was a wooden stick snatched out of the fires (of  hell?).  The stick was also called wooden Branch and wooden Root that would take away all sins of the land in one day. 

The third Joshua is found in the New Testament identified as a wooden root or shoot or branch.   The Hebrew name of Joshua was pronunced differently by the modern Greeks of the New Testament.  Joshua is who we call Jesus.  On the cross he wore the sins of the world and bore our sins on the wooden cross.  After his return to heaven, he is identified as the sinless high priest. 

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