Welcome to the 10-minute Bible Hour Podcast.

Right now we're going through the entire Bible to understand it as one big cohesive story.

We're covering one book each day, and this one's about Joshua.

Hey, my friends, it's Matt, this is the 10-minute Bible Hour Podcast.

Have you ever got together with a bunch of friends, family, whatever, and you're going

to watch a movie, but it's a movie that's a part of a larger series, and then somebody

who hasn't seen them all asks the obvious question, well, do I need to see the other

ones in order for this to make sense?

Sometimes you're like, no, the movie we're about to watch is a perfect one-off movie.

You're going to be just fine.

Other times you think about it for a minute, you're like, ah, yeah, this one's not going

to make a ton of sense unless you see it in the larger context.

Joshua is the latter.

You really need to see this one in the larger context of all of the other books we've seen

so far and all the ones that are to come for it to make sense.

You know, straight through the front door, if you treat Joshua like a one-off and you

don't look at all of the other books of the Bible with it, it feels like an ancient

Near Eastern conquest account with some chest thumping and a large percentage of the book

being dedicated to justifying current boundaries for future generations, a very common genre

in the ancient world.

But if you've read all the other books of the Bible so far and you read what comes after

it, then instead, Joshua comes off as something very unique, even though it employs some aspects

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