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review on your favorite podcast platform. Thanks. God, and in terms of not chronological order necessarily,

although this would probably also line up, but in logical order, if we're speaking of in the logical

order of the mind of God, but in logical order, if we're speaking of in the logical order of the

mind of God, what he ordains, then the order would go like this. God determined to utterly

destroy the Canaanite tribes. And because God determined that they should be utterly destroy,

he therefore hardened their hearts so that they would come against

and rebellion with a stubborn, stiff-necked heart against Israel, despite all the miraculous things

that God had already performed through Israel.

These people, by this point, in the book of Joshua, by this point in this progressive progressive conquest of the land of canaan they all know

they all know about israel's god they know who yawai is they have heard what yawai did in egypt

ten plays the parting of the red sea sustaining his people supernaturally with manna from the

sky, from the heavens for 40 years as they wandered in the desert. They knew some of them may even

have spies have been eyewitnesses of the parting of the Jordan River when Israel first entered into the land of Canaan.

They have seen the ruins, the ash heap of Jericho,

where the earth opened up and swallowed up the walls and defense of that tribe.

They've heard of the conquering of AI.

They know about the five kings who gathered

together in unity against Joshua and Israel and how Joshua had all of his chiefs of war in Israel

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