Hello and welcome back to another episode of the Truth Seekers podcast.

A Truth Seeker is someone who wants to know the truth.

They search for what's true and they won't rest until they find it.

I am a truth seeker and if you are too then you've come to the right place where we will

search for truth each week in the stories of the Bible.

In our last episode, we learned how God delivered the city of Jericho

into the hands of Joshua and the Israelites.

God brought down the walls of the city

as the people had faith in him to give them the land

he had promised them so long ago.

Now that the Israelites were in the land,

Joshua did something very, very important.

Joshua built an altar. Do you remember what an altar is? An altar was usually made of stones and was flat on top like a table, and it was the place where the sacrifices to the Lord

were made.

Many times when altars were built in the Bible, it was a place for the people to worship God and thank him for

what he had done for them.

Joshua built the altar with stones, uncut stones.

That means he did not cut the stones to make them a perfect shape.

He did not use any man-made tools like a saw or a knife to cut the stones. He took them straight from the

ground, these large uncut stones, and stacked them on top of each other until he had an altar.

Then on top of the altar he offered burnt offerings and sacrifices to the Lord.

And then Josh. and then Joshua did something no one had ever done before.

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