They did
work wilily, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old
sacks upon their asses, and wine bottles, old, and rent, and bound up;
Rahab the harlot establishes that, had
any of the Canaanites repented, they could have been spared. Unfortunately,
that is not what most of them did.
- Some walled
themselves away inside their fortresses (but God tore them down)
- Some banded
together as one against Israel
- Some feared God's
judgment but chose to fight instead of repent
Gibeon chose to work wilily, to use
trickery and deceit. Their plot appeared to work on the surface. They did get a
treaty of peace, but in doing so they incurred the wrath of the world around
them and, what is worse, no real relationship with the people of God.
Churches today are filled with Gibeonite
type people. These are the one attempting to cut a deal with God. They pretend
to be something they are not hoping that, if they can convince the Christians,
they can convince God to spare them. Their strategy will not work. All they
really succeed in doing is
- To alienate
themselves from the world
- To frustrate their
relationship with Christians
- To bind themselves
as prisoners from saving faith and
- To ultimately end
up eternal lost in hell
All of this (except the wrath of the
world) could have been avoided if only they had sincerely repented and asked
for salvation.
Joshua 9:4 Repentance
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