The Walls of Jericho: Lesson Five

God's plan does not have to make sense to you.

God told Israel to walk around the city once a day for six days.

Joshua 6:3 (KJV): And ye shall compass the city, all ye men of war, and go round about the city once. Thus shalt thou do six days.

On the seventh day they were to go around seven times while the priests blew rams' horns.

Joshua 6:4 (KJV): And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of rams horns: and the seventh day ye shall compass the city seven times, and the priests shall blow with the trumpets.

No army takes a city that way. But God's ways are not our ways.

Isaiah 55:8 (KJV): For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.

God uses what looks foolish to the world to confound the wise.

1 Corinthians 1:27 (KJV): But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;