Today, I am reading and commenting on  Joshua 5-7.

I noticed in today’s passage something I have never noticed before, nor have I heard or seen anyone comment upon it.   When the Israelites marched around Jericho they had seven priests blowing seven trumpets.  That isn’t the part I just noticed.  What I realized today was that the symbolism of these seven trumpets was similar to the symbolism of the seven trumpets referred to in the Book of Revelation.  I am sure that someone else has noted this, but I have never come across a reference to that.  I was going to stop there, because I was not sure how that symbolism tied together.  Bot now that I have written that I realized more about the symbolism which will really help us understand the Book of Revelation.  So, at Jericho all seven trumpets were sounded at once, but they were blown on seven consecutive days.  In the Book of Revelation, the seven trumpets are sounded successively rather than all together.  At Jericho, for six days the trumpets were sounded and life went on as before, on the seventh day the trumpets were sounded seven times.  On the seventh time on the seventh day, the walls of Jericho fell and life ended for everyone living there, except Rahab and those who “belonged to her” (everyone sheltering in her house).  In Revelation, the first six trumpets are sounded, and things pretty much go on as before (not entirely, but bear with me here).  When the seventh trumpet is sounded, the earth will be destroyed and the everyone living there will die, except for those who belong to Christ (simplifying again). So, we see that the destruction of Jericho foreshadows the end of the earth.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.