The Jericho Template

[Last Daze]

The conquest of Jericho has an interesting correlation to end time prophecy.

• You shall march around the city, all the men of war circling the city once. You shall do so for six days.  Also seven priests shall carry seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark; then on the seventh day you shall march around the city seven times, and the priests shall blow the trumpets.  Joshua 6:3-4

The men of war were to circle the city once for six days and then seven times on the seventh day.  This is a similar structure to the seals in Revelation where the seals correspond to days.  There are seven.  And there is another seven within the seventh.  In the case of Jericho, they were to march around the city seven times on the seventh day.  In Revelation, the seven plagues unfold when the seventh seal is opened.  When the seventh plague takes place, the walls of Satan's kingdom come crashing down.

There are other interesting parallels between Jericho and the end times but the pattern of "Jericho days" corresponding to "Revelation seals" is what I found to be most interesting, and it also helps in visualizing a difficult chronology of events.

[JoeCanada]

Hi LD,

Yes, this is an amazing picture of the 70th week of Daniel and the Rapture.

 "Now Jericho was tightly shut because of the sons of Israel; no one went out and no one came in.  The Lord said to Joshua, “See, I have given Jericho into your hand, with its king and the valiant warriors. You shall march around the city, all the men of war circling the city once. You shall do so for six days. Also seven priests shall carry seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark; then on the seventh day you shall march around the city seven times, and the priests shall blow the trumpets. It shall be that when they make a long blast with the ram’s horn, and when you hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city will fall down flat, and the people will go up every man straight ahead.” (Joshua 6: 1-5 NASB)

(I'm wondering if Jericho here is a symbol of heaven. It says that it was tightly shut because of the sons of Israel; no one went out and no one came in. Acts 3:21 says about Jesus...."whom heaven must receive until the period of restoration of all things")

Look at the similarities:

Joshua	Revelation
Led by Yeshua	Led by Yeshua
2 spies	2 witnesses
Spies hidden 3 1/2 days	Witnesses dead 3 1/2 days
Rahab is a harlot	Israel is a harlot
Rahab saved by red cord	Israel saved by Jesus’s blood
Jordan River parted	Mount of Olives parted
Israel “shows” Ark of the Covenant to Jericho for 7 days	Church “shows” Jesus to the world for 7 years
Trumpets sound	Jesus’s voice like a trumpet
Jericho’s walls fall	1/10 of Jerusalem’s walls fall
7 priests blow 7 trumpets	7 angels blow 7 trumpets
Jericho is burned	Jesus burns the world with fire
Israel will rule Canaan	Israel will rule again

 

Notice the name of the leader in the table above is the same in both accounts. Both Joshua and Jesus share the same name (in Hebrew) which means “YHWH is salvation.” Amen, he is. The writer of Hebrews recognized this and claimed that Jesus was a better “Yeshua” than Joshua because the rest that Jesus leads us into will remain:

For if Joshua had given them rest, He would not have spoken of another day after that.  So there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God.  For the one who has entered His rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from His. (Heb. 4: 8-10 NASB)

The most important symbol in the Jericho account is the Ark of the Covenant. Jesus is the final fulfillment of every “ark” found in the Bible. He is Noah’s Ark that symbolizes our deliverance in the rapture. He was Moses’ Ark that saved that Hebrew baby from the river of Satan’s fury. He is the Ark of the Covenant that held back the Jordan and allowed Israel to enter the promised-land. Thus it is Jesus who leads the campaign against the evil fortress that Satan has constructed and Jesus who is carried around the city by his followers. Joshua displayed the Ark of the Covenant as he marched around Jericho. He showed them the Lord. As we enter into the Tribulation Period, this will be our job as saints, to circle the globe showing the world Christ in us, the love of Jesus. It’s our Great Commission (Matt. 28:18-20).

In regard to the link between the 7 Seals and the 7 day battle of Jericho; notice the seventh day of the battle is different. On that day seven priests blow seven trumpets. In Revelation we read: “When the Lamb broke the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.  And I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them” (Rev. 8: 1-2 NASB). The circling of the city in the conquest of Jericho are the 7 seals (circles are similar in shape to seals as well) and immediately after the circling comes the 7 Trumpets. The symbolism is exact; the seals come first, then the trumpets.

 

Also notice that the timing of the Rapture is also given in the Jericho account:

It shall be that when they make a long blast with the ram’s horn, and when you hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city will fall down flat, and the people will go up. (Joshua 6:5 NASB)

This passage bears amazing similarity to Paul’s accounts of the Rapture:

For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air (1 Thess. 4:16-17 NASB).

We will all be changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. (1 Cor. 15: 51-52 NASB)

Many commentators believe that the “last trumpet” is the seventh trumpet blown by an angel during the Trumpet Judgments. This is incorrect for two reasons. First, the “last trumpet” is called “the trumpet of God.” Jesus blows this trumpet not an angel. Also the phrase the “last trumpet” is a particular Jewish phrase that means a specific trumpet blast on the Jewish Feast of Yom Teruah. When this is understood, the picture comes into focus. The “last trumpet” is the final “long blast with a ram’s horn” on that day just like the quote above from the Jericho account. Amazing. On the last day of the sixth year of the Tribulation, Jesus will blow the trumpet of God and a great shout will go out. The dead in Christ will rise first and, as the Jericho account states, “the people will go up.”

The Jericho account also confirms that the Trumpet Judgments (the 7 Trumpets) follow after the seventh Seal, just as the Book of Revelation states:

When the Lamb broke the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.  And I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them. (Rev. 8:1-2 NASB)

Also seven priests shall carry seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark; then on the seventh day you shall march around the city seven times, and the priests shall blow the trumpets. (Josh. 6:4 NASB)

A graphic of how this looks in relation to the 70^th Week of Daniel follows:

As can be seen in this graphic, all seven trumpets are blown during the seventh year of the Tribulation Period. This period is also known as “The Day of the Lord” and it is the time period when God pours out his wrath on the ungodly.

Snippets from the book........Are We Ready for Jesus (2015)

[Zemke]

The Jericho account is interesting and what John is using in Revelation and what the Holy Spirit is showing is called Biblical Midrash. Not the Midrash of the Rabbis but what we see in scripture using a biblical narrative of the past to show the truth of both present, past and future events.

The paralleling of events aren't so much a timing manifest as they are corresponding aspects that help illuminate the background situation before and during this time of darkness. He comes in the night, does He not? "Work while it is the day, night comes when no man can work."

For instance, Rahab acted on her faith, in the God of the Jews, by protecting the two spies and then gathering whoever would hear to come into her house. Her faith was active in faithfulness. "Faith without works is dead." She was not just waiting around but evangelising until most likely that first day when the camp of the Israelites marched around Jericho once, silent, but with the priests blowing the horns. It's difficult to get around the timing issue but there are applicable lessons drawn from these parallels.  As I had said, these parallels help us gain a better picture of the reality of things to come and illuminate doctrine as to our faithfulness leading up to and preparing us for the possibility of entering into the time of darkness. The night.

Edited March 20, 2019 by Zemke

[Last Daze]

On 3/18/2019 at 2:16 PM, JoeCanada said:

In regard to the link between the 7 Seals and the 7 day battle of Jericho; notice the seventh day of the battle is different. On that day seven priests blow seven trumpets. In Revelation we read: “When the Lamb broke the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.  And I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them” (Rev. 8: 1-2 NASB).

Hey Joe.

That's the correlation that I find particularly interesting.  And with the understanding that a plague is comprised of a trumpet (beginning) and bowl (ending), the seven plagues are contained within the seventh seal.  It's the same construct that's used in Jericho.

There are seven.  And within the seventh, there are seven.