Shell Gibson

In the 1950s, archaeologist Kathleen Kenyon excavated the ruins of Jericho and found something strange. The city's mudbrick walls had not been pulled down from the outside, as a besieging army would do. They had fallen outward, collapsing flat so that attackers could climb straight over the rubble into the city. In Joshua 6, it is written that the walls of Jericho "fell down flat," and the people "went up into the city, every man straight before him." For centuries, skeptics treated this as legend. But the physical evidence tells a story that no ancient army could have staged. Walls do not fall outward under their own weight or under battering rams. They fall inward. These fell the wrong way. Kenyon also found something else: large jars still full of grain. In the ancient world, grain was wealth. A conquering army always looted the food stores. A long siege would have consumed them. But Jericho fell after only seven days, and the grain was left untouched and burned. Joshua had commanded that the city be devoted entirely to God, that nothing be taken. The charred storage jars are a silent witness to obedience. Think about what this means. A people who had wandered the desert for forty years, who had no siege engines, no catapults, no engineering corps, stood before a fortified city and did nothing but march and shout. And the walls came down. To the world, faith looks like foolishness. They say miracles belong to myth. But the stones of Jericho lie exactly where the Word of God said they would fall. The God who flattened those walls is the same God who keeps every promise He has ever made. He is faithful. He is mighty. He does not lie. Trust Him. Obey Him. Walk straight forward into what He has called you to, even when the walls look impossible. Our God is the LORD of hosts. Nothing stands against Him. Thank You, Jesus.