Joshua 5:9 Bible Verse

Removing the Influence of the World

ByPastor Wynn

Joshua 5:9 – Removing the Influence of the World
 
“And the LORD said unto Joshua, This day have I rolled away the reproach of Egypt from off you…“
The children of Israel have finally made it into the Land of Promise!  For forty years they had wandered through the wilderness, because of the disobedience of their fathers.  For forty years, they had longingly looked over the Jordan River and remembered the promise of God.  For forty years, the land was so close and, yet, so far!Now the day had come.  The descendants, of the ones who left Egypt, were ready to take the land.  They had witnessed the miraculous work of God as He dried up the Jordan River, and they marched over on dry land.  It may be that some reminisced about hearing their father tell of the similar event at the Red Sea forty years earlier.  No doubt, as they marched through the dry river bed of the Jordan, they were filled with eager anticipation.  Just on the other side were all the promises of God…A land flowing with milk and honey.  It was a land where God had promised that, if they obeyed Him, the crops would never fail, they would never be in debt and would have plenty of money, they would never get sick or be diseased.Here they were!  Standing on the Canaan side of the Jordan.  God was fulfilling His Word to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.  Now, it is time to conquer the land!  But wait!  Something is wrong!  They were still unfit and unprepared for the awaiting battle.

This generation were the sons of the ones who had come out of Egypt.  They were also the ones who were born during the wilderness wanderings, and they had not been circumcised (Joshua 5:6-7).  The sign of the covenant had been ignored.  It was a sacred sign that God had instituted with Abraham, and it was an sign of God’s covenant with the nation of Israel.  Why had they not been circumcised?

According to the Lord, it was the influence of Egypt (v.9).  Biblically, Egypt is a picture of the world.  Like the world of today, Egypt had peddled its disregard for spiritual matters, and the children of Israel had bought into their philosophy.  Although they themselves had been circumcised, they had lowered their convictions and thought such a sign of separation was no longer necessary.  Therefore, this was a conviction that they had not passed on to their children.

However, before the Lord would permit them to move forward in battle, He commanded that they reinstitute the mark of separation and covenant.  Had they proceeded without obedience in this matter, defeat would have been certain.  Victory could only be obtained by absolute obedience to the Lord, and being marked as belonging to Him.

As an application to today, I wonder how many parents of our modern day have spurned and/or rejected the convictions and biblical separation of their fathers?  Their children are being defeated on every hand, and they do not understand why.  The Lord called the lack of separation a “reproach” (v.9).  It would be safe to assume that His opinion would still be the same today.  No, the New Testament believer is not bound by the rite of circumcision, but he is bound by the command of separation (2 Corinthians 6:17).  Sadly, spiritual power has been degrade and lost because the influence of the world has so permeated many lives and churches.

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