Joshua 13:15-33 | Episode #1231

July 6, 2026

Hope Alive: Applying God’s Word to Your Daily Life

Joshua 13:15-33

I am Chad Harrison, and I am the teaching pastor of Lake Community Church and had been serving as a pastor for over 25 years. This podcast is designed to help you study God's word verse-by-verse and find God's will for your life. The purpose of studying scripture is that you might know the character of Jesus Christ, and that you might see the world from the Father's perspective. That you gain wisdom that changes your life. I pray in the name of Jesus right now that God would open His word to you and allow you to see Him and to know Him. To know His will, that you might glorify Him and that you might walk in faith and power each day, especially today. In Jesus name.

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Transcript

This is Hope Alive, where we apply God's Word to our daily life. My name is Chad Harrison. I'm first a husband, a father and a grandfather. I'm also the teaching pastor at Lake Community Church in Dadeville, Alabama on beautiful Lake Martin. I've been serving as a pastor for over 30 years. I also serve as the Tallapoosa County District Judge. This podcast is designed to help you study God's word verse by verse through the Bible and to find his purpose and will for your daily life. If you would like sponsor this podcast, go to the Show Notes where there's a link where you can make a donation. I pray in the name of Jesus that God would open his word to you, allow you to see him and to know him, so that you would know his will and his way for your life that you might walk in faith and power each and every day, especially today.

Word of God, please speak to the

hearers of your voice to in the name of Jesus. Amen.

Well, good morning. Welcome to Lake Community Church.

This morning, Bible study.

We are in Joshua, chapter 13. Joshua, chapter 13. This is a passage that really kind of seems out of place if you don't know the truth, it seems like it's out of place. But God is making sure that you know what's going on. And it's not for necessarily totally for the Israelites, although that was important for them. It's important for them as far as understanding but for God's plan and God's purpose. It speaks to the future. It speaks to the future. And I think it's really, really important that we see that what happens here is Moses goes through and it describes and explains the territories by which he was going to give the Reubenites,

the

Gadites and the half tribe of Manasseh the territory that Moses gave them on the other side of the river. And as you're reading this and understanding it, you're sitting there going, why are we going back to Moses? The first five books of the Bible were written by Moses. And these things have already happened and God had already given them. Now we're in Joshua and Joshua's reading re I guess relitigating the issue. He's retelling the story. He's retelling us the areas that were Moses gave to the Reubenites. And it goes through the territory aor Heshbon, and then it goes all the way down to Beth Peor, the slopes of Pisgah, all the cities and plains of Heshbon. I mean, it's a legal description quite Literally, as a lawyer, I sit here and look at it. It's a legal description of the land that God gave them. The children of Israel also killed with sword. Balaam, the son of Beor, the soothsayer, among those who were killed by them. And the border of the children of Reuben was the bank of the Jordan. So they're on the other side of the Jordan River. This was their inheritance. And then it goes through. Moses also gave an inheritance to the tribe of Gad. Remember, past tense? He already did it. To the children of Gad, to their families. Their territories were Jazer, all the cities of Gilead, and the half tribe of the Ammonites as far as Aor, which is before Rabbi, he says, and it goes through all the valleys and the land of Sion, king of Heshbon, with Jordan as his border, as far as the edge of the Sea of Chinnereth, or that's the Sea of Galilee, on the other side of the Jordan, eastward. This was the inheritance God gave them. So it's on the other side of the river. It's north of the tribe of Reuben, but it's the tribe of Gad. And then the half tribe of Manasseh, it goes through it. Moses also gave the inheritance to the half tribe of Manasseh. It was as far as the half tribe of the children of Manasseh. According to their families, their territories were Bashan, all the kingdom of Og, king of Bashan, and all the towns of Jair and Bashan, 60 cities, half of Gilead and Ashtoreth and Idri, cities of the kingdom of Og. Bashan were the children of Makir, the son of Manasseh, and. And half of the children of Makir, according to their families, these are the areas which Moses had distributed as an inheritance. Verse 32. This is what it's saying. In the plain of Moab and on the other side of the Jordan, by Jericho, eastward, on the other side of the Jordan. But the tribe of Levi, Moses had given no inheritance. The Lord God of Israel was their inheritance, as he said to them. And you're going, why aren't we going all through this again? Well, because it's one of those ancient books that's really, really necessary for today. And the truth is, there's not any other. Okay, this book is really, really necessary for today because it describes a territory that's on the other side of the Jordan river, which Moses had taken and given to as an inheritance from God to the Israelites. And by the way, the Israelites still exist. They came back and they created a nation and they took those terror and they have not taken those territories. But I'm here to tell you they're still their territories. They still are owed those territories. And even last night, Bible study, there's a question issue asked about that. And what we have here is God throughout time. Three thousand years later, he's telling us the exact places where he gave territory to his children. He just straight up did it. That's what he said he was gonna do. And you say, well, well, I mean, I don't understand why. Why? Because Joshua took it. It doesn't mean it's still theirs. Is it because, you know, they, they sinned and they were, they were driven out among the nations and God distributed them. And God. God told them that he was going to do it. And if they, if they backed off now, they're, if they, if they didn't trust God, they didn't do the things God told them do, that he would. He would, he would drive them out and that he would. He would scatter them among the nations. He did say that. And God did that. He said it, they did it, and then God did it. That's absolutely correct. Here's the problem with that. God also, as a part of that, in his prophecies in the prophets, he said he was going to bring them back. He said he was going to bring them back. And by the way, he didn't do it just in one prophecy, and he didn't do it by one prophet, but he used, and I'm going to tell you, he used. Well, he used three of the major prophets and Zechariah, which if you had to choose another major prophet other than Daniel, you would choose Zechariah. Because his prophecies were not quite as long as Isaiah, Jeremiah and Ezekiel and Daniel. But he's getting pretty close to Daniel. Zechariah was. Let me read those prophecies to you. Ezekiel 34:13. And I'll bring them to their own land and feed them on the mountain of Israel, by the rivers, and in all the inhabited places of the country. He's saying, I'm going to bring them back. Jeremiah 33. For behold, the days are coming, says the Lord. When are they coming? 2500, 3000 years later.

Really?

2,500, 2700 years later. For behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, that I will bring back from captivity my people Israel and Judah, says the Lord, and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.

Wow.

I mean, that's pretty straightforward. Isaiah 11, 11. It shall come to pass in the day that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnants of his people who are left. Notice, for the second time, he's brought them back. He sent them into captivity. They were in captivity with. With Babylon, and then Persia took over, and they were in captivity for Persia, and they came back and rebuilt the temple, and then they were scattered by the Romans. He says, the second time I'm going to recover the remnant of his people who were left from Assyria and Egypt, from Pathos and Kush, from Elam and Shinar, from Hamath and the islands of the sea. Notice, from all those nations are nations that are, you know, a thousand, fifteen hundred, two thousand miles away from Israel. And then he gives us this and all the islands of the sea. What he's saying is, for all over the world, I'm going to bring them back. Zechariah 8, 7, thus saith the Lord of hosts, behold, I will save my people from the land of the east and from the lands of the west. And then Isaiah 43, 5, 6, which we've already quoted from Isaiah once, fear not. And by the way, if you believe in two Isaiahs, one of them's the first one and one of them's the second. I don't believe in two Isaiahs because Jesus didn't, and I think he pretty much knew. Isaiah 43, 5 and 6 says, Fear not, for I'm with you. I'll bring your descendants from the east, I'll gather you from the west. I'll say, to the north, give them up, and to the south, do not keep them back. These verses serve as a reminder. I mean, they're a reminder of God's unwavering commitment to his people, to restore them and renew them back in the land that they live in. It's hard to get around that that's exactly what he said he was going to do. And we're talking about every major prophet except for Daniel. And Daniel was in captivity. And Daniel's the one that described all these empires that would come about, and he is the foundation for the book of the Revelation, which clearly indicates that they're going to be the children of Israel are going to possess the land of Israel, and God's going to take care of them in that land. So if you take Daniel and tie it to the book of the Revelation, as it obviously is, even Daniel is pointing to Israel coming back to their land. And so why wouldn't God make Sure. He, he, he told you by Moses and told you by Joshua. The, the, the territories that Israel still hasn't gotten yet that are east of the Jordan river, that belong to them. It's their territory, it's their land. And as we, as we think about that, are God's promises that he made in Ezekiel 34 and Jeremiah 30 and Isaiah 11 and Isaiah 43 and Zechariah 8. Are they null and void? Are they, are they, are they not true? I think not. God says his promises are yes and amen. He's the same today, yesterday, and forevermore. His covenants are unbroken. His gift and calls are irrevocable. And he makes sure that you know what he's saying. And then he does it. Praise God that He does it. Because those same prophets that we just read are the same prophets that reread about Jesus. They, they predicted the coming of the Messiah, Yeshua, King of Kings and Lord of Lords. And I definitely believe those prophecies. And God brought both prophecies to be true. And it was in less time than the ones that he's prophesied about Israel coming into existence. And so if you said, well, you're just a **** for Israel. No, I'm not. I'm just a speaker of God's truth. He brought Israel back into existence as he said he would. As he said over and over that he would. And that's part of God's plan. And it's my job to back God's plan. In fact, it's my job to submit to the truth of his word. As you go today, I pray that the Lord will bless you and keep you, that he'll make his face to shine upon you, and that he will give you hope and peace today in Jesus name.