Since the beginning of the new school year in September 2015, Rev Foster has been speaking at two morning assembly meetings each week. His theme for 2015-16 is DV, "Pictures of Christ in the Bible." Tenth Picture - Joshua Deut 7:1-8. The crossing of the Jordan is also a picture of us passing from death unto life at the new birth and the battles that ensue as we war against sin. They faced a wicked and depraved enemy. Deut 7:1-8. The destruction of the Canaanite nations by Israel was God's judgment for their iniquity. Deuteronomy 18:9-14. See also 20:16-18. God had patiently borne with their rebellion as he does with all sinners, John 3:36. It was a lengthy battle against a most cunning enemy. Canaan was not conquered in a day. The enemy was most crafty and deceitful. The battle of Jericho was a swift affair that was very easy indeed. "And the LORD said unto Joshua, See, I have given into thine hand Jericho, and the king thereof, and the mighty men of valour. And ye shall compass the city, all ye men of war, and go round about the city once. Thus shalt thou do six days. And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of rams' horns: and the seventh day ye shall compass the city seven times, and the priests shall blow with the trumpets. And it shall come to pass, that when they make a long blast with the ram's horn, and when ye hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall ascend up every man straight before him," Joshua 6:2-5. But that was not how the rest of the war was to be fought!