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17 Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying, “Come up from the Jordan.”
18 And it came to pass, when the priests who bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord had come from the midst of the Jordan, and the soles of the priests’ feet touched the dry land, that the waters of the Jordan returned to their place aand overflowed all its banks as before.  
19 Now the people came up from the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and they camped ain Gilgal on the east border of Jericho.  
20 And athose twelve stones which they took out of the Jordan, Joshua set up in Gilgal.  
21 Then he spoke to the children of Israel, saying: a“When your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, ‘What are these stones?’  
22 then you shall let your children know, saying, a‘Israel crossed over this Jordan on bdry land’;  
23 for the Lord your God dried up the waters of the Jordan before you until you had crossed over, as the Lord your God did to the Red Sea, awhich He dried up before us until we had crossed over,  
24 athat all the peoples of the earth may know the hand of the Lord, that it is bmighty, that you may cfear the Lord your God forever.” 
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Joshua 4:19

The same sequence of days appears in Genesis 14-15, Exodus 12, and in Christ's crucifixion. Joshua's command to prepare food (Joshua 1:11) therefore took place on Abib 7, because in Joshua 4:19, they have just crossed the Jordan. It is the tenth day of Abib. What was to happen on the Abib 10 in Israel? That was the day that they were to chose the Passover lamb. In the sequence of events leading to Christ's crucifixion , the tenth day was when He made His triumphant entry into Jerusalem on a donkey. In a sense, He was crossing His own Jordan at that point, and the people chose Him as the Lamb that would be slaughtered.

John W. Ritenbaugh
The Wavesheaf and the Selfsame Day

Related Topics: Abib 10 | Crossing Over Jordan | Jesus Christ as Passover | Jesus Christ as Passover Lamb | Jesus Christ's Crucifixion | Jesus Christ's Triumphant Entry into Jerusalem | Jordan, Crossing Over | Joshua | Passover Lamb | Selfsame Day | Wavesheaf and the Selfsame Day



Joshua 4:19

Joshua 4:19 specifies the dates when it says Israel came into the land on the 10th day of the first month, but it gives no clue as to which day of the week this was. It is the same date of Jesus' triumphal march into Jerusalem on the back of an ass before His crucifixion and the date to select the sacrificial lambs for Passover. The dates are beginning to align with Genesis 14-15 and Exodus 12.

John W. Ritenbaugh
Countdown to Pentecost 2001

Related Topics: Abib 10 | Jesus Christ as Passover Lamb | Jesus Christ's Triumphant Entry into Jerusalem | Passover




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