Rosh Hashanah is in two weeks – the start of the High Holy Days and the Ten Days of Awe, which end at Yom Kippur.
One traditional Rosh Hashanah reading is the fall of Jericho in Joshua 6, in which blowing the shofar causes the city walls to fall down. Crucial to the story is the aid Rahab the harlot gave to the Israeli spies related in Joshua 2:1-24.
Other calls to flee coming destruction are found in Lot fleeing Sodom (Genesis 19) and Jeremiah 51 when he calls for the exiles to flee the coming destruction of Babylon. It is repeated in Revelation 18:4. Jesus warned believers to flee to the mountains before the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans (Matthew 24:16).
In this season we must examine ourselves and rediscover the critical urgency of God’s call to separate from entanglement with the world system and its values.
Notes on Joshua 2:1-24, and Joshua 6:1-27
