DECEPTION - God's Puzzle Solved

18 God’s Old Covenant And God’s New Covenanting whether or not they accepted Him as their onlyMaster. They were coming out of slavery from thewilderness. God chose this Land of Canaan as Hisproperty which He had been developing as The Landof Plenty. This was during the period of time whenThe Canaanites possessed the area. They had abusedit, worshipped many gods and were warlike and violent.They burned their children as sacrifices, whichGod never asked them to do. This very act was hatedby The Creator. By doing such atrocities, they hadlost their chance to remain on God’s Promised Land.They became slaves and had to depart from the areato prevent them from being killed. In many differentways, they were eradicated from the land.God Signs His AgreementWhen those in Jericho heard about the coming of TheIsraelites, they were frightened. This is because theyhad learned of Israel’s successes in the wilderness.The man-made gods, from The Time of The Tower ofBabel onward, were looked upon by societies as heros,making them men of renown or Saviors. The onlyquestion was “who was the strongest mini-god?” Theywere only humans perceived as Kings or Priests andconsidered divine as mini-gods. Their cities were allprotected by walls because of so much violence, justlike it was in The Days of Noah.The One True God was ready to prove to His chosenpeople, Israel, that He, alone, was The One AlmightyGod. God told Joshua, a Savior of God’s people, thatthey must walk around Jericho for seven days. As