Day 55: November 8, 2025 – Joshua 16-18 and Acts 16-18

Joshua continues to hand out land to the twelve tribes of Israel as if it were candy.  All of Joshua that we are reading contains the people of Israel fulfilling the promise that God had given to their ancestor Abraham, who then passed it on to Moses, who then gave it to Joshua to complete.  There were a few tribes who were a bit reticent to go and take the land, maybe they were a bit afraid, because not all the Israelites went with each other to take over the land.  God had promised it to them, so really all the people that they had to fight was always going to be sufficient to take over the land.

Paul, in a somewhat similar fashion, also travels around starting churches and spending time with the people in the churches.  There are quite a few famous protagonists that we can’t forget their name or who they are.  We see Timothy introduced and he was circumcised even though he comes on the scene after it was decided that Greeks, his dad was one, or gentiles, did not need to be circumcised.  I guess out of an abundance of caution he was.  We see Lydia, the dealer in purple fabrics.  We read about Titus and their time in Philippi, and Ephesus, and Corinth.  All of these place to whom Paul wrote letters and which makes up our New Testament canon.  We are approaching the end of Acts.