HEALTHY SPIRIT
We Are Not Ignorant: Deception
We are not ignorant of his devices (2 Corinthians 2:11) since by reading the Bible we can learn the various strategies that satan and his kingdom use to fight God’s people. These devices include: These people who were presenting themselves as paupers were from Gibeon which Was a great city, like one of the royal cities, and …all its men were mighty. (Joshua 10:2) They had done their homework well for they knew the Israelites' history and they even used the name of the Lord God whom they knew the Israelites worshipped for they said: "Your servants have come from a very far country because of the name of the Lord your God. For we have heard of His fame, and all that He did in Egypt, and all that He did to the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan." (Joshua 9:9-10) They were also expert liars who knew exactly what to say and do for they continued and said: "This bread of ours we took hot for our provision from our houses on the day we departed to come to you. But now look, it is dry and moldy.
DECEPTION
The devil is a very crafty master of deception and we can see the extent of his cunningness from the manner in which the Gibeonites fooled the Israelites in the book of Joshua. After Joshua and the Israelites had crossed the Jordan, the Gibeonites Worked craftily, and went and pretended to be ambassadors. They carried old sacks on their donkeys, old wineskins which were torn and mended, wore old and patched sandals on their feet and put on old garments. The bread of their provision was also dry and moldy. And they went to Joshua… and said… "We have come from a far country; now therefore, make a covenant with us." (Joshua 9:4-6)
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