After the circumcision at Gilgal God proclaimed that the disgrace of Egyptian slavery has been removed (Joshua 5:9). What was the disgrace and how did God remove it? Slavery is one of the worst devaluing and humiliating inventions of inhumanity ever created. But from my perspective God had freed them from the condition of slavery over 40 years earlier. What was it about entering the land that God had promised Abraham that was the defining moment of release from the shame. Was it because their inheritance was about to be restored to them? Maybe it that in God’s eyes the land was already theirs. Perhaps God saw the obedience and faith of the Israelites at that time as the victory that would overcome the world?
Stuart
"Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer." Paul of Tarsus
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