What Shook Jerichos Walls? (6:20) Did the sound waves of the shouts of 600,000 fighting men so weaken the walls that they suddenly collapsed? I doubt it. Could God have destroyed the walls without using any natural means? Certainly. But the most likely explanation is that God timed an earthquake to occur at precisely at the time the Israelites shouted. As we mentioned in lesson 2, the Jordan Valley is a rift valley. Jericho is considered both the worlds oldest city, and its lowest city, at 850 feet below sea level. It lies below sea level because it lies on the Afro-Arabian fault line that runs from modern-day Turkey in the north to Mozambique in the south, one of the worlds major fault systems. The hill country of Judah had tilted up into mountains, while the Jordan Valley had sunk well below sea level. Most likely the cause was a well-timed earthquake. Is an earthquake a miracle? skeptics ask. It is one of the natural movements of the earth, they could argue. But the miracle, I am sure, is in the timing. Precisely at the moment the Israelite army shouted, the walls began to crumble and then collapse, and the Israelites rushed forward into the city, destroying the dazed survivors and rescuing Rahab and her family.
Posted on: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 11:27:33 +0000
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