Jericho

I find the Old Testament to be difficult. I personally think all you need to know to go to Heaven you can find in the New Testament. Last night our group studied about Joshua and the walls of Jericho, or as Veggie Tales puts it: Josh and The Big Wall. Tried to find out how far around the wall was. Its not in the Bible. For Goodness Sakes. Its not on Google. Maybe we don't need to know. We do not understand any reasoning behind what God had his people to do when they marched for seven days, one time around per day. Then to boggle the mind even more, on the seventh day they marched seven times around and then blew on horns they made out of rams horns. Then the walls fell. The one thing we know about those walls it that there were a lot of them and they were really thick and they had never been penetrated before. You know the story, the walls fell and Josh and his men marched right in. Killed every living thing except Rahab and her family. We have decided that the WHY of this part of history is to teach obedience. Its a comforting reason for us. But surely there is more to the story.........I know this though, if you are teaching the little ones it is a great story and easy to act out. We just carefully leave out the kill every living thing part. They have video games for that.