When the time comes for my transition to be present with the LORD (2 Corinthians 5:6-8), of course the first person I’ll be joy-filled about seeing is YESHUA/JESUS.  After family, the next person I’d like to see is “O-she’a the son of Nun” Numbers 13:8 (KJ21) whose name is translated Joshua; he served as Moses assistant, a soldier, a leader, and a worshiper of the LORD GOD.

  • When Moses went out to the tabernacle to talk with the LORD GOD face to face and left afterward, Joshua stayed behind – in the midst of the glory (Exodus 33:9-11; Deuteronomy 34:10). Imagine all of that holy residue that Joshua got to meditate in! The mantle that would eventually transfer to Joshua was neither a result of favoritism nor the shrewdness of man for promotion is of God (Numbers 27:18-21). 
  • Of the twelve sent to spy-out the promised land, only Joshua and Caleb refused, at the risk of being stoned to death, to agree or side with the ten who gave an evil report resulting in forty years of wandering through the desert (Numbers 13:27-33 & 14:1-10). 
  • When Amalek attacked, it was to Joshua that Moses gave the charge to “choose men and go out, fight” and the LORD GOD showed Himself as JEHOVAH-NISSI, the One who delivers and saves us, Who gives us the victory, Who does miracles so great, Who always leads in triumph, Who sent His only begotten Son – our banner of redemption which we hold high for the world to see (Exodus 17:8-15). 
  • Joshua exemplified faith-filled confidence in following the instruction of the LORD GOD. That after all of the people walked around a thick (wide enough for a chariot to be driven upon) city wall in silence (except for the trumpets of rams’ horns) for six days and seven times on the seventh day, with one unanimous shout the wall would collapse (Joshua 6:1-21). 
  • After Joshua led in utterly destroying Jericho and Ai, five kings agreed to attack a great royal city which Joshua and the princes had made peace with in error because the counsel of the LORD GOD hadn’t been sought beforehand (Joshua 9:14). Such resulted in an obligation to protect these strangers against the armies of five kings. Nevertheless, the LORD GOD keeps His Word in working amongst those that are of Him; and Joshua asked the LORD GOD that the Sun and the Moon stand still and so it was until the victory was made manifest (Joshua 10:8-14). 
  • Perhaps nothing is more impressing than the fact that typically, upon seeing one of God’s Angels fear is to such an extent that the Angel has to say: “fear not” (which might still leave a person too weak to stand). Yet when Joshua saw an Angel with a drawn sword in his hand, he approached and asked: “Are you for us, or for our adversaries?’ And He said, ‘Nay; but as captain of the host of the LORD am I now come” Joshua 5:13-14 (KJ21). 
  • In essence, Joshua believed in the faithfulness of the LORD GOD who said: “I will not fail you, nor forsake you” and “be you strong and very courageous” Joshua 1:5,7 (KJ21). It is the very same thing that the LORD GOD has said to each of us “in Christ” (Deuteronomy 31:6,8; Hebrews 13:5).