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(Day 6) - 3-NITI. Labels: Surprise Me God experiment
It had gone on for six straight days, this strange ritual:
Once around the city with the ark of the covenant, before heading back to camp.
He looked up as he marched. Those priests are still blowing their trumpets...
He looked around him as he marched. At the faces of the men, no, the brothers he had fought battles together with. The weirdest thing - no one was talking. They were ordered not to.
And then he looked forward as he marched. In the light of the rising sun with its swollen golden belly, he could only see the profile of the person he'd pledged his service to. But even from that squinting distance, he was guessing his leader's face would be etched with a look of determination.
His leader's name? Joshua. And it's been said he talks with God.
Today was the seventh day.
And as he marched silently round the city for the fifth, coming to the sixth, time.. He felt this weird sensation deep down in his gut that something; he didn't know what, just something, was going to happen.
The sun was rising higher. Before long it would be blazing overhead. He was still pondering over this nagging feeling within, when they rounded the corner for the seventh time; and Joshua opened his mouth to speak. Joshua's voice and his command rang clear and loud.
As the trumpets sounded a long blast, something finally clicked into place inside of him and he joined with the others to raise up a triumphant shout.
"finally..."
The trembles started out so small he barely noticed. But it grew and grew, and then suddenly, before his very eyes - a miracle.
The walls; the walls of Jericho, crumbled and collapsed with a tremendous crash. What was once a fortified fortress where no one either went in or out, now was just dust and debris.
As he charged straight into the city, tears were streaming down his face.
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God... You tore down walls today.
