Joshua (11)—The Glorious Victor - All The LORD is near Daily Devotionals for 2025

Joshua did. He left nothing undone of all that the LORD had commanded Moses … So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the LORD had said to Moses; and Joshua gave it as an inheritance to Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. Then the land rested from war.
Joshua 11:15, 23

Joshua (11)—The Glorious Victor
Joshua 11 relates how the peoples of the northern part of the land united together under Jabin, the king of Hazor, to fight against Israel. God tells us that “they went out, they and all their armies with them, as many people as the sand that is on the seashore in multitude, with very many horses and chariots” (Josh. 11:4). But this confederacy of peoples was doomed to defeat before Joshua. Again and again we read of how Joshua—single-handedly, from the expressions used!—won victory after glorious victory until he took the whole land, and the land rested from war.

Joshua, we know, is a picture of our Lord Jesus Christ. He is the One to whom all power is ascribed, the glorious Victor over every foe. Scripture makes much of Him already. He is the One to whom every knee will bow, of heavenly and earthly and infernal beings. He must have the first place in everything: “Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it” (Col. 2:15). The hosts of heaven will one day sing His praise, and His alone. All that we have, we have in Him, because of who He is and what He has done, the glorious work of Calvary! We are waiting to enter into His rest.

Eugene P. Vedder, Jr.

His be the Victor’s name who fought the fight alone;
Triumphant saints no honor claim, His conquest was their own.
He Satan’s power laid low; made sin, He sin o’erthrew;
Bowed to the grave, destroyed it so, and death by dying slew.

S. W. Gandy