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Thus sayeth the Lord, Today He will begin to exalt me!

Moses the servant of God was dead. Joshua had taken over the reigns of leadership. Now the Israelites were on the cusp of entering the promised land. There was one major hurdle over. Before them was the river Jordan, and it was at full-flood stage. How were the 2-3 million desert wanderers going to cross this raging river?  The Book of Joshua (chapter 3) tells us that God did a miracle-the waters stopped flowing some distance away and the Israelites crossed the dry river bed to the other side. This may sounds like fantasy to modern sceptics but let me say this; recorded quakes have dammed the Jordan River more than once, in 1160CE, 1267, 1534, 1834, 1906   with the most recent in 1927 when the waters were held up for 22 hours! Did God use this mechanism to enable the Israelites cross the river? If He did, then the miracle would not be so much that the river was dammed (as that is possible via purely naturalistic events) but rather the timing of the event. However, today we will no