After Moses had ascended Mount Sinai to receive God's Commandments, the Children of Israel succumbed to their fears of their unfamiliar circumstances and forced Moses' brother and deputy, Aaron, to make for them a golden idol to worship as a (false) god.
"The Children of Israel Crossing the Jordan"
by Gustave Doré
Related source » Joshua and the Exodus
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“As Moses' apprentice, Joshua was a major figure in the events of the Exodus. He accompanied Moses part of the way when he ascended Mount Sinai to receive the Ten Commandments. (Exodus 32:17) He was one of the twelve spies sent by Moses to explore and report on the land of Canaan (Numbers 13:16-17), and only he and Caleb gave an encouraging report, a reward for which would be that only these two of the spies would enter the promised land (Numbers 14:23-24).” [emphasis added]
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In his fury upon witnessing such lack of faith, Moses broke the Tablet of Commandments in two when he descended Sinai. I personally believe he determined, as a consequence of their blasphemy, that the Exodus required him to wander in the desert with his stiff-necked followers until such time that his followers comprised only those who had not experienced slavery in Egypt first hand. This weeding-out process lasted forty years.
Ultimately, Joshua and Caleb were the only two Israelites, from the generations who had departed from Egypt, who were given the privileges of crossing the Jordan River and of entering the Land of Israel. Therein lies the seed of Moses' greatest mistake.
The mistake was not that Moses overlooked the (future) great bounty of oil east of the Jordan River. It was that he allowed any of his own generation (not even excluding himself) to survive the forty years of wandering in the Sinai and to cross into the Promised Land.
Thus, the weeding-out from the Israelites' their slavery-induced mind-set, which was to lament their loss of familiar misery in Egypt so as to quell their fear of unknown challenges ahead, was incomplete. That inclination for self-delusional wishful-thinking is, I believe, the antecedent of what I refer to as the "Achilles' Heel of Joshua" or "Joshua's Flaw".
In the centuries since the Exodus, the so-called Joshua's Flaw has come to the fore repeatedly in the face of everlasting threats of annihilation by Jew-haters the world over. It remains the single most dangerous psychological flaw of Israel's (Jacob's) descendants.
Today, in the midst of a vengeful resurgence of world-wide Jew-hatred, a mere six and a half decades after its most cataclysmic eruption in millennia of persecution, we witness another episode of mass hysteria among the tribe of stiff-necked people. These, largely leftist, Jewish-Americans have concentrated their self-destructive behavior in Obama-idolatry, seemingly oblivious to Obama's clear intentions to subvert the greatest achievement of human will to survive and prosper after near annihilation.
How else can one comprehend Jews clinging, not to their bibles and guns, but to their perverse support of a baldfaced-lying Jew-hater? It is inconceivable to me that anything other than a psychological flaw of biblical proportion can account for such stiff-necked insistence on drinking hemlock-laced Kool-Aid.
Post 1,637 The Achilles' Heel of Joshua
My compliments for an impressive display of exegesis, mon ami. The very notion that cooperating with Malice - in whatever guise - will, somehow, in the end, result in oneself being spared is museum-grade madness.
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