Joshua

Did you know that Joshua and Jesus are the same names? Yeshua, both of them. But somehow one is Jesus and the other is Joshua.

I feel like if they’d been consistent with translations, and kept both names the same, the story of Moses stopping at the borders of Canaan, the promised land, would have been so much clearer. 

I mean I know the one about how God was all like ya no you said "We give you water" and not "God gives you water" so now you can't go in the promised land. I mean of course no one said "petty" but it is implied, right? Like you have to be careful with your words types. 

But the names though.

Moses was leading the Israelites. He was the great Law Giver, the Jewish Manu, so to speak. But ultimately, the one who led the Israelites through to the promised land was Joshua. 

So also Law will take you as far as possible but then it will be Jesus/The Second Joshua/New Testament Joshua that will take you into heaven. Which means it was basically Moses and Joshua enacting a prophecy rather than making a verbal prophecy, which will be fulfilled with Christ.

Cool, ne?

P.S.: There is a really nice The Office style mockumentary on YouTube called The Promised Land series. Do check it out. It’s grand fun. I mean in Bible comics and/or Bible films, they add tints to the scene, give it atmosphere, make it ultra dramatic and all that so it never registered how extremely odd it is that the only thing Moses was doing while they were fighting the Amalekites was raise his staff. Go out on a random day with your walking stick, stand somewhere on a busy street, and just raise your staff. You’ll see how very, very odd that command was. The ultimate message being, of course, implicitly trust God and God will do right by you. But how it plays out? Very random, very weird.