Joshua 3

and as those who bore the ark came to the Jordan, and the feet of the priests who bore the ark dipped in the edge of the water (for the Jordan overflows all its banks during the whole time of harvest),  that the waters which came down from upstream stood still, and rose in a heap very far away at Adam, the city that is beside Zaretan. So the waters that went down into the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, failed, andwere cut off; and the people crossed over opposite Jericho. vv.15-16

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Did you realize there are two times God parts the waters for Israel to cross?  The first time, and most well known occurrence, is with Moses in the Exodus crossing the Red Sea (Ex. 14).  Yet here we see the second occurrence with Joshua leading the Israelites across the Jordan river.  Now we have the note here that it was during the harvest season, which meant that the Jordan River was overflowing, the strongest time the river was during the year, so this was no wading across an easy shallow river.  There was no way they could have crossed the Jordan as speedily and safely as they did without the miracle of parting the waters.  I mean the whole nation of Israel crossed the Jordan to enter the land of Canaan, that was probably a million or two men, women and children plus all their possessions to carry.  As when Moses raised his staff over the Red Sea to part the waters, here the moment the priest stepped into the Jordan water’s edge the river split.  Now it must have been a pretty wide path for them to cross the river as scripture notes that the waters coming from upstream piled up a great distance away.  God can and does do similar miracles similar to Jesus feeding the thousands a couple times and healing multiple blind people.  Did you know of these two miracles of the parting of the waters?  What are other miracles you’ve seen multiple times in scripture or in life today?