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Gospel Typology in Joshua and Revelation: A Whore and Her Scarlet, Seven Trumpets Sound, A Great City Falls is unavailable, but you can change that!

This new work from author and teacher Warren A. Gage illuminates the connections between the books of Joshua and Revelation and emphasizes the presence of Joshua typology in the life of Jesus. Gage also discusses the typology of holy war in general and the battle at Jericho specifically, the typological prominence of Rahab in the New Testament, and specific connections between the texts of Joshua...

Just as the king of Jerusalem had led the inhabitants of Canaan in opposing Joshua (Josh 10:1–4), the Gospels uniformly attest to Israel’s hostility to Jesus. And just as the walls of the wicked city of Jericho fell down in Joshua’s climactic battle, so Jerusalem, the city that opposes Jesus, will be left desolate, “not one stone remaining upon another” (Matt 24:1–2; Mark 13:1–2; Luke 21:5–6, 20–24). Moreover, Joshua rescued a harlot from Jericho contrary to the letter of the law of Moses (Deut 20:16–17),
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