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Podcast Introduction Our reading today is Joshua 21-24, and I’m calling the episode “Words To Remember”. We’ll be reading about Joshua’s last days. We’ll do our “On This Day In Church History” segment, and we have another praise report. Thoughts on Joshua 23 and 24 In these two closing chapters of the book of Joshua, we see two different times that the aging leader called the entire nation to hear him, because he knew that his life was drawing to a close and he wanted to leave them with a final message. The first gathering is recorded in chapter 23. He reminds them of all that God had done for them, and that it was the Lord that fought for them and delivered the land that they now held and enjoyed, as He had promised to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. He told them to be very careful to love the Lord and continue to obey his commands so that His blessing would continue to be on them, and if they failed to do that, grave consequences would come to them.  Notice that he started the warning with the word