Achan is another distinguished character in the Book of Joshua who actually caused Israel’s defeat against men of Ai.
The incident happened right after the great victory of the people of God against Jericho. Through faith and God’s guidance, they were able to make Jericho’s wall fall to defeat. Alongside this event, God instructed them not to get anything from the possession of Jericho and its people but to burn all and put into God’s treasury all the wealth there in.
Not anyone knew, one of the people of the tribe became unfaithful and disregarded God’s explicit law. It was Achan, son of Carmi of the tribe of Judah. He took hold and coveted a robe, 200 shekels of silver and a wedge of gold in plunder and kept it in the ground inside his tent.
Despite keeping the sin from people around him, God is omniscient. He just knows everything and nothing can be kept from Him. So God let the defeat happen so Israel may know that they have sinned and violated God’s covenant.
Notice also that upon knowing who has sinned and caused Israel’s defeat, Joshua was instructed to put Achan to death who reasoned the destruction of the tribe.
Many may say that God was not forgiving for having it done to Achan. But scholars explicated that God may have given enough time to Achan to realize his mistake and then repent while there was still opportunity to do the corrections. But the most important lesson here is that disciplinary action is imperative to every committed sin.
God is ever-faithful and he deserves faithfulness in return. And whatever is a desecration to His will is punishable in His sight.
No sin is good in the eyes of God. And whether we do it voluntarily or not, big or small, seen or hidden, it doesn’t please Him. In every instance we should immediately correct it and repent and ask His forgiveness. God is merciful and good, He knows how to forgive the sincerest heart. However, those who lives in sin is death-bound.
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