The Book of Joshua Is a Book of Violence

"God's first plan is that his children would belong to him, that the whole world would know him," he says. "It started out as peace on earth, peace with him, peace with us, peace within and it ends with peace." 'What god wants ultimately is our unity,' writes John 3:16. "'And so this is not a battle of races. This is not abattle of necessities. This isnot a battle of peoples' Ultimately, that god wants is the triumph of his name,'" adds Mike Mikesell.