Genocide seems extreme to most of us, unless… 1) God is thrice holy and man is totally depraved, and 2) Man’s genetic code was corrupted by fallen angels and needed to be wiped out in order to preserve humanity and the messianic line of the Christ.

Genocide seems extreme to most of us, unless… 1) God is thrice holy and man is totally depraved, and 2) Man’s genetic code was corrupted by fallen angels and needed to be wiped out in order to preserve humanity and the messianic line of the Christ.
It is not enough to obey God in part. The people of Israel witnessed God’s deliverance of victory with the crumbling of the walls of Jericho, but they were then expected to secure that victory by putting all the inhabitants of the city to death. To often, the people of God are content to merely subdue sin, rather than mortify …
Joshua was instructed by the Lord to appoint one man from each of the twelve tribes of Israel. Likewise, the Greater Joshua, who is Jesus, after having passed through the agony of his death on the cross and having opened the Heavenly Canaan to all of true Israel, appointed his twelve apostles to construct the Eternal Memorial of Holy Scripture …
Israel had just finished a long and tiring conquest of the land of Canaan. They appear to have silently determined that they were done with war. They had witnessed the barbarism of the authoritarian leaders of Canaan. And now, their own leader, Joshua, was dead. In Joshua’s absence, a poisonous potion of fatigue, apathy, and misguided pity for Israel’s enemies …
Joshua was instructed by the Lord to appoint one man from each of the twelve tribes of Israel. Likewise, the Greater Joshua, who is Jesus, after having passed through the agony of his death on the cross and having opened the Heavenly Canaan to all of true Israel, appointed his twelve apostles to construct the Eternal Memorial of Holy Scripture …
Joshua thoroughly crushed all the strongholds of the Canaanite kings, and in this sense, Joshua took the whole land. However, there were still many small towns and villages remaining. It was the task of each individual tribe to fight and plunder the land that was specifically apportioned to them as their inheritance. If these tribes failed to do so, it …