There are a lot of “lists” in Scripture.  Some are lists of predecessors, those “begats” that often bog us down when we get to them. I am not fond of lists.  There is, however, one that intrigues me. It is a list of defeated kings found in Joshua Chapter 12.

This list names defeated kings on both the east and the west side of the Jordan River.  There were two kings on the east side, Sihon, King of the Amorites, and Og, King of Bashan.  Those kings were defeated by Moses and their territory was given to the tribes of Rueben, Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh.

After Joshua and the children crossed over the Jordan and into the Promised Land, they defeated 31 more kings on the west side of the Jordan and all of them are listed.

Thirty-three defeated kings listed in the Book of Joshua.  All of their kingdoms became the property of Joshua and the Children of Israel.

That made me wonder if when we get to our Promise, when we see our Savior face-to-face if there will be another list of defeated rulers.  We know our Savior won the victory over all wickedness and evil and that He defeated through His cross and resurrection the enemy of our soul, Satan.  We know that all sin, death, and darkness will be done away with, cast forever into the pit at His Second Coming.  That is a surety; it cannot, will not change.

Yet in our life we still battle.  We fight from the victory Christ attained for us, not for victory; but we still battle.  We still battle sin, temptations, depression, oppressions, hurts, rejections, and the like.

I wonder if God is making a list for us so that when we find ourselves in His presence, we will see the list of all those “kings” that were defeated by us through the power of Christ Jesus in us.  Wow!  Wouldn’t that be something!