For five years they, the incoming Hebrews into Canaan under Joshua and Caleb were battling the people of Canaan driving out the migrants that were squatting in the land, the Amorites, Hittites, people from Mesopotamia, the various groups like Hurrians and Egyptians that grabbed lands in Israel and farm or live there.

Colonization of Canaan was by the Egyptians who had tax collectors at city centers and some police systems.

The Amarna Corpus is over 370 cuneiform letters written in Akkadian and published by W. Moran and others that were found at the capital built by Ikhnaton the hippie pharaoh of Egypt.

Egypt was in decadence after 1380 and later when he ruled. Joshua entered the land in the days of his grandfather, Thutmosis IV and while he was still alive, Joshua and Caleb entered the land.

The Amarna Corpus complain that the SA.GAZ people, the ha-bi-ru = Hebrews were attacking them. The letters were written to Egypt to asked them to come and help them against these people.

So one should divide the Corpus in two groups. The early corpus and the later corpus. The early corpus deals with the entry of Israel or war-texts. The later corpus dealt with peace-making texts and weddings and gifts between countries. They date to the time of Amenophis III and Amenophis IV = Ikhnaton, the hippie.

The art portrayal of the time of Ikhnaton was very realistic instead of romantic as before. They displayed the overweight problems of the royal couple. They showed intimate scenes. In one scene one can see Ikhnaton crawling on his stomach to worship the monkeys! Darwin would have been very happy and agnostic Naturalists.

The retirement of Caleb was in 1405 BC described in Joshua 14. Caleb said that he was now 5 years fighting in Joshua 14:10.

At Hebron the name was before Kirjath-Arba. He was a great man among the Anakims. Anakims were people of the ankh. It is the Egyptian sign for live and ankh-ites are Anakims..

Did you experience recently in your churches strange situations? The Generation X is coming to power all over the world. The Baby Boomers is too old now. It is Generation X time.

They are Baby Busters. Nuclear family kids. Rebellious, individualized, hate instutional rules and regulations. Says sociologists this week.

Now that you know, do not blame the church. Or the pastor. They cannot help to be born in a nuclear family.

South Africa leadership proves that Generation X can be serious about religion and spiritual things. Give them a chance. The Spirit will keep His church. 

What we saw in people like Seth Pierce from Union College, Ettienne McClintock of Australia, Chester Clark, Abundant Life Youth Evangelism program at Dundee, Kwazulu-Natal South Africa, is that the Spirit can change.

Rebellion is trimmed. Individualized learns to become social. Hating rules and institutions becomes loving God and His precepts and commandments and loving the church!