Joshua's Visit To A Mountain.

Has anyone noticed that Jesus' 40 days in the wilderness to be tempted has a parallel. Jesus' anglicized Hebrew name is Joshua and in the OT there is a famous Joshua. This Joshua led the Israelites into Canaan as well as a few other deeds.

Exo 24:13 So Moses rose with his assistant Joshua, and Moses went up into the mountain of God.
Exo 24:14 And he said to the elders, “Wait here for us until we return to you. And behold, Aaron and Hur are with you. Whoever has a dispute, let him go to them.”
Exo 24:15 Then Moses went up on the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.

Exo 32:15 Then Moses turned and went down from the mountain with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand, tablets that were written on both sides; on the front and on the back they were written.
Exo 32:16 The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets.
Exo 32:17 When Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, “There is a noise of war in the camp.”
Exo 32:18 But he said, “It is not the sound of shouting for victory, or the sound of the cry of defeat, but the sound of singing that I hear.”

So Joshua went with Moses into Mt. Sinai but from what I understand did not accompany him into the Lord's presence. So basically Joshua is hanging around for 40 days and nights Food? Water? We don't know how he feels or what he is actually doing in this time. Was this the inspiration for Jesus? Maybe. We know that when Abraham set out to sacrifice Isaac and was going to trust God for a result that this is the picture of God the Father sacrificing His Son, and the Son agreed, to atone the sins of the world.

As an aside to the above notice Ex 24:11
Exo 24:9 Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel:
Exo 24:10 And they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness.
Exo 24:11 And upon the nobles of the children of Israel he laid not his hand: also they saw God, and did eat and drink.

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