Many connections are to be noted between Joshua and Jesus. The names share the same meaning: "God is salvation." Jesus (Ieous) is the Greek form of the Hebrew Joshua (Yehosua). Many parallels can be drawn between the two Joshuas.

God the Father calls Christians out of slavery to sin and this world, a modern type of ancient Egypt (John 6:44 John 6:44No man can come to me, except the Father which has sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.
American King James Version×; Romans 6:16-18 Romans 6:16-18 [16] Know you not, that to whom you yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants you are to whom you obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness? [17] But God be thanked, that you were the servants of sin, but you have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you. [18] Being then made free from sin, you became the servants of righteousness.
American King James Version×; 2 Corinthians 6:17-18 2 Corinthians 6:17-18 [17] Why come out from among them, and be you separate, said the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you. [18] And will be a Father to you, and you shall be my sons and daughters, said the Lord Almighty.
American King James Version×). Whereas Joshua was the physical leader of the physical nation of Israel, Jesus Christ is the leader of spiritual Israel, the New Testament Church (Colossians 1:18 Colossians 1:18 And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
American King James Version×; Galatians 6:16 Galatians 6:16And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and on the Israel of God.
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Jesus brings His followers to and through the ordinance of baptism (foreshadowed by the miracle of the parting of the Red Sea; 1 Corinthians 10:1-2 1 Corinthians 10:1-2 [1] Moreover, brothers, I would not that you should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; [2] And were all baptized to Moses in the cloud and in the sea;
American King James Version×). Through His Spirit and truth and with our willing participation, He helps us conquer sins that can overcome us if we stray from Him (Romans 7:24-25 Romans 7:24-25 [24] O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? [25] I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
American King James Version×; 8:37). Jesus Christ encourages His disciples to faithfully obey Him, to choose the right way of living (Deuteronomy 30:19-20 Deuteronomy 30:19-20 [19] I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both you and your seed may live: [20] That you may love the LORD your God, and that you may obey his voice, and that you may hold to him: for he is your life, and the length of your days: that you may dwell in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
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A specific connection between the two Joshuas—the patriarch and the Messiah—is highlighted in Hebrews 4. Here we read that the seventh-day Sabbath is a type of the coming millennial Sabbath, a 1,000-year period of rest and rejuvenation. The millennial Sabbath will offer mankind a much-needed peaceful and prosperous land, the earth. Joshua's conquest and settlement of Canaan was a type of this anticipated ultimate Promised Land, which Christians are to faithfully strive to enter (verses 8-11).

Faithful Joshua was a forerunner of the Eternal Joshua: Jesus, the Son of God. The first Joshua faithfully focused the physical nation of Israel on God. Jesus, mankind's spiritual Joshua, will faithfully turn mankind to God, forming a great spiritual nation (Romans 9:6-8 Romans 9:6-8 [6] Not as though the word of God has taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel: [7] Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall your seed be called. [8] That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.
American King James Version×; Galatians 6:15-16 Galatians 6:15-16 [15] For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision avails any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature. [16] And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and on the Israel of God.
American King James Version×). Joshua saved God's people from the Canaanites. Jesus, the Eternal Joshua, saves humanity from its enemies: Satan and death, the result of our sins.

Christ, as the divine Joshua, is the captain and author of our salvation (Hebrews 2:10 Hebrews 2:10For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.
American King James Version×), leader and commander of His people, who will conquer Satan and his followers (Revelation 14:19-20 Revelation 14:19-20 [19] And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great wine press of the wrath of God. [20] And the wine press was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the wine press, even to the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.
American King James Version×), at last giving the world peace, safety and freedom from spiritual slavery.

Mankind will come to fully understand the meaning of Joshua: "God is salvation." The second Joshua—Jesus, the Son of God—will make salvation available to mankind, a divine act of mercy and love (Hebrews 4:8 Hebrews 4:8For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day.
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