What two types of believers are seen in Joshua?
Numbers 32:1-5 The Reubenites and Gadites, who had very large herds and flocks, saw that the lands of Jazer and Gilead were suitable for livestock. (2) So they came to Moses and Eleazar the priest and to the leaders of the community, and said, (3) Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo and Beon-- (4) the land the LORD subdued before the people of Israel--are suitable for livestock, and your servants have livestock. (5) If we have found favor in your eyes," they said, "let this land be given to your servants as our possession. Do not make us cross the Jordan."
Here you have two and one half of the tribes of the children of Israel on the wilderness side of the Jordan who had many cattle and they wanted to remain there in Gilead and not go over Jordan into the Promised Land. So they went to Moses, and Moses as you know, has been preaching about Canaan for 40 years. These three tribes come to him and say 'Look, we know that God's inheritance for us is on the other side of the Jordan but we don't actually want that. What we want is what we see here, this land is really good for our earthly business, which is grazing stock. We don't want what God has got for us on the other side of the Jordan; we want this area that we see here.' When you read through these verses in Numbers, Moses at first is really slacked off and says 'Why would you discourage the people again like the spies did?' In the end an agreement is made whereby if their armed men will go and help the nation inherit the land they can come back there. That is the compromise and Moses is happy with this. So what you have here is a separation that is happening within the nation. You have one group of people that are interested in God's blessing towards them and God's inheritance and another group of believers that are really only interested in their earthly lot. It's amazing to think that after hearing about the land flowing with milk and honey for 40 years and all of the good things that God had stored up for them within the land of Canaan, that they would settle for something less. Yet, when they saw this land on the wrong side of Jordan and because of the fact that they had truckloads of livestock, they were dominated by this thought, and gave away what God had in store for them.