Then
the woman took the two men and hid them. So she said, “Yes, the men came to me,
but I did not know where they were from. And it happened as the gate was being
shut, when it was dark, that the men went out. Where the men went I do not
know; pursue them quickly, for you may overtake them.” (But she had brought
them up to the roof and hidden them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid
in order on the roof.) Then the men pursued them by the road to the Jordan, to
the fords. And as soon as those who pursued them had gone out, they shut the
gate.
Now
before they lay down, she came up to them on the roof, and said to the men: “I
know that the Lord has given you the land, that the terror of you has fallen on
us, and that all the inhabitants of the land are fainthearted because of you.
So
the men answered her, “Our lives for yours, if none of you tell this business
of ours. And it shall be, when the Lord has given us the land, that we will
deal kindly and truly with you.”
So
the men said to her: “We will be blameless of this oath of yours which you have
made us swear, unless, when we come into the land, you bind this line of
scarlet cord in the window through which you let us down, and unless you bring
your father, your mother, your brothers, and all your father’s household to
your own home. So it shall be that whoever goes outside the doors of your house
into the street, his blood shall be on his own head, and we will be guiltless.
And whoever is with you in the house, his blood shall be on our head if a hand
is laid on him.
So
the two men returned, descended from the mountain, and crossed over; and they
came to Joshua the son of Nun, and told him all that had befallen them. And
they said to Joshua, “Truly the Lord has delivered all the land into our hands,
for indeed all the inhabitants of the country are fainthearted because of us.”
We are
privileged for we know how the story ends; in Hebrews 11 we read the following “By
faith the harlot Rahab did not perish with those who did not believe, when she
had received the spies with peace”
Our
Father is greater than any circumstance or situation we face.
Rahab
had heard of the Israelites God and the Father rewarded her and she is a hero
of our faith.
We also
are part of the eternal story of our Lord, we are invited and commissioned to
be part of
His-Story
the story of His Kingdom.
We have
a choice just like Rahab; the eternal or the temporal and perishing.
And
Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in
heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations,
baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am
with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.
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