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Rahab is a Inn keeper or a prostitute in Jericho. Little known and unimportant really, she lived a normal life trying to make a living. God works through people like Rahab, ordinary people in ordinary lives; often who we would reject. Rahab shows us that God is interested everyone no matter their lifestyle, background or appearance. Rahab recognised the God of the Israelites is no ordinary God.
Joshua 2: 1 – 24 Before the spies were down for the night, the woman came up to them on the roof and said, "I know that God has given you the land. We're all afraid. Everyone in the country feels hopeless. We heard how God dried up the waters of the Red Sea before you when you left Egypt, and what he did to the two Amorite kings east of the Jordan, Sihon and Og, whom you put under a holy curse and destroyed. We heard it and our hearts sank. We all had the wind knocked out of us. And all because of you, you and God, your God, God of the heavens above and God of the earth below. "Now promise me by God. I showed you mercy; now show my family mercy. And give me some tangible proof, a guarantee of life for my father and mother, my brothers and sisters—everyone connected with my family. Save our souls from death!" "Our lives for yours!" said the men. "But don't tell anyone our business. When God turns this land over to us, we'll do right by you in loyal mercy." She lowered them down out a window with a rope because her house was on the city wall to the outside. She told them, "Run for the hills so your pursuers won't find you. Hide out for three days and give your pursuers time to return. Then get on your way." The deal Rahab struck with the spies is vital in the ancestry of Jesus but more so than that she is remembered because of her faith in God’s ability to deliver. Initially her from Jericho but through her family line he would bring King David and ultimately Jesus who would deliver the world form the grasps of sin, or anything with I in the middle of it , and provide away for us to become one again with God.
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