“Rahab: A Woman of Faith” Matthew 1:1-17, Joshua 2:1-14

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Date: December 6, 2020 Author: Wayne J. Edwards, Pastor

Two words always follow the name, Rahab! Did you say them? The Harlot. Why would the Holy Spirit inspire Matthew to include her name in the lineage of Jesus Christ?

Two words always follow the name, Rahab! Did you say them? The Harlot.

Why would the Holy Spirit inspire Matthew to include her name in the lineage of Jesus Christ?

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Old Testament Readings: Psalm 130:1-8, Jeremiah 31:31-34 New Testament Reading: Luke 1:68-79

Because of her profession, Rahab, a Canaanite woman, was always identified as a harlot.

The New Testament lists two genealogies of Jesus.

Listed among the Hebrew patriarchs Matthew’s genealogy, are five women; four of whom were of questionable character.

The news of how the God of Israel had miraculously delivered the Israelites from Egyptian slavery has spread across the land.

Numbers 34, the land of Canaan included Judea, Samaria, Lebanon, Israel, parts of Jordan and Syria; from the Red Sea to the Nile River; from the Mediterranean Sea to the Euphrates River.

Several days before the Israelites were to cross the Jordan River into Canaan, Joshua sent two spies into Jericho to test their military strength and to determine the method of attack.

The sixth chapter of Joshua covers the battle of Jericho:

The city of Jericho was enclosed by an earthen rampart with a 12-15’ high retaining wall at its base, a 6’thick, 26’ high mud-brick wall at the bottom of the rampart, and a 6’ thick, 45’ high mud-brick wall at the top.

Spiritually, Rahab was no different than the other citizens of Jericho – she was not only a participant in the pagan culture, as a prostitute, she was a contributor to it.

By every human measure, Rahab’s name should have been forgotten forever.

Before the two spies left Rahab’s house, they told her to mark her house by hanging a scarlet cord out of her window, and to gather all of her family members into her house.

For that scarlet rope to be effective in protecting Rahab and her family, she had to place her faith in it by:

Each time the Israelites marched around those walls they saw that scarlet rope hanging out Rahab’s window.

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