The Bible is full of people that you would never have thought would make it into a Holy Book of God. Take Rehab the Prostitute. Who would have thought someone like this woman would have been given an important mission?
But think again. Really. What kind of people did or does God have to work with except sinners from the beginning of time in the Garden of Eden.
So why not include Rehab if he needed her? And obviously, he did.
So this is how it went. Joshua 2 tells us that Joshua secretly sent two spies to check out the land in Shittim and Jericho because God was going to give it to the Israelites. The two spies went to the house of Rehab and stayed there. Someone gave the king of Jericho a heads up that the spies were there checking things out and were at Rehabs home. The king sent her a message telling her to give them up. But Rehab had hidden the two men on her roof under stalks of flax. And she told the king that yes they had been there but they had left as it was getting dusk and if they hurried, they might catch up with them.
The men trying to catch the spies left in hopes of getting them.
Rehab told the spies that she knew that their God had given them the land, and because Joshua had done some things prior to then, the people of that country had become very much afraid. And she asked them to be kind to herself and her family since she had not handed them over to the king. And so the deal was struck up. and a scarlet cord was hung in her window. A sign that she and her family would be saved.
Rehab had believed God. And even though she was risking her own life, she trusted him to protect her and her family in the impending attack on her country.
And God forgave her of her sins.
All of humanity's sins are as scarlet as the cord that hung in her window. But because of the blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, they become as white as snow when we ask him into our lives and trust him.
It does not matter the sin. Sin is sin and her sin was no greater than anyone else's just because of her trade. Just as sin today in one person is no greater than another. Sin will lead us to hell no matter how it is branded. That is unless and until we let God wash us white as snow.
April 28, 2019 Promise: For the wages of sin is death but the free gift of God is eternal life through Christ our Lord. Romans 3:23
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