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Joshua 2:1b & 3-4a

And they went and came into the house of a prostitute whose name was Rahab and lodged there. … Then the king of Jericho sent to Rahab, saying, “Bring out the men who have come to you, who entered your house, for they have come to search out all the land.” But the woman had taken the two men and hidden them.

Before we dive into the depths of Rahab’s testimony, a life so transformed by divine mercy that it reads like a Shakespearian love story and a Hans Christian Anderson fable and a Tom Clancy novel all rolled into one, with all the improbable, spell-binding narrative turns that modern tale-spinners try to emulate, let’s take a pause to ponder the even more spell-binding grandeur of Providence that gives stories like Rahab’s such bravado. 

Consider the plight these two spies find themselves in. Dramatize it in your mind for a moment. Where can they hide in this dangerous city when enemies lurk around every bend? How can they slip through Jericho’s public square without drawing attention? They can’t stop and chat casually with merchants, can they? No, their dialect will give them away. And remember: their mission isn’t merely to spy out the fortified city of Jericho but to do so without getting caught! But they failed at that. Verse 3 tells us that the king of Jericho s already found them out. Despite their best efforts to blend in, even hiding in a brothel, the king has spies too: eyes on every corner, CIA operatives disguised as beggars, informants selling fruit at the gate, and nothing gets past them. That means that these Jewish spies are quite literally sitting ducks in Jericho unless they manage, somehow, by some divine intervention, to fall into the hands of a friend of Israel’s God and a traitor to Jericho’s pantheon. 

Well, wouldn’t you know it! The owner of this lecherous, disgusting hell hole just so happens to be the one person in all Jericho who has recently bowed her knee to Jehovah! In light of that, perhaps we should remember the conquest of Jericho not so much for those pagan walls that come crumbling down at the sound of a priestly trumpet, but more so for the one wall that remained standing due to the sound of an angelic trumpet—the trumpet that marked Rahab’s conversion. 

 

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