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JOSHUA IS SET TO ENTER CANAAN
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 10
Joshua 2
Hebrews 11:30-31
“…she had received
the spies with peace.”
JOSHUA IS SET TO ENTER CANAAN
When Joshua had made all the preparations to enter Canaan, the first city they needed to capture was Jericho. He sent spies into the city, and they found faith in God in the least expected person. She was a harlot named Rahab. She protected the spies in their mission and revealed her faith in the God of Israel. In their interaction, they were able to come to some agreement. In the end, they swore to protect her and her family when they captured Jericho. The spies eventually returned to Joshua and reported the success of their mission. This is the narrative of that preparation.
Rahab and the Captured Jericho: Joshua was knowledgeable in war strategy and he needed to gather information in the enemy territory. The first line of winning a war is to create fear in the heart of the enemy. That was the aim in sending out the two spies. They went to Jericho and were led to Rahab’s house. She was a woman of ill-repute, but that is how God’s grace works. She believed in God, and was transformed. The arrival of the spies was reported to the king of Jericho. He gave orders that they should be taken to him. Rahab was quick in thinking and she hid the spies on the roof of her house. She covered them with stalks of flax that she had kept there. She told those who had been sent from the king that indeed the men had come into her house, but they left at the time of the closing of the gate. These were her words: “There came men unto me, but I wist not whence they were: And it came to pass about the time of shutting of the gate, when it was dark, that the men went out: whither the men went I wot not: pursue after them quickly; for ye shall overtake them” (Josh 2:4-5). She misdirected the king’s men to pursue after the spies. They believed her and the spies were not discovered. This was part of the strategy.
THOUGHT: God bestows grace to all His elect.
PRAYER: Father, teach me what to say at the right time.