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Today we will learn about Rahab, a woman who finished well in God's eyes, from Frann Wohlers. Frann is a dear friend of Heartland and Mothers Together and we so appreciate and cherish her God-given wisdom and ability to teach His word to us.
This is the first of three teachings about different women in the Bible who maybe didn't have so much going for them from the world's perspective but God had a mighty plan to use them and he most certainly did. We hope these teachings will give you courage to embrace God's plan for your life no matter what is in your past and to embrace who God created and intended you to be . . . not the world or anyone else.
Joshua 6:17, 20-25
17 The city and all that is in it are to be devoted to the
LORD. Only Rahab the prostitute and all who are with her in her house shall be
spared, because she hid the spies we sent. 20 When the trumpets sounded, the people
shouted, and at the sound of the trumpet, when the people gave a loud shout,
the wall collapsed; so every man charged straight in, and they took the city.
21 They devoted the city to the LORD and destroyed with the sword every living
thing in it-men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep and donkeys. 22 Joshua
said to the two men who had spied out the land, "Go into the prostitute's
house and bring her out and all who belong to her, in accordance with your oath
to her." 23 So the young men who had done the spying went in and brought
out Rahab, her father and mother and brothers and all who belonged to her. They
brought out her entire family and put them in a place outside the camp of
Israel. 24 Then they burned the whole city and everything in it, but they put
the silver and gold and the articles of bronze and iron into the treasury of
the LORD's house. 25 But Joshua spared Rahab the prostitute, with her family
and all who belonged to her, because she hid the men Joshua had sent as spies
to Jericho-and she lives among the Israelites to this day.
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