Image is Everything (Rehab)
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Female prostitute n. — a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for payment.
By faith Rahab the prostitute did not perish with those who were disobedient, because she had given a friendly welcome to the spies.
And in the same way was not also Rahab the prostitute justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out by another way?
The prostitute…
After all this time....
Rahab is referred to as “The Prostitute”
The word prostitute carries its on Image…
And Joshua the son of Nun sent two men secretly from Shittim as spies, saying, “Go, view the land, especially Jericho.” And they went and came into the house of a prostitute whose name was Rahab and lodged there.
It was not a mistake that theses spies were led into the house of a prostitute.
And it was told to the king of Jericho, “Behold, men of Israel have come here tonight to search out the land.”
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.”
Rehab tells them…
Before the men lay down, she came up to them on the roof and said to the men, “I know that the Lord has given you the land, and that the fear of you has fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away before you.
“I know that the Lord has given you the land”
For we have heard how the Lord dried up the water of the Red Sea before you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon and Og, whom you devoted to destruction.
And as soon as we heard it, our hearts melted, and there was no spirit left in any man because of you, for the Lord your God, he is God in the heavens above and on the earth beneath.
Rehab “The Prostitute”
Who had a reputation and Image
“The Prostitute”
Where people new where she lived and what type of activities went on around her house…
“The Prostitute”
Who made a living by selling herself
“The Prostitute”
She would’ve had an IG / Snap / Only Fans account
“The Prostitute”
She declared....
“For the Lord your God, he is God in the heavens above on the earth beneath.”
Don’t allow my current activities confuse you…
I know about your God’s ability…
- Grace Moment -
What if prostitution in Jericho was a normal way of life?
What if she didn’t know any better?
What we look down on - May be their normal way of life…
To me she a prostitute
To her she was searching for the God she heard about....
Now then, please swear to me by the Lord that, as I have dealt kindly with you, you also will deal kindly with my father’s house, and give me a sure sign that you will save alive my father and mother, my brothers and sisters, and all who belong to them, and deliver our lives from death.”
“The Prostitute”
Now became “The Intercessor”
And the men said to her, “Our life for yours even to death! If you do not tell this business of ours, then when the Lord gives us the land we will deal kindly and faithfully with you.”
Behold, when we come into the land, you shall tie this scarlet cord in the window through which you let us down, and you shall gather into your house your father and mother, your brothers, and all your father’s household.
Then if anyone goes out of the doors of your house into the street, his blood shall be on his own head, and we shall be guiltless. But if a hand is laid on anyone who is with you in the house, his blood shall be on our head.
And she said, “According to your words, so be it.” Then she sent them away, and they departed. And she tied the scarlet cord in the window.
“So be it”
She was “Well Built”
She tied the scarlet cord in the window!
Her faith went into action!
Then she let them down by a rope through the window, for her house was built into the city wall, so that she lived in the wall.
You shall march around the city, all the men of war going around the city once. Thus shall you do for six days. Seven priests shall bear seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark. On the seventh day you shall march around the city seven times, and the priests shall blow the trumpets. And when they make a long blast with the ram’s horn, when you hear the sound of the trumpet, then all the people shall shout with a great shout, and the wall of the city will fall down flat, and the people shall go up, everyone straight before him.”
While they were marching …
Rehab was preaching…
And the city and all that is within it shall be devoted to the Lord for destruction. Only Rahab the prostitute and all who are with her in her house shall live, because she hid the messengers whom we sent.
So the people shouted, and the trumpets were blown. As soon as the people heard the sound of the trumpet, the people shouted a great shout, and the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they captured the city.
“The wall fell down flat”
By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they had been encircled for seven days.
I don’t know if it was a wall or walls but I do know…
That Rehab lived in the wall and her house was still standing!
This was a supernatural event.....
To deliver “The Prostitute”
But to the two men who had spied out the land, Joshua said, “Go into the prostitute’s house and bring out from there the woman and all who belong to her, as you swore to her.”
“God into the prostitute’s house and bring out from there the woman”
So the young men who had been spies went in and brought out Rahab and her father and mother and brothers and all who belonged to her. And they brought all her relatives and put them outside the camp of Israel.
“So the young men who had been spies went in an brought out Rahab”
Keep preaching to your family!
It was a supernatural event!
Because Rahab “The Prostitute” had the ovaries that God created her with....
and Salmon the father of Boaz by Rahab, and Boaz the father of Obed by Ruth, and Obed the father of Jesse, and Jesse the father of David the king.
And David was the father of Solomon by the wife of Uriah,
From King David we have King Jesus
My image of my past is going to reminded people of the Image of Christ!