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The text for this lesson is Joshua 2:9-18, which gives a sevenfold pattern concerning Rahab. (1) She confessed her faith in Israel’s God. Her testimony confirms that all the people of Canaan’s Land had heard what God had done for Israel when she crossed the Red Sea. They had heard what God had done
for the Israelites when He destroyed Sihon and Og on the other side of Jordan. (2) Rahab confessed that Israel’s terror had fallen upon her land. She knew that Israel’s God dealt Judgment upon Israel’s enemies. (3) Rahab confessed that she knew that all the inhabitants of the land fainted because of Israel. Rahab humbled herself and recognized that Israel had something that she and her people did not have. (4) Again, Rahab humbled herself and recognized that God had done something for Israel that He had not done for Jericho. She confessed how the LORD had dried up the water of the Red Sea for Israel. (5) Rahab continued to testify of what God had done to the two kings of the Amorites—Sihon and Og. She gave God the glory for their destruction. (6) Rahab confessed a melted heart and that all of her fleshly courage was gone. (7) Rahab confessed that Israel’s God was the God in Heaven above and in Earth beneath. She had more faith in God than some of the children of Israel who had walked under the Cloud, had eaten of the Manna, and had drunk of the Water out of the Rock.
Rahab asked for a token—a sign—of protection, and the spies told her to put that same scarlet thread—with which she let them go over the wall—in her window. That scarlet line pictured the Blood of Jesus Christ and stood for her protection and freedom. It was the same Principle that saved the children of Israel in Egypt when they put the blood on their door and lintel and God’s Spirit hovered over and the Death Angel passed on by them. If we will take hold of the scarlet line of Jesus’ Blood by faith, it will pull us a little higher, loose us from our city of pride that is within us, and give us freedom and protection.