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Rahab the prostitute … was shown to be right with God by her actions when she hid those messengers and sent them safely away by a different road. James 2:25
Rahab was a woman who heard from God. Not too terribly different than Mary, or Tamar, or my wife, or any other woman for that matter, because women hear from God just as easily as men. The thing that set Rahab apart was that she not only heard from God, she acted on what she heard. That’s what got her into not only the Hall of Faith in Hebrews and the lineage of Jesus in Matthew 1, it got her into the Book of James where faith without works is dead. She had heard that God was with these people. She knew about the miracle crossing of the Red Sea, and their defeat of two Amorite kings, Sihon and Og, and she had an idea her town of Jericho was next. So when she ran into the two spies who were checking out the city, she hid them and then, when the authorities came looking, she told them they had been there but they had left by another way. In other words, “They went thataway!”
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