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Day by Day Devotional - Year 1 of 5
Devotional: November 27th

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Joshua 2:14-24

The fact that Rahab was not only an enemy but also a woman of low repute underlines the extent of God’s grace. Like another Canaanite woman during the Lord’s life, her faith enabled her to eat in a spiritual sense the "crumbs" which fall from the table of the children of Israel (Matthew 15:22 . . .). The way in which her house would be preserved brings to our mind the passover and the lamb’s blood on the doors. In anticipation of the judgment which would fall on Jericho, Rahab and her family are summoned to protect themselves beneath the scarlet cord. And we notice how that same object is immediately tied to the window. What Rahab teaches us to do is to shelter without delay under the redeeming blood, if we have not already done so, for judgment will come upon the world as surely as it fell on Jericho. This woman proclaims her absolute conviction that the God of Israel will gain the victory and relies upon the promise which He gave her.

The report of the two spies is completely different from that given by the ten scouts in Numbers 13. "Truly, the LORD hath delivered (not will deliver) into our hands all the land." V. 24 is the literal fulfilment of what the hymn at the Red Sea announced forty years earlier (Exodus 15:15).

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