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The Place of Safety
from August 2020
by Brent Goodge
There was a knock at the door of the “lady of the all who were inside the house marked with the scarlet cord evening.” Two men desired and received entrance. would be saved. Anyone outside the house, regardless if These men were foreigners, strangers in a strange they were related to the woman, would be killed. The entire city. They weren’t just strangers—they were also spies. story is recorded in Joshua chapter 2 and Joshua 6:22-25. Their presence had been discovered and reported to the While waiting for Israel to return and attack the city, authorities. They came seeking a place to hide. Rahab told her family that her house would be a place of
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The “business” of the hostess had given her familiarity safety from the coming invasion. The Bible records that with very powerful city leaders. She knew the town was both her parents, her brothers, and all that they had were terribly fearful of an attack. Treason is a crime punishable by saved in what was otherwise a complete annihilation of the death. No doubt, the powerful leaders she knew would have city. While the rest of the wall around Jericho fell down, her no problem using her crime of harboring spies as an excuse house on the wall remained standing. everything to be counted as a believer in the God of Heaven. God had warned Noah that he would sit in the ark for a week before the rain began. God had warned Lot that the fire would fall the very next day. Rahab and her family had no such knowledge of when the invasion would come. It would have been so easy for her family to have gotten tired of waiting as Israel marched around day after day. They could have just stepped outside for some fresh air. But they didn’t. They waited on the promise of God for their deliverance. The Bible records that Rahab’s family became part of the people of God, and Rahab was herself an ancestor of to forever silence the dark secrets she had drawn from them Rahab was also listed by name in the biblical “Hall of Faith” through the years. (Hebrews 11:31).
But in spite of her situation and the risk to her life, she A storm is coming (Daniel 12:1). Sometimes it feels like protected the spies from those coming to search. She knew the storm has already begun. We do not know when the full something about the God these spies worshiped. She knew ferocity will strike. But we know where the only Place of that her gods had no power like their God. If life itself safety is (Psalm 91:1; John 14:6). May we never get tired of depended on obeying one God or the other, she would risk waiting and take a step outside! Jesus Christ (Joshua 6:25; Matthew 1:5). 6 // August 2020 In exchange for saving the spies, she requested the preservation of life for her and her family. They agreed that About The Author Brent Goodge lives in Whitfield County. He prays and trusts that as our cities appear to crumble around us, God will sustain His people.
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