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| Josh. 2:12-14 |
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Lesson # Josh. 2:12-14 Study Material - Josh. 2:12-14 You must be in fellowship prior to your Bible study, so that the spiritual information you receive can become a source, of blessing to your soul and produce spiritual growth. Josh. 2:12-14 12 Now therefore, please swear to me by the LORD, since I have dealt kindly with you, that you also will deal kindly with my father's household, and give me a pledge of truth, 13 and spare my father and my mother and my brothers and my sisters, with all who belong to them, and deliver our lives from death.' 14 So the men said to her, 'Our life for yours if you do not tell this business of ours; and it shall come about when the LORD gives us the land that we will deal kindly and faithfully with you.' Rahab protected the two spies at great risk, not only to herself, but to her family. She requests safety for herself and the family of her father. She is not married at this time. Later on she will be married to Salmon and receive the promotion to inclusion in the line of Christ as one of His ancestors. In addition she will be one of the few women mentioned in the genealogy of Christ. So this is a tremendous honor and indicative of her spiritual maturity and the recipient of far more blessings than simply being mentioned in the line of Christ. Rahab makes the request for those who are close to her, her family. She risks nothing since they apparently are positive to some degree toward Bible doctrine as she is positive. Certainly a family member could reveal the plan and the conversation to the authorities, placing her and her family at risk. But here, that is not the case. The request is granted - with conditions. She must follow the instructions to the letter in order to be delivered. No room for errors or negotiation. No room for modifying the terms during the attack. The agreement has to be in place prior to the launch of the attack, because once judgment is unleashed there is no room for changes. The turmoil, the violence, the chaos that will ensue will be too much to control for mere mankind. Rahab knows of the degree of the judgment. She mentions it - from death. This is physical death, but not an easy death like falling to sleep in bed and never waking up. This is a violent death with terror, pain, bleeding to the maximum, and in the case of Jericho - fire. No one will survive, everything will be burned. Only the gold and silver will survive the fires. But that is jumping ahead a bit to chapter 6. Prior to that there will be some awesome miracles yet to be performed and witnessed by not only the Israelites, but by the peoples in Canaan as well. The principle of this passage? Faithful believers will be dealt with faithfully. They will be protected even in the midst of chaos. Here promises are made and kept by God. The spies were sent into the land to check it out. Joshua learned this from the spies God commanded Moses to send into the land many years earlier. To recon and discover the true nature of the enemy is a proper and necessary procedure in any military organization. We are in an angelic conflict and our individual recon is our study of Bible doctrine. From that study we learn the nature of our enemy. The enemy from within, our individual sin natures, and the enemy without, the world and Satan and his policies which he tries to shape the world with, but generally fails. Rahab's first requirement is to not consort with the enemy. Our first order of business is to not consort with sin. We do this by monitoring our daily life. By checking our thoughts, our actions, our motives, our reactions to others and to situations as they arise from moment to moment, from day to day. By monitoring ourselves, we can confess our sins quickly to God and maintain our fellowship status. We will get to the other requirements of her safety in the next few verses, but the first is to keep from sin. Keep from those in charge in the city and do not attempt to promote any threat to truth. Of course truth cannot be threatened. If she had disclosed the spies, then the result would have been her own doom. Negative people, who by the way are wicked people by definition, seal their own doom by their rejection of truth. She was to protect the truth within her own thoughts. So too, we protect truth by our own thoughts by the very fact that we study our Bibles daily. This keeps God right in front of us at all times, in our thoughts. Rahab had passed the first test. The God of Israel is 'the' God, and the only God of heaven and earth. She was saved. Now the second test, keeping truth in her thoughts and not some opportunity for advancement by those in authority in Jericho by revealing the spies. Certainly they would have rewarded her for turning the spies over to the authorities. So temptation was there. But rewards of this world are short lived. The entire city was clinging to their assets, afraid to lose them to the advancing Jews. They should have listened to the truth as Rahab did and recognized that there was a better life in the true God verses their false gods and lives of wickedness. 
Now is the time to post a prayer. End Of Lesson Study to show thyself approved (mature) unto God, a workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly dividing (studying/discerning), the Word of truth. |
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