"By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed not, when she received the spies with peace"
(Hebrews 11: 31, KJV)
To open this little bio on Rahab the harlot, her name is mentioned 9 times in the Bible as a person or place (see Josh. 2: 1; 6: 17, 25; Psalm 87: 4; 89: 10; Isa. 51: 9; Matt. 1: 5 [Gr. Rachab]; Heb. 11: 31; Jam. 2; 25). Rahab was a prostitute who lived in Jericho who by faith received the spies and later was delivered from destruction. Our Daily Bread author Dave Branon gives this brief introduction on Rahab:
"Meet Rahab. If what we read about her in Joshua 2 were all we knew, we might lump her in with all of the other renegades and bad examples in the Bible. But her story doesn't stop there. Matthew 1: 5-6 reveals that she was King David's great-great grandmother--and that she was in the lineage of our Saviour, Jesus. And there's more. Hebrews 11:31 names Rahab as a woman of faith who was saved from the fall of Jericho (see Josh. 6:17). And in James 2:25, her works of rescue were given as evidence of her righteous faith." (Our Daily Bread, RBC Ministries, Vol. 57, Num. 6, 7, 8; Dave Branon, Fri., Oct. 26, 2012).(To be Continued...)
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