With Leddy Hammock and Sue Riley
This is the story of the original “red-light district”—the red ribbon tied at the window that saved the life of Rahab and her family. Rahab is radical, canny, and trusting with an outrageous consciousness, ready to facilitate the victory of high ideals. Imagine living in the walls of the city (which sounds like a cave to us), hiding spies on the roof, signaling to bold rescuers with a red cord, and escaping to make a new life as the city falls around you. It’s like a bestselling novel and it’s all in the Bible! Join us as we share some of the qualities of Rahab, another woman of power.
Life – Rahab
“large; ample; freedom; liberty” (second woman listed in the genealogy of Jesus (Matthew 1:5).
Joshua, leader of the Children of Israel after Moses, “secretly sent out two spies” to “reconnoiter the land and Jericho …. They went into the house of a harlot named Rahab, where they lodged” [and Rahab hid them on her rooftop] (Joshua 2:1-6).
My outrageous consciousness shelters high spiritual ideals.
“Rahab came to them on the roof and said ‘I know that the LORD has given you the land … for we have heard how the LORD dried up the waters of the Red Sea before you when you came out of Egypt …. since the LORD, your God, is God in heaven above and on earth below. Now then, swear to me by the LORD that … you in turn will … give me an unmistakable token that you are to … save us from death’” (Joshua 2:8-13).
My physical body expresses the omnipresence of Spirit
that promises eternal Life to all who are faithful to spiritual Principle.
“The men answered her, ‘This is now we will fulfill the oath … when we come into the land, tie this scarlet cord in the window through which you are letting us down and gather … all your family into our house ….’ ‘Let it be as you say,’ she replied, and bade them farewell. When they were gone, she tied the scarlet cord in the window’” (Joshua 2:17-21).
I am unmistakably connected to Spirit by a divine “umbilical cord” of eternal life.
“When they heard the signal horn, they raised a tremendous shout. The wall collapsed and
[Joshua’s forces] stormed the city … and took it …. The spies entered and brought out Rahab
… and all her kin … who continue in the midst of Israel to this day” (Joshua 6:20-25).
Praise God! The walls of limited beliefs now fall down and my life is saved!