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JOSHUA 2:15-24
It is significant that it was a scarlet cord, or rope, that Rahab was to display in her window. This
was symbolic of the blood of Christ, which, according to 1 John 1:7, cleanses us from all sin. In
Hebrews 9:22 we are told that “almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without
shedding of blood is no remission.”
The protection that came to Rahab’s household reminds us also of the incident of the Passover in
Egypt. God instructed His people to sprinkle blood on the doorposts of their houses. He assured
them that when the death angel came to slay the firstborn in Egypt, the houses protected by the
blood would not be entered.
They would be spared.The scarlet cord in Rahab’s window protected her household just as the
blood on the doorposts protected the Israelites in Egypt.The New Testament makes special
mention of Rahab with regard to this.
James wrote: “Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received
the messengers, and had sent them out another way?” (2:25). Rahab had a faith that worked. She
aided the spies in their escape from Jericho and hung a scarlet cord from her window. This was
faith in action.
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen (Heb. 11:1).
Theodore Epp
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