Joshua 6-8
The walls of Jericho come tumbling down and these pages are once more
filled with violence, killing and bloodletting. The story is very personal for two people - Rahab who we met
yesterday, and Achan whose story stains the pages with sin and death. The personal story is this: Achan is
one of the Children of God, witnessed first hand God’s care for the people in
the wilderness and is a member of the greatest family, Judah, the tribe from
whom Jesus would come. But because
of his sin Achan and all his descendants are terminated with severe
prejudice.
Rahab has nothing. A
foreigner who ran a house of ill repute, but because of her belief and fear in
God she is spared with extreme prejudice.
She is grafted into the Chosen People, marries into the tribe of Judah
and becomes the great matriarch of King David and The King, Christ the Lord.
The great human drama is always deeply personal and always, always,
always, eventually settled with extreme prejudice.
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