Published on Apr 24, 2014
Rivaling Rahab the Prostitute's Level of Dedication/Commitment and Faith...I eventually talk about this subject a little bit after all of the mindless meandering. I got distracted with all of the troll-bashing and other stuff.
You don't find too many people who can rival the level of commitment exemplified by a prostitute that made the nation of Israel an eventual possibility.
When Rahab committed to participate in taking down Canaan, she was still a prostitute. The Hebrews chickened-out, due to the Canaanites being so big, and opted not to cross the river. They left the opposing river bank and retreated back into the desert, only to return 40 years later under the more violently aggressive rule of Joshua and his minions. By this time, Rahab was a successful business owner and her company fabricated various forms of flax and fabrics on an industrial level. Rahab was still committed to her oath to the Hebrews, even after 40 years had passed...
The flax was still hanging from her window, 40 years later, and her house was spared the carnage of the hostile takeover.
Moses was disobedient when charged with standing down the cowards, which costed the Hebrews an additional 40 years in the desert and the loss of the cowardly, programmed-to-submission generation. So Moses was not allowed to go to the Promised Land and was only able to see the takeover from the vantage point of a nearby mountain.
Rahab was more ready for action and willing to do what God wanted of her than Moses was. She was merely a prostitute at the time and he was a judge, a priest, a prophet, and a liberator of God's Chosen people. Moses wrote laws for the people to abide by in the Promised Land. But Rahab, the prostitute, made it possible for them to conquer God's enemies and take possession of the land. So, without the prostitute, the laws would've been worthless, governing a people who were not a people who had no land of their own...
God used a prostitute to grant the Promised Land to His chosen people as a statement. It's a statement that the religionists and "theologians" have worked hard to blot out and distract from due to their own male chauvinism and bigotry (they think they're "better" than prostitutes even though God never used them for anything near as enormous or historical, nor will He, due to their whack mentality).
So, the lesson here is that, just when you think you're "all that" in the plan of God and you're doing some great thing for Him, there's a longstanding historical reference of how a prostitute's faith and perseverance already outdid you and made granting of a nation to God's people possible on Earth...The prostitute was effective hands through which God/Allah could get things done...Moses didn't match her tenacity and, chances are, neither have you...I'll admit that I don't, nor have I, ever. I'm like so many common products of this "instant gratification" generation (the "iGeneration"), I give-up too easily.
I'm common. Moses was common. Rahab was not common. She was rare and unique and proof that God will use whomever HE pleases, regardless of what some holier-than-thou, bigoted, ineffective hypocrites may think or have to say about it.
Israel exists due to Rahab. Irrefutable FACT.
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