God's Promise Sparknotes
One of the ways that the narrator is communicating the importance of God’s Promise is through Rahab’s important speech in verses 8-14. We know that Rahab has done something really nice for the spies, but we do not know why until this portion. Now, she goes up to the roof to explain to the spies why she has helped them. Her confession is unexpected because she is a prostitute, but she claims YHWH as God and describes the miraculous things she had heard that God had done for them. In referring to what God has done, she doesn’t ask about them like she just heard somebody randomly claim it; but she speaks about very specific things that he has done such as the crossing of the Red Sea. It doesn’t say how she knows these things happened, but probably
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Rahab is clearly identified as a prostitute immediately although it is never clear in the story whether or not the spies slept with her, or just used her home as an inn. It seems to us that Rahab hiding the men and sending the officers away if a direct act to help fulfill God’s promise of the land. It is interesting though, that she lies in order to do so, which is never encouraged biblically. One important thing to notice is that Rahab is acting from an “underdog’s” standpoint. Her lying cannot be considered completely morally okay, but her lie worked in the same direction as God’s will for His people. Rahab’s lie shows human weakness, and yet through this God’s promise in confirmed.
The narrator also uses the Plot the emphasize the importance of God’s Promises. Some main plot events are the spies coming into the city and to the prostitute’s house, and the prostitute hiding and helping the spies. Both of these acts show ig risks being taken. The willingness to take these risks show their trust and confidence in God’s promise to grant the land to Israel. Both Rahab and the spies are putting their lives in danger in order to make things happen, and rather than being fearful or trying to take things into their own hands, they go ahead and do those things knowing that God is going to follow
Rahab is clearly identified as a prostitute immediately although it is never clear in the story whether or not the spies slept with her, or just used her home as an inn. It seems to us that Rahab hiding the men and sending the officers away if a direct act to help fulfill God’s promise of the land. It is interesting though, that she lies in order to do so, which is never encouraged biblically. One important thing to notice is that Rahab is acting from an “underdog’s” standpoint. Her lying cannot be considered completely morally okay, but her lie worked in the same direction as God’s will for His people. Rahab’s lie shows human weakness, and yet through this God’s promise in confirmed.
The narrator also uses the Plot the emphasize the importance of God’s Promises. Some main plot events are the spies coming into the city and to the prostitute’s house, and the prostitute hiding and helping the spies. Both of these acts show ig risks being taken. The willingness to take these risks show their trust and confidence in God’s promise to grant the land to Israel. Both Rahab and the spies are putting their lives in danger in order to make things happen, and rather than being fearful or trying to take things into their own hands, they go ahead and do those things knowing that God is going to follow