Posted on 06/24/2024 9:26:57 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Rahab was a prostitute in the city of Jericho over 1,000 years before Jesus was born, and somehow this Gentile sex worker ended up in the genealogy of Jesus himself as recorded in Matthew 1:5: “Salmon the father of Boaz, whose mother was Rahab.”
Joshua 2 reports that a couple of Israelite men (Israel = God’s chosen people) showed up to scope out the city of Jericho, which God told them to overtake in an upcoming battle. They go to a prostitute’s house (ummm…) near the entrance to the city and meet Rahab. She helps the men who come to her door, lying about their whereabouts to the king, hiding and protecting them, and sending them off safely. And God honored this whole ordeal by saving her and her family in the battle, marrying her into the nation of Israel, and putting her into the lineage of Jesus.
Rahab is actually celebrated in the New Testament by the authors of the books of Hebrews and James.
“In the same way, was not even Rahab the prostitute considered righteous for what she did when she gave lodging to the spies and sent them off in a different direction? As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.” - James 2:25-26
“By faith the prostitute Rahab, because she welcomed the spies, was not killed with those who were disobedient.” - Hebrews 11:31
The God of the Bible is not a God who always rewards morality and always punishes evil. The God of the Bible is moved to love and reward when he sees real faith.
Rahab’s story displays the few critical ingredients of real faith...
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To be more specific, Rahab becomes the mother of Boaz. This leads to an observation that is lost on most people reading the book of Ruth. Boaz is wealthy, prosperous, kind, and Godly. So why is he single?--you would think that he would be the perfect "catch." But there is that one not-so-hidden aspect: he is the son of Salmon, one of the Jericho spies, and Rahab, the Jericho madam running a brothel. The only woman who didn't care about his background was the woman who had a foreign background of her own, Ruth. (Which, incidentally, makes Obed, their son and the grandfather of David, only 1/4 Hebrew. God was telling us His salvation was going to be for both Jew and Gentile long before the early church made it so.)
Does the Holy Bible ever refer to male prostitutes? If not, then we really are in the last days!!
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Good points. Thanks.
Not sure but with castration in the high courts being a rule in near every culture back then would it be too far to suggest the eunuchs in the kings and queens court?
Of course stoning was a big deal with homosexuality but? Ideas?
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Not prostitution, but male rape ... Genesis 19
See I Kings 15.12 (Asa removed the male shrine prostitutes).
Deut 23:17 in the Hebrew uses two words for prostitute: kadeshah for female and kadesh for male. Not always clear in English translations.
No such thing. Whore, slut, prostitute. In Jericho's time:harlot.
This article from crossroads indicates that by faith, a streetwalker can get to the other side.
Or, how Rahab succeeded with rehab.
Rahab [רחב]
street: rehov [רחוב]
She was bold and shrewd..
Not chicken!
Judaism has always accepted coverts. It just doesn’t seek them.
God honored real faith in God, Jew or Gentile, before and after Abraham’s decendents became known as Jews.
I feel we are in the end of times.
In Deuteronomy 23:17-18 states “17 “None of the daughters of Israel shall be a cult prostitute, and none of the sons of Israel shall be a cult prostitute. 18 You shall not bring the fee of a prostitute or the wages of a dog[a] into the house of the Lord your God in payment for any vow, for both of these are an abomination to the Lord your God.”
for a minute i thought this was going to be about stormy daniels
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