Jos 2:12 | KingComments | STEP | Rahab doesn’t only ask for salvation for herself. Although she is not the head of a family, she still asks for salvation for all of her family. That is her wish. She makes this known. She trusts in the goodness of God. It is according to God’s thought to save families. That does not take away our responsibility to tell them about it. Rahab must also go to her relatives to tell them what is needed to be saved. We must go out to announce the only way of salvation. Caring for her family is proof that she has already broken with her harlotry. For a harlot, family relationships established by God mean nothing, no matter how much she herself may sometimes claim the opposite. When there is a real conversion, we also notice a desire for broken family relationships to be restored. There is no valid motive for God we could imagine why someone goes or stays in prostitution. Nowhere in the Bible is there any mention of harlotry with any respect or even understanding. It is always strongly condemned. All sins are bad, but God describes fornication as a special sin ( ). But also for a harlot there is grace. We see that in Rahab.

‏ Joshua 2:12

Rahab Pleads for Her Family

Rahab doesn’t only ask for salvation for herself. Although she is not the head of a family, she still asks for salvation for all of her family. That is her wish. She makes this known. She trusts in the goodness of God. It is according to God’s thought to save families. That does not take away our responsibility to tell them about it. Rahab must also go to her relatives to tell them what is needed to be saved. We must go out to announce the only way of salvation.

Caring for her family is proof that she has already broken with her harlotry. For a harlot, family relationships established by God mean nothing, no matter how much she herself may sometimes claim the opposite. When there is a real conversion, we also notice a desire for broken family relationships to be restored.

There is no valid motive for God we could imagine why someone goes or stays in prostitution. Nowhere in the Bible is there any mention of harlotry with any respect or even understanding. It is always strongly condemned. All sins are bad, but God describes fornication as a special sin (1Cor 6:18). But also for a harlot there is grace. We see that in Rahab.