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“Behold, when we come into the land, thou shalt bind this line of scarlet thread in the window…and thou shalt bring thy father, and thy mother, and thy brethren, and all thy father’s household, home unto thee…and she bound the scarlet line in the window” (Joshua 2:18,21).
Rahab was not a morally upright woman, but the Lord had worked in her heart, and she had faith in the true God — the God of Israel. Because she had protected the two men who had come from Joshua to spy out the land, they promised her that anyone in her home would be safe when the Israelites came back to conquer the city of Jericho. The sign would be the scarlet line that she was to bind in her window.
The scarlet line is a picture of the blood of Christ, and reminds us of the blood on the doors of the houses of the Israelites, when they were in Egypt. Anyone in a house in Egypt with blood on the door would be safe, and anyone in Rahab’s house was safe too. We too are safe, if we are under the blood of Christ.
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