Rahab and Achan

Reverence, Familiarity, & The Believer 

When people say Rahab was a prostitute, 
they often forget that while reading 
her story, she was portrayed more like a 
brothel manager rather than a prostitute 
The Prostitutes in the story of Solomon 
fitted the description better than Rahab
Why? 
They had a room each where they ply 
their trade 
Rahab had more than a room! 
Those who patronize drinking pubs and 
brothels in those days were often 
wayfarers, travelers, warriors and 
adventure seekers. 
They often bring great new from afar 
and after a bottle or two, they tell
Their stories Prostitutes usually pay 
little attention to anything but money 
Rahab did more than that 
She gathered information and she 
had the presence of mind to take full 
advantage of the information when 
she had the opportunity 
They had gods in Jericho but she was 
not fooled
This was not to imply that she didn't 
sleep with those who paid her to do so 
It was to state that she got firsthand 
information from her customers and 
also provided other necessities a typical 
hotel would provide. 
This was why the spies sent in by Joshua 
found a ready place with her. 
Before they arrived, she had heard the 
news of their exploits and confirmed 
that they were for real. 
When they eventually told her the 
truth, she added two plus two and 
decided to help them in exchange for 
her life and the lives of her relatives 
The spies made an oat with
her and she helped them escape 
She had a reverence for their God and 
the deeds of their God 
She was convinced their god was good 
enough to destroy Jericho and all her 
family members 
She was convinced the walls and the 
institutions of Jericho stood no chance 
against the band of homeless people 
wandering through the desert called 
Israelites 
She pitched her tent with the God of 
Israel. 
Achan on the other hand was born 
into Israel 
He was a citizen of Zion with a covenant 
on his destiny that reserved for him a 
place in the ranks of Israel with inalienable
rights 
Joshua met with an angel one evening 
He took a stroll with the angel and they 
struck a deal 
The angel will lead God's army into Jericho 
and level the city but everything taken 
\from Jericho, as a result, must go to God 
because the city was conquered by 
God's army! 
This was a fair deal 
If you didn't partake of the battle, you 
shouldn't partake of the loot of war 
Joshua decided it was a good deal 
The angels will hit Jericho under the 
cover of "Noise" 
Israel will have the victory and the 
spoils of war will go to the One the 
angels were created to worship
The day of reckoning came 
The children of Israel shouted 
The angels hit Jericho and leveled it 
The Israelites did not raise their hand
 in battle 
Rahab was saved and so was her family 
Joshua told the men to pack the loot 
into the tent reserved for the things of 
God 
Achan found a way to take some of the 
loot for himself 
He knew God does not spend gold and 
silver 
He knew God loves Israel and the Israelites 
Why then would a loving God deny his people 
the precious loot of Jericho 
He was sure he knew what was going on 
It was the priests 
They were greedy and selfish 
They wanted to keep everything to 
themselves 
It was unfair 
It was supposed to be national cake 
Everybody deserved a bite 
They were going to start a new nation 
and each family needed to secure itself 
economically 
There were so many reasons to take 
the gold and the silver
so he took it! He took it to his tent and 
dug a hole where he hid it 
Nobody knew about it 
Nobody in Israel suspected the heist 
Weeks went by 
He relaxed and was sure he had 
outsmarted the greedy priests 
Then Joshua made a tactical mistake 
when they went to war against AI 
Joshua underestimated AI 
He felt it was a small village that 3000 
soldiers could conquer 
He sent the army and they got beaten 
Instead of Joshua to behave like a 
Samurai and kill himself due to the 
dishonour of losing a battle 
Joshua decided to go spiritual 
It was the most absurd path to take 
It's like flunking an examination and 
going into fasting and prayer 
Prayers usually won't change anything 
The wise thing to do is to cut your losses, 
go back to the drawing board, and 
rewrite the examination 
In the course of praying, God spoke 
to Joshua and the elders 
And as expected, the spiritual does 
not pan out in a logical way 
What has the things he stole got to 
do with their losing a war? 
Angels didn't refuse to fight the war 
because he stole the items 
The war was fought by men! 
Achan nevertheless was fingered as 
the thief and he and his family 
died for his sin 
The space Achan's family left in the 
ranks of Israel was promptly filled 
by Rahab, the prostitute who feared 
the God of Israel and her family 
It was as if it was all deliberately 
orchestrated so that Rahab could 
have a foothold in the ranks of Israel. 
Familiarity with the things of the 
spirit should be shunned at all costs. 
It is very expensive 
King Uzzah became familiar with 
the duty of the Priests and he was 
struck with leprosy 
Ananias and Saphira became familiar 
with the Holy Spirit and they lost 
their lives 
Please let us learn to reverence God 
Let us learn to reverence the Holy Spirit 
Many of us became too familiar with 
the name of Jesus 
We joke with it and make unnecessary 
exclamations in the course of speaking 
We strip it of its power in our hearts and 
complain our prayers are not answered. 
Let us not take lightly what the whole of 
heaven exalts and worships 
I see comedians "joking with tongues" 
in the name of trying to make people laugh 
and i see Christians laughing at the jokes 
and also telling the joke to others 
We forget that our minds have a way 
of processing reality, we cannot convince 
our spirit that "I was joking at that time 
but i am serious now!" 
The Holy Spirit will never take the name 
of Jesus lightly with you 
Once you go in that direction, he 
shuts down 
Exalt the Father, magnify and Glorify 
Him always 
When you do this, you are establishing
a code of His kingdom 
"Thy will be done on earth as it is 
in heaven" 
When we do things on earth as they 
are done in heaven, we get the 
same result they get in heaven 
If they worship and reverence him 
in Heaven, we must do the same 
here on earth to get the same results! 

-GSW-

The Homo Christus Conference is 
holding on Thursday and Friday
October 1 and 2, 2020
The October 1 event is holding at
Theikos Doxa Evangelical Church
Opposite Maldini Granites,
No 22, Funsho Williams Avenue,
(Five minutes walk from Stadium, on
the main road!)
You are invited.
On October 2, we have the second
day of the conference online
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