Thread by @GbengaWemimo

Reverance, 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 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 his 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 & 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 i
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
Its 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-

Rahab and Achan gbengawemimo.com/post/rahab-and…
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...