On The Walls Or Inside The Gates

Hebrews 11:31

31 By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed not, when she had received the spies with peace.

KJV

Sunday, March 20, 2016

10:47 PM

1. 1. Rahab

1. a. Rachab OT:7343 Rachab (raw-khawb'); the same as OT:7342; proud; Rachab, a Canaanitess: KJV - Rahab. 

1. i. OT:7342 OT:7342 rachab (raw-khawb'); from OT:7337; roomy, in any (or every) direction, literally or figuratively: KJV - broad, large, at liberty, proud, wide. 

1. 1. OT:7337 OT:7337 rachab (raw-khab'); a primitive root; to broaden (intransitive or transitive, literal or figurative): KJV - be an en- make) large (-ing), make room, make (open) wide. 

1. a. Matthew 7:13 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: 14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. KJV

1. 2. The House On The Wall

1. a. Joshua 2:15 Then she let them down by a cord through the window: for her house was upon the town wall, and she dwelt upon the wall. KJV

1. i. The walls of Jericho were 6 feet thick and 26 feet high

1. ii. A home on the wall provided a view of both the city within the walls, and the countryside and all that went on outside the walls

1. iii. It would seem the poor and down and out lived on the wall

1. 3. Walls VS Gates

1. a. On the wall there as a measure of safety, but not such safety was provided from within the gates.  

1. b. Some may choose to live "on the wall" with Christ, never coming deep inside,  ever close the life they "left behind"

1. c. Maybe it was sin that caused Rahab to live on the wall.  Maybe she was not accepted down inside the city because of her lifestyle

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