Thoughts of Rahab

I think that what strikes me most about the person of Rahab in the Bible, isn't that she was a well-known prostitute, nor that the soldiers who were looking for the Israelites took her at her word that they had gone. What strikes me the most is how her position changes in the Bible. In this original story of her, she has one of the lowest places in society and by the end, because of her good deeds and the faith that she showed to the Israelite people, the lives of her and her family were spared. This does not explain what happened after she joined the Hebrew people. How did she integrate into their very strict society? What did she do to become so accepted and even married with children? The reason that I wonder about this is because, based on the geneology of Jesus found in Matthew, she is not only the mother of Boaz, who is touted as one of the best male role models of the age, but also is a direct ancestor of Jesuus, the messiah. There must have been a huge amount of grace shown as well as alot of struggles to get through for the 'heroin' of the story. I feel like her story of redemption, and the stories of redemption that follow her blood line (i.e. the redemption of Ruth) are a prelude and recurring theme to the redemption that Jesus gives for all in the new testament. Which makes a certain connection to why she would be in his ancestral line. They turned out to be quite the family of redeemers.
~Andrea Heeter