I was reading the story of Rahab again on Sunday morning. As I looked up other references in the scriptures that talk about Rahab, I saw an interesting connection. In the same way as Abraham, Rahab is actually used as a model for faith and as a model for works of righteousness. I never noticed that before. Her act of hiding the Israelite spies is recorded in Hebrews 11 (traditional faith chapter) and James 2 (Faith without works is dead chapter).
Conclusion: God gave us two noteworthy models of working in faith, a man and a woman. The woman was a prostitute, the man a pagan. God revealed himself to both of them (Abraham by speaking to him in Ur and Rahab by guiding the spies to her door). Both examples were quite passive in this initial meeting. Then they both did something to show that they trusted in the promises that God made to them.
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