Sovereign Grace Community Church

The writer drew two of his examples of faith from the Jericho episode. The first was the Israelites, whose faith saw Jericho conquered and destroyed, and the second was Rahab, whose faith delivered her and her family from that destruction. Rahab's inclusion in the writer's catalog of faith is hugely important, for she had no connection with the Abrahamic family and their covenant God. She was outside the commonwealth of Israel and a stranger to Israel's covenant- her faith wasn't in the God who'd spoken at Sinai and given His Torah, but the God whose mighty deeds testified of His veracity and faithfulness. Her inclusion here, then, illumines the concept of faith and its place in God's intent for the human race.