Rahab, the last person the author of Hebrews talks about in any detail in his gallery of faith heroes, is the one who seems least likely to be included in the list. For one thing, she was a woman. In the Jewish culture from which the book of Hebrews emerges, men were usually picked first as models of holy living.
In addition, Rahab was a non-Jew (a Gentile). Why would a Jewish teacher writing to a Jewish audience pick a non-Jewish example of fearless faith? But the main reason she seems least likely to appear in Hebrews 11 is that she was a prostitute. Notwithstanding all of that, Rahab demonstrated outstanding trust in God with a remarkable act of courage.
Rahab’s story reminds us that no one—not even our enemy, as Rahab originally was to the Israelites—is beyond God’s reach.
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