The Walls of Jericho: Lesson Three

The scarlet line was her token of mercy.

Rahab asked the spies to spare her father's house and give her a true token.

Joshua 2:12 (KJV): Now therefore, I pray you, swear unto me by the LORD, since I have shewed you kindness, that ye will also shew kindness unto my father's house, and give me a true token:

The token was a line of scarlet thread in her window, and her family had to be inside her house.

Joshua 2:18 (KJV): Behold, when we come into the land, thou shalt bind this line of scarlet thread in the window which thou didst let us down by: and thou shalt bring thy father, and thy mother, and thy brethren, and all thy father's household, home unto thee.

She did not wait. She bound the scarlet line in the window that same day.

Joshua 2:21 (KJV): And she said, According unto your words, so be it. And she sent them away, and they departed: and she bound the scarlet line in the window.

We are not redeemed with silver or gold, but with the precious blood of Christ.

1 Peter 1:18-19 (KJV): Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: