Title The Spiritual Church/Joshua 2:15-24
Content Introduction
Main subject
1. The spiritual church is on the wall.
The spiritual church is not under the mountain, but on the mountain (verse 15). Jesus compared the saints to the salt and light of the earth (Matthew 5:14-15). And this light is something that the city on the mountain cannot hide. you say it will It is said that a lamp is not lighted and put under feet, but on a lampstand, so that no one can hide. Here, the light refers to Jesus Christ. (John 1:4, 9, 8:12) The lamp means the word of God. (Psalm 119:105) The lampstand refers to the family. Therefore, the village on the mountain is a model of the church that illuminates the world. Rahab's house was on a mountain. It was on a wall. Therefore, it must be remembered that this house is a special house that anyone can see, but no one can easily come up to.
Just as Noah's Ark stayed on Mount Ararat, Rahab's house on the wall is the Spiritual Church. This is because the work of salvation was accomplished only here.
2. God's secret is hidden in Rahab's house.
The lavish pubs under the walls had no red stripes on their windows. That is, there was no prophet or man of God who had the mystery of God. However, in the house of the prostitute Rahab, the two spies sent by Joshua were hiding under three generations (verse 6). Although not noisy, the secret of God, the key to salvation, was hidden here. So this place is a special home. It is a precious and gracious home. It is God's refuge and preparation place (Psalm 46:1). God clearly distinguishes the church of Satan from the church of God on the mountain. When Jericho City fell, all the houses under the sky were destroyed, but only the spiritual house above the wall, the house of Rahab, a prostitute who hid the secret of God, was saved. It became a spiritual house because we received Jesus Christ, the secret meaning of God's Word. Isn't that what we are today who believes in Jesus?
3. In Rahab's house, there was a song of life and spiritual wine.
Rahab's house is a stranger's house. Rahab's house is where the wandering footsteps from their hometown stay. (Verse 1) Here, they wash away their fatigue through the laughter of a gisaeng, soothe their tiredness through a song of a gisaeng, and travel with a glass of wine served by a gisaeng Heal your empty heart and sorrow. The Spiritual Church is also a place that does this. The door of the spiritual church is always open. Anyone can come. The weary, wandering, and lonely souls can come and complain in prayer, get drunk with the new wine of the word of God and the spiritual Spirit, and praise the joy, comfort, and peace of heaven (Acts 2:13). There is no reason to be rejected just because you are ignorant or hurt.
4. There is a true confession of faith in Rahab's house.
When King Jericho heard the news of the spies' infiltration, he was frightened and brought Rahab to visit him (verse 3). However, Rahab does not reveal the secret of God hidden in her heart and keeps it until the end. The Bible testifies that this was an act based on the power of Rahab's true confession of faith (verse 11). Rahab clearly confessed that there is only one God in heaven and earth. King Jericho is the incarnation of Satan in Revelation 12-13, and Rahab means the church that is saved and nurtured in the wilderness reserve, that is, the woman in Revelation 12. Isn't this the word that shows that the way to be saved in the midst of the 7-year tribulation is to be able to profess great faith by having two spiritual witnesses in her heart like Rahab? The spiritual church that believes and follows the words of prophecy has a reserve in the wilderness. Without being nurtured and tested in this reserve, you cannot profess your great faith. You cannot endure the plots and persecutions of the Antichrist.
conclusion
There was no persecution by the king because the house of another prostitute did not receive two witnesses. The spiritual church is persecuted by the Antichrist, but there is no need to worry because God's passionate love that others do not know is hidden in our hearts. You can only live by keeping the Word. We can overcome the 7-year tribulation only when we have the secret of the two witnesses in our hearts. Rahab knew the destruction of Jericho (verse 9). She also knew the mystery of Christ (verse 10). Furthermore, she prepared the truthful mark to live in the end (verse 13). The red cord hanging from the window, that is, the Isn't it a symbol of the power and power of the blood? This is the gift of life that Rahab paid for her life. This red line is the secret that led to the reward of life that risked his life and saved two witnesses. Let's keep secrets too. You have to have secrets to live. The two witnesses were a secret unknown to Rahab.
Just as the bitumen of the ark was a secret in the days of Noah, and the blood of the sheep on the doorposts was a secret to the Israelites exodus from Egypt, we too must know the secret of the number of 666 beasts to live in the last days. I hope that you will light up our souls by lighting high lamps, become a spiritual church like Rahab, and become the saints who will be saved through the secret history hidden in your heart in the end.