Of death and marriage part 2 of 2

Now let us take a momenr to look at Rahab. Rahab was the gentile woman who hid the spy’s of Israel at the battle of Jericho.

Jos 2:1 And Joshua the son of Nun sent out of Shittim two men as spies secretly, saying, Go view the land, and Jericho. And they went, and came into the house of an harlot whose name was Rahab, and lay there.
Jos 2:2 And it was told the king of Jericho, saying, Behold, there came men in hither to–night of the children of Israel to search out the land.
Jos 2:3 And the king of Jericho sent unto Rahab, saying, Bring forth the men that are come to thee, which are entered into thine house: for they be come to search out all the land.
Jos 2:4 And the woman took the two men, and hid them; and she said, Yea, the men came unto me, but I wist not whence they were:
Jos 2:5 and it came to pass about the time of the shutting of the gate, when it was dark, that the men went out: whither the men went I wot not: pursue after them quickly; for ye shall overtake them.
Jos 2:6 But she had brought them up to the roof, and hid them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order upon the roof.
Jos 2:7 And the men pursued after them the way to Jordan unto the fords: and as soon as they which pursued after them were gone out, they shut the gate.
Jos 2:8 And before they were laid down, she came up unto them upon the roof;
Jos 2:9 and she said unto the men, I know that the LORD hath given you the land, and that your terror is fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away before you.
Jos 2:10 For we have heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Red Sea before you, when ye came out of Egypt; and what ye did unto the two kings of the Amorites, that were beyond Jordan, unto Sihon and to Og, whom ye utterly destroyed.
Jos 2:11 And as soon as we had heard it, our hearts did melt, neither did there remain any more spirit in any man, because of you: for the LORD your God, he is God in heaven above, and on earth beneath.
Jos 2:12 Now therefore, I pray you, swear unto me by the LORD, since I have dealt kindly with you, that ye also will deal kindly with my father’s house, and give me a true token:
Jos 2:13 and that ye will save alive my father, and my mother, and my brethren, and my sisters, and all that they have, and will deliver our lives from death.
Jos 2:14 And the men said unto her, Our life for yours, if ye utter not this our business; and it shall be, when the LORD giveth us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with thee.
Jos 2:15 Then she let them down by a cord through the window: for her house was upon the town wall, and she dwelt upon the wall.


Rahab paid the purchess price for her family to enter the commonwealth of Israel, to be Ger (sojourners.) We know that she was not only a Sojourner, but as such she was seen as being part of the common wealth of Israel.

We know this because she was allowed to marry into the tribe of Judah, putting herself in the line of King David, and by extension our Master Yeshua. She obviously at some point was allowed to move from sojourner who had the same rights, protections, and obligations of a native of Israel to being fully married into the tribe of Judah.

Num 15:15 For the assembly, there shall be one statute for you, and for the stranger that sojourneth with you, a statute for ever throughout your generations: as ye are, so shall the stranger be before the LORD.
Num 15:16 One law and one ordinance shall be for you, and for the stranger that sojourneth with you.

Through this she was seen as being eligible for marriage. She would not have been eligible if she had not accepted the one True God of Israel, and His ways.

She was bought (the price was hiding the spies), prepared, taught, and at some point was allowed to be married. And as we have seen there were certain expectations of a bride to be.

Next lets look at Ruth. Another Gentile woman in the line of our Messiah. She was married into a mixed family of a Moabite man and an Israelite woman. The family would have had to pay a dowry, she was purchased. She had to learn to be a wife in Moab. After she followed Naomi back to her homeland of Israel, after the death of her husband, and father in law. She then had to learn to live in the Land of Israel. After learning and following Naomi’s advice she was redeemed by Boaz.

She was redeemed after being allowed to be part of the commonwealth of Israel, learned there ways, and then was married into the tribe of Judah.

Do we see a pattern?

Purchased – bought with a price!

Redeemed – allowed to be part of God, and His ways, thus being eligible for marriage!

Marriage – joined in covenant relationship with the God of Israel

We were bought with a price.

1Co 6:19 Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own;
1Co 6:20 for ye were bought with a price: glorify God therefore in your body.

We were redeemed.

Eph 1:7 in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,

We are apart of the common wealth of Israel, grafted in.

Gal 3:29 And if ye are Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, heirs according to promise.

Rom 11:17 But if some of the branches were broken off, and you - a wild olive - were grafted in among them and have become equal sharers in the rich root of the olive tree,


Now we are learning to be the Bride that we will one day become.

We have to learn the expectations of a bride of our Messiah. We must learn what it is and means to be a true Bride of the King. This is where the Torah comes in. Once we are redeemed we must learn, or relearn what it is to be the Bride. We must learn, or relearn what it is our Bridegroom wants of us. It is after the free gift of redemption comes that the true Work begins.

We have to stop over conceptualizing our Scriptures, and trying to justify our sin. We must recognize it and deal with it properly. We must die to self everyday.

1Co 15:31 Brothers, by the right to be proud which the Messiah Yeshua our Lord gives me, I solemnly tell you that I die every day.

We must learn to be the bride our Bridegroom is calling us to be.

The Torah is not and never was the problem. Yes it stood as our accuser, because it showed us the sins in our lives. Yes we learned through it that without God, and his help we could never live up to His Will. But it also showed us the Loving and compassionate character of our God. It shows us what our God wants, and expects from us. More importantly the Torah gives us the living expectations of the Bride we are supposed to be learning to be. The Torah (Law) is not the problem, we are the problem. Yeshua's Sacrifice did not do away with the Law, it did away with the death penalty for those who are redeemed by the Blood.

We can no longer take excerpts from Scripture, and build our own ways by them. We have to look at the true context of the Bible, all of our Bible, to glean from it the truths that will lead us to become the Bride that our Lord and King has asked us to become.

2Co 11:2 For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy: for I espoused you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

Rev 19:7 Let us rejoice and be exceeding glad, and let us give the glory unto him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.

Rev 19:9 And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are bidden to the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me, These are true words of God.

We must ask ourselves: Am I prepared for the King? Have I prepared and learned what it means to be the bride through our Gods Word? What does the bride need to know, and more importantly Do? Will I be attendning the wedding feast?

As we go forth and test these new ideas in Scripture let us pray that our Father gives us His Spirit of wisdom, understanding, and truth. So we may see and walk as our Messiah walked, and be true disciples in the Name of Yeshua (Jesus).  May we pray for eyes to see, ears to hear, and hearts to change for the glory of our God