Merry Christmas - A Virgin will Bear a Son - Isaiah 7

                                                                    Isaiah 7

¹⁴ So the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will become pregnant and give birth to a son, and call him Immanuel.

Rahab the Prostitute and the 2 Hebrew Spies

                                                                Joshua Chapter 2

Joshua the son of Nun sent out 2 spies, they went to Jericho. They stayed at Rahab the harlot's house.

²  The king of Jericho, was told about the Israelite spies.
³  The king of Jericho sent word to Rahab to bring out the spies.
⁴ After hiding the two men, she claimed that though they came to her, she did not know where they went.
⁵ She told the king's men to chase after them quickly. .
⁶ She then hid them on the roof of the house under stalks of flax.
⁷ So the king's men pursued them.

⁹ She told the spies, she knew that the Lord hath given them the land, that all the inhabitants of the land were terrified of them.
¹⁰ Also how the Lord dried up the water of the Red sea for them, when they came out of Egypt and utterly destroyed the Amorite kings before them.
¹¹ And their hearts melted because of Israel, for their Lord God, He is God in heaven above, and on earth below.
¹² She asked them to protect her family in return for her help.

¹⁴ And the men agreed.
¹⁵ Then she let them down by a rope through the window, for her house was on the town wall..
¹⁶ And she told them to hide in the mountain, for three days, until the pursuers returned.
¹⁷ And the men said to her, "We swear to save you if you bring your family into your house and hang this red scarf on your window".
.¹⁹ "We are not to blame if your people go out of the house or if you tell of our agreement".
²¹ She agreed and sent them away, then bound the red scarf in the window.

God gives Joshua Instructions following the Death of Moses

                                                             Joshua Chapter 1

When Moses died, God told Joshua,  ² “My servant Moses is dead. So you and all the Israelite people get ready to cross the Jordan to the land I am about to give them. ³ I will give you wherever you tread, as I promised Moses. ⁴ Your land will be from the desert to Lebanon, and from the great river Euphrates to the Mediterranean Sea in the west. ⁵ All your life you will be unbeatable. I will be with you just as I was with Moses. I will never forsake you and will always be with you. ⁶ Be strong and do not fear, because you will take these people to inherit the land I swore to their fathers to give them".

HAPPY EASTER TO ALL

Joseph meets his brothers again after being sold into slavery by them

                                                          Genesis 42 - 45
When Jacob (Joseph's father) learned that Egypt had food despite the famine,
he sent 10 of his sons there to buy grain.
Joseph was in charge of the grain and his brothers came to him to buy some.
He recognized them, but pretended he did not know them and accused them
of being spies.
He then put them through several trials including prison, and sent one of
them back home to their father.
After more trials he finally revealed himself to his brothers and told them to
bring everybody back to Egypt including their father Jacob also known as Israel.