. The training of the Chosen people. Rahab illustrates the same truth inrelation to the whole of character. Her deceit andtreachery are not to be defended or palliated. Theyare in the same class as the tricks and frauds of Ja-cob. But, as in the case of Jacob, amid all this drossthere was a noble quality in this womans soul. Some-how she had come to believe that Jehovah was thetrue God, and that His purpose would triumph, andshe was loyal to that response of her soul to the truthshe had learned about Jehovah. That faith redeemedher ignorance and wickedness. Ultimately it musthave transformed h
. The training of the Chosen people. Rahab illustrates the same truth inrelation to the whole of character. Her deceit andtreachery are not to be defended or palliated. Theyare in the same class as the tricks and frauds of Ja-cob. But, as in the case of Jacob, amid all this drossthere was a noble quality in this womans soul. Some-how she had come to believe that Jehovah was thetrue God, and that His purpose would triumph, andshe was loyal to that response of her soul to the truthshe had learned about Jehovah. That faith redeemedher ignorance and wickedness. Ultimately it musthave transformed her soul, and her name has its placein the glorious muster roll of the heroes and heroinesof faith (Heb. n: 31). It was this attitude of faith that God rewarded inthe miracles of the Jordan and at Jericho. Want offaith had compelled the fathers of these men to passtheir lives in the wilderness. Now, in response to thefaith of the children, God made a highway throughthe turbulent Jordan and smote the walls of Jerichowith His own From Glimpses of Bible Jericho. We miss the finest point of this narrative if we thinkthat because God opened the way for Israel by a mir-acle, and the days of miracle have passed, the historyhas no teaching for us. In a miracle God acts ac-cording to the same principles and for the same pur-poses that govern His action in His providence. In Chapter 15. The Triumphs of Faith 53 the miracle we see the end, which is usually reached bya slow process, achieved at a stroke. Just as a tinymirror held in the hand may reflect the distant land-scape and the glories of the heavens, the miracle re-flects in a single moment of time the principles andpurposes that control the divine action in the vastrealms of nature and human history. The miracle isthe providence of ages condensed into a moment. The teaching, then, of these great deliverances andvictories of Israel is that the resources of God arepledged to the fulfilment of His promises, and His
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