Foundational Podcast

Click here to download this podcast Have you had experiences like I have, where you meet people who think God is just a mean and angry God? They point to stories in the Old Testament like the flood, when God destroyed everything on planet earth except Noah and his family and 2 of every kind of animal. Or they refer to times in the Bible when God commanded the Israelites to capture a city and destroy everyone in it. But there is one story that they miss entirely. Rahab was the city prostitute who helped Israelite spies to spy out Jericho so that they could escape unharmed. In her encounter with them, she chooses to believe in the Living God. God rewarded her faith by sparing her and her family when the Israelites conquered the city of Jericho. Does it seem odd to you that its the city prostitute that's spared? It gets stranger later on in Scripture, because she marries a Jewish man from the tribe of Judah and becomes the great-great grandma of King David and is in the bloodline of Jesus Christ. "Salmon begot