Joshua I Entering the Promised Land I Handmaidens, Harems and Heroines I Lynne Wilson

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🗓️ 11 May 2026

⏱️ 26 minutes

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In this episode of Handmaidens, Harems, and Heroines, Dr. Lynne Hilton Wilson explores the powerful women and pivotal covenant moments found in the book of Joshua. As the children of Israel finally cross the Jordan River and enter the Promised Land under Joshua’s leadership, we witness the fulfillment of promises made generations earlier. From the miraculous crossing of the Jordan to the dramatic fall of Jericho’s walls, this episode highlights how faith, obedience, and covenant loyalty shaped Israel’s destiny. A special focus is placed on Rahab, one of the most surprising and courageous women in the Old Testament. Though known as Rahab the harlot, her story becomes one of redemption, faith, and divine protection as she risks everything to shelter Israelite spies and align herself with the God of Israel. Dr. Wilson examines Rahab’s remarkable transformation from outsider to covenant participant and discusses her lasting legacy in scripture. Join us as we uncover how women like Rahab played essential roles in God’s unfolding covenant story and what their examples teach us today.

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0:00.0	The Lord had called them up the mount. He wanted to give them the higher law.
0:03.6	He wanted them to be his people and they refused.
0:06.8	Now Joshua gets to lead the children of Israel into the promised land.
0:12.0	This new arrangement is very difficult. It also places the wives in a position of great leadership.
0:19.2	Somebody covets a wedge of gold, buries it in his tent,
0:23.6	the battle goes poorly, Israelites are killed. Joshua pleads before the Lord, I thought you were going to protect us. What happened?
0:31.6	The Lord says, shout! The walls fall down, the people are destroyed. The woman that lived there was a harlot.
0:39.3	Her name is Rehab. She uses a scarlet rope.
0:43.3	This is one of the greatest things I found in this chapter is what happens in chapter 6 with that rope.
0:48.3	Hello, welcome back to Scripture Central.
0:52.3	I'm Lynn Hilton Wilson, part of the team that tries to build
0:56.9	enduring faith in Jesus Christ by illuminating and defending our scriptures. And I love the Old Testament.
1:04.3	I love the Old Testament this year, especially because I'm looking at the women. And today we're going to look at some handmaidens.
1:10.1	We're going to look at a harlot, a very famous harlot, and she becomes a heroine. So I hardly want to call her a harlot. And then lots of other women, we're in the book of Joshua. And this is a wonderful time when the children of Israel are able to enter into their promised land. We've got Rehab and her sisters and our mother.
1:28.3	We've got the wives of the two and a half tribes on the east side of Jordan are mentioned.
1:33.3	We've got the wives and the women in Jericho and I. We've got a daughter of Ankur.
1:39.3	We've got the Israelite women in the assembly. And of course, the mention of all the marriages with
1:45.7	women of the nations.
1:46.7	I just want to go back to where we finished last time, this idea of a 40-year Exodus cycle,
1:53.6	where you go through these events that actually are typifying of the Christ, of the Messiah. As we go through the Red Sea, Paul says it's like being baptized,
2:04.6	and the manna in the water is the sacrament. And now that we've ended the 40 years, this period
2:09.6	of purification, we talked about in the book of Leviticus, is a time period that a woman waits
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