Rahab's Inner Covenant

Joshua 2:12-20 - A Neville Goddard interpretation

Read Joshua 2 in context

Scripture Focus

12Now therefore, I pray you, swear unto me by the LORD, since I have shewed you kindness, that ye will also shew kindness unto my father's house, and give me a true token:
13And that ye will save alive my father, and my mother, and my brethren, and my sisters, and all that they have, and deliver our lives from death.
14And the men answered her, Our life for yours, if ye utter not this our business. And it shall be, when the LORD hath given us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with thee.
15Then she let them down by a cord through the window: for her house was upon the town wall, and she dwelt upon the wall.
16And she said unto them, Get you to the mountain, lest the pursuers meet you; and hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers be returned: and afterward may ye go your way.
17And the men said unto her, We will be blameless of this thine oath which thou hast made us swear.
18Behold, when we come into the land, thou shalt bind this line of scarlet thread in the window which thou didst let us down by: and thou shalt bring thy father, and thy mother, and thy brethren, and all thy father's household, home unto thee.
19And it shall be, that whosoever shall go out of the doors of thy house into the street, his blood shall be upon his head, and we will be guiltless: and whosoever shall be with thee in the house, his blood shall be on our head, if any hand be upon him.
20And if thou utter this our business, then we will be quit of thine oath which thou hast made us to swear.
Joshua 2:12-20

Biblical Context

Rahab asks the spies to spare her family and deliver them from death, promising loyalty in return. The agreement hinges on a visible token—the scarlet cord—and a solemn oath of mutual protection.

Neville's Inner Vision

Rahab’s plea is more than a historic treaty; it is an inner drama about the I AM delivering the entire house of consciousness from the fear of 'death'—the breaking of old conditions. In Neville’s language, Rahab represents the awakened state within you that recognizes you are one with the I AM and that mercy follows belief. She calls for kindness to her father’s house because in the inner kingdom, your entire life—habits, memories, and relationships—belongs to the same warm current of awareness. The scarlet cord she places in the window is the tangible token of a settled assumption: you, the inner you, have already accepted a state of safety and mercy, and the outer world must reflect it. The spies’ pledge, “our life for yours,” is your inner vow to protect this state against doubt. When the window is bound with the red line, you declare in images and feeling that this state is irrevocably yours. The three days of hiding symbolize the necessary interior period in which the old conditions recede. Once this covenant is established in imagination, the land you seek—health, success, peace—moves into expression through your own I AM.

Practice This Now

Assume the state: you are already saved, and your household is protected by the I AM; feel that certainty as a vivid sensation. Visualize a scarlet thread binding the window of your inner house, a perpetual sign that this covenant is real.

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