Jordan, ark, and Rahab’s soul

Jesus my Lord and Savior has taken the principate. Compare Moses’ deeds with Jesus’ rule. When Moses led Israel from Egypt there was no order in the people, no observance among the priests; they crossed the salt sea with a wall of water on right and left. When my Lord leads: priests go before, the ark of the covenant is borne; not the sea but the Jordan — not in panicked flight but with priests shouldering the ark, with trumpets sounding a heavenly mystery. He who came to break down the middle wall of partition made both one: one part of the water stood, the other flowed to the sea. Prepare food for the journey — works that accompany us as faithful provision for the way ahead. Once we cross, manna ceases; whoever has not prepared food cannot follow Jesus into the land of promise. First fruits in the land: from the region of palms, and unleavened bread — the palm of victory, and, casting out the leaven of malice, the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. Jesus sends spies to Jericho’s king; a harlot receives them — each soul was a harlot while it lived in fleshly desires; it receives the angels he sent before his face to prepare his way, and lodges them not in low places but on high.