In the same way, even Rahab the prostitute was considered to be right with God because of what she did for the spies. She gave them a place to stay and then sent them off safely in a different direction.
These were the spirits of those who had disobeyed long before, when God was being patient while Noah built the ark. Only a few people, eight in all, were saved from the flood in the ark.
And, “It’s a stone that causes people to trip, a rock that makes them fall.” People who don’t obey the message trip and fall, just the way God planned it.
And who did God swear an oath about, that they would never enter the rest he planned for them? Didn’t he swear that oath about the people who didn’t obey?