We will be looking at two of the plagues this week. The third plague – gnats. And the fourth plague – flies. Little tiny bugs. Both give me the shivers. I don’t know about you, but bugs bug me (pun intended). We live in South Louisiana and both gnats and flies are in great supply here. Both are irritating and pesky. I don’t know about you but if you are familiar with either one, just multiply those tiny little bugs by the hundreds of millions and you might have an idea of how much the Egyptian suffered.
Tag: Moses
A RIVER OF BLOOD
as we learned before, Pharaoh believed he was descended from the supreme god. He believed that he had power over all facets of Egyptian life. He had magicians and wise men who could perform ‘miracles’. Whether these came by illusion or from demons is not told in the scripture. However, they could reproduce some of the things that God sent upon the Egyptians. But they could not reverse anything that God sent. God would soon show them that their gods had no power. One by one, the gods would fall.
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NEVER HEARD OF HIM
By this time, the Israelites have descended into abject slavery. They were forced to make bricks. Their newborn sons were being thrown to the crocodiles. Those that were fortunate enough not to be making bricks were household or field slaves with nothing of their own. Their whole lives were dedicated to making the lives of the Egyptians easy. It was into this that Moses arrived to bring the hope of freedom.
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DELIVERANCE IS ON THE WAY
Moses, reluctantly, decided to follow God’s Instructions. Every felt like that? God tells you to do something and you really don’t want to. I know that I felt that way often growing up when my parents told me to do stuff. Often I didn’t want to, but equally more often, I did it anyway. Most of the time, it was ultimately rewarding. Other times, not so much. Moses had tried and tried to get out of going back to Egypt.
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WHO AM I?
One would think that Moses would be ready to do God’s bidding. He knew that his people were suffering. He knew that he had run away after killing an overseer. He knew that he had a price on his head in Egypt. But he knew that now he was a nobody. A shepherd. The kind of person that the Egyptians despised. He was no longer a prince of Egypt, the son of the daughter of Pharoah. I mean, really. He had been gone for forty years. He could just see the reaction of both the Israelites and the Egyptians. And he voiced it in three words, “Who am I?”
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MAN ON THE RUN
When we left Moses last time, he was a baby and was adopted by the daughter of Pharoah. A princess of the land. It follows that Moses was educated as a prince of Egypt. He was a trained warrior and a scholar. He probably knew several languages, the customs and traditions of several nations as well as how to run a province or even an entire country. He lived a life of privilege but at the same time he knew that he was not Egyptian by birth but a Hebrew.
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REALLY, I FOUND HIM IN THE RIVER
Exodus 2 begins with a birth announcement. A man and woman of the tribe of Levi had a child. A baby boy. Jochebed and Amran had two children before this baby. Aaron and Miriam. All of these children would be used of God over the next 120 years. We’ll see just how in our study of Exodus.
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WHY BELIEVE THE BIBLE – PART 2
There are a lot of arguments concerning the validity of the Bible. In Why Believe the Bible – Part 1 we went through the secular issues such as documentation, archaeology, various sciences, medicine and so on. I will be referring to some of that information in today’s blog. Now, let’s look at the book itself. What are the main arguments? Here are just a few. I may have to write a Part 3 and Part 4, because there are so many more arguments beyond these four and some explanations may be longer than others in the telling. So, Part 2 will be discussing how we got the Bible, who wrote it and God’s part in the writing and how it is unique among other religious texts.
