Category: Exodus
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Tomorrow is Behind Us
And the Lord appointed a set time, saying, Tomorrow the Lord shall do this thing in the land. Exodus 9:5 (KJV) Tomorrow – One of the most fascinating intricacies of the Hebrew culture is their understanding of time. It’s not linear as we view it today. In our Greco-Roman culture the past has already happened…
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Aaron’s Mistake
And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. And when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made…
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Hebraic Obedience
And all the people answered together, and said, All that the Lord hath spoken we will do. And Moses returned the words of the people unto the Lord. Exodus 19:8 (KJV) We will do – Do you realize that at this point when the people agreed, they actually hadn’t yet heard the commandments? He’s only told…
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A Hardened Heart
And the Lord said unto Moses, When thou goest to return into Egypt, see that thou do all those wonders before Pharaoh, which I have put in thine hand: but I will harden his heart, that he shall not let the people go. Exodus 4:21 Harden – The picture here is that YHWH actively hardened Pharaoh’s…
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The River
And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive. Exodus 1:21 (KJV) Cast into the river – Israel has an amazing history with “the river”. This is the scene that sets in motion the redemptive power of YHWH. And it is here where…
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Law of Liberty
And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables. Exodus 32:16 (KJV) Graven – So many of us look at the law as a burden, or restrictive. We definitely don’t refer to it as freedom, or life-giving. But the Hebrew language provides a little…
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Finishing God’s Sentences – part 2
And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this day in your generations by an ordinance for ever. Exodus 12:17 (KJV) Unleavened bread – So let’s look at this sentence again. We know that the words “the…
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Finishing God’s Sentences – part 1
And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this day in your generations by an ordinance for ever. Exodus 12:17 (KJV) The feast of – I’ve been married for over a decade now and…
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Threshold Covenant
And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the bason; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning. Exodus 12:22 (KJV)…