Reasoning Through the Bible

The instructions for the Passover event continues with the description of the Feast of Unleavened Bread.  God instructs the observance of these events are to be a permenant ordinance for the Israelites.  We have seen that has been true as Passover has indeed been observed for thousands of years and continues. The instruction to place the blood of the passover lamb over the doorposts and lintel are reinforced in this passage. What is it that this blood protects against? 

We discuss the wrath of God that is coming and how we can be protected from it.  

• Do some people have a one-sided view of God?
• What does the blood on the door protect against?
• Was God just in causing the death of the firstborn of Egypt?
• Will the Church (Christ's Body of Believers) be protected during the Great Tribulation?
• How do we insure protection from Jesus Christ's wrath that is coming?

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God gives Israel instructions for choosing a lamb for the Passover.  Only by putting the blood of the lamb on the door would a family protect their firstborn.  God's instructions about the Passover lamb were very specific and foreshadowed Jesus Christ, who is the true Passover lamb.  

• Why did the lamb need to be perfect and unblemished?
• What happens if someone did not put the blood on the door?
• Is faith a work of merit that contributes to our salvation?
• Can we keep one foot in the world and also follow God? 

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God gives Moses the final instructions for Pharoah. The firstborn will be killed before Pharoah will relent and let Israel go.  God judges Egypt and fulfills a prophecy He made over 500 years earlier, namely that Israel would come out of Egypt with great wealth.  God repays Israel for years of slavery when Egypt gives Israel great wealth then wishing them to go. This session also gives us a chance to deal with the problem of evil and the question of whether God's actions were moral. 

Pharoah's refusal to submit to the God of Israel has destroyed his land, which is a picture of the destruction in our lives when we will not submit to the Lord. 

• Does God have the power to accomplish His will through the free acts of people?
• Is it fair of God to take the lives of all the firstborn people and animals?
• What is God capable of doing?
• What is the significance of taking of Pharoah's firsborn?  

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The eighth plague on Egypt has begun. Locusts, directed by God, arrive on an east wind for a 24-hour period.  When morning breaks locusts in numbers so heavy that Egypt had never seen, nor would they ever again.  They covered the surface of the whole land of Egypt. The land was so thick with them it was darkened, and the locusts were voracious eaters, destroying anything that was green, plants, trees, fruit, and the crops that survived the previous hailstorm plague. Nothing was spared. 

In a panic, Pharaoh calls for Moses confessing that he had sinned against the LORD, the God of Israel. Pleading with Moses to remove the plague, Moses petitions God and on a west wind, shifted by God, the locusts are driven into the Red Sea ending the plague. Afterwards Pharaoh still refuses to let the people go. 

This refusal results in the ninth plague of total darkness over all the land of Egypt, except for the land of Goshen, where the Israelites were.  The darkness was so thick, that people didn't go out of there houses or move about the land at all for three days. Pharaoh's strategy this time was to grant the Israelites to leave, but demands they leave their livestock behind. Moses notes that this is not acceptable, so Pharaoh said that the people shall not go. 

The stage is set for the tenth and final plague upon Pharaoh, and all of Egypt. Pharaoh has been given multiple chances, now death will make a personal visit.

• How bad is sin?
• How much does sin eat away at our lives?
• Should our prayers and worship be a show for unbelievers?
• What happens to us when we are in sin?
• Should we ever make compromises in our faith?

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This Q&A session answers two questions: 

• What is the difference between "receiving the Holy Spirit" and "being filled with the Holy Spirit?" 

We look at examples to note the differences between these phrases. Other phrases often heard is the Holy Spirit will fall on someone, or others will welcome the Holy Spirit. Join us as we venture into these areas of The Holy Spirit to understand their meaning. 

• Is it true that the Bible has been translated so many times that we cannot tell what it originally meant? 

Can we trust that we have the best Bible translation and the most accurate Bible translation? If the translations are not accurate, what about the stories of the Bible? Is the Bible historically accurate if what we have is many generations from the original language, as claimed by the skeptics?

Join us as we look into this topic to explain the origin of The Holy Bible and the various translations we have today.

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God uses Pharaoh's stubbornness and heavy heart to perform miraculous signs which Moses and the Israelites can pass down from generation to generation. God is making a mockery of the Egyptians so that the Hebrews will know that the God they serve is a mighty God. Moses lets Pharaoh know that if he will not humble himself, that God will send a plague of locusts so great, no one will be able to see the land. 

Pharaoh's servants plead for Pharaoh to let the people go, that they may serve the LORD their God. Through the seven plagues so far, Egypt is destroyed, yet as God previously told Moses, Pharaoh will not yield until the death of the firstborn Egyptians and Pharaoh's firstborn takes place. The Egyptians believed that Pharaoh and their many gods would protect them, but they are finding out the opposite is true. 

• Why does God harden (make heavy) Pharaoh and his servant's heart?
• Does God have the right to use disobedient people to demonstrate His power?
• Are we commanded to humble ourselves to God?
• Is Pharaoh given chances to follow God?
• Is lack of evidence a reason in our time for people to not believe in God? 

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Egypt and it's people continue to come under judgmental plagues due to Pharaoh's repeated stubbornness to yield to God. Five plagues have been put on Egypt by God and there are more coming. Each one is countering the gods which Egypt and their Pharaoh worshipped. 

The sixth plague infects Egypt with boils and sores. Afterwards Moses confronts Pharaoh face to face with God's message and it is clear why God is inflicting all these judgments on Pharaoh. Pharaoh's heart is set against God and has been set against God from the beginning. God is using this situation to demonstrate His superiority and uniqueness among all the other religions. God is giving people the freedom to follow Him or not. 

God inflicts a seventh plague of hail and fire that destroys crops and livestock. However God protects the land of Goshen where the Israelites are. We see God once again starting end ending each of these plagues as he wills to do so with great precision.   

• Who is really in charge throughout all of this?
• Why does God allow Pharaoh to remain?
• Is it fair of God to inflict these judgments to demonstrate who He is?
• Do we ever exalt ourselves above God?
• What is the overall lesson learned from Pharaoh's resistance to God?
• Is Pharaoh sincere in his acknowledgment of God?

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Pharoah is feeling the pain and pressure to let Israel go to serve the real God, so he begins to try to negotiate with Moses.  Pharoah repeatedly goes back on his word, first telling Moses he will let Israel go then hardening his heart against God and going back on his word.  

The confrontation between the true God of Israel and the false god of Pharoah becomes obvious. Egypt worshipped cattle and held Pharoah to be a god.  The true God shows that Pharoah and the false gods of Egypt are powerless. Further, Pharoah's stubbornness results in the common people of Egypt suffering, which shows how our sin causes suffering to innocent people around us. 

• Is Moses tempted to compromise? Why or why not?
• What happens when we insist on controlling something that God wants to control?
• Does Pharoah see enough fulfilled prophecies to realize that God is real?

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The plagues of Egypt are still occurring due to Pharoah's refusal to recognize God as supreme. All of the plagues are demonstrations against an Egyptian god, with the true God of Israel showing that He is all powerful and insists on freeing His chosen people from slavery.  God shows that He is supreme over Pharoah, supreme over the Egyptian deities, and supreme over the magicians.  

In this session we also learn how God's deliverance of Israel out of Egypt compares to God's deliverance of us out of sin. 

• What happens when we fight against God?
• Why does God keep repeating that the reason He is giving the plagues?
• What is the contrast between the land of Egypt and the land of God's promise?
• How does God redeem His people?

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Pharaoh's heart is stubborn and he refuses to let the Israelites go, so God begins to inflict the plagues He said He would on Pharaoh and Egypt. God starts at the heart of Egypt by turning the Nile River into a bloody sickening mess. God demonstrates His true power against the impotence and lack of power of the Egyptian false gods. Pharaoh continues to be stubborn leaving the Egyptian people to fend for themselves by digging wells for fresh water. 

The second plague God sends on Egypt is an infliction of frogs so many in number that they invade the households and even the pots of the people. The God of Israel is showing that He is the one God Almighty, that is over all of nature and life. God is demonstrating in every step of the way that He is the One that is in charge. These plagues are not natural events, they are clearly miraculous signs of God's judgment.   

• Are there parallels in this section between Moses and Jesus?
• Are these plagues a direct assault on the power of Pharaoh?
• Does God contend for His people today?
• Why could the Egyptian magicians replicate some of the events but not reverse them? 
• Is Pharaoh sincere when he finally acknowledges God?

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