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January 26, 2024Ep. 26. Exodus 5-6 | Persecution and Promise
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Moses came to the people with the promise of deliverance and signs from God. For a brief moment, the people believed. That is, until things got difficult. I've often said you can tell what people really believe about God when they get stage four cancer (or substitute some other tragedy). I've watched people get the diagnosis and shake their fists at heaven, cursing the name of God on their way out the door of the church. I've watched other people get the exact diagnosis and embrace the hope they have in Christ, drawing nearer to Jesus with every day they drew nearer to death. It is easy to "believe" when everything is going our way, but when we introduce suffering, our true belief is revealed....
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January 25, 2024Ep. 25. Exodus 4 | Signs and Return
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Moses is undoubtedly a reluctant rescuer of the people of Israel. He was less hesitant forty years earlier when he killed the Egyptian man, but now he's had some time to think about it. Indeed, he remembers the words spoken to him by his kinsman, "Who made you our ruler and judge." Moses answers God, "Behold, they will not believe me or listen to my voice." But God gives him a few signs. A staff will turn into a snake, Moses' hand will become diseased and then healed, and water will turn to blood. Surely, the people will believe these miraculous signs. Moses objects again, "I'm not eloquent, either in the past or since you have spoken to your servant, but I am slow of speech and tongue." There are a couple of things we note here. First, "since you have spoken to your servant" seems out of place if God has only been talking to Moses for a few minutes at the burning bush. However, we already saw from the New Testament that Moses was clear about God's calling on his life forty years earlier. So, this is not likely the first time God has spoken to Moses....

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January 24, 2024Ep. 24. Exodus 3 | The Burning Bush
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The burning bush story is easily one of the most iconic stories of the Scripture. Moses fled Egypt forty years earlier. He is now married and the father of two. One day, while keeping his father-in-law's sheep, he sees a bush that is on fire but is not consumed. Right away, it is important for us to note that Mt. Horeb is probably also Mt. Sinai. After all, God tells Moses that the Israelites will worship him at that very mountain when they leave Egypt. (see verse 12). We catch up with the Israelites later in Exodus at Mt. Sinai, where they see God. Most people consider the two names to refer to the exact location.
We also have a clear mention of "the angel of the LORD." This is not the same as AN angel. The angel of the Lord makes statements that could only come from God and, as we see here, receives worship on this "holy ground." The text even lets us know that it was "God" who called to him out of the bush. In the book of Revelation, when John tries to bow down to the angel (twice), the angel refuses to receive worship from him since he also "is only a creation." Keep an eye out for "the angel of the LORD" in reading the Old Testament...

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January 23, 2024Ep. 23. Exodus 1-2 | The Birth of Moses
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I always find it helpful to understand the timeline when reading the Bible. The Israelites lived in Egypt for 430 years to the day. (We will get to that in Exodus chapter 12, so you'll have to take my word for it right now) We know and remember that Jacob was 130 when he moved to Egypt and lived there seventeen years before he died. We also know (or will shortly) that Moses was eighty when he led the people out of Egypt. That means between the death of Jacob in Genesis 50 and the birth of Moses in Exodus 2, 333 years pass.
Left to the records of Exodus, we find the story of Moses to be lacking in essential clarifying details. Here are the basics we're offered: Moses, though a Hebrew, grew up as the son of Pharaoh's daughter. One day, he witnessed a Hebrew slave being beaten by an Egyptian and, making sure he was not being watched, killed the Egyptian. The next day, Moses came across two Hebrew men fighting and went to separate them. One said, "Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you mean to kill me like you killed the Egyptian?" Moses, fearful for his life and the wrath of Pharoah, fled the land of Egypt. It is only five verses of the text. (And it leaves out significant pieces.)...

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January 22, 2024Ep. 22. Genesis 49-50 | Blessings and Death
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After Jacob (Israel) blessed the two sons of Joseph, he blessed his twelve sons. We want to note the first four of these "blessings." If we're honest, a few of these don't sound like blessings at all. Of Reuben, Jacob says, "You shall not have preeminence because you went up to your father's bed; then you defiled it." This is a reference to Genesis 35:22, where it was recorded for us, "While Israel lived in that land, Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his father's concubine." This act of betrayal prevented Reuben from receiving the blessing of the firstborn son. Remember, Reuben comes through the line of Leah and is her firstborn. Next, Jacob lumps Simeon and Levi together, "Simeon and Levi are brothers; weapons of violence are their swords. Let my soul come not into their council, or my glory be joined to their company." If you're wondering what this is all about, you will need to go back and read Genesis 34. In that chapter, Dinah, the daughter of Leah, was raped by a man in the city of Shechem. The rapist then went to Jacob and asked to marry Dinah. The brothers, deceptively, replied, "We can't let you marry our sister unless you are circumcised along with all your men in the same manner as we are." Jacob was abundantly wealthy, and the people of Shechem thought it seemed favorable to have their men circumcised so they could intermarry with the family and people of Jacob and, by so doing, obtain all his flocks and herds for themselves....

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January 21, 2024Episodes 15-21 summary
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January 21, 2024Ep. 21. Genesis 45-48 | The Remnant
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It was on the second visit that Joseph revealed himself to his brothers. Don't miss how often the second time something happens in the Scripture and the significance it holds. Saul was the first king of Israel, but the second King was David, the king God appointed. The first Adam brought sin, and the second Adam (Jesus) brought life into the world. The first coming of Jesus, he spoke in parables so that he would not be understood, so that he would be missed. But in the second coming of Jesus, he will make himself known to everyone. Also, we see that Joseph did not make himself known the first time; he spoke through an interpreter so he would not be understood. He didn't look like they expected him to look, but he was the source of life. In fact, Joseph didn't actually believe his brothers sent him to Egypt, for he says three times, "God sent me before you to preserve life, God sent me before you to preserve a remnant, so it was not you who sent me here, but God." That brings up another interesting point. God sent Joseph into Egypt at least 22 years ahead of his brothers so that he could keep the people of Israel alive. In another 350 years, God placed Moses in a position to protect his people in Egypt. God sent Daniel to Babylon roughly thirteen years before the rest of the captive Israelites so that Daniel could be in power and preserve a remnant for God. Esther was made queen nearly five years before being called upon to intervene on behalf of the people of God. And, of course, Christ was sent ahead of the coming judgment of God to keep alive a remnant of God's people of faith. The idea of God preserving a remnant is woven throughout the Bible, and it primarily refers to the faithful few of Israel whose confidence always rested in God as the provider of salvation...

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January 20, 2024Ep. 20. Genesis 42-44 | Joseph Guards his Family
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Seven years of abundance have come and gone, and we pick up the story two years into the famine. If the years of abundance began immediately upon Joseph's interpretation of Pharaoh's dreams, then Joseph is 39. It has been at least 22 years since he has seen his family. But Jacob (Israel) learned there was food in Egypt and sent his ten oldest sons to buy grain. He kept Benjamin at home in safety so as not to lose the only other son Rachel bore for him. Remember, Jacob believes Joseph is dead. It is a little bothersome to me that Benjamin is always portrayed as a little boy in this story's children's bible version. In fact, by this time, Benjamin was a grown man with ten sons of his own. It is funny how we can get a picture in our heads from childhood and how that shapes our view of the story. (as a side note, I always pictured Daniel in the lion's den as a young man, but he was well over eighty when that took place)...

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January 19, 2024Ep. 19. Genesis 40-41 | Joseph’s Interpretation
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We pick up with Joseph in prison, who is in charge of the other prisoners there. Two servants of Pharaoh, a cupbearer and a baker, were thrown into the prison. Each of these men had a dream, and each dream had its own interpretation. Joseph can graciously interpret these dreams for them because he knows "interpretations belong to God." The cupbearer receives a favorable interpretation; in three days, he will return to work for the Pharaoh. The baker, emboldened by his friend's good dream, shared his dream with Joseph. Sadly, for the baker, the interpretation of his dream is sure death in three days. Joseph asks the cupbearer to remember him well and to implore Pharoah on Joseph's behalf, for he "was indeed stolen out of the land of the Hebrews" and had done nothing wicked in Egypt deserving prison. But the cupbearer forgot..

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January 18, 2024Ep. 18. Genesis 37,39 | Joseph’s Dreams
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We remember that Joseph was Rachel's firstborn son. Joseph was the favorite son of his father, Jacob (Israel). From the time we were children, we were told about the multicolored robe Joseph wore as a gift from his father. Whether it was multicolored or not is up for debate. Another reading of the text, as I'm sure your Bible's footnotes will reveal, could be "long sleeve." At any rate, something special about this coat sets Joseph apart from his brothers. When Joseph was about 17 years old, he had a couple of dreams that caused his brothers to hate him even more. In the first dream, Joseph and his brothers were bundling wheat when his bundle stood up straight, and his brothers' bundles gathered around his bundle and bowed down to it. The brothers were furious, "Are you indeed to reign over us? Or are you indeed to rule over us?" And they hated him more fiercely....

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