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Exodus Chapter 23 Deep-Dive: Laws of Justice and Mercy 06/23/2025

Exodus Chapter 23 Deep-Dive: Laws of Justice and Mercy Hosted by Joey and Matt Deep-dives into the Bible beyond what Sunday teaches you. EX CH 23 1 “You shall not spread a false report. GOSSIP! You shall not join hands with a wicked man to be a malicious witness. 2You shall not fall in with the many to do evil, nor shall you bear witness in a lawsuit, siding with the many, so as to pervert justice, 3nor shall you be partial to a poor man in his lawsuit. YOU SHALL NOT BEAR FALSE WITNESS, OR GOSSIP … IN DETAIL HERE. FALL IN WITH THE MANY – PEER PRESSURE, FACEBOOK, SOCIAL MEDIA – NO MATTER WHAT THE EVIDENCE PRESENTED DURING THE TRIAL SHOWS … THE JURY’S MIND IS ALREADY MADE UP. DON’T BE PARTIAL TO THE POOR IN LAWSUITS … THERE’S NO INHERENT VIRTUE IN BEING POOR ... LIBERATION THEOLOGY – WE MUST GIVE THE POOR AND OPPRESSED AN ADVANTAGE IN COURT BECAUSE THE RICH WILL ALWAYS HAVE AN ADVANTAGE. ALTHOUGH THIS SEEMS TO BE “FAIR,” THE BIBLE FORBIDS IT … NO SPECIAL ADVANTAGE FOR THE POOR OR THE RICH. 4 “If you meet your enemy’s ox or his donkey going astray, you shall bring it back to him. 5If you see the donkey of one who hates you lying down under its burden, you shall refrain from leaving him with it; you shall rescue it with him. THIS IS LIKE A MOM MAKING A RULE SPECIFIC TO A CHILD’S ACTIONS … YOU CAN NOT PUT THE HOSE DOWN THE DOG’S MOUTH!! GOD IS GETTING DOWN TO THE NITTY GRITTY … DON’T DO ANYTHING TO HARM YOUR NEIGHBOR OR ENEMY. AN EXHAUSTED DONKEY – HELP IT! A LOST OX OR DONKEY … BRING IT BACK TO THE OWNER … COMMON SENSE. THEY WERE A LOT LIKE US! VERY SPECIFIC GUIDANCE FOR A PEOPLE WHO WERE CONSTANTLY ON THE BRINK OF DOING BAD THINGS. Mt 5:43 JESUS SPEAKING … THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ 44But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, 45so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. 46For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? 47And if you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? 48You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect. 6 “You shall not pervert the justice due to your poor in his lawsuit. DON’T FAVOR THE RICH 7Keep far from a false charge, and do not kill the innocent and righteous, for I will not acquit the wicked. 8And you shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and subverts the cause of those who are in the right. A TRIPLE THREAT HERE ABOUT PERVERTING JUSTICE … AND MORE ABOUT JUDGING FAIRLY AND RIGHTEOUSLY. GOD IS SERIOUS ABOUT THIS. 9 “You shall not oppress a sojourner STRANGER-FOREIGNER-RESIDENT ALIEN. You know the heart of a sojourner, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt. ISRAEL WILL BE LOCATED IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ANCIENT WORLD’S SUPERHIGHWAY. THERE WILL BE A LOT OF STRANGERS PASSING THROUGH … TREAT THEM FAIRLY … AS YOU WOULD WANT TO BE TREATED. VERY SPECIFIC WITH A LOT OF DETAIL, BECAUSE THEY NEED IT … SOUND FAMILIAR … ? Laws About the Sabbath and Festivals 10 “For six years you shall sow your land and gather in its yield, 11but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the beasts of the field may eat. You shall do likewise with your vineyard, and with your olive orchard. EVERY 7th YEAR LEAVE THE LAND FALLOW SO THE POOR CAN HAVE THE PRODUCE … IT DOESN’T SAY TO HARVEST THE FIELDS AND GIVE IT TO THE POOR … NOTE THAT THE POOR HAD TO WORK FOR THE PRODUCE / GLEANINGS. THE SABBATH OCCURS EVERY WEEK (FRI SUNDOWN-SAT SUNDOWN), AND EVERY SEVENTH YEAR … SETTING MALE HEBREW SLAVES FREE, A YEAR’S REST FOR THE LAND, AND THE PRODUCE NATURALLY PRODUCED ON THAT LAND DURING THE FALLOW YEAR WILL BE FOOD FOR THE POOR AND THE BEASTS. THE WEEKLY AND YEARLY SABBATH IS A GIFT FOR THOSE NOT IN THE ABRAHAMIC / SINAI COVENANT, BUT IT’S PROVIDED BY THOSE WHO ARE PART OF THE COVENANT – THE ISRAELITES. GOD IS PROVIDING COMMON GRACE TO THE SOJOURNERS, THE POOR, THE BEASTS, SLAVES, AND SO FORTH. NOTE THAT ISRAEL NEVER DID THESE SABBATICAL YEARS … 2 Ch 36:20 He NEBUCHADNEZAR took into exile in Babylon those who had escaped from the sword, and they became servants to him and to his sons until the establishment of the kingdom of Persia, 21to fulfill the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed its Sabbaths. All the days that it lay desolate it kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years. BACK TO EX 23 12 “Six days you shall do your work, but on the seventh day you shall rest; that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the son of your servant woman, and the alien, may be refreshed. EVERYONE RESTS … THIS IS AN ACT OF FAITH IN A SUBSISTENCE AGRARIAN ECONOMY … COMMON SENSE SAYS OUR LIVES DEPEND ON WORKING THE FIELDS. 13 “Pay attention to all that I have said to you, and make no mention of the names of other gods, nor let it be heard on your lips. DON’T EVEN MENTION THE NAMES OF OTHER GODS …IDOLATRY – THE WORSHIP OF OTHER GODS – WILL BE THE ONE SIN THAT ISRAEL WILL CHOOSE TO CONTINUE IN UNTIL THEY’RE GIVEN INTO CAPTIVITY BY GOD. 14 “Three times in the year you shall keep a feast to me. 15You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread PASSOVER. As I commanded you, you shall eat unleavened bread for seven days at the appointed time in the month of Abib, for in it you came out of Egypt. None shall appear before me empty-handed EVERYONE PARTICIPATES IN THESE FESTIVALS. 16You shall keep the Feast of Harvest PENTECOST, of the firstfruits of your labor, of what you sow in the field. You shall keep the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in from the field the fruit of your labor BOOTHS-DAY OF ATONEMENT. 17Three times in the year shall all your males appear before the Lord God. MORE DETAIL ON THESE LATER …NOTE THAT THIS GUIDANCE IS GIVEN WELL BEFORE THE PEOPLE ARE IN THE LAND AND HAVE A HARVEST. 18 “You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with anything leavened, or let the fat of my feast remain until the morning. EVERYTHING TO BE EATEN BY THE PERSON PROVIDING THE SACRIFICE, TO BE EATEN BY THE PRIESTS, AND THE FAT PORTIONS TO BE BURNED UP ON THE ALTAR MUST BE COMPLETED AT THE TIME OF THE SACRIFICE – NOTHING WAS TO BE LEFT TO SPOIL, ALSO, NOTHING WITH LEAVEN IN IT COULD BE OFFERED WITH A SACRIFICE. LEAVEN WAS NOT FORBIDDEN IN ISRAEL AND IT COULD BE OFFERED AS FIRST-FRUITS BUT NOT AS PART OF A SACRIFICE. 19“The best of the firstfruits of your ground you shall bring into the house of the Lord your God. “You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk. RELATED TO PAGAN RITUALS, ESPECIALLY CANNIBALISM AND INFANT SACRIFICE …A LOT OF PAGAN SACRIFICES WERE FOCUSED ON FECUNDITY (PROSPERITY OF CROPS) AND FERTILITY – GROWING FAMILIES THROUGH HAVING MANY CHILDREN, AND GROWING HERDS … PROSPERITY … LAND AND CROPS WERE WEALTH. NOTE … AT THIS POINT GOD SUSPENDS THE GIVING OF THE LAW TO REMIND THE PEOPLE THAT SINAI IS TEMPORARY, THE GOAL IS THE PROMISED LAND 20 “Behold, I send an angel MESSENGER / REPRESENTATIVE before you to guard you on the way and to bring you to the place that I have prepared. 21Pay careful attention to him and obey his voice; do not rebel against him, for he will not pardon your transgression, for my name is in him. HE COULD FORGIVE YOUR SINS … BUT HE WON’T … YAHWEH’S NAME IS IN HIM … THIS IS THE ANGEL OF THE LORD … JESUS AS HE APPEARS IN THE OLD TESTAMENT. 22“But if you carefully obey his voice and do all that I say, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries. THE ANGEL’S VOICE OR YAHWEH’S VOICE? … YES!! OBEY & GOD WILL BLESS … THIS IS NOT DEFACTO STATUS THAT GOD IS ATTRIBUTING TO ISRAEL … THE BLESSING OF GOD IS TIED TO ISRAEL FAITHFULLY OBEYING HIM!! 23 “When my angel goes before you and brings you to the Amorites and the Hittites and the Perizzites and the Canaanites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, and I blot them out, SPECIFIC PEOPLE GROUPS TARGETED BY GOD BECAUSE OF THEIR ACTIONS 24you shall not bow down to their gods nor serve them, nor do as they do, but you shall utterly overthrow them and break their pillars in pieces. 25You shall serve the Lord your God, and he will bless your bread and your water (PURE & HEALTHY FOOD & WATER), and I will take sickness away from among you. 26None shall miscarry or be barren in your land; I will fulfill the number of your days. 27I will send my terror before you and will throw into confusion all the people against whom you shall come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you. FLEE FROM YOU 28And I will send hornets before you, which shall drive out the Hivites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites from before you. 29I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate and the wild beasts multiply against you. 30Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have increased and possess the land. AS ISRAEL IS FAITHFULLY MOVING INTO THE LAND YAHWEH WILL DRIVE THOSE PEOPLES OUT …THERE WEREN’T ENOUGH ISRAELITES YET TO OCCUPY THE LAND … DIVINE FORSIGHT ... PROGRESSIVELY TRUSTING GOD TO GROW THE NATION GEOGRAPHICALLY AS THEIR POPULATION GROWS … THE COMMAND ORIGINALLY GIVEN TO ADAM AND EVE, AND FOR ALL HUMAN BEINGS. HE’S GOING TO ALLOW THE CANAANITES TO CONTINUE TO FARM THE LAND AS ISRAEL GROWS AND EXPANDS AND EVENTUALLY CONQUERS THEM NOTE THAT THIS MIRRORS SANCTIFICATION IN THE CHRISTIAN LIFE – GOD MAKES US MORE AND MORE LIKE JESUS PROGRESSIVELY … WE GROW IN CHRIST THROUGH A PROCESS. ALSO, GOD IS GROWING HIS KINGDOM IN THE SAME WAY … 31And I will set your border from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the Euphrates, for I will give the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you. ISRAEL NEVER HAD THESE BORDERS BECAUSE THEY WERE UNFAITHFUL AND DISOBEDIENT TO YAHWEH 32You shall make no covenant with them and their gods. 33They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against me; BE OBEDIENT … DRIVE THEM FROM THE LAND & DESTROY THEM for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.”… AND IF YOU, ISRAEL, DO THE SAME THINGS ... I’LL DESTROY YOU, ALSO … AND THAT WILL WRAP UP CH 23 About This is an audio broadcast, designed to encourage you to dive deeper into the most influential and impactful literature of all time: The Bible. This podcasts helps to show the benefits of reading/listening to the Bible, front to back, over and over and over endlessly. 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Exodus Chapter 22 Deep-Dive: The Law Continued... 06/23/2025

Exodus Chapter 22 Deep-Dive: The Law Continued... Hosted by Joey and Matt Deep-dives into the Bible beyond what Sunday teaches you. EXODUS Ch 22 ISRAEL STILL AT MT SINAI Ex 22:1 “If a man steals an ox or a sheep, and kills it or sells it, he shall repay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep. THEFT FOR PROFIT – ONE OF THE MOST GRAVE SINS IN TERMS OF THE STABILITY OF A SOCIETY. THOU SHALT NOT STEAL … REPAY AT 5 TIMES THE ORIGINAL VALUE. THINK ABOUT NEIGHBORHOODS WITH BARS ON THE WINDOWS; FEAR, LIMITED INTERACTION WITH NEIGHBORS, IT CHOKES OUT SOCIETY AND LIMITS INVESTMENT … NO ONE WANTS TO START A BUSINESS THERE … LIMITED JOBS, PROSPERITY, SOCIAL GROWTH. Ex 22:2 If a thief is found breaking in and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no bloodguilt for him, 3but if the sun has risen on him, there shall be bloodguilt for him. (BLOODGUILT ON THE HOMEOWNER IF HE STRUCK WHEN IT WAS DAYLIGHT) He (THE THIEF) shall surely pay. If he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft. 4If the stolen beast is found alive in his possession, whether it is an ox or a donkey or a sheep, he shall pay double. SELL HIM INTO SLAVERY IF HE’S UNABLE TO PAY FOR THE THEFT. Ex 22:5“If a man causes a field or vineyard to be grazed over, or lets his beast loose and it feeds in another man’s field, he shall make restitution from the best in his own field and in his own vineyard. Ex 22:6“If fire breaks out and catches in thorns so that the stacked grain or the standing grain or the field is consumed, he who started the fire shall make full restitution. UNCONTROLLED FIRE WAS DEVASTATING IN ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS! IF YOU START A FIRE – YOU’RE RESPONSIBLE FOR IT! Ex 22:7“If a man gives to his neighbor money or goods to keep safe, and it is stolen from the man’s house, then, if the thief is found, he (THE THIEF) shall pay double. 8If the thief is not found, the owner of the house shall come near to God (TAKE AN OATH BEFORE JUDGES) to show whether or not he has put his hand to his neighbor’s property. 9For every breach of trust, whether it is for an ox, for a donkey, for a sheep, for a cloak, or for any kind of lost thing, of which one says, ‘This is it,’ the case of both parties shall come before God (JUDGES). The one whom God condemns shall pay double to his neighbor. Ex 22:10“If a man gives to his neighbor a donkey or an ox or a sheep or any beast to keep safe, and it dies or is injured or is driven away, without anyone seeing it, 11an oath by the Lord shall be between them both to see whether or not he has put his hand to his neighbor’s property. The owner shall accept the oath (GIVEN BEFORE GOD), and he shall not make restitution. 12But if it is stolen from him, he shall make restitution to its owner. 13If it is torn by beasts, let him bring it as evidence. He shall not make restitution for what has been torn. EVEN IF YOU KNOW THE GUY IS LYING … GOD IS THE JUDGE, NOT ME JUDGES ADJUDICATE … THEY JUDGE BASED ON THE EVIDENCE GIVEN. THIS IS THE FIRST LAW REQUIRING THAT AN OATH BE GIVEN AND THE OATH IS TO BE RESPECTED. TAKE A WITNESS AT HIS WORD … THOU SHALL NOT BEAR FALSE WITNESS. Ex 22:14“If a man borrows anything of his neighbor (FOR A FEE), and it is injured or dies, the owner not being with it, he shall make full restitution. 15If the owner was with it, he shall not make restitution; if it was hired, it came for its hiring fee. DETAILS … JUST WHAT ISRAEL NEEDS … LIFE IS LIVED IN THE DETAILS. THIS STOPS ENDLESS RETRIBUTION … LOVING YOUR NEIGHBOR IN ACTION Ex 22:16 “If a man seduces a virgin who is not betrothed and lies with her, he shall give the bride-price for her and make her his wife. 17If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money equal to the bride-price for virgins. HERE’S HOW TO THINK ABOUT THIS … CONSIDER AN 18 YEAR OLD CHURCH YOUTH LEADER WHO SEDUCES A 16 YR OLD GIRL IN HIS YOUTH GROUP AND GETS HER PREGNANT … AND SAYS, “OH, WHAT HAVE I DONE?” THE ANSWER IS … “YOU’VE TAKEN A WIFE!” LOT OF WISDOM IN SHOTGUN WEDDINGS. THIS IS SEDUCTION – NOT RAPE. NOTE, THE FATHER HAS FINAL SAY IN THIS, BUT EITHER MARRIAGE OR RESTITUTION MUST BE MADE. IN THE ANCIENT WORLD BETROTHAL WAS MARRIAGE … WAITING FOR CONSUMATION. VIRGINITY WAS TO BE EXPECTED AND RESPECTED … ONCE A WOMAN WAS NO LONGER A VIRGIN SHE COULD NOT MAKE A LEGAL MARRIAGE IN THE ANCIENT WORLD … AND HER FUTURE WAS GOING TO BE BEGGING OR PROSTITUTION … IF A MAN TOOK A WOMAN’S VIRGINITY – HE WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR HER FOR LIFE. OUR MODERN SOCIETY HAS TRIED TO DO ALL OF THIS IN A BETTER WAY … AVOIDING REPRESSIVE SEXUAL MORALITY – YES – AND LOOK WHAT WE HAVE NOW! BACK THEN MARRIAGE WAS CELEBRATED AND ANY SEXUAL ACTIVITY OUTSIDE OF MARRIAGE BETWEEN A MAN AND A WOMAN WAS OSTRACIZED BY SOCIETY … IT WAS FROWNED UPON, PEOPLE FELT SHAMED, THERE WAS A SOCIAL PRICE TO PAY. IT’S THE TOTAL OPPOSITE NOW UP TO HOMOSEXUAL MARRIAGE BEING LEGALIZED BY MOST GOVERNMENTS WITHIN WESTERN CIVILIZATION. TODAY, NO SEXUAL ACTIVITY OUTSIDE OF TRADITIONAL MARRIAGE IS PUNISHED. THE BEDROCK OF CIVILIZATION IS CRUMBLING. EVEN THE CHURCH IS BEGINNING TO CONDONE SAME SEX MARRIAGE. FOR ISRAEL AT SINAI – THEY NEEDED THIS GUIDANCE!! EVEN IN THE CHURCH … NOTE HOW MUCH OF NEW TESTAMENT GUIDANCE IS DIRECTED AT SEXUAL SIN – SO, THERE HAD TO BE A LOT OF IT GOING ON … TODAY, ALSO … Matthew 5:28 But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart. Acts 15:29 (JERUSALEM COUNCIL’S GUIDANCE TO NEW GENTILE BELIEVERS) That you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.” 1 Corinthians 5:1 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans, for a man has his father's wife. And you are arrogant! Ought you not rather to mourn? Let him who has done this be removed from among you. 1 Corinthians 5:9-11 I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people— not at all meaning the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world. But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of brother if he is guilty of sexual immorality or greed, or is an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or swindler—not even to eat with such a one. 1 Corinthians 6:9-Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God. 1 Corinthians 6:15-16 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never! Or do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, “The two will become one flesh.” 1 Corinthians 6:18 Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body. 1 Corinthians 7:2 But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. 1 Corinthians 10:8 We must not indulge in sexual immorality as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in a single day. 2 Corinthians 12:21 I fear that when I come again my God may humble me before you, and I may have to mourn over many of those who sinned earlier and have not repented of the impurity, sexual immorality, and sensuality that they have practiced. Galatians 5:16But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. 17For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do. 18But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. 19Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, 20idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, 21envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. Ephesians 4:17Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds. 18They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart. 19They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity. 20But that is not the way you learned Christ!— 21assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus, 22to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, 23and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, 24and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness. Ephesians 5:3-5 But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints. Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving. For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. Colossians 3:5 Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. Hebrews 13:4 Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous. 1 Thessalonians 4:3-For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality; that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God; 1 John 2:16 For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions—is not from the Father but is from the world. 1 Peter 2:11 Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul. Revelation 2:14-16 But I have a few things against you (Church in Pergamum): you have some there who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, so that they might eat food sacrificed to idols and practice sexual immorality. So also you have some who hold the teaching of the Nicolaitans. Therefore repent. If not, I will come to you soon and war against them with the sword of my mouth. Revelation 2:20 But I have this against you (Church in Thyatira), that you tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and is teaching and seducing my servants to practice sexual immorality and to eat food sacrificed to idols. I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her sexual immorality. Behold, I will throw her onto a sickbed, and those who commit adultery with her I will throw into great tribulation, unless they repent of her works, and I will strike her children dead. And all the churches will know that I am he who searches mind and heart, and I will give to each of you according to your works. FOR THOSE OF US WHO THINK THIS PASSAGE IS REFERRING TO FALSE PROPHETS? … HOW MANY OF THE SCRIPTURES WE JUST READ WARN AGAINST THE VERY THING WE SEE THIS “JEZEBEL” DOING … SEX CLUBS IN THE CHURCH ?!? … YES! TWO OF THE SEVEN CHURCHES IN REVELATION ARE WARNED ABOUT SEXUAL IMMORALITY! Revelation 21:8 But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.” (COWARDLY … THE GENERATIONS THAT FOUGHT THE TWO MOST DESTRUCTIVE WARS IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD … WWI & WWII … HAVE PRODUCED THE MOST COWARDLY AND IMMORAL GENERATIONS IN HISTORY … COME QUICKLY LORD JESUS!!) BACK TO EXODUS 22 Ex 22:18 “You shall not permit a sorceress to live. (KING SAUL & THE WITCH OF ENDOR 1 SAM CH 28) NOTE – THERE WERE NO “PRIESTESSES” IN THE ANCIENT WORLD … WOMEN DOING WHAT MALE “PRIESTS” DID … “PRIESTESSES” WERE SHRINE PROSTITUTES WHERE ONE WOULD PAY THE PRICE TO THE “TEMPLE” OF THE FALSE GOD/IDOL, THEN HAVE SEX WITH THE WOMAN … MEN ALSO WERE SHRINE PROSTITUTES, AND THERE WERE MEN WHO WERE SORCERERS. Revelation 21:8 But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.” Rev 22:14Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life and that they may enter the city by the gates. 15Outside are the dogs and sorcerers and the sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood. BACK TO EXODUS CH 22 Ex 22:19 “Whoever lies with an animal shall be put to death. ASSOCIATED WITH BAAL WORSHIP & SOME OTHER PAGAN RITUALS. Ex 22:20 “Whoever sacrifices to any god, other than the Lord alone, shall be devoted to destruction DEATH. Ex 22:21 “You shall not wrong a sojourner FOREIGNER or oppress him, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt. (EMPATHY) 22 You shall not mistreat any widow or fatherless child. 23If you do mistreat them, and they cry out to me (PRAYER), I will surely hear their cry, 24 and my wrath will burn, and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives shall become widows and your children fatherless. FOREIGNERS WERE POWERLESS, LIKE WIDOWS AND ORPHANS … HOW DO YOU TREAT THEM? Deut 24:19 “When you reap your harvest in your field and forget a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to get it. It shall be for the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands. A GOOD EXAMPLE OF THIS LAW IN ACTION IS THE BOOK OF RUTH RUTH AND NAOMI WERE IN A DIFFICULT AND NEARLY DESPERATE SITUATION, YET RUTH TOOK ADVANTAGE OF THE LAW GOD HAD LAID OUT … GLEANING IN THE FIELDS, AND GOD PROVIDED FOR THEM. BOAZ WAS A GOOD MAN, RIGHTEOUS IN THE WAYS OF GOD, HE WASN’T GREEDY OR STINGY, HE LOOKED OUT FOR RUTH AS SHE WAS GLEANING HIS FIELD AND GOD BLESSED HIM. HOW DOES THIS APPLY TO US CONSIDERING OUR CURRENT DIFFICULT CIRCUMSTANCES? AM I TRUSTING GOD AND DOING WHAT I CAN IN THE MIDST OF THE FAMINE? THE NEW TESTAMENT’S COMMENT ON WIDOWS AND ORPHANS James 1:27 Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world. BACK TO EX 22 Ex 22:25 “If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be like a moneylender to him, and you shall not exact interest from him. 26If ever you take your neighbor’s cloak in pledge, you shall return it to him before the sun goes down, 27for that is his only covering, and it is his cloak for his body; in what else shall he sleep? And if he cries to me, I will hear, for I am compassionate. OK TO LEND MONEY TO THE POOR … BUT NOT WITH INTEREST ... DON’T TAKE ADVANTAGE OF PEOPLE … WHY ARE YOU TRYING TO MAKE A PROFIT FROM A POOR PERSON? THIS IS JESUS’ PERSPECTIVE: Lk 6:30 Give to everyone who begs from you, and from one who takes away your goods do not demand them back. DON’T EVEN CONSIDER LOANING MONEY … JUST GIVE IT TO THE POOR. Deut 23:19 “You shall not charge interest on loans to your brother (ISRAELITE), interest on money, interest on food, interest on anything that is lent for interest. 20You may charge a foreigner interest, but you may not charge your brother interest, that the Lord your God may bless you in all that you undertake in the land that you are entering to take possession of it. Ex 22:28 “You shall not revile God (ELOHIM – SPIRITUAL BEINGS, CAN MEAN ANCESTORS AS IN SAMUEL BEING CALLED UP FROM THE DEAD), nor curse a ruler of your people. RULERS & ANCESTORS … THOSE IN AUTHORITY OVER YOU Ex 22:29 “You shall not delay to offer from the fullness of your harvest and from the outflow of your presses. NOT ALLOWED TO HOARD YOUR HARVEST IN ORDER TO INCREASE THE PRICE … PUT YOUR PRODUCE UP FOR SALE AS SOON AS IT’S HARVESTED OR THE WINE IS PRESSED. The firstborn of your sons you shall give to me. 30You shall do the same with your oxen and with your sheep: seven days it shall be with its mother; on the eighth day you shall give it to me. THE FIRSTBORN SON WAS TO BE REDEEMED, THE FIRSTBORN OX OR SHEEP TO BE SLAUGHTERED. Ex 22:31 “You shall be consecrated to me. Therefore you shall not eat any flesh that is torn by beasts in the field; you shall throw it to the dogs. NO SCAVENGING … DON’T EAT ROADKILL … GOD IS NOT A SCAVENGER OR PREDATOR … YOU’RE MADE IN GOD’S IMAGE … TRUST GOD AND BE KIND, FAITHFUL AND GENEROUS … LIKE GOD. AND THAT WILL WRAP UP EX CH 22 About This is an audio broadcast, designed to encourage you to dive deeper into the most influential and impactful literature of all time: The Bible. This podcasts helps to show the benefits of reading/listening to the Bible, front to back, over and over and over endlessly. And study to fill the gaps for deeper understanding. 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Exodus Chapter 21 Deep-Dive: The Law is Given 06/23/2025

Exodus Chapter 21 Deep-Dive: The Law is Given Hosted by Joey and Matt Deep-dives into the Bible beyond what Sunday teaches you. Exodus Ch 21 ISRAEL IS STILL AT MT SINAI … Laws About Slaves EVERY NATION ON EARTH DURING THE BRONZE & IRON AGES PRACTICED SLAVERY … GOD IS GIVING DIRECTION TO HIS PEOPLE IN THE MIDST OF THE WORLD CULTURE OF THAT TIME. SLAVERY INCLUDED DEBT RELIEF … SELLING YOURSELF OR ONE OF YOUR CHILDREN, THE ANCIENT WORLD WAS AN AGRARIAN ECONOMY … LOT OF FARM LABOR NEEDED, ALSO, THROUGHOUT THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD THE ONLY NATIONS THAT ABOLISHED SLAVERY WERE CHRISTIAN SLAVERY IS STILL A MODERN ISSUE … LOT OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING STILL TAKING PLACE! IN THE ANCIENT WORLD THERE WAS VIRTUALLY NO MIDDLE CLASS. MOST PEOPLE WERE SERVANTS/SLAVES. THERE WERE FEW RICH, AND ALSO SOME MERCHANTS AND SKILLED WORKERS. WHOLE NATIONS WERE SLAVES SUCH AS THE SLAVIC PEOPLE IN EUROPE (POLAND) SUBJECT TO GERMAN TRIBES ON ONE SIDE & RUSSIANS ON THE OTHER, AND ALL SUBJECT TO GENGHIS KAHN’S INVASION. THE MIDDLE CLASS BEGAN TO DEVELOP IN EUROPE IN THE 8th -12th CENTURIES. STILL, MOST PEOPLE WHO HAVE LIVED THROUGHOUT HISTORY WERE AT LEAST SERVANTS, INDENTURED SERVANTS OR SLAVES. BECOMING A SLAVE WAS A WAY TO MAKE A LIVING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD. GOD IS USING ISRAEL TO EVENTUALLY MODIFY WORLD-WIDE PRACTICES. ABRAHAM’S WEALTH INCLUDED SERVANTS AND SLAVES BOUGHT WITH HIS MONEY: Gen 14:14When Abram heard that his kinsman (LOT) had been taken captive, he led forth his trained men, born in his house, 318 of them, and went in pursuit as far as Dan. Gen 17:23Then Abraham took Ishmael his son and all those born in his house or bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham’s house, and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskins that very day, as God had said to him. ABRAHAM HAD SLAVES OR SERVANTS BOUGHT WITH HIS MONEY. Back to Exodus Ex 21:1“Now these are the rules that you shall set before them. 2When you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free, for nothing. 3If he comes in single, he shall go out single; if he comes in married, then his wife shall go out with him. 4If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master’s, and he shall go out alone. 5But if the slave plainly says, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,’ 6then his master shall bring him to God (ELOHIM-SPIRITUAL BEINGS-ANCESTORS/SAMUEL – THE SLAVE BECOMES A PERMANENT MEMBER OF THE HOUSEHOLD RECOGNIZED BY GOD & THE SAINTS / ANCESTORS), and he shall bring him to the door or the doorpost. And his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall be his slave forever. THE SLAVE MAKES THIS DECISION! THIS IS A PICTURE OF THE CHRISTIAN LIFE. THINK ABOUT THE PROGRESS OF REDEMPTION GOD HAS CAUSED TO HAPPEN THROUGH HISTORY: OT Abraham / Isaac / Israel / law / prophets / King David … until … John / Jesus God Incarnate in one man & the Holy Spirit God inhabiting and empowering all true believers which results in changed lives of fruitful righteousness – like a butterfly: caterpillar/OT/Israel / chrysalis/Jesus / butterfly/NT & the church the body and bride of Christ. PAUL’S VIEW ON SLAVERY/BOND-SERVITUDE (indentured servants): Rom 1:1 Paul, a slave of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God, Rom 6:15 What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means! 16Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness? 17But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed, 18and, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness. 19I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification. 20 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. 21But what fruit were you getting at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. 22But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life. 23For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. 1 Cor 7:17 Only let each person lead the life that the Lord has assigned to him, and to which God has called him. This is my rule in all the churches. 18Was anyone at the time of his call already circumcised? Let him not seek to remove the marks of circumcision. Was anyone at the time of his call uncircumcised? Let him not seek circumcision. 19For neither circumcision counts for anything nor uncircumcision, but keeping the commandments of God. 20Each one should remain in the condition in which he was called. 21Were you a bondservant (slave) when called? Do not be concerned about it. (But if you can gain your freedom, avail yourself of the opportunity.) 22For he who was called in the Lord as a bondservant is a freedman of the Lord. Likewise he who was free when called is a bondservant of Christ. 23You were bought with a price; do not become bondservants of men. 24 So, brothers, in whatever condition each was called, there let him remain with God. JACOB/ISRAEL’S SON, JOSEPH (WHO RECEIVED THE DOUBLE PORTION RESERVED FOR THE FIRSTBORN - MANNASSEH / EPHRAIM) – SOLD INTO SLAVERY BY HIS BROTHERS IN ORDER TO SAVE THE WORLD … GOD WAS AWARE OF IT WHEN IT WAS DONE … GOD ORDAINED IT! Gen 50:20 JOSEPH SPEAKING AS SECOND IN COMMAND IN EGYPT As for you (JOSEPH’S BROTHERS WHO SOLD HIM INTO SLAVERY), you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today. IF JOSEPH HAD NOT “DONE HIS BEST” WHILE SERVING POTIPHER AND IN PRISON, IF HE HAD SULKED, REBELLED AND “FOUGHT FOR HIS FREEDOM” … GOD’S PLAN WOULD NOT HAVE WORKED. SCRIPTURE SEEMS TO BE SAYING THAT GOD IS MUCH MORE INTERESTED IN HOW WE BEHAVE IN THE CIRCUMSTANCES GOD HAS PUT US IN, RATHER THAN, SETTING US FREE FROM NEGATIVE SITUATIONS … LOOK AT THE EXAMPLE OF JESUS !! Heb 5:7 In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to him who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverence. 8Although he was a son, he learned obedience through what he suffered. SUFFERING IS PART OF THE CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE Heb 12:11For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it. James 1:2 (THE HALF-BROTHER OF JESUS) Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, 3for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. 4And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. 1 Pet 1:1 (THE ROCK ON WHICH JESUS BUILT HIS CHURCH … PETER’S FIRST LETTER TO THE CHURCH) Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who are elect exiles of the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, 2according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and for sprinkling with his blood: May grace and peace be multiplied to you. 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, 5 who by God’s power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. 6 In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials, 7so that the tested genuineness of your faith—more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire—may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ. 8Though you have not seen him, you love him. Though you do not now see him, you believe in him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory, 9obtaining the outcome of your faith, the salvation of your souls. BACK TO EX 21 7“When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she shall not go out as the male slaves do (AFTER 7 YEARS – SHE’S THERE FOR LIFE IF SHE WAS PURCHASED TO HAVE A SEXUAL RELATIONSHIP WITH THE ONE WHO PURCHASED HER … SHE BECOMES A CONCUBINE OR WIFE). 8If she does not please her master, who has designated her for himself, then he shall let her be redeemed (PURCHASED BY ANOTHER ISRAELITE). He shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, since he has broken faith with her. 9If he designates her for his son, he shall deal with her as with a daughter. 10If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, or her marital rights (CONJUGAL). 11And if he does not do these three things for her, she shall go out for nothing, without payment of money. IN THE ANCIENT WORLD A FATHER SELLS HIS DAUGHTER IN MOST CASES BECAUSE HE CAN’T FEED HER … THE PRIMARY ROLE OF WOMEN IN THE ANCIENT WORLD WAS TO HAVE CHILDREN, AND HAVING CHILDREN GUARANTEED HER VALUE AND/OR PROTECTION AS SHE AGED. WE HAVE TO GET PAST OUR MODERN WESTERN VIEW OF SEXUALITY … ROMANTIC LOVE MAY HAVE EXISTED IN THE ANCIENT WORLD BUT MOST PEOPLE WERE FOCUSED ON SIMPLE SURVIVAL, AND THE SURVIVAL OF THE FAMILY UNIT … HAVING MULTIPLE CHILDREN WAS CRITICAL FOR THAT. THIS AMAZING LAW PROTECTED WOMEN IN ISRAEL FROM BECOMING SEX SLAVES. A WOMAN WHO WAS BOUGHT TO BECOME A CONCUBINE WAS GUARANTEED PROPER TREATMENT … JUST AS BILHAH (RACHEL’S MAIDSERVANT) AND ZILPAH (LEAH’S MAIDSERVANT) WERE TREATED BY JACOB; ALTHOUGH CONCUBINES THEY WERE TREATED AS WIVES AND THEIR SONS WERE EQUAL TO RACHEL AND LEAH’S SONS … AND THEY WERE LATER LISTED AS WIVES OF JACOB. MARITAL RITES PROTECTED – EVEN FOR THESE CONCUBINES: FOOD, DRINK, CLOTHING, SHELTER, CONJUGAL, INHERITANCE, ETC. REMEMBER, GOD IS DEALING WITH HUMAN CULTURE AS IT WAS AT THAT TIME – WORKING TO TRANSFORM IT FROM SOMETHING ALIENATED FROM GOD. GIVING REGULATIONS TO REQUIRE HUMANE TREATMENTS OF SLAVES WAS A STARTING POINT. BACK TO EX 21 Ex 21:12 “Whoever strikes a man so that he dies shall be put to death (MURDER). 13But if he did not lie in wait for him, but God let him fall into his hand (SOVEREIGNTY – GOD DECIDES WHEN PEOPLE WILL DIE … BUT THE ASSAILANT DIDN’T PLAN TO KILL THE MAN), then I will appoint for you a place to which he may flee (CITIES OF REFUGE - SANCTUARY). 14 But if a man willfully attacks another to kill him by cunning, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die. Ex 21:15“Whoever strikes his father or his mother shall be put to death. JUST STRIKING – YOU DON’T EVEN NEED TO HARM THEM … 16 “Whoever steals a man and sells him, and anyone found in possession of him, shall be put to death. KIDNAPPING: JOSEPH’S BROTHERS SELLING HIM INTO SLAVERY. THIS IS THE TORAH’S PERSPECTIVE ON THE SLAVE TRADE … STRICTLY FORBIDDEN. ISRAEL IS STILL AT SINAI, MOSES IS RECEIVING … DIRECTLY FROM GOD … REVELATION NOT EVOLUTION … ADDITIONAL LAWS THAT OFFER GREATER AND GREATER DETAIL … EXPANDING ON THE 10 COMMANDMENTS. YOU CAN TELL THAT GOD LOVES THEM BY THE LAWS HE’S GIVING THEM. LAWLESSNESS = ANARCHY & CHAOS = HORROR. LAW & ORDER PRESERVES HUMAN LIFE & DIGNITY. GOD IS BRINGING ORDER OUT OF CHAOS. THERE’S ALSO THE ASPECT THAT GOD KNOWS THESE ARE A STIFF-NECKED PEOPLE SO HE’S TRYING TO FENCE THEM IN TO KEEP THEM ON THE PROPER PATH … THINK OF A PARENT OF A REBELLIOUS CHILD WHO IS TRYING TO GET THEM TO OBEY … MORE AND MORE LIMITATIONS IN ORDER TO CHANGE BEHAVIOR. KEEP IN MIND THAT THE LAW IS GOOD … GOOD … GOOD! ISRAEL NEEDS THESE LAWS TO PROTECT THE NATION, THE SOCIETY, THE PRACTICE OF THEIR RELIGION, THE POOR, AND THE WEAK. GOD IS MAKING ISRAEL INTO A NATION THAT’S DIFFERENT FROM ALL OTHER NATIONS … HIS OWN POSSESSION. IN ORDER FOR THEM TO PLEASE GOD AND ULTIMATELY SERVE THEIR PAGAN NEIGHBORS THEY MUST FOLLOW THESE LAWS … THEY MUST BE DIFFERENT. THERE ARE ABOUT 2 MILLION MEN, WOMEN & CHILDREN AT SINAI (NUM CH 1) KEEP IN MIND THE DIFFICULTY OF EXPRESSING LARGE NUMBERS IN THE ANCIENT HEBREW LANGUAGE … WE REALLY DON’T KNOW WHAT THE ACTUAL NUMBER WAS BUT THERE WERE A LOT OF PEOPLE MILLING AROUND WITH LITTLE TO DO, ALSO, THEY HAD NUMEROUS HERDS WITH THEM. THESE LAWS SEEM BIZARRE TO US BUT THEY WERE VERY DETAILED AND FOCUSED ON WHAT ISRAEL NEEDED AT THAT TIME. THEY NEED VERY, VERY SPECIFIC GUIDANCE … TECHNICAL. THEY NEED TO LEARN TO DRIVE ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE DOUBLE YELLOW LINES ON THE ROADS. TO PARK WITHIN THE LINES AND DRIVE THE SPEED LIMIT. BUT THAT’S HOW WE LIVE LIFE – BY THE DETAILS. OUR MODERN LAWS ARE DEEPLY ROOTED IN THE DETAILED LAWS THAT GOD GAVE TO ISRAEL. GOD’S REVELATION BECAUSE HE NEEDED TO GUIDE A LOT OF PEOPLE. THIS WAS NO LONGER A FAMILY OR SMALL TRIBE … THEY’RE BECOMING A TRUE NATION. LAWS ARE WHAT CREATE CIVILIZATION. THE OPPOSITE OF OR ABSENCE OF LAW IS CHAOS. ALL GREAT CIVILIZATIONS THROUGHOUT HISTORY WERE GUIDED BY LAW. ROME’S PAX ROMANA (ROMAN PEACE), GAVE STRUCTURE AND PEACE DURING THE TIME OF CHRIST AND THE EARLY CHURCH. ALTHOUGH GOD DID USE ROME TO ALLOW PERSECUTION OF THE CHURCH, OVERALL, ROME WAS A GOOD THING AND PROVIDED PEACE & PROSPERITY IN THE ANCIENT WORLD. MOST RECENTLY IN WORLD HISTORY THE BRITISH EMPIRE SPREAD COMMON LAW THROUGHOUT THE WORLD AS THEIR EMPIRE SPREAD – AT ONE POINT THE SUN NEVER SET ON THE BRITISH EMPIRE. THE BRITISH EMPIRE CONDONED SLAVERY UNTIL THE BRITISH SLAVERY ABOLITION ACT ENDED THE PRACTICE IN MOST OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE IN THE EARLY 19th CENTURY AND THIS HAD A HUGE IMPACT ON COLONIAL SOCIETIES THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. CONFUCIAN CHINA, THE CODE OF HAMMURABI … THESE ANCIENT LAW CODES ARE VERY SIMILAR TO EACH OTHER AND TO THE LAW GIVEN TO ISRAEL DUE TO COMMON GRACE. ALL HUMAN BEINGS ARE SIMILAR AND CREATED IN GOD’S IMAGE. ALL PEOPLE HAVE A CERTAIN HUNGER FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS OR AT LEAST TO BE TREATED FAIRLY BE THEIR NEIGHBORS AND GOVERNMENT. BACK TO EXODUS / SINAI WE WILL SEE A LOT OF “DEATH PENALTY” LAWS AS WE MOVE THROUGH TORAH, HOWEVER, VERY FEW PEOPLE IN THE HISTORY OF ISRAEL WILL BE PUT TO DEATH THROUGH THESE LAWS … THERE WAS ROOM FOR REPENTANCE WITHIN THE LAW & THE CHARACTER OF GOD … THINK OF KING DAVID SLEEPING WITH BATHSHEBA, URIAH’S WIFE, AND SHE BECAME PREGNANT, THEN TO COVER IT UP DAVID ARRANGES TO HAVE URIAH KILLED IN A BATTLE WITH THE AMMONITES … DAVID REPENTED AND WAS RESTORED … BUT … THERE WERE CONSEQUENCES THAT GOD CAUSED DIRECTLY 2 Sam 12:9 NATHAN THE PROPHET CONFRONTING DAVID Why have you despised the word of the Lord, to do what is evil in his sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and have taken his wife to be your wife and have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites. 10Now therefore the sword shall never depart from your house, because you have despised me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.’ 11Thus says the Lord, ‘Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house. And I will take your wives before your eyes and give them to your neighbor, and he shall lie with your wives in the sight of this sun. 12For you did it secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel and before the sun.’” 13David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord.” And Nathan said to David, “The Lord also has put away your sin; you shall not die. 14Nevertheless, because by this deed you have utterly scorned the Lord, the child who is born to you shall die.” FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE DAVID ACCEPTED THIS DISCIPLINE FROM THE LORD AS WHAT HE DESERVED … HE REPENTED OVER AND OVER AND OVER … AND WE CAN SEE THAT IN THE PSALMS HE WROTE. THESE “DEATH PENALTIES” EXISTED FOR PEOPLE WHO REFUSED TO REPENT … SOMEONE INVOLVED IN THE SLAVE TRADE WHO REFUSED TO STOP … SAME AS MURDER … DEATH. ANOTHER EXAMPLE; ADAM AND EVE IN THE GARDEN … Gen 2:16And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, 17but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.” … DEATH PENALTY … BUT DID GOD PUT THEM TO DEATH? … HOWEVER, THERE WERE DIRE DEATH-LIKE CIRCUMSTANCES THAT RESULTED … DESIGNED TO DRIVE THEM TO REPENTANCE … THE MESSAGE OF THE WHOLE BIBLE IS … REPENT & TURN BACK TO GOD … OVER, AND OVER, AND OVER, AND OVER AGAIN … EVERY MAN OWES GOD A DEATH. BACK TO EX 21 … Ex 21:17 “Whoever curses his father or his mother shall be put to death. RESPECT FOR AUTHORITY IS AN ABSOLUTELY CRITICAL PART OF ISRAEL SURVIVING. LEARNING OBEDIENCE THROUGH THE FAMILY STRUCTURE. CURSING A PARENT … SPOKEN WORDS ARE INCREDIBLY POWERFUL James 3:5 So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great things. How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire! 6And the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life, and set on fire by hell. 7For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and sea creature, can be tamed and has been tamed by mankind, 8but no human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. 9With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse people who are made in the likeness of God. 10From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so. 11Does a spring pour forth from the same opening both fresh and salt water? 12Can a fig tree, my brothers, bear olives, or a grapevine produce figs? Neither can a salt pond yield fresh water. BACK TO EX 21 … YOU CAN TELL WHAT WAS GOING ON WITH THE PEOPLE BY THE TYPES OF LAWS GOD WAS GIVING … SOME ROUGH STUFF! Ex 21:18“When men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone or with his fist and the man does not die but takes to his bed, 19then if the man rises again and walks outdoors with his staff, he who struck him shall be clear; only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall have him thoroughly healed. FIRST LAW THAT MENTIONS RESTITUTION – OPPOSED TO RETRIBUTION … GOD IS WORKING TO LIMIT WHAT IS DONE AS A RESULT OF THE OFFENSE. DO WHAT’S FAIR TO RESTORE THE DAMAGE DONE. Ex 21:20“When a man strikes his slave, male or female, with a rod and the slave dies under his hand, he shall be avenged MURDER. 21But if the slave survives a day or two (AND POSSIBLY DIES FROM SOMETHING ELSE), he is not to be avenged, for the slave is his money (POSSESSION). Ex 21:22“When men strive together and hit a pregnant woman, so that her children come out, but there is no harm, the one who hit her shall surely be fined, as the woman’s husband shall impose on him, and he shall pay as the judges determine. 23 But if there is harm, then you shall pay life for life, 24 eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, 25burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe. NOTE THAT HARM FOR HARM, EYE FOR EYE AND TOOTH FOR TOOTH WAS DESIGNED TO LIMIT RETRIBUTION … SO THAT LIFE DIDN’T TURN INTO ENDLESS UNRESTRAINED REVENGE FUEDS THE DEATH OF THE UNBORN CHILD IS CONSIDERED MURDER … LIFE FOR LIFE. THIS IS THE FIRST LAW THAT MENTIONS JUDGES … Ex 21:26“When a man strikes the eye of his slave, male or female, and destroys it, he shall let the slave go free because of his eye. 27 If he knocks out the tooth of his slave, male or... /episode/index/show/a0d29dc2-522b-4be7-a162-869bf42ed535/id/37111640

Exodus Chapter 20 Deep-Dive Part 2: The Ten Commandments Continued... 06/23/2025

Exodus Chapter 20 Deep-Dive Part 2: The Ten Commandments Continued... Hosted by Joey and Matt Deep-dives into the Bible beyond what Sunday teaches you. Back to the giving of the law: Ex 20:15 “(9)You shall not steal.” Which of Jesus’ parables best addresses “theft?” The Parable of the Vineyard & Tenants: Mk 12:1-12, or, Mt 21:33 “Hear another parable. There was a master of a house who planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a winepress in it and built a tower and leased it to tenants, and went into another country. 34When the season for fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the tenants to get his fruit. (GOD’S EXPECTED PROFIT FROM LEASING HIS VINEYARD – THE BASIS OF THIS PARABLE IS CLEARLY THEFT ! 35And the tenants took his servants and beat one, killed another, and stoned another. 36Again he sent other servants, more than the first. And they did the same to them. 37Finally he sent his son to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’ 38But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and have his inheritance.’ 39And they took him and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. 40When therefore the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?” 41They said to him, “He will put those wretches to a miserable death and let out the vineyard to other tenants who will give him the fruits in their seasons.” 42Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures: “‘The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; this was the Lord’s doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes’? 43 Therefore I tell you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people producing its fruits. 44And the one who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; and when it falls on anyone, it will crush him.” 45When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they perceived that he was speaking about them. 46And although they were seeking to arrest him, they feared the crowds, because they held him to be a prophet. BEWARE IF YOU ARE AWARE OF THEFT BEING DONE BY SOMEONE ELSE THAT WILL RESULT IN GAIN FOR YOU !! GOD SEES EVERYTHING … AND JUDGES OUR MOTIVATIONS THE EXPECTATION AND RIGHT OF PRIVATE PROPERTY IN THE BIBLE: Deut 19:14 “You shall not move your neighbor’s boundary stone which the ancestors have set.” Deut 27:17: “Cursed is he who moves his neighbor’s boundary mark.” Prov 22:28 “Do not move the ancient boundary which your fathers have set.” Prov 23:10 “Do not move the ancient boundary or go into the fields of the fatherless.” Job 24:2 a list of those who do evil: “Some remove the landmarks; they seize and devour flocks.” THE RIGHT TO PRIVATE PROPERTY IS ONE OF THE FOUNDATIONS OF OUR SOCIETY … THIS CAN NOT BE OVEREMPHASIZED ! DO YOU KNOW SOMEONE WHO DAYDREAMS ABOUT “GETTING EVEN” WITH THE RICH, OR NOT PAYING THEIR DEBTS OR TAXES? HERE ARE SOME TYPES OF THEFT YOU MIGHT NOT THINK ARE RELATED TO “THOU SHALT NOT STEAL”: White Collar Crimes: use of deceit for financial gains, such as Ponzi schemes; securities fraud; tax evasion; and embezzlement. Usually committed by persons hired for the management of a business or government entity. Bribery: which is the act of accepting or offering something of value in exchange for influence or power in connection to an elected position or public employment. Fraud: such as wire fraud; tax evasion; insurance fraud; and identity theft. Embezzlement: when an individual steals money or property that he or she has been entrusted to manage. Identity Theft: when someone unlawfully uses another's personally identifying information (such as a Social Security Number) to commit other crimes, such as credit card fraud. Money Laundering: a crime involving the movement of illicit money and other gains into legitimate channels in order to disguise the money's illegal source and thwart tax officials. Mortgage Fraud: illegal schemes related to the misrepresentation or misstatement of mortgage documents for the purpose of defrauding another party, such as a lender or a homeowner. (SOMEONE IS LENDING THE MONEY !) Racketeering / RICO: (Racketeer-Influenced and Corrupt Organization) laws, which make it a crime for a criminal organization to profit from otherwise legitimate business operations. Securities Fraud: a crime in which a corporate officer, for example, makes misleading statements about the company’s stock performance or discloses confidential information related to its stock. Tax Evasion / Fraud: The crime of not paying one’s legally required share of either federal or state taxes, which is punished severely and can lead to asset forfeiture or prison. WHAT DID JESUS SAY ABOUT PAYING TAXES? Lk 20:25He said to them, “Then render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” WHAT DID JESUS SAY ABOUT PAYING OUR DEBTS: Mt 6:12 and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. WE OWE WHAT WE OWE … I OWE MY DEBTS !! PAUL’S TAKE ON “WHITE COLLAR CRIMES” Rom 13:7 Pay to all what is owed to them: taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom respect is owed, honor to whom honor is owed. 8 Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. 9For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” 10Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law. 11 Besides this you know the time, that the hour has come for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed. 12The night is far gone; the day is at hand. So then let us cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light. 13Let us walk properly as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in quarreling and jealousy. 14 But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires. PAUL TIES “PAYING WHAT YOU OWE” TO THE WORKS OF DARKNESS AND “PUTTING ON THE LORD JESUS CHRIST.” PAUL’S TAKE ON THEFT IN THE CHURCH 1 Cor 5:1 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans, for a man has his father’s wife. 2And you are arrogant! Ought you not rather to mourn? Let him who has done this be removed from among you. STAY WITH ME … YOU’LL SEE HOW THEFT IS TIED TO THIS: 3For though absent in body, I am present in spirit; and as if present, I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did such a thing. 4When you are assembled in the name of the Lord Jesus and my spirit is present, with the power of our Lord Jesus, 5you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord. THIS IS A PICTURE OF WHY AND HOW GOD USES SATAN TO DRAW US BACK TO HIMSELF. PS 78:32 In spite of all this, they still sinned; despite his wonders, they did not believe. 33So he made their days vanish like a breath, and their years in terror. 34When he killed them, they sought him; they repented and sought God earnestly. 35They remembered that God was their rock, the Most High God their redeemer. BACK TO 1 CORINTHIANS 6 Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? 7Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. 8Let us therefore celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. HERE’S THE CONNECTION TO “THOU SHALT NOT STEAL”: 9I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people— 10not at all meaning the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world. 11But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of brother if he is guilty of sexual immorality or greed, or is an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or swindler—not even to eat with such a one. 12For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Is it not those inside the church whom you are to judge? 13God judges those outside. “Purge the evil person from among you.” 6:1 When one of you has a grievance against another, does he dare go to law before the unrighteous instead of the saints? 2Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases? 3 Do you not know that we are to judge angels? How much more, then, matters pertaining to this life! 4So if you have such cases, why do you lay them before those who have no standing in the church? 5 I say this to your shame. Can it be that there is no one among you wise enough to settle a dispute between the brothers, 6 but brother goes to law against brother, and that before unbelievers? 7To have lawsuits at all with one another is already a defeat for you. Why not rather suffer wrong? Why not rather be defrauded? 8 But you yourselves wrong and defraud—even your own brothers! 9Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, 10 nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 11And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God. PAUL’S TAKE ON THEFT IN HIS LETTER TO THE EPHESIANS: Eph 4:25Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another. 26 Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, 27 and give no opportunity to the devil. 28 Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need. 29Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear. 30And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. 31Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. 32Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you. THINK OF THIS FOLLOWING PASSAGE AS WHAT GOD SAYS ABOUT ROBBING FROM CLOSE FRIENDS OR FAMILY … Pr 25:24 Whoever robs his father or his mother and says, “That is no transgression,” is a companion to a man who destroys. JESUS’ PARABLE OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD COMPARED TO “THIEVES & ROBBERS” … THIS PARABLE IS CLEARLY FOR THE SCRIBES AND PHARISEES THE SETUP FOR THE PARABLE BEGINS IN JN CH 9 – THE MAN WHOM JESUS HAD HEALED BY PUTTING MUD ON HIS EYES ON THE SABBATH: Jn 9:35Jesus heard that they had cast him out (FROM THE SYNAGOGUE), and having found him he said, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?” 36He answered, “And who is he, sir, that I may believe in him?” 37Jesus said to him, “You have seen him, and it is he who is speaking to you.” 38He said, “Lord, I believe,” and he worshiped him. 39Jesus said, “For judgment I came into this world, that those who do not see may see, and those who see may become blind.” 40Some of the Pharisees near him heard these things, and said to him, “Are we also blind?” 41Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no guilt; but now that you say, ‘We see,’ your guilt remains. 10: 1 “Truly, truly, I say to you, he (A SHEPHERD) who does not enter the sheepfold by the door but climbs in by another way, that man is a thief and a robber. 2But he (A SHEPHERD) who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. 3To him (THE SHEPHERD WHO ENTERS BY THE DOOR – JESUS) the gatekeeper opens … WHO IS THE GATEKEEPER ?!? … THE FATHER – WHO OWNS THE SHEEP!! The sheep hear his (THE SHEPHERD WHO ENTERS BY THE DOOR – JESUS) voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. 4When he has brought out all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice. 5A stranger they will not follow, but they will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers.” 6This figure of speech Jesus used with them, but they did not understand what he was saying to them. 7So Jesus again said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep (EQUATING HIMSELF WITH THE GATEKEEPER – THE FATHER FROM V3). 8 All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them. WHY DID JESUS NOT SAY THEY WERE FALSE PROPHETS OR DECEIVERS … HE CALLS THEM THIEVES AND ROBBERS! 9I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture. 10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly. 11I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. 12 He who is a hired hand and not a shepherd, who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf snatches them and scatters them. 13 He flees because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep. 14I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me, 15just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep. 16And I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice. So there will be one flock, one shepherd. 17For this reason the Father loves me, because I lay down my life that I may take it up again. 18No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. This charge I have received from my Father.” THE OLD TESTAMENT PASSAGES JESUS WAS REFERENCING: Jer 23: 1 “Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture!” declares the Lord. 2Therefore thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, concerning the shepherds who care for my people: “You have scattered my flock and have driven them away, and you have not attended to them. Behold, I will attend to you for your evil deeds, declares the Lord. 3Then I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all the countries where I have driven them, and I will bring them back to their fold, and they shall be fruitful and multiply. 4I will set shepherds over them who will care for them, and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall any be missing, declares the Lord. THIS IS A MESSIANIC PASSAGE: 5 “Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land. 6In his days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely. And this is the name by which he will be called: ‘The Lord is our righteousness.’ JESUS WAS CLAIMING TO BE EQUAL TO YAHWEH – MY SHEEP & I AM THE GATE !!! Ez 34:1The word of the Lord came to me: 2“Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel; prophesy, and say to them, even to the shepherds, Thus says the Lord God: Ah, shepherds of Israel who have been feeding yourselves! Should not shepherds feed the sheep? 3You eat the fat, you clothe yourselves with the wool, you slaughter the fat ones, but you do not feed the sheep. 4The weak you have not strengthened, the sick you have not healed, the injured you have not bound up, the strayed you have not brought back, the lost you have not sought, and with force and harshness you have ruled them. 5So they were scattered, because there was no shepherd, and they became food for all the wild beasts. My sheep were scattered; 6they wandered over all the mountains and on every high hill. My sheep were scattered over all the face of the earth, with none to search or seek for them. 7“Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the Lord: 8As I live, declares the Lord God, surely because my sheep have become a prey, and my sheep have become food for all the wild beasts, since there was no shepherd, and because my shepherds have not searched for my sheep, but the shepherds have fed themselves, and have not fed my sheep, 9therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the Lord: 10Thus says the Lord God, Behold, I am against the shepherds, and I will require my sheep at their hand and put a stop to their feeding the sheep. No longer shall the shepherds feed themselves. I will rescue my sheep from their mouths, that they may not be food for them. ROBBERS AND THIEVES !! 11 “For thus says the Lord God: Behold, I, I myself will search for my sheep and will seek them out … THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT JESUS SAID ABOUT HIMSELF !!!!! REMEMBER WHAT JESUS SAID ABOUT HIS OTHER SHEEP WHO WERE FROM A DIFFERENT FOLD? … 12 As a shepherd seeks out his flock when he is among his sheep that have been scattered, so will I seek out my sheep, and I will rescue them from all places where they have been scattered on a day of clouds and thick darkness. 13 And I will bring them out from the peoples and gather them from the countries, and will bring them into their own land. And I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, by the ravines, and in all the inhabited places of the country. 14I will feed them with good pasture, and on the mountain heights of Israel shall be their grazing land. There they shall lie down in good grazing land, and on rich pasture they shall feed on the mountains of Israel. 15 I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep, and I myself will make them lie down, declares the Lord God. 16I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the strayed, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak, and the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them in justice. 17“As for you, my flock, thus says the Lord God: Behold, I judge between sheep and sheep, between rams and male goats. 18Is it not enough for you to feed on the good pasture, that you must tread down with your feet the rest of your pasture; and to drink of clear water, that you must muddy the rest of the water with your feet? 19And must my sheep eat what you have trodden with your feet, and drink what you have muddied with your feet? IN THIS SECTION LISTEN FOR THE “I WILL” PASSAGES … YAHWEH IS THE “I” … JESUS ALSO CLAIMS THAT SAME “I” … 20“Therefore, thus says the Lord God to them: Behold, I, I myself will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep. 21Because you push with side and shoulder, and thrust at all the weak with your horns, till you have scattered them abroad, 22 I will rescue my flock; they shall no longer be a prey. And I will judge between sheep and sheep. 23And I will set up over them one shepherd, my servant David, and he shall feed them: he shall feed them and be their shepherd. 24And I, the Lord, will be their God, and my servant David shall be prince among them. I am the Lord; I have spoken. THE SCRIBES AND PHARISEES ALL KNEW THESE TWO PASSAGES … THEY KNEW EXACTLY WHAT JESUS WAS TALKING – THAT THEY WERE THE BAD SHEPHERDS WHO WERE ONLY INTERESTED IN FEEDING THEMSELVES – THE THIEVES AND ROBBERS WHO JESUS SPOKE ABOUT, AND THAT JESUS WAS CLAIMING TO BE EQUAL TO YAHWEH! Back to Exodus / Sinai / God speaking directly to the people THUNDERING FROM THE MOUNTAIN IN DARK CLOUDS, THUNDER AND LIGHTNING … giving them the 10 commandments: Ex 20:16 (10)You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor: TESTIFYING IN COURT! Pr 19:5 A false witness will not go unpunished, and he who breathes out lies will not escape. Pr 19:9 A false witness will not go... /episode/index/show/a0d29dc2-522b-4be7-a162-869bf42ed535/id/37111560

Exodus Chapter 20 Deep-Dive Part 1: The Ten Commandments 06/23/2025

Exodus Chapter 20 Deep-Dive Part 1: The Ten Commandments Hosted by Joey and Matt Deep-dives into the Bible beyond what Sunday teaches you. Exodus Ch 20 – the Ten Commandments given by God speaking OUT OF THUNDER directly to the people from Mt Sinai. THERE ARE ACTUALLY ONLY 9 COMMANDMENTS IN THE TEXT, HOWEVER, DIFFERENT GROUPS DIVIDE THEM UP DIFFERENTLY IN ORDER TO MAKE 10. THE ISRAELITES REFERRED TO THEM AS THE 10 “WORDS” Yahweh is creating a suzerain covenant with Israel … a type of agreement in which a powerful ruler (the suzerain) offers protection and benefits to a lesser party (the vassal) in exchange for loyalty and obedience. This form of covenant often includes a recap of what the suzerain or emperor has done for the vassal along with stipulations, blessings for compliance, and curses for disobedience, reflecting a hierarchical relationship. 1 And God spoke all these words, saying, 2 “(1)I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. WHAT YAHWEH DID FOR ISRAEL … GOD’S ABOUT TO LAY DOWN THE LAW … THIS IS A STIFF NECKED AND SPIRITUALLY WEAK PEOPLE THAT HE’S DEALING WITH SO HE ABBREVIATES HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH THEM TO; HEY, REMEMBER JUST A FEW MONTHS AGO … THE STATE OF SLAVERY THAT YOU WERE IN AND ALL THE PLAGUES I PLACED ON EGYPT - I’M THE ONE WHO BROUGHT YOU OUT OF EGYPT, OUT OF SLAVERY. GOD IS SAYING … LISTEN UP !! THE ISRAELITES COUNTED THIS AS THE FIRST COMMANDMENT “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.” 3 “(2)You shall have no other gods before me: OR, IN MY PRESENCE, OR BEFORE MY FACE … THE SECOND COMMANDMENT TO ADDRESS ISRAEL’S PRIMARY SPIRITUAL PROBLEM UNTIL THEY’RE SENT INTO EXILE BY GOD 700-900 YEARS AFTER THIS … NO DIVIDED LOYALTY! ARE THERE “OTHER GODS?” ABSOLUTELY THERE ARE! Ex 12:12 12For I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and I will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am the Lord (THE CREATOR/SOVEREIGN GOD OVER ALL CREATION). 2 Cor 4:4 In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. AT THE TEMPTATION OF JESUS; Lk 4: 5And the devil took him up and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time, 6and said to him, “To you I will give all this authority and their glory, for it has been delivered to me, and I give it to whom I will. 7If you, then, will worship me, it will all be yours.” 8And Jesus answered him, “It is written, “‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and him only shall you serve.’” JESUS DID NOT DENY THAT SATAN HAD THIS AUTHORITY! Jn 19:10So Pilate said to him (Jesus), “You will not speak to me? Do you not know that I have authority to release you and authority to crucify you?” 11Jesus answered him, “You would have no authority over me at all unless it had been given you from above. Therefore he who delivered me over to you has the greater sin.” WHO DELIVERED THIS AUTHORITY TO SATAN & PILATE? YAHWEH DID. YAHWEH IS THE CREATOR AND FINAL AUTHORITY IN ALL THINGS, HOWEVER, SATAN AND HIS REBELLIOUS ANGELIC COLLEAGUES DO HAVE AUTHORITY THAT HAS BEEN GRANTED THEM BY GOD … AND GOD ALLOWS THE FORCES OF GOD AND THE FORCES OF EVIL TO BATTLE EACH OTHER IN WAYS WE CAN’T UNDERSTAND – TO YAHWEH’S PURPOSE. Dan 10:20 (Gabriel speaking to Daniel about Daniel’s prayer that Israel might return from exile) 20Then he said, “Do you know why I have come to you? But now I will return to fight against the prince of Persia; and when I go out, behold, the prince of Greece will come. 21But I will tell you what is inscribed in the book of truth: there is none who contends by my side against these except Michael, your prince. WAR IN HEAVEN, BETWEEN ANGELIC BEINGS (gods), SOME FAITHFUL TO YAHWEH FIGHTING OTHERS IN REBELLION, BUT ALL OF THEM ULTIMATELY SUBJECT TO THE ALL POWERFUL CREATOR GOD, YAHWEH. THIS HAS AN IMPACT ON WHAT HAPPENS IN OUR WORLD … BATTLES BETWEEN THE FORCES OF GOD AND THE FORCES OF SATAN. IN THE END – GOD WINS & WE WIN. BUT THERE WILL BE PAIN AND SUFFERING FOR BELIEVERS IN THE PROCESS, JUST AS THERE WAS FOR JESUS. THIS IS A MYSTERY WHICH CAN ONLY BE SEEN WITH GLIMPSES “BEHIND THE CURTAIN” BRIEFLY GIVEN TO US BY GOD THROUGHOUT THE BIBLE. HOWEVER, Paul said to the Corinthians: 1 Cor 6:2 Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases? 3Do you not know that we are to judge angels? How much more, then, matters pertaining to this life! WORSHIP NO ONE BUT YAHWEH/JESUS, FEAR AND OBEY NO ONE BUT HIM. Back to Exodus 20: 4 “(3)You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. 5You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, 6but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments. THE TABERNACLE INCLUDED LIKENESSES OR “PICTURES” OF THINGS IN HEAVEN SUCH AS THE CHERUBIM (Exodus 25:20 And the cherubim are to have wings that spread upward, overshadowing the mercy seat. The cherubim are to face each other, looking toward the mercy seat.) THE KEY TO THIS COMMANDMENT ISN’T THE ARTWORK – IT’S WORSHIPING THE ART, OR ANY OTHER OBJECT. 2 Kings 18:4 (King Hezekiah) He removed the high places and broke the pillars and cut down the Asherah. And he broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for until those days the people of Israel had made offerings to it (it was called Nehushtan). A “JEALOUS” GOD … ? Is 54: 5 For your Maker is your husband, the Lord of hosts is his name. THIS IS AN ANALOGY, OR A METAPHOR. Ez Ch 16 – God describes Israel as His wife who is offering herself to other Gods and nations as a prostitute. The book of Hosea 1:1 The word of the Lord that came to Hosea, the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel. 2When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea, “Go, take to yourself a wife of whoredom (prostitution) and have children of whoredom, for the land commits great whoredom by forsaking the Lord.” 3So he went and took Gomer, the daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son. THE REST OF THE BOOK DESCRIBES HOSEA’S RELATIONSHIP WITH GOMER, HIS PROSTITUTE WIFE – A PICTURE OF HOW ISRAEL WAS TREATING GOD AND GOD’S JEALOUS REACTION. God divorced Israel (THIS IS A PARABLE, OR AN ANOLOGY): Is 50: 1Thus says the Lord: “Where is your mother’s (Israel’s) certificate of divorce, with which I sent her away? Jer 3:6 The Lord said to me in the days of King Josiah: “Have you seen what she did, that faithless one, Israel, how she went up on every high hill and under every green tree, and there played the whore? 7And I thought, ‘After she has done all this she will return to me,’ but she did not return, and her treacherous sister Judah saw it. 8She saw that for all the adulteries of that faithless one, Israel, I had sent her away with a decree of divorce. Yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but she too went and played the whore. … VISITING THE INIQUITY OF THE FATHERS on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, 6but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments. Deut 24:16 “Fathers shall not be put to death because of their children, nor shall children be put to death because of their fathers. Each one shall be put to death for his own sin. Ez 18:30 (WHOLE CHPT UP TO THIS POINT IS THAT EVERYONE JUDGED FOR THEIR OWN SINS!) “Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, declares the Lord God. Repent and turn from all your transgressions, lest iniquity be your ruin. 31Cast away from you all the transgressions that you have committed, and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! SO WHAT DOES “VISITING THE INIQUITY OF THE FATHERS ON THE CHILDREN” MEAN? IN MOST SOCIETIES THROUGHOUT HISTORY IF YOUR FATHER OR GRANDFATHER WAS A DRUNK, OR A THIEF, OR A CRIMINAL – IT AFFECTED THE FAMILY … THE FAMILY HAS TO BEAR THE SOCIAL CONSEQUENCE OF THE SIN. Back to the commandments in Exodus 20: 7 “(4)You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain. Lee Harvey Oswald reported for duty at the Marine Corps recruit depot in San Diego on October 26, 1956, He was trained in the use of the M-1 rifle. The NCO in charge of the marksmanship training unit, said, “In the Marine Corps he is a good shot, slightly above average … and as compared to the average male … throughout the United States, he is an excellent shot.” On Friday, November 22, 1963, at 12:30 p.m. Central Standard Time in Dallas, Texas, using the marksmanship skills the Marines taught him he shot and killed the president of the United States, John F Kennedy, he took the name “Marine” in vain. Lk 6:12 In these days he (Jesus) went out to the mountain to pray, and all night he continued in prayer to God. 13And when day came, he called his disciples and chose from them twelve, whom he named apostles: 14Simon, whom he named Peter, and Andrew his brother, and James and John, and Philip, and Bartholomew, 15and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon who was called the Zealot, 16and Judas the son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor … chosen by Jesus, yet, he became a traitor … he took the name of the Lord (follower of Jesus) in vain. IMAGINE THAT WE HAD “FOLLOWER OF JESUS” TATTOOED ON OUR FOREHEADS – WOULD WE BE LIVING UP TO “TAKING THE NAME OF THE LORD?” WHEN GOD CHOSE ISRAEL, AND ISRAEL AGREED TO BE GOD’S SPECIAL PEOPLE THE ISRAELITES “TOOK THE NAME OF THE LORD” … JUST A FEW VERSES BEFORE THIS SCENE IN EXODUS; 19:5Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession among all peoples, for all the earth is mine; 6and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words that you shall speak to the people of Israel.” 7So Moses came and called the elders of the people and set before them all these words that the Lord had commanded him. 8 All the people answered together and said, “All that the Lord has spoken we will do.” Matthew Henry described five categories of actions that constitute taking God's name in vain: 1) hypocrisy – making a profession of God's name – claiming to be a Christian, but not living up to that profession. 2) covenant breaking – if one makes promises to God yet does not carry out the promised actions; 3) rash swearing; 4) false swearing; and 5) using the name of God lightly and carelessly, for charms or spells, jest or sport. Ex 23:20 YAHWEH SPEAKING TO MOSES THREE CHAPTERS AFTER SINAI “Behold, I send an angel before you to guard you on the way and to bring you to the place that I have prepared. 21Pay careful attention to him and obey his voice; do not rebel against him, for he will not pardon your transgression (FORGIVE YOUR SIN), for my name is in him. 22“But if you carefully obey his voice and do all that I say, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries. HE’S TALKING ABOUT JESUS WHO HAS YAHWEH’S NAME IN HIM 2 Chronicles 7:16 SOLOMON IS DEDICATING THE TEMPLE AND GOD RESPONDS … For now I have chosen and consecrated this house that my name may be there forever. YAHWEH’S TEMPLE IN JERUSALEM Ex 20:8 “(5)Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, 10but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates. 11For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy. THE SABBATH DAY OF REST WAS SOMETHING UNHEARD OF IN THE ANCIENT WORLD. GOD IS GIVING A GIFT OF A DAY OF REST TO EVERY PERSON NO MATTER WHAT THEIR STATUS, EVEN SLAVES AND SERVANTS, FOREIGNERS, AND DOMESTICATED BEASTS. IN ORDER TO FOLLOW THE SABBATH ONE HAD TO TRUST THAT GOD WOULD MAKE UP THE LABOR THAT WAS LOST DURING THE TIME OF REST … THAT LABOR IS WHAT PROVIDED SUSTENANCE FOR FAMILIES … A WEEKLY REMINDER OF THE COVENANT BETWEEN GOD AND HIS PEOPLE. ORIGINALLY THE SABBATH WAS FRIDAY SUNDOWN – SATURDAY SUNDOWN. Mt 12:1At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry, and they began to pluck heads of grain and to eat. 2But when the Pharisees saw it, they said to him, “Look, your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath.” 3He said to them, “Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, and those who were with him: 4how he entered the house of God and ate the bread of the Presence, which it was not lawful for him to eat nor for those who were with him, but only for the priests? 5Or have you not read in the Law how on the Sabbath the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath and are guiltless? 6I tell you, something greater than the temple is here. 7And if you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the guiltless (THE PHARISEES WERE CONDEMNING THE DISCIPLES FOR PICKING THE GRAIN JUST AS THEY CONDEMNED JESUS FOR HEALING ON THE SABBATH.. 8For the Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath.” The verse Jesus quoted Hos 6:6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings. JESUS IS CLAIMING TO BE THE LORD OF THE SABBATH, OR, YAHWEH … HERE’S JESUS GUIDANCE FOR THE SABBATH GOING FORWARD … DO GOOD ON THE SABBATH, AND EVERY OTHER DAY, AND MAKE JESUS YOUR SABBATH REST … EVERY DAY OF THE WEEK. SO, ARE CHRISTIANS “REQUIRED” TO KEEP THE ORIGINAL SABBATH, OR THE SABBATH RESTRICTIONS ON SUNDAYS? The Jerusalem Council Acts 15 (Gotquestions.org) In the early chapters of the book of Acts, the first Christians were predominantly Jews. When Gentiles began to receive the gift of salvation through Jesus Christ, the Jewish Christians had a dilemma. What aspects of the Mosaic Law and Jewish tradition should Gentile Christians be instructed to obey? The apostles met and discussed the issue in the Jerusalem council (Acts 15). The decision was, (BY JAMES THE BROTHER OF JESUS AND LEADER OF THE CHURCH IN JERUSALEM) “It is my judgment, therefore, that we should not make it difficult for the Gentiles who are turning to God. Instead we should write to them, telling them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals and from blood” (Acts 15:19-20). Sabbath-keeping was not one of the commands the apostles felt was necessary to force on Gentile believers. A common error in the Sabbath-keeping debate is the concept that the Sabbath was the day of worship. Groups such as the Seventh Day Adventists hold that God requires the church service to be held on Saturday, the Sabbath day. That is not what the Sabbath command was. The Sabbath command was to do no work on the Sabbath day (Exodus 20:8-11). Yes, Jews in Old Testament, New Testament, and modern times use Saturday as the day of worship, but that is not the essence of the Sabbath command. In the book of Acts, whenever a meeting is said to be on the Sabbath, it is a meeting of Jews and/or Gentile converts to Judaism, not Christians. When did the early Church/Christians meet? Acts 2:46-47 gives us the answer, “Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.” The tradition of most of the followers of Christ for the past 2000 years has been that Christians meet on the first day of the week (our Sunday), not the Sabbath day (our Saturday) (Acts 20:7; 1 Corinthians 16:2). In honor of Christ’s resurrection on Sunday, the early Christians observed Sunday not as the “Christian Sabbath” but as a day to especially worship Jesus Christ. Is there anything wrong with worshiping on Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath? Absolutely not! We should worship God every day, not just on Saturday or Sunday! Many churches today have both Saturday and Sunday services. There is freedom in Christ (Romans 8:21; 2 Corinthians 3:17; Galatians 5:1). Should a Christian practice Sabbath-keeping, that is, not working on Saturdays? If a Christian feels led to do so, absolutely, yes (Romans 14:5). However, those who choose to practice Sabbath-keeping should not judge those who do not keep the Sabbath (Colossians 2:16). Further, those who do not keep the Sabbath should avoid being a stumbling block (1 Corinthians 8:9) to those who do keep the Sabbath. Galatians 5:13-15 sums up the whole issue: “You, my brothers, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the sinful nature; rather, serve one another in love. The entire law is summed up in a single command: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ If you keep on biting and devouring each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other.” Col 2:16 16Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath. 17These are a shadow of the things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ. Heb 4:8 For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken of another day later on. 9So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God, 10for whoever has entered God’s rest has also rested from his works as God did from his. WE REST FROM OUR “WORKS” BY TRUSTING IN JESUS FOR OUR SALVATION – WE ARE FREE FROM WORKS OF THE LAW. OLD TESTAMENT REFERENCE CLAIMED BY THOSE WHO SAY WE SHOULD KEEP THE SABBATH: Is 66: 22“For as the new heavens and the new earth that I make shall remain before me, says the Lord, so shall your offspring and your name remain. 23 From new moon to new moon, and from Sabbath to Sabbath, all flesh shall come to worship before me, declares the Lord. HOWEVER, THE PEOPLE OF GOD “KEEP THE SABBATH AND WORSHIP” BY RESTING IN JESUS. Back to Ex 20:12 “(6)Honor your father and your mother that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you. Deut 21:18“If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and, though they discipline him, will not listen to them, 19then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gate of the place where he lives, 20and they shall say to the elders of his city, ‘This our son is stubborn and rebellious; he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.’ 21Then all the men of the city shall stone him to death with stones. So you shall purge the evil from your midst, and all Israel shall hear, and fear. From Ellicott’s commentary: Honour, reverence, and obedience are due to parents from the position in which they stand to their children :—(1) As, in a certain sense, the authors of their being; I WATCHED MY 4 CHILDREN EMERGE FROM MY WIFE’S BODY !!! (2) as their shelterers and nourishers; (3) as their protectors and educators, from... /episode/index/show/a0d29dc2-522b-4be7-a162-869bf42ed535/id/37111490

Exodus Chapter 19 Deep-Dive: Mount Sinai 05/19/2025

Exodus Chapter 19 Deep-Dive: Mount Sinai Hosted by Joey and Matt Deep-dives into the Bible beyond what Sunday teaches you. Ex Ch 19 - Israel at Mount Sinai 1On the third new moon after the people of Israel had gone out of the land of Egypt They left Egypt three months prior to this, BUT, the location of Mt Sinai CAN NOT be 100% verified there are many different options and opinions among historians, archaeologists and scholars. However, when Moses first approached Pharaoh: Ex 5:1Afterward Moses and Aaron went and said to Pharaoh, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘Let my people go, that they may hold a feast to me in the wilderness.’” 2But Pharaoh said, “Who is the Lord, that I should obey his voice and let Israel go? I do not know the Lord, and moreover, I will not let Israel go.” 3Then they said, “The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go a three days’ journey into the wilderness that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God, lest he fall upon us with pestilence or with the sword.” OBEDIENCE … So, Mt Sinai was most likely just a 3 day journey from Egypt. 4But the king of Egypt said to them, “Moses and Aaron, why do you take the people away from their work? Get back to your burdens.” 5And Pharaoh said, “Behold, the people of the land are now many, and you make them rest from their burdens!” AFTER the Red Sea crossing, half-way to Sinai: MARAH - BITTER WATER MADE SWEET, MANNA & THE SABBATH REST) , on that day they came into the wilderness of Sinai. 2They set out from Rephidim and came into the wilderness of Sinai, and they encamped in the wilderness. There Israel encamped before the mountain, 3while Moses went up to God. The Lord called to him out of the mountain, saying, “Thus you shall say to the house of Jacob, and tell the people of Israel: 4 ‘You yourselves have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles’ wings and brought you to myself. GOD HAS WORKED MIRACLES FOR YOU 5 Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, SO, OBEY & KEEP UP YOUR PART OF THE COVENANT WITH GOD you shall be my treasured possession among all peoples, for all the earth is mine; 6and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ THE PLANNED RESULT = ISRAEL WILL BE GOD’S REPRESENTATIVE – HIS TREASURED POSSESSION AMONG ALL PEOPLES – A HOLY NATION – YAHWEH’S REPRESENTATIVE PRIESTHOOD FOR ALL NATIONS. 1 Pet 2:4As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, 5you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. These are the words that you shall speak to the people of Israel.” 7So Moses came and called the elders of the people and set before them all these words that the Lord had commanded him. 8All the people answered together and said, “All that the Lord has spoken we will do.” And Moses reported the words of the people to the Lord. MOSES IS THE INTERMEDIARY BETWEEN ISRAEL AND GOD, ISRAEL COMMITTED TO KEEPING GOD’S COMMANDMENTS – MAINTAINING THEIR PART OF THE COVENANT. 9And the Lord said to Moses, “Behold, I am coming to you in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with you, and may also believe you forever.” GOD IS AUTHORIZING MOSES TO BE HIS REPRESENTATIVE Back to the Red Sea crossing: Ex 14: 30Thus the Lord saved Israel that day from the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore. 31Israel saw the great power that the Lord used against the Egyptians, so the people feared the Lord, and they believed in the Lord and in his servant Moses. V9 … When Moses told the words of the people to the Lord, (MOSES THE INTERMEDIARY) 10the Lord said to Moses, “Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their garments 11and be ready for the third day. (IT TOOK TIME FOR THE PEOPLE TO PREPARE) For on the third day the Lord will come down on Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people. EVERYONE WILL SEE THIS FIRSTHAND! 12And you shall set limits for the people all around, saying, ‘Take care not to go up into the mountain or touch the edge of it. Whoever touches the mountain shall be put to death. 13No hand shall touch him, but he shall be stoned or shot; whether beast or man, he shall not live.’ When the trumpet (HEAVENLY TRUMPET) sounds a long blast, they shall come up to the mountain.” 14So Moses went down from the mountain to the people and consecrated the people; and they washed their garments. 15And he said to the people, “Be ready for the third day; do not go near a woman.” (YOU DON’T NEED TO BE THINKING ABOUT SEX RIGHT NOW – ANTICIPATING THIS PERSONAL MEETING WITH GOD) 16On the morning of the third day there were thunders and lightnings and a thick cloud on the mountain and a very loud trumpet blast, so that all the people in the camp trembled. (THIS WAS TERRIFYING – GOD IS COMMUNICATING THAT HE IS TO BE FEARED … THE THICK SMOKE IS HIDING THE GLORY OF THE LORD FROM THE PEOPLE … PROTECTING THE PEOPLE SO THEY WON’T DIE) 17Then Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet God (MOSES WAS THE PEOPLE’S REPRESENTATIVE BEFORE GOD, BUT EVEN HE WAS TERRIFIED Heb 12:21Indeed, so terrifying was the sight that Moses said, “I tremble with fear.), and they took their stand at the foot of the mountain. 18Now Mount Sinai was wrapped in smoke because the Lord had descended on it in fire. The smoke of it went up like the smoke of a kiln, and the whole mountain trembled greatly. (LIKE A VOLCANO – FIRE – SMOKE – EARTHQUAKE – THE VERY FOUNDATION OF YOUR WORLD SHAKEN UP BY GOD) 19And as the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him in thunder. (WHAT ?!?) 20The Lord came down on Mount Sinai, to the top of the mountain. And the Lord called Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up. (IMAGINE HOW TERRIFYING THAT WAS TO EVERYONE … WHO ELSE BUT MOSES COULD GO UP TO GOD! MOSES IS NOW BEGINNING TO TRULY KNOW GOD SO THAT HE COULD KEEP HIS WITS ABOUT HIM AS THIS IS TAKING PLACE) 21And the Lord said to Moses, “Go down and warn the people, lest they break through to the Lord to look and many of them perish. 22Also let the priests who come near to the Lord consecrate themselves, lest the Lord break out against them.” 23And Moses said to the Lord, “The people cannot come up to Mount Sinai, for you yourself warned us, saying, ‘Set limits around the mountain and consecrate it.’” GOD IS HOLY – HE OCCUPIES SACRED SPACE. Moses at the burning bush encounters the angel of the Lord – God in the flesh, Ex 3: 1Now Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro, the priest of Midian, and he led his flock to the west side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. 2And the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush. He looked, and behold, the bush was burning, yet it was not consumed. 3And Moses said, “I will turn aside to see this great sight, why the bush is not burned.” 4When the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called to him out of the bush, “Moses, Moses!” And he said, “Here I am.” 5Then he said, “Do not come near; take your sandals off your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.” 6And he said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God. Joshua later at Jericho encounters this same angel of the Lord – God in the flesh. Josh 5:13When Joshua was by Jericho, he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, a man was standing before him with his drawn sword in his hand. And Joshua went to him and said to him, “Are you for us, or for our adversaries?” 14And he said, “No; but I am the commander of the army of the Lord. Now I have come.” And Joshua fell on his face to the earth and worshiped and said to him, “What does my lord say to his servant?” 15And the commander of the Lord’s army said to Joshua, “Take off your sandals from your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy.” And Joshua did so. Who are the priests mentioned here – God had not yet instituted the divine priesthood of Aaron and the Levites? Well, Melchizedek and Jethro were priests of God but not Israelites, it would only make sense that the Hebrews also had informal spiritual leaders within the nation … priests. 24And the Lord said to him, “Go down, and come up bringing Aaron with you. But do not let the priests and the people break through to come up to the Lord, lest he break out against them.” GOD SPEAKING ABOUT HIMSELF IN THE THIRD PERSON … THIS IS JESUS SPEAKING WITH MOSES, AND HE’S TALKING ABOUT YAHWEH. 25So Moses went down to the people and told them. (GOD SENDS MOSES BACK DOWN AND TELLS HIM TO COME BACK WITH AARON) AND THAT WILL WRAP UP EX CH 19 About This is an audio broadcast, designed to encourage you to dive deeper into the most influential and impactful literature of all time: The Bible. This podcasts helps to show the benefits of reading/listening to the Bible, front to back, over and over and over endlessly. And study to fill the gaps for deeper understanding. Join us as we dissect the bones and ligaments of God’s written revelation to mankind through scripture. /episode/index/show/a0d29dc2-522b-4be7-a162-869bf42ed535/id/36631450

Exodus Chapter 18 Deep-Dive: Jethro Visits Moses 05/19/2025

Exodus Chapter 18 Deep-Dive: Jethro Visits Moses Hosted by Joey and Matt Deep-dives into the Bible beyond what Sunday teaches you. Ex Ch 18 Jethro’s Advice 1 Jethro (THE NAME “JETHRO” WAS MOST LIKELY A TITLE, the priest of Midian … Gen 25:1Abraham took another wife, whose name was Keturah. 2She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah. Jethro is a great grandson of Abraham and a relative of Moses and the Israelites COMPARE Jethro the priest of Midian to Melchizedek priest of Salem who met Abram after he rescued Lot( Gen 14:17-20) 17After his (Abram’s) return from the defeat of Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, the king of Sodom went out to meet him at the Valley of Shaveh (that is, the King’s Valley). 18And Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. (He was priest of God Most High.) 19And he blessed him and said, “Blessed be Abram by God Most High, Possessor of heaven and earth;20and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand!”And Abram gave him a tenth of everything. SO, GOD HAD PRIESTS THAT SERVED HIM OUTSIDE OF ISRAEL … THE TRUE GOD WAS WORSHIPED EVEN OUTSIDE ISRAEL. Acts 18:9 And the Lord said to Paul one night in a vision, “Do not be afraid, but go on speaking and do not be silent, 10for I am with you, and no one will attack you to harm you, for I have many in this city who are my people.” Is 45:22“Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other. Rev 7:9 After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands, 10and crying out with a loud voice, “Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!” Jethro is Moses’ father-in-law – they’re related, Jethro is like a father to Moses. (Moses LIVED WITH HIM FOR 40 yrs, AND MOSES SERVED JETHRO WORKING AS THE SHEPHERD OF JETHRO’S FLOCKS) … heard of all that God had done for Moses and for Israel his people, how the Lord had brought Israel out of Egypt. 2Now Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, had taken Zipporah, Moses’ wife, after he had sent her home (just a few months before this!), 3along with her two sons. The name of the one was Gershom (for he said, “I have been a sojourner in a foreign land”), 4and the name of the other, Eliezer (for he said, “The God of my father was my help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh”). 5Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife to Moses in the wilderness where he was encamped at the mountain of God. 6And when he sent word to Moses, “I, your father-in-law Jethro, am coming to you with your wife and her two sons with her,” (Jethro got tired of taking care of Moses’ family) 7Moses went out to meet his father-in-law and bowed down and kissed him. And they asked each other of their welfare and went into the tent. 8Then Moses told his father-in-law all that the Lord had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel’s sake, all the hardship that had come upon them in the way, and how the Lord had delivered them. 9And Jethro rejoiced for all the good that the Lord had done to Israel, in that he had delivered them out of the hand of the Egyptians. 10Jethro said, “Blessed be the Lord, who has delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians and out of the hand of Pharaoh and has delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians. 11Now I know that the Lord is greater than all gods, because in this affair they dealt arrogantly with the people.” (Neh 9:10) 12And Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, brought a burnt offering and sacrifices to God; and Aaron came with all the elders of Israel to eat bread with Moses’ father-in-law before God. Jethro had GRAVITAS before the Hebrews – he had offered sanctuary to Moses for 40 yrs and had wisdom even though he was NOT an Israelite! 13The next day Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood around Moses from morning till evening. 14When Moses’ father-in-law saw all that he was doing for the people, he said, “What is this that you are doing for the people? Why do you sit alone, and all the people stand around you from morning till evening?” 15And Moses said to his father-in-law, “Because the people come to me to inquire of God; 16when they have a dispute, they come to me and I decide between one person and another, and I make them know the statutes of God and his laws.” MOSES SPOKE FOR GOD, WHATEVER MOSES DECIDED … THAT WAS THE DECISION OF GOD. JESUS HAS GIVEN THIS SAME PRIVILEGE AND RESPONSIBILITY TO THE CHURCH Mt 16:19 I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.” Mt 18:18Truly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. JESUS EVEN VERIFIED THE AUTHORITY GIVEN TO THE SCRIBES & PRIESTS THROUGH THE TORAH: Mt 23:1Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples, 2“The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses’ seat, 3so do and observe whatever they tell you, but not the works they do. For they preach, but do not practice. James 5:16 … The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working. 17Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the earth. 18Then he prayed again, and heaven gave rain, and the earth bore its fruit. 1 Cor 61When one of you has a grievance against another, does he dare go to law before the unrighteous instead of the saints? 2Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases? 3Do you not know that we are to judge angels? How much more, then, matters pertaining to this life! 4So if you have such cases, why do you lay them before those who have no standing in the church? 5I say this to your shame. Can it be that there is no one among you wise enough to settle a dispute between the brothers, 6but brother goes to law against brother, and that before unbelievers? 7To have lawsuits at all with one another is already a defeat for you. Why not rather suffer wrong? Why not rather be defrauded? … THIS IS THE SAME THING MOSES WAS DEALING WITH … BACK TO MOSES ... Moses had no one he could really take advice from – the people, including Aaron and Miriam (his siblings) were so in awe of him that they never really considered him as just a man. GOD SENT Jethro to Moses because MOSES NEEDED GOOD ADVICE – WHAT HE WAS DOING WAS NOT GOOD!! 17 Moses’ father-in-law said to him, “What you are doing is not good. 18You and the people with you will certainly wear yourselves out, for the thing is too heavy for you. You are not able to do it alone. 19Now obey my voice; I will give you advice, and God be with you! You shall represent the people before God and bring their cases to God, 20and you shall warn them about the statutes and the laws, and make them know the way in which they must walk and what they must do. (Note – the law had not been given yet!) 21Moreover, look for able men from all the people, men who fear God, who are trustworthy and hate a bribe, and place such men over the people as chiefs of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens. 22And let them judge the people at all times. Every great matter they shall bring to you, but any small matter they shall decide themselves. So it will be easier for you, and they will bear the burden with you. 23 If you do this, God will direct you, you will be able to endure, and all this people also will go to their place in peace.” 24So Moses listened to the voice of his father-in-law and did all that he had said. 25Moses chose able men out of all Israel and made them heads over the people, chiefs of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens. 26And they judged the people at all times. Any hard case they brought to Moses, but any small matter they decided themselves. 27Then Moses let his father-in-law depart, and he went away to his own country. SO, MOSES CREATES A LEADERSHIP/LEGAL/JUDGING HIERARCHY IN ISRAEL, REPORTING TO HIM/GOD ... BEFORE THE ORDINANCE OF THE PRIESTHOOD WAS GIVEN … … THE SAME PATTERN WAS FOLLOWED IN THE EARLY CHURCH WHEN PAUL, TITUS AND TIMOTHY ESTABLISHED ELDERS & DEACONS IN THE CHURCHES THEY HAD PLANTED… Jethro’s descendants join the Hebrews Judges 1: 16 And the descendants of the Kenite, Moses’ father-in-law, went up with the people of Judah from the city of palms into the wilderness of Judah, which lies in the Negeb near Arad, and they went and settled with the people. AND THAT WILL WRAP UP EX CH 18 About This is an audio broadcast, designed to encourage you to dive deeper into the most influential and impactful literature of all time: The Bible. This podcasts helps to show the benefits of reading/listening to the Bible, front to back, over and over and over endlessly. And study to fill the gaps for deeper understanding. Join us as we dissect the bones and ligaments of God’s written revelation to mankind through scripture. /episode/index/show/a0d29dc2-522b-4be7-a162-869bf42ed535/id/36631385

Exodus Chapter 17 Deep-Dive: Water from the Rock 05/19/2025

Exodus Chapter 17 Deep-Dive: Water from the Rock Hosted by Joey and Matt Deep-dives into the Bible beyond what Sunday teaches you. ISRAEL MIRACULOUSLY PASSED THROUGH THE RED SEA JUST A FEW DAYS BEFORE THIS, THEN GOD MIRACULOUSLY PROVIDED BREAD (MANNA), AND MEAT (QUAIL) … IN CH 16 … THE MIRACULOUS DAILY PROVISION OF MANNA WILL CONTINUE THROUGHOUT THE EXODUS, WATER WILL BE A DIFFERENT KIND OF PROBLEM … Ex Ch 17 Water from the Rock 1 All the congregation of the people of Israel moved on from the wilderness of Sin by stages, according to the commandment of the Lord, and camped at Rephidim (COULD BE “A PLACE OF HEALING”, OR IT COULD BE JUST A PROPER NOUN-NAME), but there was no water for the people to drink. 2Therefore the people quarreled with Moses and said, “Give us water to drink.” And Moses said to them, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test the Lord?” (HEBREW TEST & TEMP ARE THE SAME WORD – LIKE A BLACKSMITH TESTING A SWORD AS HE MAKES IT … THINK OF JESUS BEING LED INTO THE WILDERNESS BY THE SPIRIT SO HE COULD BE TEMPTED/TESTED BY THE DEVIL … JESUS’ LIFE RECREATES THE EXODUS BEGINNING WITH HIS BAPTISM/RED SEA, THEN INTO THE WILDERNESS … BUT HE DOES BETTER THAN ISRAEL DID) BACK TO MOSES … DON’T GRUMBLE … GOD KNOWS YOU NEED WATER … YOU’RE TESTING HIM BUT IN REALITY, HE’S TESTING YOU … AND YOU’RE FAILING! 3But the people thirsted there for water, and the people grumbled against Moses and said, “Why did you bring us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our livestock with thirst?” 4So Moses cried to the Lord, “What shall I do with this people? They are almost ready to stone me.” 5And the Lord said to Moses, “Pass on before the people, taking with you some of the elders of Israel (HEADS OF THE TRIBES AND CLANS … THE LEADERS/JUDGES), and take in your hand the staff (PS 23, YOUR ROD & STAFF COMFORT ME – LEAD ME AND POP ME UP-SIDE-THE-HEAD WHEN I NEED IT… A SYMBOL OF AUTHORITY AND LEADERSHIP) with which you struck the Nile, and go. 6Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock at Horeb (AN APPEARANCE OF GOD IN PHYSICAL FORM … THIS IS JESUS, THE PERSONAL MESSENGER/REPRESENTATIVE OF YAHWEH) , and you shall strike the rock (OR, STRIKE THE ROCK ON WHICH GOD IS STANDING … A DANGEROUS, THREATENING THING TO DO TOWARDS GOD … SO, GOD TELLS MOSES TO JUDGE BETWEEN HIM/YAHWEH AND THE PEOPLE … THEN LAY THE PUNISHMENT/STRIKING ON GOD … THEN GOD WILL PROVIDE WATER, SO, THE PEOPLE ACCUSE/CURSE GOD BUT HE RESPONDS WITH BLESSING), and you shall strike the rock and water shall come out of it, and the people will drink.” And Moses did so, in the sight of the elders of Israel. 7And he called the name of the place Massah and Meribah, because of the quarreling of the people of Israel, and because they tested the Lord by saying, “Is the Lord among us or not?” COMPARE THIS SCENE TO WHAT HAPPENS AT THE END OF THE EXODUS IN NUM 20:8, IN THAT CASE GOD TELLS MOSES TO SPEAK TO THE ROCK, BUT MOSES STRIKES IT TWICE IN ANGER … THAT’S MOSES JUDGING GOD AND GOD WAS NOT PLEASED AND BECAUSE OF THAT BOTH MOSES AND AARON WERE EXCLUDED FROM ENTERING THE PROMISED LAND. AGAIN, KEEP IN MIND WHAT WE DISCUSSED IN EX 16 … EVEN AT THE BEGINNING OF THE EXODUS GOD WAS NOT PLEASED WITH THE NATION OF ISRAEL … HE’S ANGRY WITH THEM BECAUSE OF WHO & WHAT THEY HAD BECOME DURING THEIR TIME IN EGYPT EZ 20:4-10… AND HE’S GOING TO BECOME MORE AND MORE ANGRY AS THEY PROGRESS THROUGH THE EXODUS. PAUL RECOUNTS THIS SCENE FOR THE NEW BELIEVERS IN CORINTH: 1 Cor 10:1For I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, 2and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, 3and all ate the same spiritual food, 4and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual Rock that followed them, and the Rock was Christ. 5Nevertheless, with most of them God was not pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness. BACK TO EX 17: Israel Defeats Amalek Ex 17:8 Then Amalek came and fought with Israel at Rephidim. Amalek is a grandson of Esau (Edom) – Jacob’s brother, so, the Amalekites are close relatives of Israel. It’s interesting that scripture names the man Amalek here, instead of naming the Amalekites. There is a lot of extra scriptural material stating how nasty the Amalekites were, however, none of that is from scripture. Here we have God working his signs and wonders in Egypt for months before this, then Israel miraculously passing through the red sea just a few weeks before this, then we have the song of Moses in which Moses PROPHESIES the nations in that region are going to be terrified of Israel: From Ex 15, Moses’ song of praise after crossing the Red Sea - two chapters ago: 13“You have led in your steadfast love the people whom you have redeemed; you have guided them by your strength to your holy abode. 14 The peoples have heard; they tremble; pangs seized the inhabitants of Philistia. 15Now are the chiefs of Edom dismayed; trembling seizes the leaders of Moab; all the inhabitants of Canaan have melted away. 16Terror and dread fall upon them; because of the greatness of your arm, they are still as a stone, till your people, O Lord, pass by, till the people pass by whom you have purchased. SO, MOSES PROPHESIED THAT THE CHIEFS OF EDOM, THAT WOULD INCLUDE AMALEK, WILL BE DISMAYED, EXCEPT … AMALEK WASN’T … HE DIDN’T PAY ATTENTION TO GOD’S TERROR AND HE WENT OUT AND MADE WAR ON ISRAEL … EVEN IN THE MIDST OF ALL OF YAHWEH’S MIRACULOUS SIGNS … THAT IS WHAT INFURIATED GOD AGAINST AMALEK Deut 25:17 “Remember what Amalek did to you on the way as you came out of Egypt, 18how he attacked you on the way when you were faint and weary, and cut off your tail, those who were lagging behind you, and he did not fear God. 19Therefore when the Lord your God has given you rest from all your enemies around you, in the land that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance to possess, you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven; you shall not forget. ALSO, 440 YEARS AFTER THIS EVENT … 1 Sam 15:1 And Samuel said to Saul, “The Lord sent me to anoint you king over his people Israel; now therefore listen to the words of the Lord. 2 Thus says the Lord of hosts, ‘I have noted what Amalek did to Israel in opposing them on the way when they came up out of Egypt. 3Now go and strike Amalek and devote to destruction all that they have. Do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’” AND IT WAS SAUL’S FAILURE TO FOLLOW THIS DIRECTIVE FROM GOD THAT LED TO HIM LOSING THE KINGSHIP OF ISRAEL. TWO REFERENCES TO THE DESTRUCTION OF THE AMALEKITES BEING TIED TO THIS ACT OF WAR AGAINS ISRAEL AT THE BEGINNING OF THE EXODUS AND NOT BECAUSE THEY WERE ANY WORSE THAN ANY OTHER CLAN … DISOBEDIENCE IS WHAT INFURIATED YAHWEH! BACK TO MOSES IN EX 17 9So Moses said to Joshua, (FIRST MENTION OF JOSHUA – he’s chosen to lead the army) “Choose for us men, and go out and fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the staff of God in my hand.” (SPECIFICALLY SPOKEN BY MOSES AS ENCOURAGEMENT FOR JOSHUA?) 10So Joshua did as Moses told him, and fought with Amalek, while Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill. 11Whenever Moses held up his hand, Israel prevailed (JOSHUA ENCOURAGED??), and whenever he lowered his hand, Amalek prevailed (JOSHUA DISCOURAGED). 12But Moses’ hands grew weary, so they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat on it, while Aaron and Hur held up his hands, one on one side, and the other on the other side. So his hands were steady until the going down of the sun. 13And Joshua overwhelmed Amalek and his people with the sword. THIS IS THE ONLY INCIDENT IN SCRIPTURE THAT I CAN THINK OF WHERE A MAN HOLDING UP HIS HANDS IS WHAT DETERMINED WHETHER OR NOT ISRAEL WAS SUCCESSFUL AT WAR, SO, I THINK THE HANDS BEING HELD UP IS TIED TO JOSHUA DEPENDING ON THAT SIGHT … WHEN HE SAW THE HANDS RAISED HE FOUGHT HARD AND WON, WHEN THE HANDS WERE DOWN HE BECAME DISCOURAGED AND ISRAEL BEGAN TO LOSE … 14Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write this as a memorial in a book and recite it in the ears of Joshua, that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven.” 15And Moses built an altar and called the name of it, The Lord Is My Banner, 16saying, “A hand upon the throne of the Lord! The Lord will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.” WHY DOES GOD TELL MOSES TO RECITE THIS IN JOSHUA’S EARS ?? … Joshua was supposed to destroy the Amalekites when Israel took possession of the promised land but it didn’t happen! That same failure is what led to King Saul’s demise, also … AND THAT WILL WRAP UP EX CH 17 About This is an audio broadcast, designed to encourage you to dive deeper into the most influential and impactful literature of all time: The Bible. This podcasts helps to show the benefits of reading/listening to the Bible, front to back, over and over and over endlessly. And study to fill the gaps for deeper understanding. Join us as we dissect the bones and ligaments of God’s written revelation to mankind through scripture. /episode/index/show/a0d29dc2-522b-4be7-a162-869bf42ed535/id/36631305

Exodus Chapter 16 Deep-Dive: Manna From Heaven 04/21/2025

Exodus Chapter 16 Deep-Dive: Manna From Heaven Hosted by Joey and Matt Deep-dives into the Bible beyond what Sunday teaches you. EX CH 16 ISRAEL HAS WITNESSED THE PLAGUES YAHWEH SENT ON EGYPT, PARTICIPATED IN THE PASSOVER, PASSED THROUGH THE RED SEA, SUNG THE SONG OF MOSES ABOUT THEIR AMAZING RESCUE BY YAHWEH, EXPERIENCED THE MIRACLE OF THE BITTER WATER MIRACULOUSLY MADE SWEET AT MARAH, AND HAVE CAMPED AT THE OASIS OF ELIM. NOW BEFORE WE CONTINUE ON THE EXODUS LET’S STOP AND LISTEN TO A LITTLE INSIDE BASEBALL … WHAT WAS ISRAEL’S CONDITION AT THIS TIME? Josh 24: 14“Now fear the Lord and serve him with all faithfulness. Throw away the gods (PRESENT TENSE) your ancestors worshiped beyond the Euphrates River (Terah, Nahor, and Abraham), and in Egypt, and serve the Lord. 15But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.” Joshua at the end of his life, after he had spied out the land with Caleb, had to sit in the wilderness 40 yrs while that depraved unbelieving generation, which had witnessed first hand the delivery from Egypt, died off, then he led their children to conquer the promised land: Why is Joshua able to remind them of this? Because HE HAD BEEN A YOUNG MAN IN Egypt when Moses showed up. HE WAS THERE … HE HAD WITNESSED THE WHOLE THING! In Israel’s FIRST military encounter Joshua was tasked by Moses to lead the army. Ex 17:8 Then Amalek came and fought with Israel at Rephidim. 9So Moses said to Joshua, “Choose for us men, and go out and fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the staff of God in my hand.” 10So Joshua did as Moses told him, and fought with Amalek, while Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill. 11Whenever Moses held up his hand, Israel prevailed, and whenever he lowered his hand, Amalek prevailed. 12But Moses’ hands grew weary, so they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat on it, while Aaron and Hur held up his hands, one on one side, and the other on the other side. So his hands were steady until the going down of the sun. 13And Joshua overwhelmed Amalek and his people with the sword. 4Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write this as a memorial in a book and recite it in the ears of Joshua, that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven.” 15And Moses built an altar and called the name of it, The Lord Is My Banner (Jehovah Nissi), 16saying, “A hand upon the throne of the Lord! The Lord will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.” HE WAS MOSES’ ASSISTANT! He accompanied Moses to Mt Sinai when the law was given (Ex 24:13) He was there when Moses confronted Aaron and the people at the golden calves incident (Ex 32:17) He spent a lot of time in the tent of meeting where Moses met face to face with God (Ex 33:11) Joshua knew the Israelites intimately, going all the way back to Egypt … AND IT WAS NOT PRETTY! In their heart of hearts they were idolators. The prophet Ezekiel’s witness. When Judah had been sent by God into captivity in Babylon this is what God said about Israel through the prophet Ezekiel (exiled in Babylon, during the 22 years from 593 to 571 BC) God was remembering what they were like just a few generations after Jacob & Joseph: Ez 20:4 Will you judge them? Will you judge them, son of man (Ezekiel)? Make known to them the detestable things of their ancestors. 5 And you must say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “On the day of my choosing Israel ⌊I swore⌋ to the offspring of the house of Jacob, and I made myself known to them in the land of Egypt, and ⌊I swore⌋ to them, ⌊saying⌋, ‘I am Yahweh your God.’ 6 On that day ⌊I swore⌋ to them to bring them out from the land of Egypt to the land that I had searched out for them, flowing with milk and honey—it is the most beautiful of all of the lands. 7 Then I said to them, ‘Let each one throw away the detestable things of his eyes, and you must not make yourselves unclean with the idols of Egypt! I am Yahweh your God.’ 8 But they rebelled against me, and they were not willing to listen to me; each one ⌊did not throw away⌋ the detestable things of their eyes; and ⌊they did not abandon⌋ the idols of Egypt, and I decided to pour out my rage on them, to fully vent my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt. (SLAVERY & OPPRESSION) 9 “But I acted for the sake of my name ⌊to keep it from being profaned⌋ before the eyes of the nations ⌊among whom they lived⌋, where I made known to them before their eyes, to bring them out from the land of Egypt. 10 And I brought them out from the land of Egypt, and I brought them to the desert, Israel had fallen into idolatry when they were in Egypt even though God had revealed himself to them (v5 I made myself known to them in the land of Egypt) GOD poured out His WRATH when they did not respond to Him: (v8 I decided to pour out my rage on them, to fully vent my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt). Yet, God was faithful to the promise He had made to Abraham Acts7:17 (NT, Stephen’s defense before the Sanhedrin) “As the time drew near for God to fulfill his promise to Abraham, the number of our people in Egypt had greatly increased. 18Then ‘a new king, to whom Joseph meant nothing, came to power in Egypt.’ God responded when his people cried out to Him. Ex3:7The Lord said (to Moses from the burning bush), “I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering. 8So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. 9And now the cry of the Israelites has reached me, and I have seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them. 10So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring (YOU BRING!) my people the Israelites out of Egypt.” God causes suffering to elicit a response from sinful people, then responds when they turn to Him: Neh 9:9 “You saw the misery of our ancestors in Egypt, and you heard their shout at the Red Sea. 10 You gave signs and wonders against Pharaoh, all of his servants, and all of the people of his land because you knew that they (the Egyptians) acted arrogantly against them. You made a name for yourself, as it is this day. 11 And you divided the sea before them, and they passed through the sea on dry ground, but their pursuers you threw into the depths like a stone into mighty waters: SO, A MERCIFUL GOD RESCUES HIS PEOPLE, BUT, THEY WERE NASTY REBELLIOUS IDOLATORS WHO HAD RESISTED HIS INTERVENTIONS THROUGHOUT THEIR TIME IN EGYPT … BOTTOM LINE, AT THE END OF THE EXODUS, THIS IS HOW GOD FELT ABOUT THESE PEOPLE … Ps 95:10 For forty years I loathed that generation and said, “They are a people who go astray in their heart, and they have not known my ways.” 11Therefore I swore in my wrath, “They shall not enter my rest.” BACK TO EX 16: Bread from Heaven 1They set out from Elim, and all the congregation of the people of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin(SINAI) (DESERT … LITERALLY A PLACE WHERE PEOPLE CAN’T LIVE, DEATH AND DANGER), which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had departed from the land of Egypt. (A MONTH) 2And the whole congregation of the people of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness , 3and the people of Israel said to them, “Would that we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots and ate bread to the full, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.” MORE COMPLAINING … GET USED TO IT! 4Then the Lord said to Moses, “Behold, I am about to rain bread from heaven for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day’s portion every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my law or not. 5On the sixth day, when they prepare what they bring in, it will be twice as much as they gather daily.” ONE DAY AT A TIME, EXCEPT FOR THE SABBATH 6So Moses and Aaron said to all the people of Israel, “At evening you shall know that it was the Lord who brought you out of the land of Egypt, 7and in the morning you shall see the glory of the Lord, because he has heard your grumbling against the Lord. For what are we, that you grumble against us?” 8And Moses said, “When the Lord gives you in the evening meat to eat and in the morning bread to the full, because the Lord has heard your grumbling that you grumble against him—what are we? Your grumbling is not against us but against the Lord.” 9Then Moses said to Aaron, “Say to the whole congregation of the people of Israel, ‘Come near before the Lord, for he has heard your grumbling.’” 10And as soon as Aaron spoke to the whole congregation of the people of Israel, they looked toward the wilderness, and behold, the glory of the Lord appeared in the cloud. 11And the Lord said to Moses, 12“I have heard the grumbling of the people of Israel. Say to them, ‘At twilight you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread. Then you shall know that I am the Lord your God.’” THE ONE WHO CAUSES THINGS TO BE 13In the evening quail came up and covered the camp FRESH DEAD BIRDS LAYING ON THE GROUND, and in the morning dew lay around the camp. 14And when the dew had gone up, there was on the face of the wilderness a fine, flake-like thing, fine as frost on the ground. 15When the people of Israel saw it, they said to one another, “What is it?” (MANNA) For they did not know what it was. And Moses said to them, “It is the bread that the Lord has given you to eat. 16This is what the Lord has commanded: ‘Gather of it, each one of you, as much as he can eat. You shall each take an omer, according to the number of the persons that each of you has in his tent.’” 17And the people of Israel did so. They gathered, some more, some less. 18But when they measured it with an omer, whoever gathered much had nothing left over, and whoever gathered little had no lack. Each of them gathered as much as he could eat. 19And Moses said to them, “Let no one leave any of it over till the morning.” 20But they did not listen to Moses. Some left part of it till the morning, and it bred worms and stank. And Moses was angry with them. 21Morning by morning they gathered it, each as much as he could eat; but when the sun grew hot, it melted. 22On the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers each. And when all the leaders of the congregation came and told Moses, 23he said to them, “This is what the Lord has commanded: ‘Tomorrow is a day of solemn rest, a holy Sabbath to the Lord; bake what you will bake and boil what you will boil, and all that is left over lay aside to be kept till the morning.’” 24So they laid it aside till the morning, as Moses commanded them, and it did not stink, and there were no worms in it. 25Moses said, “Eat it today, for today is a Sabbath to the Lord; today you will not find it in the field. 26Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day, which is a Sabbath, there will be none.” 27On the seventh day some of the people went out to gather, but they found none. 28And the Lord said to Moses, “How long will you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws? 29See! The Lord has given you the Sabbath; therefore on the sixth day he gives you bread for two days. Remain each of you in his place; let no one go out of his place on the seventh day.” 30So the people rested on the seventh day. THE SABBATH WAS GIVEN TO ISRAEL BEFORE THE LAW 31Now the house of Israel called its name manna. It was like coriander seed, white, and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey. 32Moses said, “This is what the Lord has commanded: ‘Let an omer of it be kept throughout your generations, so that they may see the bread with which I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.’” 33And Moses said to Aaron, “Take a jar, and put an omer of manna in it, and place it before the Lord to be kept throughout your generations.” 34As the Lord commanded Moses, so Aaron placed it before the testimony to be kept. (THIS IS BEFORE THE ARK IS MADE) 35The people of Israel ate the manna forty years, till they came to a habitable land. They ate the manna till they came to the border of the land of Canaan. 36(An omer is the tenth part of an ephah.) AGAIN, LATER GENERATIONS EXPLAINING WHAT AN OMER WAS AT THE TIME OF THE EXODUS … EDITING AND UPDATING THE SCRIPTURES. GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY BREAD … EVERYTHING WE NEED FROM GOD FOR THAT DAY … JESUS, THE BREAD OF HEAVEN … UNLESS YOU EAT MY FLESH YOU HAVE NO PART WITH ME ... AND THAT WILL WRAP UP CH 16 About This is an audio broadcast, designed to encourage you to dive deeper into the most influential and impactful literature of all time: The Bible. This podcasts helps to show the benefits of reading/listening to the Bible, front to back, over and over and over endlessly. And study to fill the gaps for deeper understanding. Join us as we dissect the bones and ligaments of God’s written revelation to mankind through scripture. /episode/index/show/a0d29dc2-522b-4be7-a162-869bf42ed535/id/35512090

Exodus Chapter 15 Deep-Dive: The Song of Moses and Miriam 04/21/2025

Exodus Chapter 15 Deep-Dive: The Song of Moses and Miriam Hosted by Joey and Matt Deep-dives into the Bible beyond what Sunday teaches you. EX CH 15 THE SONG OF MOSES … THE FIRST BIBLICAL SONG, HYMN, OR “ODE” (THERE ARE 9 BIBLICAL ODES, THIS IS THE FIRST, THE 2nd IS DEUT 32, THE 9th IS LK 1, THE MAGNIFICAT, SUNG BY MARY, ABOUT GIVING BIRTH TO MESSIAH. THIS PORTION OF SCRIPTURE IS UNIQUE IN THAT THE HEBREW WAS NEVER UPDATED AS THE NATION GREW. LANGUAGES CHANGE, THINK OF CHAUCER’S ENGLISH COMPARED TO 21st CENTURY ENGLISH … AS THE BIBLICAL SCRIBES COPYING THE SCRIPTURES, AND THE EDITORS, UPDATED THE LANGUAGE THROUGHOUT ISRAEL’S HISTORY THIS HYMN’S LANGUAGE IS STILL IN IT’S ANCIENT HEBREW FORM WHICH MAKES IT DIFFICULT TO TRANSLATE … THINK OF READING SOMETHING IN OLDE ENGLISH. 1Then Moses and the people of Israel sang this song to the Lord, saying, “I will sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea. 2 The Lord is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation; this is my God, and I will praise him, my father’s God, and I will exalt him. (1 HE DESTROYED PHAROAH’S ARMY, 2 HE PROTECTED ISRAEL) 3The Lord is a man of war; the Lord (YAHWEH) is his name. 4 “Pharaoh’s chariots and his host he cast into the sea, and his chosen officers were sunk in the Red Sea. (EGYPTIAN SUPERNATURAL SEA OF REEDS IN THE AFTERLIFE AND HARD/HEAVY HEARTS SINKING THERE … THE ETERNALLY DROWNED) 5The floods covered them; they went down into the depths like a stone. 6 Your right hand, O Lord, glorious in power, your right hand, O Lord, shatters the enemy. (THE EGYPTIAN GOD, MANTU, THE RIGHT ARM OF RA – YAHWEH’S ARM IS STRONGER) 7In the greatness of your majesty you overthrow your adversaries; (LITERALLY “SATANS”, OR FALSE EGYPTIAN GODS) you send out your fury; it consumes them like stubble. 8At the blast of your nostrils (AN ANCIENT IDOM OF SOMEONE’S NOSE BEING HOT WHEN THEY’RE ANGRY, CONVERSLY, THE HEBREW IDIOM FOR SOMEONE BEING SLOW TO ANGER WAS THAT THEY WERE “LONG NOSED”) the waters piled up; the floods stood up in a heap; the deeps congealed in the heart of the sea. 9The enemy said, ‘I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil, my desire shall have its fill of them. I will draw my sword; my hand shall destroy them.’ 10You blew with your wind; (THE BREATH OF GOD IS THE HOLY SPIRIT 2 Thess 2:8And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will kill with the breath of his mouth and bring to nothing by the appearance of his coming.) the sea covered them; they sank like lead in the mighty waters. 11 “Who is like you, O Lord, among the gods? Who is like you, majestic in holiness, awesome in glorious deeds, doing wonders? 12You stretched out your right hand; the earth (ERETZ: CAN MEAN EARTH, OR, UNDERWORLD-HADES) swallowed them. 13“You have led in your steadfast love the people whom you have redeemed; you have guided them by your strength to your holy abode. 14The nations will hear and tremble; anguish will grip the people of Philistia (PHILISTINES – GOLIATH). 15The chiefs of Edom (uncle Esau – Jacob’s brother) will be terrified: Deut 2:4Give the people these orders: ‘You are about to pass through the territory of your relatives the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir. They will be afraid of you, but be very careful. 5Do not provoke them to war, for I will not give you any of their land, not even enough to put your foot on. I have given Esau the hill country of Seir as his own. 6You are to pay them in silver for the food you eat and the water you drink.’ ” the leaders of Moab (Lot’s descendants – Abraham’s nephew) will be seized with trembling, Deut 2:9Then the Lord said to me, “Do not harass the Moabites or provoke them to war, for I will not give you any part of their land. I have given Ar to the descendants of Lot as a possession.” BACK TO EX 16:15... all the inhabitants of Canaan have melted away. 16Terror and dread fall upon them; because of the greatness of your arm, they are still as a stone, till your people, O Lord, pass by, till the people pass by whom you have purchased. (MOSES IS SAYING THAT THE PEOPLE WHO INHABIT THE PROMISED LAND WILL HEAR ABOUT THIS AND BE TERRIFIED – Josh 2:8 RAHAB THE PROSTITUTE SPEAKING TO THE ISRAELITE SPIES 41 YEARS FROM NOW Before the men lay down, she came up to them on the roof 9and said to the men, “I know that the Lord has given you the land, and that the fear of you has fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away before you. 10For we have heard how the Lord dried up the water of the Red Sea before you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon and Og, whom you devoted to destruction. 11And as soon as we heard it, our hearts melted, and there was no spirit left in any man because of you, for the Lord your God, he is God in the heavens above and on the earth beneath.) BACK TO THE SONG OF MOSES EX15:17 You will bring them ISRAEL in and plant them on your own mountain, the place, O Lord, which you have made for your abode, the sanctuary, O Lord, which your hands have established. 18 The Lord will reign forever and ever.” THE MOUNTAIN OF GOD IS ... WHEREVER GOD IS 19For when the horses of Pharaoh with his chariots and his horsemen went into the sea, the Lord brought back the waters of the sea upon them, but the people of Israel walked on dry ground in the midst of the sea. 20Then Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women went out after her with tambourines and dancing. 21And Miriam sang to them: “Sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.” Bitter Water Made Sweet 22Then Moses made Israel set out from the Red Sea, and they went into the wilderness of Shur. They went three days in the wilderness and found no water. 23When they came to Marah, they could not drink the water of Marah because it was bitter; therefore it was named Marah (BITTER). 24And the people grumbled against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?” MORE COMPLAINING 25And he cried to the Lord, and the Lord showed him a log, and he threw it into the water, and the water became sweet. There the Lord made for them a statute and a rule, and there he tested them, 26saying, “If you will diligently listen to the voice of the Lord your God, and do that which is right in his eyes, and give ear to his commandments and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you that I put on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord, your healer.” A WARNING! AND IF YOU DON’T OBEY … HE MAY PUT DISEASES ON HIS PEOPLE ... 27Then they came to Elim (GODS), where there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they encamped there by the water. 12 TRIBES, 12 APOSTLES, 70 SENT FORTH BY JESUS … A CONNECTION BETWEEN THE EXODUS AND THE NEW TESTAMENT. AND THAT WILL WRAP OF EX 15 About This is an audio broadcast, designed to encourage you to dive deeper into the most influential and impactful literature of all time: The Bible. This podcasts helps to show the benefits of reading/listening to the Bible, front to back, over and over and over endlessly. And study to fill the gaps for deeper understanding. Join us as we dissect the bones and ligaments of God’s written revelation to mankind through scripture. /episode/index/show/a0d29dc2-522b-4be7-a162-869bf42ed535/id/35516765

Exodus Chapter 14 Deep-Dive: The Crossing of the Red Sea 04/21/2025

Exodus Chapter 14 Deep-Dive: The Crossing of the Red Sea Hosted by Joey and Matt Deep-dives into the Bible beyond what Sunday teaches you. EX 14 1Then the Lord said to Moses, 2“Tell the people of Israel to turn back and encamp in front of Pi-hahiroth (MOUTH OF WATER), between Migdol (TOWER, ex LIGHTHOUSE?) and the sea, in front of Baal-zephon (BAAL OF THE NORTH); you shall encamp facing it, by the sea. BOTTOM LINE IS THAT WE DON’T KNOW EXACTLY WHERE THIS WAS … THE SAME THEME WE’VE SEEN IN EXODUS … WE DON’T KNOW EXACTLY WHICH PHAROAH, AND WE’RE NOT EXACTLY SURE OF THE LOCATIONS … IF GOD WANTED US TO KNOW, WE WOULD KNOW, REMEMBER, THIS IS TAKING PLACE SOMETIME BETWEEN 966 {1 Ki 6:1 480 yrs before Solomon’s temple} -1450 BC … REMEMBER THAT TRANSLATING NUMBERS FROM HEBREW IS VERY DIFFICULT AND IMPRECISE … BACK TO GOD SPEAKING WITH MOSES … 3For Pharaoh will say of the people of Israel, ‘They are wandering in the land; the wilderness has shut them in.’ 4And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and he will pursue them, and I will get glory over Pharaoh and all his host, and the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord.” And they did so. 5When the king of Egypt was told that the people had fled, the mind of Pharaoh and his servants was changed toward the people, and they said, “What is this we have done, that we have let Israel go from serving us?” ANOTHER QUICK CHANGE OF MIND FOR PHAROAH ... AND HIS SERVANTS 6So he PHAROAH made ready his chariot and took his army with him, 7and took six hundred chosen chariots and all the other chariots of Egypt with officers over all of them. 8And the Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he P-PHAROAH pursued the people of Israel while the people of Israel were going out defiantly. 9The Egyptians pursued them, all Pharaoh’s horses and chariots and his horsemen and his army, and overtook them encamped at the sea, by Pi-hahiroth (MOUTH OF WATER), in front of Baal-zephon BAAL OF THE NORTH, A PAGAN SHRINE). SO ISRAEL (MEN, WOMEN & CHILDREN … ALL SLAVES) IS CAMPED AT THE BAAL-SHRINE … A STANDOFF BUT ISRAEL HAS THE WATER AT THEIR BACKS. EGYPT AT THIS POINT IN HISTORY DIDN’T HAVE MUCH OF A STANDING ARMY, THIS WOULD HAVE BEEN MILITARY AGED MEN WHO WERE CALLED UP BY THE NOBILITY (CAPTAINS). ALSO, EGYPTIAN CHARIOTS WERE VERY LIGHT, WITH LARGE THIN WHEELS, FOR ONE PERSON, USUALLY USED TO DISPERSE ARCHERS … THEY REPRESENTED THE PEAK OF EGYPT’S MILITARY PROWESS AT THAT TIME, SO PHAROAH IS SERIOUS ABOUT THIS ... 10When Pharaoh drew near, the people of Israel lifted up their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians were marching after them, and they feared greatly. And the people of Israel cried out to the Lord. 11They said to Moses, “Is it because there are no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the wilderness? What have you done to us in bringing us out of Egypt? 12Is not this what we said to you in Egypt: ‘Leave us alone that we may serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.” GET USED TO THIS … THIS IS ISRAEL’S MINDSET AT THAT TIME AND THESE COMPLAINTS ARE GOING TO BE REGURGITATED ON A REGULAR BASIS … ISRAEL ALSO HADN’T LEARNED FROM THE PLAGUES AND THE PASSOVER … 13And Moses said to the people, “Fear not, stand firm, and see the salvation of the Lord, which he will work for you today. For the Egyptians whom you see today, you shall never see again. 14The Lord will fight for you, and you have only to be silent.” MOSES HAS APPARENTLY LEARNED HIS LESSONS ... 15The Lord said to Moses, “Why do you cry to me? GET GOING! Tell the people of Israel to go forward. 16Lift up your staff, and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it, that the people of Israel may go through the sea on dry ground. 17And I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians so that they shall go in after them, and I will get glory over Pharaoh and all his host, his chariots, and his horsemen. 18And the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, when I have gotten glory over Pharaoh, his chariots, and his horsemen.” SO, WHICH SEA IS THIS? THE GREEK SEPTUAGINT REFERS TO THIS AS THE RED SEA BC WHAT WE KNOW TODAY AS THE RED SEA WAS FIRST CALLED THE RED SEA BY THE GREEKS. THE HEBREW HAS “YAM SUPH” (YAM WAS A CHAOS GOD/MONSTER) WHICH MEANS SEA OF REEDS (THE RED/REED THING ONLY WORKS IN ENGLISH), IN ANCIENT EGYPTIAN TEXTS, GOING BACK TO THE OLD KINGDOM, THE SEA OF REEDS WAS A THING YOU HAD TO PASS OVER, OR THROUGH, ON YOUR WAY TO THE AFTERLIFE. THE DEAD WHO HADN’T APPEASED THE EGYPTIAN GODS CORRECTLY WERE CAUGHT IN THE REEDS AND PERISHED ETERNALLY … THE EGYPTIAN UNDERSTANDING OF WHO THE “DAMNED” WERE … THE ETERNALLY DROWNED. IT’S AN OVERLAP, THEY PASSED THROUGH AN ACTUAL BODY OF WATER, BUT IT WAS ALSO SYMBOLIC OF YAHWEH DEFEATING BAAL ZEPHON (WHERE THEY WERE CAMPED), WHO SUPPOSEDLY HAD DEFEATED YAM THE CHAOS GOD, AND THE EGYPTIAN AFTERLIFE. SO, YAHWEH MADE BAAL & YAM STAND UP AT ATTENTION ON DRY GROUND AS ISRAEL PASSED THROUGH THIS EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGICAL SUPERNATURAL SEA OF REEDS. WE NOW KNOW, THROUGH SATELLITE IMAGING THAT DURING THIS PERIOD IN EGYPT’S HISTORY THERE WERE A SERIES OF MAN MADE LOCKS, OR CHANNELS, ALONG THE BORDER OF EGYPT FOR SHIPS TO UNLOAD, THAT HAVE NOW DRIED OUT … THAT MAY HAVE BEEN THE WATER THAT WAS CROSSED, BUT WE DON’T KNOW FOR SURE. ALSO, THE SEA REPRESENTS CHAOS, DEATH & DESTRUCTION IN THE OLD TESTAMENT. 19 Then the angel of God (JESUS-THE PERSONAL MESSENGER OF YAHWEH-WHEN WE SEE GOD APPEARING IN THE FORM OF A MAN Nine chapters later in Exodus God explains who this angel is: Ex 23: 20“See, I am sending an angel ahead of you to guard you along the way and to bring you to the place I have prepared. 21Pay attention to him and listen to what he says. Do not rebel against him; he will not forgive your rebellion, since my Name is in him. 22If you listen carefully to what he says and do all that I say, I will be an enemy to your enemies and will oppose those who oppose you. 23My angel will go ahead of you and bring you into the land of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hivites and Jebusites, and I will wipe them out. Has the ability to FORGIVE/NOT FORGIVE, Jehovah’s NAME is in him & WHAT HE (angel) SAYS IS WHAT GOD SAYS ! … it’s Jesus … THE SAME ANGEL MOSES ENCOUNTERED A FEW MONTHS BEFORE THIS AT THE BURNING BUSH ON SINAI) 19 Then the angel of God who was going before the host of Israel moved and went behind them, and the pillar of cloud (THE HOLY SPIRIT? … THE CLOUD THAT ENVELOPED EVERYONE DURING THE TRANSFIGURATION) moved from before them and stood behind them, SO, THERE ARE TWO VISUAL MANIFESTATIONS OF GOD PRESENT AND BOTH HAVE MOVED BEHIND THE ISRAELITES TO PROTECT THEM FROM THE EGYPTIANS, AND WE HAD JUST HEARD YAHWEH SPEAKING TO MOSES, SO, THIS IS MOST LIKELY AN OT APPEARANCE OF THE TRINITY … 19 Then the angel of God who was going before the host of Israel moved and went behind them, and the pillar of cloud moved from before them and stood behind them 20coming between the host of Egypt and the host of Israel. And there was the cloud and the darkness. And it lit up the night without one coming near the other all night. SO DARK FOR THE EGYPTIANS THAT THEY DIDN’T APPROACH THE ISRAELITES. 21Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the Lord drove the sea back by a strong east wind all night and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided. 22And the people of Israel went into the midst of the sea on dry ground, the waters being a wall to them on their right hand and on their left. 23The Egyptians pursued and went in after them into the midst of the sea, all Pharaoh’s horses, his chariots, and his horsemen. 24And in the morning watch the Lord in the pillar of fire and of cloud looked down on the Egyptian forces and threw the Egyptian forces into a panic, 25clogging their chariot wheels so that they drove heavily. And the Egyptians said, “Let us flee from before Israel, for the Lord fights for them against the Egyptians.” DUH … THE PLAGUES HAD JUST OCCURRED INCLUDING THE DEATH OF THE FIRSTBORN! 26Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the sea, that the water may come back upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen.” 27So Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its normal course when the morning appeared. And as the Egyptians fled into it, the Lord threw the Egyptians into the midst of the sea. 28The waters returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen; of all the host of Pharaoh that had followed them into the sea, not one of them remained. 29But the people of Israel walked on dry ground through the sea, the waters being a wall to them on their right hand and on their left. 30Thus the Lord saved Israel that day from the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore. 31Israel saw the great power that the Lord used against the Egyptians, so the people feared the Lord, and they believed in the Lord and in his servant Moses. ANOTHER DRAMATIC MANIFESTATION OF YAHWEH DEFEATING THE EGYPTIAN ARMY AND GODS … ANY EGYPTIAN WHO SAW THIS WENT BACK AND SPREAD THE WORD … THIS IS A SEMINAL MOMENT IN ISRAEL’S HISTORY AND IS REFERRED TO OVER AND OVER AGAIN THROUGHOUT SCRIPTURE. KEEP IN MIND THAT THIS IS NOT AN ALLEGORY … IT’S AN ACTUAL HISTORICAL EVENT THAT ISRAEL EXPERIENCED. SO, YOU HAVE ISRAEL BEING RESCUED FROM THE KILLING OF THE FIRSTBORN THROUGH THE PASSOVER LAMB(S), THEN THE YAHWEH LEADING HIS PEOPLE AS THEY PASS THROUGH THE WATERS FROM DEATH TO NEW LIFE … A PICTURE OF CHRIST’S SACRIFICE AND OUR NEW LIFE THROUGH BAPTISM. 1 Cor 10:1 PAUL WRITING For I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, 2and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, 3and all ate the same spiritual food, 4and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual Rock that followed them, and the Rock was Christ. 5Nevertheless, with most of them God was not pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness. THAT WILL WRAP UP CH 14 About This is an audio broadcast, designed to encourage you to dive deeper into the most influential and impactful literature of all time: The Bible. This podcasts helps to show the benefits of reading/listening to the Bible, front to back, over and over and over endlessly. And study to fill the gaps for deeper understanding. Join us as we dissect the bones and ligaments of God’s written revelation to mankind through scripture. /episode/index/show/a0d29dc2-522b-4be7-a162-869bf42ed535/id/35516220

Exodus Chapter 13 Deep-Dive: Consecration of the Firstborn 04/21/2025

Exodus Chapter 13 Deep-Dive: Consecration of the Firstborn Hosted by Joey and Matt Deep-dives into the Bible beyond what Sunday teaches you. EX 13 CONSECRATION OF THE FIRSTBORN TIED DIRECTLY TO THE PASSOVER 1The Lord said to Moses, 2“Consecrate to me every firstborn male. The first offspring of every womb among the Israelites belongs to me, whether human or animal.” THE FIRSTBORN SON WAS CRITICAL IN THE ANCIENT WORLD TO ENSURE THE SURVIVAL OF THE PARENTS INTO OLD AGE. THE FATHER’S LEGACY, WHAT HE BUILT THROUGHOUT HIS LIFE, WAS PASSED ON TO THE FIRSTBORN. ALSO, WOMEN WHO SURVIVED CHILDBIRTH TENDED TO OUTLIVE THEIR HUSBANDS SO THE FIRSTBORN WAS EXPECTED TO CARE FOR HIS WIDOWED MOTHER (THE WIDOW OF NAIN Lk 7:11Soon afterward, Jesus went to a town called Nain, and his disciples and a large crowd went along with him. 12As he approached the town gate, a dead person was being carried out—the only son of his mother, and she was a widow. And a large crowd from the town was with her. 13When the Lord saw her, his heart went out to her and he said, “Don’t cry.” 14Then he went up and touched the bier they were carrying him on, and the bearers stood still. He said, “Young man, I say to you, get up!” 15The dead man sat up and began to talk, and Jesus gave him back to his mother. 16They were all filled with awe and praised God. “A great prophet has appeared among us,” they said. “God has come to help his people.” 17This news about Jesus spread throughout Judea and the surrounding country) BACK TO EX 13, SO, THE FIRSTBORN SON WAS THE KEY TO THE SURVIVAL OF THE FAMILY, WHEN GOD TELLS THE ISRAELITES THAT EVERY FIRSTBORN BELONGS TO HIM … HE’S TELLING THEM TO FOCUS ON HIM/YAHWEH, AND NOT THEIR EARTHLY CIRCUMSTANCES … THAT’S ONE OF THE KEYS TO JESUS BEING CALLED THE “FIRSTBORN” … HE’S THE ONE WHO ENSURES OUR FUTURES. GOD HAD ALSO COMMANDED THAT THE FIRSTBORN ANIMALS ALSO BELONGED TO HIM … WEALTH WAS MEASURED IN THE SIZE OF YOUR FLOCK, NOT ALL ANIMALS LIVED TO ADULTHOOD, SO, HAVING TO SURRENDER YOUR FIRSTBORN ANIMALS TO GOD MEANT YOU WERE GIVING HIM A SIGNIFICANT PORTION OF YOUR WEALTH … FURTHER DEMONSTRATION OF HOW RELIANT YOU WERE TO BE ON YAHWEH … ATTACH YOUR FAITH TO THIS SACRIFICE. 3Then Moses said to the people, “Commemorate this day, the day you came out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery, because the Lord brought you out of it with a mighty hand/ARM. COMPARED TO THE RIGHT ARM OF PHAROAH, OR THE RIGHT HAND/ARM OF THE CHIEF EGYPTIAN GOD, RA … Eat nothing containing yeast. 4Today, in the month of Aviv (AKA Nisan, March/April … the first month of the Hebrew calendar) you are leaving. 5When the Lord brings you into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Hivites and Jebusites—the land he swore to your ancestors to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey—you are to observe this ceremony in this month: 6For seven days eat bread made without yeast and on the seventh day hold a festival to the Lord. 7Eat unleavened bread during those seven days; nothing with yeast in it is to be seen among you, nor shall any yeast be seen anywhere within your borders. SO THERE IS A WEEK LEADING UP TO THE PASSOVER DURING WHICH YOU CAN NOT EAT YEAST, THAT’S WHY PASSOVER IS REFERRED TO AS THE FEAST OF UNLEAVENED BREAD … UNLEAVENED BECAUSE THEY HAD TO LEAVE IN A HURRY AND THE BREAD DIDN’T HAVE TIME TO RISE … 8On that day tell your son, ‘I do this because of what the Lord did for me when I came out of Egypt.’ THAT’S HOW ALL FUTURE ISRAELITES THROUGHOUT HISTORY WERE TO REFER TO THIS; “WHAT GOD DID FOR ME” SO, ALL FUTURE GENERATIONS WERE TIED TO THIS ORIGINAL EVENT IN EGYPT, BEING SET FREE FROM SLAVERY, THROUGH THE YEARLY OBSERVANCE OF THE FEAST OF UNLEAVENED BREAD WHICH CULMINATES IN EATING THE PASSOVER LAMB Jn 6:53Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. 54Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day SO, WHEN WE EAT THE COMMUNION BREAD WE ARE ALSO TIED DIRECTLY BACK TO THE SACRIFICE CHRIST MADE ON THE CROSS FOR US 2,000 YEARS AGO. 9This observance will be for you like a sign on your hand and a reminder on your forehead that this law of the Lord is to be on your lips. For the Lord brought you out of Egypt with his mighty hand. 10You must keep this ordinance at the appointed time year after year. 11“After the Lord brings you into the land of the Canaanites and gives it to you, as he promised on oath to you and your ancestors, 12you are to give over to the Lord the first offspring of every womb. All the firstborn males of your livestock belong to the Lord. 13Redeem with a lamb every firstborn donkey, but if you do not redeem it, break its neck. DONKEYS WERE UNCLEAN, YOU DON’T SACRIFICE UNCLEAN ANIMALS, SO, THEY WERE REPLACED WITH CLEAN ANIMALS IF YOU WANTED TO KEEP THE UNCLEAN ANIMAL … DONKEYS WERE DOMESTICATED BEASTS OF BURDEN AND VALUABLE. Redeem every firstborn among your sons. YOU DIDN’T KILL YOUR FIRSTBORN SONS, YOU PAID A PRICE TO “BUY THEM BACK” OR REDEEM THEM FROM GOD. 14“In days to come, when your son asks you, ‘What does this mean?’ say to him, ‘With a mighty hand the Lord brought us out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. 15When Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go, the Lord killed the firstborn of both people and animals in Egypt. This is why I sacrifice to the Lord the first male offspring of every womb and redeem each of my firstborn sons.’ 16And it will be like a sign on your hand and a symbol on your forehead that the Lord brought us out of Egypt with his mighty hand.” MIGHTY HAND/ARM, IT WAS AN ACTUAL PHYSICAL EVENT … GOD’S MIRACULOUS PLAGUES ON THE EGYPTIANS … THIS ISN’T JUST SOME VAGUE SPIRITUAL EVENT … IT’S TIED TO SOMETHING GOD ACTUALLY DID IN EGYPT … THE SAME PRINCIPAL APPLIES TO JESUS … HE ACTUALLY LIVED AND DIED AND OUR SPIRITUAL LIVES ARE TIED TO THOSE ACTUAL HISTORICAL EVENTS THAT LED TO THE CRUCIFIXION AND RESURRECTION. Crossing the Sea 17When Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them on the road through the Philistine country, though that was shorter. For God said, “If they face war, they might change their minds and return to Egypt.” GOD IS SOVEREIGN, HOWEVER, THIS IS A CLEAR STATEMENT OF “FREE WILL” … “THEY MIGHT CHANGE THEIR MINDS” GOD CONTROLS ALL CIRCUMSTANCES, HOWEVER, THE REACTIONS OF THE ISRAELITES WERE NOT PREDETERMINED BY GOD 18So God led the people around by the desert road toward the Red Sea. The Israelites went up out of Egypt ready for battle. 19Moses took the bones of Joseph with him because Joseph had made the Israelites swear an oath. He had said, “God will surely come to your aid, and then you must carry my bones up with you from this place.” 20After leaving Sukkoth they camped at Etham on the edge of the desert. 21By day the Lord went ahead of them in a pillar of cloud to guide them on their way and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, so that they could travel by day or night. 22Neither the pillar of cloud by day nor the pillar of fire by night left its place in front of the people. THEOPHANIC GLORY CLOUD … THE PRESENCE OF GOD, AT NIGHT IT WAS MORE LIKE A GLOWING, RADIANT CLOUD AND NOT LIKE A BLOWTORCH. THINK OF THE CLOUD THAT ENVELOPED JESUS, MOSES, ELIJAH, PETER, JAMES AND JOHN DURING THE TRANSFIGURATION, AND THE CLOUD THAT ENVELOPED THE TEMPLE WHEN SOLOMON DEDICATED IT, AND THE CLOUD THAT WOULD ENVELOPE THE TENT OF MEETING WHEN MOSES WAS MEETING WITH GOD. AND THAT WILL WRAP UP CH 13 About This is an audio broadcast, designed to encourage you to dive deeper into the most influential and impactful literature of all time: The Bible. This podcasts helps to show the benefits of reading/listening to the Bible, front to back, over and over and over endlessly. And study to fill the gaps for deeper understanding. Join us as we dissect the bones and ligaments of God’s written revelation to mankind through scripture. /episode/index/show/a0d29dc2-522b-4be7-a162-869bf42ed535/id/35515290

Exodus Chapter 12 Deep-Dive: The Passover 04/21/2025

Exodus Chapter 12 Deep-Dive: The Passover Hosted by Joey and Matt Deep-dives into the Bible beyond what Sunday teaches you. EX CH 12 The Passover THIS WILL DETERMINE WHO IS AN EGYPTIAN AND WHO IS AN ISRAELITE … EVERYONE WILL HAVE A CHOICE 1The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, 2“This month shall be for you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year for you. NEW CALENDAR FOR ISRAEL BASED ON WHEN THE ORIGINAL PASSOVER OCCURRED – THIS “RELIGIOUS” CALENDAR IS OVERLAYED ONTO THE AGRIGULTURAL CALENDAR THAT ISRAEL SHARES WITH ITS NEAR EAST NEIGHBORS. 3Tell all the congregation of Israel that on the tenth day of this month every man shall take a lamb according to their fathers’ houses, a lamb for a household. 4And if the household is too small for a lamb, then he and his nearest neighbor shall take according to the number of persons; according to what each can eat you shall make your count for the lamb. SMALLER HOUSEHOLDS SHOULD SHARE A LAMB SO THAT MOST OF IT WILL BE EATEN 5Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats, 6and you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month SO, YOU CHOOSE IT ON THE 10TH, THEN IT LIVES WITH YOU UNTIL THE 14TH, when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill their lambs at twilight. SO, MOSES IS DESCRIBING HOW IT WILL WORK IN THE FUTURE … CHOOSE ON THE 10TH, SLAUGHTER ON THE 14TH, THE FIRST PASSOVER, HOWEVER, OCCURRED THE SAME DAY GOD ANNOUNCED IT 7“Then they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat it. THIS MARKING OF THE HOUSE WITH BLOOD IS WHAT WILL DISTINGUISH WHO ARE ISRAELITES AND WHO ARE EGYPTIANS … ANYONE CAN BE CIRCUMCISED AND EAT THE PASSOVER AND THEY WILL BE CONSIDERED PART OF ISRAEL … 8They shall eat the flesh that night, roasted on the fire; with unleavened bread and bitter herbs they shall eat it. 9Do not eat any of it raw or boiled in water, but roasted, its head with its legs and its inner parts. 10And you shall let none of it remain until the morning; anything that remains until the morning you shall burn. 11In this manner you shall eat it: with your belt fastened, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. And you shall eat it in haste. It is the Lord’s Passover. 12For I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and I will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am the Lord. THESE ARE NOT FICTIONAL CHARACTERS … THEY ARE ACTUAL SPIRITUAL BEINGS … GOD’S ENEMIES ARE NOT THE EGYPTIANS, THEY ARE THE GODS OF EGYPT. 13The blood shall be a sign for you, on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague will befall you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt. THE BLOOD ON THE DOORPOSTS WILL PROTECT YOU FROM … ME/YAHWEH. 14“This day shall be for you a memorial day, and you shall keep it as a feast to the Lord; throughout your generations, as a statute forever, you shall keep it as a feast. THIS WILL BE THE MOST IMPORTANT FEAST IN THE RECURRING RELIGIOUS CALENDAR OF ISRAEL, MOSES DESCRIBES IT FURTHER: 15Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. THAT’S WHY IT’S REFERRED TO AS THE FEAST OF UNLEAVENED BREAD… On the first day you shall remove leaven out of your houses, for if anyone eats what is leavened, from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel. 16On the first day you shall hold a holy assembly, and on the seventh day a holy assembly HOLY WEEK. No work shall be done on those days. But what everyone needs to eat, that alone may be prepared by you. 17And you shall observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for on this very day I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt. Therefore you shall observe this day, throughout your generations, as a statute forever. 18In the first month, from the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread until the twenty-first day of the month at evening. 19For seven days no leaven is to be found in your houses. If anyone eats what is leavened, that person will be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a sojourner or a native of the land. 20You shall eat nothing leavened; in all your dwelling places you shall eat unleavened bread.” UNLEAVENED BECAUSE YOU WON’T HAVE TIME TO LET THE DOUGH RISE … YOU NEED TO GET OUT OF EGYPT IN A HURRY … BUT YOU STILL NEED TO EAT BREAD WITH YOUR MEAL, BUT IT WILL BE UNLEAVENED BREAD DURING THE 7 DAYS OF THE FEAST/MEMORIAL. BACK TO MOSES REAL TIME IN EGYPT 21Then Moses called all the elders of Israel and said to them, “Go and select lambs for yourselves according to your clans, and kill the Passover lamb. 22Take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and touch the lintel and the two doorposts with the blood that is in the basin. THERE WAS NO PRIESTHOOD YET, HEADS OF HOUSEHOLDS WERE MOST LIKELY DOING THIS None of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning. 23For the Lord will pass through to strike the Egyptians, and when he sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, the Lord will pass over the door and will not allow the destroyer to enter your houses to strike you. 24You shall observe this rite as a statute for you and for your sons forever. 25And when you come to the land that the Lord will give you, as he has promised, you shall keep this service. 26And when your children say to you, ‘What do you mean by this service?’ 27you shall say, ‘It is the sacrifice of the Lord’s Passover, for he passed over the houses of the people of Israel in Egypt, when he struck the Egyptians but spared our houses.’” And the people bowed their heads and worshiped. YAHWEH HAS THEIR ATTENTION NOW! 28Then the people of Israel went and did so; as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did. OBEDIENCE The Tenth Plague: Death of the Firstborn 29 At midnight the Lord struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of the livestock. 30And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians. And there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where someone was not dead. 31Then he summoned Moses and Aaron by night and said, “Up, go out from among my people, both you and the people of Israel; and go, serve the Lord, as you have said. 32Take your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone, and bless me also!” PHAROAH IS FINALLY HUMBLED AND BROKEN The Exodus 33 The Egyptians were urgent with the people to send them out of the land in haste. For they said, “We shall all be dead.” YAHWEH NOW HAS EVERYONE’S UNDIVIDED ATTENTION! 34So the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading bowls being bound up in their cloaks on their shoulders. 35The people of Israel had also done as Moses told them, for they had asked the Egyptians for silver and gold jewelry and for clothing. 36And the Lord had given the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. Thus they plundered the Egyptians. 37And the people of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides women and children. REMEMBER, LARGE NUMBERS ARE NOTORIOUSLY DIFFICULT TO EXPRESS IN HEBREW & TO TRANSLATE … THIS IS MORE LIKE 600-“LARGE NUMBER” … IT WAS MOST LIKELY 600 CLANS. 38 A mixed multitude also went up with them, PEOPLE WHO JOINED THEMSELVES TO ISRAEL THROUGHOUT THE 10 PLAGUES and very much livestock, both flocks and herds. 39And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough that they had brought out of Egypt, for it was not leavened, because they were thrust out of Egypt and could not wait, nor had they prepared any provisions for themselves. 40The time that the people of Israel lived in Egypt was 430 years. 41At the end of 430 years, AGAIN, LARGE NUMBERS ARE DIFFICULT TO INTERPRET AND THE PRECISE DATE OF THE EXODUS IS NOT IMPORTANT … on that very day, all the hosts of the Lord went out from the land of Egypt. 42It was a night of watching by the Lord, to bring them out of the land of Egypt; so this same night is a night of watching kept to the Lord by all the people of Israel throughout their generations. Institution of the Passover 43And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the statute of the Passover: no foreigner shall eat of it, 44but every slave that is bought for money may eat of it after you have circumcised him. 45 No foreigner or hired worker may eat of it. 46It shall be eaten in one house; you shall not take any of the flesh outside the house, and you shall not break any of its bones. 47All the congregation of Israel shall keep it. 48 If a stranger shall sojourn with you and would keep the Passover to the Lord, let all his males be circumcised. Then he may come near and keep it; he shall be as a native of the land. HE WILL BE AN ISRAELITE! But no uncircumcised person shall eat of it. 49There shall be one law for the native and for the stranger who sojourns among you.” Lev 24:10 Now an Israelite woman’s son, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the people of Israel. And the Israelite woman’s son and a man of Israel fought in the camp, 50All the people of Israel did just as the Lord commanded Moses and Aaron. 51And on that very day the Lord brought the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their hosts. REMEMBER, THIS CONFRONTATION BETWEEN PHAROAH AND GOD STARTED WITH PHAROAH SEEKING TO KILL ALL MALE HEBREW BABIES … SO, GOD IS GOING TO KILL A LOT OF “INNOCENT” BABIES, CHILDREN, ADOLESCENTS AND ADULTS … GOD IS GOING TO KILL THEM ALL HIMSELF … IN ORDER TO DISPLAY HIS WONDERS BEFORE THE WORLD … BUT, THEY DIDN’T DO ANYTHING DESERVING OF DEATH … RIGHT? WE HAVE TO SHAKE OFF THIS WESTERN-MINDED WORLDLY “WISDOM” … IT’S NOT BIBLICAL … GOD GIVES AND TAKES LIFE FOR HIS OWN PURPOSES Deut 32:39“‘See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god beside me; I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand. 1 Sam 2:6 HANNAH’S PRAYER The Lord kills and brings to life; he brings down to Sheol and raises up. Ez 18:4 Behold, all souls are mine; the soul of the father as well as the soul of the son is mine: the soul who sins shall die. Job 9:22 It is all one; therefore I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’ Lk 12:4 JESUS SPEAKING “I tell you, my friends, do not fear those who kill the body, and after that have nothing more that they can do. 5But I will warn you whom to fear: fear him who, after he has killed, has authority to cast into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him! 6Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? And not one of them is forgotten before God. 7Why, even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not; you are of more value than many sparrows. All men are wicked sinners, slaves to sin and enemies of God, even children in the sense that no one has standing before God, no one has a “right” to “go to heaven” … we’re all clay in the hands of the potter: Prov 22:15 “Folly is bound up in the heart of a child” Ps 51:5 DAVID “Surely I was sinful at birth, / sinful from the time my mother conceived me” Ps 58:3 “Even from birth the wicked go astray; / from the womb they are wayward, spreading lies” 1 Ki 8:46“If they sin against you—for there is no one who does not sin Is 9:17 … for everyone is ungodly and wicked, every mouth speaks folly. Rom 3:23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. BACK TO GEN 12 The first Passover – the slaying of the firstborn by GOD. LET’S TAKE A DEEPER LOOK AT WHAT SCRIPTURE SAYS ABOUT “FIRSTBORN” Luk 2:7 And she (Mary) gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in swaddling cloths and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn. Rom 8:29 For those whom he (YAHWEH) foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son (JESUS), in order that he (JESUS) might be the firstborn among many brothers. THINK “OLDEST – PRIMARY – INHERITOR” … THE OLDEST OF THE BROTHERS Col 1:15 He (JESUS) is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. NOW PERMANENTLY IN HUMAN FORM – THE “HEAD” … THE “INHERITOR” AS JOSEPH REPLACED REUBEN … “CREATION” CAN MEAN “HUMAN BEINGS” Col 1:18 And he (JESUS) is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead (RESURRECTION), that in everything he might be preeminent. Heb 1:6 And again, when he (YAHWEH) brings the firstborn (THE INHERITOR OR HEAD) into the world, he says, “Let all God's angels worship him (JESUS IN HUMAN FORM).” Heb 11:28 By faith he (MOSES) kept the Passover and sprinkled the blood, so that the Destroyer of the firstborn might not touch them. THE FIRSTBORN WERE KILLED BY GOD (Num 3:13 for all the firstborn are mine. When I struck down all the firstborn in Egypt, I set apart for myself every firstborn in Israel, whether human or animal. They are to be mine. I am the Lord.”)… THEY PAID THE PRICE … JUST AS JESUS DID. Heb 12:23 and to the assembly (CHURCH) of the firstborn (JESUS IN RESURRECTION & AS INHERITOR) who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect, Rev 1:5 and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood Num 3:11And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 12“Behold, I have taken the Levites from among the people of Israel instead of every firstborn who opens the womb among the people of Israel. The Levites shall be mine, 13for all the firstborn are mine. On the day that I struck down (KILLED) all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I consecrated for my own (TOOK AS SLAVES) all the firstborn in Israel, both of man and of beast. They shall be mine: I am the Lord.” SO, JESUS IS THE FIRSTBORN OF THE EGYPTIANS – SLAIN BY GOD’S WRATH IN PLACE OF THE ISRAELITE FIRSTBORN WHO WERE “PASSED-OVER”, HE’S ALSO THE FIRSTBORN OF THE ISRAELITES – BELONGING TO GOD, AND HE’S THE FAITHFUL SERVANT OF THE LORD AS THE LEVITES “REPLACED” THE FIRSTBORN OF THE PEOPLE. And that will wrap up Ex 12 About This is an audio broadcast, designed to encourage you to dive deeper into the most influential and impactful literature of all time: The Bible. This podcasts helps to show the benefits of reading/listening to the Bible, front to back, over and over and over endlessly. And study to fill the gaps for deeper understanding. 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Exodus Chapter 11 Deep-Dive: The Plague on the Firstborn 04/21/2025

Exodus Chapter 11 Deep-Dive: The Plague on the Firstborn Hosted by Joey and Matt Deep-dives into the Bible beyond what Sunday teaches you. EX CH 11 A Final Plague Threatened 1The Lord said to Moses, “Yet one plague more I will bring upon Pharaoh and upon Egypt. Afterward he will let you go from here. When he lets you go, he will drive you away completely. 2Speak now in the hearing of the people ISRAEL, that they ask, every man of his neighbor and every woman of her neighbor, for silver and gold jewelry.” ASK YOUR EGYPTIAN NEIGHBORS TO GIVE YOU THEIR SILVER AND GOLD … WHAT?! YES, GOD WILL WORK IT OUT SO THAT THE EGYPTIANS WILL WILLINGLY ALLOW THEMSELVES TO BE PLUNDERED BY THE ISRAELITES 3And the Lord gave the people ISRAEL favor in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover, the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh’s servants and in the sight of the people. GOD IS COMPLETELY CONTROLLING THIS DISPLAY OF HIS MIGHT, EVEN TURNING THE HEARTS OF THE EGYPTIANS TO VIEW THE ISRAELITES AND MOSES FAVORABLY EVEN IN LIGHT OF YAHWEH DESTROYING EGYPT ... THESE ISRAELITES HAVE A GOD WHICH IS FAR MORE POWERFUL THAN PHAROAH OR ANY EGYPTIAN GOD! 4So Moses said, TO PHAROAH AND HIS COURT “Thus says the Lord: ‘About midnight I will go YAHWEH HIMSELF IS GOING TO DO THIS! I will go out in the midst of Egypt, 5and every firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh THE KING who sits on his throne, even to the firstborn of the slave girl who is behind the handmill, “INNOCENT” SLAVE GIRLS WHO HAVE NO POWER and all the firstborn of the cattle. THE FEW THAT MAY BE LEFT AT THAT POINT … EVERYTHING THAT LIVES BELONGS TO THE LORD 6 There shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there has never been, nor ever will be again. 7But not a dog shall growl against any of the people of Israel, either man or beast, that you may know that the Lord makes a distinction between Egypt and Israel.’ THAT’S THE REASON WHY THIS IS HAPPENING – THERE’S A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN EGYPT AND ISRAEL, BUT IT’S NOT GOOD VS BAD, IT’S CHOSEN BY YAHWEH VS NOT CHOSEN. 8And all these your servants shall come down to me and bow down to me, saying, ‘Get out, you and all the people who follow you.’ And after that I YAHWEH will go out.” And he MOSES went out from Pharaoh in hot anger PHAROAH WAS ANGRY … HE HAD THREATENED TO KILL MOSES THE LAST TIME HE SAW HIM. 9 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Pharaoh will not listen to you, that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.” FINAL WARNING TO PHAROAH, AT THIS POINT HE MUST KNOW THAT THIS EPIC DISASTER IS GOING TO HAPPEN BUT HE DOES NOTHING TO PREVENT IT! 10Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh, and the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not let the people of Israel go out of his land. What about God hardening Pharaoh’s heart? God is sovereign and controls all things, at the same time the Bible clearly shows that each man will be held responsible and/or rewarded for all of his actions: God is totally sovereign and in control of all things Is 29:16You turn things upside down, as if the potter were thought to be like the clay! Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, “You did not make me”? Can the pot say to the potter, “You know nothing”? Is 45:6-7 6That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the Lord, and there is none else. I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things. “CREATE EVIL, OR PREPARE EVIL” IN THE SENSE OF DOING DESTRUCTIVE OR PAINFUL THINGS … EVERYTHING GOD DOES IS RIGHTEOUS BECAUSE HE IS RIGHTEOUS, HE’S ALSO THE CREATOR AND DESTROYER OF ALL THINGS … EVERYTHING EXISTS AT HIS WILL & MERCY … THE CREATOR GOD IS THE ONLY VICTIM IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE … HUMAN BEINGS, CREATED IN HIS IMAGE, ARE IN CONSTANT REBELLION AGAINST HIM … EVEN SOME ANGELIC BEINGS, CREATED BY HIM, ARE ALSO IN REBELLION … HE IS THE CREATOR … HE DECIDES & JUDGES, OR TESTS, ALL THINGS … Is 45:9“Woe to those who quarrel with their Maker, those who are nothing but potsherds among the potsherds on the ground. Does the clay say to the potter, ‘What are you making?’ CONSIDER THE APOSTLE PAUL AS HE USES HIS NEW COVENANT DECODER RING TO SPEAK DIRECTLY TO THIS ISSUE OF GOD HARDENING PHAROAH’S HEART Rom 9:10 Not only that, but Rebekah’s children were conceived at the same time by our father Isaac. 11Yet, before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad—in order that God’s purpose in election might stand: 12not by works but by him who calls—she was told, “The older will serve the younger.” ESAU WILL SERVE JACOB 13Just as it is written: “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.” SPEAKING OF THE NATIONS ISRAEL VS EDOM 14What then shall we say? Is God unjust? Not at all! 15For he says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.” BECAUSE EVERYONE IS IN REBELLION! 16It does not, therefore, depend on human desire or effort, but on God’s mercy. 17For Scripture says to Pharaoh: “I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display my power in you and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.” 18Therefore God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy, and he hardens whom he wants to harden. 19One of you will say to me: “Then why does God still blame us? For who is able to resist his will?” 20But who are you, a human being, to talk back to God? “Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, ‘Why did you make me like this?’ ” 21Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for special purposes and some for common use? HERE’S A PICTURE OF SOVEREIGNTY AND FREE WILL AT WORK TOGETHER IN THE HANDS OF GOD: GOD USED THE NATION OF ASSYRIA TO PUNISH ISRAEL AND TAKE THE PEOPLE INTO CAPTIVITY: Is 10:5“Woe to the Assyrian, the rod of my anger, in whose hand is the club of my wrath! 6I send him against a godless nation ISRAEL, I dispatch him against a people who anger me, to seize loot and snatch plunder, and to trample them down like mud in the streets. At the same time the Bible states that God holds all men responsible for their actions & presents man as having free will: AGAIN, ISAIAH CH 10 … THE ASSYRIANS SENT BY THE LORD TO TAKE ISRAEL INTO CAPTIVITY Is 10:12 When the Lord has finished all his work against Mount Zion and Jerusalem (punishing them), he will say, “I will punish the king of Assyria for the willful pride of his heart and the haughty look in his eyes. 13For he says: “ ‘By the strength of my hand I have done this, and by my wisdom, because I have understanding. OR CONSIDER WHAT PAUL SAYS TO THE CORINTHIANS ABOUT THE FACT THAT THEY WERE MISTREATING THE POOR DURING THEIR CELEBRATION OF THE LORD’S SUPPER AND SOME WERE GETTING DRUNK I Cor 11:27 So then, whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord (the Lord’s Supper) in an unworthy manner will be guilty of sinning against the body and blood of the Lord. 28Everyone ought to examine themselves before they eat of the bread and drink from the cup. 29For those who eat and drink without discerning the body of Christ YOUR POOR BROTHERS AND SISTERS SITTING WITH YOU WHO HAVE NOTHING eat and drink judgment on themselves. 30That is why many among you are weak and sick, and a number of you have fallen asleep DIED. 31But if we were more discerning with regard to ourselves, we would not come under such judgment. 32Nevertheless, when we are judged in this way by the Lord, we are being disciplined so that we will not be finally condemned with the world. OUR ACTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES AND WE ARE JUDGED BY GOD … SIN CAN LEAD TO WEAKNESS, ILLNESS AND EVEN DEATH IN THE LIFE OF A BELIEVER. OR CONSIDER WHAT GOD SAID TO MOSES REGARDING THE EXODUS Ex 13:17 When Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them on the road through the Philistine country, though that was shorter. For God said, “If they face war, they might change their minds and return to Egypt.” THEY MIGHT CHANGE THEIR MINDS WHAT ?! … FREE WILL?! YES! THE BIBLE CLEARLY TEACHES BOTH FREE WILL-TIED WITH REWARD FOR THE RIGHTEOUS AND PUNSISHMENT THE WICKED, AND, THAT GOD IS TOTALLY SOVEREIGN AND IN CONTROL OF ALL CIRCUMSTANCES Rev22:12 (Jesus said) “Look, I am coming soon! My reward is with me, and I will give to each person according to what they have done. These seemingly contradictory truths are an antinomy, A contradiction between principles or conclusions that seem equally necessary and reasonable; a paradox. This is beyond our ability to understand Deut 29:29 The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may follow all the words of this law. The truth of the sovereignty of God should be a significant comfort to all believers – God controls all of our circumstances, and uses them for our good Rom 8:28And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. 29For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he JESUS might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. 30And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified. 31What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? (BUT MAYBE NOT IN THIS LIFE) 33Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. 34Who then is the one who condemns? No one. (SATAN ACCUSES US, JESUS IS OUR ADVOCATE) Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us (OUR DEFENDER BEFORE THE THRONE OF GOD). 35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 36As it is written: “For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.” (GOD MAY REQUIRE ANY OF THOSE CIRCUMSTANCES FOR US) 37No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. (NO MATTER WHAT GOD HAS IN STORE FOR US, FOR HE HAS NUMBERED THE HAIRS ON OUR HEADS AND CONTROLS ALL OF OUR CIRCUMSTANCES, SO, ACT CORRECTLY IN ALL CIRCUMSTANCES BECAUSE GOD SEES EVERYTHING YOU DO) AND THAT WILL WRAP UP EX CH 11 About This is an audio broadcast, designed to encourage you to dive deeper into the most influential and impactful literature of all time: The Bible. This podcasts helps to show the benefits of reading/listening to the Bible, front to back, over and over and over endlessly. And study to fill the gaps for deeper understanding. Join us as we dissect the bones and ligaments of God’s written revelation to mankind through scripture. /episode/index/show/a0d29dc2-522b-4be7-a162-869bf42ed535/id/35513245

Exodus Chapter 10 Deep-Dive: Locusts and Darkness 03/24/2025

Exodus Chapter 10 Deep-Dive: Locusts and Darkness Hosted by Joey and Matt Deep-dives into the Bible beyond what Sunday teaches you. EX CH 10 The Eighth Plague: Locusts 1Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go in to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the heart of his servants, that I may show these signs of mine among them, GOD IS WORKING HIS PURPOSE & PLAN WITH AND WITHIN HIS CREATION … HE IS THE POTTER, WE ARE THE CLAY, HE CAN, AND WILL, DO WHATEVER HE WANTS WITH HIS CREATION … HOW CAN THE POT GIVE ORDERS TO THE POTTER? Prov 16:4 The Lord has made everything for its purpose, even the wicked for the day of trouble. WHAT?!? SURELY THAT’S A BIBLICAL ANOMALY … RIGHT? HERE’S WHAT PAUL HAD TO SAY ABOUT IT USING HIS NEW COVENANT DEOCDER RING Rom 11:32 For God has consigned all to disobedience, that he may have mercy on all. 33Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways! 34“For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor?” 35“Or who has given a gift to him that he might be repaid?” 36For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen. IF YOU REALLY THINK ABOUT … THAT’S UTTERLY TERRIFYING! ALL OF HUMANITY IS IN REBELLION AGAINST GOD, YET GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD … Mt 10:28 JESUS SPEAKING TO HIS DISCIPLES And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. PEOPLE – ENEMIES Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell. YAHWEH BACK TO MOSES: 1Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go in to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the heart of his servants, that I may show these signs of mine among them, 2and that you may tell in the hearing of your son and of your grandson how I have dealt harshly with the Egyptians and what signs I have done among them, that you may know that I am the Lord.” UP TO TODAY … THE EXODUS BECAME THE FOUNDATION OF ISRAEL … THE TORAH … THE FIVE BOOKS OF MOSES … THE NARRATIVE OF GOD BIRTHING HIS “FIRSTBORN SON”, THE NATION OUT OF ISRAEL, OUT OF EGYPT ... THAT’S THE FOUNDATION OF EVERYTHING ELSE IN THE HISTORY OF ISRAEL. 3So Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh and said to him, “Thus says the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? A NEW TONE FROM GOD … “WHAT’S WRONG WITH YOU? AREN’T YOU PAYING ATTENTION?!? HUMBLE YOURSELF! ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me. 4For if you refuse to let my people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your country, 5and they shall cover the face of the land, so that no one can see the land. And they shall eat what is left to you after the hail, and they shall eat every tree of yours that grows in the field, 6and they shall fill your houses and the houses of all your servants and of all the Egyptians, as neither your fathers nor your grandfathers have seen, from the day they came on earth to this day.’” SINCE THERE HAVE BEEN HUMANS – EVERY SINGLE BIT OF FOOD IN YOUR LAND WILL BE DEVOURED BY THE LOCUSTS!! Then he MOSES turned and went out from Pharaoh. 7Then Pharaoh’s servants said to him, “How long shall this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve the Lord their God. Do you not yet understand that Egypt is ruined?” PHAROAH FINALLY LISTENS TO HIS ADVISERS … THE NATION IS RUINED AND WE DON’T EVEN LIKE THESE PEOPLE SO LET THEM GO! 8So Moses and Aaron were brought back to Pharaoh. And he said to them, “Go, serve the Lord your God. But which ones are to go?” MORE NEGOTIATING 9Moses said, “We will go with our young and our old. We will go with our sons and daughters and with our flocks and herds, for we must hold a feast to the Lord.” 10But he said to them, “The Lord be with you, if ever I let you and your little ones go! Look, you have some evil purpose in mind. 11No! Go, the men among you, and serve the Lord, for that is what you are asking.” And they were driven out from Pharaoh’s presence. YUP, STILL BUSINESS AS USUAL WITH PHAROAH … 12Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, so that they may come upon the land of Egypt and eat every plant in the land, all that the hail has left.” 13So Moses stretched out his staff over the land of Egypt, and the Lord brought an east wind upon the land all that day and all that night. When it was morning, the east wind had brought the locusts. 14The locusts came up over all the land of Egypt and settled on the whole country of Egypt, such a dense swarm of locusts as had never been before, nor ever will be again. 15They covered the face of the whole land, so that the land was darkened, and they ate all the plants in the land and all the fruit of the trees that the hail had left. Not a green thing remained, neither tree nor plant of the field, through all the land of Egypt. NO FOOD! 16Then Pharaoh hastily called Moses and Aaron and said, “I have sinned against the Lord your God, and against you. 17Now therefore, forgive my sin, please, only this once, and plead with the Lord your God only to remove this death from me.” 18So he went out from Pharaoh and pleaded with the Lord. 19And the Lord turned the wind into a very strong west wind, which lifted the locusts and drove them into the Red Sea. Not a single locust was left in all the country of Egypt. 20But the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not let the people of Israel go. NOTE THAT IN THIS CASE PHAROAH ADMITTED THAT HE HAD SINNED, BUT, HE DIDN’T REALLY REPENT OF THAT SIN BECAUSE HE DIDN’T CHANGE HIS BEHAVIOR … AND GOD HARDENED PHAROAH’S HEART EVEN FURTHER. FEELING BAD IS NOT REPENTENCE, GOD DOESN’T CARE ABOUT HOW YOU FEEL, HE CARES ABOUT WHAT YOU DO … Is 45:22“Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth! JOHN THE BAPTIZER ADDRESSED THIS: Mt 3:7But when he JOHN THE BAPTIZER saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? 8Bear fruit in keeping with repentance. 9And do not presume to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father,’ for I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children for Abraham. 10Even now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. JESUS ALSO ADDRESSED THIS IN THE PARABLE OF THE TWO SONS Mt 21: 28 “What do you think? A man had two sons. And he went to the first and said, ‘Son, go and work in the vineyard today.’ 29And he answered, ‘I will not,’ but afterward he changed his mind and went. 30And he went to the other son and said the same. And he answered, ‘I go, sir,’ but did not go. 31Which of the two did the will of his father?” They said, “The first.” BACK TO MOSES IN EX 10 The Ninth Plague: Darkness 20But the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not let the people of Israel go. 21Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, a darkness to be felt.” 22So Moses stretched out his hand toward heaven, and there was pitch darkness in all the land of Egypt three days. 23They did not see one another, nor did anyone rise from his place for three days, NO FIRES, NO CANDLES … NOTHING … SO MUCH FOR RA THE SUN GOD … PITCH BLACK but all the people of Israel had light where they lived. 24Then Pharaoh called Moses and said, “Go, serve the Lord; your little ones also may go with you; only let your flocks and your herds remain behind.” STILL DOESN’T GET IT … THINKING HE CAN NEGOTIATE … PHAROAH DOESN’T “OBEY” ANYONE! 25But Moses said, PATIENTLY EXPLAINING IN THE FACE OF PHAROAH’S REBELLION … “You must also let us have sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God. 26Our livestock also must go with us; not a hoof shall be left behind, for we must take of them to serve the Lord our God, and we do not know with what we must serve the Lord until we arrive there.” 27But the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he would not let them go. 28Then Pharaoh said to him, “Get away from me; take care never to see my face again, for on the day you see my face you shall die.” 29Moses said, “As you say! I will not see your face again.” PHAROAH’S LAST WORD IS A THREAT … FEAR, ANGER AND REBELLION … STILL NO HUMBLE REPENTENCE IN THE FACE OF GOD’S HEAVY HANDED OBVIOUS SUPERNATURAL DISASTERS … I AM THE LORD AND THERE IS NO OTHER LIKE ME! … LET MY PEOPLE GO! AND THAT WILL WRAP UP EX CH 10 About This is an audio broadcast, designed to encourage you to dive deeper into the most influential and impactful literature of all time: The Bible. This podcasts helps to show the benefits of reading/listening to the Bible, front to back, over and over and over endlessly. And study to fill the gaps for deeper understanding. Join us as we dissect the bones and ligaments of God’s written revelation to mankind through scripture. /episode/index/show/a0d29dc2-522b-4be7-a162-869bf42ed535/id/35839685

Exodus Chapter 9 Deep-Dive: Plagues Continue... 03/24/2025

Exodus Chapter 9 Deep-Dive: Plagues Continue... Hosted by Joey and Matt Deep-dives into the Bible beyond what Sunday teaches you. EX CH 9 The Fifth Plague: Egyptian Livestock Die 1Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go in to Pharaoh and say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, “Let my people go, that they may serve me. 2For if you refuse to let them go and still hold them, 3behold, the hand of the Lord will fall with a very severe plague upon your livestock that are in the field, the horses, the donkeys, the camels, the herds, and the flocks. KEEP IN MIND THAT ANIMALS THAT DIE OF DISEASE ARE INEDIBLE & YOU MAY NOT BE ABLE TO USE THE BYPRODUCTS SUCH AS THE HIDE, ALSO, NO MORE ANIMALS TO OFFER AS SACRIFICES TO THOSE EGYPTIAN GODS … 4But the Lord will make a distinction between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of Egypt, so that nothing of all that belongs to the people of Israel shall die.”’” 5And the Lord set a time, saying, “Tomorrow the Lord will do this thing in the land.” SO, THE LORD GAVE THEM A ONE DAY WARNING … A CHANCE FOR PHAROAH TO REPENT … 6And the next day the Lord did this thing. All the livestock of the Egyptians died, but not one of the livestock of the people of Israel died. 7And Pharaoh sent, and behold, not one of the livestock of Israel was dead. But the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he did not let the people go. THINGS ARE PRETTY BAD IN EGYPT AT THIS POINT BUT PHAROAH WILL NOT GIVE UP HIS WORLD-VIEW, HE MAY STILL THINK THIS HEBREW GOD WILL EVENTUALLY GO AWAY OR BE DEFEATED … The Sixth Plague: Boils 8And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “Take handfuls of soot from the kiln, and let Moses throw them in the air in the sight of Pharaoh. 9It shall become fine dust over all the land of Egypt, and become boils breaking out in sores on man and beast REGULAR ANIMALS SUCH AS CATS, DOGS, ETC … throughout all the land of Egypt.” 10So they took soot from the kiln and stood before Pharaoh. And Moses threw it in the air, and it became boils breaking out in sores on man and beast. 11And the magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils, for the boils came upon the magicians and upon all the Egyptians. THE MAGICIANS HAD TO TAKE SICK DAYS … 12But the Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he did not listen to them, as the Lord had spoken to Moses. AGAIN, PHAROAH’S JOB IS TO MAINTAIN THE STATUS-QUO IN EGYPT … BUT THINGS ARE GETTING WORSE AND WORSE AND DESCENDING INTO CHAOS AND DESTRUCTION The Seventh Plague: Hail 13Then the Lord said to Moses, “Rise up early in the morning and present yourself before Pharaoh and say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, “Let my people go, that they may serve me. 14For this time I will send all my plagues on you yourself, and on your servants and your people, so that you may know that there is none like me in all the earth. 15For by now I could have put out my hand and struck you and your people with pestilence, and you would have been cut off from the earth. DEAD 16But for this purpose I have raised you up, to show you my power, so that my name may be proclaimed in all the earth. KEEP IN MIND WHAT WE’VE LEARNED FROM Ez 20:6On that day I swore to them that I would bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the most glorious of all lands. 7And I said to them, ‘Cast away the detestable things your eyes feast on, every one of you, and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt; I am the Lord your God.’ 8But they rebelled against me and were not willing to listen to me. None of them cast away the detestable things their eyes feasted on, nor did they forsake the idols of Egypt. “Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them and spend my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt. 9But I acted for the sake of my name, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations among whom they lived, in whose sight I made myself known to them in bringing them out of the land of Egypt. 10So I led them out of the land of Egypt and brought them into the wilderness. THIS IS NOT GOOD-GUY ISRAEL VS BAD-GUY EGYPT … THESE MIRACULOUS SIGNS ARE AS MUCH FOR ISRAEL AS FOR EGYPT AND THE REST OF THE WORLD. GOD’S CHOSEN PEOPLE, ISRAEL, ARE JUST AS SINFUL AND NASTY AS THE EGYPTIANS … GOD IS TRYING TO GET EVERYONE’S ATTENTION … SO THAT MY NAME MAY BE PROCLAIMED IN ALL THE EARTH. CONSIDER THAT IN LIGHT OF Is 45:22“Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other. ISAIAH CH 45 … ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT CHAPTERS IN THE BIBLE THAT YOU’VE NEVER HEARD OF … BACK TO MOSES SPEAKING TO PHAROAH ON BEHALF OF GOD … 16But for this purpose I have raised you up, to show you my power, so that my name may be proclaimed in all the earth. 17You are still exalting yourself against my people and will not let them go. 18Behold, about this time tomorrow ANOTHER DAY’S WARNING FOR THE MOST POWERFUL HUMAN LEADER ON EARTH AT THAT TIME … I will cause very heavy hail to fall, such as never has been in Egypt from the day it was founded until now. 19Now therefore send, get your livestock and all that you have in the field into safe shelter, for every man and beast that is in the field and is not brought home will die when the hail falls on them.”’” 20Then whoever feared the word of the Lord among the servants of Pharaoh hurried his slaves and his livestock into the houses, 21but whoever did not pay attention to the word of the Lord left his slaves and his livestock in the field. 22Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward heaven, so that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, on man and beast and every plant of the field, in the land of Egypt.” 23Then Moses stretched out his staff toward heaven, and the Lord sent thunder and hail, and fire ran down to the earth LIGHTNING. And the Lord rained hail upon the land of Egypt. 24There was hail and fire flashing continually in the midst of the hail, very heavy hail, such as had never been in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation. 25The hail struck down everything that was in the field in all the land of Egypt, both man and beast. And the hail struck down every plant of the field and broke every tree of the field. 26Only in the land of Goshen, where the people of Israel were, was there no hail. 27Then Pharaoh sent and called Moses and Aaron and said to them, “This time I have sinned; the Lord is in the right, and I and my people are in the wrong. I SHOULD HAVE LISTENED TO YOU AND PROTECTED/WARNED MY PEOPLE AND ANIMALS FROM THE HAIL … 28Plead with the Lord, for there has been enough of God’s thunder and hail. I will let you go, and you shall stay no longer.” 29Moses said to him, “As soon as I have gone out of the city, I will stretch out my hands to the Lord. The thunder will cease, and there will be no more hail, so that you may know that the earth LAND OF EGYPT is the Lord’s. 30But as for you and your servants, I know that you do not yet fear the Lord God.” 31(The flax and the barley were struck down, for the barley was in the ear and the flax was in bud. 32But the wheat and the emmer were not struck down, for they are late in coming up.) MORE FOOD PROBLEMS 33So Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh and stretched out his hands to the Lord, and the thunder and the hail ceased, and the rain no longer poured upon the earth. 34But when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunder had ceased, he sinned yet again and hardened his heart, he and his servants. 35So the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he did not let the people of Israel go, just as the Lord had spoken through Moses. THAT WILL WRAP UP CH 9 About This is an audio broadcast, designed to encourage you to dive deeper into the most influential and impactful literature of all time: The Bible. This podcasts helps to show the benefits of reading/listening to the Bible, front to back, over and over and over endlessly. And study to fill the gaps for deeper understanding. Join us as we dissect the bones and ligaments of God’s written revelation to mankind through scripture. /episode/index/show/a0d29dc2-522b-4be7-a162-869bf42ed535/id/35839605

Exodus Chapter 8 Deep-Dive: Plague of Frogs, Gnats, and Flies 03/24/2025

Exodus Chapter 8 Deep-Dive: Plague of Frogs, Gnats, and Flies Hosted by Joey and Matt Deep-dives into the Bible beyond what Sunday teaches you. EX CH 8 The Second Plague – Frogs from the Nile FROGS WERE OK IN EGYPTIAN CULTURE, YOU COULD EAT THEIR LEGS AND THEY ATE BUGS … BUT NOT THIS MANY FROGS!! 1 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go in to Pharaoh and say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord, “Let my people go, that they may serve me. 2But if you refuse to let them go, behold, I will plague all your country with frogs. 3The Nile (THE SOURCE OF LIFE IN EGYPT, THE NILE, HAS NOW GONE HAYWIRE) shall swarm with frogs that shall come up into your house and into your bedroom and on your bed and into the houses of your servants and your people, and into your ovens and your kneading bowls. 4The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your servants.”’” 5 And the Lord said to Moses, “Say to Aaron, ‘Stretch out your hand with your staff over the rivers, over the canals and over the pools, and make frogs come up on the land of Egypt!’” 6So Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt, and the frogs came up and covered the land of Egypt. 7But the magicians did the same by their secret arts and made frogs come up on the land of Egypt. BUT THEY COULDN’T FIX IT! 8Then Pharaoh called Moses and Aaron and said, “Plead with the Lord to take away the frogs from me and from my people, and I will let the people go to sacrifice to the Lord.” 9Moses said to Pharaoh, “Be pleased to command me when I am to plead PRAY for you and for your servants and for your people, that the frogs be cut off from you and your houses and be left only in the Nile.” OK, PHAROAH, YOU TELL ME WHEN I AM TO PRAY FOR YOU SO THAT YOU’LL KNOW THAT THE END OF THE FROG PLAGUE IS FROM YAHWEH 10And he PHAROAH said, “Tomorrow.” Moses said, “Be it as you say, so that you may know that there is no one like the Lord our God. 11The frogs shall go away from you and your houses and your servants and your people. They shall be left only in the Nile.” 12So Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh, and Moses cried to the Lord about the frogs, as he had agreed with Pharaoh. 13And the Lord did according to the word of Moses. The frogs died out in the houses, the courtyards, and the fields. 14And they gathered them together in heaps, and the land stank. SO, THEY DON’T GO BACK INTO THE RIVER, INSTEAD THEY ALL “CROAK” HAHA AND MADE A HUGE NASTY MESS 15But when Pharaoh saw that there was a respite, he hardened his heart and would not listen to them, as the Lord had said. GOD GIVES AN OPPORTUNITY TO REPENT BUT PHAROAH CAN’T SHAKE OFF HIS UPBRINGING AND WORLD VIEW – HE DOESN’T YET SEE THAT MOSES AND AARON AREN’T JUST PRIESTS OF A DIFFERENT GOD DOING THE SAME TRICKS THAT HIS PRIEST CAN DO, THAT THIS GOD, YAHWEH, IS GOD OF GODS, HOWEVER, YAHWEH IS BEGINNING TO GET EVERYONE’S ATTENTION … The Third Plague: Gnats KEEP IN MIND THAT ANCIENTS BELIEVED IN BIOGENESIS, THAT THINGS JUST SPRANG TO LIFE DUE TO CIRCUMSTANCES, EX: A PILE OF RUBBISH GENERATES RATS. ALSO, THE EGYPTIANS WERE OBSESSED WITH HYGIENE SO A PLAGUE OF GNATS, FLEAS OR LICE WOULD SHAKE THE FOUNDATION OF THEIR SOCIETY. 16Then the Lord said to Moses, “Say to Aaron, ‘Stretch out your staff and strike the dust of the earth, so that it may become gnats in all the land of Egypt.’” 17And they did so. Aaron stretched out his hand with his staff and struck the dust of the earth, and there were gnats on man and beast. All the dust of the earth became gnats in all the land of Egypt. 18The magicians tried by their secret arts to produce gnats, but they could not. So there were gnats on man and beast. 19Then the magicians said to Pharaoh, “This is the finger of God.” OR, MOST LIKELY … THE FINGER OF “A” GOD … WE’RE DONE, THIS GOD IS MORE POWERFUL THAN US EGYPTIAN PRIESTS … WE CAN’T FIGHT THIS GOD DIRECTLY, But Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he would not listen to them, as the Lord had said. PHAROAH MAY HAVE BEEN THINKING, MOSES AND AARON REPRESENT A SLAVE GOD, I’M ALSO A GOD AND EGYPT IS THE MOST ANCIENT CIVILIZATION ON EARTH, THERE WILL BE A WAY FOR US TO DEFEAT THIS SLAVE GOD … WE JUST HAVEN’T FOUND IT YET. The Fourth Plague: Flies 20Then the Lord said to Moses, “Rise up early in the morning and present yourself to Pharaoh, as he goes out to the water, and say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord, “Let my people go, that they may serve me. 21Or else, if you will not let my people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies BITING FLIES on you and your servants and your people, and into your houses. And the houses of the Egyptians shall be filled with swarms of flies, and also the ground on which they stand. 22But on that day I will set apart the land of Goshen, where my people dwell, so that no swarms of flies shall be there, that you may know that I am the Lord in the midst of the earth. APPARENTLY, UP TO THIS POINT, GOSHEN HAD ALSO BEEN SUBJECT TO THE RESULTS OF THE PLAGUES … YAHWEH IS NOW PROTECTING HIS PEOPLE AND DEMONSTRATING THAT HE’S THE GOD OF ALL THE EARTH … DIFFERENT FROM THESE OTHER GODS 23Thus I will put a division between my people and your people. Tomorrow this sign shall happen.”’” 24And the Lord did so. There came great swarms of flies into the house of Pharaoh and into his servants’ houses. SO, PHAROAH, THE GOD, CAN’T DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT … Throughout all the land of Egypt the land was ruined by the swarms of flies. SO, EVERYONE IN EGYPT, AND THE WORLD, NOW UNDERSTANDS THAT THERE’S SOMETHING DIFFERENT ABOUT THE GOD OF THESE HEBREW SLAVES … 25Then Pharaoh called Moses and Aaron and said, “Go, sacrifice to your God within the land.” PHAROAH STILL THINKS HE CAN NEGOTIATE WITH THIS NEW GOD, AFTER ALL … HE’S A GOD TOO! 26But Moses said, “It would not be right to do so, for the offerings we shall sacrifice to the Lord our God are an abomination to the Egyptians. If we sacrifice offerings abominable to the Egyptians before their eyes, will they not stone us? ONE OF EGYPT’S MAIN GODS WAS KHNUM, WHO WAS PERSONIFIED WITH A RAM’S HEAD, SO, BY OFFERING SHEEP & GOATS AND EATING THEM THEY WOULD BE OFFENDING THE EGYPTIANS … THIS IS THE SAME REASON WHY JOSEPH WAS CONCERNED WHEN HE PRESENTED HIS BROTHERS TO PHAROAH AS SHEPHERDS. BACK TO MOSES … 27We must go three days’ journey into the wilderness and sacrifice to the Lord our God as he tells us.” 28So Pharaoh said, “I will let you go to sacrifice to the Lord your God in the wilderness; only you must not go very far away. Plead for me.” SO PHAROAH IS BEGINNING TO BEND IN LIGHT OF THE OPPRESSION 29Then Moses said, “Behold, I am going out from you and I will plead with the Lord that the swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people, tomorrow. Only let not Pharaoh cheat again by not letting the people go to sacrifice to the Lord.” 30So Moses went out from Pharaoh and prayed to the Lord. 31And the Lord did as Moses asked, and removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people; not one remained. 32But Pharaoh hardened his heart this time also, and did not let the people go. AND THAT WILL WRAP UP CH 8 About This is an audio broadcast, designed to encourage you to dive deeper into the most influential and impactful literature of all time: The Bible. This podcasts helps to show the benefits of reading/listening to the Bible, front to back, over and over and over endlessly. And study to fill the gaps for deeper understanding. Join us as we dissect the bones and ligaments of God’s written revelation to mankind through scripture. /episode/index/show/a0d29dc2-522b-4be7-a162-869bf42ed535/id/35839550

Exodus Chapter 7 Deep-Dive: God Confronts Pharoah 03/24/2025

Exodus Chapter 7 Deep-Dive: God Confronts Pharoah Hosted by Joey and Matt Deep-dives into the Bible beyond what Sunday teaches you. EX CH7 1And the Lord said to Moses, “See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron shall be your prophet. REMEMBER, THIS WAS NOT GOD’S ORIGINAL PLAN, AGAIN WE SEE GOD INTERACTING WITH HIS CREATION AND CHANGING HIS PLAN DUE TO MOSES’ REACTION 2You shall speak all that I command you, and your brother Aaron shall tell Pharaoh to let the people of Israel go out of his land. 3But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and though I multiply my signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, 4Pharaoh will not listen to you. Then I will lay my hand on Egypt and bring my hosts, my people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great acts of judgment. GOD IS PREPARING MOSES FOR THE PUSHBACK HE WILL RECEIVE FROM PHAROAH … HE KNOWS THAT MOSES IS EASILY DISCOURAGED … JUST BE FAITHFUL, MOSES, AND WORK THE PLAN … YOU’RE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE RESULTS, I AM… 5The Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, YAHWEH/HE WHO CAUSES THINGS TO BE when I stretch out my hand against Egypt and bring out the people of Israel from among them.” IT’S THE SUCCESSFUL DEED OF BRINGING THE PEOPLE OUT THAT WILL CAUSE THE EGYPTIANS TO KNOW THAT YAHWEH IS HE WHO CAUSES THINGS TO EXIST. THE MIRACLES / SIGNS PORTION OF THE EXODUS BEGIN AT THIS POINT. LET’S STOP AND REVIEW THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD UP TO THAT TIME: CREATION & FALL OF MAN … REBELLION OF MAN & HEAVENLY BEINGS THE FLOOD … EVERYONE KILLED BY GOD, EXCEPT, THAT GOD REFINES HUMANITY DOWN TO THE FAMILY OF NOAH WHERE 1 OF 3 BROTHERS IS A REBEL THE TOWER OF BABEL … CONTINUED REBELLION, GOD CREATES LANGUAGES TO DIVIDE & SLOW DOWN HUMANITY’S DESCENT INTO FURTHER EVIL THEN TURNS THESE NEW LANGUAGE GROUPS OVER TO BE ADMINISTERED BY DIVINE HEAVENLY BEINGS Deut 32: 8When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he divided mankind, he fixed the borders of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God/DIVINE-HEAVENLY BEINGS. GOD CHOOSES ABRAHAM & PROMISES TO MAKE A GREAT NATION OUT OF HIM, A NATION THAT WILL BE GOD’S PERSONAL NATION … ISRAEL, MY FIRSTBORN SON. WORLDWIDE FAMINE ENDS THE BRONZE AGE AND DRIVES PEOPLES TO EGYPT WHERE JOSEPH IS SAVING HUMANITY … ABRAHAM’S SEED WHICH HAS GROWN INTO JACOB AND HIS 12 SONS (70 PEOPLE) ARE PLANTED IN EGYPT 400 YEARS AFTER THE WORLDWIDE FAMINE HUMANITY HAS REGRESSED INTO THE IRON AGE LIMITING THE ABILITY TO CREATE LARGE NATIONS/ARMIES, AND ISRAEL HAS GROWN TO ABOUT 1.5 MILLION PEOPLE WHO ARE NOW ENSLAVED BY THE EGYPTIANS THE EXODUS WILL BE THE NEXT MIRACULOUS WORLD-WIDE EVENT DONE BY GOD … HOW IS IT WORLDWIDE? THE SIGNS & MIRACLES DONE IN EGYPT ARE THERE FOR EVERYONE TO SEE … IMAGINE VISITING EGYPT IN A TRADING CARAVAN WHILE THOSE SIGNS ARE GOING ON AND BEING AFFECTED BY THEM … WATER TO BLOOD, FROGS, GNATS, DARKNESS, DEADLY HAIL, THE DEATH OF EGYPTIAN FIRSTBORN, THEN THE SPLITTING OF THE RED SEA … THEN RETURNING TO YOUR HOME COUNTRY AND SPREADING THE WORD ABOUT WHAT WAS GOING ON IN EGYPT. CONSIDER WHAT RAHAB THE HARLOT SAID TO THE ISRAELITE SPIES AS THE NATION IS ENTERING THE PROMISED LAND 42 YEARS AFTER THE EXODUS BEGAN Josh 2:8 8Before the men lay down, she came up to them on the roof 9and said to the men, “I know that the Lord has given you the land, and that the fear of you has fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away before you. 10For we have heard how the Lord dried up the water of the Red Sea before you when you came out of Egypt,(42 YEARS AGO) and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon and Og, whom you devoted to destruction.(A FEW MONTHS AGO) 11And as soon as we heard it, our hearts melted, and there was no spirit left in any man because of you, for the Lord your God, he is God in the heavens above and on the earth beneath. SO, THE EXODUS IS GOD SHOOTING OFF MIRACULOUS SUPERNATURAL FIREWORKS … ONLY GOD COULD DO THOSE THINGS … THE ONE TRUE GOD, GOD OVER THE EGYPTIAN GODS … AND HE’S NOW BRINGING FORTH HIS NATION AND PRESENTING IT TO THE WORLD. DON’T BE DECEIVED BY THE FACT THAT THE EXODUS TOOK PLACE IN THE LIGHTLY POPULATED SINAI PENINSULA … THE WORLD KNEW WHAT WAS GOING ON. SO, CREATION & FALL, WORLDWIDE FLOOD & NOAH, BABEL & ABRAHM, WORLDWIDE FAMINE & EGYPT/FALSE GODS VS ISRAEL/YAHWEH … GOD CONTROLS EVERYTHING AND ALL CIRCUMSTANCES TO WORK HIS WILL ONE FINAL THOUGHT … THIS IS NOT GOOD PEOPLE VS BAD PEOPLE, ISRAELITES VS EGYPTIANS … THE ISRAELITES WERE JUST AS “MORALLY BAD” AS THE EGYPTIANS … EZ CH 20 EXPLANS THAT … THE ISRAELITES WERE IDOLATORS STEEPED IN EGYPTIAN CULTURE, THE DIFFERNCE IS THAT ISRAEL IS YAHWEH’S NATION, AND EGYPT IS THE NATION OF THE FALSE GODS. EZ CH 20 EXPLAINS WHY THE EXODUS TOOK PLACE … Ez 20:9 But I YAHWEH acted for the sake of my name, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations among whom they lived, in whose sight I made myself known to them in bringing them out of the land of Egypt. 10So I led them out of the land of Egypt and brought them into the wilderness. Acts 17:24 PAUL IN ATHENS SPEAKING TO THE GENTILE PHILOSOPHERS & USING HIS NEW COVENANT DECODER RING The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man, 25nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything. 26And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place, 27that they should seek God, and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him. OK, BACK TO MOSES IN EX CH 7 6Moses and Aaron did so; they did just as the Lord commanded them. 7Now Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three years old, when they spoke to Pharaoh. THIS IS MOSES’ THIRD ACT: 40 YRS AS PHAROAH’S GRANDSON TRAINED IN ALL THE WISDOM OF EGYPT, 40 YRS AS A HUMBLE SHEPHERD FOR HIS FATHER IN LAW JETHRO, THE PRIEST OF MIDIAN, NOW … CALLED BY GOD TO LEAD HIS PEOPLE OUT OF EGYPT … TRAINED AS AN EGYPTIAN NOBLE, AND, AS A SHEPHERD … 8Then the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, 9“When Pharaoh says to you, ‘Prove yourselves by working a miracle,’ then you shall say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and cast it down before Pharaoh, that it may become a serpent.’” 10So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and did just as the Lord commanded. Aaron cast down his staff before Pharaoh and his servants, and it became a serpent. 11Then Pharaoh summoned the wise men and the sorcerers, and they, the magicians of Egypt, also did the same by their secret arts. 12For each man cast down his staff, and they became serpents. But Aaron’s staff swallowed up their staffs. 13Still Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he would not listen to them, as the Lord had said. LET’S LOOK MORE DEEPLY AT THESE WISE MEN, SORCERERS AND MAGICIANS OF EGYPT. REMEMBER, EGYPT IS PROBABLY THE OLDEST NATION ON EARTH AT THIS POINT PROBABLY CLOSE TO THE AGE OF BABEL / BABYLON (CODE OF HAMMURABI). THERE HAD ALREADY BEEN AN OLD KINGDOM OF EGYPT, THEN A MIDDLE KINGDOM, AND NOW THE NEW KINGDOM WITH LARGE PERIODS OF TIME BETWEEN THEM. EGYPTIAN WRITTEN LANGUAGE WAS HIEROGLYPICS - PICTOGRAPHIC … USING HUNDREDS OF SYMBOLS … THERE WAS NO ALPHABET. LEARNING TO READ WAS DIFFICULT AND MOSTLY LIMITED TO THESE PRIESTS SO THAT THEY COULD READ ANCIENT TEXTS FROM THE OLD & MIDDLE KINGDOMS. PRIESTS IN THE ANCIENT WORLD WERE PRIMARILY TECHNICIANS, AND NOT SPIRITUAL REPRESENTATIVES … SACRIFICES TO THE GODS WERE DONE PRIMARILY BY HEADS OF HOUSEHOLDS, OR INDIVIDUALS, AND NOT BY PRIESTS. THE CREATION OF THE ISRAELITE HIGH PRIEST AND PRIESTHOOD WAS A NEW INNOVATION INSTITUTED BY GOD IN THE ANCIENT WORLD. SO, IF YOU WERE AN ANCIENT EGYPTIAN AND YOUR CROPS WERE FAILING YOU HAD TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT BECAUSE CROP FAILURE EQUALED STARVATION, SO, YOU WENT TO A PRIEST TO FIND OUT SPECIFICALLY WHAT SHOULD BE DONE … THEN YOU MADE THE SACRIFICE AS DIRECTED BY THE “EXPERT” PRIEST. THOSE PRIESTS WERE ABLE TO READ AND REFER TO ALL THE RECORDED “WISDOM” OF EGYPT. IN THE CASE OF PHAROAH AND MOSES WHEN MOSES DOES A SIGN OR MIRACLE THEN PHAROAH LOOKS TO THE WISE MEN, SORCERERS AND MAGICIANS FOR GUIDANCE BASED ON THE RECORDED “WISDOM” OF EGYPT … WHAT DO WE NEED TO DO TO FIX THIS? REMEMBER, THIS IS NOT GOOD GUYS/ISRAEL VS BAD GUYS/EGYPT … ISRAEL IS JUST AS BAD AS EGYPT AND AS BAD AS THE REST OF THE WORLD … GOD IS DOING THIS FOR PHAROAH, PHAROAH’S PRIESTS, EGYPT, ISRAEL AND THE WHOLE WORLD … SO THAT THEY MAY KNOW THAT I AM GOD! KEEP IN MIND THE PEOPLE (INCLUDING PHAROAH HIMSELF), AND ALL OF HIS PRISTS BELIEVED THAT PHAROAH WAS THE EMBODIMENT OF THE EGYPTIAN GOD, HORUS, SON OF RA – THE SUN GOD. PHAROAH EXISTED IN THE EARTHLY AND SPIRITUAL REALMS AND SO CONNECTED MAN WITH THE GODS. PHAROAH’S JOB WAS TO MAINTAIN “MA’AT” THE PROPER REGULATION OF EVERYTHING; SLAVES STAY SLAVES, NOBLES STAY NOBLES, PLANTING & HAVEST DONE AT THE PROPER TIMES, PROPER SACRIFICES ARE MADE TO ALL OF THE GODS, EVERYTHING IN ITS PROPER PLACE, ETC., PHAROAH WAS RAISED TO BELIEVE THIS – IT’S INGRAINED IN HIM – PEOPLE OFFER SACRIFICES AND OBESCIENCE TO HIM, HIS PRIESTS & WISE MEN SUPPORT THIS VIEW … THE 10 PLAGUES WILL SEEK TO SHAKE PHAROAH LOOSE FROM THIS BELIEF … KEEP THAT IN MIND WHEN YOU CONSIDER PHAROAH’S HEART BECOMING HARDENED. ALSO, THE CONCEPT “MA’AT” REQUIRED THAT WHEN MEN DIED THEIR HEARTS WOULD BE WEIGHED AGAINST “THE FEATHER OF MA’AT” AND IF THEIR HEART WAS HEAVIER THAN THE FEATHER THEN THEY WERE CONSIDERED TO BE IMMORAL AND WOULD BE CAST INTO ETERNAL DARKNESS. SO, THE IDEA OF “HARDENING THE HEART” WAS A VERY EGYPTIAN WAY OF SAYING “DOING THE WRONG THING.” THIS IS TIED IN WITH THE IDEA OF “CIRCUMCISING YOUR HEART” … AN EGYPTIAN IDEA THAT GOD USED, THROUGH MOSES, TO COMMUNICATE TO THE ISRAELITES WHO HAD JUST LEFT EGYPT … THEY WERE ALL FAMILIAR WITH “MA’AT” … THAT THEIR HEARTS MIGHT BE “HARD” OR SINFULLY RESISTANT TO GOD. YAHWEH IS CLEARLY CONFRONTING ALL OF THE GODS OF EGYPT WITH THESE PLAGUES AND IS IN THE PROCESS OF PULLING THE RUG OUT FROM UNDER THE WAY HUMAN CULTURE FUNCTIONED TO THAT POINT … SO, IT’S PHAROAH’S JOB TO CONFRONT THE THREAT THAT MOSES AND AARON ARE GIVING HIM … THEY WANT TO DISRUPT “MA’AT AND LEAD THE HEBREWS OUT OF EGYPT … IMAGINE PHAROAH SAYING; “HEY, EGYPTIAN PRIESTS, WHAT SHOULD WE DO ABOUT THIS?” IN THE MEANTIME, YAHWEH IS CAUSING WIDESPREAD FEAR AND PANIC WITH THESE CLEARLY SUPERNATURAL PLAGUES AND, CONSEQUENTLY … BECAUSE HE LOVES THE WORLD … GIVING EVERYONE AN OPPORTUNITY TO REPENT… THE FEAR OF THE LORD IS THE BEGINNING OF WISDOM. ONE NOTE ON THE GODS OF EGYPT … THE EGYPTIANS WORSHIPPED A LOT OF GODS AND HISTORICAL INFORMATION REGARDING THEM VARIES. ANCIENT PEOPLES BELIEVED THAT MOST THINGS IN LIFE, GOOD & BAD, WERE RELATED TO THE “GODS”, BIBLEBONESANDLIGAMENTS IS FOCUSED ON HOW DIFFERENT PARTS OF SCRIPTURE FIT TOGETHER SO WE WON’T BE GOING INTO GREAT DETAIL ABOUT HOW EACH PLAGUE IS TIED TO A SPECIFIC EGYPTIAN GOD. BACK TO EX 7 THE TEN PLAGUES … The First Plague: ALL Water Turned to Blood 14Then the Lord said to Moses, “Pharaoh’s heart is hardened; he refuses to let the people go. 15Go to Pharaoh in the morning, as he is going out to the water. TO BATHE, REMEMBER, EGYPTIANS ARE OBSESSED WITH HYGIENE Stand on the bank of the Nile to meet him, and take in your hand the staff that turned into a serpent. 16And you shall say to him, ‘The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, sent me to you, saying, “Let my people go, that they may serve me in the wilderness.” But so far, you have not obeyed. 17Thus says the Lord, “By this you shall know that I am the Lord: behold, with the staff that is in my hand I will strike the water that is in the Nile, and it shall turn into blood. YAHWEH IS SAYING “I CONTROL THIS RIVER … I CAN BRING LIFE OR DEATH FROM IT … 18The fish in the Nile shall die, and the Nile will stink, and the Egyptians will grow weary of drinking water from the Nile.”’” THE NILE WAS CENTRAL TO LIFE NOT ONLY IN EGYPT BUT FOR MUCH OF THE ANCIENT WORLD BECAUSE ALEXANDRIA SHIPPED A LOT OF GRAIN THROUGHOUT THE ROMAN EMPIRE … EGYPTIANS BELIEVED THAT THE NILE WAS, OR WAS INHABITED BY … A GOD, AND THAT LIFE LITERALLY CAME OUT OF THE NILE AS IN THE FIRST MEN CAME FROM THE NILE … BACK TO MOSES & AARON 19And the Lord said to Moses, “Say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, their canals, and their ponds, and all their pools of water, so that they may become blood, and there shall be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, even in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.’” 20Moses and Aaron did as the Lord commanded. In the sight of Pharaoh and in the sight of his servants he lifted up the staff and struck the water in the Nile, and all the water in the Nile turned into blood. 21And the fish in the Nile died, and the Nile stank, so that the Egyptians could not drink water from the Nile. There was blood throughout all the land of Egypt. 22But the magicians of Egypt did the same by their secret arts. BUT THEY COULDN’T FIX IT! So Pharaoh’s heart remained hardened, and he would not listen to them, as the Lord had said. 23Pharaoh turned and went into his house, and he did not take even this to heart. 24And all the Egyptians dug along the Nile for water to drink, for they could not drink the water of the Nile. 25Seven full days passed after the Lord had struck the Nile. THE AMOUNT OF TIME YOU CAN LIVE WITHOUT FRESH WATER … AND THAT WILL END CH 7 About This is an audio broadcast, designed to encourage you to dive deeper into the most influential and impactful literature of all time: The Bible. 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Exodus Chapter 6 Deep-Dive: The LORD Speaks to Moses 03/24/2025

Exodus Chapter 6 Deep-Dive: The LORD Speaks to Moses Hosted by Joey and Matt Deep-dives into the Bible beyond what Sunday teaches you. EX CH 6 1But the Lord said to Moses, “Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh; for with a strong hand he will send them out, and with a strong hand he will drive them out of his land.” WHEN I’M FINISHED WITH EGYPT PHAROAH WON’T JUST LET YOU GO, HE WILL DRIVE YOU FROM THE LAND 2God spoke to Moses and said to him, “I am the Lord. 3I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty, but by my name the Lord I did not make myself known to them. SEE EX 3:14 HE WHO CAUSES THINGS TO BE/EXIST … NAMES OF GOD WHICH DON’T DEFINE HIM BUT DESCRIBE WHAT HE’S DOING, IN THIS CASE WHAT GOD IS DOING IN EGYPT IS DIFFERENT FROM WHAT HE DID WITH ABRAHAM, ISAAC AND JACOB; “I TOLD ABRAHAM, ISAAC AND JACOB I WOULD MAKE THEIR DESCENDANTS LIKE THE SAND OF THE SEA AND GIVE THEM THE LAND OF CANAAN, BUT THEY DIDN’T SEE ME DO IT … NOW YOU, MOSES/AARON/ISRAEL, WILL SEE ME DO IT AND YOU WILL KNOW THAT I AM THE LORD/YAHWEH. THINK OF ALL THE TIMES IN THE BIBLE WHERE GOD SAYS AFTER I HAVE DONE ____; “THEN THEY WILL KNOW THAT I AM YAHWEH” 4 I also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, the land in which they lived as sojourners. 5Moreover, I have heard the groaning of the people of Israel whom the Egyptians hold as slaves, and I have remembered my covenant. 6Say therefore to the people of Israel, ‘I am the Lord, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will deliver you from slavery to them, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great acts of judgment. 7I will take you to be my people, and I will be your God, and you shall know that I am the Lord your God, who has brought you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians. 8I will bring you into the land that I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. I will give it to you for a possession. I am the Lord.’” 9Moses spoke thus to the people of Israel, but they did not listen to Moses, because of their broken spirit and harsh slavery. THE ISRAELITES BELIEVED AND WORSHIPPED WHEN MOSES AND AARON FIRST SHOWED THEM THE MIRACULOUS SIGNS … THEY’RE NOW OVERTAKEN BY THEIR DIFFICULT CIRCUMSTANCES AND RESIST GOD’S DELIVERANCE, ALSO, REMEMBER EZEK CH 20 WHERE GOD REVEALS THAT THE PEOPLE HAD BECOME IDOLATORS WHILE IN EGYPT AND RESISTED THE LORD EVEN BEFORE THE EXODUS BEGAN. BACK TO MOSES 10So the Lord said to Moses, 11“Go in, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt to let the people of Israel go out of his land.” GET BACK TO WORK, MOSES! 12But Moses said to the Lord, “Behold, the people of Israel have not listened to me. How then shall Pharaoh listen to me, for I am of uncircumcised lips?” CIRCUMCISION WAS ON MOSES’ MIND AFTER THAT INCIDENT WITH ON THE ROAD WITH ZIPPORAH! 13But the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron and gave them a charge about the people of Israel and about Pharaoh king of Egypt: to bring the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt. GET BACK TO WORK! EXODUS NOW GIVES US A MINI-CENSUS. ISRAEL IS ORGANIZED BY FAMILIES, CLANS & TRIBES 14These are the heads of their fathers’ houses: the sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi; these are the clans of Reuben. 15The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul, the son of a Canaanite woman; these are the clans of Simeon. 16These are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari, the years of the life of Levi being 137 years. EXODUS NOW BREAKS DOWN THE TRIBE OF LEVI, MOSES & AARON’S TRIBE, INTO GREATER DETAIL 17The sons of Gershon: Libni and Shimei, by their clans. 18The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, the years of the life of Kohath being 133 years. 19The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the clans of the Levites according to their generations. NOW EXODUS GOES INTO EVEN GREATER DETAIL TO BRING US TO MOSES AND AARON’S FAMILY 20Amram took as his wife Jochebed his father’s sister, and she bore him Aaron and Moses, the years of the life of Amram being 137 years. MIRIAM WAS NOT LISTED HERE. 21The sons of Izhar: Korah, Nepheg, and Zichri. 22The sons of Uzziel: Mishael, Elzaphan, and Sithri. 23Aaron took as his wife Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab and the sister of Nahshon, and she bore him Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. 24The sons of Korah A MAJOR BAD-GUY DURING THE EXODUS WHO ALSO HAPPENED TO BE A LEVITE: Assir, Elkanah, and Abiasaph; these are the clans of the Korahites. 25Eleazar, Aaron’s son, took as his wife one of the daughters of Putiel (HEBREW “PUT” A LOCATION IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF LIBYA WHERE PEOPLE WERE BLACK SKINNED) and she bore him Phinehas (TRANSLITERATION OF EGYPTIAN PIN-E-HAS, WHICH LITERALLY MEANS BLACK-SKINNED ONE). SO, ELEAZAR WILL BECOME THE SECOND HIGH PRIEST AFTER AARON DIES, THEN HIS SON, PHINEAS (BLACK-SKINNED ONE) BECOMES THE THIRD HIGH PRIEST … AND IS A MAJOR CHARACTER AT THE END OF THE EXODUS. A NOTE FROM WIKIPEDIA ABOUT ELEAZAR: Displeased with the immorality with which the Moabites and Midianites had successfully tempted the Israelites (Numbers 25:1–9) to inter-marry and to worship Baal-peor, Phinehas personally executed an Israelite man and a Midianite woman while they were together in the man's tent, running a javelin or spear through the man and the belly of the woman, bringing to an end the plague sent by Yahweh to punish the Israelites for sexually intermingling with the Midianites. Phinehas is commended by Yahweh in Numbers 25:10–13, as well as King David in Psalm 106 (Psalms 106:28–31) for having stopped Israel's fall into idolatrous practices brought in by Midianite women, as well as for stopping the desecration of Yahweh's sanctuary. After the entry to the land of Israel and the death of his father, he was appointed the third High Priest of Israel, and served at the sanctuary of Bethel (Judges 20:28). KEEP IN MIND THAT AS THE NATION OF ISRAEL WAS GROWING IN EGYPT THEY WERE INTERMARRYING WITH GENETICALLY DIVERSE NON-ISRAELITE PEOPLE WHO ALSO LIVED IN EGYPT AND THAT INCLUDED BLACKS, ASIANS, ETC … AND ALL OF THEIR OFFSPRING WERE INCLUDED AS PART OF ISRAEL … THE NATION WAS GROWING … AND ONCE YOU’RE AN ISRAELITE, EVEN BY MARRIAGE, THEN THE PROMISES GIVEN TO ABRAHAM, ISAAC AND JACOB ALSO BELONG TO YOU … THE STRICT RESTRICTION ON MARRYING NON-ISRAELITES COMES MUCH LATER AFTER THE BABLYLONIAN EXILE WHEN THE PEOPLE ARE RETURNING TO ISRAEL WHERE NON-BELIEVERS WERE INHABITING THE LAND. AT THE BEGINNING OF THE EXODUS ISRAEL WAS GENETICALLY DIVERSE AND AFTER THE LAW WAS GIVEN THERE WAS A PROCESS THAT A “SOJOURNER” COULD FOLLOW TO OFFICIALLY JOIN THE NATION. BACK TO v25 … These are the heads of the fathers’ houses of the Levites by their clans.26These are the Aaron and Moses to whom the Lord said: “Bring out the people of Israel from the land of Egypt by their hosts.” 27It was they who spoke to Pharaoh king of Egypt about bringing out the people of Israel from Egypt, this Moses and this Aaron. THE MINI CENSUS DOES NOT CONTINUE AFTER MOSES AND AARON’S LINEAGE IS DETAILED, NOTE THAT REUBEN AND SIMEON’S LINEAGE WAS LISTED BECAUSE THEY WERE THE OLDER BROTHERS OF LEVI. 28On the day when the Lord spoke to Moses in the land of Egypt, 29the Lord said to Moses, “I am the Lord; tell Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I say to you.” 30But Moses said to the Lord, “Behold, I am of uncircumcised lips. How will Pharaoh listen to me?” AND THAT WILL WRAP UP EX CH 6 About This is an audio broadcast, designed to encourage you to dive deeper into the most influential and impactful literature of all time: The Bible. 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Exodus Chapter 5 Deep-Dive: Bricks Without Straw 03/05/2025

Exodus Chapter 5 Deep-Dive: Bricks Without Straw Hosted by Joey and Matt Deep-dives into the Bible beyond what Sunday teaches you. EX CH 5 1Afterward Moses and Aaron went and said to Pharaoh, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘Let my people go, that they may hold a feast to me in the wilderness.’” 2But Pharaoh said, “Who is the Lord, that I should obey his voice and let Israel go? I do not know the Lord, and moreover, I will not let Israel go.” WHO…THE GOD OF YOU SLAVES? WHOEVER THAT GOD IS, I OUTRANK HIM. 3Then they MOSES & AARON said, “The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go a three days’ journey into the wilderness that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God, lest he fall upon us with pestilence or with the sword.” AND KILL ALL YOUR SLAVES, PHAROAH … PHAROAH IS A GOOD PAGAN AND THIS IS HIS UNDERSTANDING OF HOW GODS WORK. 4But the king of Egypt said to them, “Moses and Aaron, why do you take the people away from their work? Get back to your burdens.” 5And Pharaoh said, “Behold, the people of the land are now many, and you make them rest from their burdens!” 6The same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people and their foremen, 7“You shall no longer give the people straw to make bricks, as in the past; let them go and gather straw for themselves. 8But the number of bricks that they made in the past you shall impose on them, you shall by no means reduce it, for they are idle. Therefore they cry, ‘Let us go and offer sacrifice to our God.’ 9Let heavier work be laid on the men that they may labor at it and pay no regard to lying words.” OK, SO THE SLAVES ARE GETTING IDEAS AND REBELING … WORK THEM HARDER! 10So the taskmasters and the foremen of the people went out and said to the people, “Thus says Pharaoh, ‘I will not give you straw. 11Go and get your straw yourselves wherever you can find it, but your work will not be reduced in the least.’” 12So the people were scattered throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw. 13The taskmasters were urgent, saying, “Complete your work, your daily task each day, as when there was straw.” 14And the foremen of the people of Israel, whom Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten and were asked, “Why have you not done all your task of making bricks today and yesterday, as in the past?” 15Then the foremen of the people of Israel came and cried to Pharaoh, “Why do you treat your servants like this? 16No straw is given to your servants, yet they say to us, ‘Make bricks!’ And behold, your servants are beaten; but the fault is in your own people.” 17But he said, “You are idle, you are idle; that is why you say, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to the Lord.’ 18Go now and work. No straw will be given you, but you must still deliver the same number of bricks.” 19The foremen of the people of Israel saw that they were in trouble when they said, “You shall by no means reduce your number of bricks, your daily task each day.” 20They met Moses and Aaron, who were waiting for them, as they came out from Pharaoh; 21and they said to them, “The Lord look on you and judge, because you have made us stink in the sight of Pharaoh and his servants, and have put a sword in their hand to kill us.” SO, PHAROAH’S STRATEGY IS WORKING, HE’S CREATING DIVISION AMONG THE ISRAELITES. ALSO, AS GOD BEGINS WORKING HIS PLAN THINGS BECOME DIFFICULT FOR THE ISRAELITES AND THEY SHOW THEIR TRUE COLORS AND COMPLAIN TO MOSES AND AARON. REMEMBER, JUST A SHORT TIME BEFORE THIS IN Ex 4:29Then Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the people of Israel. 30Aaron spoke all the words that the Lord had spoken to Moses and did the signs in the sight of the people. 31And the people believed; and when they heard that the Lord had visited the people of Israel and that he had seen their affliction, they bowed their heads and worshiped. 22Then Moses turned to the Lord and said, “O Lord, why have you done evil to this people? Why did you ever send me? 23For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in your name, he has done evil to this people, and you have not delivered your people at all.” MOSES IS ALSO SHOWING HIS TRUE COLORS … FAITHLESS AND ALSO A COMPLAINER … BUT GOD HAD ALREADY TOLD MOSES HOW THIS WAS GOING TO GO DOWN. REMEMBER, GOD HAD TO THREATEN MOSES WITH DEATH TO GET MOSES GOING … THE EXODUS WAS A TRANSFORMATIONAL PROCESS FOR EGYPT, THE ISRAELITES, AND MOSES HIMSELF. AND THAT WILL WRAP UP CH 5 About This is an audio broadcast, designed to encourage you to dive deeper into the most influential and impactful literature of all time: The Bible. This podcasts helps to show the benefits of reading/listening to the Bible, front to back, over and over and over endlessly. And study to fill the gaps for deeper understanding. Join us as we dissect the bones and ligaments of God’s written revelation to mankind through scripture. /episode/index/show/a0d29dc2-522b-4be7-a162-869bf42ed535/id/35549715

Exodus Chapter 4 Deep-Dive: Burning Bush part 2, Moses Returns 02/26/2025

Exodus Chapter 4 Deep-Dive: Burning Bush part 2, Moses Returns Hosted by Joey and Matt Deep-dives into the Bible beyond what Sunday teaches you. EX CH 4 MOSES IS MEETING WITH GOD AT THE BURNING BUSH, RECEIVING HIS CALLING TO LEAD ISRAEL OUT OF EGYPT ON BEHALF OF YAHWEH, HOWEVER, MOSES IS RESISTING GOD’S CALLING… 1Then Moses answered, “But behold, they will not believe me or listen to my voice, for they will say, ‘The Lord did not appear to you.’” 2The Lord said to him, “What is that in your hand?” He said, “A staff.” 3And he said, “Throw it on the ground.” So he threw it on the ground, and it became a serpent, and Moses ran from it. MOSES IS NOT DOING WELL … DOUBT AND FEAR 4But the Lord said to Moses, “Put out your hand and catch it by the tail”—so he put out his hand and caught it, and it became a staff in his hand— 5“that they may believe that the Lord, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you.” 6Again, the Lord said to him, “Put your hand inside your cloak.” And he put his hand inside his cloak, and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous like snow. 7Then God said, “Put your hand back inside your cloak.” So he put his hand back inside his cloak, and when he took it out, behold, it was restored like the rest of his flesh. 8“If they will not believe you,” God said, “or listen to the first sign, they may believe the latter sign. 9If they will not believe even these two signs or listen to your voice, you shall take some water from the Nile and pour it on the dry ground, and the water that you shall take from the Nile will become blood on the dry ground.” THERE YOU GO … THREE SIGNS, BUT MOSES CONTINUES TO RESIST. 10But Moses said to the Lord, “Oh, my Lord, I am not eloquent, either in the past or since you have spoken to your servant, but I am slow of speech and of tongue.” 11Then the Lord said to him, “Who has made man’s mouth? Who makes him mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Is it not I, the Lord? WHAT?!? SO, GOD IS TAKING RESPONSIBILITY FOR PEOPLE BEING DEAF, MUTE, BLIND OR SEEING … THINK ABOUT THAT! Biblebonesandligaments … John 10:1 As he JESUS passed by, he saw a man blind from birth. 2And his disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” 3Jesus answered, “It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be displayed in him. SO, GOD CAUSED THAT MAN TO BE BLIND FROM BIRTH SO THAT ONE DAY JESUS COULD HEAL HIM … WHAT?!? THE FEAR OF THE LORD IS THE BEGINNING OF WISDOM … GOD CONTROLS ALL CIRCUMSTANCES. OUR NT DECODER RING GIVES US FURTHER GUIDANCE 1 Cor 7:17 Only let each person lead the life that the Lord has assigned to him, and to which God has called him. This is my rule in all the churches. 18Was anyone at the time of his call already circumcised? Let him not seek to remove the marks of circumcision. Was anyone at the time of his call uncircumcised? Let him not seek circumcision. 19For neither circumcision counts for anything nor uncircumcision, but keeping the commandments of God. 20Each one should remain in the condition in which he was called. 21Were you a bondservant when called? Do not be concerned about it. (But if you can gain your freedom, avail yourself of the opportunity.) 22For he who was called in the Lord as a bondservant is a freedman of the Lord. Likewise he who was free when called is a bondservant of Christ. 23You were bought with a price; do not become bondservants of men. 24So, brothers, in whatever condition each was called, there let him remain with God. BACK TO MOSES AT THE BURNING BUSH IN EX 4 12Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth and teach you what you shall speak.” 13But he said, “Oh, my Lord, please send someone else.” 14Then the anger of the Lord was kindled against Moses and he said, “Is there not Aaron, your brother, the Levite? I know that he can speak well. Behold, he is coming out to meet you, and when he sees you, he will be glad in his heart. 15You shall speak to him and put the words in his mouth, and I will be with your mouth and with his mouth and will teach you both what to do. 16He shall speak for you to the people, and he shall be your mouth, and you shall be as God to him. 17And take in your hand this staff, with which you shall do the signs.” WOW, GOD GETS ANGRY WITH MOSES THEN BRINGS AARON INTO THE PICTURE BUT APPARENTLY THAT WASN’T THE ORIGINAL PLAN. CONSIDER THAT AARON BECOMES HIGH PRIEST … MANY BIBLE SCHOLARS BELIEVE THAT IT WAS ORIGINALLY GOD’S PLAN FOR MOSES TO BE HIGH PRIEST/KING/PROPHET. SO, INSTEAD OF GOD SPEAKING THROUGH MOSES IT’S NOW GOD SPEAKING TO MOSES WHO THEN SPEAKS THROUGH AARON. 18Moses went back to Jethro his father-in-law and said to him, “Please let me go back to my brothers in Egypt to see whether they are still alive.” And Jethro said to Moses, “Go in peace.” 19And the Lord said to Moses in Midian, “Go back to Egypt, for all the men who were seeking your life are dead.” SO, MOSES IS TARRYING AND GOD SAYS …. GET UP AND GO!!! 20So Moses took his wife and his sons and had them ride on a donkey, and went back to the land of Egypt. And Moses took the staff of God in his hand. 21And the Lord said to Moses, “When you go back to Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the miracles that I have put in your power. But I will harden his heart, so that he will not let the people go. 22Then you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says the Lord, Israel is my firstborn son, 23and I say to you, “Let my son go that he may serve me.” If you refuse to let him go, behold, I will kill your firstborn son.’” SO, GOD IS LAYING OUT MORE OF THE PLAN … MAKE SURE YOU DON’T TURN AROUND AND RETURN TO MIDIAN WHEN PHAROAH RESISTS YOU, SEE THE PLAN THROUGH TO THE END! GOD ALSO CALLS ISRAEL HIS FIRSTBORN SON HERE 24At a lodging place on the way the Lord met him and sought to put him to death. 25Then Zipporah took a flint and cut off her son’s foreskin and touched Moses’ feet with it and said, “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me!” 26So he let him alone. It was then that she said, “A bridegroom of blood,” because of the circumcision. SO, MOSES IS HEADED BACK TO EGYPT AS YAHWEH’S PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE TO LEAD ISRAEL OUT OF SLAVERY BUT MOSES HADN’T CIRCUMCISED HIS SON … THE ONE THING HE WAS REQUIRED TO DO AS AN ISRAELITE … A DESCENDANT OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC AND JACOB. HIS WIFE, ZIPPORAH, HAD TO DO IT AND SHE WASN’T EVEN AN ISRAELITE … GOD WAS ANGRY WITH HIM AND SHAMED MOSES BY HAVING ZIPPORAH DO IT!! 27The Lord said to Aaron, “Go into the wilderness to meet Moses.” So he went and met him at the mountain of God and kissed him. 28And Moses told Aaron all the words of the Lord with which he had sent him to speak, and all the signs that he had commanded him to do. 29Then Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the people of Israel. 30Aaron spoke all the words that the Lord had spoken to Moses and did the signs in the sight of the people. 31And the people believed; and when they heard that the Lord had visited the people of Israel and that he had seen their affliction, they bowed their heads and worshiped. SO, MOSES TELLS AARON WHAT HAPPENED WITH GOD AND APPARENTLY AARON BELIEVED MOSES AND ENDS UP IN A LEADERSHIP ROLE WORKING WITH MOSES AND THAT WILL WRAP UP CH 4 About This is an audio broadcast, designed to encourage you to dive deeper into the most influential and impactful literature of all time: The Bible. This podcasts helps to show the benefits of reading/listening to the Bible, front to back, over and over and over endlessly. And study to fill the gaps for deeper understanding. Join us as we dissect the bones and ligaments of God’s written revelation to mankind through scripture. /episode/index/show/a0d29dc2-522b-4be7-a162-869bf42ed535/id/35432270

Exodus Chapter 3 Deep-Dive: The Burning Bush 02/24/2025

Exodus Chapter 3 Deep-Dive: The Burning Bush Hosted by Joey and Matt Deep-dives into the Bible beyond what Sunday teaches you. Exodus Ch 3 The Burning Bush ANCIENT PEOPLES BELIEVED THAT GEOGRAPHIC LOCATIONS COULD, AT TIMES, BE CONNECTED TO, OR GATEWAYS TO, THE SPIRITUAL WORLD. EX: MT OLYMPUS IN GREECE IS AN ACTUAL SMALL MOUNTAIN, AND ANCIENT GREEKS COULD CLIMB IT AND SEE THAT THERE WERE NO GODS THERE, HOWEVER, THEY BELIEVED THAT THE MOUNTAIN TOUCHED THE SPIRITUAL WORLD IN SOME WAY THEY COULDN’T UNDERSTAND, BUT IT WAS STILL THE MOUNTAIN OF ZEUS AND THE OTHER GREEK GODS. ALL ANCIENT PEOPLES HAD SIMILAR BELIEFS. IN THE SAME WAY, IN THE BIBLE, GEOGRAPHIC LOCATIONS WERE SOMETIMES ASSOCIATED WITH GOD … THINK OF JACOB WRESTLING WITH GOD AT PENUEL, AFTER THAT INCIDENT JACOB CONSIDERED PENUEL TO BE A SACRED SITE. SO, IN THIS CHAPTER WE’LL REVIEW GOD APPEARING TO MOSES IN A BURNING BUSH ON MT HOREB, IN MIDIAN, THE KEY TO THAT SCENE IS THAT WHEREVER GOD APPEARS … THAT IS HIS HOLY MOUNTAIN. ALL THE EARTH IS THE LORD’S, HOWEVER, WHEREVER HE IS APPEARING … AT THAT MOMENT … IT’S THE MOUNTAIN OF GOD … GOD MOVES FROM PLACE TO PLACE AND HIS DIVINE COUNCIL MOVES WITH HIM. SO, IS MT HOREB THE SAME AS MT SINAI, FROM WHICH GOD APPEARED TO ISRAEL … Bible bones and ligaments: Ps 106: They made a calf in Horeb, and worshiped a metal image. Mal 4:4 “Remember the law of my servant Moses, the statutes and rules[fn] that I commanded him at Horeb for all Israel. IT’S MOST LIKELY THAT HOREB REFERRED TO A GENERAL GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION IN MIDIAN/SINAI AND THAT THIS PARTICULAR MOUNTAIN WHERE THE BURNING BUSH OCCURRED IS NOT THE EXACT SAME LOCATION OF MT SINAI FROM WHICH GOD GAVE THE LAW TO ISRAEL. BIBLE SCHOLARS DIFFER IN THEIR OPINION OF WHERE EXACTLY MT SINAI WAS BUT THE WHOLE EXODUS OCCURRED IN A RATHER SMALL AREA IN THE SINAI PENINSULA THAT INCLUDED MT HOREB, MT SINAI, MT SEIR … ARE THEY ALL THE SAME MOUNTAIN? THERE’S NO WAY WE CAN KNOW, HOWEVER, THE KEY IS THAT WHEREVER GOD IS APPEARING FROM … THAT’S THE MOUNTAIN OF GOD. 1Now Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro, the priest of Midian, and he led his flock to the west side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. REMEMBER, MIDIAN/SEIR IS WHERE GOD SAID HE WAS LOCATED BEFORE THE EXODUS OCCURRED. 2And the angel of the Lord (THIS A DEFINITE ARTICLE, SO NOT JUST A RANDOM ANGEL … THE/UNIQUE ANGEL OF THE LORD) the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush. THIS IS AN ANGEL APPEARING IN THE MIDST OF A BURNING BUSH AND WHENEVER ANGELS/MESSENGERS APPEARED TO INTERACT WITH HUMAN BEINGS … THEY APPEARED IN THE FORM OF MEN … THE ANGEL IS SPEAKING FROM A “MOUTH”, HOWEVER, MOSES KNEW INSTANTLY THAT THIS WAS NO MAN. He looked, and behold, the bush was burning, yet it was not consumed. 3And Moses said, “I will turn aside to see this great sight, why the bush is not burned.” 4When the Lord YAHWEH saw that he turned aside to see, God ELOHIM called to him out of the bush, “Moses, Moses!” And he said, “Here I am.” 5Then he said, “Do not come near; take your sandals off your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.” Bible bones and ligaments: “holy ground” Josh 5:13 When Joshua was by Jericho, he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, a man was standing before him with his drawn sword in his hand. And Joshua went to him and said to him, “Are you for us, or for our adversaries?” 14And he said, “No; but I am the commander of the army of the Lord. Now I have come.” And Joshua fell on his face to the earth and worshiped and said to him, “What does my lord say to his servant?” 15And the commander of the Lord’s army said to Joshua, “Take off your sandals from your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy.” And Joshua did so. IT’S HOLY GROUND ONLY BECAUSE GOD IS THERE … HOW CAN SINFUL MAN STAND BEFORE A HOLY GOD? … THE FEAR OF THE LORD IS THE BEGINNING OF WISDOM, BECAUSE, GOD IS THE MOST DANGEROUS “PERSON” IN THE UNIVERSE … HE CAN HURT YOU IN WAYS THAT YOU CAN’T IMAGINE … THINK OF THE FLOOD … BACK TO MOSES AT THE BURNING BUSH … SO WE HAVE GOD APPEARING AS AN ANGEL/MESSENGER/DIVINE-MAN AND SPEAKING AUTHORITATIVELY AS GOD … BUT … NO MAN CAN SEE GOD AND LIVE: Ex 33:20But,” he said, “you cannot see my face, for man shall not see me and live.” SO, HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE? JESUS IS THE ANGEL OF THE LORD WHO APPEARS AS A DIVINE MESSENGER (ANGEL = MESSENGER) IN SUPERNATURAL HUMAN FORM THROUGHOUT THE OLD TESTAMENT TO SPEAK AS GOD … AS THE 2ND PERSON OF THE TRINITY, AND ON BEHALF OF YAHWEH, THE FIRST PERSON OF THE TRINITY. SO, YAHWEH AND THIS ANGEL OF THE LORD ARE BOTH GOD … BUT DIFFERENT FROM EACH OTHER. THIS IS WHERE THE ANCIENT ISRAELITE CONCEPT OF “TWO POWERS IN HEAVEN” COMES FROM WHICH DR MICHAEL HEISER WROTE EXTENSIVELY ABOUT. 6And he (THE ANGEL OF THE LORD/JESUS) said, “I am the God ELOHIM of your father MOSES’ FATHER – CURRENT TIMES, the God ELOHIM of Abraham, the God ELOHIM of Isaac, and the God ELOHIM of Jacob.” SO THAT STATEMENT INCLUDES THE WHOLE HISTORY OF ISRAEL TO THAT POINT. And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God ELOHIM. 7Then the Lord YAHWEH said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters. I know their sufferings, 8and I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. 9And now, behold, the cry of the people of Israel has come to me, and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them. SO, EGYPT IS OPPRESSING ISRAEL THROUGH SLAVERY AND NOW GOD IS GOING TO RESCUE THEM, RIGHT? KEEP IN MIND THAT IN EZEKIEL CH 20 GOD IS FURIOUS WITH ISRAEL AND HE TELLS EZEKIEL THAT BEFORE THE EXODUS, WHILE ISRAEL WAS IN EGYPT, HE TOLD ISRAEL TO GET RID OF THEIR IDOLS … 8“ ‘But they rebelled against me and would not listen to me; they did not get rid of the vile images they had set their eyes on, nor did they forsake the idols of Egypt. So I said I would pour out my wrath on them and spend my anger against them in Egypt. … AND THEY WERE SLAVES TO THE EGYPTIANS … WAS THAT GOD POURING OUT HIS WRATH AND SPENDING HIS ANGER ON THEM? BACK TO MOSES AT THE BURNING BUSH … 10Come, I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.” 11But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?” 12He said, “But I will be with you, and this shall be the sign for you, that I have sent you: when you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain.” MT HOREB, MT SINAI, MT SEIR ARE ALL IN THE GENERAL AREA … REMEMBER, THE MOUNTAIN IS HOLY ONLY BECAUSE GOD IS THERE … IF GOD LEADS MOSES & THE PEOPLE TO A DIFFERENT MOUNTAIN IT WILL BE THE SAME … YOU SHALL SERVE GOD ON THIS MOUNTAIN … THIS=THE MOUNTAIN GOD IS ON AT THAT TIME. SO, DON’T GET WRAPPED UP IN “WHICH” MOUNTAIN IT WAS, KEEP IN MIND THAT MOSES IS FAMILIAR WITH THIS AREA BECAUSE HE’S BEEN SHEPHERDING JETHRO’S FLOCK THERE FOR THE PAST 40 YEARS. REMEMBER, THAT SHEPHERDS WERE NOT HIGHLY THOUGHT OF IN THE ANCIENT WORLD, CONSIDER THAT DAVID, THE YOUNGEST SON OF JESSE WASN’T EVEN CONSIDERED WHEN SAMUEL WAS ANOINTING THE SECOND KING OF ISRAEL … DAVID WAS OUT SHEPHERDING JESSE’S FLOCK. Biblebonesandligaments: Ps 23 (The Lord is my shepherd …) Is 40:11 He will tend his flock like a shepherd; he will gather the lambs in his arms; he will carry them in his bosom, and gently lead those that are with young. Ez CH 34 ONE OF THE MOST AMAZING CHAPTERS IN THE BIBLE THAT YOU’VE NEVER HEARD OF, AGAIN, I BELIEVE JESUS IS VERY CLOSELY RELATED TO EZEKIEL IN THE OLD TESTAMENT (Bad shepherds of Israel v1-10, Yahweh the good shepherd v11-24, 31) v11“For thus says the Lord God: Behold, I, I myself will search for my sheep and will seek them out. “MY SHEEP – GOD IS PRESENTING HIMSELF AS A SHEPHERD … WHAT DOES GOD DO FOR A LIVING? HOW DOES HE IDENTIFY HIMSELF? … HE’S A SHEPHERD. BACK TO EZ 34:12As a shepherd seeks out his flock when he is among his sheep that have been scattered, so will I seek out my sheep, and I will rescue them from all places where they have been scattered on a day of clouds and thick darkness. 13And I will bring them out from the peoples and gather them from the countries, and will bring them into their own land. And I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, by the ravines, and in all the inhabited places of the country. 14I will feed them with good pasture, and on the mountain heights of Israel shall be their grazing land. There they shall lie down in good grazing land, and on rich pasture they shall feed on the mountains of Israel. 15I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep, and I myself will make them lie down, declares the Lord God. 16I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the strayed, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak, and the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them in justice. NOW COMPARE EZ CH 34 TO JOHN CH 10 (Jesus the good shepherd v1-30) AMAZING! BACK TO MOSES AT THE BURNING BUSH EX 3: WHERE MOSES IS BEGINNING TO RESIST GOD … 13Then Moses said to God, “If I come to the people of Israel and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ what shall I say to them?” 14God said to Moses, “I am who I am.” OR, HE WHO CAUSES THINGS TO BE … LET’S TAKE A QUICK LOOK AT THIS NAME … THIS COMMENTARY IS BY FATHER STEPHEN DE YOUNG AN ORTHODOX PRIEST AND PHD IN BIBLICAL LANGUAGES AND STUDUES WHO DOES THE EXCELLENT PODCAST “THE WHOLE COUNSEL OF GOD” (the LORD) God has multiple names & titles … most ancient cultures had multiple names for their gods. IN THIS CASE, WITH MOSES, A GOOD TRANSLATION IS “He who causes things to be,” 3rd person singular verb, used as a noun although a verb in form. “Yahweh” is used throughout Genesis, however, when God is speaking with Moses at the burning bush he says your forefathers knew me as God, however, they did not yet know me as “He who causes things to be” … “then they will know that I am Yahweh – He who creates and sustains all things.” The names of God DO NOT define God, they simply define what He’s doing at the time that name is used. Ex: Ezekiel, the dry bones, then they will know I am the one who calls your dead from the tombs and causes them to live. BACK TO MOSES AT THE BURNING BUSH: EX 3:14 And he said, “Say this to the people of Israel: ‘I am has sent me to you.’” 15God also said to Moses, “Say this to the people of Israel: ‘The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.’ This is my name forever, and thus I am to be remembered throughout all generations. 16Go and gather the elders of Israel together and say to them, ‘The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, “I have observed you and what has been done to you in Egypt, 17and I promise that I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, a land flowing with milk and honey.”’ 18And they will listen to your voice, and you and the elders of Israel shall go to the king of Egypt and say to him, ‘The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us; and now, please let us go a three days’ journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God.’ 19But I know that the king of Egypt will not let you go unless compelled by a mighty hand. 20So I will stretch out my hand and strike Egypt with all the wonders that I will do in it; after that he will let you go. 21And I will give this people favor in the sight of the Egyptians; and when you go, you shall not go empty, 22but each woman shall ask of her neighbor, and any woman who lives in her house, for silver and gold jewelry, and for clothing. You shall put them on your sons and on your daughters. So you shall plunder the Egyptians.” SO, GOD LAYS OUT THE WHOLE GAME PLAN FOR MOSES … AND THAT WILL FINISH EX CH 3 About This is an audio broadcast, designed to encourage you to dive deeper into the most influential and impactful literature of all time: The Bible. This podcasts helps to show the benefits of reading/listening to the Bible, front to back, over and over and over endlessly. And study to fill the gaps for deeper understanding. Join us as we dissect the bones and ligaments of God’s written revelation to mankind through scripture. /episode/index/show/a0d29dc2-522b-4be7-a162-869bf42ed535/id/35412600

Exodus Chapter 2 Deep-Dive: The Birth of Moses 02/24/2025

Exodus Chapter 2 Deep-Dive: The Birth of Moses Hosted by Joey and Matt Deep-dives into the Bible beyond what Sunday teaches you. EXODUS CH 2 Ex 2:1Now a man of the tribe of Levi married a Levite woman, 2and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a fine child HEALTHY, she hid him for three months. 3But when she could hide him no longer REMEMBER, IT’S OPEN SEASON ON MALE HEBREW BABIES, she got a papyrus basket for him and coated it with tar and pitch. THINK NOAH’S ARK Then she placed the child in it and put it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile. 4His sister MIRIAM stood at a distance to see what would happen to him. · Heb 11:23 By faith Moses’ parents hid him for three months after he was born, because they saw he was no ordinary child, and they were not afraid of the king’s edict · Interesting that Moses here does not name his father (Amram Ex 6:20). · Observe the beauty of Providence: just when Pharaoh’s cruelty rose to this height, the deliverer was born. Note the cruelty that surrounded Jesus’ birth when Herod ordered the slaughter of the boys 2 yrs old and younger in Bethlehem after he had been visited by the magi. · Among the reeds, supposedly so that it would not float away so she could return and nurse the child after dark. Also, she might have thought that Pharoah’s da Ex 2:5Then Pharaoh’s daughter went down to the Nile to bathe, and her attendants were walking along the riverbank. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her female slave to get it. 6She opened it and saw the baby. He was crying, and she felt sorry for him. “This is one of the Hebrew babies,” she said. MOSES WAS CIRCUMCISED 7Then his sister asked Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and get one of the Hebrew women to nurse the baby for you?” PHAROAH’S DAUGHTER COULD NOT NURSE HIM BECAUSE SHE HADN’T RECENTLY GIVEN BIRTH SO MIRIAM BROUGHT A WETNURSE WHO HAPPENED TO BE MOSES’ MOTHER 8“Yes, go,” she PHAROAH’S DAUGHTER answered. So the girl went and got the baby’s mother. 9Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this baby and nurse him for me, and I will pay you.” So the woman took the baby and nursed him. 10When the child grew older, she took him to Pharaoh’s daughter and he became her son. She named him Moses, saying, “I drew him out of the water.” THIS IS WORDPLAY THE EGYPTIAN WORD FOR CHILD IS MOSES AND IT ALSO SOUNDS SIMILAR TO THE HEBREW WORD FOR DREW OUT OF THE WATER. · Barnes’ notes; o Egyptian princesses held a very high and almost independent position under the ancient and middle empire, with a separate household and numerous officials. This was especially the case with the daughters of the first sovereigns of the 18th Dynasty. o Many facts concur in indicating that the residence of the daughter of Pharaoh and of the family of Moses, was at Zoan, on the Tanitic branch of the Nile, near the sea, where crocodiles are never found, and which was probably the western boundary of the district occupied by the Israelites. The field of Zoan was always associated by the Hebrews with the marvels which preceded the Exodus. See Psalm 78:43. o To wash - It is not customary at present for women of rank to bathe in the river, but it was a common practice in ancient Egypt. The habits of the princess, and her character, were most likely well known to the mother of Moses. · And he became her son — The tradition of the Jews is, that Pharaoh’s daughter had no child of her own, and that she was the only child of her father, so that when he was adopted for her son, it was possible that he might be Pharoah, however, he definitely had the best education in world and Egyptian culture … God is preparing Moses to serve him. o Moses, by having his education at Pharoah’s court, is prepared to be a leader, a prince and/or king and, in a sense, he does become the first ruler of Israel, Deut 33:4 …the law that Moses gave us, the possession of the assembly of Jacob. 5He was king over Jeshurun (UPRIGHT ONE-ISRAEL) when the leaders of the people assembled, along with the tribes of Israel NIV. o Acts 7:22 Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful in speech and action … ready to be God’s ambassador to Pharoah’s court, and to write the first 5 books of the Bible supposedly while the nation was parked by God in the wilderness. o She called his name Moses, either from the Hebrew word משׁה, masha, to draw out, or from two Egyptian words, “Mo uses” which means child in Egyptian, of the same import … a play on the two words which sound slightly similar, but, Moses was an Egyptian name. Ex 2:11One day, after Moses had grown up (40 YEARS OLD), he went out to where his own people were and watched them at their hard labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people. 12Looking this way and that and seeing no one, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand. SO, MOSES WAS AWARE OF HIS HERITAGE AND HIS BIOLOGICAL FAMILY AS WE LEARN LATER THAT HE KNOWS WHO HIS OLDER SIBLINGS ARE; MIRIAM AND AARON. MOSES APPEARS TO HAVE HAD ANGER MANAGEMENT ISSUES, AND NOW, AS PHAROAH’S GRANDSON, HE KILLS AN EGYPTIAN IN ORDER TO DEFEND A HEBREW, SO HE DEMONSTRATES THE VERY ISSUE PHAROAH WAS CONCERNED ABOUT … THE HEBREWS TURNING AGAINST THE EGYPTIANS Ex 2:13The next day he went out and saw two Hebrews fighting. He asked the one in the wrong, “Why are you hitting your fellow Hebrew?” 14The man said, “Who made you ruler and judge over us? Are you thinking of killing me as you killed the Egyptian?” Then Moses was afraid and thought, “What I did must have become known.” 15When Pharaoh heard of this, he tried to kill Moses, but Moses fled from Pharaoh and went to live in Midian, where he sat down by a well. Acts 7:25 Moses thought that his own people would realize that God was using him to rescue them, but they did not. Midian (250-300 miles from Egypt – across the Arabian peninsula & into Asia / Arabia The people of Midian were relatives of the Israelites – which may explain why Moses (born of Hebrew parents) fled from the well-watered lands of the Nile Delta to the semi-arid coastal lowlands of Midian and remained there for many years. The Midianites were descended from Midian, the fourth son of Abraham and his second wife Keturah, born in c.1819BC (see Genesis 25:1-6). During Abraham’s lifetime, Midian and his five brothers were sent "to the east" (Genesis 25:6), and settled in territory to the east and south of the Dead Sea. It was Midianite traders-slavers who took Joseph to Egypt as a slave in c.1679 BC, and sold him to Potiphar, the captain of Pharaoh’s guard (see Genesis 37:36). By the time Moses fled from Egypt in c.1508BC, the people of Midian occupied both the coastal strip of the Sinai Peninsula and parts of the Arabian Peninsula on the opposite side of the Gulf of Aqaba. Moses married Zipporah, the daughter of Jethro (or Reuel), a priest of Midian, and lived here for fifty years before God appeared to him in the flames of a burning bush (see Exodus 3:1-10). After Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt in c.1447 BC, they headed across the Sinai Peninsula to Midian, where they were welcomed by Moses’ father-in-law and their distant relatives, the people of Midian (see Exodus 18:1-12). Here, God again appeared to Moses on Mt Sinai and gave the ‘Ten Commandments’ and other laws for the people to follow (see Exodus 20:1-21). In later times, the Bible records that relationships between the Israelites and Midianites were not so cordial. When Moses and the Israelites arrived in the Plains of Moab in c.1407 BC after forty years in the Negev Desert, Midianite women were amongst those accused of leading the Israelites into sexual immorality and idolatry (see Numbers 25:6-17). As a result, all the towns of Midian were destroyed, and only the young girls were spared (see Numbers 31:1-18). Later still, during the time of the Judges, Midianite raiding parties devastated Israel for seven years until Gideon roundly defeated the Midianites near the spring of Harod in c.1200BC (see Judges 6:1-6 & 7:1-25). BACK TO MOSES FLEEING AND NOW SITTING BY A WELL … SO, God guided Moses to Midian, because the Midianites were of the seed of Abraham, and retained the worship of the true God; so that he might have not only a safe, but a comfortable settlement among them; and through this country he was afterward to lead Israel as they journeyed to Canaan, the land promised to Abraham. 16Now the priest of Midian (SPIRITUAL LEADER OF MIDIAN – NOMADIC PEOPLES) had seven daughters, and they came and drew water and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock. 17The shepherds came and drove them away, but Moses stood up and saved them, and watered their flock. 18When they came home to their father Reuel (JETHRO = TITLE “PRIEST”), he said, “How is it that you have come home so soon today?” 19They said, “An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds and even drew water for us and watered the flock.” 20He said to his daughters, “Then where is he? Why have you left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread.” 21And Moses was content to dwell with the man, and he gave Moses his daughter Zipporah. 22She gave birth to a son, and he called his name Gershom, for he said, “I have been a sojourner in a foreign land.” 23 During those many days (MOSES IS IN MIDIAN FOR THE SECOND 40 YEARS OF HIS LIFE) the king of Egypt died, and the people of Israel groaned because of their slavery and cried out for help. Their cry for rescue from slavery came up to God. 24And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. 25God saw the people of Israel—and God knew. GOD INTERACTING WITH HIS CREATION. SO, WHERE WAS GOD WHILE ISRAEL WAS IN EGYPT? Duet 33:1 This is the blessing that Moses the man of God pronounced on the Israelites before his death. 2He said: “The Lord came from Sinai and dawned over them from Seir; he shone forth from Mount Paran. He came with myriads of holy ones (ANGELS) from the south, from his mountain slopes. HE PRESENTS HIMSELF AS BEING IN EDOM, OR, COMING FROM EDOM (ESAU – SINAI, SEIR & PARAN) WHICH INCLUDED WHERE THE MIDIANITES WERE LOCATED. SO, WHEN MOSES RETURNS TO EGYPT, AT GOD’S DIRECTION, HE BRINGS THE PEOPLE BACK TO THE AREA WHERE HE HAS BEEN LIVING FOR THE PAST 40 YEARS … HE KNOWS IT WELL … GOD HAS BEEN PREPARING HIM, NOT JUST DURING HIS TIME BEING TRAINED IN EGYPT, BUT ALSO THROUGH THE 40 YEARS HE’S SPENT WITH THE PRIEST OF MIDIAN, JETHRO-RUEL, A GODLY MAN. END EXODUS CH 2 About This is an audio broadcast, designed to encourage you to dive deeper into the most influential and impactful literature of all time: The Bible. This podcasts helps to show the benefits of reading/listening to the Bible, front to back, over and over and over endlessly. And study to fill the gaps for deeper understanding. Join us as we dissect the bones and ligaments of God’s written revelation to mankind through scripture. /episode/index/show/a0d29dc2-522b-4be7-a162-869bf42ed535/id/35410265

Exodus Chapter 1 Deep-Dive: The Israelites Opressed 02/24/2025

Exodus Chapter 1 Deep-Dive: The Israelites Opressed Hosted by Joey and Matt Deep-dives into the Bible beyond what Sunday teaches you. Exodus (Greek: Exodus-going out, Hebrew: Names/first word in the book) This is the start of the main story … the nation of Israel and its relationship with (striving / wrestling with) God. It occurs during the collapse of the Bronze Age of world-wide civilization 12-15th century BC). Hammurabi is emperor in Babylon and he’s the high water mark; smelting Bronze with Copper from Cyprus and Tin from Afghanistan, with world-wide trade routes that eventually collapse and there is a huge regression into the Iron Age … an apocalypse. Joshua – 2 Kings is set in a post-apocalyptic world. Egypt is the only civilization that survives but just barely … So, the Mycenaean-Greek empire, the Hittite empire, Hammurabi’s Babylonian empire, all collapse due to a major change in the climate & drought/famine throughout the Mediterranean, the Fertile Crescent and into the Middle East. The ability to grow and store crops is the key to the growth of civilization … food security for large numbers of people, the very thing we see Joseph doing in Egypt during the major world-wide famine that God is causing. Gen 41:25Then Joseph said to Pharaoh, “The dreams of Pharaoh are one; God has revealed to Pharaoh what he is about to do. v32 And the doubling of Pharaoh’s dream means that the thing is fixed by God, and God will shortly bring it about. v56So when the famine had spread over all the land, Joseph opened all the storehouses and sold to the Egyptians, for the famine was severe in the land of Egypt. 57Moreover, all the earth came to Egypt to Joseph to buy grain, because the famine was severe over all the earth. This world-wide famine leads to mass-migrations and subsequently war … invading people who need your food. It’s during this time that the Mycenaeans (Greece/Crete/Cyprus) try to invade Egypt, are repulsed and then settle near Egypt in the Levant/Canaan, these are the Philistines (sea peoples). For those of us who have become steeped in Western civilization’s human wisdom and don’t believe that God causes painful things like war, famine, hurricanes, tornadoes and other disasters, consider Is 45:6 that people may know, from the rising of the sun (the east) and from the west, that there is none besides me; I am the Lord, and there is no other. 7I form light and create darkness; I make well-being and create calamity; I am the Lord, who does all these things. Or, east to west, light to dark, prosperity to disaster … I am the Lord who does all these things. So, from Joseph to the Exodus God is causing massive change in the world … it’s during that time that Israel grows from Jacob’s small tribe of 70 people planted in Egypt into a nation of @ 600,000 men, probably nearly 2 million people. Also, there are many Egyptians and peoples of other nationalities who have become Israelites through marriage during that period of growth. God arranged for Joseph to marry an Egyptian and so do the rest of the people, remember, Joseph’s two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh – two tribes of Israel, are also sons of Asenath, the daughter of the priest of On. So the nation grows into a genetically diverse group interwoven with the seed of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob over the nearly 400 years from Joseph/Jacob to the Exodus. Also, since the world-wide civilization is in collapse/chaos due to food insecurity we would not expect to find a lot of records about all of this outside the bible and Egyptians would not have recorded the events because Yahweh pounded them into submission and the Egyptians were notorious propagandists … who wants to remember that?! Ex 1:1These are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt with Jacob, each with his household: 2Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, 3Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin, 4Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher. 5All the descendants of Jacob were seventy persons; Joseph was already in Egypt. 6Joseph and all his brothers and all that generation died, 7but the Israelites were exceedingly fruitful; they multiplied greatly, increased in numbers and became so numerous that the land was filled with them. 8Then a new king, to whom Joseph meant nothing, came to power in Egypt. 9“Look,” he said to his people, “the Israelites have become far too numerous for us. 10Come, we must deal shrewdly with them or they will become even more numerous and, if war breaks out, will join our enemies, fight against us and leave the country.” REMEMBER, WORLD CIVILIZATION IS COLLAPSING AT THIS POINT AND EGYPT IS BEING THREATENED BY THE SEA PEOPLES AND OTHERS, THEY’RE FIGHTING A LOT OF BATTLES AND PHAROAH IS CONCERNED THAT THE ISRAELITES MIGHT HELP EGYPT’S ENEMIES. 11So they put slave masters over them to oppress them with forced labor, and they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh. THE PYRAMIDS HAD ALREADY BEEN AROUND FOR HUNDREDS OR THOUSANDS OF YEARS AT THAT POINT AND “BUILDING” CITIES IN EGYPT OFTEN MEANT “REBUILDING” THEM/FRESHENING THEM UP AND RENAMING THEM FOR THE NEW PHAROAH. ALSO, PEOPLE WHO ARE BEING OPPRESSED DON’T HAVE LOTS OF BABIES, HOWEVER … v12But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread; so the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites 13and worked them ruthlessly. 14They made their lives bitter with harsh labor in brick and mortar and with all kinds of work in the fields; in all their harsh labor the Egyptians worked them ruthlessly. SO, PHAROAH DOUBLES DOWN IN OPPRESSING THEM … LET’S STOP FOR A MINUTE AND CONSIDER A FEW THINGS: · Israel fell into idolatry while in Egypt, they became part of the Egyptian culture, and ended up as slaves. EZEKIEL … THE POINT IN THE OT WHERE GOD IS THE MOST ANGRY WITH ISRAEL … Ez 20:4“Will you judge them? Will you judge them, son of man EZEKIEL? Then confront them with the detestable practices of their ancestors 5and say to them: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: On the day I chose Israel, I swore with uplifted hand to the descendants of Jacob and revealed myself to them in Egypt. With uplifted hand I said to them, “I am the Lord your God.” 6On that day I swore to them that I would bring them out of Egypt into a land I had searched out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the most beautiful of all lands. 7And I said to them, “Each of you, get rid of the vile images you have set your eyes on, and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.” 8“ ‘But they rebelled against me and would not listen to me; they did not get rid of the vile images they had set their eyes on, nor did they forsake the idols of Egypt. So I said I would pour out my wrath on them and spend my anger against them in Egypt. 9But for the sake of my name, I brought them out of Egypt. I did it to keep my name from being profaned in the eyes of the nations among whom they lived and in whose sight I had revealed myself to the Israelites. 10Therefore I led them out of Egypt and brought them into the wilderness. SO, GOD WAS ALREADY ANGY WITH THE ISRAELITES BEFORE HE LED THEM OUT OF EGYPT … THEY WERE IDOLATORS!! ALSO, CONSIDER WHAT RAHAB THE PROSTITUTE, IN JERICHO, SAID TO THE HEBREW SPIES WHEN ISRAEL WAS ENTERING THE PROMISED LAND: Josh 2:8Before the men lay down, she came up to them on the roof 9and said to the men, “I know that the Lord has given you the land, and that the fear of you has fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away before you. 10For we have heard how the Lord dried up the water of the Red Sea before you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon and Og, whom you devoted to destruction. 11And as soon as we heard it, our hearts melted, and there was no spirit left in any man because of you, for the Lord your God, he is God in the heavens above and on the earth beneath. FOR THE SAKE OF MY NAME I BROUGHT THEM OUT OF EGYPT. MUCH OF THE EXODUS WILL END UP AS A TOTAL DISASTER BECAUSE OF ISRAEL’S STIFF NECKED REBELLION AND GOD WILL USE ISRAEL TO DEMONSTRATE TO THE REST OF HUMANITY THAT THE “FEAR OF THE LORD” IS THE BEGINNING OF WISDOM. WHEN YOU CONSIDER THAT MAN IS EVIL AT HEART AND A REBEL TOWARDS HIS CREATOR THEN GOD IS THE ONLY VICTIM IN SCRIPTURE, AND, GOD IS THE MOST DANGEROUS PERSON IN THE UNIVERSE … FEAR THE LORD! · AS WE CONSIDER THE EVILS OF SLAVERY LET’S PUT ON OUR NT DECODER GLASSES AND CONSIDER WHAT PAUL SAID: Col 3:22 Slaves, obey your earthly masters in everything; and do it, not only when their eye is on you and to curry their favor, but with sincerity of heart and reverence for the Lord. 23Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, 24since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving … seek your approval from GOD in all things. GOD IS IN CONTOL OF EVERYONE’S CIRCUMSTANCES … OUR CONCERN SHOULD BE TO RESPOND IN A GODLY MANNER IN THE MIDST OF OUR CIRCUMSTANCES. · This Pharaoh who knew not Joseph was from God, sent to prepare God’s people for being “birthed” out of Egypt. Rom 9:17For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I might show my power in you, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.” 18So then he has mercy on whomever he wills, and he hardens whomever he wills. God needed to break Israel’s ties with Egypt – Egypt needed to become an uncomfortable place to be. Did God work the same way with the early church? Acts 8:1 On that day a great persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem, and all except the apostles were scattered throughout Judea and Samaria. 2Godly men buried Stephen and mourned deeply for him. 3But Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to house, he dragged off both men and women and put them in prison. 4Those who had been scattered preached the word wherever they went. DOES GOD CONTINUE TO WORK THAT WAY? Rev 2:10 JESUS SPEAKING TO THE CHURCH IN SMYRNA Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested, and for ten days you will have tribulation. Be faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of life … THINK OF JOB. · Ps 22:24For he has not despised or scorned the suffering of the afflicted one; he has not hidden his face from him but has listened to his cry for help. GOD IS AWARE OF THE SUFFERING OF THE AFFLICTED · Ps 119: 67Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I obey your word. 71It was good for me to be afflicted so that I might learn your decrees. 75I know, Lord, that your laws are righteous, and that in faithfulness you have afflicted me. GOD USES AFFLICTION TO DISCIPLINE AND TRAIN US. BACK TO EXODUS CH1:15 The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, whose names were Shiphrah and Puah, 16“When you are helping the Hebrew women during childbirth on the delivery stool, if you see that the baby is a boy, kill him; but if it is a girl, let her live.” 17The midwives, however, feared God and did not do what the king of Egypt had told them to do; they let the boys live. THIS PASSAGE ALSO REFERS TO THE EGYPTIAN PRACTICE OF DETERMINING THE SEX OF THE CHILD BEFORE ITS BORN (50% CHANCE OF BEING CORRECT!) THEN REQUIRING THE MIDWIVES TO CAUSE AN ABORTION OF THE CHILD IS A BOY … GIRLS/WOMEN COULD BE MARRIED BY EGYPTIANS WHO PRACTICE POLYGAMY THEN EVENTUALLY WHEN ALL THE BOYS/MEN DIED OUT THERE WOULD BE NO MORE ISRAEL YET EGYPTIAN POPULATION WOULD CONTINUE TO INCREASE. · Ps 105 is a recap of Abraham to Jacob to becoming Israel and growing into a nation in Egypt 24The Lord made his people very fruitful; he made them too numerous for their foes, 25whose hearts he turned to hate his people, to conspire against his servants. GOD caused the Egyptians to hate the Hebrews … HE was totally in control of their situation. · Interesting commentary on this by Calvin: Why two midwives only are mentioned by name, when it is probable that, in so great a population, there were many? Two replies may be given; either that the tyrant Pharoah addressed himself to these two, who might spread the fear of his power amongst the others; or, that, desiring to proceed with secret malice, he made a trial of the firmness of these two, and if he had obtained their acquiescence, he hoped to have easily succeeded with the others; for shame forbade him from issuing an open and general command, and he feared open rebellion by the Hebrews. BACK TO EX 1:18Then the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and asked them, “Why have you done this? Why have you let the boys live?” 19The midwives answered Pharaoh, “Hebrew women are not like Egyptian women; they are vigorous and give birth before the midwives arrive.” 20So God was kind to the midwives and the people increased and became even more numerous. 21And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families of their own. WE AGAIN SEE GOD INTERACTING DIRECTLY WITH HIS CREATION … HE WAS KIND TO THE MIDWIVES BECAUSE THEY DID THE RIGHT THING AND PROTECTED THE INNOCENT EVEN IF WHAT THEY WERE SAYING WASN’T TRUE, BUT WHAT THEY SAID MOST LIKELY WAS TRUE IN MOST CASES BECAUSE OF THE INCREASING POPULATION GOD HAD CAUSED. · Are we always rewarded by God for doing the right thing? Rev22:12 “Behold, I am coming soon, bringing my recompense with me, to repay each one for what he has done. BACK TO EX 1:22And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive. · Pharaoh is becoming desperate and is now willing to make this heinous act public policy. Things are heating up for him. About This is an audio broadcast, designed to encourage you to dive deeper into the most influential and impactful literature of all time: The Bible. 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Genesis Chapter 50 Deep-Dive: Jacob's Burial, The Death of Jospeh 11/09/2024

Genesis Chapter 50 Deep-Dive: Jacob's Burial, The Death of Jospeh Hosted by Joey and Matt Deep-dives into the Bible beyond what Sunday teaches you. Gen 50 1Then Joseph fell on his father’s face and wept over him and kissed him. 2And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel. 3Forty days were required for it, for that is how many are required for embalming. And the Egyptians wept for him seventy days. JOSEPH HAS CONTINUED TO DO A GOOD JOB FOR PHAROAH AND ALTHOUGH HE “BOUGHT” THE PEOPLE OF EGYPT ON BEHALF OF PHAROAH THEY CONTINUED TO RESPECT HIM. 4And when the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph spoke to the household of Pharaoh, saying, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, please speak in the ears of Pharaoh, saying, 5‘My father made me swear, saying, “I am about to die: in my tomb that I hewed out for myself in the land of Canaan, there shall you bury me.” Now therefore, let me please go up and bury my father. Then I will return.’” JOSEPH DOESN’T USE HIS DIRECT CONNECTION TO PHAROAH, INSTEAD HE IS POLITICALLY SAVY AND WORKS THROUGH THE “HOUSEHOLD OF PHARHOAH” AND HE GAINS THEIR SUPPORT. 6And Pharaoh answered, “Go up, and bury your father, as he made you swear.” 7So Joseph went up to bury his father. With him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his PHAROAH’S household, and all the elders of the land of Egypt, 8as well as all the household of Joseph, his brothers, and his father’s household. Only their children, their flocks, and their herds were left in the land of Goshen. 9And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen. It was a very great company. THE DEATH AND BURIEL OF JACOB IS A VERY-BIG-DEAL BECAUSE OF JOSEPH 10When they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, they lamented there with a very great and grievous lamentation, and he made a mourning for his father seven days. 11When the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning on the threshing floor of Atad, they said, “This is a grievous mourning by the Egyptians.” Therefore the place was named Abel-mizraim; it is beyond the Jordan. SO, THE OTHER NATIONS IN THE AREA, WHO WERE ALSO BUYING GRAIN FROM JOSEPH BECAUSE THE 7 YEAR FAMINE WAS THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE EARTH, BECAME AWARE OF JOSEPH’S FATHER AND BROTHERS 12Thus his JACOB’S sons did for him as he had commanded them, 13for his sons carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field at Machpelah, to the east of Mamre, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite to possess as a burying place. 14After he had buried his father, Joseph returned to Egypt with his brothers and all who had gone up with him to bury his father. God’s Good Purposes 15When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “It may be that Joseph will hate us and pay us back for all the evil that we did to him.” GUILT AND SHAME IS A WONDERFUL THING BECAUSE IT CONSTANTLY REMINDS US OF WHO WE ARE AT HEART AND CAN BRING US TO REPENTENCE. 16So they sent a message to Joseph, saying, “Your father gave this command before he died: 17‘Say to Joseph, “Please forgive the transgression of your brothers and their sin, because they did evil to you.”’ And now, please forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of your father.” Joseph wept when they spoke to him. 18His brothers also came and fell down before him and said, “Behold, we are your servants.” 19But Joseph said to them, “Do not fear, for am I in the place of God? REMEMBER JACOB RESPONDING TO RACHEL WHEN SHE DEMANDED JACOB GIVE HER CHILDREN … AM I IN THE PLACE OF GOD?!? 20As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today. 21So do not fear; I will provide for you and your little ones.” Thus he comforted them and spoke kindly to them. HE NEVER DISMISSED THEIR ACTIONS “YOU MEANT IT FOR EVIL BUT GOD MEANT IT FOR GOOD, SO, HIS FORGIVING HIS BROTHERS DOESN’T EXCUSE THEIR EVIL ACTIONS, INSTEAD, IT BRINGS GLORY TO GOD. Rom 8:28 And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose. The Death of Joseph 22So Joseph remained in Egypt, he and his father’s house. Joseph lived 110 years. 23And Joseph saw Ephraim’s children of the third generation. The children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were counted as Joseph’s own. 24And Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die, but God will visit you and bring you up out of this land to the land that he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.” 25Then Joseph made the sons of Israel swear, saying, “God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here.” 26So Joseph died, being 110 years old. They embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt. SO, EVEN AT THE END OF HIS LIFE, HAVING SERVED PHAROAH FOR MOST OF HIS ADULT LIFE, JOSEPH IDENTIFIED WITH JACOB/ISRAEL, THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC AND JACOB. AND THAT WILL WRAP UP THE BOOK OF GENESIS, THE PREAMBLE, OR INTRODUCTION TO THE TORAH AND THE WHOLE BIBLE. About This is an audio broadcast, designed to encourage you to dive deeper into the most influential and impactful literature of all time: The Bible. 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Genesis Chapter 49 Deep-Dive: Israel Blesses His Sons 11/09/2024

Genesis Chapter 49 Deep-Dive: Israel Blesses His Sons Hosted by Joey and Matt Deep-dives into the Bible beyond what Sunday teaches you. Gen 49 Jacob Blesses His Sons … and prophesies about them: (NOTE the prophetic product of Jacob in this chapter is one of the most AMAZING prophetic passages in scripture! Keep in mind that when Jacob travelled to Egypt just 17 years earlier his whole family, including descendants, was only 70 people (Gen 46:27.) 1Then Jacob called for his sons and said: “Gather around so I can tell you what will happen to you in days to come. 2“Assemble and listen, sons of Jacob; listen to your father Israel. NOTE THAT EACH OF THESE SONS / TRIBES RECEIVED AN INHERITANCE – no matter who their mother was or what they had done … NONE WERE CUT OFF !! NOTE: Commentary notes mostly from Joseph Benson, a Methodist minister, five volumes, 1811-18, Biblehub.com/commentaries 3“Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, the first sign of my strength, excelling in honor, excelling in power. 4Turbulent as the waters, you will no longer excel, for you went up onto your father’s bed, onto my couch and defiled it. (by having sex with Bilhah, Rachel’s maid and the mother of his half-brothers, Dan and Naphtili) Leah’s 1st son, Jacob’s 1st, meaning “behold a son”, “it is because the Lord has seen my misery. Surely my husband will love me now.” Gen 29:31 Nothing great or excellent is recorded of the tribe of Reuben throughout the Bible. No judge, prophet, prince, nor any person of renown, only Dathan and Abiram, who were noted for their rebellion against Moses & God (Korah’s rebellion, Num 16:1-2). This tribe, not aiming to excel, chose a settlement on the eastern side of the Jordan River. Jacob here charges Reuben with the sin for which he was disgraced. It was forty years ago that he had been guilty of this sin; yet now it’s still remembered against him. It left an indelible mark of infamy upon his family; a wound not to be healed without a scar. 5“Simeon and Levi are brothers—their swords are weapons of violence. 6Let me not enter their council, let me not join their assembly, for they have killed men in their anger and hamstrung oxen as they pleased. 7Cursed be their anger, so fierce, and their fury, so cruel! I will scatter them in Jacob and disperse them in Israel. Jacob curses them because they killed the men of Shechem after requiring them to be circumcised because of the rape and abduction of their sister, Dinah ... similar to requiring someone to be baptized then drowning them in the baptismal. Jacob curses them for their violence. Gen 34 Simeon is Leah’s 2nd son & Jacob’s 2nd, meaning “one who hears, heard”, “Because the Lord heard that I am not loved, he gave me this one too.” Gen 29:33, Levi is Leah’s 3rd son & Jacob’s 3rd, meaning “attached”, “Now at last my husband will become attached to me, because I have borne him three sons.” Gen 29:34 Simeon is the weakest of all the tribes at the close of Israel’s 40 year sojourn in the wilderness Numbers 26:14; the tribe is omitted in the blessing of Moses in Deuteronomy 33, and obtains no distinct territory, but only a part of that of Judah – the southwest corner, Joshua 19:1-9; and it subsequently sends out two colonies, which are separated from the parent stock, and from one another 1 Chr 4:24-43. Levi was the tribe of the priests – the tribe dedicated to serving Jehovah directly. By the direction of God they were scattered throughout the land in order to exercise a positive Godly influence. Levi received 48 towns having no connected territory, but occupying certain cities and their suburbs which were assigned to his descendants in the various provinces of the land. This prediction of being scattered was therefore, fulfilled to the letter in the history of these brothers. BUT WHY WAS THE TRIBE OF LEVI CHOSEN BY GOD FOR THE PRIESTHOOD, CONSIDERING THAT LEVI PARTICIPATED WITH SIMEON IN MURDERING THE TOWN OF SHECHEM? CONSIDER THIS FROM THE EXODUS, AFTER MOSES WAS SENT DOWN MT SINAI BY GOD, AFTER RECEIVING THE 10 COMMANDMENTS, BECAUSE THE PEOPLE WERE HAVING A DEBAUCH AND WORSHIPPING THE GOLDEN CALF WHICH AARON HAD MADE: Ex 32: 25And when Moses saw that the people had broken loose (for Aaron had let them break loose, to the derision of their enemies), 26then Moses stood in the gate of the camp and said, “Who is on the Lord’s side? Come to me.” And all the sons of Levi gathered around him. THIS WAS MOSES AND AARON’S TRIBE … 27And he MOSES said to them, “Thus says the Lord God of Israel, ‘Put your sword on your side each of you, and go to and fro from gate to gate throughout the camp, and each of you kill his brother and his companion and his neighbor.’” 28And the sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses. And that day about three thousand men of the people fell. 29And Moses said, “Today you have been ordained for the service of the Lord, each one at the cost of his son and of his brother, so that he might bestow a blessing upon you this day.” WHAT?!? SO, BECAUSE THE LEVITES RESPONDED TO “WHO IS ON THE LORD’S SIDE?” BY SLAUGHTERING THEIR REBELIOUS SONS AND BROTHERS, GOD REWARDED THEM WITH THE PRIESTHOOD … WOW … WE DON’T REALLY THINK ABOUT THINGS THAT WAY ANYMORE, DO WE? HOW MUCH GOD VALUES RIGHTEOUSNESS AND ABHORS REBELLION, WELL, CONSIDER WHAT JESUS SAID: Lk 14:25Now great crowds accompanied him, and he turned and said to them, 26“If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. AND, AT THE END OF EX CH 32 GOD WRAPS UP THE GOLDEN CALF INCIDENT WITH THIS … AFTER MOSES HAS BEEN INTERCEDING WITH GOD FOR THE NATION’S RESTORATION: v33 But the Lord said to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against me, I will blot out of my book. 34But now go, lead the people to the place about which I have spoken to you; behold, my angel shall go before you. Nevertheless, in the day when I visit, I will visit their sin upon them.” 35Then the Lord sent a plague on the people, because they made the calf, the one that Aaron made. GOD DOES PAINFUL THINGS TO HIS OWN PEOPLE IN HIS WRATH! BACK TO GEN 49 AND JACOB’S PROPHECY ABOUT EACH OF HIS SONS: 8“Judah, your brothers will praise you; your hand will be on the neck of your enemies; your father’s sons will bow down to you. 9You are a lion’s cub, Judah; you return from the prey, my son. Like a lion he crouches and lies down, like a lioness—who dares to rouse him? 10The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until he to whom it belongs shall come and the obedience of the nations shall be his. 11He will tether his donkey to a vine, his colt to the choicest branch; he will wash his garments in wine, his robes in the blood of grapes. 12His eyes will be darker than wine, his teeth whiter than milk. Leah’s 4th son & Jacob’s 4th, meaning “praise”, “This time I will praise the Lord. Gen 29:35. Leah’s 4th son, Jacob’s 4th. David and Jesus, the Messiah, come from the tribe of Judah. Third in line – he replaces his first three brothers, who were rejected because of their actions … ?? Judah is the one who receives the same blessing that Jacob sought when he bought it from Esau for a bowl of red stew … the blessing of the firstborn. Judah was a nasty guy, it was he who suggested the brothers sell Joseph into slavery, in Gen 38 we learn that God put two of Judah’s sons to death because they were wicked … an indication of the type of household Judah had, and then Judah inadvertently sleeps with his daughter in law when she is disguised and he thinks she’s a prostitute. However, later in Genesis, when the sons went down to Egypt to buy food it’s Judah who steps up and takes the lead (Gen 43-44) to protect Benjamin as the brothers return to Egypt to buy food. The tribe of Judah led the van through the wilderness … they were the lead tribe as the nation would proceed, Numbers 10:14, and, in the conquest of Canaan, by the appointment of God, they were the lead tribe in the fight against the Canaanites, after the death of Joshua, Jdg 1:1-2. They had the first lot assigned them in the division of the country, and a lot that was very extensive and fertile. Othniel, the first judge, was of this tribe; and Caleb, who was the second spy with Joshua, who supported Yahweh after the 12 tribes spied out the land of Canaan then enticed the people to turn back to Egypt. Israel’s second king, David, was of Judah. In short, in every age, this tribe was more honored than any of the others. Thy hand shall be on the neck of thine enemies — An expression which signified victory over their enemies, and was remarkably fulfilled in David, Psalm 18:40. Judah received the 13“Zebulun will live by the seashore and become a haven for ships; his border will extend toward Sidon. Jacob goes out of order, Zebulon was his 10th son and Leah’s 6th, his name means “honor”, “God has presented me with a precious gift. This time my husband will treat me with honor, because I have borne him six sons.” Gen 30:19 Mt 4:13 And leaving Nazareth, Jesus came and lived at Capernaum on the lake, the sea of Galilee, in the bounds of Zebulon and Naphtali. 14“Issachar is a rawboned donkey lying down among the sheep pens. 15When he sees how good is his resting place and how pleasant is his land, he will bend his shoulder to the burden and submit to forced labor. Jacob goes out of order here, Issachar was his 9th son, but Leah’s 5th, meaning “reward”, “God has rewarded me for giving my servant (Zilpah) to my husband.” Gen 30:17 Gen 30:14 during wheat harvest, Reuben went out into the fields and found some mandrake plants, which he brought to his mother Leah. Rachel said to Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.” 15But she said to her, “Wasn’t it enough that you took away my husband? Will you take my son’s mandrakes too?” “Very well,” Rachel said, “he can sleep with you tonight in return for your son’s mandrakes.” 16So when Jacob came in from the fields that evening, Leah went out to meet him. “You must sleep with me,” she said. “I have hired you with my son’s mandrakes.” So he slept with her that night. 17God listened to Leah, and she became pregnant and bore Jacob a fifth son ALL OF LEAH’S SONS (6) HAVE NOW BEEN LISTED. 16“Dan will provide justice for his people as one of the tribes of Israel. 17Dan will be a snake by the roadside, a viper along the path that bites the horse’s heels so that its rider tumbles backward. 18“I look for your deliverance, Lord. Back to proper order, Dan is Jacob’s 5th son, but Bilhah’s (Rachel’s maid) 1st, meaning “he has vindicated – a judge”, Rachel became jealous of her sister. So she said to Jacob, “Give me children, or I’ll die!” “God has vindicated me; he has listened to my plea and given me a son.” Gen 30:1-4 This is the first son listed of the concubines Bilhah (Rachel’s) and Zilpah (Leah’s), yet, he’s considered equal to his brothers as Bilhah and Zilpah are also considered full wives of Jacob. Samson came from Dan and “judged” his people for 20 years. Judges 13-15. Not every tribe produced a Judge. Jacob’s prophecy leads us to expect something very dishonorable in the history of Dan … they were the tribe that set up a molten image in the promised-land and by their example and perseverance in this iniquity they infected all the tribes of Israel. This idolatry began soon after the days of Joshua and continued till the day of the captivity of the land (Jdg 18:30 There the Danites set up for themselves the idol, and Jonathan son of Gershom, the son of Moses, and his sons were priests for the tribe of Dan until the time of the captivity of the land. 31They continued to use the idol Micah had made, all the time the house of God was in Shiloh.) Note that Dan is not listed as one of the tribes of Israel in Rev 7 Back to Jacob’s predictions in Gen 49:19“Gad will be attacked by a band of raiders, but he will attack them at their heels. Gad is Jacob’s 7th son, but Zilpah’s 1st, Leah’s maid. Again, the four sons of Jacob’s concubines are listed as equals of their brothers. His name means “good fortune”, “what good fortune!” Gen 30:9 While Gad means good fortune, Jacob connects it with the Hebrew root gâdad, “to gather in troops.” So, “A troop” or “group of plunderers will attack him, but he will attack their heel.” The tribe settled east of the Jordan and was exposed to sudden incursions of plunderers, but, though ever unready, they eventually gather their forces and repel them, and follow up with avenging energy upon the attackers’ rear. Attacks from the Moabites and Ammonites on Gad were eventually subdued in Saul and David’s time when the Moabites and Ammonites were wholly subdued. 20“Asher’s food will be rich; he will provide delicacies fit for a king. Zilpah’s 2nd son, Leah’s maid, and Jacob’s 8th, meaning “happy”, “How happy I am! The women will call me happy.” Gen 30:12 Their territory, extending along the coast from Mount Carmel to Lebanon, was very productive. Zebulun, the trading tribe, could reach the sea only through their possessions. 21“Naphtali is a doe set free that bears beautiful fawns (or, he utters beautiful words). Bilhah’s 2nd son, Rachel’s maid, and Jacob’s 6th son), meaning “my struggle”, “I have had a great struggle with my sister, and I have won.” Gen 30:7 Deut 33:23About Naphtali he (Moses) said: “Naphtali is abounding with the favor of the Lord and is full of his blessing; he will inherit southward to the lake.” Mt 4:13 And leaving Nazareth, Jesus came and lived at Capernaum on the lake, the sea of Galilee, in the bounds of Zebulon and Naphtali. The meaning of the prophecy seems to be that the tribe of Naphtali would be located in a territory so fertile and peaceable, that, feeding on the richest pasture, he would spread out, like a deer, branching antlers. THE FOUR SONS OF THE TWO CONCUBINES/HANDMAIDS ZILPAH & BILHAH HAVE BEEN LISTED Back to Jacob in Gen 49:22“Joseph is a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine near a spring, whose branches climb over a wall. 23With bitterness archers attacked him; they shot at him with hostility. 24But his bow remained steady, his strong arms stayed limber, because of the hand of the Mighty One of Jacob, because of the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel, 25because of your father’s God, who helps you, because of the Almighty, who blesses you with blessings of the skies above, blessings of the deep springs below, blessings of the breast and womb. 26Your father’s blessings are greater than the blessings of the ancient mountains, than the bounty of the age-old hills. Let all these rest on the head of Joseph, on the brow of the prince among his brothers. REMEMBER, THE TRIBE OF JOSEPH IS RARELY LISTED ALONE, IT’S REPLACED BY HIS SONS EPHRAIM AND MANASSEH … JOSEPH’S DOUBLE PORTION Rachel’s 1st, and Jacob’s 11th son meaning “may he add”, “God has taken away my disgrace.” Gen 30:22Then God remembered Rachel; he listened to her and enabled her to conceive. 23She became pregnant and gave birth to a son and said, “God has taken away my disgrace.” 24She named him Joseph, and said, “May the Lord add to me another son.” 27“Benjamin is a ravenous wolf; in the morning he devours the prey, in the evening he divides the plunder.” Rachel’s 2nd son, and Jacob’s 12th son Gen 35:18 Rachel, who died during labor, named him Ben-Oni, which means “son of my trouble,” but Jacob renamed him Benjamin, which means “son of my right hand.” In Judges 19-20, an incident occurred in Benjamin’s territory where a travelling Levite and his concubine were treated in a manner similar to what happened in Sodom and Gomorrah when the angels came to rescue Lot. Consequently, all Israel confronted the Benjaminites and asked them to surrender the men who assaulted the Levite and his concubine. However, the Benjaminites refused and there was war between Israel and Benjamin that resulted in the death of tens of thousands of Israelites and Benjaminites to the point where the tribe of Benjamin was nearly destroyed. Israel’s first king, Saul, was a Benjamite as was the Apostle Paul (Saul) in the NT. JACOB HAS NOW CONCLUDED THIS AMAZING PIECE OF PROPHECY!! Gen 49:28All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father said to them when he blessed them, giving each the blessing appropriate to him. 29Then he (Jacob) gave them these instructions: “I am about to be gathered to my people. CLEAR BELIEF IN AN AFTERLIFE Bury me with my fathers in the cave in the field of Ephron the Hittite, 30the cave in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre in Canaan, which Abraham bought along with the field as a burial place from Ephron the Hittite. 31There Abraham and his wife Sarah were buried, there Isaac and his wife Rebekah were buried, and there I buried Leah. 32The field and the cave in it were bought from the Hittites.” 33When Jacob had finished giving instructions to his sons, he drew his feet up into the bed, breathed his last and was gathered to his people. A FEW NOTES IN LIGHT OF THIS LIST: The promises to Abraham are for individuals AND the collective group/seed … singular and plural. Ishmael and Esau THE FIRSTBORN SONS WHO WERE SET ASIDE BY GOD receive an inheritance AND PROSPERITY but not the line of the promise ISRAEL BECAME A NATION AROUND THE 10th – 13TH century BC, and for less than 100 years there was a united kingdom of Judah & Ephraim COMBINED, less than 200 yrs later the northern kingdom (Ephraim) is taken captive by Assyria, and barely 300 yrs later from the founding, Judah is taken captive by the Babylonians … ALL AT THE HAND OF GOD BECAUSE OF DISOBEDIENCE AND REBELLION! Ephraim, the Northern Kingdom, is tied to the fullness of the gentiles bc of the Assyrian deportation. The Assyrians also brought other peoples to the Northern kingdom/Samaria, to replace the Northern Israelites they had taken into exile … these “replacement” people were never considered true Israelites by the people of Judah … these became the “Samaritans”. Within 3 generations those Israelites taken to Assyria were assimilated by the other cultures … scattered by God like seed into the world … then the harvest OF THAT SEED is the church which grew primarily among the gentiles. Consider this as you read Rom Ch 11 JUDAH has been hardened until the fullness of the gentiles then all Israel will be saved … BECAUSE ISRAEL WAS THE SEED OF THE GENTILE CHURCH PRIMARILY THROUGH THE ASSYRIAN CAPTIVITY/EXILE. ALSO, CONSIDER THIS AMAZING VERSE AS PAUL PROCEEDS ON HIS MISSIONARY JOURNIES: Acts 18 PAUL IN CORINTH 9And the Lord said to Paul one night in a vision, “Do not be afraid, but go on speaking and do not be silent, 10for I am with you, and no one will attack you to harm you, for I have many in this city who are my people.” SO, GOD HAD MANY PEOPLE IN CORINTH WHO WERE ALREADY HIS PEOPLE AS PAUL WAS BEGINNING TO PREACH THE GOSPEL THERE … And that will wrap up Gen 49 About This is an audio broadcast, designed to encourage you to dive deeper into the most influential and impactful literature of all... /episode/index/show/a0d29dc2-522b-4be7-a162-869bf42ed535/id/33860952

Genesis Chapter 48 Deep-Dive: Israel blesses Manasseh and Ephraim 10/15/2024

Genesis Chapter 48 Deep-Dive: Israel blesses Manasseh and Ephraim Hosted by Joey and Matt Deep-dives into the Bible beyond what Sunday teaches you. Gen 48 Jacob Blesses Ephraim and Manasseh REMEMBER, GENESIS IS THE PROLOGUE/INTRODUCTION TO TORAH, THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF AT LEAST THE OLD TESTAMENT, WE WILL SEE AMAZING THINGS IN CH 48-50 THAT WILL PLAY OUT MUCH LATER IN ISRAEL’S HISTORY. Gen 48:1After this, Joseph was told, “Behold, your father is ill.” So he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim. 2And it was told to Jacob, “Your son Joseph has come to you.” Then Israel summoned his strength and sat up in bed. 3And Jacob said to Joseph, “God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan and blessed me, 4and said to me, ‘Behold, I will make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will make of you a company of peoples and will give this land to your offspring after you for an everlasting possession.’ LET’S TAKE ANOTHER LOOK AT THIS TIME IN JACOB’S LIFE AFTER HE RECONCILED WITH ESAU: Gen 34, Dinah & the Shechemites – a true low point in Jacob’s life. His daughter, Dinah, was abducted and raped by Shechem who then wanted to marry her. Jacob’s sons agree to that as long as all the Shechemites were circumcised. While the Shechemites were recovering Levi and Simeon (Dinah’s brothers by Jacob’s wife, Leah; Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun & Dinah) killed the men of Shechem and looted their city. Gen 35:1Then God said to Jacob, “Go up to Bethel (LUZ) and settle there, and build an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you were fleeing from your brother Esau.” 2So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods you have with you, and purify yourselves and change your clothes. 3Then come, let us go up to Bethel, where I will build an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress and who has been with me wherever I have gone.” 4So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods they had and the rings in their ears, and Jacob buried them under the oak at Shechem. 5Then they set out, and the terror of God fell on the towns all around them so that no one pursued them. 6Jacob and all the people with him came to Luz (that is, Bethel) in the land of Canaan. 7There he built an altar, and he called the place El Bethel (meaning The God of the House Of God), because it was there that God revealed himself to him when he was fleeing from his brother. 8Now Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died and was buried under the oak outside Bethel. So it was named Allon Bakuth. 9After Jacob returned from Paddan Aram, God appeared to him again and blessed him. 10God said to him, “Your name is Jacob, but you will no longer be called Jacob; your name will be Israel.” So he named him Israel. 11And God said to him, “I am God Almighty; be fruitful and increase in number. A nation and a community of nations will come from you, and kings will be among your descendants. 12The land I gave to Abraham and Isaac I also give to you, and I will give this land to your descendants after you.” 13Then God went up from him at the place where he had talked with him. 14Jacob set up a stone pillar at the place where God had talked with him, and he poured out a drink offering on it; he also poured oil on it. 15Jacob called the place where God had talked with him Bethel (meaning House of God). Gen 35:16-22 Rachel dies, Benjamin is born (Jacob’s last son), Isaac dies and Reuben, Jacob’s oldest son, sleeps with his step-mother, Bilhah, Rachel’s maid and Jacob’s concubine. Gen 36 Esau’s (Edom’s) descendants. Gen 37 Joseph’s dreams & sold into slavery… BACK TO JACOB SPEAKING WITH JOSEPH Gen 48:5And now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you in Egypt, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh shall be mine, as Reuben and Simeon are. SO, JOSEPH IS NOW CONSIDERED THE OLDEST AND THE HEIR TO JACOB … RECEIVING A DOUBLE PORTION, THIS WAS A VERY BIG HONOR FOR JOSEPH – HE TRULY WAS JACOB’S FAVORITE CHILD AND BLESSED BY GOD IN A VERY SPECIAL, BUT SOMEWHAT PAINFUL, WAY. Manasseh (means forgetfulness) and Ephraim (means fruitfulness) are replacing Jacob’s first two sons; Reuben violated his father’s bed, and Simeon led the murder of the Shechemites with Levi when their sister, Dinah, was kidnapped. BACK TO JACOB SPEAKING WITH JOSEPH Gen 48: 6And the children that you fathered after them shall be yours. They shall be called by the name of their brothers in their inheritance. SO, ANY OTHER CHILDREN JOSEPH WAS TO PRODUCE WOULD BE CONSIDERED PART OF EPHRAIM AND/OR MANASSEH 7As for me, when I came from Paddan, to my sorrow Rachel died in the land of Canaan on the way, when there was still some distance to go to Ephrath, and I buried her there on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).” 8When Israel saw Joseph’s sons, he said, “Who are these?” 9Joseph said to his father, “They are my sons, whom God has given me here.” And he said, “Bring them to me, please, that I may bless them.” 10Now the eyes of Israel were dim with age, so that he could not see. (JUST LIKE WHEN JACOB DECEIVED HIS FATHER, ISAAC … LOL!) So Joseph brought them near him, and he kissed them and embraced them. 11And Israel said to Joseph, “I never expected to see your face; and behold, God has let me see your offspring also.” 12Then Joseph removed them from his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth. 13And Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel’s left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel’s right hand, and brought them near him. 14And Israel stretched out his right hand and laid it on the head of Ephraim, who was the younger, and his left hand on the head of Manasseh, crossing his hands (for Manasseh was the firstborn). 15And he blessed Joseph and said, “The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has been my shepherd all my life long to this day, 16 the angel who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the boys; and in them let my name be carried on, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.” SO, JACOB MENTIONS GOD THREE TIMES: “The God (ELOHIM) before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God (ELOHIM) who has been my shepherd all my life long to this day, 16 the angel (mal'āḵ) who has redeemed me from all evil, THE ANGEL? THE ANGEL OF THE LORD … THE PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE, OR MESSENGER, OF GOD WHO APPEARED IN HUMAN FORM AND SPOKE AUTHORITATIVELY … JESUS? 17When Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it displeased him, and he took his father’s hand to move it from Ephraim’s head to Manasseh’s head. 18And Joseph said to his father, “Not this way, my father; since this one is the firstborn, put your right hand on his head.” 19But his father refused and said, “I know, my son, I know. He also shall become a people, and he also shall be great. Nevertheless, his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his offspring shall become a multitude of nations.” 20So he blessed them that day, saying, “By you Israel will pronounce blessings, saying, ‘God make you as Ephraim and as Manasseh.’” THE BOYS WERE MOST LIKELY 15-18 YEARS OLD AT THAT TIME, THEY WERE BORN BEFORE ISRAEL CAME TO EGYPT. Thus he put Ephraim before Manasseh. GOD SHAKING THINGS UP AGAIN … THE YOUNGER GREATER THAN THE OLDER This blessing began to be fulfilled from the time of the Judges (after Israel had taken possession of the promised land, Canaan), when the tribe of Ephraim increased in size and power. It took the lead of the northern tribes and became the head of the ten tribes, and its name acquired equal importance with the name Israel, whereas under Moses, Manasseh had numbered 20,000 more than Ephraim (Numbers 26:34 and Numbers 26:37). Joshua, the successor of Moses, was of the tribe of Ephraim, as Kaleb his companion was of Judah. Ephraim came to designate the northern kingdom of the ten tribes, as Judah denoted the southern kingdom containing the remaining tribes; and each name was occasionally used to denote all Israel. … BACK TO JACOB SPEAKING … Gen 48:21Then Israel said to Joseph, “Behold, I am about to die, but God will be with you and will bring you again to the land of your fathers. 22Moreover, I have given to you rather than to your brothers one mountain slope that I took from the hand of the Amorites with my sword and with my bow.” The Hebrew word used here for “mountain slope or ridge of land” is the same as Shechem. Where Abraham first settled when he came to Canaan (Gen 12:6), where Jacob first settled “arriving safely” after parting from Esau (Gen 33:18) and where Jacob’s daughter, Dinah, was abducted and Simeon and Levi took vengeance on the Shechemites for their sister. From there God moved him to Bethel (Gen 35) to make a fresh start (Gen 34), however, Jacob was speaking as a prophet in this instance since Shechem became the first capital of the Kingdom of Israel. According to Joshua 21:20-21 it was located in the tribal territorial allotment of the tribe of Ephraim. In the New Testament Shechem is the scene where Jesus meets the Samaritan woman at Jacob’s well, Jn 4:5 So He came to a city of Samaria called Sychar, near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph; 6and Jacob’s well was there. V22: “I am about to die, but God will be with you and take you back to the land of your fathers.” Jacob prophesies that THE NATION – Hebrew is plural, God will be with YOU and will take YOU back to the land of your fathers (plural: Abraham, Isaac & Jacob). Josh 24:32 And Joseph’s bones, which the Israelites had brought up from Egypt, were buried at Shechem in the tract of land that Jacob bought for a hundred pieces of silver from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem. This became the inheritance of Joseph’s descendants. About This is an audio broadcast, designed to encourage you to dive deeper into the most influential and impactful literature of all time: The Bible. This podcasts helps to show the benefits of reading/listening to the Bible, front to back, over and over and over endlessly. And study to fill the gaps for deeper understanding. Join us as we dissect the bones and ligaments of God’s written revelation to mankind through scripture. /episode/index/show/a0d29dc2-522b-4be7-a162-869bf42ed535/id/33468257

Genesis Chapter 47 Deep-Dive: Joseph, Pharoah, and the Famine 10/15/2024

Genesis Chapter 47 Deep-Dive: Joseph, Pharoah, and the Famine Hosted by Joey and Matt Deep-dives into the Bible beyond what Sunday teaches you. Gen 47 Jacob’s Family Settles in Goshen 1So Joseph went in and told Pharaoh, “My father and my brothers, with their flocks and herds and all that they possess, have come from the land of Canaan. They are now in the land of Goshen.” 2And from among his brothers he took five men and presented them to Pharaoh. 3Pharaoh said to his brothers, “What is your occupation?” And they said to Pharaoh, “Your servants are shepherds, as our fathers were.” 4They said to Pharaoh, “We have come to sojourn in the land, for there is no pasture for your servants’ flocks, for the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. GOD CONTINUES THE FAMINE EVEN AFTER JACOB AND HIS TRIBE ARRIVE IN EGYPT … And now, please let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen.” 5Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Your father and your brothers have come to you. 6The land of Egypt is before you. Settle your father and your brothers in the best of the land. Let them settle in the land of Goshen, and if you know any able men among them, put them in charge of my livestock.” JOSEPH IS STILL SUBSERVIENT TO PHAROAH BUT IS STILL HIGHLY VALUED BY PHAROAH 7Then Joseph brought in Jacob his father and stood him before Pharaoh, and Jacob blessed Pharaoh. JACOB HAS MANY, MANY FAULTS BUT HE’S STILL “THE MAN”, HIGHLY FAVORED BY GOD AND IN A POSITION TO BLESS PHAROAH 8And Pharaoh said to Jacob, “How many are the days of the years of your life?” 9And Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my sojourning are 130 years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, EVIL; NASTY AND PAINFUL … Is 45:7 I form light and create darkness; I make well-being and create calamity (KJV prepare evil); I am the Lord, who does all these things. BACK TO JACOB SPEAKING WITH PHAROAH … and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their sojourning.” 10And Jacob blessed Pharaoh and went out from the presence of Pharaoh. 11Then Joseph settled his father and his brothers and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded. 12And Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all his father’s household with food, according to the number of their dependents. Joseph and the Famine 13Now there was no food in all the land, for the famine was very severe, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan languished by reason of the famine. 14And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, in exchange for the grain that they bought. And Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh’s house. 15And when the money was all spent in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph and said, “Give us food. Why should we die before your eyes? For our money is gone.” 16And Joseph answered, “Give your livestock, and I will give you food in exchange for your livestock, if your money is gone.” 17So they brought their livestock to Joseph, and Joseph gave them food in exchange for the horses, the flocks, the herds, and the donkeys. He supplied them with food in exchange for all their livestock that year. 18And when that year was ended, they came to him the following year and said to him, “We will not hide from my lord that our money is all spent. The herds of livestock are my lord’s. There is nothing left in the sight of my lord but our bodies and our land. 19Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for food, and we with our land will be servants to Pharaoh. And give us seed that we may live and not die, and that the land may not be desolate.” 20So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for all the Egyptians sold their fields, because the famine was severe on them. The land became Pharaoh’s. 21As for the people, he made servants of them from one end of Egypt to the other. 22Only the land of the priests he did not buy, for the priests had a fixed allowance from Pharaoh and lived on the allowance that Pharaoh gave them; therefore they did not sell their land. 23Then Joseph said to the people, “Behold, I have this day bought you and your land for Pharaoh. Now here is seed for you, and you shall sow the land. 24And at the harvests you shall give a fifth to Pharaoh, and four fifths shall be your own, as seed for the field and as food for yourselves and your households, and as food for your little ones.” 25And they said, “You have saved our lives; may it please my lord, we will be servants to Pharaoh.” 26So Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt, and it stands to this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth; the land of the priests alone did not become Pharaoh’s. 27Thus Israel settled in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen. And they gained possessions in it, and were fruitful and multiplied greatly. 28And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years. So the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were 147 years. (Abraham was 175 yrs old when he died Gen25:8, Isaac was 180 years old when he died Gen 35:28) SO, JOSEPH ENSLAVES THE EGYPTIANS ON BEHALF OF PHAROAH WHILE JACOB’S TRIBE BECOMES EVEN MORE PROSPEROUS AND FRUITFUL … AN INTERESTING SETUP TO WHAT WILL COME LATER 29And when the time drew near that Israel must die, he called his son Joseph and said to him, “If now I have found favor in your sight, put your hand under my thigh REMEMBER ABRAHAM AND ELIEZAR WHEN ABRAHAM WAS SEEKING A WIFE FOR ISAAC and promise to deal kindly and truly with me. Do not bury me in Egypt, 30but let me lie with my fathers. Carry me out of Egypt and bury me in their burying place.” He answered, “I will do as you have said.” 31And he said, “Swear to me”; and he swore to him. Then Israel bowed himself upon the head of his bed. AND WORSHIPPED Heb 11:21By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of Joseph’s sons, and worshiped as he leaned on the top of his staff. … INTERESTING THAT THIS IS THE ONLY MENTION OF JACOB IN HEBREWS CH 11 THE GREAT “FAITH” CHAPTER. BIBLE BONES AND LIGAMENTS, LET’S LOOK AT TWO OTHER INCIDENTS OF WORSHIP IN THE OT Job1:13One day when Job’s sons and daughters were feasting and drinking wine at the oldest brother’s house, 14a messenger came to Job and said, “The oxen were plowing and the donkeys were grazing nearby, 15and the Sabeans attacked and made off with them. They put the servants to the sword, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!” 16While he was still speaking, another messenger came and said, “The fire of God fell from the heavens and burned up the sheep and the servants, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!” 17While he was still speaking, another messenger came and said, “The Chaldeans formed three raiding parties and swept down on your camels and made off with them. They put the servants to the sword, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!” 18While he was still speaking, yet another messenger came and said, “Your sons and daughters were feasting and drinking wine at the oldest brother’s house, 19when suddenly a mighty wind swept in from the desert and struck the four corners of the house. It collapsed on them and they are dead, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!” 20At this, Job got up and tore his robe and shaved his head. Then he fell to the ground in worship 21and said: “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will depart. The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; may the name of the Lord be praised.” Because of David’s sin with Bathsheba and by killing her husband, Uriah the Hittite, God had cursed David saying that the sword would never depart from his household. 2 Sam 12:10 Now, therefore, the sword will never depart from your house, because you despised me and took the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your own.’ 11“This is what the Lord says: ‘Out of your own household I am going to bring calamity on you. Later King David’s son, Adonijah, attempted a political coup, to take control of the kingdom at the end of David’s life, while the kingdom was promised to Solomon. However, God brought David success and Solomon did become king; 1 Ki 1:47 …Also, the royal officials have come to congratulate our lord King David, saying, ‘May your God make Solomon’s name more famous than yours and his throne greater than yours!’ And DAVID the king bowed in worship on his bed 48and said, ‘Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, who has allowed my eyes to see a successor on my throne today.’ ” About This is an audio broadcast, designed to encourage you to dive deeper into the most influential and impactful literature of all time: The Bible. This podcasts helps to show the benefits of reading/listening to the Bible, front to back, over and over and over endlessly. And study to fill the gaps for deeper understanding. Join us as we dissect the bones and ligaments of God’s written revelation to mankind through scripture. /episode/index/show/a0d29dc2-522b-4be7-a162-869bf42ed535/id/33468217

Genesis Chapter 46 Deep-Dive: Joseph Brings His Family to Egypt 09/23/2024

Genesis Chapter 46 Deep-Dive: Joseph Brings His Family to Egypt Hosted by Joey and Matt Deep-dives into the Bible beyond what Sunday teaches you. Gen 46 Joseph Brings His Family to Egypt 1So Israel took his journey with all that he had and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac. SO BEFORE HEADING TO EGYPT JACOB MAKES A PILGRIMAGE TO THE PLACE WHERE IT ALL BEGAN, ABRAHAM AND ISAAC’S HOME BASE, BEERSHEBA, AND CLOSE TO WHERE HE FIRST HAD THE VISION OF THE HEAVENLY LADDER/ZIGGURAT 2And God spoke to Israel in visions of the night and said, “Jacob, Jacob.” And he said, “Here I am.” 3Then he said, “I am God, the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for there I will make you into a great nation. 4 I myself will go down with you to Egypt, and I will also bring you up again, and Joseph’s hand shall close your eyes.” GOD RECONNECTING WITH JACOB AND PROMISING, AGAIN, TO BE WITH HIM UNTIL THE END 5Then Jacob set out from Beersheba. The sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons that Pharaoh had sent to carry him. 6They also took their livestock and their goods, which they had gained in the land of Canaan THEY ARE WEALTHY, and came into Egypt, Jacob and all his offspring with him, 7his sons, and his sons’ sons with him, his daughters, and his sons’ daughters. All his offspring he brought with him into Egypt. 8 Now these are the names of the descendants of Israel, who came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons. Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn, 9and the sons of Reuben: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi. 10The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul, the son of a Canaanite woman. 11The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. 12The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah (but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan); and the sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul. 13The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puvah, Yob, and Shimron. 14The sons of Zebulun: Sered, Elon, and Jahleel. 15These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan-aram, together with his daughter Dinah; altogether his sons and his daughters numbered thirty-three. 16The sons of Gad: Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi, and Areli. 17The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, with Serah their sister. And the sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel. 18These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter; and these she bore to Jacob—sixteen persons. 19The sons of Rachel, Jacob’s wife: Joseph and Benjamin. 20And to Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera the priest of On, bore to him. 21And the sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard. 22These are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob—fourteen persons in all. 23The son of Dan: Hushim. 24The sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem. 25These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob—seven persons in all. 26All the persons belonging to Jacob who came into Egypt, who were his own descendants, not including Jacob’s sons’ wives, were sixty-six persons in all. 27And the sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two. All the persons of the house of Jacob who came into Egypt were seventy. THESE SEVENTY ARE THE SEED THAT GOD PLANTED IN EGYPT THAT GREW INTO THE NATION OF ISRAEL Jacob and Joseph Reunited 28He JACOB had sent Judah NOW THE LEADER ahead of him to Joseph to show the way before him in Goshen, and they came into the land of Goshen. 29Then Joseph prepared his chariot and went up to meet Israel his father in Goshen. He presented himself to him and fell on his neck and wept on his neck a good while. 30Israel said to Joseph, “Now let me die, since I have seen your face and know that you are still alive.” 31Joseph said to his brothers and to his father’s household, “I will go up and tell Pharaoh and will say to him, ‘My brothers and my father’s household, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me. 32And the men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of livestock, and they have brought their flocks and their herds and all that they have.’ 33When Pharaoh calls you and says, ‘What is your occupation?’ 34you shall say, ‘Your servants have been keepers of livestock from our youth even until now, both we and our fathers,’ in order that you may dwell in the land of Goshen, for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians.” BECAUSE THEY ARE STINKY AND HAIRY About This is an audio broadcast, designed to encourage you to dive deeper into the most influential and impactful literature of all time: The Bible. This podcasts helps to show the benefits of reading/listening to the Bible, front to back, over and over and over endlessly. And study to fill the gaps for deeper understanding. Join us as we dissect the bones and ligaments of God’s written revelation to mankind through scripture. /episode/index/show/a0d29dc2-522b-4be7-a162-869bf42ed535/id/33174817

Genesis Chapter 45 Deep-Dive: Joseph Reveals Himself to His Brothers 09/23/2024

Genesis Chapter 45 Deep-Dive: Joseph Reveals Himself to His Brothers Hosted by Joey and Matt Deep-dives into the Bible beyond what Sunday teaches you. Gen 45 Joseph Provides for His Brothers and Family AFTER JUDAH HAS OFFERED TO TAKE THE PLACE OF BENJAMIN AND BE PLACED IN SLAVERY IN EGYPT … 1Then Joseph could not control himself before all those who stood by him. He cried, “Make everyone go out from me.” So no one stayed with him when Joseph made himself known to his brothers. 2And he wept aloud, so that the Egyptians heard it, and the household of Pharaoh heard it. JOSEPH IS DISTRAUGHT AND CRYING LOUDLY 3And Joseph said to his brothers, “I am Joseph! Is my father still alive?” But his brothers could not answer him, for they were dismayed at his presence. GUILT AND SHAME WORK THEIR WONDERFUL SUPERNATURAL POWER FROM GOD AND THEY FINALLY REPENT AND CONFESS THEIR SIN … BEFORE GOD CAN HEAL US WE NEED TO REPENT AND TURN TO HIM! 4So Joseph said to his brothers, “Come near to me, please.” And they came near. And he said, “I am your brother, Joseph, whom you sold into Egypt. 5And now do not be distressed or angry with yourselves because you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life. 6For the famine has been in the land these two years, and there are yet five years in which there will be neither plowing nor harvest. 7And God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant on earth, and to keep alive for you many survivors. 8So it was not you who sent me here, but God. AND IN ORDER FOR THIS PLAN TO WORK GOD HAD TO CAUSE THIS WORLDWIDE MASSIVE FAMINE … GOD CONTROLS ALL CIRCUMSTANCES, ALSO, JOSEPH NEVER SAYS “HEY, WHAT YOU DID, IT’S OK”, HE SAYS, NO LONGER BE DISTRESSED OR ANGY WITH YOURSELVES BECAUSE GOD HAD A PURPOSE TO USE YOUR BAD BEHAVIOR AND I HAVE FORGIVEN YOU … BACK TO JOSEPH SPEAKING He has made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house and ruler over all the land of Egypt. 9Hurry and go up to my father and say to him, ‘Thus says your son Joseph, God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me; do not tarry. 10You shall dwell in the land of Goshen, and you shall be near me, you and your children and your children’s children, and your flocks, your herds, and all that you have. 11There I will provide for you, for there are yet five years of famine to come, so that you and your household, and all that you have, do not come to poverty.’ 12And now your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin see, that it is my mouth that speaks to you. I REALLY AM JOSEPH 13You must tell my father of all my honor in Egypt, and of all that you have seen. Hurry and bring my father down here.” 14Then he fell upon his brother Benjamin’s neck and wept, and Benjamin wept upon his neck. BENJAMIN IS JOSEPH’S FOCUS 15And he JOSEPH kissed all his brothers and wept upon them. After that his brothers talked with him. CAN YOU IMAGINE WHAT THAT CONVERSATION WAS LIKE? 16When the report was heard in Pharaoh’s house, “Joseph’s brothers have come,” it pleased Pharaoh and his servants. PHAROAH IS STILL A SUPPORTER OF JOSEPH … JOSEPH MUST STILL BE DOING AN EXTRAORDINARY JOB! 17And Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Say to your brothers, ‘Do this: load your beasts and go back to the land of Canaan, 18and take your father and your households, and come to me, and I will give you the best of the land of Egypt, and you shall eat the fat of the land.’ 19And you, Joseph, are commanded PHAROAH IS STILL PHAROAH to say, ‘Do this: take wagons from the land of Egypt for your little ones and for your wives, and bring your father, and come. 20Have no concern for your goods, for the best of all the land of Egypt is yours.’” 21The sons of Israel did so: and Joseph gave them wagons, according to the command of Pharaoh, and gave them provisions for the journey. 22To each and all of them he gave a change of clothes, but to Benjamin he gave three hundred shekels of silver and five changes of clothes. 23To his father he sent as follows: ten donkeys loaded with the good things of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded with grain, bread, and provision for his father on the journey. 24Then he sent his brothers away, and as they departed, he said to them, “Do not quarrel on the way.” THAT IS HILARIOUS!! JOSEPH STILL KNOWS HIS BROTHERS WELL! 25So they went up out of Egypt and came to the land of Canaan to their father Jacob. 26And they told him, “Joseph is still alive, and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt.” And his heart became numb, for he did not believe them. GOD SUPRISES JACOB WITH JOY! 27But when they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said to them, and when he saw the wagons that Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of their father Jacob revived. 28And Israel said, “It is enough; Joseph my son is still alive. I will go and see him before I die.” THE STUFF DIDN’T MATTER TO JACOB, HIS FOCUS WAS ON JOSEPH’S APPARENT RESURRECTION FROM THE DEAD. ABEL’S BLOOD CALLS OUT FOR VENGEANCE, BUT CHRIST’S BLOOD CALLS OUT FOR FORGIVENESS, JOSEPH KNOWS GOD INTIMATELY AND HAS FORGIVEN HIS BROTHERS NOW THAT HE KNOWS THAT BENJAMIN IS SAFE, AND HE DID IT WITHOUT THEM ASKING FOR IT About This is an audio broadcast, designed to encourage you to dive deeper into the most influential and impactful literature of all time: The Bible. This podcasts helps to show the benefits of reading/listening to the Bible, front to back, over and over and over endlessly. And study to fill the gaps for deeper understanding. Join us as we dissect the bones and ligaments of God’s written revelation to mankind through scripture. /episode/index/show/a0d29dc2-522b-4be7-a162-869bf42ed535/id/33174067

Bible Bones and Ligaments

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