This text tells a key story in the life of Moses and marks a key event in the journey of Israel to Canaan. It is a story told from two perspectives – the bottom of Mount Sinai and the top; with two main human characters – Aaron and Moses; who have two responses to a […]
Thirty days out of Egypt the people have a food problem. They’re in the wilderness, their provisions have run out, and there’s no visible means of feeding themselves. The conditions are ripe, therefore, for a show of faith in the God who so miraculously delivered them from Egypt and has brought them to where they […]
Israel belongs to God because of His covenant with Abraham; its status is based on God’s choice and isn’t conditional. In this text, however, God makes another covenant with the people and its promises come with conditions. God promises them peace, prosperity, longevity and a place in the world as His special representatives IF they […]
The Israelites leave Egypt after the tenth plague amidst the panic of the Egyptians and a destroyed country mourning its dead. God has clearly demonstrated His power over Egypt and its gods and humiliated Pharaoh. Amazingly, however, God isn’t done glorifying Himself at Pharaoh’s expense. As a result, even though Pharaoh ordered Moses to go […]
When God commissioned Moses in Midian He told him three things would happen upon his return to Egypt: God would strike Egypt with great miracles (3:19-20); He would enable the Israelites to leave Egypt with great riches (3:21-22); and He would kill Pharaoh’s firstborn son (4:22-23). The first of His predictions has come true with […]
After his first appearance before Pharaoh ended with disastrous results for both Moses and Israel, the scene and power begin to change as God starts to work. Whereas Pharaoh showed his authority over Israel in the incident with the bricks, God now shows His sovereignty over Pharaoh and all of Egypt with the plagues. In […]
After his first appearance before Pharaoh ended with disastrous results for both Moses and Israel, the scene and power begin to change as God starts to work. Whereas Pharaoh showed his authority over Israel in the incident with the bricks, God now shows His sovereignty over Pharaoh and all of Egypt with the plagues. In […]
The events in this story wonderfully illustrate how different God’s viewpoint is from our own (similar to the first two lessons from Exodus). However, in this passage we’ll find out that God’s wholly different perspective affects obedience too. Moses will obey with disastrous results (from his perspective) but God will say the results are exactly […]
Moses lives through two-thirds (80 years) of his life in this passage. God takes him from a miraculous birth to a privileged upbringing to a decades-long lesson in humility and survival. Throughout this portion of his life – though it’s certainly not obvious to Moses – God prepares him to be the deliverer of Israel […]
Genesis ended on a high note. Jacob reunited with his long-lost son and died a satisfied man. Joseph – after being used by God to save the civilized world from starvation and becoming the second most powerful man in the world – lived to see four generations of his offspring. The family of Jacob was […]
thegamutblog 