Exodus 16 to Exodus 28

Welcome to day 6 of Bible Food; the Word of God is excellent, let's see what it is to eat today!

Today's reading starts with 

the children of Israel murmuring against Moses and Aaron, but really against the Lord and the Lord rained down manna down from for the people to eat.  The manna tasted like coriander seed and wafers that were made with honey.  I guess it was good.

They were in the wilderness in Sin and Rephidim, the people got thirsty and charged Moses for trying to kill them.  And the Lord directed Moses in what to do.  But with all this complaining the Lord sent Amalek to battle Israel, and Moses had to hold his hand up for Israel to win.  And the Lord helps Israel.

Moses then meets with Jethro, his father-in-law, and Jethro teaches Moses how to judge the people by showing him how to have a chain of comm

and.  Otherwise Moses was going to wear himself out judging the house of Israel.  Then they left Rephidim and into Sinai and Moses meets with the Lord; and the Lord tells Moses to tell the people if they keep the Lord's charge they shall be a peculiar people to the Lord and a Kingdom of Priest.  That means the children of Israel are to be the priest to the other nations in the  world if they listen to the Lord.

The Lord then tells Moses to prepare for the Lord to visit them in 3 days, that he will come down on Mount Sinai.  On the third day there were strong thunders and lightnings, and the mount was smoking like a furnace and with earthquakes, and it was extremely loud and the children of Israel were scared out

 of their skin.  The Lord was actually visiting them; this is the only encounter in which the God of the world appeared before an entire nation.

Then the Lord spoke giving them the ten commandment:

1) No other gods before God

2) Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth

3) Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

4) Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.

5) Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

6) Thou shalt not kill.

7) Thou shalt not commit adultery.

8) Thou shalt not steal.

9) Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

10) Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour

The God of the Heaven and Earth showed up just to deliver these Ten Commandments, amazing, and He did so in a dramatic fashion to scare the people.  And they were scared telling Moses to speak with God and they will listen to Moses.

After this Moses was given judgments the people are to follow.  I'm sure these judgments are based on things the people were doing and what other nations were doing and did; like what your sentence is in kidnapping.  

The eye for an eye statues are here; but they were here for people to stop doing violence.  If a man sleeps with a woman, he shall surely make her his wife

, unless the father of the maid refuses, things like this were the judgments of the Lord.

The Lord talk about helping and not taking advantage of the poor, in chapter 23, and the LORD talks about keeping a feast 3 times a years (the Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Harvest, and the Feast of In gathering).  The Lord then tells them an Angel will go in before them into the land of Canaan and will drive the people out with hornets.  All the children of Israel had to do was not serve these people's gods.

Then in Exodus 24, the Lord visits Moses and 74 elders in the mount and they saw the God of Israel, God had feet, and a body, and hands.  God did this with them because the people made a covenant with the people with 

blood.  WOW, 74 men saw the Lord in clearness!

Moses was then in the mountain with the Lord for 40 days and 40 nights, this is where the NBA playoffs get it from.  The Lord tells Moses a lot of things, one is the directions on how to build the Tent of the Lord and the Ark of the Covenant, which represents the presence of the Lord!  God is very precise in the design of the Temple Tent of the Meeting.

Lastly, the tribe of Levi were to be the priest unto the Lord to the other tribes of Israel and Aaron and his sons are to take the charge of the Lord's work in the congregation.  The clothing for the priest is the last subject today.  They were for Aaron to minister, the dress is like the Catholic Bishop of Rome wears minus the 12 tribes of Israel in his chest.  We learned that the Lord goes in the real style people try to do today.  Thanks for joining today for day six; see you tomorrow!

DDaniels

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Due Daniels
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Bible Food Day 5

Here in day 5 we are reading Exodus chapter 1 up to Exodus 15.  

This starts off years after Joseph died and a new king of Egypt arose that did not know Joseph and feared that the Hebrews would be stronger than Egypt because the Hebrews had kids like rabbits.  So the Pharaoh ordered to have the male new babies killed.  

In some time a Levite family had a child who was very good and they floated him up the Nile right into the Pharaoh's daughters home and she had compassion and kept the baby for herself, knowing it was a Hebrew.  For her to think she can keep a Hebrew baby while she was a dark skinned Egyptian still amazes me.  Pharaoh's daughter name the child Moses, and she had Moses mother help her raise Moses.  Thus Moses knew he was and Israelite all his life.

Moses defended his people and it is ultimately what got him ran out of Egypt.  He ran into Midian and ended up marrying an Ethiopian woman before the Lord appeared to him in a burning bush commanding Moses to return to Egypt and deliver the children of Israel.  Moses however, put up a bit of a fight because he was not convinced the people would listen to him that God appeared to him.

Moses was told to tell Pharaoh that Israel is the Lord's first born; and he should let them go.  But Pharaoh resisted and knew not the God of Moses and made the work even harder than before.  Thus the children of Israel got upset with Moses and Moses asked the Lord, "what happened to the plan?"  And the Lord addressed His people giving Moses His name Jehovah or Yahweh, which the Lord had not shared with Abraham, Isaac, and Israel.

The Lord made Moses a God unto Pharaoh and made Aaron, Moses brother, his prophet.  God gave Moses a lot of power and high power.  They began to do the plagues in order to soften Pharaoh's heart.

The first plague was to turn the rivers and the waters in Egypt into blood (this was after Moses rod was turned into a snake that consumed the rod that were turned into snakes by the Egyptians).  The Egyptians were able to turn water into blood; yet Pharaoh did not listen.

The second plague was to have the land smitten with frogs.  The Lord would bring frogs into every chamber of the land; on people, in the kitchen, etc.  The Egyptian magicians were able to bring frogs too.  Pharaoh asked Moses to remove the frogs; but he was only faking.

The third plague was lice and dust all over the land of Egypt and the magicians of Egypt confessed that this is the finger of God.  Pharaoh did not listen still.

The fourth plague was to have a swarm of flies cover the land; and this time the Lord did not put this plague on the children of Israel. This time Pharaoh told them to leave, but he wanted them to go serve their God and return.  Still Pharaoh would not let the people go.

The fifth plague from the Lord was to kill the cattle and live stock of the Egyptians.  

The sixth plague was boil was put upon the animals of the Egyptians and the people; but not upon Israel.

The seventh plague was a great hail from the Lord.  This destroyed the land because it was hail mixed with fire, never seen in Egypt.  Still the Pharaoh would not listen to Moses.

The eighth plague were locust brought in to eat up the trees and plants that the hail and fire missed.  At this point Egypt was basically destroyed.

The ninth plague was a thick darkness, so dark that none of the Egyptians could move from their seat.  Pharaoh told them to leave; but not with all the substance.  Moses was told not to come back to see the Pharaoh.

The tenth plague would be the great plague to let the children of Israel go; this would be the death of the first born son of the Egyptians; but also anyone who did not put the blood of the Lamb on their door post.  The Lord now orders the months making this month the beginning of months to the children of Israel and institutes the Passover.

Finally, Pharaoh let them go out of Egypt.  But he had one more change of heart when he thought the children of Israel were trapped by the Red Sea.  Then the Lord split the sea and the children of Israel went through on dry ground and the Egyptians will follow in and the Lord will close the sea on them.  And thus was done and Pharaoh of surety knew that this was the hand of the Almighty Lord.

This reading ends with Moses and the children of Israel singing a song of praise unto the Lord and with dance.  The waters were bitter and they complained and the Lord put one more miracle in that a tree was placed into the water to make it sweet.  Wow is the Lord powerful and wondrous, and merciful.  This was an exciting reading.  Praise God for Bible Food and see you tomorrow.

DDaniels

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Due Daniels
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