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Dear
Friend,
If you do not already have a habit of gathering daily manna the first thing in the morning (we can look at the example given to us in Exodus 16 and find the pattern for make it a habit. Establish your life and your schedule to allow you the necessary time to do your daily collection first thing every morning to give you the strength to make it through the day. And remember that today’s manna will not be sufficient for tomorrow; tomorrow’s manna must be collected tomorrow morning. Wednesday, October 14, 2020
Today's Passage : Today's Passage:Moses and The Burning Bush [2] Bible Verse:Exodus 3:7-12 (ESV) "Then the Lord 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, and 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. And 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. Come, I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.” But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?” He 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.”" Message:
As we discussed in Exodus 3:1-6, Moses is not a particularly righteous man; his future as perhaps the greatest prophet of Judaism was not announced by angels at his birth, his mother was not visited in her pregnancy. While he seems strong and resourceful, he is by no means extraordinary, especially concerning his faithfulness to God.
So he is not being modest or humble when he says, “who am I that I should . . . bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?” It is more along the lines of, “You can’t be serious.” Imagine a black slave in Louisiana, who murders a white man and flees to rural Alberta, who has found a life working as a ranch hand and doesn’t go to church, being told that he is to become God’s great prophet. And by a burning bush in the middle of nowhere!
Canaanites, from the Egyptian “Book of Gates”
Canaanites, from the
Egyptian “Book of Gates.”
Moses is understandably dumbfounded. He is not prepared for this in any way. He was raised partly as an Egyptian from birth and has no great knowledge of the Hebrew God. He has not even circumcised his son, as we will see a bit later. He is not a leader of men or a practiced orator (and in fact has a speech impediment); his adult life has been the lonely and often solitary life of a shepherd in the wilderness.
Notes on Geography and Ethnology
Exodus tells us the names of seven primary tribes in early Canaan, but it is the only source historians have for much of the information. The Hivites, Perizzites, and Jebusites are unknown outside the Bible, although the latter two are mentioned in tablets found by archaeologists in Egypt, dating to @ 1400 B.C. (the “Armana Tablets”). The Amorites and Hittites were powerful ancient empires in Syria and Mesopotamia; apparently a fair number of each drifted down into Canaan.
The “Canaanites” were a widespread, incohesive Semitic people inhabiting the lowlands between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean. (We will get yet another odd name, the “Girgashites”, a tribe in the very north of Canaan, in Deuteronomy and Joshua, which Joshua will have to subdue.) See Map of the Seven Nations of Canaan.
To put the geography in perspective, we have made a map showing the areas mentioned so far in Exodus, although the location of Mount Horeb (later called Mount Sinai) is speculative. Map for Exodus 2.
Meditation : Prayer : Lord, support me all the day long of this troublous life, until the shadows lengthen and the evening comes, and the busy world is hushed, and the fever of life is over and my work is done. Then, of Thy mercy, grant me a safe lodging, and a holy rest and a peace at last through Jesus Christ, our Lord......Amen |
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