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For I know the plans I have for you,declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Jer 29:11 |
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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 collecting daily manna), 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. Thursday, October 19, 2017
Today's Passage : Today's Passage: Subject:Pharaoh Oppresses Israel Bible Verse:Exodus 1:8-14 "Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph. And he said to his people, “Behold, the people of Israel are too many and too mighty for us. Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, lest they multiply, and, if war breaks out, they join our enemies and fight against us and escape from the land.” Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with heavy burdens. They built for Pharaoh store cities, Pithom and Raamses. But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and the more they spread abroad. And the Egyptians were in dread of the people of Israel. So they ruthlessly made the people of Israel work as slaves and made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and brick, and in all kinds of work in the field. In all their work they ruthlessly made them work as slaves." Message:
As history as shown time and time again, an insular ethnicity within a nation or society creates instability. Most often, they are gradually absorbed, but this was impossible with the Egyptians and the Hebrews, for both were strongly based in religions that excluded the other. To the Egyptians, herders of sheep and cattle were an abomination and the Egyptians would not even eat a meal with these unclean foreigners. For the Hebrews, at the time, the problem was more religious; their monotheistic God was a jealous god and the children of Abraham could not assimilate in a polytheistic and idolatrous culture.
Jew Hebrew slavery
The Egyptians had good reason to dread the Hebrews. They had been conquered by a tribe of Semitic herders — the Hyskos — who ruled Egypt for centuries. The Hyskos had just been expelled when Joseph first traveled to Egypt, so it was a fresh wound.
And so it was that the Hebrews became a slave race for a period, similar to black Africans in America and the Arab world, or Koreans in Japan.
The two cities mentioned here were prominent in history and known to the Greeks and Romans, but no longer exist. All of them were located in the eastern Nile delta, the home of the Hebrews. Pithom was the center of trade between the Red Sea and the Mediterranean, and Raamses was (ironically) the old capital of Hyskos.
The Hebrew Bible, from which the Protestant Old Testament is generally taken, includes a third city in the list, Heliopolis, a very important city and the capital of Goshen itself (the name of the region where the Hebrews lived). It was located near present day Cairo and was destroyed primarily for materials to build Cairo. In fact, suburbs of Cairo are built on top of it. The famous London landmark called "Cleopatra's Needle" was looted during the cannibalization of Heliopolis.
Meditation : Prayer : May the God who made me, the God who keeps me, and the God who will be my Lord through all eternity, shine down His blessings and wisdom upon me like the sun upon a field; and may I keep Him in the forefront of my every thought and deed, throughout this day, and evermore...Amen |
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