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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. Sunday, May 10, 2026
Today's Passage : Today's Passage :Pharaoh Oppresses Israel [2] Bible Verse:Exodus 1:15-22 (ESV) "Then the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah, “When you serve as midwife to the Hebrew women and see them on the birthstool, if it is a son, you shall kill him, but if it is a daughter, she shall live.” But the midwives feared God and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but let the male children live. So the king of Egypt called the midwives and said to them, “Why have you done this, and let the male children live?” The midwives said to Pharaoh, “Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women, for they are vigorous and give birth before the midwife comes to them.” So God dealt well with the midwives. And the people multiplied and grew very strong. And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families. Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, “Every son that is born to the Hebrews you shall cast into the Nile, but you shall let every daughter live.” " Message:
The Pharaoh’s fear has really gotten out of hand. Like Herod the Great to follow, he demands general infanticide. His treatment of the Hebrews, a people so welcomed by the old Pharaoh, has become the greatest cruelty possible; for to kill the baby boys means the eventual extermination of the Hebrew race.
Egyptian god Anubis
Anubis
Pharaoh’s most basic error is that he does not fear God. The Egyptians were, at this time, developing possibly the most elaborate and devout polytheistic religion ever seen on earth. It was idolatry to the nth degree. At least 65 gods and goddesses have been identified, who were sufficiently important to rate statues. Eventually the later Pharaohs would be considered gods (or demigods) themselves, allowed to marry only others of their family. Cleopatra, famously, was slated to marry her brother when Julius Caesar and Marc Anthony intervened.
The midwives were themselves Hebrew, which is not completely clear in the text; and there is a Jewish flavor to the way they solve their dilemma, splitting the issue and finding a crack between defying the Pharaoh and no doubt being killed, on the one hand, and becoming the instruments of genocide, on the other.
But Pharaoh is not so easily foiled. He takes killing of the baby Hebrew boys out of the hands of the Jewish midwives. Now, anyone who knows of a male Jewish infant is ordered to throw him in the great river. It is an order Pharaoh will live to regret.
One cannot help but note a bit of historical irony here. In @1400 B.C. the Pharaoh of Egypt ordered that the Jews be destroyed by drowning them in the water. In 1967 A.D., almost 3500 years later, the President of Egypt (Abdel Nasser) ordered his army to destroy Israel by “pushing them into the sea.” Both were spectacularly unsuccessful. Plus ça change! (“The more things change, the more they stay the same.”)
Meditation : Prayer : Now, oh Lord, I pray that you may lift up the light of your countenance upon me, and give me peace; in my going out and in my coming in; in my sitting down and my rising up; in my work and in my play; in my joy and in my sorrow, in my laughter and in my tears; until that day comes which is without dawn and without dark. Amen. |
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