| By Andy Moyle | 4 mins 45 secs | 0 Comments
Nine plagues there have been. Nine times God has very clearly shown Pharaoh that He is God. Nine times Pharaoh has had the chance to acknowledge that Yahweh is God and the Hebrews (Israel) are His people. Nine times the whole of Egypt has had to suffer the painful inconvenience caused by Pharaoh’s hardness of […]
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At the end of chapter 6, Moses’ bravado and get stuck in attitude has gone. He blew it the first time he went to Pharaoh, not following the Lord’s instructions exactly and he had to leave cowed and the Hebrews became worse off. Now in v6 after meeting with the Lord again we see a […]
| By Andy Moyle | 4 mins 6 secs | 0 Comments
In the early 1990s, motivated by an ongoing dispute with his record company, the singer / songwriter Prince adopted an unpronounceable symbol as his name and became ‘The artist formerly known as Prince’. The change in his name reflected a new stage in the management of his artistic career. Later on, he changed his name […]
| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 10 secs | 0 Comments
That quote is a fair summation of Exodus 5 – Moses blew it the diplomatic approach the Lord had given him and the initial consequence for the people of God, who are now in slavery, is that they will have to make bricks without straw. Life has suddenly became more difficult than it already was. […]
| By Andy Moyle | 3 mins 44 secs | 0 Comments
God is speaking to Moses from a burning bush in this chapter and the previous one (as we saw yesterday) because He has a big job for Moses to do – to ask Pharoah to set His people free from the slavery they were in, in Egypt. I don’t think anyone would disagree that Moses […]
| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 27 secs | One Comment
Moses is still in Midian. While looking after his father-in-law’s sheep, he has a dramatic, life-changing encounter with God. He is at Horeb, a.k.a. Sinai (see Acts 7:30), a place of huge future significance, and he sees the now-famous burning bush, in which the angel of the Lord appears to him. God calls to Moses, […]
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Exodus 2 – God hears and remembers his people The focus in Exodus 1 was very much on how numerous Israel had become in Egypt, despite oppression and harsh labour. In this chapter, the oppression is still there (v11), but the focus is on one Levite woman and her baby boy. We all know that […]
| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 24 secs | 0 Comments
Exodus 1 – The blessing of multiplication There’s a lot of maths in this chapter! It starts in v5, with Jacob’s seventy descendants (the full list is given in Gen. 46:8-27). Then we are repeatedly told that the people of Israel are ‘multiplying greatly’, ‘increasing in number’ and ‘becoming numerous’ (v7, 9, 10, 12, 20). […]
| By Andy Moyle | 3 mins 6 secs | 0 Comments
In November 1942, the Allies secured a significant victory driving Rommel’s forces out of Egypt. Churchill spoke of the victory in a speech “This is not the end. It is not the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.” Genesis means origins or beginnings. Chapter 50 marks the end […]