Archive for August, 2007
Thoughts on Exodus 16-17: How Not To Follow Directions
Thursday, August 16th, 2007These chapters are frustrating to read. If you haven't read them, I suggest read them now before continuing on here.
Ok, so you'd think that after seeing God miraculously deliver them, and then following around a PILLAR OF FIRE, you'd take God seriously, and you'd take His servant seriously. But God and Moses speak, and they […]
Thoughts from Exodus 15: Parted, Bitter, and Sweet Waters
Wednesday, August 15th, 2007Right before chapter 15 starts, we had been left with the image of dead Egyptian bodies washed up onto the shore of the Red Sea, signalling that the Israelites were finally and truly free. Here at the waters, Moses (perhaps) writes and leads the whole congregation in a song proclaiming the strength and love of […]
Thoughts from Exodus 14: Only to be silent
Sunday, August 5th, 2007Exodus 14 returns back to the narrative that involves Pharaoh and the Egyptians. Once Israel had departed, they seem to come to grips with their total loss of slaves and slave-labor. Seriously, we've got to imagine the scene.
You're a rich person. In Egypt, that pretty much meant you weren't a slave. You wake up. […]