Hello, guys! I’m back to begin writing on Exodus tonight! For those who don’t know, it’s the second book of the Bible, and it’s 40 chapters long, so it’s the second-longest of the Pentateuch. I went through Genesis over the last two years, so naturally, I want to go through the whole thing a little faster. I pray I write only what Jesus wants me to write here…
Anyway, it’s about Moses’ early life and the deliverance of Israel from Egyptian taskmasters, and the Israelites and God begin a relationship… but that soon goes south (read chapters 32-34). To be fair, though, not a lot of people remembered Him during their time there, and… this is why there was lots of idol worship in Israel later, even after Joshua’s conquest of Canaan (found in the book of Joshua; spoiler alert: it’s book #6 of the Bible, right after the Pentateuch ends). I should also remind anyone who doesn’t remember that the Pentateuch is the first five books of the Bible attributed to Moses, but unfortunately, not many read the Scriptures each day, and that’s not good. The book ends with a temporary housing for God’s Spirit even though He doesn’t dwell in temples (see Acts 7:48), but anyone can have Jesus live inside them. The rest I’ll talk about later.
My thoughts, though, on this, is that it’s one of the hardest books of the Bible because people so often quote “God hardened people’s hearts” — I’m like, “What?! That’s not what the Hebrew was going for!” Sadly, I’ve had family members question my faith as if it couldn’t withstand their satanic attacks, like it wasn’t from God, even. But Jesus has proven faithful to me time and again; I just don’t know how He’ll be faithful in the future. Also, too many things in this book are used as weapons to destroy, and people get nuclear on others with this all over the world 😳🚨🛑 — what I mean by saying this is that they poison their souls with taking Scripture out of context. But keep in mind that Moses says in Exodus 20:20 that God was proving the Israelites (I use such verbage here because “testing” isn’t a good or biblical translation, as I’ve learned) of whether they’ll be faithful to Him or not, and they had wanted too many sickening things, like, several hundred laws that God never wanted. There’s nuggets of wisdom in some of them, but not necessarily in this book may we find any. But God’s heart from the beginning was redemption for every human being, because we’re all prone to many many mistakes and we sin daily, plus, unjust systems can gain the upper hand from time to time, like they do in the early chapters here. But The Prince Of Egypt shows how this went down, if you’re more of a visual learner. I recommend reading the first fifteen chapters of this book for context with the movie, though. It came out in the late 90s, I should’ve watched it as a kid! Sorry, everyone, for I still haven’t seen it, but I’ve heard a song or two, and I love it! ✡☮✝
With this in mind, I’ll soon release a note on the first part of this book, so stay tuned.
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