Posted by Steven Benjamin (by Proxy) on September 6, 2009, 9:42 pm
Sunday, August 30, 2009
Exodus Chap 1
Exodus, also written by Moses, is called the Second Book of Moses. IN
Modern Hebrew Bibles,
are divided into 3 sections and sometimes called the Torah. But the
first of these sections is
also called “THE LAW” or “THE PENTATEUCH” and refer to the first five
books of your Bible…
Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deutoronomy. A reference to
“THE LAW” can be a direct
reference to the giving of the Ten Commanments at Sinai, or to this
division of the Hebrew BIBLE.
In early times, “THE TORAH” always, ALWAYS referred only to those five
books. Now however, Hebrew
scripture is divided as I said into three parts, “THE LAW,” as already
noted, “THE SONGS,” which comprise, The Song of Solomon, Job, Psalms
and Proverbs, and then “ THE PROPHETS” which we sometimes divide into
Major and Minor Prophets by reference, though I think they were all
pretty much MAJOR, and the 13 summary statutes of Jewish belief demand
a profession of belief in all the words of the Prophets though I have
found an entire group of modern Jews are pretty much Atheists
altogether,
those being the REFORM UNIVERSALIST JEWS, who keep ritual out of a
need and position of seeing the importance of maintaining their
culture, but their doctrine, I found to be quite shocking. I had one
Jew, and I don’t know what group he belongs, but he told me, “We don’t
believe in the prophets, we think those guys were all nuts, we
recognize them as part of our history, but we think they were nuts.”
And, He was speaking as a representative for his branch of their
culture, and in such context knowing my exposure was minimal and I was
making inquiry on cultural levels.
EXODUS CHAP 1
So in Genesis, we see how the Israelites came to dwell in the land of
Egypt, likewise, how they came to be servants to the house of Pharaoh,
as did all the known world for a time, but we see the house of Jacob
was respected, and Joseph, while a servant to Egypt, was a ruler of
the land.
Underline as you read, the last sentences in vs1, and 6.
And Underline all of vs 7 noting that this vs defines the age, the
timeline. We see that all, not some, But everybody we met in Genesis,
Israelites, Cannanites, Egyptians, EVERYBODY who witnessed the great
deliverance of the world in the face of famine, that deliverance by
God through Joseph, all of them are dead, children, grandchildren as
some were mentioned, slaves, servants everybody have passed.
By the way, did anybody note that as all this began, Jacob had slaves,
what do you think a concubine is?
So perhaps, there are other lessons here as well, after all, Joseph
bought slaves for Pharaoh, and made slaves of all, but as he did so,
he saved their very lives, so I note such, but not condemnation, only
in highlight for contemplation.
So In Genesis chapter 37 through Exodus 1:1-6 we see how the
Israelites came to dwell in Egypt, and quite possibly how it was easy
for the Egyptians to later see them as Slaves, given the roots of the
whole journey. Remember the lesson to those in later generations
complaining about the sins of other peoples fathers upon their
generations? Likewise, we established in the story of Joseph a
certain contempt in Egypt against Hebrews (Gen 43:32, 46:34) which
went all the way back to Abraham.
We seen Joseph upon bringing his family into Egypt, stick them the
“GHETTOS” of Egypt, in the land of Goshen, which during that famine,
faired better than the rest of the land, but was a place where even
the Egyptians who dwelt there were considered “Abominations” by the
rest of Egypt because of their trade of being Shepherds, and
suffering much themselves, would not likely show predjudice against
the Hebrew family of Joseph.
But now, the Hebrews, what happens to them? Do they stay in
Goshen…no, there’s no room in Goshen for all of them, because they
multiplied so greatly, and now the entire land of EGYPT is filled with
them as we see noted in vs 7.
Underline all of vs 8. We see A king rise, who hasn’t heard of
Joseph, that’s how much time has passed.
And in vs 9 and 10 we see several interesting points. Firstly, in vs
9, we see the reason by which the Egyptians are growing fearful of the
Hebrews, because of their great numbers.
In Vs 10, we see in the opening statement the king say…”COME, LET US
DEAL WISELY WITH THEM; LEST THEY MULTIPLY” He is saying, hey, we need
to put this in check while we can, before their numbers get too great.
And he goes on in vs ten to note concern that should a war break out
the Egyptians are concerned that the Hebrews may join their enemies.
Now why do you suppose they are worrying about such? Some things
never change, now the underclass is still the underclass, but they are
no longer just in the ghettos, no longer on the other side of the
tracks…they are everywhere aren’t they?
And we already know the Egyptians have a lot of contempt for the
Hebrews which still existed as Joseph was alive and made ruler of all
the land. (Gen 43:32,46:34)
These Egyptians, they must been kinda haughty huh? Thought they were
better than everyone else in the land huh? Been dishing out some
dirt, “Oh, yeah, we don’t eat at the same table as “Those People”,
Yeah, we sure don’t do we? No, and we don’t let them live in our
neighborhood either do we? No, we sure don’t, let em’ live in shacks
out in the country, that’s where trash belongs, not here, were
civilized!”
Yeah, now all that “civilization” and cultural grooming must not have
taught them any manners, because now all of a sudden, they are worried
these Hebrews just might be holding a grudge, and if a war were to
break out, and they joined the enemies of Egypt, well it certainly
wouldn’t be good would it?
Now, here is something very interesting, in the very beginning of the
Book of Exodus, we see something, we see that it wasn’t God’s Plan to
originally get the Hebrews out of Egypt was it? No, read and
underline that last line in Exodus 1 verse 10, this is the King of
Egypt speaking here with his people.
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