Day Seventeen
Day Seventeen -- Exodus 5-7
Welcome, one and all. What a beautiful Sunday... but aren't all Sunday's beautiful? I think so, personally.
Today's reading happens over Exodus, chapters 5, 6, and 7. Please, read these chapters at www.bible.com or on the BIBLE READER to the left of this post. It's only a quick 3 chapters... so read away. I'll be here when you get back... forever... and even after that.
So, we left off with Moses and Aaron, (Moses' prophet,) going to tell the Israelites that God has heard their cry, and is coming to save them, releasing them from Egypt and all the hard work that Pharaoh has put them up to. The people believed that what Moses and Aaron said was true, and we ended yesterday's reading with a beautifully happy scene, all the people overcome with joy, bowing and weeping and praising God in gratitude.
That must of made Moses and Aaron feel really confident. They went to the Pharaoh and told him to "let their people go!" because God had told them that they must be freed.
Pharaoh was all "Who is this GOD you speak of?" If I were Moses, I'd hit him with my staff and scream, "You know, the guy who CREATED YOU???"
But Moses didn't. Instead, he told Aaron to throw down his staff in front of the Pharaoh, and when he did, it turned into a snake!! Best magic trick ever, right?
Pharaoh (for some odd reason) still wasn't convinced that they had spoken to God. He called all the best magicians in the land together to see if they could pull off such a stunt, and with all their tricks and stuff, they could. I guess if you were Pharaoh, then it'd be hard to know who was real and who wasn't... but since we know that Moses and Aaron were able to do so because of God, we know who really transformed the staff rod thingy.
Pharaoh didn't believe Moses and Aaron were speaking to God, so he didn't let the Israelites be free. Instead, he told everyone they were just LAZY, and should have MORE work. I hope I'm not sinning by saying this, but that Pharaoh was an idiot.
He gave the people more work to do, and didn't provide them with the materials to do all the work, either. The people then turned on Moses and Aaron, and stopped believing them.
Time for miracle number two! Moses and Aaron met the Pharaoh at the river where he washed, and when Aaron lifted up the staff, the water turned into blood. And, it wasn't that fake juice stuff that kids use to act like vampires on Halloween. This was real, red, thick blood. It killed every living organism in the Nile, and prevented the people from drinking clean water, (or any water at all.) it even turned the water in their buckets and at their homes into blood!
You'd think the Pharaoh would be on board with the whole "free the Israelites" thing... but he still wasn't convinced. He asked his magician phonies if they could turn water into blood, and by their silly tricks and practices, they did the same.
So, Pharaoh didn't believe Moses and Aaron. There are more plagues to come, and more miracles to be revealed. Stay tuned! Haha.
Go in peace, and don't doubt God today, like Pharaoh. Everything that happens is a result of God, and it's all in his plan.
Be thankful for everything today!
Peace out!
Welcome, one and all. What a beautiful Sunday... but aren't all Sunday's beautiful? I think so, personally.
Today's reading happens over Exodus, chapters 5, 6, and 7. Please, read these chapters at www.bible.com or on the BIBLE READER to the left of this post. It's only a quick 3 chapters... so read away. I'll be here when you get back... forever... and even after that.
So, we left off with Moses and Aaron, (Moses' prophet,) going to tell the Israelites that God has heard their cry, and is coming to save them, releasing them from Egypt and all the hard work that Pharaoh has put them up to. The people believed that what Moses and Aaron said was true, and we ended yesterday's reading with a beautifully happy scene, all the people overcome with joy, bowing and weeping and praising God in gratitude.
That must of made Moses and Aaron feel really confident. They went to the Pharaoh and told him to "let their people go!" because God had told them that they must be freed.
Pharaoh was all "Who is this GOD you speak of?" If I were Moses, I'd hit him with my staff and scream, "You know, the guy who CREATED YOU???"
But Moses didn't. Instead, he told Aaron to throw down his staff in front of the Pharaoh, and when he did, it turned into a snake!! Best magic trick ever, right?
Pharaoh (for some odd reason) still wasn't convinced that they had spoken to God. He called all the best magicians in the land together to see if they could pull off such a stunt, and with all their tricks and stuff, they could. I guess if you were Pharaoh, then it'd be hard to know who was real and who wasn't... but since we know that Moses and Aaron were able to do so because of God, we know who really transformed the staff rod thingy.
Pharaoh didn't believe Moses and Aaron were speaking to God, so he didn't let the Israelites be free. Instead, he told everyone they were just LAZY, and should have MORE work. I hope I'm not sinning by saying this, but that Pharaoh was an idiot.
He gave the people more work to do, and didn't provide them with the materials to do all the work, either. The people then turned on Moses and Aaron, and stopped believing them.
Time for miracle number two! Moses and Aaron met the Pharaoh at the river where he washed, and when Aaron lifted up the staff, the water turned into blood. And, it wasn't that fake juice stuff that kids use to act like vampires on Halloween. This was real, red, thick blood. It killed every living organism in the Nile, and prevented the people from drinking clean water, (or any water at all.) it even turned the water in their buckets and at their homes into blood!
You'd think the Pharaoh would be on board with the whole "free the Israelites" thing... but he still wasn't convinced. He asked his magician phonies if they could turn water into blood, and by their silly tricks and practices, they did the same.
So, Pharaoh didn't believe Moses and Aaron. There are more plagues to come, and more miracles to be revealed. Stay tuned! Haha.
Go in peace, and don't doubt God today, like Pharaoh. Everything that happens is a result of God, and it's all in his plan.
Be thankful for everything today!
Peace out!
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