Then the LORD said to him, “What is that in your hand?”
“A staff,” he replied.
The LORD said, “Throw it on the ground.”
Moses threw it on the ground and it became a snake, and he ran from it.
Then the LORD said to him, “Reach out your hand and take it by the tail.” So Moses reached out and took hold of the snake and it turned back into a staff in his hand.
God took something Moses was familiar with and used and leaned on – his staff. He said ‘what is that’ as if He didn’t know. “My Staff” Moses says. God wanted Moses to say it. The things you say, Moses, with such confidence as if what you say is how it is, is not the case. You say you can’t talk, you say I should send someone else, you also say this is your staff.
But I can turn it into a snake. and it isn’t just a snake, it says that Moses ran from it. It was scary, it was big and dangerous, and God created it. God create something big and dangerous!? Why? Because it would be no big deal if He turned it into an ice cream cone and told Moses to grab it. He tells Moses to grab it and MOSES HAS TO TRUST GOD. It looks like a deadly snake, even though a minute ago it was my staff, and now YHWH is telling me to pick it up.
God is saying, before He goes before pharoah, who is scary and dangerous, who I created, I’ll train him with something else that’s scary and dangerous that I created. Pharoah ain’t no ice cream cone, he’s a poisonous snake, but I have all authority over all things, so just as I help with the snake staff, I’ll help with Pharoah.
Singing and stories from Isaac on Easter.
Isaac on Easter
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We heard hollers out in the street, then a bunch of dust, then we all closed our eyes. It was pretty wild.
Here is David’s take on it, among a few other things…
David on a Windstorm
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Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father, to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
Jesus gave himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age, the greek word “rescue” is deliver in KJV, but it’s the same word that Jesus uses when he tells you to gouge out your eye if it sins.
what?
it means to pick out, like out of a bucket, you would pick out one pear for yourself. and it actually has the connotation of “for oneself” with it, so Jesus didn’t just die on the cross for us to live with him in eternity, he gave himself for our sins for NOW.
Easter was the best time in the world to finish my 9 months in “The Gospels from a Jewish Perspective” which I would recommend to anybody. There was a lot of good stuff in there.
But now I’m tired of listening to sermons and reading books, I’m going to go Justison on the Bible for a while. Any discoveries will show up here!
The Ner ELOHIM is the center light of the Menorah. It is the light that lights all the other lamps. It was given the same amount of oil as all the others, but they would burn out and have to be cleaned and be re-lit every day. The Ner Elohim, according to the Jewish Encyclopedia,
“by a miracle that lamp regularly burned till the following evening (ib. 86b). This miracle, however, ceased after the death of Simeon the Righteous, who was high priest forty years before the destruction of the Temple (Yoma 39b).”
That same encyclopedia says that Jesus died 40 years before the destruction of the temple.
I just listened to BW talk about how Jesus was the center light of the Menorah, and it went out when He died. I looked on the encyclopedia, because after a bad experience with another teacher stretching the truth I am testing everything. It’s for real. There is even more cool stuff that he didn’t have time to cover. Like this:
The 7 lamps on the Menorah represent the 7 days of the week. The center light stands for the sabbath.
Jesus is our rest, He is our sabbath rest (Hebrews 4).
I think about people and the amount of oil they have. I think about the ones I know that shine light in their rest, and the ones that shine light and burn out every day. I want to be in that rest.
There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God; for anyone who enters God’s rest also rests from his own work, just as God did from His.
I want to shine a light out from my rest. In my sitting in the Holy Place and letting my oil burn miraculously until the following evening.
