THE BURNING BUSH (4 OF 11)
by Zach Terry
Scripture: Exodus 2:23-25, Exodus 3:1-6
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The Burning Bush (4 of 11)
Series: To the Mount of God
Zach Terry
Exodus 2:23-3:6 (ESV)
ESTHER AND DON MARQUETTE - Celebrate their 60th Wedding Anniversary this week. 50th is Gold, 55th is Emerald, 60th is Diamond! Mrs. Esther if you stick with Don 5 more years, it's the Blue Sapphire.
CONTEXT: Listen, if you will, to the final words of the Patriarch Joseph -
Genesis 50:24 (ESV)
24 And Joseph said to his brothers, ''I am about to die, but God will visit you and bring you up out of this land to the land that he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.''
God will visit you - and God will bring you up out of Egypt into a land he has sworn to give to you.
For the true believers, generation after generation, they remembered that promise, that prophecy - that one day God would visit them. But, what did that mean? How would he bring them into the promised land? So many questions and so few answers.
Generation after generation - the prophecy of Joseph was spoken of again and again. The further we move from a prophetic utterance, the less real it seems. It is then that all manner of strange interpretations begin to take the punch out of the prophecy.
Perhaps the VISITATION was spiritual, or even metaphorical.
Perhaps the land of promise was more of a state of mind than an actual inheritance.
Jewish families had sons and daughters, generation after generation, then grew to a vast population in Egypt, some suggest as many as a million souls.
Then it happened, a regime change and all of the difficulty that comes with it. A new Pharaoh arose, who knew not Joseph. He owed nothing to the Hebrews. To him, they were less of a friend, and more of a threat.
You remember the story, they were enslaved, brutally mistreated, ultimately efforts to control their population were enacted with the prescribed killing of all male children born to the Hebrews.
But the PROPHECY of Joseph still echoed in the minds of Amran and Jochebed two old belie ...
Series: To the Mount of God
Zach Terry
Exodus 2:23-3:6 (ESV)
ESTHER AND DON MARQUETTE - Celebrate their 60th Wedding Anniversary this week. 50th is Gold, 55th is Emerald, 60th is Diamond! Mrs. Esther if you stick with Don 5 more years, it's the Blue Sapphire.
CONTEXT: Listen, if you will, to the final words of the Patriarch Joseph -
Genesis 50:24 (ESV)
24 And Joseph said to his brothers, ''I am about to die, but God will visit you and bring you up out of this land to the land that he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.''
God will visit you - and God will bring you up out of Egypt into a land he has sworn to give to you.
For the true believers, generation after generation, they remembered that promise, that prophecy - that one day God would visit them. But, what did that mean? How would he bring them into the promised land? So many questions and so few answers.
Generation after generation - the prophecy of Joseph was spoken of again and again. The further we move from a prophetic utterance, the less real it seems. It is then that all manner of strange interpretations begin to take the punch out of the prophecy.
Perhaps the VISITATION was spiritual, or even metaphorical.
Perhaps the land of promise was more of a state of mind than an actual inheritance.
Jewish families had sons and daughters, generation after generation, then grew to a vast population in Egypt, some suggest as many as a million souls.
Then it happened, a regime change and all of the difficulty that comes with it. A new Pharaoh arose, who knew not Joseph. He owed nothing to the Hebrews. To him, they were less of a friend, and more of a threat.
You remember the story, they were enslaved, brutally mistreated, ultimately efforts to control their population were enacted with the prescribed killing of all male children born to the Hebrews.
But the PROPHECY of Joseph still echoed in the minds of Amran and Jochebed two old belie ...
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