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1 | Who was God going to kill? | Ex 4:24 | MJH | 138573 | ||
Who was God going to kill? Had anyone else seen this verse translated differently? That God sought to kill Gershom (Moses first born son.) and that Zipporah touched Gershom’s feet with the foreskin, and that she said, "Surly you are a bride groom of blood to me" to the LORD God (as apposed to Moses)? The Hebrew is not specific. Just curious if anyone else has seen anything similar. I am still studying this one. MJH |
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2 | Who was God going to kill? | Ex 4:24 | Aixen7z4 | 138577 | ||
Many translations boldly write the word “Moses” instead of “him”. Thus: “Along the way they stopped for the night. The LORD met Moses and tried to kill him“ (God's Word). NIV and NLT indicate it could be either Moses or his son. Matthew Henry acknowledges the ambiguity but suggests it was the son who was going to die: “The account in this and the two following verses, although rather obscure, seems to imply, that on their way to the land of Egypt, an angel appeared to Moses, and sought to kill his son, on account of his father’s non-observance of the Lord’s positive command to Abraham, that every man child of the Jewish nation, or born in his house in servitude, should be circumcised on the eighth day; and the Zipporah, at the command of Moses, immediately fulfilled the injunction, and thus averted the wrath of God, denounced against the disobedient: ‘The uncircumcised man child, whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people.’“ Genesis 17:4 (quoted above) leads us to think it was the uncircumcised son who would have been killed. Exodus 20:5, Exodus 34:7, Numbers 14:18, and Deuteronomy 5:9 would indicate it would have been God’s way at that time, to punish the son for the sins of the father. Ezekiel 18:4 leads us to think it was Moses who was responsible and guilty and worthy of death. All in all, it seems not to matter. God was not going to kill either one of them (Jonah 3:10; 4:3). Moses in writing might have chosen his words as Luke did (24:28) perhaps, but we suppose the Holy Spirit would have him to write as he did and that he would have us to look to the other passages and to combine them, as we did here, in order to get the bigger message. |
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3 | Who was God going to kill? | Ex 4:24 | cast net | 138597 | ||
I respect your opinion on what you said about God was not going to kill either one of them,but what helped you to form such a firm belief in this statement? I always believed one of them would have died if atonement had not been made. SHALOM | ||||||
4 | Who was God going to kill? | Ex 4:24 | Aixen7z4 | 138609 | ||
It is my understanding that God does not desire the death of the disobedient person. Ezekiel 18:23 “Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die?” saith the Lord GOD: “and not that he should return from his ways, and live?” Ezekiel 33:11 Say unto them, “As I live”, saith the Lord GOD, “I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die …?” 2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is … not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. The Lord had no more intention to kill Moses or his son than he had of destroying the people of Nineveh (Jonah 3,4) or than Jesus had intention of going further (Luke 24:28). The God who knew that Abraham would direct his family in the right way (Genesis 18) knew that Moses’ family would accede to his demand for circumcision of the male. It does not take away from the fact that God is just and will punish sin. The soul that sinneth, it shall die (Ezekiel 18:4,20). The wicked will be turned into hell (Psalm 9:17). But God looks forward to our repentance and to his chance to forgive us. We might not do well to delve into the foreknowledge of God because it could lead into a discussion of predestination, and that is not the purpose here. But would it not be interesting if God would have chosen Moses to deliver the children of Israel from Egypt and then turned around and killed him (or his son) before he had had a chance to do that? It seems then that God’s threat of death is to remind us that he is a God of justice, but he never wants to follow-through on that threat. He will kill some, as he did Er (Genesis 28) and Korah (Numbers 16), and Uzzah (2 Samuel 6) and those who refuse to repent and trust in Jesus (John 3:16). But he knew he would not have to kill anyone in Moses’ family on the way to Egypt. I agree with you that someone would have died if atonement was not made. But atonement would be made there, and on the cross, by Jesus, and no one needs to die. I speak here of spiritual death. |
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