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Results from: Answers On or After: Thu 12/31/70 Author: luster Ordered by Date |
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1 | what if there was blood on door? | Ex 12:1 | luster | 70696 | ||
Every Israelite household was to select an unblemished year-old male lamb or goat on the tenth day of Nisan and kill it on the forteenth day in the evening. The blood from this lamb was to be applied to every Israelite doorway so that when the death Angel sees the blood he will passover those houses. Anyway, the lamb was roasted and the flesh of the lamb was eaten by the families along with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. While eating, the family members were to be ready to leave quickly, for the order of march might come at any time. Remember, this all started when Moses told God in the Burning Bush about the heavy afflictions his people where suffering at the hands of this new Pharaoh who did not know of Joseph. God told Moses that he would make him a god(deliver) to his people and he would put these 10 plagues to Pharaoh but he also would harden Pharoah's heart for a time and he would not let his people (Israel) go. It was all in God's plan. God told Moses that he would lead his people "Israel" out of the land of Egypt into the promised land. Remember this land (Canaan) was barren when Jacob moved to Egypt. Since then Canaan had become a modernized city, flowing with richness. God told Abraham, Isaac and Jocob this land was an inheritance to his descendants. Mind you, God is a good and just God. The people who then lived in Canaan did evil continually in the sight of God and God said they had reached their full measure. God's predicted their demise to Moses. They were to utterly destroy all the people and then the land were to be divided into lots to the 12 tribes of Israel (Jacob). When I say the 12 tribes (Joseph was not included in the 12 tribes, but his son Manasseh and Ephraim. They were termed "half tribe of Manasseh" and the "half tribe of Ephraim". 1/2 and 1/2 makes a whole. So Jacob 11 sons and the half tribes of Joseph sons make up the twelve tribes. There were 10 plagues. The last plague "death of every Egyptian firstborn male child" (Exod. 11:15). Even Pharoah's son was included in the slaughter. However, the severity of the 10th plague brought quick results from Pharaoh (Exod.12:29-36). Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron that same night and told them that Israel could leave Egypt. The next day all Israel began the long-awaited move out of the land of bondage. They killed the lambs, applied the blood to the doorways, and ate in haste the roasted flesh. When the death-cry arose from all the homes of Egypt, the Israelities homes identified by the applied blood were spared. Lambs had to be slain in place of sons. God instructed that an annual Passover Feast should be observed perpetually in memory of this significant occasion (Exod. 12:14-28). The children of Israel (Jacob) migrated to Egypt because of a severe famine in Canaan (which as I indicated earlier was barren at that time). My husband came from a rural neighborhood in Virginia, 10 years later and you would not believe the place. It now looks like a residental neighborhood. Joseph was God's instrument to bring the family into this fine county (land of Goshen, Egypt) where it would grow to the appropriate size for nationhood. God was fulfilling his promise to the fathers - Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Joseph. I would suggest you start by reading Gen. 18. The covenant promise were repeated to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. God told Isaac that because Abraham, his father, obeyed Him and kept his commands, the blessing of the covenant would come on his generation (Gen. 26:5) Jacob was 130 years old when he left for Egypt and died at 147 of age. Joseph died at the age of 110 (Gen. 50:26) 54 years after his father Jacob. God placed Joseph in this exalted position so that he might prepare the way for Jacob's coming to Egypt. The Israelites lived 430 years in Egypt. In Gen. 15:13 God predicted to Abraham that his posterity would be "strangers in a country not their own" and that they would be mistreated 400 years. God promised the 3 fathers (Abraham, Isaac and Jacob) that their descendants would multiply as the sands of the sea. When Jacob came to live in Egypt he had a family of 70. When Moses led Israel across the Egypt's border at the time of the Exodus, Jacob's 70 had multiplied to more than 2 million. I hope this has been helpful. If you require any further explanation, please start reading the entire book of Genesis to the Exodus. If anything seems confusing do not hesitate to email me a short message that you wrote something on the board. |
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