Paula Aguilar
September 21, 2015
Exodus
In the book of Exodus, it is about the journey of Moses and how God used him to free the Israelites from Egypt. Moses was a Hebrew baby that was found by the Pharaoh’s daughter and was raised by them. As Moses got older, he witnessed the cruel way an Egyptian was beating an Israelite worker. Moses intervened and ended up killing the Egyptian. Out if fear Moses leaves Egypt and lands in Midian.
While out one day with his flock, Moses came upon a burning bush. That bush ended up being God. This is where God asks Moses to go back to Egypt to ask the Pharaoh to let his people go. Moses hesitates and asks God how and why him. During his conversation with God, Moses is convinced that he must do what the
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Moses and Aaron make their way back to Egypt, they speak with the Pharaoh and the Pharaoh asks then to prove that God is speaking through him. To prove the Pharaoh that God is speaking through Moses, Moses performs a miracle by throwing his staff to the floor turning his staff into a snake. The Pharaoh shows Moses that anyone can do that trick and he brings out his magician to prove his point. After the first meeting, the Pharaoh increases the Israelites work load. God responds by inflicting a series of ten plagues on Egypt. The first plague was turned the Nile River into blood, the second plague was the infestation of frogs all over Egypt, the third plague was when God turned all of the dust in Egypt to gnats, and the fourth was the swarms of flies that came into the houses of Pharaoh and his officials. God’s fifth plague was when he infested Egypt’s livestock with a disease, the sixth plague he created festering boils on humans and animals, the seventh plague he sends thunder, hail, and fire that destroy crops, livestock, and people. The eight plague is when God sends swarms of locusts, the ninth plague God covers Egypt with “a darkness that can be felt” (10:21). Before each plague, Moses would stand before the …show more content…
Also, that he deeply cared and helped out his people when they were in need.
Three positive things that this book teaches about humanity is that people can be selfless, like the way Moses stood up for the Israelites. Also that not all people were evil like the Pharaoh; like the midwives who didn’t participate in the murders of baby boys. The last is that the dedication and sacrifice of one man saved the lives of thousands. The negative things this book teaches is that people are selfish, greedy, ungrateful and cruel.
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After Joseph died the new Egyptian pharaoh began to realize that the Israelite population was on the rise and oppressed them by making them slaves. As a result of being slaves and beginning to populate Egypt the Egyptians decided to kill all the firstborn Israelite male babies. The only one to escape this massacre was Moses who’s mother put him in a basket and put him in the water. He was then found by Pharaoh’s daughter and she saved him and treated him as if he was her own son. As a result of the event of having been enslaved and having their male children killed the Israelites cried out to God and he heard them.
Moses brought plague upon the Egyptians in hoping to lead to the release of the Israelites. For the first plague Moses replaced the water of the Nile River with blood (Exod 7:14-24). For the second plague Moses sent an infantry of frogs upon the Egyptians (Exod 7:25-8:15). These two plague’s were both replicated
Aaron stretched his hands across the Egyptian land and the cattle were destroyed. However, the cattle of the Hebrews remained. The Egyptians were very angry with Moses, Aaron, Betsy, and the Hebrews. The plague lasted until evening that day.
But a few hours after he changed his mind. Moses stretched his hands and there came a great plague of locusts on the entire agricultural produce of Egypt. The locusts ate and destroyed thousands of acres of crops such as corn and wheat, but on the Hebrews residence there were not even the smallest locust.
Recognition of God's sovereignty is at the heart of worship,--the driving theme of the Book of Exodus,--and the reason God so severely punishes the Egyptians. God does not punish the Egyptians for keeping the Israelites as slaves. God punishes the Egyptians for Pharaoh's attempt to better God by sacrificing His firstborn: Israel. Although many arguments can be made against human sacrifice, none mitigates God's anger with Pharaoh. In general, God's anger is rarely pacified: not even Moses protects the Israelite idol worshipers at Mt. Sinai. At Moses' command, the Levites slay three thousand of their brothers, friends, and neighbors--the innocent along with the guilty. Believing God's wrath has branded them with righteousness, Moses praises the survivors as "blessed." God has other plans: another plague. With the deaths of those who break Faith, God is satisfied. As Supreme Ruler, God defends those who worship Him and destroys those who worship idols. After leading the defeat of the Amalekites at Rephidim, Moses
God narrative flow hears the Israelites moaning and groaning, so He emergence Moses an Egyptian to be the leader of faith in Egypt. God narrative plan continues perfectly for Him that His promise for every generation is fulfilled in the earth and among covenant with Abraham, Jacobs, and Isaac families. Fretheim study highlights the main events of God structure plan for Israelites journey through Exodus concerning Moses as their leader. God engage His divine plan for the covenant law, “the Ten Commandments on Mt. Sinai” (106). Exodus flows with several phenomena events taken place “the Passover and the feast of unleavened bread, the Red Sea crossing, and giving of the law at Mt. Sinai” for the people of Israel to recognized God constitutive foundation establishment for ongoing communities of faith (101-102). God capture Moses attend through a burning bush. Moses, Moses, God calls take off your sandals you are standing Holy ground and Moses reluctantly said this is I God informs Moses to go and demand Pharaoh to let the Israelites go free. Fretheim reflects that “God actions are because of Pharaoh disobedience to the will of His creation of a
In reading Exodus, I noticed two ways that God divided things. The first way God divides is by dividing the people of Israel from the rest of the world, specifically in this week’s reading from Egypt. The second divide is how he divided the Hebrew nation, before and after Exodus. God always had a special relationship with the Israelites, but he now has started telling them things they need to do such as Passover, Consecration of the First Born, and the Sabbath.
Exodus is the earliest text in the Old Testament that creates a new identity and sense of community to a group of people who had nothing. According to the Exodus there were a group of slaves who fled Egypt and where led by a prophet named Moses, who also is the proclaimed author of the book. These people where on a mission to find the promise land where they can be free from oppression and create their own civilization. These claims are true are still debated to this day, but the text was written around the 1400 B.C. Moses intentions for Exodus were to set laws for his new community to a group of people who had only knew lives as slaves.
Moses was a leader of the Hebrews and probably the most important figure in Judaism. He led the Hebrew people out of Egypt and into the Promise Land. His story is told in the book of Exodus, and begins when he was first born during the time that the pharaoh of Egypt declared that all male Hebrew babies were to be drowned at birth. Moses’ mother Yocheved, hid Moses and placed him in a basket in the reeds of the Nile River, where he was then found by the pharaoh’s daughter, who kept Moses and raised him as her own. In the story of Moses, he grows up and stumbles upon an Egyptian beating a Hebrew slave. Out of anger Moses murders the Egyptian, and flees to Midian to escape his crime (Hays, 2000). In Midian, Moses rests besides a well,
The book of Exodus is the second book of the Torah. “Exodus” means “a way out” or “going out”. Exodus focuses on the Covenant Code in the Mosaic Law. The second book of Torah consists of various counts of stories of God’s prophet Moses leading God’s people (Jews) out of Egypt and to their promised land of Israel. In order to follow God’s instructions, Moses led the Jews to Israel. “Traditionally, the oral law of Judaism is believed to have been given to Moses by God at Mount Sinai and orally transmitted for 1500 years” (Fieser and Powers 278). Moses helps the Israelites clarify the way in which God wants his people to live their life. Through the words of God, Moses creates a covenant where if the Israelites follow and abide God’s instruction, then those Jews will become the holy people, which mean they will be protected and blessed by their God. “Moses’ meeting with God on Mount Sinai results in the proclamation of a covenant that Moses enters into with God on behalf of the people of Israel” (Coward 3). In order for Moses to lead God’s people out of Egypt, Moses needed to proclaim his denomination of following his God; he needs to practice and abiding God’s laws for God’s people to follow. God chooses Moses as his prophet to help deliver his words to his people so they can be his followers.
After Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt, parted the Red Sea, he met with God on top of Mt. Sinai to receive the Ten Commandments before continuing to wander the wilderness of Sinai for the remainder of the following forty years. After traveling, the Israelites set up camp and the following morning they heard thunder and saw lightning along with a black cloud that covered the top of a nearby mountain. Moses goes up the mountain and soon returns to prepare the Israelites that the storm that they are hearing and seeing is God. The Israelites become somewhat afraid of the storm hearing that it is God and move their camp some distance away in order to feel safer. As directed by God, Moses climbs to the top of the mountain taking with him two stone
In the book of Exodus of the Old Testament of the Judeo-Christian Bible, Moses asked God for His Name, and God responded “I Am that I Am”, which, in Hebrew is “Yahweh” and in Greek it is “Oh Ohn” which literally translates as “The One That Exists”.
As most of the Israelites were extremely terrified to leave Egypt, their fear was holding them back into freedom. They would have much rather stay and serve Pharaoh instead of dying making an attempt to be free in the wilderness with Moses. The plagues got the attention of the Israelites and they began to slowly believe in God and Moses. As he gained the confidence of the Israelites, Moses began to lead them to freedom through the passing of the Red Sea. After the death of his firstborn son, Pharaoh released the Hebrews of slavery and they began to march out the Egypt with great confidence.
So he goes on another journey and leaves his family to rescue the Hebrew people from Egyptian oppression. He creates an army of Hebrews to fight back the Egyptians. This is not successful in the movie, God brings about the plagues. His hometown of Egypt gets riddled by a plagues and Ramses is killing families until they find Moses. Then the horrible plagues happen to Egypt, because of Ramses hardened heart.
The book of Exodus has been called “the Gospel of the Old Testament,” for it records God’s grace as well as God’s law. It tells the good news of how God miraculously delivered the descendants of Jacob from slavery in Egypt and set them on a journey to the Promised Land.