Tag: Egypt
Biblical Principle #138: God Sent His Angel to Accompany Israel
Biblical Principles List Principle God sent His angel to accompany Israel to Canaan. Explanation As GOD concluded His initial message to Moses at Mount Sinai, after having spoken the Ten Commandments to all of Israel, GOD told Moses: 20 “Behold, I send My Angel before your face, to keep you in the way and to…
Biblical Principle #132: Israel Camped at Mount Sinai
Biblical Principles List Principle On the first day of the third month since leaving Egypt, Israel camped at Mount Sinai. Explanation After a long journey from Egypt, nearly 90 days later, Israel reached Mount Sinai in the Arabian desert. It may have seemed like just another waypoint at first, but it would soon become the…
Biblical Principle #125: Israel Crossed the Red Sea on Dry Land
Biblical Principles List Principle God parted the Red Sea and Israel walked across on dry land. Explanation GOD had one more miracle to show Pharaoh. 1 Now the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Speak to the children of Israel that they turn and camp at the village between Migdol and the sea, opposite Baal…
Biblical Principle #122: God Sent Plagues Upon Egypt
Biblical Principles List Principle God sent the plagues upon Egypt so that He could show His great might and superiority over all creation. Explanation Because Pharaoh resisted Moses’ and Aaron’s message from GOD to allow the Israelites to go into the wilderness and worship Him, GOD sent a sequence of plagues upon Egypt. The plagues…
Biblical Principle #119: God Called Moses
Biblical Principles List Principle God called Moses to deliver Israel from Egyptian slavery. Explanation At the age of 80 (see Exodus 7:7), GOD called Moses to lead Israel out of Egyptian slavery. These events are recorded in Exodus 3-4. GOD appeared to Moses and got his attention through a burning bush that, miraculously, was not…
Biblical Principle #112: Seventy-Five in Jacob’s Family Went to Egypt
Biblical Principles List Principle Seventy-five souls of Jacob’s family went to Egypt. Explanation The previous handful of Principles have focused on the writings that comprise the Bible, how we got them, and the differences between textual families. We have examined reasons why the Greek Septuagint (LXX) is a superior Old Testament source, yet it is…
Biblical Principle #99: Humans Elevated Above Heavenly Creatures
Biblical Principles List Principle The heavenly creatures—the first sun, moon, and stars of creation—are brought lower than GOD’s elect humans. Explanation Genesis 37 records two dreams that Joseph, son of Jacob, had: 5 Then Joseph had a dream, and reported it to his brothers. 6 Thus he said to them, “Hear this dream I dreamed:…
September 24 – Daniel’s Final Vision
Reading Dan. 10:1-12:13 Devotional In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia, Daniel receives what would be his last recorded vision. The vision begins as Daniel was standing by the Tigris River. He looked up and saw a man dressed in linen, with a gold belt around his waist, a face like lightning, eyes…
August 31 – A Remnant of Judah Flees to Egypt
Reading Jer. 40:7-16; 41:1-18; 42:1-22; 43:1-13; 44:1-30; 51:64b Devotional Only two months after Jerusalem’s fall conflict arises within the remnant of Judah. Recall that Nebuchadnezzar had setup Gedaliah as governor of Judah. Only the poorest Israelites had been left in Judah, the rest were carried to Babylon. Some of these men, led by a man…