14:5 - Follow the money. The Israelite departure was bad for the Egyptian economy.
14:10-14 - Fear led Israelites to backlash toward Moses, but Moses stood firm and told them - Do not be afraid. Be still, and watch God deliver you.
14:19-21 - The parting of the sea was not instantaneous; it took all night, during which the Israelites were hidden from the Egyptians' view by the pillar of cloud that had been leading them.
14:25 - The Egyptians appeared to be running from the Israelites when the sea overtook them. They started trying to flee after God disabled their chariots.
14:31 - refer to vs. 10 - Now the Israelites feared the LORD, not the Egyptians.
15:1-2 - See Meditation Moments for article on "The Song of Moses."
15:14 - "The peoples heard, they trembled." The account of the Red Sea crossing would go before the Israelites and prepare their way to Canaan. (Note the source of Rahab's faith in Joshua 2:10.)
15:20 - Miriam - a prophet (teacher) of women? That's who followed her.
Training Period
15:22 - Three days without water led to complaining to Moses, who cried out to God.
15:26 - God: If you listen carefully to my voice and do what is right, I won't bring disease on you.
16:3-4 - Complaints of hunger. The manner in which God provided their food was a test to see whether or not they would follow His instruction.
16:20 - Some failed the test. They did not listen and tried to keep the manna until the next morning.
16:20 - Some failed the next test: They did not gather double measures on the 6th day, and there was nothing there on the Sabbath for them to gather.
Psalm 19:1-6
See Meditation Moments column on this passage, entitled "Divine Show and Tell," published 1/26/08.
Acts 2
v. 5 - "Every nation under heaven" referred to the 15 nations listed in verse 8.
v. 19 - What seems to be devastation language in Joel refers to a kind of creation in Acts 2. One kingdom dies so another can be born.
vv.29-32 - Peter uses a progression of "facts" to help his audience understand David's prophetic psalm and the grave nature of their recent actions.
- David is dead
- David prophesied that one of his descendants would sit on his throne.
- This descendant would die, but his body would not decay; he would not remain dead.
- This prophecy could not apply to David - he remains buried.
- You are all witnesses of the resurrection.
- This man – Jesus – is the fulfillment of David's prophecy.
- This man – Jesus – was the Messiah. And you crucified him.
5 comments:
As you can see, I'm way behind you. It's been 8 days since I read my "daily passage." I'm trying to not put pressure on myself, so that I quickly read through without it entering my brain.... just to get caught up... but trying to write notes and think about what I'm reading. Your notes help me here, because it's interesting to me to see what differences/similarities there are in what we notice.
Hope it's not a disappointment for both comments to be from me! (smile)
This one is the "real" one. I didn't pick up on the "strong east wind all that night." When I went back to the passage, I remembered one other time noticing that. The fact that it'd left my mind again attests to the power of movies.... I see the dramatic picture instead of the real one.
The other interesting thing is the acknowledgment by the Egyptians that "the Lord fights for the Israelites" against the Egyptians.
The last thing I noticed, in regard with this blog citation, was in 15:16."They will be as still as a stone,...Till Your people pass over, O Lord" and earlier in the song the people mentioned Philistia, Edom, Moab, Canaan. Did the Israelites know about these nations already? Was this a prophecy, or was Moses in retrospect naming the countries that Israel would conquer?
15:26 - "There He made a statute and an ordinance for them, and there He tested them...." Was this ordinance the huge blanket "heed the voice of the Lord?"
Interesting that the consequence of that faithfulness was rewarded by the lack of disease, viewing that from today's age. If the Old Testament is to show us the nature of God, could all the modern diseases be a result of our general unfaithfulness?
[Do I sound like a nut here?]
Re: 15:26. I don't know about that "statute and ordinance" thing. Aren't they the same thing? Maybe it's repeated for emphasis? And yes, in context, I think it applies to the next verse: "If you listen...I will not bring...."
Re: Diseases. For one thing, he specifies that he won't bring upon them the diseases he brought on the Egyptians. (Boils is the only one I can think of, though.) There is a book called "None of These Diseases" that speaks to the fact that a lot of their dietary laws were related to keeping them healthy, i.e. forbidding pork.
Generally speaking, I think that those who follow God's principles of temperance and see their bodies as the temple of the Holy Spirit are physically healthier. I had a new thought about this when I recently read 1 Corinthians 6, that if we're a part of the body of Christ, when we sin, it's like making him sin (v. 15). Very sobering.
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