Secret References to Christ In the Old testament Scriptures. Kenneth B. Alexander
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Название: Secret References to Christ In the Old testament Scriptures
Автор: Kenneth B. Alexander
Издательство: Ingram
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So fearing the Israelites the Pharaoh ordered all the first born boys to be killed. Note the similarity to Christ’s birth wherein King Herod ordered all the first born in Bethlehem to be killed as he feared a King had been born who would take his thrown (known as the “slaughter of the innocents”). However jesus escaped this fate when taken to Egypt until Herod died. Moses Mother, unable to hide her new born Moses, got a wicker basket and covered it over with tar and pitch. Then she put the child into it and set it among the reeds by the bank of the Nile. By chance (divine intention) the daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the Nile and she saw the basket among the reeds and sent her maid, and she brought it to her. When she opened it, she saw the child, and behold, the boy was crying. And she had pity on him and said, “This is one of the Hebrews’ children.” She gave the baby back to his mother to nurse for a time then took the child for her own. The child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter and he became her son. And she named him Moses, [Heb Mosheh, from mashah] and said, “Because I drew him out of the water” (Exodus 2:1-10).
When Moses had grown up, he went out to his Israelite brethren and looked on their hard labors; and he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew. So he struck down and killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand. When he discovered that the murder had became known he fled as the Pharaoh sought to kill him. He fled into Midian in the desert. Moses was about 40 at this time so he had been born and raised an Egyptian and knew their ways (Ex 2:11-15). Moses found favor with a Midianite tribe and married the chief’s daughter Zipporah. He had a son Gershon and stayed with his father-in-law and the Midianites for 40 years tending their sheep.
“Now it came about in the course of those many days that the king of Egypt died. And the sons of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried out; and their cry for help because of their bondage rose up to God. So God heard their groaning; and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. God saw the sons of Israel, and God took notice of them” (Ex 2:23-25).
“Now Moses was pasturing the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian; and he led the flock to the west side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God (the same mountain from which he was later to give the Law, also called Mt. Sinai). The angel of the Lord appeared to him in a blazing fire from the midst of a bush; and he looked, and behold, the bush was burning with fire, yet the bush was not consumed” The Angel of the Lord (v. 4) was the Lord (cf. Gen. 16:9). Fire was a symbol of God’s presence, seen later when He descended upon Mount Sinai (Ex. 19:18). “God called to him from the midst of the bush and said, “Moses, Moses!” And he said, “Here I am….”He said also, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” Then Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God. The Lord said, “I have surely seen the affliction of My people who are in Egypt, and have given heed to their cry because of their taskmasters, for I am aware of their sufferings. “So I have come down to deliver them from the power of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land to a good and spacious land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite”.
The Canaanite tribes listed above are all listed in Genesis 10:15-18 except the Perizzites, who along with several other peoples descended from Canaan, son of Ham and grandson of Noah. God said to Moses: “Now, behold, the cry of the sons of Israel has come to Me; furthermore, I have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians are oppressing them” “Therefore, come now, and I will send you to Pharaoh, so that you may bring My people, the sons of Israel, out of Egypt” (Ex 3:1-10). This later became a common theme in Israel and Judah. Trouble would arise and God would send a deliverer. Jesus Christ was the ultimate deliverer.
Hereafter Moses begins his excuses as to why he could not go. But God confirmed he would be with him and sent an unusual sign as conformation. “But Moses said to God, “Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring the sons of Israel out of Egypt?” The Lord answered: “Certainly I will be with you, and this shall be the sign to you that it is I who have sent you: when you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall worship God at this mountain [Horeb, Sinai].” The unusual sign was that after Moses had delivered the Israelites his sign would be that they would worship at the very mountain upon which he was standing. The sign is unusual in that Moses was concerned whether he could even deliver the Israelites at all but God ignored that and placed a sign that would occur after the Israelites were delivered
Then Moses said to God, “Behold, I am going to the sons of Israel, and I will say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you.’ Now they may say to me, ‘What is His name?’ What shall I say to them?” God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM”; [the name of God, YHWH, rendered Lord, which is derived from the verb HAYAH, to be] and He said, “Thus you shall say to the sons of Israel, ‘I AM [YHWH] has sent me to you.’ ” God, furthermore, said to Moses, “Thus you shall say to the sons of Israel, ‘The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.’ This is My name forever, and this is My memorial-name to all generations. “Go and gather the elders of Israel together and say to them, ‘The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, “I am indeed concerned about you and what has been done to you in Egypt. “So I said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, to a land flowing with milk and honey” (Ex 3:11-21).
YHWH was the most important name for God in the OT, which occurs about 6,800 times, usually pronounced Yahweh. The Hebrews had no vowels in their alphabet so the modern translation used is ‘Yahweh,’ though the known pronunciation was lost in the postexilic period. Due to the increasing sanctity attached to the name and the consequential desire to avoid misuse by the Jews YHWH, the pronunciation, was prohibited in Jewish culture. The title Adonai (Heb., ‘My Great Lord’) was pronounced in place of the tetragrammaton YHWH to avoid use of the true Most Holy name. God’s name YHWH (I AM that I AM ) was the true Hebrew name of God. In written texts the vowels of Adonai were combined with the consonants YHWH to remind readers to pronounce Adonai instead of Yahweh. The incorrect hybrid, ‘Jehovah,’ arose from Christian misunderstanding in the late Middle Ages. The respect for the sanctity of the personal name of God is reflected in modern Judaism. If God has a true name it is this one. It indicates that God is a God of today, right now and is always ready to move to accomplish His will; THE RIGHT NOW GOD.
Moses’ excuses continued. He asked God Then Moses said, “What if they will not believe me or listen to what I say? For they may say, ‘The Lord has not appeared to you“ what if they don’t believe me?“.’ The Lord sent him three signs to perform so that the Israelites wuld believe. The Lord said to him, “What is that in your hand?” And he said, “A staff.” Then He said, “Throw it on the ground.” So he threw it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from it. But the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand and grasp it by its tail”—so he stretched out his hand and caught it, and it became a staff in his hand——“that they may believe that the Lord, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you.” The Lord furthermore said to him, “Now put your hand into your bosom.” So he put his hand into his bosom, and СКАЧАТЬ