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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isbn: 9781456618124
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The Lord was going before them in a pillar of cloud by day to lead them on the way, and in a pillar of fire by night to give them light, that they might travel by day and by night. The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Tell the sons of Israel to turn back and camp before Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea; you shall camp in front of Baal-zephon, opposite it, by the sea” These locations were clearings near the sea—Red or Reed Sea. He thought the Pharaoh would think the sons of Israel were wandering aimlessly in the land and that the wilderness had shut them in. The Lord said: “Thus I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and he will chase after us and I will be honored through Pharaoh and all his army, and the Egyptians will know that I am the Lord.” And they did so. When the king of Egypt was told that the people had fled, Pharaoh and his servants had a change of heart toward the people, and they said, “What is this we have done, that we have let Israel go from serving us?” So he made his chariot ready and took and he took six hundred select chariots, and all the other chariots of Egypt with officers over all of them. Then the Egyptians chased after them and they overtook them camping by the sea. As Pharaoh drew near, the sons of Israel became very frightened and cried out to the Lord. “They said to Moses, “Is it because there were no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you dealt with us in this way, bringing us out of Egypt? They said “Leave us alone that we may serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.”
But Moses said to the people, “Do not fear! Stand by and see the salvation of the Lord which He will accomplish for you today; for the Egyptians whom you have seen today, you will never see them again forever. Then the Lord said to Moses, “Why are you crying out to Me? Tell the sons of Israel to go forward. “As for you, lift up your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it, the sons of Israel shall go through the midst of the sea on dry land” The angel of God, who had been going before the camp of Israel, moved and went behind them; and the pillar of cloud moved from before them and stood behind them. So it came between the camp of Egypt and the camp of Israel; and there was the cloud along with the darkness, yet it gave light at night. Thus the view of the Egyptians was blocked so they could not see the Israelites despite being only a short distance from them. Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the Lord swept the sea back by a strong east wind all night and turned the sea into dry land, so the waters were divided.
It has been proven scientifically that a strong wind can push waters back, leaving a bridge of land between the waters. God caused a strong east wind, according to Exodus. Called the “wind set-down effect” studies have proved that a strong wind blowing for 10-14 hours could push back the waters sufficient for a land crossing (Doren Neff, Florida State oceanographer, referenced by an article by Michael David Lukas, Google.com). This “parting of the sea” would provide a 4-hour gap when the dry land appeared. This certainly does not take away from the parting of the sea as a miracle as such occurrences are very rare but have occurred at other bodies of water in diverse places in the earth. Once the wind ceases to blow the water would have come crashing back to fill the void as described in Exodus.
The sons of Israel went through the midst of the sea on the dry land, and the waters were like a wall to them on their right hand and on their left. Then the Egyptians took up the pursuit, and all Pharaoh’s horses, his chariots and his horsemen went in after them into the midst of the sea. At the morning watch, the Lord looked down on the army of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and cloud and brought the army of the Egyptians into confusion. He caused their chariot wheels to swerve, and He made them drive with difficulty; so the Egyptians said, “Let us flee from Israel, for the Lord is fighting for them against the Egyptians.” Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the sea so that the waters may come back over the Egyptians, over their chariots and their horsemen.” So Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its normal state at daybreak, while the Egyptians were fleeing right into it; then the Lord overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea. The waters returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen, even Pharaoh’s entire army that had gone into the sea after them. Thus the Lord saved Israel that day from the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore. When Israel saw the great power which the Lord had used against the Egyptians, the people feared [revered] the Lord, and they believed in the Lord and in His servant Moses” (Ex 13:21-14-31).
“Then Moses and the sons of Israel sang a song to the Lord” (context see Exodus 15:1-21). Miriam concluded the song with the famous lines: “Miriam the prophetess, Aaron’s sister, took the timbrel [tambourine] in her hand, and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dancing. Miriam answered them, “Sing to the Lord, for He is highly exalted; The horse and his rider He has hurled into the sea”. These acts by God through a mere man, Moses, is by far the greatest appearing by God in the earth until Jesus Christ. God called Moses the most humble man on the face of the earth. “(Now the man Moses was very humble, more than any man who was on the face of the earth)” (Numbers 12:3). Like Christ, who only did what the Father told Him, Moses simply followed the Word of God to the letter. The result was the crippling of the greatest nation on the face of the earth at that time. As God had said Egypt the nation never reached her former glory and He made open show of the Egyptian gods before the world.
The Israelites marched 3 days without water. Moses led Israel from the Sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur where they found no water. When they came to Marah, they could not drink the waters for they were bitter; [Heb Marim] therefore it was named Marah [bitterness]. So in the first of the many times they were displeased with Moses, the people grumbled at Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?” Then he cried out to the Lord, and the Lord showed him a tree; and he threw it into the waters, and the waters became sweet. The wood that Moses tossed into the water did not have a magical effect on the water; it was simply a symbolic act in anticipation of God’s working a miracle (like Moses lifting his staff over the sea” 14:16) Today the oasis at Ain Hawarah [formerly Marah] has only bitter water. The Lord spoke to the people there about obedience. “And He said, “If you will give earnest heed to the voice of the Lord your God, and do what is right in His sight, and give ear to His commandments, and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have put on the Egyptians; for I, the Lord, am your healer” (Ex 15:26-27). Then they came to Elim where there were twelve springs of water and seventy date palms, and they camped there beside the waters (Ex 15:22-27). The Lord was their protector, as Christ is ours today. The only thing He required was obedience.
As they continued to march in the desert wilderness once again the whole congregation of the sons of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron. As unbelievable as it sounds, after the miracles they had witnessed, the sons of Israel said to them, “Would that we had died by the Lord’s hand in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the pots of meat, when we ate bread to the full; for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger”. The meat they ate in Egypt was no delicacy; the Egyptians threw the salted meat into one pot. So once again God answered their grumblings. “Then the Lord said to Moses, “Behold, I will rain bread from heaven СКАЧАТЬ