Patrick Miron
Patrick4Jesus
Start Pt 3 & 4 of 9
Point # [3 & 4] Moses and the tablets
Again a bit of background seems prudent here by way of evidencing this topic.
The Old Testament taken as a whole is a Battle saga; a story of the war between GOD and His chosen People: Deuteronomy 7: 6 “[6] Because thou art a holy people to the Lord thy God. {a long way of being that at this point} The Lord thy God hath chosen thee, to be his peculiar people of all peoples that are upon the earth.” {The READ 1 Peter 2:9}.
When God made this decision {which He always knew that He would}; the world was filled with waring peoples and a huge-multiplicity of self-invented gods were common and numerous. So God had to convince them of what He began with Adam and still desires today: Belief in only One True God; One True set of Faith beliefs in and through his One True Chosen People; which was the identical task Jesus faced about 2,000 years later. {Mt 16:18 …. My Church; Eph. 4:5 … One Faith}
So if YOU were God, how would you go about convincing them; the One Chosen People that:
1. You ARE GOD {the one only TRUE-God}
2. That You demanded their total and complete loyalty and obedience {One set of Faith beliefs} See Eph. 4:5
3. That you would reward good and punish evil to train them and conditionally save them
So just what and how would you go about this? {A rhetorical question as God never ask for OUR opinions; what we want is always overridden by what He wants.
Here then was {is} God’s game plan:
1. Give very much indisputable {logically & morally} evidence of your power and commitment.
2. Set up circumstances that would accommodate your display of Power, compassion and commitment
3. Display your Power; rewarding “good” and punishing evil to set a prime moral Precedent, with emphasis on the penalty for obstinacy, which Yahweh knew he would face both in the Egyptians and in the Jewish Nation
4. Exhibit extraordinary patience and make CLEAR what your expectations are
How did God accomplish His goals?
He permitted the Hebrew Nation ton be taken captive by the Egyptians.
Them He chose Moses {and his brother Aaron} as his leader{s] and spokespersons
Next Yahweh had them make DEMANDS to the Egyptian King
Whom he permitted to have a hardened obstinate heart {and head}
Which THEN permitted Yahweh to exhibit His Powers and Authority, while at the same time showing GREAT compassion on the plight of the Jews.
Each Yahweh {GOD} imposed condition was met with prideful-obstinacy, which gave Yahweh the opportunity to simultaneously punish the King and his people; while at the same time making evident to the Jews, His unlimited Power and Authority, which was to become the historical benchmark-evidence of his One God, Faith and People over the years.
So, we are to accept the 10 plague’s {chapters 1 to 14 or 2x7} as real, which foretell the Ten Commandments and consequences for not accepting and fully obeying them. That darn old obstinacy thing again.
Certainly all of this is within the Powers and Authority of the very same God who Created the Universe and everything in it, and sustains all of it in the Order that he Ordained for it.
Much history is evidenced in the book of Exodus before God introduces the Ten Commandments. That name; “Commandments” does not imply suggestions; rather COMMANDS; failure to accept and obey them WILL have consequences. They are so important that that GOD writes them in STONE to convey their endless life-merit to one’s salvation.
END Pts 3 & 4 of 9
Point # [3 & 4] Moses and the tablets
Again a bit of background seems prudent here by way of evidencing this topic.
The Old Testament taken as a whole is a Battle saga; a story of the war between GOD and His chosen People: Deuteronomy 7: 6 “[6] Because thou art a holy people to the Lord thy God. {a long way of being that at this point} The Lord thy God hath chosen thee, to be his peculiar people of all peoples that are upon the earth.” {The READ 1 Peter 2:9}.
When God made this decision {which He always knew that He would}; the world was filled with waring peoples and a huge-multiplicity of self-invented gods were common and numerous. So God had to convince them of what He began with Adam and still desires today: Belief in only One True God; One True set of Faith beliefs in and through his One True Chosen People; which was the identical task Jesus faced about 2,000 years later. {Mt 16:18 …. My Church; Eph. 4:5 … One Faith}
So if YOU were God, how would you go about convincing them; the One Chosen People that:
1. You ARE GOD {the one only TRUE-God}
2. That You demanded their total and complete loyalty and obedience {One set of Faith beliefs} See Eph. 4:5
3. That you would reward good and punish evil to train them and conditionally save them
So just what and how would you go about this? {A rhetorical question as God never ask for OUR opinions; what we want is always overridden by what He wants.
Here then was {is} God’s game plan:
1. Give very much indisputable {logically & morally} evidence of your power and commitment.
2. Set up circumstances that would accommodate your display of Power, compassion and commitment
3. Display your Power; rewarding “good” and punishing evil to set a prime moral Precedent, with emphasis on the penalty for obstinacy, which Yahweh knew he would face both in the Egyptians and in the Jewish Nation
4. Exhibit extraordinary patience and make CLEAR what your expectations are
How did God accomplish His goals?
He permitted the Hebrew Nation ton be taken captive by the Egyptians.
Them He chose Moses {and his brother Aaron} as his leader{s] and spokespersons
Next Yahweh had them make DEMANDS to the Egyptian King
Whom he permitted to have a hardened obstinate heart {and head}
Which THEN permitted Yahweh to exhibit His Powers and Authority, while at the same time showing GREAT compassion on the plight of the Jews.
Each Yahweh {GOD} imposed condition was met with prideful-obstinacy, which gave Yahweh the opportunity to simultaneously punish the King and his people; while at the same time making evident to the Jews, His unlimited Power and Authority, which was to become the historical benchmark-evidence of his One God, Faith and People over the years.
So, we are to accept the 10 plague’s {chapters 1 to 14 or 2x7} as real, which foretell the Ten Commandments and consequences for not accepting and fully obeying them. That darn old obstinacy thing again.
Certainly all of this is within the Powers and Authority of the very same God who Created the Universe and everything in it, and sustains all of it in the Order that he Ordained for it.
Much history is evidenced in the book of Exodus before God introduces the Ten Commandments. That name; “Commandments” does not imply suggestions; rather COMMANDS; failure to accept and obey them WILL have consequences. They are so important that that GOD writes them in STONE to convey their endless life-merit to one’s salvation.
END Pts 3 & 4 of 9
