Posts from August 2015

The Lord said to Moses, “See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, Aaron your prophet. Speak all I command, Aaron shall tell Pharaoh to let the people go. I will harden Pharaoh’s heart Pharaoh’s heart, though I multiply my signs and wonders Pharaoh won’t listen to you. I will lay my hand on Egypt and bring the children of Israel out through acts of judgment. The Egyptians shall know I am the Lord.” Moses and Aaron did as commanded.…

The Lord told Moses he’d see what God would do to Pharaoh. God spoke to Moses saying, “I am the Lord. I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, as God Almighty.” They didn’t know God by His name the Lord. He established His covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan. God had heard the groaning of Israel enslaved by Egypt, remembering His covenant. He told Moses to tell Israel He will bring them out of Egypt and…

A man from the house of Levi took a Levite wife. She conceived and bore a son and hid him for 3 months. She could hide him no longer, so she made a basket of bulrushes (papyrus reeds) and daubed it with bitumen and pitch. She put the child in it and placed it among the reeds by the river bank. His sister stood at a distance to see what would be done with him. Pharaoh’s daughter saw the basket among the…

The sons of Israel who went to Egypt with Jacob were: (1) Reuben (2) Simeon (3) Levi (4) Judah (5) Issachar (6) Zebulun (7) Benjamin (8)Dan (9) Naphtali (10) Gad (11) Asher. Jacob’s descendants numbered 70 persons. Joseph, his brothers, and all that generation died, but the people of Israel were fruitful and increased greatly; they multiplied and grew exceedingly strong, so that the land was filled with them. The Egyptians ruthlessly oppressed and enslaved Israel. The king of Egypt told the Hebrew midwives, Shiphrah (“brightness”) and Puah (“splendid”), to kill the sons that were born, but, “the midwives feared God and did not do as the king…

After Jacob died Joseph fell on his father’s face and wept over him and kissed him (v. 1). Joseph commanded his servants to embalm Jacob and they did over 40 days, and the Egyptians wept for Jacob 70 days (v. 3). When the mourning period was over Joseph asked to be able to fulfill Jacob’s wish to be buried in Canaan, and Pharaoh allowed him. All the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of Pharaoh’s household, and all the elders of…

This is a section from Thomas Watson’s book “All Things for Good” outlining how God works all things for good to believers, The promises of God: The promises are notes of God’s hand; is it not good to have security? The promises are the milk of the gospel; and is not the milk for the good of the infant? They are called ‘precious promises‘ (2 Pet. 1:4). They are as cordials to a soul that is ready to faint. The promises are full…

Jacob called his sons and said, “Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you what shall happen to you in the days to come. Assemble and listen, O sons of Jacob, listen to Israel your father.” (vs. 1-2) (1) Reuben: firstborn, Jacob’s might, first fruit of his strength, preeminent in dignity and power. Unstable as water, you shall not have preeminence, because you defiled your father’s bed (vs. 3-4) (2) Simeon & (3) Levi: weapons of violence are their swords. “Let my soul not come…