Exodus 9-11/Matt 25:31-46
Tomorrow’s Reading: Matt. 25:31-46
Exodus
God continues to bring the plagues - we're up to the 9th plague and 16th'ish day - tomorrow's reading will be huge in many references thru-out reading rest of the year.
Matthew
Jesus really 'going deep' with discussions about the final days - and setting the stage for 'are you prepared'. Today's reading in Matt was about God's judgement and consequences to those who won't pass.
NOTE: getting questions about 'is there really a Hell'. Would our God really be cruel to His own creations. Seems in Matt 26:41 it pretty clear, but why is this a question?
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Exodus
Setting: Egypt, negotiating with Pharaoh for Israelites be allowed to go into the desert to worship God for 3days.
Notice that God ‘made a distinction’ between land/livestock, etc.. of Egypt and Israel (9:9), as an example. He makes this distinction during all miracles. To initiate the 6th plague on the 11th day of God’s ‘conditioning’ on Pharaoh/Egypt, Moses takes soot from the fire place and throws it into the are, and it became dust over all of Egypt… causing ‘festering boils’. I remembered the boils, but not the soot part. What’s your take on v16?
Exodus 10:7, after the hail/rain storms the promise (not threat) of the 8th plague locusts, is starting to turn Pharaoh’s officials against him (sorta). ‘dude, let those cats go’. Pharaoh’s heart was hardened then in come the locusts – v15, covered the ground until it was black. Wow’z. After the 9th plague of Darkness for 3days, Pharaoh threatens Moses life.
To the best of my count, we’re in day 16 of all the plagues. And we’ll start tomorrow with the final plague on the first born.
Matthew
Setting: still on Mt of Olives with the 12, just finished talking about the ‘end of times’ and ‘being ready’ for His return.
Jesus is speaking to the Day of Judgment, the sheep and goats (those for, those against).
Not much to say here other than this is coupled with yesterday’s read, obviously. Being ready/prepared for His coming is more than just a ‘feel good’ relationship with God, a ‘casual walk’ with Christ. Not a ‘works’ response here – but for God to know our hearts, we’ll need to make efforts to ‘condition’. Thoughts here?
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