The language of ivrit ( עברית ) Exodus 14, Post #4
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Exodus 14:14-18
We are at the waters of the Yoam Soof (Red Sea - actually it is 'the sea of reeds') and that is where we left off last week. The Almighty, we read, said yeela-Chem lachem (He will fight for you), v'atem tah-cha-ree-oon (and you will be silent)!
Then he asks Moshe (Moses) "Why do you cry out to me? Tell the people to start walking and you, lift up your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide him." (the sea is a male noun.) "And they will go, the people of Israel in the midst of the sea on dry ground.
Some say that it was just low tide or something and the sea was shallow right there but when God speaks, he means every word. It was ya-ba-Sha (dry ground)! It is for these reasons, I study in Hebrew. I want to make sure the meaning is preserved.
Then the Creator states the reason, "Behold I, yes I will make the heart of the Mitsraim (Egyptians) strong - the English version says he will harden their hearts and they will go in after after them. **So that I will be glorified over Far'oh and his army, over the chariots and horsemen of him.
And they will know that I am glorified over them -he actually repeats all of the soon to be dead and destroyed people and things.
I think, as soon as it gets bad enough here, God will do something similar and be glorified by the destruction of the wicked - he only asks that people admit He is God and stop doing evil. He has always had a way that we can go in order to "live" - and he means forever.
I happen to have this verse handy,
Ezekiel 33:13-16
13 Though I say to the righteous that he shall surely live, yet if he trusts in his righteousness and does injustice, none of his righteous deeds shall be remembered, but in his injustice that he has done he shall die. 14 Again, though I say to the wicked, ‘You shall surely die,’ yet if he turns from his sin and does what is just and right, 15 if the wicked restores the pledge, gives back what he has taken by robbery, and walks in the statutes of life, not doing injustice, he shall surely live; he shall not die. 16 None of the sins that he has committed shall be remembered against him. He has done what is just and right; he shall surely live.
Written way before Yeshua came on the scene, and all who did the above, met Yeshua while his body was in the tomb. His sacrifice had to be applied to them as well, just post mortem.
Today's reading
English
YHVH will fight for you, and you have only to be silent."
YHVH said to Moses, "Why do you cry to me? Tell the people of Israel to go forward. 'Lift up your staff, and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it, that the people of Israel may go through the sea on dry ground. And I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians so that they shall go in after them, and I will get glory over Pharaoh and all his host, his chariots, and his horsemen. And the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, when I have gotten glory over Pharaoh, his chariots, and his horsemen."
Hebrew
Next week, God surrounds the army...
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