God Sightings One Year Bible: Tues Jan 26—Mon Feb 1
Preliminary
- Ch 2 Guilty of murder, Moses flees from Pharaoh and settles into the life of a desert shepherd in the Sinai.
- Ch 3 Moses encounters God at the burning bush. God commissions Moses to bring the people out of Egypt, and reveals the sacred name YHWH 3:15. Moses and elder brother Aaron returns to Egypt, but fails to persuade Pharaoh to let the people go.
- Ch 4 Moses’ miraculous signs persuade the Israelites.
- Ch 5 The Egyptians increase the load, bricks without straw.
- Ch 6 God reassures Moses.
Plagues
- Water turned to blood
- Frogs
- Gnats (first Egyptians couldn’t duplicate)
- Flies
- Livestock diseased
- Boils
- Thunder and hail
- Locusts
- Darkness
- Death of firstborn
Hardness of heart
- (9x) God hardens 4.21 future; 7.3 future; 9.12; 10.1, 20, 27; 11.10; 14.4, 8.
- (3x) Pharaoh hardens 8.15, 32; 9.34.
- (6x) Passive voice (no subject) 7.13, 14, 22; 8.19; 9.7, 35.
Romans 9:14-18 (NRSV)
14 What then are we to say? Is there injustice on God’s part? By no means! 15 For he says to Moses,
“I will have mercy on whom I have mercy,
and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”
16 So it depends not on human will or exertion, but on God who shows mercy. 17 For the scripture says to Pharaoh, “I have raised you up for the very purpose of showing my power in you, so that my name may be proclaimed in all the earth.” 18 So then he has mercy on whomever he chooses, and he hardens the heart of whomever he chooses.