Believing that Moses was a real, historical man.
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For thousands of years, the Jews had a story about how the 12 tribes copied and kept the words of Moses. preserving each letter and each 'dot' and 'dash.' In the 1850s English-German academia 'scientifically hypothesized' that Moses was a fictional man and Torah was developed just like democratic laws over many centuries bit by bit. The Holy Bible often mentions Moses being told by God to say or write something, but it takes investigation to see how Moses felt about his job.
How did you feel when God spoke?
One needs to obey God, that's part and parcel of trusting Lord Jesus like you're in a boat in the midst of a storm.
But Moses didn't say those words in the same order that God said. Moses had to speak to the crowds instead, and the crowds would have relayed the information to Pharaoh. I guess that shows that God is the God of everyone and everyone has a responsibility to serve God. Perhaps Moses would have been punished if he had said Exodus 4:22 before the first plague.
At the 10th plague, Moses said all those words, perhaps in God's grammatical order (in real life and not recorded) but not according to what is recorded in Exodus.
The meaning of Exodus 11:3-8 is similar: that God makes a distinction between Israel and Egypt; That God loves Israel contrasted to hating the firstborn sons of Egypt.
And furthermore, Pharoah would have heard those words, through word-of-mouth from his servants, because the holy bible says that Moses spoke to the servants of Pharoah too.
Sidenote: In the Hebrew and English, I bet it's possible Moses stood above (gadol) the people (on a pulpit?) or means as it says great in respect/authority/mana/impressiveness. Exodus 11:3 is markedly different. https://biblehub.com/text/exodus/11-3.htm Nope, from what I can tell, the translation is pretty spot-on with the word "gadol" for great/many/large/loudly/rich.
Yes. Regret and guilt are clearly needed when confronted by the objective purpose of laws.
The holy bible presents Moses as being humble and 'merely a man', we can't underestimate the weakness of the 80+ year old.
Yes, miraculously, thank God, Moses' strength never abated, and his eyesight remained sharp.
What if Moses himself, in his personal reflections on his memories of Exodus 4:22, thought that he should have simply said that phrase the first time he met Pharaoh.
Well if he did self-reflect on that moment, even once, then Moses would realize that regret. And he must have to have written down Exodus 4. no one forgets God, that is loving God.
Remember and "relive" those 10 plagues, every time Almighty God told him to write something down or say something to the Nation of Israel.
Could we even guess that Moses had PTSD from the 10 plagues of Egypt?
So here we have the 10 plagues teaching our man Moses, to do what God says as fast as possible.
And it's said that it was Moses striking the rock rather than speaking to the rock, which prevented him from joining Joshua and walking through the river Jordan...
So good thing we're connected to the body of Jesus.
Contents: [intro] [
For thousands of years, the Jews had a story about how the 12 tribes copied and kept the words of Moses. preserving each letter and each 'dot' and 'dash.' In the 1850s English-German academia 'scientifically hypothesized' that Moses was a fictional man and Torah was developed just like democratic laws over many centuries bit by bit. The Holy Bible often mentions Moses being told by God to say or write something, but it takes investigation to see how Moses felt about his job.
What did Moses learn from the 10 plagues?
Moses obeyed God in Exodus 4:22 when Moses warned Pharaoh's people about the 10th plague. Pharaoh believed Moses then after the 10th plague. He waited 9 plagues to say that, and so Moses learned to say quickly what God asked Moses to say which is what we see repeatedly in the Holy Bible's Leviticus, Deuteronomy, Numbers, and Exodus.
- Moses met with Almighty God at the burning bush. In Exodus 4.
- In Exodus 4:22 Moses is given a specific instruction =
To tell Pharaoh that Israel is God's firstborn son. Exodus 4:22
- However, if you read the Torah from Exodus 4 to Exodus 20, you will not find Moses speaking or writing those words, until just before the 10th plague. (in Exodus 11)
How did you feel when God spoke?
One needs to obey God, that's part and parcel of trusting Lord Jesus like you're in a boat in the midst of a storm.
But Moses didn't say those words in the same order that God said. Moses had to speak to the crowds instead, and the crowds would have relayed the information to Pharaoh. I guess that shows that God is the God of everyone and everyone has a responsibility to serve God. Perhaps Moses would have been punished if he had said Exodus 4:22 before the first plague.
At the 10th plague, Moses said all those words, perhaps in God's grammatical order (in real life and not recorded) but not according to what is recorded in Exodus.
It is like in Exodus 11's public speech Moses fully extrapolated the various insinuations that come from Exodus 4:22.
The multiple meanings of Exodus 4:22 say that: God loves Israel; Pharoah should let Israel go free, or straightly Israel is God's firstborn son, and thus different from the Egyptians.The meaning of Exodus 11:3-8 is similar: that God makes a distinction between Israel and Egypt; That God loves Israel contrasted to hating the firstborn sons of Egypt.
And furthermore, Pharoah would have heard those words, through word-of-mouth from his servants, because the holy bible says that Moses spoke to the servants of Pharoah too.
Sidenote: In the Hebrew and English, I bet it's possible Moses stood above (gadol) the people (on a pulpit?) or means as it says great in respect/authority/mana/impressiveness. Exodus 11:3 is markedly different. https://biblehub.com/text/exodus/11-3.htm Nope, from what I can tell, the translation is pretty spot-on with the word "gadol" for great/many/large/loudly/rich.
Exodus 11:8 https://biblehub.com/text/exodus/11-8.htm, translates into English, that Moses communicates he'll 'go out' and then walked away from Pharaoh (went out). but could it be mistranslated from "ese wayese" meaning I shall go out and we/shall go out",
How did Moses feel about causing the 10 plagues?
It is difficult to say that the 10 plagues could have been relived as just 1 plague in another version of history. In other words to say that the first time Moses spoke to Pharaoh, he could have said what God told him to say. But for us subordinates, who are not Moses, we can't say that disrespectfully about Moses. But since we are looking from the eyes of Moses, at himself, his feelings ... then the thought could have logically been entertained by Moses. It would be a natural part of remorse and morality to regret the severity of 10 plagues that could have been 1 plague or less.
Remember we obey God and life continues as planned, eternal and good.
It was Moses' home country that was devastated by the 10 plagues. Guilt?
For natural disasters.Regret?
Why regret? Did anyone regret anything in the olden days of Moses, 3500 years ago?Yes. Regret and guilt are clearly needed when confronted by the objective purpose of laws.
Satisfaction?
Did he feel powerful or humbly awed? The powerful people feel satisfied at vengeance for broken laws.The holy bible presents Moses as being humble and 'merely a man', we can't underestimate the weakness of the 80+ year old.
Yes, miraculously, thank God, Moses' strength never abated, and his eyesight remained sharp.
So, then...
What if Moses himself, in his personal reflections on his memories of Exodus 4:22, thought that he should have simply said that phrase the first time he met Pharaoh.Well if he did self-reflect on that moment, even once, then Moses would realize that regret. And he must have to have written down Exodus 4. no one forgets God, that is loving God.
Remember and "relive" those 10 plagues, every time Almighty God told him to write something down or say something to the Nation of Israel.
Could we even guess that Moses had PTSD from the 10 plagues of Egypt?
So here we have the 10 plagues teaching our man Moses, to do what God says as fast as possible.
And it's said that it was Moses striking the rock rather than speaking to the rock, which prevented him from joining Joshua and walking through the river Jordan...
So good thing we're connected to the body of Jesus.
Western Biblical academia.
The western biblical scholarship doesn't even look at the feelings of Jesus. You will not find anyone explaining why Jesus Christ said to Peter that 3 times "feed my sheep"
You will not find anyone explaining Moses' feelings.
May you will find someone. And certainly, in history, someone must have known and made the same connections I made, within the same Holy Bible book. It's not exactly an open puzzle. It's sealed around the life of Jesus Christ born 1BC.
May you will find someone. And certainly, in history, someone must have known and made the same connections I made, within the same Holy Bible book. It's not exactly an open puzzle. It's sealed around the life of Jesus Christ born 1BC.
Mr. Wellhausen in his resignation from the theological college stated that he joined the college to apply the scientific method to the Holy Bible (science must have been a highly touted thing of snakish atheism in that century.) Whereas for 2000 years and counting normal traditional Christians only Pray when they read the holy bible.
So Wellhausen's hypothesis simply made use of the different names of God, which by that time, the German academia also had to figure out how to pronounce the Hebrew names for God. That Genesis 1 talks about the plural Elohim (ignoring the 'dual' tense for united female and male. )
His team of 3 scholars did such an extensive job of pointing all the different times that Moses called God by two names, to prove their hypothesis that Moses didn't write it, that the Germans never recovered from it. Albert Einstein even supposed stopped being a Jew after reading what science (academia) said about his religion (Moses' book.) He also gained a deep suspicion of governments. (not surprisingly given what reason Wellhausen hypothesis says, that the governments of Israel spent 1000 years rewriting the history they took from Babylon in the 400 years before Jesus. (Babylonian Exile.) But the Babylonian translated stories are even more obvious when we view the motives of the academia who spent 400 years translating the Babylonian writings.
It's no surprise that the monotheistic religions of the mainland find great affinity with the translated Babylonian writings.
As Lord Jesus said in the parable of the rich man and Lazarus: "if we don't believe Moses how are we going to believe Jesus, though he is truly resurrected", Resurrection and immortal God being miraculously amazingly contrary to what we think is normal inevitable. (our secular atheistic thinking is contrary to the truth of the world around us.)
His team of 3 scholars did such an extensive job of pointing all the different times that Moses called God by two names, to prove their hypothesis that Moses didn't write it, that the Germans never recovered from it. Albert Einstein even supposed stopped being a Jew after reading what science (academia) said about his religion (Moses' book.) He also gained a deep suspicion of governments. (not surprisingly given what reason Wellhausen hypothesis says, that the governments of Israel spent 1000 years rewriting the history they took from Babylon in the 400 years before Jesus. (Babylonian Exile.) But the Babylonian translated stories are even more obvious when we view the motives of the academia who spent 400 years translating the Babylonian writings.
It's no surprise that the monotheistic religions of the mainland find great affinity with the translated Babylonian writings.
As Lord Jesus said in the parable of the rich man and Lazarus: "if we don't believe Moses how are we going to believe Jesus, though he is truly resurrected", Resurrection and immortal God being miraculously amazingly contrary to what we think is normal inevitable. (our secular atheistic thinking is contrary to the truth of the world around us.)
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