PLEASE ANSWER THE FOLLOWING WORKBOOK DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:
How does this week’s Torah Portion relate to the Haftarah and Brit Chadasha Portions?
What did you find most interesting about this week’s reading? What is the general theme of this reading and how does it apply to our lives today?
Did Israel Really Become a Nation in 1948?
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WATCH HUMAN GESTATION AND THE FEASTS OF YHVH: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGSqS9K_sKY EXODUS & REVELATION Consider the following parallels between the books of Exodus and Revelation:
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Against the Gods of Egypt
by Chuck Missler
There have been few dramas that can equal the cosmic warfare that took place against the gods of Egypt when God used Moses to free Israel from their bondage. We all are familiar with the death of the firstborn that finally caused Pharaoh to release them. Yet few of us, probably, are aware of the significance lying behind the other nine plagues: a cosmic war against the demons of darkness. Locusts Some of the earlier plagues may have been separated by extended intervals, but the eighth plague followed immediately on the heels of the seventh: locusts came upon the land. Every twig and leaf that had somehow escaped the hail and fire was now taken by the locusts.
Where was Nepri, the grain god? Where was Ermutet, goddess of childbirth and crops? Where was Anubis , the jackal-headed guardian of the fields?
And where was Osiris , great head of their senior trinity who was also their agricultural god? Having lost faith in their gods, rebellion was now in the air.
Thick Darkness The ninth wonder was a darkness that could be felt! Josephus writes, But when Moses said that what he [Pharaoh] desired was unjust, since they were obliged to offer sacrifices to God of those cattle, and the time being prolonged on this account, a thick darkness, without the least light, spread itself over the Egyptians, whereby their sight being obstructed, and their breathing hindered by the thickness of the air, they were under terror lest they be swallowed up by the thick cloud. This darkness, after three days and as many nights was dissipated.
Where was Ra, god of the sun? In the school of On, or Heliopolis, city of the sun, the worship of Ra was virtually almost monotheistic. He and Aten, the sun's disc, were worshiped with the ankh , symbol of life from the sun, as almost a sort of trinity.
Where was Horus, the god of the sunrise? Or Tem, the god of the sunset? Or Shu , the god of light? Or the deities of the moon and planets?
The Firstborn And, of course, the well-known tenth and final plague was the death of the firstborn - on those homes not covered by the lamb's blood on the doorposts or lintels.
We all know the story of the Passover in Egypt, remembered by the Jews to this day. And, of course, Jesus is our Passover: John the Baptist introduced Him twice as "The Lamb of God." [source: http://www.khouse.org/articles/2000/263/] Hardening Pharaoh's heart? Nope. Actually YHVH was strengthening Pharaoh to continue with the attitude he already had:   22 Ye shall not fear them: for the Lord your God he shall fight for you. More study resources related to the subjects of this week's study can be found at:
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