Thought for Today: Friday January 24
Wholehearted, real laughter heals, it encourages others and relaxes anyone within hearing distance. The laughter that comes from love, widens the space around it – gives room to the loved one to enter in. Real laughter welcomes and never shuts out.
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Hello brothers and sisters. Here is our Sabbath bulletin for the coming service on 1/25/2025: https://firstfruits.cc/blog/20....25/01/23/sabbath-bul
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Or else, if you will not let my people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies on you and your servants and your people, and into your houses. And the houses of the Egyptians shall be filled with swarms of flies, and also the ground on which they stand.
Exodus 8:21
This verse doesn't say "flies" in Hebrew. It says "swarms" without specifying what kind of swarm. The literal meaning of the Hebrew "arob" is related to a mixture or churning. Some interpret this to mean a mix of different kinds of animals. I wonder if it could also have been a divinely ironic reference to the mixed multitude that Egypt held in slavery: "Since you won't let my swarm of people go, I'll send another of my swarms to make you let them go."
Swarms of flies can also be a symptom of the absence of God. The plague of flies was absent from the land of the Hebrews in Egypt.
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There might be a thematic sort-of #chiasm in the #10plagues of Egypt:
a. Blood
.b. Frogs
..c. Lice
...d. Flies
....e. Cattle
....e. Man/beast
...d. Hail
..c. Locust
.b. Darkness
a. Firstborn
Do you see the link between opposing plagues in the 10 Plagues chiasm?
Plagues 1/10: Both attacked the very life of Egypt: the Nile and firstborn sons.
Plagues 2/9: Ever taken a country road at night and seen frogs everywhere? Most frogs are nocturnal. Frogs and darkness were both associated with rebirth.
Plagues 3/8: The lice were the "finger of God" and the locusts came because Pharaoh sinned against God.
Plagues 4/7: Goshen was spared in both plagues.
Plagues 5/6: Both were directed against higher lifeforms, aka nephesh.
#biblepatterns