SERIES C --- EXODUS FROM BONDAGE --- LESSON 15

WHERE IS YHVH?

VICTORY FROM UPLIFTED HANDS

From Exodus 17

One day Adonai gave orders for the people of Israel to move on from the Wilderness of Sin. They journeyed in stages until they came at last to Rephidim. But they were disappointed when they arrived, for there was no water. The people grumbled and complained to Moses again. [Give us water to drink!] they demanded. [Why are you grumbling and complaining to me?] Moses asked. [Are you trying to see how patient Adonai can be with you?] But the people were very thirsty and would not listen. [Why did you bring us out of Egypt?] they complained. [Are you trying to kill us and our children and our cattle too?] Moses prayed to Adonai for an answer. [These people will stone me if they don’t get water soon,] Moses pleaded. [What shall I do?] [Go ahead of the people to Mount Horeb,] Adonai told Moses. [Take with you some of the elders of Israel and the rod which you used to strike the Nile River. I shall be waiting for you at the rock at Horeb. Strike the rock with your rod and water will pour from it so that all may drink.] Moses did exactly what Adonai had told him, striking the rock in the presence of the elders. When he did, water poured from the rock as Adonai had promised. Moses gave the place two names: Massah, which spoke of the people testing Adonai and Meribah, which spoke of their grumbling and complaining. While the people camped at Rephidim, the Amalekites attacked. Moses gave orders to Joshua: [Choose some men and we will go out to fight the Amalekites. Tomorrow I shall stand at the top of the hill with YHVH’s rod in my hand.] Joshua chose some fighting men and went out to meet the Amalekites as he had been ordered. Moses went with Aaron and Hur to the top of the hill. As long as Moses, bearing the rod, held his hands high, the Israelites were winning the battle, but when he put his hands down to rest, the Amalekites began to win. At last, Moses was too tired to hold up his hands. Aaron and Hur brought a stone for Moses to sit on. Then Aaron held up one of Moses’ hands and Hur held up the other until sunset. Joshua and his warriors defeated the Amalekites with their swords. [Write this victory into your records,] Adonai told Moses, [and tell Joshua that I will remove the Amalekites from the face of the earth.] Moses built an altar at the place of the victory and named it YHVH-Nissi, “{Adonai Is My Banner,} for he said, [Adonai will lift His banner of war against the Amalekites for many generations.]

COMMENTARY

WHO WERE THE AMALEKITES?

When water supplies were gone, the people of Israel once again forgot YHVH’s faithfulness. Angrily they wrangled with Moses and were even ready to stone him! In spite of this, YHVH did supply water. When enemies attacked, YHVH helped His people fight. But Israel won only when Moses’ hands were raised in prayer. The people must learn to look to YHVH alone for aid. An old Hebrew saying announces: [The best of butchers is a friend of Amalek!] Butchers in the ancient world had the reputation of cheating their customers often and ruthlessly. And to someone who knows anything about the ancient tribe of the Amalekites, to be [a friend of Amalek] is a very bad insult. In the same way that Jacob was the {father} of Israel, Amalek was the {father} of the Amalekites. Interestingly, he was a grandson of Jacob’s brother Esau. The Amalekites, his descendants, were all nomads. Nomads are people who have no permanent home. They wander from place to place. They are usually shepherds or cattle-raisers. As long as there is water and grass for grazing, nomads stay put. But as soon as the land has been picked clean, they collect their tents and few belongings and move on to another pastureland. A way of life like that can be carried on only in countries where large areas of open land are owned by no one in particular. In countries like the United States, England, Africa, Australia etc., such a life is almost impossible. The Amalekites pastured in the Dead Sea desert region. They wandered as far west as Arabia and even Egypt. Being shepherds wasn’t enough for them. They added to their income by making fierce raids on any desert settlement they came across. They carried off whatever was of value and kidnapped unmarried women and children. The men and married women were killed. The captives were sold as slaves; more income for the Amalekites. Travelling through the Sinai Desert, the Israelites arrived at the oasis of Rephidim, which meant {Place of Refreshments.} The Amalekites had no intention of letting them rest there. They attacked ferociously. Rephidim is where Joshua defeated the nomads. But he was successful only as long as Moses held up the rod he used to perform YHVH’s miracles. When Moses’ arms became tired and he dropped them, the Amalekites would start winning the battle. Then Aaron and Hur gave him a place to sit and held up his arms for him and the Amalekites were defeated at sunset. The Amalekites attacked in a way that particularly angered the Hebrews. They would creep up on the rear of a travelling group and, when the safest moment had come, attack those who were the slowest and could not keep up with the rest; the sick, the old, the very young and women giving birth. Other tribes left the slow ones to their fate, even if that meant starvation and death. The Israelites were alone in their concern for members who fell behind and they vowed to destroy the Amalekites for their cruelty. But it took six hundred years more, after the judges and many kings, for the Amalekites to vanish from the earth.

Psalm 81 contains a chiasm that illustrates God's plan to redeem Israel.
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SERIES C --- EXODUS FROM BONDAGE --- LESSON 14

YHVH SUPPLIES MANNA

MANNA

From Exodus 16

After they had camped for a while at Elim, the people of Israel moved into the Wilderness of Sin, between Elim and Mount Sinai, arriving on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had left Egypt. But the people began to grumble against Moses and Aaron. [Why couldn’t we die in Egypt, where we had all the meat and bread we wanted?] they murmured. [Why did you bring us to this wilderness to starve to death?] Then Adonai spoke to Moses. [I will send food from heaven for the people,] He said. [Each day a person may gather all he needs for that day. But I will test the people to see whether they will obey My Word or not. On the sixth day of each week, they will gather twice as much as they do on any other day.] Moses and Aaron told the people what Adonai had said. [This evening you will see another sign that Adonai led you out of Egypt,] they said. [And tomorrow morning you will see Adonai’s glory, for He has heard your grumbling. You may have thought that you were grumbling against us, but you were really grumbling against Adonai.] Moses also said, [This evening Adonai will give you meat to eat and tomorrow morning He will give you bread, for He has heard your grumbling against Him. Aaron and I are not doing all these things. It is Adonai, so your grumbling is not against us but against Him.] [Tell the whole congregation of Israel to present themselves before Adonai,] Moses instructed Aaron. [For Adonai has heard their grumbling.] As Aaron spoke to the people, they looked toward the wilderness and saw the glory of Adonai in the cloud that led them. Again, Adonai spoke to Moses: [I have heard the people grumble. Tell them they will eat meat this evening and tomorrow morning they will have all the bread they can eat. Then they will know that I am Adonai their YHVH Yireh, your Provider.] That evening there was meat as YHVH had promised. Quails came in such numbers that they covered the whole camp of Israel. In the morning a heavy dew lay on the desert floor about the camp. When the dew had evaporated, small flakes as fine as hoarfrost remained on the desert. [What is it?] The people asked when they saw it. [It is the bread which Adonai promised to you,] said Moses. [He Commands that you gather as much as you can eat, an omer, which is about three quarts, for each person in your household.] The Israelites did as they were told, but some gathered more than others. When the people emptied the flakes into a three-quart vessel, those who had gathered much had no more than they needed and those who had gathered little had no less than they needed. Each had just the right amount. [Do not save any leftovers,] Moses warned. But some did not listen and kept leftovers for the next day. But, by the next morning, the bread had a terrible odour and was filled with worms. Moses was angry when he heard of their disobedience. Morning after morning the people gathered the flakes. Each person took as much as he needed, but no more. As the sun grew hot each morning, the flakes melted away. On the sixth day of the week, the people gathered two omers instead of one. When the leaders of Israel asked Moses the reason, he told them, [Adonai told us to do so, for tomorrow is a day of rest, a Shabbat that is sacred to Adonai. On the Shabbat we must put aside our daily work. Bake or boil as much as you want for today and tomorrow, for your leftovers will not spoil tomorrow.] What Moses had told them came to pass. All that was kept for the next day remained pure and fresh. None of it had worms or a foul odour. [Eat the food you have saved for today,] Moses told the people. [Today is Adonai’s Shabbat and you will not find the flakes of bread on the ground. Six days each week you will gather bread, but on the seventh day, the Shabbat, it will not appear.] Some of the people however, went out on the morning of the Shabbat to find bread. But they found nothing. [How long will they refuse to obey Me?] Adonai asked Moses. [Don’t they understand that I send twice as much the sixth day so that they may stay at home and not gather on the Shabbat?] Then the people stayed home and rested from their work on the seventh day. The congregation of Israel named the bread flakes {manna.} It was white, like coriander seed and tasted like honey-flavoured bread. Once again Moses gave Adonai’s instruction to his people. [Keep an omer of manna through all generations so that your descendants may see the bread I fed to you in the wilderness when I brought you from Egypt,] said Adonai. Moses told Aaron exactly what to do. [Put an omer of manna in a jar and set it in Adonai’s Presence. Keep it there through all generations.] Aaron did as Adonai had Commanded through Moses and placed the jar of manna in a sacred place. For forty years the people ate the manna until they entered the Promised Land. The omer, which the people used to measure the manna, was about three quarts or a tenth of an Ephah, which is approximately a bushel.

COMMENTARY

LIFE THEY LEFT BEHIND: A POPULAR EGYPTIAN SPORT

There was no food and little water in the desert. Soon YHVH’s people forgot to trust and began to grumble and complain. But Adonai is trustworthy. That evening quail covered the camp. In the morning thin flakes covered the ground. Israel called these honey-flavoured flakes {manna} and filled their pots with it. For forty years YHVH would faithfully provide manna as His people’s daily bread. Hunting and catching birds, called {fowling,} was a popular sport among the wealthy ancient Egyptian noblemen. They went out on the marshes in papyrus skiffs; lightweight small boats; to catch birds for their fowl yards. They trapped the birds in several different ways. A live decoy bird was held by the legs. It would flap its wings and cry out in distress. The noise it made would disturb the wild birds, who would fly up and out of the marshes. The hunters brought them down with arrows, stones or sticks made to throw while hunting. Sometimes traps were used. These were set on the ground and sprang shut around a bird’s leg when it was triggered off. A large concealed net was occasionally used too. This would close over several birds at once and hold them fast. A favourite way to catch them was to smear a kind of glue called birdlime on the branches of trees where birds came to roost. They would get stuck to the tree and be very easy to capture. Some birds were kept as pets. Less fortunate ones, especially ducks and geese, were used as food. Chickens were not common in ancient Egypt. Imported from Syria, their daily laying of eggs made them known as [The bird that gives birth every day!]

Thought for Today: Thursday December 29:

Currently there is a mighty battle going on for control of our minds. Heaven and earth intersect in our minds, the tugs of both spheres influence our thinking. YHVH created us with the capacity to experience foretastes of heaven. When we shut out the world and focus on Elohiym’s Presence, we can enjoy sitting with Him in heavenly realms. This is an incredible privilege reserved for precious ones who belong to Father YHVH and seek His Face. Our greatest strength is our desires to spend some time communing with Father. As we concentrate on Him, His Spirit fills our minds with Life and Peace. The world exerts a downward pull on our thoughts. Media bombard us with greed, lust and cynicism. When we face these things, pray for protection and discernment. Thus, we must stay in continual communication with Adonai Elohiym whenever we walk through the wastelands of this world. Refuse to worry, because this form of worldliness will weigh us down and block awareness of YHVH’s Presence. Let stay alert, recognizing the battle being waged against our minds. Let us focus on eternity of strife-free living, reserved for us in heaven.