rec0721-111756<\/a><\/p>\r\n GETTING READY FOR MIRACLES SELECTED OBEDIENCE 4:18-26 Genesis 17: 10-14 SACRED NEWS 4:27-31 STUBBORN REFUSAL 5:1-9 SERIOUS TROUBLE 5:10-23 SPECIAL PROMISE 6:1-9 1 Peter 5: 6-7 SEVERE JUDGMENTS 6:28-7:7 7: 8-13 SPIRITUAL CONTEST 7:8-13 2 Thessalonians 2: 9-10 <\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “Getting Ready for Miracles” By Rev. Richard Jones rec0721-111756 GETTING READY FOR MIRACLESExodus 4:18- 7:13 (ESV)18 Moses went back to Jethro his father-in-law and said to him, \u201cPlease let me go back to my brothers in Egypt to see whether … Continue reading
Exodus 4:18- 7:13 (ESV)
18 Moses went back to Jethro his father-in-law and said to him, \u201cPlease let me go back to my brothers in Egypt to see whether they are still alive.\u201d And Jethro said to Moses, \u201cGo in peace.\u201d 19 And the Lord said to Moses in Midian, \u201cGo back to Egypt, for all the men who were seeking your life are dead.\u201d 20 So Moses took his wife and his sons and had them ride on a donkey, and went back to the land of Egypt. And Moses took the staff of God in his hand.
21 And the Lord said to Moses, \u201cWhen you go back to Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the miracles that I have put in your power. But I will harden his heart, so that he will not let the people go. 22 Then you shall say to Pharaoh, \u201d\u02dcThus says the Lord, Israel is my firstborn son, 23 and I say to you, \u201cLet my son go that he may serve me.\u201d If you refuse to let him go, behold, I will kill your firstborn son.\u201d\u2122\u201d
24 At a lodging place on the way the Lord met him and sought to put him to death. 25 Then Zipporah took a flint and cut off her son’s foreskin and touched Moses’ feet with it and said, \u201cSurely you are a bridegroom of blood to me!\u201d 26 So he let him alone. It was then that she said, \u201cA bridegroom of blood,\u201d because of the circumcision.
27 The Lord said to Aaron, \u201cGo into the wilderness to meet Moses.\u201d So he went and met him at the mountain of God and kissed him. 28 And Moses told Aaron all the words of the Lord with which he had sent him to speak, and all the signs that he had commanded him to do. 29 Then Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the people of Israel. 30 Aaron spoke all the words that the Lord had spoken to Moses and did the signs in the sight of the people. 31 And the people believed; and when they heard that the Lord had visited the people of Israel and that he had seen their affliction, they bowed their heads and worshiped.
5 Afterward Moses and Aaron went and said to Pharaoh, \u201cThus says the Lord, the God of Israel, \u201d\u02dcLet my people go, that they may hold a feast to me in the wilderness.\u201d\u2122\u201d 2 But Pharaoh said, \u201cWho is the Lord, that I should obey his voice and let Israel go? I do not know the Lord, and moreover, I will not let Israel go.\u201d 3 Then they said, \u201cThe God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go a three days’ journey into the wilderness that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God, lest he fall upon us with pestilence or with the sword.\u201d 4 But the king of Egypt said to them, \u201cMoses and Aaron, why do you take the people away from their work? Get back to your burdens.\u201d 5 And Pharaoh said, \u201cBehold, the people of the land are now many, and you make them rest from their burdens!\u201d 6 The same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people and their foremen, 7 \u201cYou shall no longer give the people straw to make bricks, as in the past; let them go and gather straw for themselves. 8 But the number of bricks that they made in the past you shall impose on them, you shall by no means reduce it, for they are idle. Therefore they cry, \u201d\u02dcLet us go and offer sacrifice to our God.\u201d\u2122 9 Let heavier work be laid on the men that they may labor at it and pay no regard to lying words.\u201d
10 So the taskmasters and the foremen of the people went out and said to the people, \u201cThus says Pharaoh, \u201d\u02dcI will not give you straw. 11 Go and get your straw yourselves wherever you can find it, but your work will not be reduced in the least.\u201d\u2122\u201d 12 So the people were scattered throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw. 13 The taskmasters were urgent, saying, \u201cComplete your work, your daily task each day, as when there was straw.\u201d 14 And the foremen of the people of Israel, whom Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten and were asked, \u201cWhy have you not done all your task of making bricks today and yesterday, as in the past?\u201d
15 Then the foremen of the people of Israel came and cried to Pharaoh, \u201cWhy do you treat your servants like this? 16 No straw is given to your servants, yet they say to us, \u201d\u02dcMake bricks!\u201d\u2122 And behold, your servants are beaten; but the fault is in your own people.\u201d 17 But he said, \u201cYou are idle, you are idle; that is why you say, \u201d\u02dcLet us go and sacrifice to the Lord.\u201d\u2122 18 Go now and work. No straw will be given you, but you must still deliver the same number of bricks.\u201d 19 The foremen of the people of Israel saw that they were in trouble when they said, \u201cYou shall by no means reduce your number of bricks, your daily task each day.\u201d 20 They met Moses and Aaron, who were waiting for them, as they came out from Pharaoh; 21 and they said to them, \u201cThe Lord look on you and judge, because you have made us stink in the sight of Pharaoh and his servants, and have put a sword in their hand to kill us.\u201d
22 Then Moses turned to the Lord and said, \u201cO Lord, why have you done evil to this people? Why did you ever send me? 23 For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in your name, he has done evil to this people, and you have not delivered your people at all.\u201d
6 But the Lord said to Moses, \u201cNow you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh; for with a strong hand he will send them out, and with a strong hand he will drive them out of his land.\u201d
2 God spoke to Moses and said to him, \u201cI am the Lord. 3 I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty, but by my name the Lord I did not make myself known to them. 4 I also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, the land in which they lived as sojourners. 5 Moreover, I have heard the groaning of the people of Israel whom the Egyptians hold as slaves, and I have remembered my covenant. 6 Say therefore to the people of Israel, \u201d\u02dcI am the Lord, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will deliver you from slavery to them, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great acts of judgment. 7 I will take you to be my people, and I will be your God, and you shall know that I am the Lord your God, who has brought you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians. 8 I will bring you into the land that I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. I will give it to you for a possession. I am the Lord.\u201d\u2122\u201d 9 Moses spoke thus to the people of Israel, but they did not listen to Moses, because of their broken spirit and harsh slavery.
10 So the Lord said to Moses, 11 \u201cGo in, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt to let the people of Israel go out of his land.\u201d 12 But Moses said to the Lord, \u201cBehold, the people of Israel have not listened to me. How then shall Pharaoh listen to me, for I am of uncircumcised lips?\u201d 13 But the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron and gave them a charge about the people of Israel and about Pharaoh king of Egypt: to bring the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt.
14 These are the heads of their fathers’ houses: the sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi; these are the clans of Reuben. 15 The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul, the son of a Canaanite woman; these are the clans of Simeon. 16 These are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari, the years of the life of Levi being 137 years. 17 The sons of Gershon: Libni and Shimei, by their clans. 18 The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, the years of the life of Kohath being 133 years. 19 The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the clans of the Levites according to their generations. 20 Amram took as his wife Jochebed his father’s sister, and she bore him Aaron and Moses, the years of the life of Amram being 137 years. 21 The sons of Izhar: Korah, Nepheg, and Zichri. 22 The sons of Uzziel: Mishael, Elzaphan, and Sithri. 23 Aaron took as his wife Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab and the sister of Nahshon, and she bore him Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. 24 The sons of Korah: Assir, Elkanah, and Abiasaph; these are the clans of the Korahites. 25 Eleazar, Aaron’s son, took as his wife one of the daughters of Putiel, and she bore him Phinehas. These are the heads of the fathers’ houses of the Levites by their clans.
26 These are the Aaron and Moses to whom the Lord said: \u201cBring out the people of Israel from the land of Egypt by their hosts.\u201d 27 It was they who spoke to Pharaoh king of Egypt about bringing out the people of Israel from Egypt, this Moses and this Aaron.
28 On the day when the Lord spoke to Moses in the land of Egypt, 29 the Lord said to Moses, \u201cI am the Lord; tell Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I say to you.\u201d 30 But Moses said to the Lord, \u201cBehold, I am of uncircumcised lips. How will Pharaoh listen to me?\u201d
7 And the Lord said to Moses, \u201cSee, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron shall be your prophet. 2 You shall speak all that I command you, and your brother Aaron shall tell Pharaoh to let the people of Israel go out of his land. 3 But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and though I multiply my signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, 4 Pharaoh will not listen to you. Then I will lay my hand on Egypt and bring my hosts, my people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great acts of judgment. 5 The Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, when I stretch out my hand against Egypt and bring out the people of Israel from among them.\u201d 6 Moses and Aaron did so; they did just as the Lord commanded them. 7 Now Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three years old, when they spoke to Pharaoh.
8 Then the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, 9 \u201cWhen Pharaoh says to you, \u201d\u02dcProve yourselves by working a miracle,\u201d\u2122 then you shall say to Aaron, \u201d\u02dcTake your staff and cast it down before Pharaoh, that it may become a serpent.\u201d\u2122\u201d 10 So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and did just as the Lord commanded. Aaron cast down his staff before Pharaoh and his servants, and it became a serpent. 11 Then Pharaoh summoned the wise men and the sorcerers, and they, the magicians of Egypt, also did the same by their secret arts. 12 For each man cast down his staff, and they became serpents. But Aaron’s staff swallowed up their staffs. 13 Still Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he would not listen to them, as the Lord had said.<\/p>\r\n
Moses went back to Jethro his father-in-law and said to him, \u201cPlease let me go back to my brothers in Egypt to see whether they are still alive.\u201d And Jethro said to Moses, \u201cGo in peace.\u201d 19 And the Lord said to Moses in Midian, \u201cGo back to Egypt, for all the men who were seeking your life are dead.\u201d 20 So Moses took his wife and his sons and had them ride on a donkey, and went back to the land of Egypt. And Moses took the staff of God in his hand.
21 And the Lord said to Moses, \u201cWhen you go back to Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the miracles that I have put in your power. But I will harden his heart, so that he will not let the people go. 22 Then you shall say to Pharaoh, \u201d\u02dcThus says the Lord, Israel is my firstborn son, 23 and I say to you, \u201cLet my son go that he may serve me.\u201d If you refuse to let him go, behold, I will kill your firstborn son.\u201d\u2122\u201d
24 At a lodging place on the way the Lord met him and sought to put him to death. 25 Then Zipporah took a flint and cut off her son’s foreskin and touched Moses’ feet with it and said, \u201cSurely you are a bridegroom of blood to me!\u201d 26 So he let him alone. It was then that she said, \u201cA bridegroom of blood,\u201d because of the circumcision.<\/p>\r\n
This is my covenant, which you shall keep, between me and you and your offspring after you: Every male among you shall be circumcised. 11 You shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskins, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and you. 12 He who is eight days old among you shall be circumcised. Every male throughout your generations, whether born in your house or bought with your money from any foreigner who is not of your offspring, 13 both he who is born in your house and he who is bought with your money, shall surely be circumcised. So shall my covenant be in your flesh an everlasting covenant. 14 Any uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin shall be cut off from his people; he has broken my covenant.\u201d<\/p>\r\n
The Lord said to Aaron, \u201cGo into the wilderness to meet Moses.\u201d So he went and met him at the mountain of God and kissed him. 28 And Moses told Aaron all the words of the Lord with which he had sent him to speak, and all the signs that he had commanded him to do. 29 Then Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the people of Israel. 30 Aaron spoke all the words that the Lord had spoken to Moses and did the signs in the sight of the people. 31 And the people believed; and when they heard that the Lord had visited the people of Israel and that he had seen their affliction, they bowed their heads and worshiped.<\/p>\r\n
Afterward Moses and Aaron went and said to Pharaoh, \u201cThus says the Lord, the God of Israel, \u201d\u02dcLet my people go, that they may hold a feast to me in the wilderness.\u201d\u2122\u201d 2 But Pharaoh said, \u201cWho is the Lord, that I should obey his voice and let Israel go? I do not know the Lord, and moreover, I will not let Israel go.\u201d 3 Then they said, \u201cThe God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go a three days’ journey into the wilderness that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God, lest he fall upon us with pestilence or with the sword.\u201d 4 But the king of Egypt said to them, \u201cMoses and Aaron, why do you take the people away from their work? Get back to your burdens.\u201d 5 And Pharaoh said, \u201cBehold, the people of the land are now many, and you make them rest from their burdens!\u201d 6 The same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people and their foremen, 7 \u201cYou shall no longer give the people straw to make bricks, as in the past; let them go and gather straw for themselves. 8 But the number of bricks that they made in the past you shall impose on them, you shall by no means reduce it, for they are idle. Therefore they cry, \u201d\u02dcLet us go and offer sacrifice to our God.\u201d\u2122 9 Let heavier work be laid on the men that they may labor at it and pay no regard to lying words.\u201d<\/p>\r\n
So the taskmasters and the foremen of the people went out and said to the people, \u201cThus says Pharaoh, \u201d\u02dcI will not give you straw. 11 Go and get your straw yourselves wherever you can find it, but your work will not be reduced in the least.\u201d\u2122\u201d 12 So the people were scattered throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw. 13 The taskmasters were urgent, saying, \u201cComplete your work, your daily task each day, as when there was straw.\u201d 14 And the foremen of the people of Israel, whom Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten and were asked, \u201cWhy have you not done all your task of making bricks today and yesterday, as in the past?\u201d
15 Then the foremen of the people of Israel came and cried to Pharaoh, \u201cWhy do you treat your servants like this? 16 No straw is given to your servants, yet they say to us, \u201d\u02dcMake bricks!\u201d\u2122 And behold, your servants are beaten; but the fault is in your own people.\u201d 17 But he said, \u201cYou are idle, you are idle; that is why you say, \u201d\u02dcLet us go and sacrifice to the Lord.\u201d\u2122 18 Go now and work. No straw will be given you, but you must still deliver the same number of bricks.\u201d 19 The foremen of the people of Israel saw that they were in trouble when they said, \u201cYou shall by no means reduce your number of bricks, your daily task each day.\u201d 20 They met Moses and Aaron, who were waiting for them, as they came out from Pharaoh; 21 and they said to them, \u201cThe Lord look on you and judge, because you have made us stink in the sight of Pharaoh and his servants, and have put a sword in their hand to kill us.\u201d
22 Then Moses turned to the Lord and said, \u201cO Lord, why have you done evil to this people? Why did you ever send me? 23 For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in your name, he has done evil to this people, and you have not delivered your people at all.\u201d<\/p>\r\n
But the Lord said to Moses, \u201cNow you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh; for with a strong hand he will send them out, and with a strong hand he will drive them out of his land.\u201d
2 God spoke to Moses and said to him, \u201cI am the Lord. 3 I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty, but by my name the Lord I did not make myself known to them. 4 I also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, the land in which they lived as sojourners. 5 Moreover, I have heard the groaning of the people of Israel whom the Egyptians hold as slaves, and I have remembered my covenant. 6 Say therefore to the people of Israel, \u201d\u02dcI am the Lord, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will deliver you from slavery to them, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great acts of judgment. 7 I will take you to be my people, and I will be your God, and you shall know that I am the Lord your God, who has brought you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians. 8 I will bring you into the land that I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. I will give it to you for a possession. I am the Lord.\u201d\u2122\u201d 9 Moses spoke thus to the people of Israel, but they did not listen to Moses, because of their broken spirit and harsh slavery.<\/p>\r\n
Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, 7 casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.<\/p>\r\n
On the day when the Lord spoke to Moses in the land of Egypt, 29 the Lord said to Moses, \u201cI am the Lord; tell Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I say to you.\u201d 30 But Moses said to the Lord, \u201cBehold, I am of uncircumcised lips. How will Pharaoh listen to me?\u201d
7 And the Lord said to Moses, \u201cSee, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron shall be your prophet. 2 You shall speak all that I command you, and your brother Aaron shall tell Pharaoh to let the people of Israel go out of his land. 3 But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and though I multiply my signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, 4 Pharaoh will not listen to you. Then I will lay my hand on Egypt and bring my hosts, my people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great acts of judgment. 5 The Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, when I stretch out my hand against Egypt and bring out the people of Israel from among them.\u201d 6 Moses and Aaron did so; they did just as the Lord commanded them. 7 Now Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three years old, when they spoke to Pharaoh.<\/p>\r\n
Then the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, 9 \u201cWhen Pharaoh says to you, \u201d\u02dcProve yourselves by working a miracle,\u201d\u2122 then you shall say to Aaron, \u201d\u02dcTake your staff and cast it down before Pharaoh, that it may become a serpent.\u201d\u2122\u201d 10 So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and did just as the Lord commanded. Aaron cast down his staff before Pharaoh and his servants, and it became a serpent. 11 Then Pharaoh summoned the wise men and the sorcerers, and they, the magicians of Egypt, also did the same by their secret arts. 12 For each man cast down his staff, and they became serpents. But Aaron’s staff swallowed up their staffs. 13 Still Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he would not listen to them, as the Lord had said.<\/p>\r\n
The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders, 10 and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.<\/p>\r\n\r\n