Exodus 1-6 and Exodus 7-13: Come Follow me with Sam

 

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i'd like to focus on the strange events that happen after Moses gets called. 

You would think that if God calls someone to do something, He would just bulldoze all the obstacles away but that is not what happens. It is the same experience with Nephi and with Joseph smith as well. Its like every opportunity is a growth opportunity for God's servants.

Here Moses goes down to Egypt, and all the Israelites recognize him and worship God and everything is going just great, and then he goes to Pharaoh and tells him what's what... And then Pharaoh basically says 'scram, and you know what, I'm going to make the Israelite work harder just because you thought you could do this before pharaoh'.

So what's up with that?

God's ways are not man's ways.

Even (especially) on God's mission, we are given the refinement worthy of Godliness. The wickeder the world, the more glorious the mission.

Ten plagues as the creation backwards

The ten plagues have a lot of symbolism in them. One track of symbols is God telling the pharaoh that if he doesn't let the Israelites go, he will be turning back the seven days of creation, unmaking the work of God, falling back into the ouroboros from which order emerged. While others have commented on this, here is how I think about it.

  • God turns the waters to blood symbolizing the undoing of man introduced in the 6th day of creation
  • God sets frogs, upon them, a symbolic warning of change agent (Kek)in this case to the primordial darkness, raising the night (this is one possible interpretation of many)
  • Flies many times represent evil, wasting away, rot, or Baalsevuv (Beelzebub in Greek), symbolizing that the feared decay of mortality is upon the Egyptians.
  • Cattle die, wiping out animals introduced in the 6th day of creation
  • thunderstorm, hail and fire which can be thought of as Stars, moon, and sun introduced in the 4th day of creation, falling out of their place upon the people of Egypt to their destruction.
  •  and locusts wipe out plants introduced in the 3rd day of creation
  • darkness for 3 days covers the light, introduced on the first day of the creation, as if the world never was
  • First born sons die representing a rolling back of the great atoning plan of God as if there was no redemption. Those who mark the doors with lambs blood symbolize that they acknowledge and pertain to the great plan of redemption, and are not affected.
Long story short, God is deadly serious about His works filling the earth for the redemption of mankind. No one can stop the plan from rolling forth, but we all must be careful of undoing the plan in you. Put your work instead to magnifying your role in the plan of redemption and in the ongoing creation so that you can be a part of the deliverance of the captives from eternity to eternity.

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