Posted on 04/22/2024 4:32:52 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Tonight, at sunset, Jews across the world will celebrate Passover, something they’ve been doing annually for around 3,500 years. The holiday commemorates the miracle (and gift) of God leading the Jews out of slavery in Egypt. This was the world’s first slave revolt and led to God’s handing down the moral laws that are the backbone of the Judeo-Christian faiths. But the Passover story also tells us something important about the nature of tyranny, and the world’s governments, from Biden on down, would do well to heed that lesson.
The story of Passover appears in Exodus, the second book of the Old Testament. It explains that 400 years after Egypt took in the Israelites (i.e., today’s Jews) who were escaping a famine in Canaan (modern Israel), a new Pharaonic line had taken the Egyptian throne and enslaved the Israelites.
The Pharaoh on the throne at the time the narrative begins was so hostile to the Israelites that he ordered the slaughter of all newborn Israelite boys. The mother of one of those newborn boys successfully hid him in a basket on the Nile, where one of Pharaoh’s daughters found him, named him Moses, and raised him as a Prince of Egypt.
Because his older sister had stayed near the basket and become his nurse, Moses knew he was an Israelite, not an Egyptian. When the adult Moses saw an overseer cruelly treating a slave, Moses killed the overseer and fled to Midian. There, he became a shepherd and married a priest’s daughter.
Then came that fateful day when Moses, while tending his flocks, encountered a burning bush from which came the voice of God. God set Moses a task for which Moses felt painfully unqualified: Return to Egypt, free the Israelites from their bondage, and lead them to Canaan...
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Tyrants do not learn from the lessons of history.
World leader Biden?
FJB
Joe has already lost his oldest son.
We will have to see if Biden, Blinken,Schumer and Jake Sullivan are among them.Biden has already lost his first born sono but has not repented, what will come next?
May Zion live forever.
YHWH walks Judea as of old ever since Oct 7, 2023:
Two issues:
“It was only because Moses parted the Red Sea, leaving it to close on Pharaoh’s troops,”
Moses did no such thing.
“Instead, the world, including Biden, was afraid to bring that last plague to the Mullah’s doors.”
They aren’t afraid of Iran, they are afraid of the truth coming out. Pallets of cash sent to Iran by Barry Sotero? Something stinks about that.
Well, I do believe 2024 is shaping up to be an interesting year.
I remember last year, considering the years since Israel reborn and Jerusalem captured (and 1/2 given back)....and then things really got rolling within I’d say 24-36 hours.
I remember logging on to FR and seeing the early reports.
Shocking.
And the child’s sister said to her Shall I go and call to thee a Hebrew woman, to nurse the babe? ex.2.8 She answered: Go. The maid went and called her mother. ex.2.9 And Pharao’s daughter said to her: Take this child and nurse him for me: I will give thee thy wages. The woman took, and nursed the child: and when he was grown up, she delivered him to Pharao’s daughter. ex.2.10 And she adopted him for a son,…
She can’t even get that right.
What Pharaoh discovered with the first nine plagues is that life can go on, at least for the ruler, no matter the burdens he places on his people. Pharaoh had wine to drink when the Nile turned to blood; physicians when the plagues and boils arrived; baths, unguents, and incense when the irritating bugs settled in; stores of food when the cattle sickened and starved; and a secure palace when the skies poured down hail and fire. As long as Pharaoh’s hold on power was undiminished, he could always reconcile himself to his people’s pain.This sounds like Biden saying the economy is the best in US history. And telling Israel not to defend herself from a massive missile attack from a country that has sworn to destroy Israel. (And the US, too)Sheltered in his stronghold, Pharaoh might have had a theoretical concern that a starving and frightened populace could turn on him. However, with his army for protection, he nevertheless felt sufficiently inviolate to take that risk. It was only when the price became too high—when the plague struck Pharaoh in his own palace, killing his firstborn—that he was convinced, even temporarily, to alter his evil ways.
One of the reasons the Bible has lasted is its deep understanding of human nature—and when it comes to tyranny, human nature hasn’t changed since Pharaoh’s time. We’ve seen that over and over in the ensuing 3,500-plus years, as tyrants without number have immured themselves in secure luxury while visiting immense suffering on the people they rule.
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