I often google our readings for interesting thoughts, questions, videos, art, poems, etc. to share here. So I googled “first passover” – and one of the hits caught my attention. Here’s what showed on the search page blurb: The First Passover – The Tenth Plague on Egypt The first Passover and the tenth plague on [...]
Posts Tagged ‘plagues’
Great visual!
Posted: February 18, 2012 in Orange, YellowTags: Aaron, art, death, interpretation, Moses, passover, plagues
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Looking back
Posted: February 17, 2012 in Orange, YellowTags: death, interpretation, Moses, Pharaoh, plagues
This is it. The death of the firstborn son will be the last, and most traumatic, of all the plagues. Tomorrow we’ll read about what the Israelites were doing while the Egyptians were mourning, but for now, we’re basically sitting in the middle of a war zone. Which makes it a great time to look [...]
Prince of Egypt
Posted: February 16, 2012 in Orange, YellowTags: interpretation, Moses, Pharaoh, plagues, power
Do you have a picture in your mind of what the plagues were like? If not, take a minute now to think about it, before you read any farther. See them in your mind’s eye. Got an image or two? Good. Now check out the way the moviePrince of Egypt portrays the plagues: How does [...]
Which God rules?
Posted: February 15, 2012 in Orange, YellowTags: faith, false gods, Moses, Pharaoh, plagues, trust
In ancient Egypt, there were a whole lot of gods. And some people think that the plagues were set up to show that the YHWH, the God of Israel, was more powerful than each of them, like this: Rivers of blood: W – YHWH, L – Hapi (god of the Nile) Frogs: W – YHWH, [...]
Here we go… the plagues. Just to ease us gently into things, we’ll start with turning all the water to blood. Ew. Why do you think God started off with blood? Drama? Force? Symbolism? Why do you think the magicians turned more water into blood instead of turning it back?
