WEBVTT NOTE This file was generated by Descript 00:00:00.030 --> 00:00:02.960 Malcom: Welcome To Immerse: The Daily Bible Reading Experience. 00:00:03.083 --> 00:00:04.233 Day 100 and 3 00:00:04.585 --> 00:00:10.855 Years passed and the King of Egypt died, but the Israelites continued to 00:00:10.855 --> 00:00:13.105 groan under their burden of slavery. 00:00:13.585 --> 00:00:17.275 They cried out for help and their cry rose up to God. 00:00:17.995 --> 00:00:21.985 God heard their groaning and he remembered his covenant promise 00:00:21.985 --> 00:00:24.295 to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 00:00:24.955 --> 00:00:28.855 He looked down on the people of Israel and knew it was time to act. 00:00:29.590 --> 00:00:33.190 One day, Moses was tending the flock of his father-in-law, 00:00:33.400 --> 00:00:35.290 Jethro the priest of Midian. 00:00:35.920 --> 00:00:40.990 He led the flock far into the wilderness and came to Sinai, the mountain of God. 00:00:42.010 --> 00:00:45.130 There, the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a blazing 00:00:45.130 --> 00:00:47.230 fire from the middle of a bush. 00:00:48.130 --> 00:00:52.330 Moses stared in amazement, though the bush was engulfed in flames. 00:00:52.330 --> 00:00:53.320 It didn't burn up. 00:00:54.460 --> 00:00:55.900 This is amazing. 00:00:56.320 --> 00:01:00.370 Moses said to himself, why isn't that bush burning up? 00:01:00.880 --> 00:01:02.230 I must go see it. 00:01:03.910 --> 00:01:08.110 When the Lord saw Moses coming to take a closer look, God called to 00:01:08.110 --> 00:01:09.640 him from the middle of the bush. 00:01:10.240 --> 00:01:11.140 Moses. 00:01:11.490 --> 00:01:11.840 Moses. 00:01:13.750 --> 00:01:14.590 Here I am. 00:01:14.860 --> 00:01:18.040 Moses replied, do not come any closer. 00:01:18.550 --> 00:01:23.440 The Lord warned, take off your sandals where you are standing on holy ground. 00:01:24.205 --> 00:01:28.105 I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of 00:01:28.110 --> 00:01:29.965 Isaac, and the God of Jacob. 00:01:31.135 --> 00:01:35.815 When Moses heard this, he covered his face because he was afraid to look at God. 00:01:36.925 --> 00:01:42.385 Then the Lord told him, I have certainly seen the oppression of my people in Egypt. 00:01:43.105 --> 00:01:47.245 I have heard their cries of distress because of their harsh slave drivers. 00:01:47.890 --> 00:01:53.350 Yes, I am aware of their suffering, so I have come down to rescue them 00:01:53.350 --> 00:01:57.370 from the power of the Egyptians and lead them out of Egypt into their 00:01:57.370 --> 00:01:59.560 own fertile and spacious land. 00:02:00.220 --> 00:02:02.830 It is a land flowing with milk and honey. 00:02:03.610 --> 00:02:08.860 The land where the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, parasites, 00:02:09.280 --> 00:02:12.340 hives, and bucy now live. 00:02:13.360 --> 00:02:18.310 Look, the cry of the people of Israel has reached me, and I have seen how 00:02:18.310 --> 00:02:20.320 harshly the Egyptians abuse them. 00:02:21.130 --> 00:02:24.310 Now go, for I am sending you to Pharaoh. 00:02:24.880 --> 00:02:28.300 You must lead my people Israel out of Egypt. 00:02:28.630 --> 00:02:31.480 But Moses protested to God. 00:02:32.320 --> 00:02:34.450 Who am I to appear before Pharaoh? 00:02:34.840 --> 00:02:38.110 Who am I to lead the people of Israel out of Egypt? 00:02:38.920 --> 00:02:39.640 God answered. 00:02:40.480 --> 00:02:41.560 I will be with you. 00:02:42.190 --> 00:02:45.400 And this is your sign that I am the one who has sent you. 00:02:46.180 --> 00:02:49.690 When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you will worship 00:02:49.690 --> 00:02:51.460 God at this very mountain. 00:02:52.510 --> 00:02:53.800 But Moses protested. 00:02:54.670 --> 00:02:58.630 If I go to the people of Israel and tell them, the God of your 00:02:58.630 --> 00:03:03.280 ancestors has sent me to you, they will ask me, what is his name? 00:03:03.760 --> 00:03:05.230 Then what should I tell them? 00:03:06.760 --> 00:03:11.080 God replied to Moses, I am who I am. 00:03:11.740 --> 00:03:16.450 Say this to the people of Israel I am has sent me to you. 00:03:17.440 --> 00:03:23.710 God also said to Moses, say this to the people of Israel, Yahweh, the 00:03:23.710 --> 00:03:28.480 God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the 00:03:28.480 --> 00:03:31.000 God of Jacob has sent me to you. 00:03:31.840 --> 00:03:37.630 This is my eternal name, my name to remember for all generations. 00:03:39.385 --> 00:03:42.745 Now go and call together all the elders of Israel. 00:03:43.135 --> 00:03:47.725 Tell them Yahweh, the God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, 00:03:47.815 --> 00:03:50.515 Isaac, and Jacob has appeared to me. 00:03:51.385 --> 00:03:55.885 He told me I have been watching closely and I see how the 00:03:55.890 --> 00:03:56.905 Egyptians are treating you. 00:03:57.655 --> 00:04:01.375 I have promised to rescue you from your oppression in Egypt. 00:04:01.960 --> 00:04:05.020 I will lead you to a land flowing with milk and honey. 00:04:05.410 --> 00:04:09.910 The land where the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, parasites, 00:04:10.060 --> 00:04:12.880 hives, and cytes now live. 00:04:14.650 --> 00:04:17.980 The elders of Israel will accept your message. 00:04:18.550 --> 00:04:24.040 Then you and the elders must go to the King of Egypt and tell him the Lord, 00:04:24.280 --> 00:04:26.560 the God of the Hebrews has met with us. 00:04:27.385 --> 00:04:31.555 So please let us take a three day journey into the wilderness to offer 00:04:31.560 --> 00:04:34.135 sacrifices to the Lord our God. 00:04:35.425 --> 00:04:38.725 But I know that the King of Egypt will not let you go 00:04:38.935 --> 00:04:41.005 unless a mighty hand forces him. 00:04:41.785 --> 00:04:45.535 So I will raise my hand and strike the Egyptians performing 00:04:45.535 --> 00:04:47.665 all kinds of miracles among them. 00:04:49.105 --> 00:04:54.025 Then at last, he will let you go and I will cause the Egyptians 00:04:54.025 --> 00:04:55.525 to look favorably on you. 00:04:56.185 --> 00:05:00.205 They will give you gifts when you go, so you will not leave empty handed. 00:05:01.135 --> 00:05:06.055 Every Israelite woman will ask for articles of silver and gold and fine 00:05:06.060 --> 00:05:10.885 clothing from her Egyptian neighbors and from the foreign women in their houses. 00:05:11.785 --> 00:05:15.445 You will dress your sons and daughters with these stripping 00:05:15.715 --> 00:05:17.155 the Egyptians of their wealth. 00:05:18.505 --> 00:05:20.125 But Moses protested again. 00:05:21.415 --> 00:05:23.935 What if they won't believe me or listen to me? 00:05:24.295 --> 00:05:27.355 What if they say the Lord never appeared to you? 00:05:28.465 --> 00:05:32.305 Then the Lord asked him, what is that in your hand? 00:05:33.445 --> 00:05:34.645 A shepherd staff? 00:05:34.855 --> 00:05:38.335 Moses replied, throw it down on the ground. 00:05:38.725 --> 00:05:39.685 The Lord told him. 00:05:40.435 --> 00:05:44.515 So Moses threw down the staff and it turned into a snake. 00:05:45.220 --> 00:05:46.480 Moses jumped back. 00:05:46.930 --> 00:05:50.590 Then the Lord told him, reach out and grab its tail. 00:05:51.190 --> 00:05:55.690 So Moses reached out and grabbed it and it turned back into a shepherd's. 00:05:55.695 --> 00:05:58.930 Staff in his hand perform this sign. 00:05:59.260 --> 00:06:03.610 The Lord told him, then they will believe that the Lord, the God of 00:06:03.610 --> 00:06:08.050 their ancestors, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of 00:06:08.050 --> 00:06:10.630 Jacob, really has appeared to you. 00:06:12.010 --> 00:06:16.555 Then the Lord said to Moses, Now put your hand inside your cloak. 00:06:17.545 --> 00:06:21.145 So Moses put his hand inside his cloak, and when he took it 00:06:21.145 --> 00:06:25.615 out again, his hand was white as snow with a severe skin disease. 00:06:26.635 --> 00:06:29.275 Now put your hand back into your cloak. 00:06:29.695 --> 00:06:30.505 The Lord said. 00:06:31.285 --> 00:06:36.445 So Moses put his hand back in and when he took it out again, it was 00:06:36.445 --> 00:06:38.635 as healthy as the rest of his body. 00:06:40.330 --> 00:06:45.520 The Lord said to Moses, if they do not believe you and are not convinced by 00:06:45.520 --> 00:06:50.920 the first miraculous sign, they will be convinced by the second sign, and 00:06:50.920 --> 00:06:55.300 if they don't believe you or listened to you even after these two signs, then 00:06:55.300 --> 00:06:59.470 take some water from the Nile River and pour it out on the dry ground. 00:06:59.950 --> 00:07:04.570 When you do the water from the Nile will turn to blood on the ground, 00:07:05.770 --> 00:07:07.750 but Moses pleaded with the Lord. 00:07:08.500 --> 00:07:11.620 Oh Lord, I'm not very good with words. 00:07:12.070 --> 00:07:14.350 I never have been and I'm not now. 00:07:14.740 --> 00:07:19.780 Even though you have spoken to me, I get tongue tied and my words get tangled. 00:07:21.130 --> 00:07:25.660 Then the Lord asked Moses, who makes a person's mouth? 00:07:26.410 --> 00:07:30.400 Who decides whether people speak or do not speak, hear, or do 00:07:30.400 --> 00:07:33.190 not hear, see or do not see? 00:07:34.180 --> 00:07:35.950 Is it not I the Lord? 00:07:36.760 --> 00:07:37.570 Now go. 00:07:38.200 --> 00:07:43.210 I will be with you as you speak and I will instruct you in what to say. 00:07:44.290 --> 00:07:50.260 But Moses again pleaded, Lord, please send anyone else. 00:07:52.210 --> 00:07:54.910 Then the Lord became angry with Moses. 00:07:55.990 --> 00:07:56.740 All right? 00:07:57.220 --> 00:08:00.430 He said, what about your brother, Aaron? 00:08:00.700 --> 00:08:01.360 The Levite? 00:08:02.110 --> 00:08:03.670 I know he speaks well. 00:08:04.000 --> 00:08:07.150 And look, he is on his way to meet you now. 00:08:07.480 --> 00:08:12.340 He will be delighted to see you talk to him and put the words in his mouth. 00:08:13.180 --> 00:08:16.780 I will be with both of you as you speak, and I will instruct 00:08:16.780 --> 00:08:17.950 you both in what to do. 00:08:18.790 --> 00:08:21.250 Aaron will be your spokesman to the people. 00:08:21.640 --> 00:08:25.570 He will be your mouthpiece and you will stand in the place of God 00:08:25.570 --> 00:08:27.880 for him telling him what to say. 00:08:28.390 --> 00:08:30.580 And take your shepherd's staff with you. 00:08:31.000 --> 00:08:35.650 And use it to perform the miraculous signs I have shown you. 00:08:38.260 --> 00:08:42.280 So Moses went back home to Jethro his father-in-law. 00:08:43.630 --> 00:08:46.420 Please let me return to my relatives in Egypt. 00:08:46.780 --> 00:08:50.380 Moses said, I don't even know if they are still alive. 00:08:51.460 --> 00:08:52.270 Go in peace. 00:08:53.050 --> 00:08:57.130 Jethro replied before Moses left Midian. 00:08:57.520 --> 00:09:00.640 The Lord said to him, return to Egypt. 00:09:00.700 --> 00:09:03.430 For all those who wanted to kill you have died. 00:09:04.630 --> 00:09:09.340 So Moses took his wife and sons, put them on a donkey, and headed 00:09:09.345 --> 00:09:11.260 back to the land of Egypt. 00:09:11.980 --> 00:09:19.150 In his hand, he carried the staff of God and the Lord told Moses, 00:09:20.080 --> 00:09:25.210 when you arrive back in Egypt, go to Pharaoh and perform all the miracles. 00:09:25.210 --> 00:09:26.800 I have empowered you to do. 00:09:27.640 --> 00:09:31.870 But I will harden his heart, so he will refuse to let the people go. 00:09:32.410 --> 00:09:36.280 Then you will tell him this is what the Lord says. 00:09:36.790 --> 00:09:39.370 Israel is my firstborn son. 00:09:39.850 --> 00:09:44.980 I commanded you let my son go so he can worship me. 00:09:45.730 --> 00:09:50.440 But since you have refused, I will now kill your firstborn son. 00:09:51.985 --> 00:09:56.515 On the way to Egypt at a place where Moses and his family had stopped for the night. 00:09:57.025 --> 00:10:03.205 The Lord confronted him and was about to kill him, but Moses' wife Zipporah took 00:10:03.205 --> 00:10:05.515 a flint knife and circumcised her son. 00:10:06.235 --> 00:10:11.335 She touched his feet with the foreskin and said, now you are a bridegroom of blood. 00:10:11.335 --> 00:10:16.225 To me, when she said a bride groom of blood, she was referring 00:10:16.225 --> 00:10:18.925 to the circumcision After that. 00:10:19.525 --> 00:10:21.265 The Lord left him alone. 00:10:22.885 --> 00:10:27.655 Now, the Lord had said to Aaron, go out into the wilderness to meet Moses. 00:10:28.465 --> 00:10:33.145 So Aaron went and met Moses at the mountain of God and he embraced him. 00:10:34.075 --> 00:10:39.265 Moses then told Aaron everything the Lord had commanded him to say, and he 00:10:39.265 --> 00:10:44.245 told him about the miraculous signs the Lord had commanded him to perform. 00:10:45.970 --> 00:10:52.180 Then Moses and Aaron returned to Egypt and called all the elders of Israel together. 00:10:53.050 --> 00:10:57.700 Aaron told them everything the Lord had told Moses and Moses performed 00:10:57.700 --> 00:10:59.890 the miraculous signs as they watched. 00:11:00.700 --> 00:11:05.140 Then the people of Israel were convinced that the Lord had sent Moses and Aaron. 00:11:06.100 --> 00:11:09.910 When they heard that the Lord was concerned about them and had seen their 00:11:09.910 --> 00:11:13.120 misery, they bowed down and worshiped. 00:11:14.740 --> 00:11:18.640 After this presentation to Israel's leaders, Moses and 00:11:18.640 --> 00:11:20.530 Aaron went and spoke to Pharaoh. 00:11:21.190 --> 00:11:28.150 They told him This is what the Lord the God of Israel says, let my people go. 00:11:28.270 --> 00:11:31.660 So they may hold a festival, in my honor, in the wilderness. 00:11:32.890 --> 00:11:37.660 Is that so Retorted, Pharaoh, and who is the Lord? 00:11:37.870 --> 00:11:40.600 Why should I listen to him and let Israel go? 00:11:41.590 --> 00:11:45.430 I don't know the Lord and I will not let Israel go. 00:11:47.260 --> 00:11:49.360 But Aaron and Moses persisted. 00:11:50.140 --> 00:11:52.510 The God of the Hebrews has met with us. 00:11:52.780 --> 00:11:57.760 They declared, so let us take a three day journey into the wilderness so we 00:11:57.760 --> 00:12:00.460 can offer sacrifices to the Lord our God. 00:12:01.060 --> 00:12:05.200 If we don't, he will kill us with a plague or with the sword. 00:12:06.700 --> 00:12:07.570 Pharaoh replied. 00:12:09.040 --> 00:12:13.600 Moses and Aaron, why are you distracting the people from their tasks? 00:12:14.170 --> 00:12:15.160 Get back to work. 00:12:15.700 --> 00:12:19.000 Look, there are many of your people in the land and you are 00:12:19.000 --> 00:12:20.800 stopping them from their work. 00:12:21.760 --> 00:12:22.930 That same day. 00:12:22.930 --> 00:12:26.140 Farrell sent this order to the Egyptian slave drivers and the 00:12:26.145 --> 00:12:31.180 Israelite foremen do not supply any more straw for making bricks. 00:12:31.885 --> 00:12:36.145 Make the people get it themselves, but still require them to make 00:12:36.145 --> 00:12:40.255 the same number of bricks says before, don't reduce the quota. 00:12:40.855 --> 00:12:41.935 They are lazy. 00:12:42.175 --> 00:12:43.885 That's why they are crying out. 00:12:44.605 --> 00:12:47.965 Let us go and offer sacrifices to our God. 00:12:48.865 --> 00:12:50.755 Load them down with more work. 00:12:51.115 --> 00:12:55.105 Make them sweat that will teach them to listen to lies. 00:12:56.845 --> 00:13:00.205 So the slave drivers and foreman went out and told the people. 00:13:00.895 --> 00:13:02.995 This is what Pharaoh says. 00:13:03.565 --> 00:13:05.995 I will not provide any more straw for you. 00:13:06.475 --> 00:13:08.425 Go and get it yourselves. 00:13:08.935 --> 00:13:14.665 Find it wherever you can, but you must produce just as many bricks as before. 00:13:15.175 --> 00:13:19.075 So the people scattered throughout the land of Egypt in search 00:13:19.075 --> 00:13:20.995 of stubble to use a straw. 00:13:21.865 --> 00:13:27.145 Meanwhile, the Egyptian slave drivers continued to push hard, meet your 00:13:27.145 --> 00:13:31.735 daily quota of bricks, just as you did when we provided you with straw. 00:13:32.275 --> 00:13:36.775 They demanded, then they whipped the Israelite foren they had 00:13:36.780 --> 00:13:38.455 put in charge of the work crews. 00:13:38.995 --> 00:13:42.445 Why haven't you met your quotas either yesterday or today? 00:13:42.955 --> 00:13:47.875 They demanded, so the Israelite foren went to Pharaoh and pleaded with him. 00:13:48.775 --> 00:13:50.965 Please don't treat your servants like this. 00:13:51.295 --> 00:13:51.955 They begged. 00:13:52.435 --> 00:13:57.595 We are given no straw, but the slave drivers still demand, make bricks. 00:13:58.015 --> 00:14:01.195 We are being beaten, but it isn't our fault. 00:14:01.615 --> 00:14:03.385 Your own people are to blame. 00:14:04.405 --> 00:14:07.855 But Pharaoh shouted, you are just lazy. 00:14:07.945 --> 00:14:08.725 Lazy. 00:14:09.145 --> 00:14:13.555 That's why you're saying let us go and offer sacrifices to the Lord. 00:14:14.065 --> 00:14:15.295 Now get back to work. 00:14:15.595 --> 00:14:19.075 No straw will be given to you, but you must still produce 00:14:19.075 --> 00:14:20.665 the full quota of bricks. 00:14:22.105 --> 00:14:25.765 The Israelite foreman could see that they were in serious trouble when 00:14:25.765 --> 00:14:30.655 they were told you must not reduce the number of bricks you make each day. 00:14:31.405 --> 00:14:36.115 As they left Pharaoh's court, they confronted Moses and Aaron who 00:14:36.115 --> 00:14:37.735 were waiting outside for them. 00:14:38.455 --> 00:14:43.615 The foreman said to them, may the Lord judge and punish you for making us stink. 00:14:43.615 --> 00:14:47.545 Before Pharaoh and his officials, you have put a sword into their 00:14:47.545 --> 00:14:49.705 hands, an excuse to kill us. 00:14:51.715 --> 00:14:54.565 This concludes today's Immer Reading experience. 00:14:54.715 --> 00:14:55.945 Thank you for joining us.