What are your questions?

10/31/2020

Question #2 from the Immerse Bible: Beginnings reading plan asks: "Was there anything confusing or troubling?" (based on what you have read and/or discussed with your reading group).

Pastor Morales would love to help you discover answers to your Bible question(s)!

What question(s) do you have?

4 Comments

Ann L West

11/14/2020 03:44:23 pm

Hi Pastor Morales,

Is this the new way to ask you questions? Our group had 3 from week #2 of Beginnings:

1. Were there any "laws" for the people of Israel prior to Moses? (e.g. why did Jacob bow 7 times to Esau when they met, etc. was he following some law or rule? )

2. Why did Laban have idols? He was a relative of God's chose people.

3. What did Jacob's different blessings mean for Jacob and Esau?

Thank you again for your help!

Ann L West

11/15/2020 06:08:08 pm

Hi again Pastor,

Here are our groups' questions from week# 3:

1.For the third plague that God sent against the Egyptians it seems like different Biblical translations use different insects. How does this translate in Hebrew? Were theses gnats (like the NLT, NIV, and ESV all use) or lice like the KJV uses?

2. Why were there ten plagues? Significance of that number?

3.Waht was the time period between the plagues and how long did the whole plague process take?

4. If the plagues wiped out all the Egyptian livestock what did they do for food?

5. In Exodus it talks about presenting the first born son and then buying him back. (p 104). Did that mean that the first born sons needed to be dedicated to God in a special way?

Thanks again for your help!

Angel Morales

12/9/2020 04:06:38 pm

1.For the third plague that God sent against the Egyptians it seems like different Biblical translations use different insects. How does this translate in Hebrew? Were theses gnats (like the NLT, NIV, and ESV all use) or lice like the KJV uses? The Hebrew word is ְלִכִנּם which is gnats.
These little flying insects normally appeared only in the flooded fields of Egypt, but here miraculously by the power of God they emerge from the dry dust that Aaron hits. This miracle shows that they (Fharaoh’s magicians) are defying God the creator.

2. Why were there ten plagues? Significance of that number?
There are many explanations regarding why 10 pests. It is said to be a pre-reference to the 10 commandments.
Now, the number ten has to be seen simply as such, to express a concrete historical fact.
What we can see is that from plague number one to the tenth, God shows his power and ability to bring judgment to those who do not repent, and reject God. Also at the same time He shows us that just as He promised to free the people of Egypt through their Leader Moses, so now He promises to free all those who come to faith in Jesus Christ.

3.What was the time period between the plagues and how long did the whole plague process take?

The only number of days the bible records is between plague number one and two. the number that tells us is 7 days. (Exodus 7:25)

The book of exodus does not give an exact date of the duration from the first plague to the tenth.

4. If the plagues wiped out all the Egyptian livestock what did they do for food?
The bible does not give us an answer to that question.

5. In Exodus it talks about presenting the first born son and then buying him back. (p 104). Did that mean that the first born sons needed to be dedicated to God in a special way?

I think you mean Exodus 13: 12-16.
The people of Israel were to “redeem” the firstborn of each family to remember what God had done in delivering the people of Egypt from the power of Pharaoh. And dedicate it to God for life and not for death.

Pastor Angel Morales

12/30/2020 02:32:27 pm

Thea Hernandez Questions:

1. On day 27, why was it important that instructions for a women was put in at that spot? Can you please give me more details? Thanks!

2. What can you tell us about a "Nazirite"

First of all the word Nazarite means separated or consecrated. This includes women and men.
The bible tells us that there were 2 types of Nazirite.

The first type were those who made a vow to be a Nazirite for a specified time.

Numbers 6:1-21
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When either a man or a woman makes a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to separate himself to the Lord, 3 he shall separate himself from wine and strong drink. He shall drink no vinegar made from wine or strong drink and shall not drink any juice of grapes or eat grapes, fresh or dried. 4 All the days of his separation he shall eat nothing that is produced by the grapevine, not even the seeds or the skins.
5 “All the days of his vow of separation, no razor shall touch his head. Until the time is completed for which he separates himself to the Lord, he shall be holy. He shall let the locks of hair of his head grow long.
6 “All the days that he separates himself to the Lord he shall not go near a dead body. 7 Not even for his father or for his mother, for brother or sister, if they die, shall he make himself unclean, because his separation to God is on his head. 8 All the days of his separation he is holy to the Lord.
9 “And if any man dies very suddenly beside him and he defiles his consecrated head, then he shall shave his head on the day of his cleansing; on the seventh day he shall shave it. 10 On the eighth day he shall bring two turtledoves or two pigeons to the priest to the entrance of the tent of meeting, 11 and the priest shall offer one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering, and make atonement for him, because he sinned by reason of the dead body. And he shall consecrate his head that same day 12 and separate himself to the Lord for the days of his separation and bring a male lamb a year old for a guilt offering. But the previous period shall be void, because his separation was defiled.
“And this is the law for the Nazirite, when the time of his separation has been completed: he shall be brought to the entrance of the tent of meeting, 14 and he shall bring his gift to the Lord, one male lamb a year old without blemish for a burnt offering, and one ewe lamb a year old without blemish as a sin offering, and one ram without blemish as a peace offering, 15 and a basket of unleavened bread, loaves of fine flour mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers smeared with oil, and their grain offering and their drink offerings. 16 And the priest shall bring them before the Lord and offer his sin offering and his burnt offering, 17 and he shall offer the ram as a sacrifice of peace offering to the Lord, with the basket of unleavened bread. The priest shall offer also its grain offering and its drink offering. 18 And the Nazirite shall shave his consecrated head at the entrance of the tent of meeting and shall take the hair from his consecrated head and put it on the fire that is under the sacrifice of the peace offering. 19 And the priest shall take the shoulder of the ram, when it is boiled, and one unleavened loaf out of the basket and one unleavened wafer, and shall put them on the hands of the Nazirite, after he has shaved the hair of his consecration, 20 and the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the Lord. They are a holy portion for the priest, together with the breast that is waved and the thigh that is contributed. And after that the Nazirite may drink wine.
21 “This is the law of the Nazirite. But if he vows an offering to the Lord above his Nazirite vow, as he can afford, in exact accordance with the vow that he takes, then he shall do in addition to the law of the Nazirite.”

And the second type were those whom God Himself designated as Nazirite from birth to death.

Judges 13:3-7
And the angel of the Lord appeared to the woman and said to her, “Behold, you are barren and have not borne children, but you shall conceive and bear a son. 4 Therefore be careful and drink no wine or strong drink, and eat nothing unclean, 5 for behold, you shall conceive and bear a son. No razor shall come upon his head, for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb, and he shall begin to save Israel from the hand of the Philistines.” 6 Then the woman came and told her husband, “A man of God came to me, and his appearance was like the appearance of the angel of God, very awesome. I did not ask him where he was from, and he did not tell me his name, 7 but he said to me, ‘Behold, you shall conceive and bear a son. So then drink no wine or strong drink, and eat nothing

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