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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="CENTER"><b>FEB
2 - EXODUS 5:1-7:18 - PHARAOH: HIS PERSECUTION</b></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="LEFT"><b>1.
5:17-18 (5:1-18) PHARAOH: HEART HARDENED. “But he said, You are
idle, you are idle: therefore you say, Let us go and sacrifice to
Jehovah. <font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1">18</font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">
Go therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw be given you,
yet shall you deliver the number of bricks.” </font></b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="">This
is a terrible situation to be in; yet You designed it Father, that
You could make all things work together for good! We submit to Your
at times mysterious ways! </span></font><b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i>Hallowed
be your name!</i></font></b></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;" align="LEFT">
<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><b>2. 5:20-21 (5:19-21) MOSES:
BLAMED FOR PHARAOH'S PERSECUTION. “And they met Moses and Aaron,
who stood in the way, as they came forth from Pharaoh: <font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1">21</font>
and they said unto them, Jehovah look upon you, and judge; because
you have made our savor to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in
the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to kill us.”
</b><span style="">This is bad! Yet Father, we
thank You that Moses obeyed You in spite of these temporary
consequences! </span><b><i>Your :kingdom come!</i></b></font></p>
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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><b>3. 6:2-5 (5:22-6:8) MOSES:
SIXTH COMPLAINT OVERCOME. “And God spoke unto Moses, and said unto
him, I am Jehovah: <font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1">3</font> and I
appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, as God Almighty;
but by my name Jehovah I was not known to them. <font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1">4</font>
And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the
land of Canaan, the land of their sojournings, in which they
sojourned.<font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1"> 5</font> Moreover I
have heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians
keep in bondage; and I have remembered my covenant.” <span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Your :will be done, As
in heaven, so on earth.</span></i></b></font></p>
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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><b><span style="text-decoration: none;">4.
6:9 (6:9-27) MOSES: SEVENTH COMPLAINT OVERCOME. “And Moses spoke
so unto the children of Israel: but they did not listen to Moses for
anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.” </span></b><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">We
can understand the reaction of Israel at this juncture; yet it is
still not justified in the light of Your spoken intent, Father! </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Our
:daily :bread Give us this day.</span></i></b></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;" align="LEFT">
<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><b><span style="text-decoration: none;">5.
7:4 (6:28-7:5) MOSES: EIGHTH COMPLAINT OVERCOME. “But Pharaoh
will not listen to you, and I will lay my hand upon Egypt, and bring
out the children of Israel from among them.” </span></b><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">Father,
You are a God Who is able to multiply signs and wonders to confirm
Your Spoken Word! </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">And
forgive us our :debts, as we also have forgiven our :debtors.”</span></i></b></font></p>
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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><b><span style="text-decoration: none;">6.
7:11-12 (7:6-13) PHARAOH: CONTEST BETWEEN GOD AND SATAN. “Then
Pharaoh also called for the wise men and the sorcerers: and they
also, the magicians of Egypt, did in like manner with their
enchantments. </span><font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1"><span style="text-decoration: none;">12</span></font><span style="text-decoration: none;">
For they cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents: but
Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods.” </span></b><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">Satan
too can work lying signs and wonders through his servants: but </span></span><u><span style="">they</span></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
are limited when compared with You, Father! </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">And
bring us not into temptation!</span></i></b></font></p>
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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><b><span style="text-decoration: none;">7.
7:17 (7:14-18) PHARAOH: PRECIPITATES JUDGMENT. “Thus says
Jehovah, In this you shall know that I am Jehovah: behold, I will
strike with the rod that is in my hand upon the waters which are in
the river, and they shall be turned to blood.” </span></b><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">Only
two of the ten plagues could Pharaoh's servants duplicate! From then
on it was all of You, Father! </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">But
deliver us from the evil one.</span></i></b></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;" align="LEFT">
<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><u><b>NOTE</b></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>:
6:1 (5:22-6:8) “And Jehovah said unto Moses, Now shall you see
what I will do to Pharaoh: for by a strong hand shall he let them go,
and by a strong hand shall he drive them out of his land.” </b></span><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">The
following seven verses are as powerful as anything in the Bible! Here
there are five </span></span><u><span style="">indications
of intent</span></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
applied to the church, and eight </span></span><u><span style="">unconditional
prophetic futures</span></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">!</span></span></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;" align="LEFT">
<span style="text-decoration: none;"> <font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="">There
are amazing lessons for us in this portion of Exodus. Five times in
6:1-5 a peculiar tense in this Hebrew text appears. It is the </span></font></span><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><u><span style="">long
tense</span></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
in the past, preceded by the consonant “vav”. In the Introduction
of the Thomas Newberry Reference Bible of 1890, on page xiii he
places this as a Diagram with the the following notation:
“Permanency. An established fact. Or perfect tense.”</span></span></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;" align="LEFT">
<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">No
other language in the world but Hebrew contains this unique
construction. No wonder God in 1890 let Ivan Panin discover His Bible
Numerics, which only appear in the Hebrew and Greek languages - the
two languages </span></span><u><span style="">He</span></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
chose to have His 33 known writers write their 66 books.</span></span></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;" align="LEFT">
<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">Newberry
calls the grammatical and numeric factors of the Hebrew language
especially - “</span></span><u><span style="">God's
Urim and Thummim</span></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">”,
or “Lights and Perfections”. This is his exact notation on this -
“An action or event in the past, having this stamp upon it, ceases
to be a mere historical circumstance, a point in the expanse of past
time; it gives it a present value, marking it out as having a
</span></span><u><span style="">spiritual present
application</span></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">,
and it may be, a prophetical future; and also it stamps on future
predictions </span></span><u><span style="">the
certainty of accomplished facts</span></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">.”</span></span></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;" align="LEFT">
<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">Now
to apply this insight, these five examples of the Hebrew perfect
tense, which God uses here 5 times. Newberry has this further comment
upon the extreme importance of this unique construction: “This
remarkable and important use of the “vav” or conjunction “and”
is peculiar to the Hebrew Scriptures. The continuous character of the
long tense is thus connected with transactions of the past, and
</span></span><u><span style="">permanency</span></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
stamped upon them, so that what might otherwise have been regarded as
temporary actions or events, are marked thereby as permanent facts,
stereotyped, so to speak, </span></span><u><span style="">for
future use</span></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">.</span></span></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;" align="LEFT">
<span style="text-decoration: none;">“<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="">By
the use of the </span></font></span><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><u><span style="">vav</span></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
the decision of the short tense is </span></span><u><span style="">also</span></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
stamped on the present; and the certainty of accomplished facts on
future predictions.”</span></span></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;" align="LEFT">
<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">Note
carefully the 5 examples of this unique construction:</span></span></font></p>
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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">1.
6:1 - “Then Jehovah </span></span><u><span style="">said</span></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">”</span></span></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;" align="LEFT">
<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">2.
6:2 - “And God </span></span><u><span style="">spoke</span></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
unto Moses”</span></span></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;" align="LEFT">
<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">3.
6:2b - “And </span></span><u><span style="">said</span></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
unto him”</span></span></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;" align="LEFT">
<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">4.
6:3 - “I </span></span><u><span style="">appeared</span></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob”</span></span></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;" align="LEFT">
<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">5.
6:5 - “I </span></span><u><span style="">have
remembered</span></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
My covenant”</span></span></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;" align="LEFT">
<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">Now
God intends that we as Christian believers in the light of the above
- should ask ourselves - </span></span><u><span style="">how</span></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
do these 5 unusual declarations by God have </span></span><u><span style="">present
application</span></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
for us today? For by this construction God intends us to understand
that </span></span><u><span style="">they do</span></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">!</span></span></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;" align="LEFT">
<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">After
these 5 significant declarations with present time application, God
follows up with 8 “short tenses” in the future. When this is
accompanied with the Subjunctive aorist, it produces “Decision in
the future! Certainty!”</span></span></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;" align="LEFT">
<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">Newberry
went 5 times through the entire Hebrew OT, carefully examining each
occurrence of the “vav connective” in the above two examples.
Again, no other language but Biblical Hebrew has this unique
construction. God designed it, and God has utilized it to enable Him
to express </span></span><u><span style="">exactly</span></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
what He desires. Then He follows it up in the Greek text of the NT
with the amazing discoveries of Ivan Panin starting in 1890. Like
Thomas Newberry - he </span></span><u><span style="">too</span></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
spent 100,000 hours perfecting his discovery.</span></span></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;" align="LEFT">
<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">Now
look at the 8 prophetic futures appearing here - with great relevancy
in application for you and me!</span></span></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;" align="LEFT">
<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">1.
6:6 - “</span></span><u><span style="">I will
bring you out</span></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
from under the burdens of the Egyptians.” Because of the preceding
5 unique declarations of God for Israel - it also applies to us! - we
can assuredly rest in the knowledge that through Christ, God has
brought us out from the burdens of </span></span><u><span style="">the
world</span></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">!</span></span></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;" align="LEFT">
<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">2.
“and </span></span><u><span style="">I will rid
you</span></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
of this bondage!” Believe it! Apply it! Receive God's application
for you and me!</span></span></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;" align="LEFT">
<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">3.
“And </span></span><u><span style="">I will
redeem you</span></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments!” And - </span></span><u><span style="">this</span></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
also applies to us!</span></span></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;" align="LEFT">
<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">4.
6:7 - “and </span></span><u><span style="">I
will take you to Me</span></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
for a people.” And this God </span></span><u><span style="">did</span></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
for Israel - and this He </span></span><u><span style="">has</span></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
done through Christ for the church in the One New Man!”</span></span></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;" align="LEFT">
<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">5.
“and </span></span><u><span style="">I will be
to you</span></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
a God!” - and </span></span><u><span style="">how
He was</span></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
to Israel as recounted in the 10 plagues that defeated Pharaoh, and
the victories under Joshua, and the Judges, and the good kings of
Judah. And how </span></span><u><span style="">much
greater</span></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
through Christ has He allowed us to pass through the Riven Veil into
intimacy with God.</span></span></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;" align="LEFT">
<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">6.
“And </span></span><u><span style="">you shall
know</span></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
that I am Jehovah your God which brings you out from under the
burdens of the Egyptians.” And let us apply </span></span><u><span style="">this</span></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
to ourselves also!</span></span></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;" align="LEFT">
<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">7.
6:8 - “And </span></span><u><span style="">I
will bring you in</span></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
unto the land concerning which I did swear to give IT to Abraham, to
Isaac, and to Jacob.” This land from the Nile to the Euphrates is
for Israel by the fiat of God! Under Solomon it was so - and under
Christ it </span></span><u><span style="">will</span></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
be fully restored. And for us - the </span></span><u><span style="">eternal
rest</span></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
of the New Jerusalem and Paradise, as seen by Paul and John!</span></span></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;" align="LEFT">
<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">8.
“And </span></span><u><span style="">I will
give IT</span></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
to you for a heritage: I am Jehovah!” And just as God's promise to
Israel will come to pass as shown by Paul in Romans 11 - so will all
of God's spiritual promises to the church be an eternal heritage.</span></span></font></p>
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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">Psalm
32:1-2 - </span></span><b><span style="text-decoration: none;">“Blessed
is he whose transgression is forgiven, Whose sin is covered. </span><font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1"><span style="text-decoration: none;">2</span></font><span style="text-decoration: none;">
Blessed is the man unto whom Jehovah imputes not iniquity, And in
whose spirit there is no guile.” </span></b><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">Confession
of sin and Your forgiveness, Father: what a blessing to the sons and
daughters of men! And it is all because of Jesus and His Atonement!
What a blessed covenant on our behalf is between You and Your Son!
Our Psalm here for FEB 2, abundantly confirms this marvelous
revelation from this portion of Exodus! J.A.Watt</span></span></font></p>
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