Exodus 12:43-13:16 – With Communion Message In our passage today, the Jews have just completed their very first Passover and are now on the move towards the promised land of Canaan. God commands the Jews to forever remember that it took the mighty hand of the Lord to defeat Pharaoh in order to allow them to be released from the bondage of…
2 Kings 21-24 The Timing of the Book of Habakkuk From the Open Bible Expanded Edition Thomas Nelson Publishers 1985 Edition The only explicit time reference in Habakkuk is to the Babylonian invasion as an imminent event (1:6: 2:1; 3:16). Some scholars suggest Habakkuk was written during the reign of Manasseh (686-642 B.C.) or Amon (642-640 B.C.) because of the list…
In the tenth and final plague, the Lord slew all the firstborn of in the land of Egypt, people and animals, with the exception of the Israelites and others who obeyed God’s instructions to apply the blood of a blemish-free lamb to the lintel and doorposts of their homes. Pharaoh, bereft of his own firstborn son, finally humbles himself and gives Moses…