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Exodus 4:24

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24 It happened on the way at a lodging place, that Yahweh met Moses and wanted to kill him.

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Napsal(a) Brian David

Moses and the elders see God, by Jacopo Amigoni

This verse and the two that follow have long puzzled scholars. The Lord has just told Moses to go to Egypt, and Moses is going, and the Lord shows up to kill him. Why?

The answer lies in the relationship between the Lord and the Children of Israel, and in a brief change in Moses’ spiritual meaning.

Prior to this verse - and again starting with Verse 27 - Moses represented the Lord’s law that would govern the Israeli Church. Here. However, the Writings tell us that he represents the Israeli people as their soon-to-be ruler.

As for those Israeli people, the Writings tell us they were as hard and external as all the people around them in the world at the time. They were one of the vestiges of the Ancient Church, but had none of the spiritual knowledge and internal worship that church had once had. This external nature shows in the fact that this happened at an encampment, also translated as an inn or a lodging-place - a place where thoughts and ideas can come and go without real meaning and without being questioned.

The fact that the Lord - translated as "Jehovah" in some versions - came to meet Moses and kill him shows that the external nature of the people of Israel stood in opposition to the Lord’s intent, which was to use them to create a church that could contain spiritual ideas.



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