self-reflection essay

17:38:23 From Ivan De Silva : [email protected] 17:40:05 From Ivan De Silva : Exodus adds the common law 17:41:59 From Ivan De Silva : Why did the Egyptians make the Israelites into slaves? 17:42:51 From Ivan De Silva : 3 ways in which Israel tried to control the growth of the Israelites 17:46:34 From Ivan De Silva : Story of Exodus begins in Egypt with Israel as slaves; ends in the Wilderness of Sinai with Israelites free 17:47:23 From Ivan De Silva : Exod is all about how Israel went from slaves top free people 17:48:08 From Ivan De Silva : Ans. becauuse God redeemed them with a mighty hand and outstreched arm 17:48:46 From Ivan De Silva : Reddem=to get back 17:50:03 From Ivan De Silva : Israel is God's property and Egypt is holding God's property illegally 17:53:59 From Ivan De Silva : Moses was 40 yrs when he ran away from Egypt; 17:54:28 From Ivan De Silva : Moses was a shepherd for 40 yrs 17:54:44 From Ivan De Silva : Now God appears to Moses when he is 80 yurs 17:55:05 From Ivan De Silva : Burning bush 17:56:10 From Ivan De Silva : Exod 3 17:58:48 From Ivan De Silva : God wants to get Moses' attention 17:59:04 From Ivan De Silva : So why not put the bush right in front of Moses? 17:59:54 From Ivan De Silva : God waited to see if Moses would care to investigate the strange bush 18:00:44 From Ivan De Silva : oftentimes God does not appear directly to people, people must go over to God 18:05:57 From Ivan De Silva : God never forgot his people 18:06:23 From Ivan De Silva : God uses humans to do his work 18:07:07 From Ivan De Silva : How do you think Moses feels about this mission? 18:08:54 From Ivan De Silva : 1. excuse Who am I? = I am nothing 18:09:50 From Ivan De Silva : God's answer to Moses' first excuse? 18:10:08 From Ivan De Silva : I will be with you. 18:12:21 From Ivan De Silva : 2. excuse I don't know your name 18:12:51 From Ivan De Silva : Name = character=power 18:14:24 From Ivan De Silva : God's answer: My name is "I AM!" 18:14:52 From Ivan De Silva : I AM = The eternal and all powerful one 18:15:14 From Ivan De Silva : I AM is God's personal name 18:15:24 From Ivan De Silva : God = generic 18:16:15 From Ivan De Silva : I AM is Israel's God's personal name 18:17:52 From Ivan De Silva : LORD = God's personal name I AM 18:19:40 From Ivan De Silva : 3. Excuse they won't believe me 18:21:03 From Ivan De Silva : God's anser = miracles and signs of wonders 18:24:53 From Ivan De Silva : the conversion of people who become Christians 18:27:20 From Ivan De Silva : 4. Excuse I have a speech problem 18:29:23 From Ivan De Silva : God's answer: I am the one responsible for all people's birth defects 18:31:08 From Ivan De Silva : He made Moses with the speech problem 18:32:01 From Ivan De Silva : 5. excuse 18:37:55 From Mengfei (Fred) Wang : Zoom crashed. Lets meet again at 6:45 pm 18:47:17 From Ivan De Silva : 5. Excuse 18:48:18 From Ivan De Silva : Please just send someone else 18:50:33 From Ivan De Silva : Moses has to go beyond his comfort zone 18:52:59 From Ivan De Silva : Lessons: 1. God is very patient 18:53:46 From Ivan De Silva : Islam = submission without quetion 18:56:29 From Ivan De Silva : 2. when all is said and done, you still have to obey God's call; 18:56:53 From Ivan De Silva : 3. God doesn't leave Moses hanging alone 18:59:02 From Ivan De Silva : if God is the one who is responsible for babies and their birth defects, should we abort babies that have birth defects? 19:06:47 From Ivan De Silva : God sends 12 plagues upon Egypt through Moses and Aaron 19:07:25 From Ivan De Silva : Plague=disaster 19:08:11 From Ivan De Silva : To Egyptians the Nile river was a god 19:09:12 From Ivan De Silva : The Nile was seen as the life blood of Egypt 19:09:24 From Ivan De Silva : So God turned the water of the Nile into actual blood 19:10:12 From Ivan De Silva : Frogs were the symbol of the god Heket 19:10:39 From Ivan De Silva : Heket was the god in charge of childbirth 19:11:03 From Ivan De Silva : In Egypt if you killed a frog you would be killed 19:13:24 From Ivan De Silva : locutst = grasshoppers 19:14:15 From Ivan De Silva : the most powerful god of Egypt? 19:14:22 From Ivan De Silva : Ra 19:14:36 From Ivan De Silva : Ra = sun god 19:15:25 From Ivan De Silva : 12th plague 19:15:55 From Ivan De Silva : God is going to kill all the firstborn sons of in the land opdf Egypt 19:16:21 From Ivan De Silva : The Israelites also live in the land 19:16:50 From Ivan De Silva : How will they be protected while God's angel of death kills the Egyptians 19:17:26 From Ivan De Silva : Ans. God gives Israel the Passover ceremony to protect them 19:17:39 From Ivan De Silva : Passover 19:18:41 From Ivan De Silva : Exod 12 19:19:37 From Ivan De Silva : the Israelites must take a lamb and being it into thier homes for 14 days 19:20:18 From Ivan De Silva : 15th day, they must kill the lamb 19:20:46 From Ivan De Silva : Take some of the blood from the lamb and put it on their doors 19:21:37 From Ivan De Silva : When the Angel of Death sees the blood he will Passover that house 19:24:27 From Ivan De Silva : Exod. 12:5-8 19:31:40 From Ivan De Silva : Foundational narrative of Israel 19:34:24 From Ivan De Silva : Exodus reveals a new character of God 19:34:38 From Ivan De Silva : God is a Warrior 19:35:04 From Ivan De Silva : God fights the gods of Egypt 19:35:46 From Ivan De Silva : cows are the god Apis 19:36:09 From Ivan De Silva : All the plagues are attacking some god of Egypt 19:36:33 From Ivan De Silva : To show that there is no God but I AM!