Exodus Ch 1 v1-4
The list of the sons Israel who came to Egypt with Jacob is specific in its order.
The order gives preeminence to the sons born of Jacobs primary wives and then to the sons of the handmaids.
The order is not linked to his first wife Leah and then his second wife Rachel, as the order is reversed with their respective handmaids sons, thus, Moses is focussing on the order of birth and a distinction between covenant marriage and handmaids.
Now given the transgression of Ruben with Rachels handmaid, after Rachel had died, we can sense that the handmaid was considered a wife of Jacob through being a handmaid of the respective sister, but it was through their offering of the handmaid to their husband that made it so. Thus, the handmaid was the servant of the bride.
Given scriptures clear injunction with Hagar and Ishmael, it is a mystery how the 12 sons of Israel came from four women. And Isaac & Rebecca are again a blueprint that contradicts the focus on it being a different time and culture.
But with the absence of Joseph in this initial list we have the pure love of God pulsing through the verses, as Jacob left to return home immediately Rachel had given birth to Joseph.
Rachel was the true love of Jacobs life, and when she gives birth, immediately Jacob knows he must return to the land promised to his grandfather Abraham and father Isaac.
Here despite the mystery we have scripture carrying the same essence of pure love that had already been blueprinted by God with Abraham and Isaac. Miraculously, despite its dilution in respect to the four wives, God is able to incorporate the fruit of all their wombs into that promised land, with the subsequent twelve tribes being the nation of Israel.
This movement of Jacob at the birth of Joseph is prophetic, and prophetic primarily in respect to pure love being a jealous singular love. Secondary, it is prophetic in that Joseph is the one through whom God would complete the first half of his covenant promise to Abraham, in that his offspring would be sojourners in a land that is not theirs and will be servants there and afflicted for four hundred years.
And the primary and the secondary are inseparable as the nature and work of God are pure love.
The Lord starts by telling Abram, ‘Know for certain’, this is in response to Abrams great heart cry of ‘how will I know’? And the Lords answer is always his answer to this question, as it is the sovereignty of the Lord and his victory on behalf of man that procured the promised land: At the ninth hour ‘It Is Finished’.
The purest of loves from God won the victory, won the promised land, a promised land of freedom through Sonship. The promised Son brings liberty, Luke Ch 4 v18
Jesus’s pure love for his Father, Josephs mirrored it, was the fusion with the Fathers heart that broke the dna of disobedience, dilution and damnation that resides within adamic man.
And his virgin birth through one women’s womb while being covered spiritually by one man, is heavens certainty of the knowledge of life as it should be, uncorrupted, undiluted and unadulterated. The fulfillment of that prophesied in the first half of the Bible in one book, Isaiah Ch 7 v14.
And followed an almost equal distance from its end as its beginning, with Ch 60 and the future Glory of Israel.
(Elizabeth Brownings last words were ‘beautiful’, perhaps she was seeing the Holy One of Israel and Immanuel’s land, where earth was crammed far more exceedingly).
V19 & 20: Jesus at the Centre of the Promised Land, the Sunrise (Judea) and the Sunset (Benjamin). Day & night ending, signs and for seasons having fulfilled their guiding purpose.
Repetition ‘the Lord will be your everlasting light’, the promise of everlasting life as Gods pure love always intended.
Death is not the saviour, Jesus is, but thank God their is more still to come in respect of are redemption.
Your days of mourning shall be ended. Rachel died giving birth to Benjamin, the only Son born to Israel, after his named changed, the only Son born in the promised land. The very territory in which the Messiah and prince of peace cried his final words as a full blooded man: It is Finished
The least, the last born, the wee nipper. Gods sovereignty, fully at work with Judah offering himself in place for Benjamin, in love for his father Jacob.
God redeeming the disfunction, dilution and disaster of the journey into Egypt.
The second man. Him who Moses as a prophet prophesied would come: ‘Out of Egypt have I called my SON’ – Matthew Ch 2 v10-15 (frankincense).
‘Rise’ – repetition and the primary (spoken) and secondary (obeyed by man) are inseparable as the nature and work of God are purest life & pro life forever.
thank God their is more still to come in respect of are redemption – Primary: Let there be light and secondary: Father into your hand I commit my Spirit. A sealed redemption, the hope of which we are purified.
Ch 61 v1-2
Rise, by night. Gods light of life has no shades of grey concerning abortion.
Repetition, Egypt is again used to highlight the value of a new birth, and the sacred sanctity of life. God had not spared Moses’s life for the future glory/beauty of Israel to be unsecured, the knowledge of God is Eternal life unto all who believe.
John Ch 3 v16.
Benjamin, the 8th born Son to Jacobs primary wives. 888, JESUS, the light of life 24 7 in the new Jerusalem. The son of David and King of kings eternal.
Joseph had four dreams, a multiplication of his namesakes repetition. And the new covenant is not just an external sovereignty but a light in darkness in the shadow of death, an internal beauty unto those who store its treasure.
Joseph dreamed in the promised land concerning what would be fulfilled in Egypt when his Father and mother and brethren bowed down to him.
The Sun & Moon and the Stars for Signs and for seasons to rule the day and the night. God has never not been on his throne.
Joseph, the Son of Jacob the, Son of Matthan.
No doubts Matthew took great consolation in seeing the beauty of Redemption in the giving of grace in the nature of his birth: being a collector of tax for gentile occupiers of the promised land, who had them in a form of slavery – Rise & ‘Follow me’.
This Joseph, the second Joseph, penned by the second Matthan, had a primary dream that he obeyed in marrying Mary. But it was secondary to Gods order and command.
His second dream took him into Egypt.
His third back to the promised land.
And his fourth to Nazareth, to fulfill that spoken by the prophets that he, Jesus, would be called a Nazarene. Who having overcome Satan in the wilderness (where Israel as a nation had failed so disastrously) then entered the land that people were dwelling in darkness and in the shadow of death – his life being the light to the victory over all darkness and the void before Gods spoken word of victory: Let there be everlasting life and there was Jesus.
Hebrews Ch 2 v10 – 18
That is why he is not ashamed to call them brothers, saying, ‘I will tell of your (exodus) name to my brothers; in the midst of the congregation I will sing your praise’.
While walking by the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, casting a net for the original purpose of God. The original blessing, the original dominion of Gods word and obedience to it.
And two more brothers.
A repetition. The primary and secondary pairs of the 12 apostles.
Leah had 6 sons. And the other three had two each.
She who had been scorned is given the concentration (opposite to dilution) of heavens knowledge of what she needed to know to know she was loved with a pure and jealous love. Heaven never loves in a secondary fashion.
Matthan the first half of Exodus: (Wiki) It is coming from the word ‘gift’ and literally means “giving”. It is part of the title of the Jewish holiday of Shavuot that is also known as “Z’man Mattan Torah” meaning “[the] time [of the] giving [of the] Torah.”
Then the sermon on the mount & Christ came to fulfill the Law.
Exodus Ch 1v6-7
The Joseph died, and all his brothers and all that generation.
But the people of Israel were fruitful and increased greatly; they multiplied and grew exceedingly strong, so that the land was filled with them. The supernatural and sovereign hand of God at work in Egypt for his people.
God was at work despite Joseph and all that generation having died.
Moses understood that the nature of God, is a generational blessing passed on by God. Moses understood that his role was simply in the truth that God was outworking his covenant promises unto his forefathers. God had already been fulfilling his part of it, multiplication as the stars, but God had promised their abundance in the land promised, the story could not cumulate with a pyramid tomb – the underworld and the hidden knowledge (occult) have fear of death as tantamount – But Jesus rolled the stone away.
Prior to the burning bush, Moses meets Jethro and is given Jethro’s daughter Zipporah in marriage.
And before Mount Sina and the giving of the Law Jethro again meets with him.
Jethro came with his sons and his wife to Moses in the wilderness where he was encamped at the mountain of God.
Where is the man? Jethro heard of all God had done in delivering Moses and Israel, and came to him with his daughter and grandsons. Jethro was his father in law but also a priest and a masculine companion to Moses. He was a friend unto him.
Now the last we have heard of Zipporah is that she had called her husband a ‘bridegroom of blood to me’
This is immediately prior to the Lord instructing Moses to say: Israel is my firstborn son – Let my son go that he may serve me & if you refuse to let him go ‘Behold I will kill your firstborn son’.
Then as Moses journeys to Egypt to deliver this word to Pharaoh the Lord meets him to put him to death.
Jethro akin to Jacob with Laban is asked for permission to fulfill the calling of God.
And Jethro is a true masculine friend to Moses – Go in peace.
And a man wrestled with Jacob – and the Lord sought to kill Moses!
I don’t fully understand this but I do believe that Moses having killed an Egyptian, necessitated the blood for a covering! We go into Egypt and face are Pharaohs knowing that the blood of the lamb has covered are steps: Out of Egypt I have called my Son.
Have we murdered a man or been caught in the act of adultery. There is a path of light to follow wherein we will not stumble if we repent and walk in the light of his life. And his authority is are ability to speak to Pharaoh or the uncircumcised Philistine Goliath.
Circumcision in the flesh is a sign of the covenant. A sign that the blood of the lamb would herald a new dawn and tear the veil in two. The generation of Jesus Christ.
Zipporah, I suppose spoke these words after the Lord had let Moses go after she had touch his feet with the blood from their sons foreskin.
He was their firstborn son, and the act had been bloody. But her obedience had redeemed his journey to fulfill his prophetic ministry: Luke Ch 4 v17.
At what point had Moses sent her home? Some say it was only after the victory over Amalek.
But I would pitch for after the circumcision, as it was deep territory he was about to enter, and his wife’s obedience was a sure foundation for the generational blessing to continue. Plus a son circumcised is better cared for at home in a safe place.
So I believe she had been gone a while, as the text implies the reconciliation as being at one with Jethro’s own renewing of fellowship with Moses.
How does the man of the moment respond to his Father in law? Does he have a dream of being the big prophet unto whom all would bow?
Moses bowed down and kissed him. Isn’t this the joy of a new born babies smile.
Isn’t this the heart of family that breaks the hard and stern outer walls of defense and solitude.
Moses was delighted to see his wife and sons again.
The Lord spoke directly to Aaron, directly not through an intermediary, to go out and meet Moses. He obeyed and kissed him at the mountain of God.
Perhaps Moses needed a brother, at this juncture. God has designed man to need his fellowman, its the principle of the equator and the increase of biodiversity the closer we are to the Sun – and that applies to the feminine and marriage to: Co dependency – this principle was misunderstood when they were together in the garden, and lead to the fall, rather than growing stronger through co and mutual dependency on the Lord dilution and death reigned.
The divine order was distorted.
Moses obeyed the instructions of Jethro. Jethro was a great man and a Father in law who fulfilled his role in Moses’s life to perfection. Moses rightly bowed and loved this priest. He had been a covering of many colors to his life when he fled Egypt. A man who welcomed him with bread and wanted this fugitive as a part of his own family.
Ch 18 of Exodus is beautiful, and The Samaritan Pentateuch text refers to Moses‘ wife Zipporah as “Kaashet” (which translates to “the beautiful woman”).
Exodus Ch 19 v19
And the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder. Purer and purer they heard it, the note of triumph and joy and victory. The sound of heaven, the Lord of Glory, the beautiful royal one.
God answered Moses with thunder!
And the Lord called Moses to the top of the mountain and Moses obeyed and followed.
But obey and follow, are not the ebb and flow of that verse, rather the lover and the loved – held with correct Masculinity by the Lordship of the Lord himself.
Warn the people.
Also let the priests who come near to the Lord consecrate themselves.
Louder and louder!!! Are we hearing it?
The heart beat of the pure love of God is going out to the highways and hedges, do you want to be at the great marriage feast?
Moses hears a contradiction?
And God instructs him to bring Aaron with him.
Oh Moses is hearing something as he puts pen to the memory.
Was it not Moses who diluted the heart beat of God, that the Lords strength to be made perfect through Moses’s weakness in speech.
Paul the great apostle of the new covenant, he studied what Moses wrote, and then when his heart was circumcised by pure love from the law graven on stone: he wrote of the priesthood of all believers and of the mount from which we are born free: now a true Son of the tribe of Benjamin not needing to count his crededials due to his inheritance being all sealed and procured at Calvary: the setting of the Sun, where the shadow of death and mourning where defeated.
So much left out, but Ch 20 gets to the heart of it. God couldn’t have said it louder, he is the only God as Jethro declared, who doesn’t act arrogantly, but loves to exalt the humble.
But his Love cannot be diluted with idols that can never transform the human heart.
And here we have the combining of God and man, the image in which we are made is being loudly proclaimed: Love is of God, beloved therefore let us love one another while it is today.
Immediately, after the purity of Gods love we have honor your Father and mother.
Had not Moses parents placed him on the river Nile!
You shall not murder – his feet naked at the burning bush, but then touched still more with love.
You shall not commit adultery.
Are do not all the rest speak loudly of sanity, of harmony and happiness. The Ten Commandments are a Joy to abide in.
The contradiction, the paradox. Exodus Ch 20 knows, know of a certainty.
No wonder Moses and Elijah are heard speaking with Jesus upon the mount of transfiguration speaking of his Exodus.
This love, this unity, this fellowship, this concentration and redemption necessitates the blood of the passover Lamb.
Exodus Ch 1 unto Ch 20 are Gods love for his people, being sovereignly manifested. The beauty of God being revealed, more concentrated than fullers can make white.
Moses and Zipporah, Moses and Jethro and Moses and Aaron. Are life gets correctly related within family as Gods divine order is received: Be it unto me according to thy Word.
eternalrays 