Did Moses Marry a Black Woman?
Probably.Ran across this while doing research for my commentary on Exodus 4. I couldn't agree more!
What matters is not the color of the skin (pinky-tan or chocolaty-brown) but the color of the heart (White with Jesus or Black with the Devil).
Very Low Weight Gain or Gestational Weight Loss in Pregnant Obese Women Risky
Doctors have become so fat-phobic they have been telling fat women to not gain any weight, or even to lose weight, while pregnant. Many of us could have told them what would happen:-( This study found that these babies were born under weight, under healthy, and at risk for future health problems, including, ironically, obesity.
Babies need nutrients to grow. stored fat does not contain these nutrients. A pregnant woman would do best for her baby by throwing her scales away and eating as healthy, nutrient rich of a diet as she can.
Obstetric Insanity: An 80% Cesarean Rate in Super Obese Women?
The World Health Organization says no country's Cesarian rate should be more than 10-15%. America's stands at 33%. Obese women at 80%? Doctors are expecting complications and treating them before they happen...CAUSING complications! So sad. "Especially when a British study of women in the same BMI group found that 70% were able to give birth vaginally when given the chance!"
Body Respect
"Our culture perpetuates myriad anti-fat myths and prejudices that
keep people depressed and at war with their own bodies: a war where few
battles might be “won” in the short term with restrictive diets, but
then lost overall because those who turn to dieting can rarely maintain
the behaviors and appearance that become socially accepted as “ideal,”
or normative."
This is the introduction for a new book by the authors of "Health at Every Size." The war against anyone bigger than Twiggy needs to stop...NOW.
Gary North Tip of the Week — Writing Skills
Good advice. I have been very lax in this area and intend to do better. Honestly, I am considering changing to Ron Paul curriculum for at least a couple of my kids. It offers more than I possibly could for my children, even with my extensive library. Money, is, unfortunately, the problem. Though RP is a good deal ($250 to enroll each family, $50 for each course), it just adds up to too much for our budget:-( It might be different at tax time if I knew absolutely for sure it would work for us, but it might not.
Dear PBS, I don’t think there’s a compassionate way to murder infants
Attention gay rights lobby: your feelings aren’t constitutionally protected
I have said all along the "Gay Rights" movement had nothing to do with equality. It has everything to do with forcing everyone to have a certain belief system. It is one step closer to making belief in the Bible (Christianity) illegal.
Solar Water Heating Basics
My parents have had a similar system for two years now. It provides all their hot water and most of their house heat (the coldest days in winter have to be supplemented with a house-wide propane heater.)
9 Habits of People Who Never Have to Clean Their Homes
We're working on it. We're working on it:-)
Oven Cleaning The Magic Way
Don't know how she got my oven for the before pictures, but I look forward to trying this. Well, not really look forward to cleaning the oven, exactly. But I do want a clean oven.
Why Essential Oils Heal and Drugs Don’t
"In Dr. Robert Mendelsohn’s book, Confessions of a Medical Heretic,
he describes medicine as a practice of religion rather than a practice
of science. Doctors practice what they believe, not what they can
substantiate by valid science. According to Mendelsohn, in
the religion of medicine, physicians are the high priests and their
ecclesiastical robes are their white coats. Hospitals are the temples
where many holy waters are dispensed in the form of drugs, antibiotics,
and vaccines. People tithe to the church of medicine by dutifully paying
their insurance premiums. The word “prescription” is very close to the
term “prescriptural,” thus implying a scriptural basis for their use.
The Holy Bible containing the scriptures of medicine is the Pharmaceutical PDR.
For millions of people, their faith and confidence in the religion of
medicine is far greater than their belief in the institutions of worship
they may attend. In a crisis, they would sooner call 911 than call upon
God in prayer.
...
I don’t want to imply that there is no use for medical care as we
have it today. If I were in a serious accident with a massive head
injury, damage to my internal organs, or a broken limb, I would want to
go to the nearest emergency room as fast as possible with the best
physicians and nurses on staff. Allopathic medicine is wonderful in a
crisis and saves many lives. Emergency medicine is what they do best. In
a traumatic situation where you could die unless immediate action is
taken, allopathy with all of its drugs, surgeries, equipment, and other
paraphernalia can be just what you need to get through the crisis.But as for healing, allopathic medicine doesn’t offer much. After you have been rescued by allopathic measures from imminent death in an emergency situation, the healing is still up to you by seeking other modalities. And when it comes to chronic illness like cancer, arthritis, diabetes, or cardiovascular disease, allopathy has no cures and usually makes matters worse."
I have noticed this religious attitude about our medical care system.
Drugs don't heal. They releave symptoms.
Herbs and whole foods provide the body with what it needs to rebuild or replace injured and diseased cells. They help the body heal itself. This was God's design.
I have been studying nutrition and herbs for a long time now. Nutrition all my life, really. Herbs for several years. I have recently begun to use some essential oils and some homeopathic meds. I understand how EOs work but not the HP meds. But in both cases I have seen them work.
Today's Work
Exodus Chapter 4
1 And Moses answered and said, “But, behold,
they will not believe me, nor hearken unto my voice: for they will say, The
LORD hath not appeared unto thee.”
Moses is scared and looking for an excuse to
get out of his calling.
2 And the LORD said unto him, “What is that
in thine hand?” And he said, “A rod.”
So, what is in your hand?
God has given you everything you need to do
His will in your life.
“And whosoever shall
give to drink unto one of these
little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of
a disciple, verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward.” Matthew 10:42
“…and who knoweth
whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?” Esther 4:14b
You are in this place at this time to do a
work for God. He has given you all you need to accomplish it. It may not seem
like much to you, but it is important to Him or He would not have put you here.
What is it He wants you to accomplish? Take soup to the sick lady next door?
Pull the elderly man across the street’s weeds? Change your child’s dirty
diaper?
“And the King shall
answer and say unto them, ‘Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it
unto one of the least of these My brethren, ye have done it unto Me.’ ” Matthew 25:40
What essential ministry is in your hand to do
today?
3 And He said, “Cast it on the ground.” And
he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from before
it.
4 And the LORD said unto Moses, “Put forth
thine hand, and take it by the tail.” And he put forth his hand, and caught it,
and it became a rod in his hand:
I wonder how long Moses had to stare at that
snake before he got the courage to grab its tail.
5 “That they may believe that the LORD God of
their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath
appeared unto thee.”
6 And the LORD said furthermore unto him, “Put
now thine hand into thy bosom.” And he put his hand into his bosom: and when he
took it out, behold, his hand was leprous as snow.
7 And He said, “Put thine hand into thy bosom
again.” And he put his hand into his bosom again; and plucked it out of his
bosom, and, behold, it was turned again as his other flesh.
Leprosy is a highly contagious, deadly
disease where your skin rots off your body. We still don’t have a cure for some
varieties. But, of course, God can cure it.
8 “And it shall come to pass, if they will
not believe thee, neither hearken to the voice of the first sign, that they
will believe the voice of the latter sign.
9 “And it shall come to pass, if they will
not believe also these two signs, neither hearken unto thy voice, that thou
shalt take of the water of the river, and pour it upon the dry land: and the
water which thou takest out of the river shall become blood upon the dry land.”
These signs were likely designed to directly
address three of the most common fears of humanity; snakes, disease, and
(especially in a desert region), contaminated water. God caused and cured all
three.
10 And Moses said unto the LORD, “O my LORD,
I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy
servant: but I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.
Possibly Moses had a speech impediment. Or
maybe he just was “slow on his feet;” the brain functioned well but had a slow
“processor,” as it were.
Anyway, he obviously didn’t want to do what
God was telling him to do.
11 And the LORD said unto him, “Who hath made
man's mouth? Or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? Have
not I the LORD?
12 “Now therefore go, and I will be with thy
mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say.”
If God
made the mouth, surely He would know what it was capable of and would not ask
something that was impossible. With God’s help we can do anything He tells us
to do.
13 And he said, “O my LORD, send, I pray
thee, by the hand of him whom thou wilt send.”
Now Moses says it plainly; “I don’t want to
go. Send someone else.”
14 And the anger of the LORD was kindled
against Moses, and He said, “Is not Aaron the Levite thy brother? I know that
he can speak well. And also, behold, he cometh forth to meet thee: and when he
seeth thee, he will be glad in his heart.
15 “And thou shalt speak unto him, and put
words in his mouth: and I will be with thy mouth, and with his mouth, and will
teach you what ye shall do.
16 “And he shall be thy spokesman unto the
people: and he shall be, even he shall be to thee instead of a mouth, and thou
shalt be to him instead of God.
17 “And thou shalt take this rod in thine
hand, wherewith thou shalt do signs.”
God is not happy about Moses attitude, but He
sends him help in his brother Aaron.
I wonder if Moses had just accepted his job
if we would have had a “Mosaic Priesthood,” instead of an “Aaronic Priesthood.”
When we don’t obey God cheerfully and quickly, we miss out on many blessings He
wants to give us.
18 And Moses went and returned to Jethro his
father-in-law, and said unto him, “Let me go, I pray thee, and return unto my
brethren which are in Egypt, and see whether they be yet alive”. And Jethro
said to Moses, “Go in peace.”
19 And the LORD said unto Moses in Midian, “Go,
return into Egypt:
for all the men are dead which sought thy life.”
This
tells us that whoever was Pharaoh at the time Moses left has died.
·
Amenemhet III (Nimaatre) “Sour face”
·
Amenemhet IV (Maakherure) son or
grandson of Amenemhet III? Moses?
·
Neferusobek (Sobekkare) Dughter
of Amenemhet III.
Neferusobek was the last pharaoh of the 12th
dynasty. The 13th dynasty begins with 21 pharoahs who all had very
short rules; sometimes as little as one month. The 22nd was Neferhotep
I who had a longer rule.
20 And Moses took his wife and his sons, and
set them upon an ass, and he returned to the land of Egypt: and Moses took the
rod of God in his hand.
21 And the LORD said unto Moses, “When thou
goest to return into Egypt,
see that thou do all those wonders before Pharaoh, which I have put in thine
hand: but I will harden his heart, that he shall not let the people go.
22 “And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus
saith the LORD, ‘Israel
is my son, even my firstborn:
23 “ ‘And I say unto thee, “Let my son go,
that he may serve me:” and if thou refuse to let him go, behold, I will slay
thy son, even thy firstborn.’ “
Again God warns Moses what is going to
happen. What’s more, He tells Moses to warn Pharaoh what is going to happen.
God is Love and He will deal fairly with us and give us the chance to do right.
He doesn’t blind-side us.
24 And it came to pass by the way in the inn,
that the LORD met him, and sought to kill him.
We don’t know how long between the time of The
Bush and the time Moses was able to leave. It may have been days or weeks.
25 Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut
off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, “Surely a
bloody husband art thou to me.”
The best explination I can find for this is
that Zipporah gave birth to their youngest just before they left her father’s
house and they hadn’t taken time to circumsize the baby. Zipporah evidently
didn’t really want to do this ritual (though she obviously knew enough about to
know how).[1] Moses
let his wife have her way, which is against God’s command that the man be the
Head of the household. God evidently made Moses sick to death, so she acted to
save her husband’s life, though with a bad attitude.
26 So He let him go: then she said, “A bloody
husband thou art,” because of the circumcision.
There is no more mention of Moses wife again
until chapter eighteen where Jethro brings her and the boys back to Moses. Evidently,
she went home to Papa after this incident.
Again, look at the miracles she missed out on
witnessing, the position in Israel she forfeited by not following her hubby as
God commands wives to do.
27 And the LORD said to Aaron, “Go into the
wilderness to meet Moses.” And he went, and met him in the mount of God, and
kissed him.
Why would Aaron be there? The only excuse I
know of is simply that God told him to be.
28 And Moses told Aaron all the words of the
LORD who had sent him, and all the signs which he had commanded him.
29 And Moses and Aaron went and gathered
together all the elders of the children of Israel:
30 And Aaron spake all the words which the
LORD had spoken unto Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people.
31 And the people believed: and when they
heard that the LORD had visited the children of Israel, and that he had looked upon
their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshiped.
[1] It is very likely that Midianites
also circumcised, being descendants of Abraham, but since Ishmaelites delayed
this ritual until the boy was thirteen, they probably did too.
1 And Moses answered and said, “But, behold,
they will not believe me, nor hearken unto my voice: for they will say, The
LORD hath not appeared unto thee.”
Moses is scared and looking for an excuse to
get out of his calling.
2 And the LORD said unto him, “What is that
in thine hand?” And he said, “A rod.”
So, what is in your hand?
God has given you everything you need to do
His will in your life.
“And whosoever shall
give to drink unto one of these
little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of
a disciple, verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward.” Matthew 10:42
“…and who knoweth
whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?” Esther 4:14b
You are in this place at this time to do a
work for God. He has given you all you need to accomplish it. It may not seem
like much to you, but it is important to Him or He would not have put you here.
What is it He wants you to accomplish? Take soup to the sick lady next door?
Pull the elderly man across the street’s weeds? Change your child’s dirty
diaper?
“And the King shall
answer and say unto them, ‘Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it
unto one of the least of these My brethren, ye have done it unto Me.’ ” Matthew 25:40
What essential ministry is in your hand to do
today?
3 And He said, “Cast it on the ground.” And
he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from before
it.
4 And the LORD said unto Moses, “Put forth
thine hand, and take it by the tail.” And he put forth his hand, and caught it,
and it became a rod in his hand:
I wonder how long Moses had to stare at that
snake before he got the courage to grab its tail.
5 “That they may believe that the LORD God of
their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath
appeared unto thee.”
6 And the LORD said furthermore unto him, “Put
now thine hand into thy bosom.” And he put his hand into his bosom: and when he
took it out, behold, his hand was leprous as snow.
7 And He said, “Put thine hand into thy bosom
again.” And he put his hand into his bosom again; and plucked it out of his
bosom, and, behold, it was turned again as his other flesh.
Leprosy is a highly contagious, deadly
disease where your skin rots off your body. We still don’t have a cure for some
varieties. But, of course, God can cure it.
8 “And it shall come to pass, if they will
not believe thee, neither hearken to the voice of the first sign, that they
will believe the voice of the latter sign.
9 “And it shall come to pass, if they will
not believe also these two signs, neither hearken unto thy voice, that thou
shalt take of the water of the river, and pour it upon the dry land: and the
water which thou takest out of the river shall become blood upon the dry land.”
These signs were likely designed to directly
address three of the most common fears of humanity; snakes, disease, and
(especially in a desert region), contaminated water. God caused and cured all
three.
10 And Moses said unto the LORD, “O my LORD,
I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy
servant: but I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.
Possibly Moses had a speech impediment. Or
maybe he just was “slow on his feet;” the brain functioned well but had a slow
“processor,” as it were.
Anyway, he obviously didn’t want to do what
God was telling him to do.
11 And the LORD said unto him, “Who hath made
man's mouth? Or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? Have
not I the LORD?
12 “Now therefore go, and I will be with thy
mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say.”
If God
made the mouth, surely He would know what it was capable of and would not ask
something that was impossible. With God’s help we can do anything He tells us
to do.
13 And he said, “O my LORD, send, I pray
thee, by the hand of him whom thou wilt send.”
Now Moses says it plainly; “I don’t want to
go. Send someone else.”
14 And the anger of the LORD was kindled
against Moses, and He said, “Is not Aaron the Levite thy brother? I know that
he can speak well. And also, behold, he cometh forth to meet thee: and when he
seeth thee, he will be glad in his heart.
15 “And thou shalt speak unto him, and put
words in his mouth: and I will be with thy mouth, and with his mouth, and will
teach you what ye shall do.
16 “And he shall be thy spokesman unto the
people: and he shall be, even he shall be to thee instead of a mouth, and thou
shalt be to him instead of God.
17 “And thou shalt take this rod in thine
hand, wherewith thou shalt do signs.”
God is not happy about Moses attitude, but He
sends him help in his brother Aaron.
I wonder if Moses had just accepted his job
if we would have had a “Mosaic Priesthood,” instead of an “Aaronic Priesthood.”
When we don’t obey God cheerfully and quickly, we miss out on many blessings He
wants to give us.
18 And Moses went and returned to Jethro his
father-in-law, and said unto him, “Let me go, I pray thee, and return unto my
brethren which are in Egypt, and see whether they be yet alive”. And Jethro
said to Moses, “Go in peace.”
19 And the LORD said unto Moses in Midian, “Go,
return into Egypt:
for all the men are dead which sought thy life.”
This
tells us that whoever was Pharaoh at the time Moses left has died.
·
Amenemhet III (Nimaatre) “Sour face”
·
Amenemhet IV (Maakherure) son or
grandson of Amenemhet III? Moses?
·
Neferusobek (Sobekkare) Dughter
of Amenemhet III.
Neferusobek was the last pharaoh of the 12th
dynasty. The 13th dynasty begins with 21 pharoahs who all had very
short rules; sometimes as little as one month. The 22nd was Neferhotep
I who had a longer rule.
20 And Moses took his wife and his sons, and
set them upon an ass, and he returned to the land of Egypt: and Moses took the
rod of God in his hand.
21 And the LORD said unto Moses, “When thou
goest to return into Egypt,
see that thou do all those wonders before Pharaoh, which I have put in thine
hand: but I will harden his heart, that he shall not let the people go.
22 “And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus
saith the LORD, ‘Israel
is my son, even my firstborn:
23 “ ‘And I say unto thee, “Let my son go,
that he may serve me:” and if thou refuse to let him go, behold, I will slay
thy son, even thy firstborn.’ “
Again God warns Moses what is going to
happen. What’s more, He tells Moses to warn Pharaoh what is going to happen.
God is Love and He will deal fairly with us and give us the chance to do right.
He doesn’t blind-side us.
24 And it came to pass by the way in the inn,
that the LORD met him, and sought to kill him.
We don’t know how long between the time of The
Bush and the time Moses was able to leave. It may have been days or weeks.
25 Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut
off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, “Surely a
bloody husband art thou to me.”
The best explination I can find for this is
that Zipporah gave birth to their youngest just before they left her father’s
house and they hadn’t taken time to circumsize the baby. Zipporah evidently
didn’t really want to do this ritual (though she obviously knew enough about to
know how).[1] Moses
let his wife have her way, which is against God’s command that the man be the
Head of the household. God evidently made Moses sick to death, so she acted to
save her husband’s life, though with a bad attitude.
26 So He let him go: then she said, “A bloody
husband thou art,” because of the circumcision.
There is no more mention of Moses wife again
until chapter eighteen where Jethro brings her and the boys back to Moses. Evidently,
she went home to Papa after this incident.
Again, look at the miracles she missed out on
witnessing, the position in Israel she forfeited by not following her hubby as
God commands wives to do.
27 And the LORD said to Aaron, “Go into the
wilderness to meet Moses.” And he went, and met him in the mount of God, and
kissed him.
Why would Aaron be there? The only excuse I
know of is simply that God told him to be.
28 And Moses told Aaron all the words of the
LORD who had sent him, and all the signs which he had commanded him.
29 And Moses and Aaron went and gathered
together all the elders of the children of Israel:
30 And Aaron spake all the words which the
LORD had spoken unto Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people.
31 And the people believed: and when they
heard that the LORD had visited the children of Israel, and that he had looked upon
their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshiped.
[1] It is very likely that Midianites
also circumcised, being descendants of Abraham, but since Ishmaelites delayed
this ritual until the boy was thirteen, they probably did too.
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