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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2016 18:14:13 GMT -6
Does anyone know why God hardened Pharaoh's heart? It seems it only made thing more complicated.
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Post by rdlb on Feb 20, 2016 17:17:23 GMT -6
Does anyone know why God hardened Pharaoh's heart? It seems it only made thing more complicated. Exodus 14:4 And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, that he shall follow after them; and I will be honoured upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host; that the Egyptians may know that I am the LORD. And they did so. I am reminded of so many years ago that the Lord spoke to me three times, waking me up out of sleep, to come out of Egypt. I thought it strange at first until I began to study it out. Egypt a type of our natural man's knowledges acquired through the five senses and held higher than spiritual things. Contained within still is the ability to reason and act upon those reasonings, one having the ability to pervert spiritual things or the ability to bring spiritual things into fruition. The choice to be either obstinate or yielding to God and His path/plan for us. The Exodus narrative concerning Pharaoh only exposes the hardening of his heart, expressed as God doing it. As much as Pharaoh needed to see the plagues, so also the children of Israel needed to see them as well. I do not understand any complications within the historical nor the spiritual aspects of this. The more I came to understand this was taking place within my spirit, I was able to relinquish more of the love of self and of the world. I understood that all that came out of Egypt had to perish in the wilderness and could not go into the promised land. Even Moses could not go in, only Joshua and Caleb the two remnants of Egypt. Joshua or Jehoshua = "Jehovah is salvation", Caleb: the godly son of Jephunneh and the faithful spy who reported the Promised Land favourably and urged its capture. It can be difficult to understand how one is to take something read in the OT narratives into a spiritual, non-physical context. I have met a number of people who have had God speak to them to come out of Egypt and yet quite a number of others who will not claim the distinction of ever been in a spiritual Egypt. I am not their judge of the matter. So let us consider an interesting scripture that indicates something spiritual that cannot be taken literally. Rev 11:8 And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified. What was it within the hearts of those who crucified our Lord? A hardened, obstinate heart that refused to see and hear the truth from the Word made flesh. As they had shut the word out of their hearts and minds, they crucified the son of man thinking that they had rid themselves of it. The same Jesus who had been called out of Egypt just as we must be called out of the same.
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Post by lowell on Feb 21, 2016 13:49:44 GMT -6
That God was a god of the Israelites. He was not a god of all people. He is not superior to the Buddha. He was more powerful than the Egyptian gods. So that god delighted in cruelty and infanticide of Egyptians. Mani says that the God of the Old Testament was the devil. He said that the Father that Jesus referred to was not that Old Testament god but was in fact the Buddha. Mani (who was the founder of Manichaeism) incorporated Buddhist teachings into his teachings. He had twelve disciples. He lived about 300 years after Jesus. He was crucified but died about a week or two later in prison, probably of pneumonia from the damage that the crucifixion did. Jesus also incorporated buddhist thought into his teachings. For instance, the parable of the prodigal son was taught hundreds of years earlier in the Lotus Sutra. The golden rule and the instruction that "As ye sow, so shall ye reap." are based on the law of Karma.
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