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Tuesday: For You Were Strangers in Egypt
“Therefore love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt” (Deuteronomy 10:19). What is the message to ancient Israel here? What should the message from this verse be for us, as well?
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Centuries earlier the Lord told Abram: “Know certainly that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them, and they will afflict them four hundred years” (Genesis 15:13; see also Genesis 17:8, Acts 13:17). This is, of course, what happened, and in the early chapters of Exodus the dramatic story of their redemption (Exodus 15:13) and salvation (Exodus 14:13) from Egypt has been recorded for posterity, a symbol, a type, of the redemption and salvation that we have been given in Christ Jesus. In this verse, the Lord wants them to remember where they had been and what they had been — and that was, strangers in another land.
In other words, remember when you were on the margins of society, outcasts, even slaves, and thus at the mercy of those who were stronger than you and who could abuse you and, indeed, often did. And though Israel was a chosen nation, called of God, a “kingdom of priests” (Exodus 19:6), and though there were some differences between them and the strangers among them — especially in regard to religious services — when it came to “human rights,” the stranger, the widow, the orphan needed to be treated with the same fairness and justice as the Israelites expected for themselves.
Read Matthew 7:12. How does the verse encapsulate what the Lord was telling ancient Israel about how they were to treat the weak among them?
This admonition to Israel about how they were to treat outcasts was not, by any means, the norm in the ancient world, where outcasts could be treated in some cases no better than animals, if even that well.
In contrast, Israel was to be different, a light unto the nations. And yes, that difference would be found in the God whom they worshiped, how they worshiped Him, and the whole religious system of truth that God had given them. Yet, their kind treatment of the marginalized could have been a powerful witness to the world of the superiority of their God and of their faith, which in one sense was the whole point of their existence, anyway, to be a witness to the world of their God.
Amen!
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Memory Text:
Deuteronomy 10:19 – Therefore love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.
5.3 For You Were Strangers in Egypt
Whatever we have experienced in our own life we will remember.
My God bless you today and always.
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Mañana, 23 de octubre, es el Sábado de la Creación El Pastor Ted Wilson te invita a visitor y descargar los materiales disponibles, en creationsabbath.net. La creación es un tema tan importante que se encuentra en numerosos lugares a lo largo de la Biblia. En el Salmo 95:1-7 leemos: "Venid, aclamemos alegremente a Jehová; Cantemos con júbilo a la roca de nuestra salvación. Lleguemos ante su presencia con alabanza; Aclamémosle con cánticos. Y continúa diciendo, “Porque Jehová es Dios grande, Y Rey grande sobre todos los dioses. Porque en su mano están las profundidades de la tierra, Y las alturas de los montes son suyas. Suyo también el mar, pues él lo hizo; Y sus manos formaron la tierra seca. Venid, adoremos y postrémonos; Arrodillémonos delante de Jehová nuestro Hacedor. Porque él es nuestro Dios; Nosotros el pueblo de su prado, y ovejas de su mano."
¡Dios quiere que recordemos que Él es nuestro Creador y que le pertenecemos! En ninguna parte es esto más evidente que en el corazón de los mensajes de los tres ángeles, que se encuentran en Apocalipsis 14:6-7: "Vi volar por en medio del cielo a otro ángel, que tenía el evangelio eterno para predicarlo a los moradores de la tierra, a toda nación, tribu, lengua y pueblo, diciendo a gran voz: Temed a Dios, y dadle gloria, porque la hora de su juicio ha llegado; y adorad a aquel que hizo el cielo y la tierra, el mar y las fuentes de las aguas." Observamos que la creación y la adoración están estrechamente ligadas en estos dos versículos. Debemos adorarlo a Dios nuestro Creador. Esto hace eco del cuarto mandamiento donde leemos en Exodo 20:11, que dice: "Porque en seis días hizo Jehová los cielos y la tierra, el mar, y todas las cosas que en ellos hay, y reposó en el séptimo día; por tanto, Jehová bendijo el día de reposo y lo santificó” De hecho, la creación y la adoración están íntimamente relacionadas. Se unen en el sello de Dios de la creación y la redención, el sábado. Como comenta Elena de White, "El séptimo día es reposo para Jehová tu Dios”. El hombre no tiene derecho ni poder para poner el primer día de la semana en lugar del séptimo. Puede pretender hacerlo; “pero el fundamento de Dios está firme”. Las costumbres y las enseñanzas de los hombres no disminuirán la vigencia de la ley divina. Dios ha santificado el séptimo día. Esa porción específica de tiempo puesta aparte por Dios mismo para el culto religioso, continúa siendo tan sagrada hoy como cuando fue santificada por primera vez por nuestro Creador. {CMC 70.2} Que Dios te bendiga de una manera especial este sábado mientras encuentras reposo en Él. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JaYPq9fwPU
