Hostess Tribute Pt. 1

You may miss a loved one (person), but some people can also miss companies, brands, and etc. One of them is Twinkies, which is by Hostess, which has defunct this Friday. So, in honor of Hostess, I have posted this on my blog and my dad's blog. Deuteronomy 34:1-8 is what we'll be doing today, along with a Let's Live It! This is from Bible Gateway by the way.

Deuteronomy 34:1-8

King James Version (KJV)

34 And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. And the Lord shewed him all the land of Gilead, unto Dan,

² And all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim, and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, unto the utmost sea,

³ And the south, and the plain of the valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees, unto Zoar.

⁴ And the Lord said unto him, This is the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, saying, I will give it unto thy seed: I have caused thee to see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt not go over thither.

⁵ So Moses the servant of the Lord died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the Lord.

⁶ And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Bethpeor: but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day.

⁷ And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.

⁸ And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days: so the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended.

I am making an animation, and a picture made by me will be uploaded A.S.A.P. Right now I have all these Shapeworlds and stuff due, but, Squishables is my concern right now, but above that, is the Bible, and the Lord Thy God and Jesus Christ! So tell me, which is more important? Lord Thy God, Jesus Christ and the Bible, that's what, so I'm worrying about this first.

Let's Live It!

WHEN A LOVED ONE DIES

Ten-year-old Paul sat very still. It was quiet in the funeral home. Dad was standing by Grandma's casket. Paul sat very still through the funeral too. But that night, when Dad talked about how he cried when they buried Grandma, Paul cried too. Grandma had been so special. And now, she was dead.

Dad said it was alright to cry. One day they would see Grandma in heaven. But now it was alright to feel sad. Grandma was special, and the whole family would miss her.

Deuteronomy 34:1-8 tells us what happened when Moses died. If someone you have loved has died, read this Bible passage with one of your parents and talk about these things:

How did the Israelites feel when Moses died?

How did you feel when the person you loved died?

What were some of the things that made Moses special to the Israelites?

What were some of the things that made that person special to you?

What do you think the people of Israel remembered best about Moses?

What is your favorite memory of that person?

And yes, there is a picture, but it was made with a Tombstone Generator.

See you next time!

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Do not watch or support

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwoa5bOzz5k

Mocks Chick-Fil-A. This blog and my family is a proud supporter of Chick-Fil-A, although we're going there for the first time on Wednesday with a few friends. One swear, and it is the word for "donkey" in KJV. That "a" word can only be used if it's talking about a donkey in the Bible, and that's it! And the word "Screw" isn't my favorite word either.

Big project coming up!

Hey guys! I just wanted to let you know that I'm working on an animation based on "The Harbinger" by Jonathan Cahn. It was so awesome that before I even read it I decided to make an animation about it. Today I accomplished the intro, and now I'm working on Chapter 1. It was going to be so big that I have it's own removable disk named "HARBINGER"! And I delete stuff that I don't need so that I save space! It has 7.27 GB and I hope it's enough for one big project! So stay tuned, I will keep telling you how much I am done of it!

Nobody's Perfect! # 4 - Typo 4

Should be "I am very angry at that spirit". Blog that made the goof here, and the goof was fixed!

http://thelordismylightandmysalvation.blogspot.com/

Nobody's Perfect! # 3 - Typo 3

"What Yeshua Dis"? More like "What Yeshua Did". Blog that made the goof is here! Also, Typo 2 and 3 is fixed!

http://thelordismylightandmysalvation.blogspot.com/

Nobody's Perfect! # 2 - Typo 2

Same blog, but different typo. "Like Am Upset"? Should be "Like I Am Upset". But I'm not upset! It's not perfect, and nobody is except for Jesus Christ our Savior and the Lord God Almighty.

http://thelordismylightandmysalvation.blogspot.com/


That is the other best blog in the whole world!

Nobody's Perfect! # 1 - Typo 1

According to this blog, it says here, and this fact is correct, and the rest of the above:

4. Images are forbidden by God, we should not have they littering the place of worship.

The author of that blog happens to be my dad, and I told him, so he corrected that. That is an example of not being perfect! :)

He has a lot more blog posts on that site, and it's right here! Please visit! It is important! It is very amusing of what he says!

http://thelordismylightandmysalvation.blogspot.com/

VBS Day 3 Memory Verse

From Bible Gateway.

Isaiah 41:10

King James Version (KJV)

¹⁰ Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.

VBS Day 2 Memory Verse

From Bible Gateway.

Psalm 46:1

King James Version (KJV)

46 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

VBS Day 1 Memory Verse

From Bible Gateway:

Hebrews 13:5

King James Version (KJV)

⁵ Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

Be sure not to watch:

Be sure not to watch:
The Leo and Satan Series

That series is like the worst flash series in the entire world! I don't know what's worse! Thank goodness I only watched not even a full episode.

Bible Blog post for 4/9/12

Acts 17:16-34

King James Version (KJV)

 ¹⁶Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry.
 ¹⁷Therefore disputed he in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the devout persons, and in the market daily with them that met with him.
 ¹⁸Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks, encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say? other some, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection.
 ¹⁹And they took him, and brought him unto Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is?
 ²⁰For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean.
 ²¹(For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.)
 ²²Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious.
 ²³For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.
 ²⁴God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;
 ²⁵Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;
 ²⁶And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;
 ²⁷That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:
 ²⁸For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
 ²⁹Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.
 ³⁰And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:
 ³¹Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.
 ³²And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said, We will hear thee again of this matter.
 ³³So Paul departed from among them.
 ³⁴Howbeit certain men clave unto him, and believed: among the which was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.

DID YOU KNOW?17:16

What was Athens alike?

Athens was a famous Greek city. The people of Athens loved to talk about religion and important ideas. When Paul came to Athens he talked to people about God, who made the world, and about Jesus, who was raised from the dead. Acts 17 contains Paul's sermon to the people of Athens.

Life in Bible Times, Words to Remember and Did You Know # 2

Today, we are blessed, because there is a lot I have to write today! So let's get started!

Genesis 12

King James Version (KJV)

¹Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:

 ²And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:

 ³And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

 ⁴So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.

STOP! Now look at Genesis 12:2.

DID YOU KNOW

12:2
Why is Abram important?

Abram, later known as Abraham, is the ancestor of God's people. The firs eleven chapters of the Bible are about the whole human race. The rest of the Old Testament is only about Abraham's descendants, the Hebrew people. Jesus, who came to save all people, is a descendant of Abraham too.

John 1

King James Version (KJV)

 ¹In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

 ²The same was in the beginning with God.

 ³All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

 ⁴In him was life; and the life was the light of men.

 ⁵And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

 ⁶There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.

 ⁷The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe.

 ⁸He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light.

 ⁹That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.

 ¹⁰He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.

 ¹¹He came unto his own, and his own received him not.

 ¹²But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:

 ¹³Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

 ¹⁴And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

 ¹⁵John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me.

 ¹⁶And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.

 ¹⁷For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

 ¹⁸No man hath seen God at any time, the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.

Now, lets stop here.

DID YOU KNOW

1:1
What is the word?

The "Word" is a special name for Jesus. it means that Jesus is the person who reveals God, or tells us what God is like. The Bible says that Jesus existed forever and that he is God.

and...

WORDS TO REMEMBER
1:17
Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

James 1

King James Version (KJV)

¹James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.

 ²My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;

 ³Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.

 ⁴But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.

 ⁵If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.

 ⁶But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.

 ⁷For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.

 ⁸A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.

 ⁹Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:

 ¹⁰But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.

 ¹¹For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.

 ¹²Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.

 ¹³Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:

 ¹⁴But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.

 ¹⁵Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.

 ¹⁶Do not err, my beloved brethren.

 ¹⁷Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.

 ¹⁸Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

WORDS TO REMEMBER
1:13
God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man.

LET'S Live IT!
WISDOM DIARY

Read James 1:5-8. "Wisdom" in the Bible means knowing the right thing to do. "Nothing wavering" means that when God shows a person the right thing to do, he must do it.
A wisdom diary is a little notebook in which you write hard decisions you have to make. Pray about them. When you think you know what God wants, do it. Then write down what happens when you do what God wants.
When you look back over your notebook you will find out how wise you were to ask God for wisdom and how good it is to do what is right.

LIFE IN BIBLE TIMES
RICH PEOPLE

Rich people were well-dressed and wore gold jewelry. Everyone could tell a rich person from a poor one. In this letter James tells the Christians not to treat rich people better than those who were poor. They were to welcome to poor as well as the rich.

John 14

King James Version (KJV)

⁶Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

WORDS TO REMEMBER
14:6
I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

Romans 3

King James Version (KJV)

²³For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

WORDS TO REMEMBER
3:23
For all have sinned, and come short of the Glory of God.

Romans 5

King James Version (KJV)

⁸But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

DID YOU KNOW

5:8
How do we know that God loves us?

Jesus, God's son, was sent to die for us, even though we were sinners. This shows how much God loves us.

Romans 10

King James Version (KJV)

⁹That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. 

WORDS TO REMEMBER
14:6
If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

Sadly, that is it for today. But don't worry! There will be more next month! Remember, praise the Lord!

2 Timothy and 2 Peter

^{2 Timothy 3:16-17}

¹⁶All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

 ¹⁷That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.

WORDS TO REMEMBER

All scripture is given by inspiration of God.

2 Peter 1:20-21

²⁰Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.

 ²¹For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.

DID YOU KNOW
1:21
Why do we trust the Bible?
We trust the Bible because we know that God spoke through the people who wrote it. Nothing in the Bible is invented. It is all true.


Prepare for more of these Words to Remember and Did You Know! Remember, everything from the Bible sure is more exciting than making animations based on stuff from the Bible!

Plagues of Egypt

Exodus 7:14-11:10

New International Version (NIV)

The Plague of Blood

 ¹⁴ Then the LORD said to Moses, “Pharaoh’s heart is unyielding; he refuses to let the people go. ¹⁵ Go to Pharaoh in the morning as he goes out to the river. Confront him on the bank of the Nile, and take in your hand the staff that was changed into a snake. ¹⁶ Then say to him, ‘The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to say to you: Let my people go, so that they may worship me in the wilderness. But until now you have not listened. ¹⁷ This is what the LORD says: By this you will know that I am the LORD: With the staff that is in my hand I will strike the water of the Nile, and it will be changed into blood. ¹⁸ The fish in the Nile will die, and the river will stink; the Egyptians will not be able to drink its water.’” ¹⁹ The LORD said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt—over the streams and canals, over the ponds and all the reservoirs—and they will turn to blood.’ Blood will be everywhere in Egypt, even in vessels^[a] of wood and stone.”
 ²⁰ Moses and Aaron did just as the LORD had commanded. He raised his staff in the presence of Pharaoh and his officials and struck the water of the Nile, and all the water was changed into blood. ²¹The fish in the Nile died, and the river smelled so bad that the Egyptians could not drink its water. Blood was everywhere in Egypt.
 ²² But the Egyptian magicians did the same things by their secret arts, and Pharaoh’s heart became hard; he would not listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the LORD had said. ²³ Instead, he turned and went into his palace, and did not take even this to heart. ²⁴ And all the Egyptians dug along the Nile to get drinking water, because they could not drink the water of the river.

The Plague of Frogs

 ²⁵ Seven days passed after the LORD struck the Nile.

Exodus 8

 ^1 [b]Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh and say to him, ‘This is what the LORD says: Let my people go, so that they may worship me. ² If you refuse to let them go, I will send a plague of frogs on your whole country. ³ The Nile will teem with frogs. They will come up into your palace and your bedroom and onto your bed, into the houses of your officials and on your people, and into your ovens and kneading troughs. ⁴ The frogs will come up on you and your people and all your officials.’” ⁵ Then the LORD said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Stretch out your hand with your staff over the streams and canals and ponds, and make frogs come up on the land of Egypt.’”
 ⁶ So Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt, and the frogs came up and covered the land. ⁷ But the magicians did the same things by their secret arts; they also made frogs come up on the land of Egypt.
 ⁸ Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “Pray to the LORD to take the frogs away from me and my people, and I will let your people go to offer sacrifices to the LORD.”
 ⁹ Moses said to Pharaoh, “I leave to you the honor of setting the time for me to pray for you and your officials and your people that you and your houses may be rid of the frogs, except for those that remain in the Nile.”
 ¹⁰ “Tomorrow,” Pharaoh said.
   Moses replied, “It will be as you say, so that you may know there is no one like the LORD our God.¹¹ The frogs will leave you and your houses, your officials and your people; they will remain only in the Nile.”
 ¹² After Moses and Aaron left Pharaoh, Moses cried out to the LORD about the frogs he had brought on Pharaoh. ¹³ And the LORD did what Moses asked. The frogs died in the houses, in the courtyards and in the fields. ¹⁴ They were piled into heaps, and the land reeked of them. ¹⁵ But when Pharaoh saw that there was relief, he hardened his heart and would not listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the LORD had said.

The Plague of Gnats

 ¹⁶ Then the LORD said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Stretch out your staff and strike the dust of the ground,’ and throughout the land of Egypt the dust will become gnats.” ¹⁷ They did this, and when Aaron stretched out his hand with the staff and struck the dust of the ground, gnats came on people and animals. All the dust throughout the land of Egypt became gnats. ¹⁸ But when the magicians tried to produce gnats by their secret arts, they could not.   Since the gnats were on people and animals everywhere, ¹⁹ the magicians said to Pharaoh, “This is the finger of God.” But Pharaoh’s heart was hard and he would not listen, just as the LORD had said.

The Plague of Flies

 ²⁰ Then the LORD said to Moses, “Get up early in the morning and confront Pharaoh as he goes to the river and say to him, ‘This is what the LORD says: Let my people go, so that they may worship me. ²¹If you do not let my people go, I will send swarms of flies on you and your officials, on your people and into your houses. The houses of the Egyptians will be full of flies; even the ground will be covered with them. ²² “‘But on that day I will deal differently with the land of Goshen, where my people live; no swarms of flies will be there, so that you will know that I, the LORD, am in this land. ²³ I will make a distinction^[c] between my people and your people. This sign will occur tomorrow.’”
 ²⁴ And the LORD did this. Dense swarms of flies poured into Pharaoh’s palace and into the houses of his officials; throughout Egypt the land was ruined by the flies.
 ²⁵ Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “Go, sacrifice to your God here in the land.”
 ²⁶ But Moses said, “That would not be right. The sacrifices we offer the LORD our God would be detestable to the Egyptians. And if we offer sacrifices that are detestable in their eyes, will they not stone us? ²⁷ We must take a three-day journey into the wilderness to offer sacrifices to the LORD our God, as he commands us.”
 ²⁸ Pharaoh said, “I will let you go to offer sacrifices to the LORD your God in the wilderness, but you must not go very far. Now pray for me.”
 ²⁹ Moses answered, “As soon as I leave you, I will pray to the LORD, and tomorrow the flies will leave Pharaoh and his officials and his people. Only let Pharaoh be sure that he does not act deceitfully again by not letting the people go to offer sacrifices to the LORD.”
 ³⁰ Then Moses left Pharaoh and prayed to the LORD, ³¹ and the LORD did what Moses asked. The flies left Pharaoh and his officials and his people; not a fly remained. ³² But this time also Pharaoh hardened his heart and would not let the people go.

Exodus 9

The Plague on Livestock

 ¹ Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh and say to him, ‘This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: “Let my people go, so that they may worship me.” ² If you refuse to let them go and continue to hold them back, ³ the hand of the LORD will bring a terrible plague on your livestock in the field—on your horses, donkeys and camels and on your cattle, sheep and goats. ⁴ But the LORD will make a distinction between the livestock of Israel and that of Egypt, so that no animal belonging to the Israelites will die.’” ⁵ The LORD set a time and said, “Tomorrow the LORD will do this in the land.” ⁶ And the next day the LORD did it: All the livestock of the Egyptians died, but not one animal belonging to the Israelites died. ⁷ Pharaoh investigated and found that not even one of the animals of the Israelites had died. Yet his heart was unyielding and he would not let the people go.

The Plague of Boils

 ⁸ Then the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “Take handfuls of soot from a furnace and have Moses toss it into the air in the presence of Pharaoh. ⁹ It will become fine dust over the whole land of Egypt, and festering boils will break out on people and animals throughout the land.” ¹⁰ So they took soot from a furnace and stood before Pharaoh. Moses tossed it into the air, and festering boils broke out on people and animals. ¹¹ The magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils that were on them and on all the Egyptians. ¹² But the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart and he would not listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the LORD had said to Moses.

The Plague of Hail

 ¹³ Then the LORD said to Moses, “Get up early in the morning, confront Pharaoh and say to him, ‘This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: Let my people go, so that they may worship me, ¹⁴or this time I will send the full force of my plagues against you and against your officials and your people, so you may know that there is no one like me in all the earth. ¹⁵ For by now I could have stretched out my hand and struck you and your people with a plague that would have wiped you off the earth. ¹⁶ But I have raised you up^[d] for this very purpose, that I might show you my power and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth. ¹⁷ You still set yourself against my people and will not let them go. ¹⁸ Therefore, at this time tomorrow I will send the worst hailstorm that has ever fallen on Egypt, from the day it was founded till now. ¹⁹ Give an order now to bring your livestock and everything you have in the field to a place of shelter, because the hail will fall on every person and animal that has not been brought in and is still out in the field, and they will die.’” ²⁰ Those officials of Pharaoh who feared the word of the LORD hurried to bring their slaves and their livestock inside. ²¹ But those who ignored the word of the LORD left their slaves and livestock in the field.
 ²² Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the sky so that hail will fall all over Egypt—on people and animals and on everything growing in the fields of Egypt.” ²³ When Moses stretched out his staff toward the sky, the LORD sent thunder and hail, and lightning flashed down to the ground. So the LORD rained hail on the land of Egypt; ²⁴ hail fell and lightning flashed back and forth. It was the worst storm in all the land of Egypt since it had become a nation. ²⁵ Throughout Egypt hail struck everything in the fields—both people and animals; it beat down everything growing in the fields and stripped every tree. ²⁶ The only place it did not hail was the land of Goshen, where the Israelites were.
 ²⁷ Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron. “This time I have sinned,” he said to them. “The LORD is in the right, and I and my people are in the wrong. ²⁸ Pray to the LORD, for we have had enough thunder and hail. I will let you go; you don’t have to stay any longer.”
 ²⁹ Moses replied, “When I have gone out of the city, I will spread out my hands in prayer to the LORD. The thunder will stop and there will be no more hail, so you may know that the earth is the LORD’s. ³⁰ But I know that you and your officials still do not fear the LORD God.”
 ³¹ (The flax and barley were destroyed, since the barley had headed and the flax was in bloom. ³² The wheat and spelt, however, were not destroyed, because they ripen later.)
 ³³ Then Moses left Pharaoh and went out of the city. He spread out his hands toward the LORD; the thunder and hail stopped, and the rain no longer poured down on the land. ³⁴ When Pharaoh saw that the rain and hail and thunder had stopped, he sinned again: He and his officials hardened their hearts. ³⁵ So Pharaoh’s heart was hard and he would not let the Israelites go, just as the LORD had said through Moses.

Exodus 10

The Plague of Locusts

 ¹ Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the hearts of his officials so that I may perform these signs of mine among them ² that you may tell your children and grandchildren how I dealt harshly with the Egyptians and how I performed my signs among them, and that you may know that I am the LORD.” ³ So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said to him, “This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, so that they may worship me. ⁴ If you refuse to let them go, I will bring locusts into your country tomorrow. ⁵They will cover the face of the ground so that it cannot be seen. They will devour what little you have left after the hail, including every tree that is growing in your fields. ⁶ They will fill your houses and those of all your officials and all the Egyptians—something neither your parents nor your ancestors have ever seen from the day they settled in this land till now.’” Then Moses turned and left Pharaoh.
 ⁷ Pharaoh’s officials said to him, “How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the people go, so that they may worship the LORD their God. Do you not yet realize that Egypt is ruined?”
 ⁸ Then Moses and Aaron were brought back to Pharaoh. “Go, worship the LORD your God,” he said. “But tell me who will be going.”
 ⁹ Moses answered, “We will go with our young and our old, with our sons and our daughters, and with our flocks and herds, because we are to celebrate a festival to the LORD.”
 ¹⁰ Pharaoh said, “The LORD be with you—if I let you go, along with your women and children! Clearly you are bent on evil.^[e] 11 No! Have only the men go and worship the LORD, since that’s what you have been asking for.” Then Moses and Aaron were driven out of Pharaoh’s presence.
 ¹² And the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over Egypt so that locusts swarm over the land and devour everything growing in the fields, everything left by the hail.”
 ¹³ So Moses stretched out his staff over Egypt, and the LORD made an east wind blow across the land all that day and all that night. By morning the wind had brought the locusts; ¹⁴ they invaded all Egypt and settled down in every area of the country in great numbers. Never before had there been such a plague of locusts, nor will there ever be again. ¹⁵ They covered all the ground until it was black. They devoured all that was left after the hail—everything growing in the fields and the fruit on the trees. Nothing green remained on tree or plant in all the land of Egypt.
 ¹⁶ Pharaoh quickly summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you. ¹⁷ Now forgive my sin once more and pray to the LORD your God to take this deadly plague away from me.”
 ¹⁸ Moses then left Pharaoh and prayed to the LORD. ¹⁹ And the LORD changed the wind to a very strong west wind, which caught up the locusts and carried them into the Red Sea.^[f] Not a locust was left anywhere in Egypt. ²⁰ But the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he would not let the Israelites go.

The Plague of Darkness

 ²¹ Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the sky so that darkness spreads over Egypt—darkness that can be felt.” ²² So Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky, and total darkness covered all Egypt for three days. ²³ No one could see anyone else or move about for three days. Yet all the Israelites had light in the places where they lived. ²⁴ Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and said, “Go, worship the LORD. Even your women and children may go with you; only leave your flocks and herds behind.”
 ²⁵ But Moses said, “You must allow us to have sacrifices and burnt offerings to present to the LORD our God. ²⁶ Our livestock too must go with us; not a hoof is to be left behind. We have to use some of them in worshiping the LORD our God, and until we get there we will not know what we are to use to worship the LORD.”
 ²⁷ But the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he was not willing to let them go. ²⁸ Pharaoh said to Moses, “Get out of my sight! Make sure you do not appear before me again! The day you see my face you will die.”
 ²⁹ “Just as you say,” Moses replied. “I will never appear before you again.”

Exodus 11

The Plague on the Firstborn

 ¹ Now the LORD had said to Moses, “I will bring one more plague on Pharaoh and on Egypt. After that, he will let you go from here, and when he does, he will drive you out completely. ² Tell the people that men and women alike are to ask their neighbors for articles of silver and gold.” ³ (The LORD made the Egyptians favorably disposed toward the people, and Moses himself was highly regarded in Egypt by Pharaoh’s officials and by the people.) ⁴ So Moses said, “This is what the LORD says: ‘About midnight I will go throughout Egypt. ⁵ Every firstborn son in Egypt will die, from the firstborn son of Pharaoh, who sits on the throne, to the firstborn son of the female slave, who is at her hand mill, and all the firstborn of the cattle as well. ⁶There will be loud wailing throughout Egypt—worse than there has ever been or ever will be again. ⁷But among the Israelites not a dog will bark at any person or animal.’ Then you will know that the LORD makes a distinction between Egypt and Israel. ⁸ All these officials of yours will come to me, bowing down before me and saying, ‘Go, you and all the people who follow you!’ After that I will leave.” Then Moses, hot with anger, left Pharaoh.
 ⁹ The LORD had said to Moses, “Pharaoh will refuse to listen to you—so that my wonders may be multiplied in Egypt.” ¹⁰ Moses and Aaron performed all these wonders before Pharaoh, but the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he would not let the Israelites go out of his country.

Footnotes:

1. Exodus 7:19 Or even on their idols
2. Exodus 8:1 In Hebrew texts 8:1-4 is numbered 7:26-29, and 8:5-32 is numbered 8:1-28.
3. Exodus 8:23 Septuagint and Vulgate; Hebrew will put a deliverance
4. Exodus 9:16 Or have spared you
5. Exodus 10:10 Or Be careful, trouble is in store for you!
6. Exodus 10:19 Or the Sea of Reeds

http://www.biblegateway.com/audio/mclean/niv/Exod.7.14-Exod.11.10


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Been a while - Exodus 32 and its hearing

It has been almost 3 months since we last met, so let me post a chapter here thanks to Mrs. Aurora:

Exodus 32

New International Version (NIV)

Exodus 32

The Golden Calf

 ¹ When the people saw that Moses was so long in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said, “Come, make us gods^[a] who will go before us. As for this fellow Moses who brought us up out of Egypt, we don’t know what has happened to him.” ² Aaron answered them, “Take off the gold earrings that your wives, your sons and your daughters are wearing, and bring them to me.” ³ So all the people took off their earrings and brought them to Aaron.⁴ He took what they handed him and made it into an idol cast in the shape of a calf, fashioning it with a tool. Then they said, “These are your gods,^[b] Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.”
 ⁵ When Aaron saw this, he built an altar in front of the calf and announced, “Tomorrow there will be a festival to the LORD.” ⁶ So the next day the people rose early and sacrificed burnt offerings and presented fellowship offerings. Afterward they sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge in revelry.
 ⁷ Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go down, because your people, whom you brought up out of Egypt, have become corrupt. ⁸ They have been quick to turn away from what I commanded them and have made themselves an idol cast in the shape of a calf. They have bowed down to it and sacrificed to it and have said, ‘These are your gods, Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.’
 ⁹ “I have seen these people,” the LORD said to Moses, “and they are a stiff-necked people. ¹⁰ Now leave me alone so that my anger may burn against them and that I may destroy them. Then I will make you into a great nation.”
 ¹¹ But Moses sought the favor of the LORD his God. “LORD,” he said, “why should your anger burn against your people, whom you brought out of Egypt with great power and a mighty hand? ¹² Why should the Egyptians say, ‘It was with evil intent that he brought them out, to kill them in the mountains and to wipe them off the face of the earth’? Turn from your fierce anger; relent and do not bring disaster on your people. ¹³ Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac and Israel, to whom you swore by your own self: ‘I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and I will give your descendants all this land I promised them, and it will be their inheritance forever.’” ¹⁴ Then the LORD relented and did not bring on his people the disaster he had threatened.
 ¹⁵ Moses turned and went down the mountain with the two tablets of the covenant law in his hands. They were inscribed on both sides, front and back. ¹⁶ The tablets were the work of God; the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets.
 ¹⁷ When Joshua heard the noise of the people shouting, he said to Moses, “There is the sound of war in the camp.”
 ¹⁸ Moses replied:
   “It is not the sound of victory,
   it is not the sound of defeat;
   it is the sound of singing that I hear.”
 ¹⁹ When Moses approached the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, his anger burned and he threw the tablets out of his hands, breaking them to pieces at the foot of the mountain. ²⁰ And he took the calf the people had made and burned it in the fire; then he ground it to powder, scattered it on the water and made the Israelites drink it.
 ²¹ He said to Aaron, “What did these people do to you, that you led them into such great sin?”
 ²² “Do not be angry, my lord,” Aaron answered. “You know how prone these people are to evil. ²³ They said to me, ‘Make us gods who will go before us. As for this fellow Moses who brought us up out of Egypt, we don’t know what has happened to him.’ ²⁴ So I told them, ‘Whoever has any gold jewelry, take it off.’ Then they gave me the gold, and I threw it into the fire, and out came this calf!”
 ²⁵ Moses saw that the people were running wild and that Aaron had let them get out of control and so become a laughingstock to their enemies. ²⁶ So he stood at the entrance to the camp and said, “Whoever is for the LORD, come to me.” And all the Levites rallied to him.
 ²⁷ Then he said to them, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Each man strap a sword to his side. Go back and forth through the camp from one end to the other, each killing his brother and friend and neighbor.’” ²⁸ The Levites did as Moses commanded, and that day about three thousand of the people died. ²⁹ Then Moses said, “You have been set apart to the LORD today, for you were against your own sons and brothers, and he has blessed you this day.”
 ³⁰ The next day Moses said to the people, “You have committed a great sin. But now I will go up to the LORD; perhaps I can make atonement for your sin.”
 ³¹ So Moses went back to the LORD and said, “Oh, what a great sin these people have committed! They have made themselves gods of gold. ³² But now, please forgive their sin—but if not, then blot me out of the book you have written.”
 ³³ The LORD replied to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against me I will blot out of my book. ³⁴ Now go, lead the people to the place I spoke of, and my angel will go before you. However, when the time comes for me to punish, I will punish them for their sin.”
 ³⁵ And the LORD struck the people with a plague because of what they did with the calf Aaron had made.

Footnotes:

1. Exodus 32:1 Or a god; also in verses 23 and 31
2. Exodus 32:4 Or This is your god; also in verse 8

http://www.biblegateway.com/audio/mclean/niv/Exod.32


Links releated to this:
http://www.ebibleteacher.com/children/lessons/OT/Exodus/tencommandments.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTck2s1N5Pc