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The unExodus
We see a reversal again this time not the reversal of creation as punishment but a reversal of the exodus.
The day of the appointed feast is the referencing the feast of tabernacles where the Israelites all go stay in tents to remember this time during the wilderness wandering.
The threat though is going back to having no home in the promise land and instead living in tents.
What is the purpose of parables?
Mat 13:11-13
Parables are intended to obscure the plain meaning.
They’re riddles you need the key to unlock.
We then get a riddle of text to follow.
With Jacob/Israel on the brain from last week and it’s brought up again here we get some clues.
“If there is iniquity in Gilead?” back in ch 6 vs 8 We’re told very clearly that Gilead is full of evildoers.
So this doesn’t make much sense.
Maybe knowing this is where Laban stops Jacob, who was on the run from him to be free of the oppressive father in law who chased them because some of his idols had been stolen (by Rachel)
Gilgal is the place Jacob was at when he had the dream of angels ascending and descending from heaven
This place gets renamed to Bethel - the house of God is what that translates to.
It’s where Jacob makes that promise to follow God.
His promise was made over a pillar of stones but we don’t see Israel revering that covenant instead from verse 11 we see they have altars like stone heaps - this ties in together these ideas.
What SHOULD these people be doing?
They should be worshiping the Lord.
Certainly it shouldn’t be on the furrows of the field - these altars are a literal hindrance of the land being prosperous.
No farmer wants piles of rocks in the field he tills and hopes to reap.
Between the fallen Jacob and the redeemed Israel we see that pattern, flesh and promise.
Jacob fled, Israel served.
We start with the same pattern we started tonight with; Out of Egypt and by the prophets.
Like the comparison we’ve talked about before with Jacob’s life we see it again as a pattern that applies to the nation.
Entered a foreign country which initially was a place of salvation then it became an oppression.
Then to get free a set of circumstances play out that makes Laban desire Jacob and his family to leave like Pharoah finally wanted Moses and the people gone.
Ten plagues or Ten changes in wages where Laban always lost.
This seems like a big jump away from what we’ve been talking about as we move to pointing out Ephraim’s downfall.
It’s not though.
Tied in to the pattern is Ephraim who has clearly done things worthy of capital punishment - something that carried bloodguilt.
We’re going to ignore that we’ve bled into chapter 13 and just keep going.
Ephraim started in prosperity but turned to Baal and in doing so brought down the house on his own head.
They start in prosperity but then move themselves into oppression.
This time it’s not a foreign nation but they who have done these things.
That’s what will get them shattered and blown away like a morning mist.
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