Great job pastor. I am amazed of your explanation and blessed coz we are called for His special purpose(s). Obedience is the heart of fulfilling His ministry. Thank you.
Very well explained. I think you (and Gill) got the first half exactly right. Zapporah's declaration I find to tell a slightly different story. Moses had 2 sons (Ex 18:3). She only circumcised one according to the story. What about the other one? One's assumptions about this seem to weigh heavily on any potential interpretation. If we postulate that Moses had already circumcised his other son (that is why Zapporah didn't need to), her confession can be more easily explained. She was the primary obstacle to the circumcision of the 2nd son. Because she did not previously view Moses as a "bridegroom of blood", she had elected to raise this 2nd son in the customs and religion of her "blood" relatives as she saw them. As a result you see Moses had not just 1 but 2 members of his own household outside of proper Covenantal relationship with God. This explains the need for Zapporah performing the circumcision herself, it and her subsequent declaration demonstrate her own repentance. Taking this view one need not speculate on Moses's incapacity.
I don't know why this interpretation is so popular. The book of Jubilees says it was Mastema (Satan) who tried to kill Moses and the Angel of the Presence saves him
"The Gospel is firmly rooted in this story." "when Jesus Himself appeared to Moses on the eve of the Exodus and tried to kill Him. We consider the mysterious implications of the bloody foreskin thrown at the feet of the Man who is at the center of the great drama of the ages." Covenant & Compromise: Moses, Zipporah, and the Bridegroom of Blood (Dalton Thomas): th-cam.com/video/6wSv8iODxSE/w-d-xo.html In Exodus 4:18 we read that Moses asked Jethro's permission to leave. Why? Because Zipporah's father Jethro was a prince in Midian. He was a spiritual leader in Saudi Arabia. And as Dalton explains, Moses had yoked himself to the leadership of another man, in a different culture, who followed a different religion. This is, as Dalton says, a bizarre story. And it is very sobering. But there is something very deep going on here, and we need to go beneath the surface.
@@SuperExodus13 Not until after the Exodus (read chapter 18). And as of chapter 4, "Dad still calls the shots." Jethro called Zipporah back, and she and her sons did not go to Egypt with Moses. Zipporah's issues were not just with Moses, they were with the Lord. Moses had compromised by not circumcising his son. Which one? The first born or the second? We aren't told. Perhaps Zipporah told him he could have the firstborn, but the second was hers, and Moses appeased her (in disobedience to God). But God held him responsible. Please watch the video I Iinked above. There are very deep issues and lessons here for every believer. And if the only thing we're getting out of this is Zipporah's disobedience, we are missing the point. It goes much deeper than that. And I believe the "bridegroom of blood" was Yeshua himself.
When did the act of circumcision ever save someone's life? It wasn't that his son's were now circumcised that saved Moses life, it was the blood. Look at Exodus 4:14. The anger of the LORD was kindled against Moses. Why? Look at the previous verses. He complained! He didn't believe! He didn't want to do it. The blood saved his life, not the act of circumcision. Did the sacrifices of the lambs save the 1st born? No! It was the blood.
Great job pastor. I am amazed of your explanation and blessed coz we are called for His special purpose(s). Obedience is the heart of fulfilling His ministry. Thank you.
Big thanks again Pastor Joel!
You’re very welcome!
Very well explained Pastor Joel.
very interesting
Very well explained. I think you (and Gill) got the first half exactly right. Zapporah's declaration I find to tell a slightly different story. Moses had 2 sons (Ex 18:3). She only circumcised one according to the story. What about the other one? One's assumptions about this seem to weigh heavily on any potential interpretation. If we postulate that Moses had already circumcised his other son (that is why Zapporah didn't need to), her confession can be more easily explained. She was the primary obstacle to the circumcision of the 2nd son. Because she did not previously view Moses as a "bridegroom of blood", she had elected to raise this 2nd son in the customs and religion of her "blood" relatives as she saw them. As a result you see Moses had not just 1 but 2 members of his own household outside of proper Covenantal relationship with God. This explains the need for Zapporah performing the circumcision herself, it and her subsequent declaration demonstrate her own repentance. Taking this view one need not speculate on Moses's incapacity.
Thanks for taking the time to explain to me passages of the bible. Just what Ive been needing and wantjng my whole life.
How would Moses have known about God's requirement of circumcision?
OR USING HIS SONS' CIRCUMCISION AS A MEANS TO DELAY GOD'S COMMISSION. THEREFORE, ZIPPORAH DID THE CIRCUMCISION TO HASTEN MOSES.
I don't know why this interpretation is so popular. The book of Jubilees says it was Mastema (Satan) who tried to kill Moses and the Angel of the Presence saves him
You still didn't get it right
"The Gospel is firmly rooted in this story."
"when Jesus Himself appeared to Moses on the eve of the Exodus and tried to kill Him. We consider the mysterious implications of the bloody foreskin thrown at the feet of the Man who is at the center of the great drama of the ages."
Covenant & Compromise: Moses, Zipporah, and the Bridegroom of Blood (Dalton Thomas): th-cam.com/video/6wSv8iODxSE/w-d-xo.html
In Exodus 4:18 we read that Moses asked Jethro's permission to leave. Why? Because Zipporah's father Jethro was a prince in Midian. He was a spiritual leader in Saudi Arabia. And as Dalton explains, Moses had yoked himself to the leadership of another man, in a different culture, who followed a different religion. This is, as Dalton says, a bizarre story. And it is very sobering. But there is something very deep going on here, and we need to go beneath the surface.
Scripture indicates Jethro worshipped the through God. But he was not a Jewish man.
@@SuperExodus13 Not until after the Exodus (read chapter 18).
And as of chapter 4, "Dad still calls the shots." Jethro called Zipporah back, and she and her sons did not go to Egypt with Moses. Zipporah's issues were not just with Moses, they were with the Lord. Moses had compromised by not circumcising his son. Which one? The first born or the second? We aren't told. Perhaps Zipporah told him he could have the firstborn, but the second was hers, and Moses appeased her (in disobedience to God). But God held him responsible.
Please watch the video I Iinked above. There are very deep issues and lessons here for every believer. And if the only thing we're getting out of this is Zipporah's disobedience, we are missing the point. It goes much deeper than that.
And I believe the "bridegroom of blood" was Yeshua himself.
When did the act of circumcision ever save someone's life? It wasn't that his son's were now circumcised that saved Moses life, it was the blood. Look at Exodus 4:14. The anger of the LORD was kindled against Moses. Why? Look at the previous verses. He complained! He didn't believe! He didn't want to do it. The blood saved his life, not the act of circumcision. Did the sacrifices of the lambs save the 1st born? No! It was the blood.
I don't see where in the bible God told Moses to circumcise his son