In the passage below from Exodus, Yahweh is so furious with Moses’s disobedience, that he is going to execute him, but Moses’s wife, saves her husband’s life. Yahweh is a good and loving God, but God wants humans, with the potential to become living angels serving God in this world, and eternal, immaterial angels serving God in the next world, after having served God here first, to do as instructed and obey their Boss. Moses, was unusually rebellious, and Yahweh had had enough, and was shortly to kill him, and would have if Zipporah had not intervened.
This tells me a couple of things. First, God commands our service, love and obedience, and disobedience and obduracy will be tolerated for only so long. Second, God is a military commander and king, and though a force for love and peace, De will use overwhelming crushing violence to defeat evil, and bring about the result that De wants. Nonviolence is not always loving, and violence is not always cruel and hateful. Context is everything.
When God and the Good Spirits have clearly laid out the argument of welcoming for how they expect us to answer the call to join and serve them, they expected us to obey and conform. If, we, of our own intentional, alert free will, say no to God continually, God may kill us biologically in this world, or kill us spiritually (not ending our existence, put assigning us to hell for centuries or forever so we exist spiritually but are dead to the presence of divine goodness and love in our souls) in the next.
Yes, we have free will and personal liberty, but we must choose to serve the Divine Couple or the Dark Couple, and there are rewards and punishments meted out to us, in reaction, from both Couples.
Here is that passage from The New American Bible: “On the night of the journey, at a place where they spent the night, the Lord came upon Moses and would have killed him. But Zipporah took a piece of flint and cut off her son’s foreskin and touching his person, she said, ‘You are a spouse of blood to me. The God let Moses go. At that time she said, ‘A spouse of blood,’ in regard to the circumcision.”
My response: From what I read online, circumcising was to be practiced by each Hebrew family: circumcising their sons as a physical symbol and gesture of honoring the covenant between Yahweh and Abraham. Moses was to lead the Hebrew people, but he could not even be bothered with this familial gesture of honoring the covenant between Yahweh and the Hebrew people, so God was going to kill him, rather than represent Him before Pharaoh and the world. Moses neglect to honor the covenant between God and the Hebrews was more than Yahweh could take. He was done talking. Apparently and finally, Moses got the message and go in line with God’s wishes and expectations after this near-death experience. There must have been something significant and very special about Moses for God to put so much effort in to him—if Yahweh could just convert Moses, and he did.
Below is the same passage—Exodus 4: 24-26--from the Holy Bible (KJV): “And it came to pass by the way in the inn, that the Lord met him and sought to kill him. Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut of the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband thou art to me. So he let him go: then she said, A bloody husband thou art, because of the circumcision.
Think of this remarkable story: God not only talked to a human, but came to meet him, and then kill him personally, immediately. Could one imagine such interrelationships today between God and human, in this age of disbelief, secularism and astrayness.
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