Saturday, April 28, 2018

What Is This ???


* Spirit Of Jesus pray for me
* Moses, Aaron, Joshua, Holy Church pray for me
* Saints pray for me
*  Dedicated to #IamIsrael

+-----What Is This ???

...So…impassioned before Moses
we did embellish:
in Egypt, beneath Pharaoh’s
stern gaze, his taskmasters’
whip-malice peppered with
racial slurs uncouth, Hebrews did
eat (scarred). Some days the pots
of meat were ours untainted. Indeed.
Yet mostly we peered at the
Moon hungry, its face expressionless
the way Satan’s must have been
before Adam and Eve’s quaking
looking at each other fallen. If
our masters left scraps, mold in
their pot, we like mice dashing to
refuse. But now, what is this? Each
day enough food for all falling from
the sky. Manna, Quail from our God.
The gods on the Red Sea's other
side ...never bothered.

------Exodus 16:1-15 
The whole Israelite community set out from Elim and came to the Desert of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had come out of Egypt. In the desert the whole community grumbled against Moses and Aaron. The Israelites said to them, “If only we had died by the Lord’s hand in Egypt! There we sat around pots of meat and ate all the food we wanted, but you have brought us out into this desert to starve this entire assembly to death.” Then the Lord said to Moses, “I will rain down bread from heaven for you. The people are to go out each day and gather enough for that day. In this way I will test them and see whether they will follow my instructions. On the sixth day they are to prepare what they bring in, and that is to be twice as much as they gather on the other days.” So Moses and Aaron said to all the Israelites, “In the evening you will know that it was the Lord who brought you out of Egypt,  and in the morning you will see the glory of the Lord, because he has heard your grumbling against him. Who are we, that you should grumble against us?” Moses also said, “You will know that it was the Lord when he gives you meat to eat in the evening and all the bread you want in the morning, because he has heard your grumbling against him. Who are we? You are not grumbling against us, but against the Lord.” Then Moses told Aaron, “Say to the entire Israelite community, ‘Come before the Lord, for he has heard your grumbling.’” While Aaron was speaking to the whole Israelite community, they looked toward the desert, and there was the glory of the Lord appearing in the cloud. The Lord said to Moses, “I have heard the grumbling of the Israelites. Tell them, ‘At twilight you will eat meat, and in the morning you will be filled with bread. Then you will know that I am the Lord your God.’” That evening quail came and covered the camp, and in the morning there was a layer of dew around the camp. When the dew was gone, thin flakes like frost on the ground appeared on the desert floor. When the Israelites saw it, they said to each other, “What is it?” For they did not know what it was. Moses said to them, “It is the bread the Lord has given you to eat.

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