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Our flesh, my flesh, is God's enemy. Because, as Paul says, no good thing dwells in it. Sin dwells in it.
Satan's nature.
So............that's why Christ was crucified. In the flesh--in the form of a serpent (like Moses lifted up).
Not only to substitute for us, taking our penalty,
But.........also to destroy him who has the power of death, that is, the devil.
Christ crucified the flesh.
So that when we receive, and take, enjoy, believe in, and experience Christ:
we also receive the inoculation against the flesh, the death to the flesh which is now contained in the Spirit
(in our spirit).
Anyway.............that is what circumcision is a picture of. The cutting off of the flesh. In the crucifixion of Christ.
As Paul says. So Jehovah commanded Moses to do it...............and Moses, because he didn't want to offend his wife,
didn't do it. But------as a picture--------there's no 'getting around' our denial of ourselves, the cross of Christ. All of us
have to go through it. Otherwise----------we're in death. So..........Moses did it, when faced with its real, practical importance. And his wife was still mad. I'm missing the 'touching the feet' thing..........is that in the Bible?
Satan's nature.
So............that's why Christ was crucified. In the flesh--in the form of a serpent (like Moses lifted up).
Not only to substitute for us, taking our penalty,
But.........also to destroy him who has the power of death, that is, the devil.
Christ crucified the flesh.
So that when we receive, and take, enjoy, believe in, and experience Christ:
we also receive the inoculation against the flesh, the death to the flesh which is now contained in the Spirit
(in our spirit).
Anyway.............that is what circumcision is a picture of. The cutting off of the flesh. In the crucifixion of Christ.
As Paul says. So Jehovah commanded Moses to do it...............and Moses, because he didn't want to offend his wife,
didn't do it. But------as a picture--------there's no 'getting around' our denial of ourselves, the cross of Christ. All of us
have to go through it. Otherwise----------we're in death. So..........Moses did it, when faced with its real, practical importance. And his wife was still mad. I'm missing the 'touching the feet' thing..........is that in the Bible?
There may be information here that we are not given regarding this incident. Here is what we do know.
1. Circumcision was a covenant practice given to the Hebrews as a sign that separates them from the rest of humanity.
2. Failure to keep this sign was punishable by disinheritance and death.
3. This only relates to the circumcision of Eliezer, "cut of the foreskin of her son and cast it at his feet." Clearly Moses had kept this practice with his older son. We have no indication as to why Moses had not honored this covenant with Eliezer. It is possible that Eliezer is only a few days old and since Moses has been away too long to perform the task, Zipporah may have taken it on herself perhaps even beyond the proper time of the eighth day. We simply do not know.
We are not told how Zipporah learned of the urgent need for her actions. Did she know of God's intent toward Moses? If so, how did she know?
1. Her words toward Moses "You are a bridegroom of blood," is clearly a rebuke because his neglect has put the blood on her hands.
2. This practice should not have been new to her. As the descendants of Abraham, the Midianites also were to keep this covenant of circumcision and Zipporah was a Midianite. Genesis 17:10-14.
A little intelligent thought will make you realise that God did not really try to kill Moses. Had He really tried to kill Moses, Moses would have been dead. It is an anthropomorphism indicating that Moses was near death as a consequence of God's action because Moses had not ensured the circumcision of his child and was returning to Egypt.
I do not think this was an anthropomorphism. I think the text means precisely what it says. "Now it came about at the lodging place on the way that the LORD met him and sought to put him to death." The reason was because he had violated the covenant of circumcision and the penalty was death. God meant what he said, "But an uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that person shall be cut off from his people; he has broken My covenant." It was the intervention of Zipporah that stayed the hand of the Lord against Moses.
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Some are also lacking in humility valiant such as yourself. In both your comments on this thread you seem to mock other people's intelligence and understanding as though you are somehow better. It was also you who told me on another thread that my 2 year old sons blood will be on my hands because he was conceived out of wedlock to a woman who is an unbeliever before I became a christian and more than one person on that thread rebuked you for that comment, what kind of christian says a 2 year old little boys blood will be on his fathers hands, where is the fruit in that. Remember the Lord prefers a man who repents with his face to the floor rather than a man who revels in his own righteousness as you seem to do. I've only been a christian for around 3 months now so excuse me if my understanding isn't as great as yours, my humility though seems to surpass yours ten fold. Keep your mocking comments to yourself in future please and try to represent the Lord with love and humility instead off puffed up prideful knowledge which you use to mock people. Your 81 years old you should know better than that by now and your understanding of the Lord can't be that great when u seem to think mocking people who are trying to learn and ask questions is His way when it isn't. Love covers a multitude of sins old man, remember that!
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