Passover Tidbit No. 10

The Exodus

The account of Passover has many, many, pictures and lessons for all of us. Each is important in its own way and it the proper time, and YHVY has an amazing way of calling exactly the right lesson to mind at the perfect moment ... if we are listening.

Often we end the Pesach lesson as the mixed multitude is leaving Egypt. This is actually just the beginning. Remember though, that the picture of the children of Elohiym leaving is one that happens over and over and over again. Avram was called out of his home to a land he did not know; Rivkah (Rebekah) was called from her home, Yo-saf’ Daniy-el, Moshe, and others as well. The life of the follower of the Elohiym of the universe is one of leaving and following, not of staying put and being comfortable. The message of the Elohim of Avraham Yet-zok’ (Isaac) and Ya’akov’ (Jacob) is of salvation (Yshua) and return (Shoob) not of comfort and stability.

The convent of salt, YHVH's action in the garden, and countless other events remind us that Yahuah does not intend to leave us where we are. He will not move in and simply rearrange the furniture at our house and do some clean up and repair, there will be an exodus for any who follow Him. We must leave our (worldly) home and follow Him to His home. YHVH allowed the circumstances of a famine in the land to move His people to Egypt, knowing He would later call them out to their new home, a picture of our new home. He used the circumstance of Yo-saf’ being sold into slavery to move him to Egypt. He used the circumstance of Pharaohs who no longer knew Yo-saf’ to enslave them and the circumstance of the death angel to free them. The common denominator is no follower of YHVH ever stayed home, to worship from the comfort of his or her own couch.

Pesach is, among other lessons, the remembrance of when years earlier Rivkah answered the question will you go with this man? By answering I will go. Riv-kah' collected on the promise and became a huge blessing to all who followed. YHVH asked the children in Egypt will you go with this man? And they answered I will go. YHVH is still asking each of us today will you go with this man? We reply yes, but not often yes I will go. Pesach offers us the opportunity to say I will go. Are you ready to both collect and become a huge blessing? Then be prepared for some change in your comfort zone whatever that may mean.

CB