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Exodus 23:2
Whenever the Bible says something, it will also give us an explanation and an example (or many examples).
The children of Israel had just been delivered from the bondage of Egypt. And in the verse above God is telling them not to follow a large group of people who are going to do the wrong thing. So, consider the words “multitude” and “evil”.
Nehemiah 6.3
These words of Nehemiah sound rather arrogant.
They are not.
Nehemiah had a job to do. There were troublesome, wicked, ungodly people trying to stop him. They were trying to intimidate him. Distract him. Bully him.
“I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a great work,
so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease,
whilst I leave it, and come down to you?”
Exodus 12:32
This is one of the most odd statements I have ever read in the Bible!
It’s odd because of who said it!
It was Pharaoh… Pharaoh who had constantly refused to let the children of Israel leave Egypt! God had brought all the plagues on him and on Egypt, the final one being the death of the first- born sons in Egypt, including his first-born son and heir! So now he finally tells the children of Israel to leave Egypt! That’s the context for what he said.
2 Timothy 2:1
TRUE STORY…
My handgun was held at the low ready in my right hand.
I came out the front door of the church and rolled around to the right, to the corner of the building. It’s an awkward position to keep going around corners to the right, but the adrenaline was pumping and I didn’t think to swap hands. I cleared that corner and went down the left side of the building.
