MOSES & THE BURNING BUSH SCENE

“LOOK AT HIS FACE!” exclaimed Joshuah.

“HE HAS SEEN GOD!” replies Zipporah.

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From Cecil B. DeMille’s 1956 Biblical epic, The Ten Commandments, with Charlton Heston as Moses:

“The Ten Commandments Moses And The Burning Bush” .wmv – 6:34mins. By 545468800

Direct Link:
http://www .youtube .com/ watch?v=U0Mg-eZqEdI

(I really like how the person added the text to each scene. Good job! Gorgeous crystal clear pictures. Also, since it is a .wmv video, if you want to convert it for iPhone, etc., this Clip Converter site works great, I use it all the time: http://clipconverter.cc .)

Another YouTube channel has the same Burning Bush scene, but not as clear: http://www .youtube .com/ watch?v=615Wfm6iEf8

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The “Original Script” from which the above scene was derived, with some of the “still shots” from the above video mixed in:

Exodus Chapters 3 & 4 from the King James Bible:

Exodus 3:
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus%203&version=KJV

1Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb.

2And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.

3And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt.

4And when the LORD saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I.

5And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.

6Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God.

7And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;

8And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

9Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them.

10Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt.

11And Moses said unto God, Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?

12And he said, Certainly I will be with thee; and this shall be a token unto thee, that I have sent thee: When thou hast brought forth the people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this mountain.

13And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? what shall I say unto them?

14And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.

15And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, the LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations.

16Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and say unto them, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, appeared unto me, saying, I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt:

17And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, unto a land flowing with milk and honey.

18And they shall hearken to thy voice: and thou shalt come, thou and the elders of Israel, unto the king of Egypt, and ye shall say unto him, The LORD God of the Hebrews hath met with us: and now let us go, we beseech thee, three days’ journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.

19And I am sure that the king of Egypt will not let you go, no, not by a mighty hand.

20And I will stretch out my hand, and smite Egypt with all my wonders which I will do in the midst thereof: and after that he will let you go.

21And I will give this people favour in the sight of the Egyptians: and it shall come to pass, that, when ye go, ye shall not go empty.

22But every woman shall borrow of her neighbour, and of her that sojourneth in her house, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment: and ye shall put them upon your sons, and upon your daughters; and ye shall spoil the Egyptians.

Exodus 4:
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus%204&version=KJV

1And Moses answered and said, But, behold, they will not believe me, nor hearken unto my voice: for they will say, The LORD hath not appeared unto thee.

2And the LORD said unto him, What is that in thine hand? And he said, A rod.

3And he said, Cast it on the ground. And he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from before it.

4And the LORD said unto Moses, Put forth thine hand, and take it by the tail. And he put forth his hand, and caught it, and it became a rod in his hand:

5That they may believe that the LORD God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath appeared unto thee.

6And the LORD said furthermore unto him, Put now thine hand into thy bosom. And he put his hand into his bosom: and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous as snow.

7And he said, Put thine hand into thy bosom again. And he put his hand into his bosom again; and plucked it out of his bosom, and, behold, it was turned again as his other flesh.

8And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe thee, neither hearken to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign.

9And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe also these two signs, neither hearken unto thy voice, that thou shalt take of the water of the river, and pour it upon the dry land: and the water which thou takest out of the river shall become blood upon the dry land.

10And Moses said unto the LORD, O my LORD, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant: but I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.

11And the LORD said unto him, Who hath made man’s mouth? or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I the LORD?

12Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say.

13And he said, O my LORD, send, I pray thee, by the hand of him whom thou wilt send.

14And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Moses, and he said, Is not Aaron the Levite thy brother? I know that he can speak well. And also, behold, he cometh forth to meet thee: and when he seeth thee, he will be glad in his heart.

15And thou shalt speak unto him, and put words in his mouth: and I will be with thy mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what ye shall do.

16And he shall be thy spokesman unto the people: and he shall be, even he shall be to thee instead of a mouth, and thou shalt be to him instead of God.

17And thou shalt take this rod in thine hand, wherewith thou shalt do signs.

18And Moses went and returned to Jethro his father in law…

18 …and said unto him, Let me go, I pray thee, and return unto my brethren which are in Egypt, and see whether they be yet alive. And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace.

19And the LORD said unto Moses in Midian, Go, return into Egypt: for all the men are dead which sought thy life.

20And Moses took his wife…

(I love that one! It’s true! Back then no Scriptures had been penned yet — Moses later penned the first five books of the Bible. In modern times God “speaks to us through His Son” & through His Word & through the Holy Spirit. In certain “time sensitive” situations, where immediate action is needed, God can still speak to our minds. I have heard Him twice like that, 23 years apart, both were “urgent” situations & both instances were brief “instructions” to “take immediate action.” Truly, His voice is like a TRUMPET!)

20 … and his sons, and set them upon an ass, and he returned to the land of Egypt…

20 …and Moses took the rod of God in his hand.

21And the LORD said unto Moses, When thou goest to return into Egypt, see that thou do all those wonders before Pharaoh, which I have put in thine hand: but I will harden his heart, that he shall not let the people go.

22And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD, Israel is my son, even my firstborn:

23And I say unto thee, Let my son go, that he may serve me: and if thou refuse to let him go, behold, I will slay thy son, even thy firstborn.

24And it came to pass by the way in the inn, that the LORD met him, and sought to kill him.

25Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband art thou to me.

26So he let him go: then she said, A bloody husband thou art, because of the circumcision.

27And the LORD said to Aaron, Go into the wilderness to meet Moses. And he went, and met him in the mount of God, and kissed him.

28And Moses told Aaron all the words of the LORD who had sent him, and all the signs which he had commanded him.

29And Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel:

30And Aaron spake all the words which the LORD had spoken unto Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people.

31And the people believed: and when they heard that the LORD had visited the children of Israel, and that he had looked upon their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshipped.

THE BEAUTIFUL END! (of this scene only)

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“DOUBLE DESTRUCTION” & More “JEREMIAH JEWELS”

Ahhh, the interesting little jewels & colorful expressions my ears pick up from the Scourby KJV DVD Bible while going to sleep, waking up, or half-snoozing in between. I hear them often but if I don’t write them down I forget!

So here’s one such expressive description I heard the other day while snoozing that really tickled me…

“D-O-U-B-L-E
DESTRUCTION!”

Whoa! I didn’t recall hearing/reading that one before. Lol, not just “normal” destruction but DOUBLE the dose! Ha! No one can accuse the Holy Spirit & the Bible writers of lacking “creative writing skills”!

Turns out it was Jeremiah doing the speaking re those rebellious fellow Jews that would not listen to his warning messages from the LORD & who were persecuting him. It’s at Jeremiah 17:18 to be exact:

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Jeremiah 17:18: “Let THEM be confounded that persecute me, but let not ME be confounded: let THEM be dismayed, but let not ME be dismayed: bring upon THEM the day of evil, and destroy THEM with DOUBLE DESTRUCTION.”

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Jeremiah was definitely not having a good day! I love his DOUBLE DESTRUCTION expression! Next time I’m having a bad day I’m going to borrow his verse & direct it toward the Devil!

>> “Let HIM & his demons be confounded… let THEM be dismayed… bring upon THEM the day of evil, and destroy THEM with DOUBLE DESTRUCTION… in the Lake of Fire!”

>> Ha! Jeremiah 17:18: A Perfect “Counter-Action” Verse for all the devil-inspired hassles in life! :D

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As for “creative writing skills,” the Holy Spirit gets an A+++ for THIS jewel of a verse which opens the same chapter:

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1 The sin of Judah is WRITTEN with…

…a PEN OF IRON!

…and with the POINT OF A DIAMOND!

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Beautiful! What a mental picture! I want a “pen” like that so I can write one iota as creatively & descriptively as the Holy Spirit. Is that not cool or what?

Ok, so I got carried away with all the neat old pen photos at Google Images. :)

But a pen of IRON…

…regarding sin…

…with a DIAMOND ball point, hard, penetrating, & unbreakable (you can also break glass with a diamond point pen, btw, if you need a fast escape)!

And we can “cut short” any sin any time by turning from it…

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We often see the “rich men hoarding up riches” verse in James used, but here’s another good one for the “evil elite money masters” from the same Jeremiah 17 chapter:

11 “As the partridge SITTETH on EGGS, and HATCHETH THEM NOT; so he that GETTETH RICHES and NOT by right, shall LEAVE THEM in the midst of his days, and at his END shall be a FOOL.”

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Amen to that, eh? They are sitting on their gold & silver hoards like a partridge but not using it for the benefit of the money supply. They can’t take it with them in death, so surely fools they are!

Evidently the partridge literally has a greedy thieving habit, just like the banksters…

“Partridge has the habit of stealing eggs from the nest of its congeners and of sitting upon them and that when the young are hatched, they forsake their own parents.”

http://www.bible-history.com/ibh/Bible+Geography/Animals/Greek+Partridge

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More good advice from Jeremiah 17 for our times & especially this, another election year 2012:

Individuals Are Challenged to Put Their Trust in the Lord
5 Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.

6 For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.

7 Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is.

8 For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.

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Jeremiah 17 continues in the same chapter with the well-known verses about the heart being desperately wicked:

9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
10 I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.

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To wind this up, two more verses worth remembering from our beloved fellow suffering servant, Jeremiah 17:

14 Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou art my praise.

17 Be not a terror unto me: thou art my hope in the day of evil.

AMEN TO THAT & THE END!

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FYI: New Post at TPR

New post at my other blog, TPR:

The “Modern Mixer”: Jesus Christ + The New Age:
http://theparadisereporter.wordpress.com/2011/12/27/the-modern-mixer-jesus-christ-the-new-age/

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1st Cor. 10:11: Four Types of Bible Study

1 Corinthians 10:11 authorizes four types of Bible study:

(1) Now all these things happened—I can study any of the Bible as literally true because these things actually happened;

(2) unto them for examples (literally, “types”)—I can study the Bible for types and shadows;

(3) and they are written for our admonition—I can study the Bible for spiritual applications; and

(4) upon whom the ends of the ages are come—I can study the Bible to distinguish ages or dispensations.

from Henry Grube

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Very nice! I like that!

Source:
Rapture Watch Forum – Favorite Bible Study Processes:http://rapturewatch.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=biblequestions&action=display&thread=9779

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Arminianism vs. Calvinism

Did you choose Christ as Savior, by faith in His work on the cross for your sins…
–or–
Did He choose you?

Too funny about the teeshirts (found at Google Images). They certainly make a point, & in my favorite color, peach, to boot! YG can see them here: http://graceparadise.wordpress.com

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