Timestamps:
00:26 – A brief overview of these chapters.
02:09 – The children of Israel murmur and complain in the wilderness. As a comparison, Nephi’s trust in God blesses his wilderness experience.
08:43 – The Book of Mormon gives added insight as to why murmuring is such a problem. The key to happiness is to remember the greatness of God in both pain and prosperity.
19:32 – A possible location of Sinai is discussed as evidence of historicity in the book of Exodus. Revelation came to Moses “when he was on the move.”
23:54 – The night crossing of the Red Sea can represent Jesus conquering chaos in our lives. Psalm 74 also addresses these themes.
29:29 – The children of Israel sing the Song of the Sea and rejoice in their deliverance.
37:10 – The beginning and end of the Exodus story has women standing as witnesses to the miraculous. Miriam is there at Moses’ birth and at the Song of the Sea.
43:17 – Some approaches to Biblical scholarship may be helpful in understanding why the Bible has some traditions that cast Miriam in a bad light.
47:30 – Miriam dies at Kadesh and the water dries up. Miriam as a symbol of the women in the New Testament named Mary who witnessed Jesus’ birth, death, and resurrection.
51:41 – The bitter water is sweetened with a tree. The Savior heals us too.
55:27 – The Lord rains manna from heaven and sends quail for meat to feed the children of Israel for 40 years. God will take care of us in the deserts of our lives.
1:02:40 – Moses smites a rock and water gushes forth. Jewish theologians over the years had a tradition that the rock at the beginning and at the end of Exodus was the same rock. Paul worked this tradition into his discussion of Christ, and so to him, the rock was Jesus.
1:08:01 – Amalek battles with the Israelites and Moses’ hands are held up so that Israel may be victorious. We sustain the prophet and our local leaders, and by so doing, we hold up their hands that hang down.
1:10:59 – An invitation to remember what God has done for us.
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I love these podcasts. They are so uplifting and instructive. I appreciate Mike’s intellectual perspectives on the meaning of words as well that open up a whole new understanding of what’s happening in the verses discussed. I am concerned though that like many scholars, he finds it too easy to overlook the obvious when the plain and precious truthes are right in front of us. As in the discussion about the location of Mt Sinai, Educators, Historians and Archaeologists completely miss the mark. Both the Old and New Testaments, as well as ancient historians like Josephus make it clear it was located on the Arabian Peninsula, where the Midianites lived. Cecil B. DeMill got it right when Moses was attending the sheep of Jethro and saw the burning bush on the mountain nearby. Yet for two thousand years, people have been led to believe it was located on the “Sinai Peninsula” because some Monks mistakenly believed that was where it was located. But the Sinai Peninsula was part of Egypt, and Moses led the Israelites OUT of Egypt and across the Red Sea before arriving at Mt Sinai. The producers of Patterns of Evidence show clear evidence of the location of the crossing with debris on the floor of the Red Sea that are the remains of Egyptian chariots, lots of them. Another group followed the evidence presented in the Book of Exodus about the location of Mt Sinai in Arabia, with specific local landmarks mentioned in the Bible and found the real Mt Sinai, which is fenced off by the Saudi government. The people of the area all know it to be the real Mt Sinai but it has been kept quiet by authorities. We have been blinded by mostly intentioned scholars who got it terribly wrong. The same problem exists with the assumed location of the Temple in Jerusalem. It was not built on what ss believed to be “the Temple Mount.” If it had been, the Western Wall would not be there nor would the platform of the Temple Mount, as “not one stone” would remain standing. It has always been the custom in the ancient world that a conquered city was completely destroyed and then buried, with a while new city built on top of it so the conquered people could not rebuild it. The “Temple Mount” is actually the remains of the Antonian Fortress that looked over or down upon the temple so the Roman’s could keep watch over the Jews to keep them in line. My point here is that it’s too easy to overlook the obvious when we have been misled for millennia.