Points To Ponder 03/18/2005

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In love you will find it is better to make allowances, rather than points.

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BIBLE QUIZ:

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(Old Testament - Moses/Exodus 8) The third plague – Then the LORD said to Moses, "Say to Aaron, 'Stretch out your staff and strike the dust of the earth, that it may become ______ through all the land of Egypt.'" And they did so; and Aaron stretched out his hand with his staff, and struck the dust of the earth, and there were _____ on man and beast. All the dust of the earth became _____ through all the land of Egypt. And the magicians tried with their secret arts to bring forth gnats, but they could not; so there were gnats on man and beast. Then the magicians said to Pharaoh, "This is the finger of God." But Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he did not listen to them, as the LORD had said.

REFERENCE:

The first miracle performed before Pharaoh by Moses and Aaron was:

1.) The staff of Aaron became a serpent and swallowed up the staffs of the Egyptian magicians which had also turned into serpents.

The plagues that God sent upon the land of upon Egypt:

1) The waters in the river were turned to blood. [But the magicians of Egypt did the same with their secret arts]

2) The river brought forth frogs abundantly. They were in the houses, in the beds, upon the people, in the ovens and the kneading bowls. [And the magicians did the same with their secret arts, making frogs come up on the land of Egypt]

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For the answer to the quiz from yesterday see Exodus 8:1-9.

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