Chris's Musings

The newly freed Israelites, after having seen God's mighty works in Egypt in rescuing them from slavery and delivering them through the Red Sea... You would have thought that they would be full of worship, praise, and love for God who did this deliverance on their behalf. Well, they did, for a hot second (Exodus 15). Immediately after being delivered, they break out in song on the other side of the Red Sea and sing praises to God. But it's not soon after, that they start complaining. I mean, they complain (or "grumble") a lot. "And the whole congregation of the people of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness, and the people of Israel said to them, “Would that we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots and ate bread to the full, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.” - Exodus 16:2-3 "Therefore the people quarreled with Moses and said, “Give us ...

Exodus 1:15-21 - Rebelling Biblically Today, in my morning Bible study, the conversation around "what happens when you can't comply with a law?" came up in the conversation. Included in this talk was Titus 3:1 which states: "Remind them to be submissive to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work." This is 99.9% of the time what we are called to do. Romans 13 is also very clear that we are to submit to the authority of the government. However, as we have seen in history and in the Bible, there are cases where God's people are required to righteously rebel. Here are a few Biblical cases: 1. Peter stands before the Sanhedrin and after (again) preaching and teaching in the temple after being told the the authorities (these guys) to shut his pie hole, Peter responds, in a tribunal nonetheless "Which is right in God’s eyes: to listen to you, or to him? You be the judges!" - Acts 4:19 2. Daniel, upon hearing an edict ...