EXODUS 4 : 22) And you shall say unto Pharaoh : "Thus said the LORD, 'ISRAEL IS MY SON,
EVEN MY FIRSTBORN.'
23) 'AND I SAY UNTO YOU : LET MY SON GO, THAT HE MAY SERVE ME ;
AND IF YOU REFUSE TO LET HIM GO, BEHOLD, I WILL SLAY YOUR
SON, EVEN YOUR FIRSTBORN. ' "
24) And it came to pass BY THE WAY IN THE INN, that THE LORD MET HIM,
and SOUGHT TO KILL HIM.
25) Then ZIPPORAH TOOK A SHARP STONE, and CUT OFF THE FORESKIN
of her SON, and TOUCHED MOSES's GENITALS WITH IT, saying :
" SURELY A BLOODY HUSBAND YOU ARE TO ME."
26) So HE let him go. Then she said : " A BLOODY HUSBAND YOU ARE,
BECAUSE OF THE CIRCUMCISION."
Zipporah, rather than Moses, circumcised the child to show she was abandoning any Midianitish oppo-
sition to circumcision she may have had; that she cast the foreskin at the feet of the angel who was threatening the child's life to demonstrate her compliance with the LORD"s law; that ZIPPORAH
addressed the LORD through his representative angel when she exclaimed, "YOU ARE A BRIDEGROOM OF BLOOD TO ME," doing so to show her acceptance of a WIFELY POSITION IN the circumcision COVENANT WITH THE LORD AS THE HUSBAND.
JEREMIAH, was commissioned as prophet in the thirteenth year of King JOSIAH (647 B.C.E.) to warn the southern kingdom JUDAH, of her impending destruction. This was less than a century after the prophet, ISAIAH's activity and the fall of Israel, the northern kingdom, to the Assyrians.
The BOOK OF JEREMIAH reveals that GOD expects the PEOPLE BEARING HIS NAME TO BE
A GLORY AND A PRAISE TO HIM AND THAT HE CONSIDERS THEM CLOSE TO HIM.
Those who prophesy falsely in his name, saying "PEACE" to those with whom GOD is not at peace,
have to account to GOD for their words, and they will stumble and fall.
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