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An Unnatural Valley · Bible Tract Echoes Podcast

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  [SPEAKER_00]: Hey friend, welcome back to the Bible Tract Echo's Radio Broadcast.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm Mike McCurray, your host, and I'm so very thankful that you have joined me today.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You can lead your Bibles today.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We're going to the Book of Exodus chapter 14, the Book of Exodus chapter 14.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Now, before we dive into and historical illustration, I think I'm going to shed some light on where we're going today.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Now, if you're listening, you say, I'm struggling by the Micah.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I've got some, I don't know some demons, I've got some mental issues, I've got just some things bearing down on me, I've got, I need some help.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: 3, 1, 6, 7, 2, 4, 0, and now that you know a phone number is coming, I'll give it to you real slow this time.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Grab a phone, grab a pencil, grab a note pad, something, a napkin jot this down.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: My phone number again is 3, 0, 9, 3, 1, 6, 7, 2, 4, 0.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Now, as you grab your Bibles, go to the book of Exodus, Sanket Book of the Bible, Genesis, and then Exodus.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Exodus chapter 14, turn there with me if you would.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I greatly appreciate your attendance today.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Let me take you all the way back to 1588 sur Francis Drake.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And the combined might small, though it was relative to the Spanish Armada, but the might of the English navy faced off with again what we called the Spanish Armada.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They were outgunned, outmaned, the tonnage of ships was leaned heavily in favor of the Spanish,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But do you realize it wasn't a grand feat of strategy?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It wasn't deception or tactics that caused surferences, Drake and the English fleet to win.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: No, actually, it was weather.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Now there were some skirmishes that caused some damage, but as the Armada sailed northward along the English coast, a powerful storm, funny enough known as the Protestant wind, of course, the Spaniards were Catholic and their leanings in the English or Protestant, but a powerful wind called the Protestant wind.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Came up and erect the vast majority of that Armada.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And without hardly doing anything whatsoever, just by being on the battlefield after it was done, the battlefield being the open seas, English one.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And that brings us to our preparation for victory that we see here in the Book of Exodus chapter 14, find your place there with me.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We've read about how the Egyptians, I'm giving you all these names and you're going to confuse them.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe all accidentally say Egyptians instead of Spanish later today or something like that.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But here we see the Egyptians, are coming with massive military might to crush
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  [SPEAKER_00]: their former slaves, the Israelites, they're going to recapture them, bring them back.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Of course, the Israelites didn't have a great reaction to this.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They saw the dust of thousands of chariots coming, and they lose their minds.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They throw their hands up in the air, and they're thinking, what are we going to do?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And, of course, God comes through for them.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But here we see Moses begin to talk to the Israelites.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: X is 14, verse number 13, after the Israelites wine and moan.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: stand still, and see.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That's a really nice way of saying, quit your wine and shut up and watch.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Moses said, fear ye not, stand still and see the salvation of the Lord, which he will show to you today for the Egyptians whom ye have seen today, ye shall see them again no more forever.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The Lord shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace, but what we also see,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: is the prediction of a valley in unnatural occurrence.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This is not usual.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You realize I won't try to get too deep in the science of it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You didn't tune in today for science, but the first or second or third law of thermodynamics about how
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Objects in motion tend to stand motion unless acted upon by another another force and objects at rest tend to stay at rest Unless acted upon by another force.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Well gravity is a force and it causes water to go to the lowest point We all understand that if your child as my children have done before
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They spill their water on the table, well, that water, if there's enough of it, will find its way to the edge, and it will trickle on down right into your lap, because it's looking for the lowest point.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's being acted upon by another force gravity, and that's how pawns work.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That's how lakes work.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That's how oceans work.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The water, until it's acted upon by another force by the moon, or by the wind, it stays at the bottom.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, this is a prediction of a valley.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This is an unnatural occurrence.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Look at verse number 15 in the Lord, Son of the Moses, wherefore cryus thaw unto me, speak unto the children of Israel that they go forward.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But lift thou up thy rod and stretch out thine hand over the sea and divide it, and the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: and I. Behold, I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians and they shall follow them and I will get me honor upon Pharaoh.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And upon all his host, and upon his chariots, and upon his horseman in the Egyptian shall know that I am the Lord when I have gotten me honor upon Pharaoh, upon his chariots, and upon his horseman.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's amazing to me how God's protecting them.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This is a very unnatural thing, but we continue on, we see not only preparation for victory, not only prediction of a valley, but we also see protection and visibility.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You see, the Egyptians were still coming.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And he was going to take a long time.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He realizes about 600,000 men of war in the Israelites camp.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That's a fairly large army, but you think about it, if most of those men were married, and most of those men had one, two, three, five, or ten kids, imagine how many Israelites were actually there.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Scholars tell us there's very easily, very likely, in excess of one, two, or even three million Israelites.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We won't do the math for you, but do you realize how wide that water had to be divided?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Do you realize how long it would take to get them all across?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Well the Egyptians were coming friend, what were they going to do?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: and so what happens?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Look at verse number 19 and the angel of God which went before the camp of Israel removed and went behind them and the pillar of the cloud went from before their face and stood behind them and it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel and it was a cloud and darkness to them but it gave light by night to these so that the one
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Now, we'll try to describe this for those that are listing just by audio, but think about it, you have the Red Sea.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And camped beside it, we see the Israelites, fearful, sore afraid, whining, moaning, ringing their hands.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We got the Red Sea, we got the Israelites.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And you have the Egyptians coming with all their chariots, and what happens?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: God, in the form,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: of a pillar of cloud, a pillar of fire.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He puts this pillar of cloud, this pillar of fire, between the Israelites and the Egyptians.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So we have the Red Sea.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We have the Israelites.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We have the pillar of fire and cloud and then on the other side of the Egyptian and the Egyptians as brave as they were, as courageous as they were, as mighty as their army was.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: There is something about that
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  [SPEAKER_00]: there was something about that pillar of fire.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know people in their right mind that plan on and like to just walk into fire.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And there's something about that cloud.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It was like no cloud you've ever seen before.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You couldn't see through it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And you didn't really want to get near it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And there was something about that was a little off-putting.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: There was something wholly something divine about it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The Egyptians wisely stayed away.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Can I tell your friend as we go through life?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: as we meander through and muddled through making so many mistakes, at least I'm speaking for me, I can't speak for you.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: As we do so, we don't realize what God has saved us from.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Even in the bad circumstances, you think your finances are tight now.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Do you realize that he has blessed you in ways you can't even see?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Do you realize that when you think about how bad off you are that things truly could be worse?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not trying to be a pessimist, I'm just being a realist according to the Bible.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The might empower of gods stood between them as bad as the Israelites thought it was.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: as they're looking at the trap laid before them, then they begin to see.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The water's open, and that pillar fire and cloud begins to protect them.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Egyptians are wondering what's going on on the other side, and maybe Pharaoh ordered some private walking to that pillar of fire, pillar of cloud, see what's on the other side, and maybe it was consumed immediately.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know but I do know this, that God was protecting them.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: and providing visibility to them all at the same time.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know what you're dealing with.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe you're dealing with some suicidal thoughts and maybe I'm a stranger enough that you're willing to confide in me You wouldn't tell your mom.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You wouldn't tell your dad.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You wouldn't tell your brother your sister But maybe this a stranger on the radio on YouTube.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe you'd reach out and you text me at 3 0 9 3 1 6 7 2 4 Zero.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'd love to get you in touch with some qualified help
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'd love to be helping to you as well as I can for the Scripture, but I would get you in touch with somebody that can actually be helped to you.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Let me encourage you today as we go about our day to do all for the glory of God for his glory.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We're going to reveal the last key to this passage tomorrow on the broadcast.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Don't miss it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you so much for listening.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: God bless.
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