Assignment #2: Exodus 1-5 Initially, I thought 5 chapters? That's not bad at all. Then, I looked at tomorrow's assignment, Exodus 12-14, 20. Hmm. Must be a lot of "high points" in Exodus, so good they had to split it across two days. This ought to be good...and so far, so good. Check out today's entry.
Excerpt from Ex. 3:16-18 (TNIV)
16 "Go, assemble the elders of Israel and say to them, 'The LORD, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob—appeared to me and said: I have watched over you and have seen what has been done to you in Egypt. 17 And I have promised to bring you up out of your misery in Egypt into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites—a land flowing with milk and honey.'
"…a land flowing with milk and honey," eh? I'm curious. There sure is a lot of talk in scripture about this land of Canaan, the one flowing with the proverbial, albeit picturesque vision of a countryside filled to the point of overflowing with a calcium-rich beverage and low-glycemic sweetener which I'm sure tasted great on the old-testament breakfast fodder of wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet and spelt porridge! The question which belies my mind is if the land is so flowing with this milk and honey, is that just a 'Hebrewally Correct' way of saying that the land is overrun by wild bovine and stinging, hive-dwelling insects? Just a thought. I mean, it doesn't exactly sound like a place I would really want to go to. I rather pride myself on being a vegetarian nowadays and the epi-pen wasn't delivered to the U.S. Patent office until scores of eons later. I know it was quite the promise to the Israelites and I'm glad they held out hope for its eventual deliverance. I'm just not so sure I would be that optimistic in this day and age. Where, in the context of the 'here and now,' would constitute a modern-day Canaan? The Caribbean islands? The land of 'Aloha'? And how could we dismiss those grand folks that bring us the wholesome creamy richness sourced from the 'Hidden Valley'? That sounds an awful lot like a promisingly, near biblical reference. A VALLEY, that's HIDDEN? Seriously, I'm just saying.
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