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I want to start this week with one of my favorite stories in the Old Testament,

but before I do, I want to just connect what we're going to do this episode with what we did last episode.

So if you remember, last episode, we studied light, this fifth symbol of

God's presence. And we went back to the very beginning of Genesis when God said, let there be light.

We looked at that Hebrew word that means more than just physical light. That light that God created

preceded the sun and the moon and the stars and everything that gives physical light to the earth.

This is the light by which all of those things are and through which we can see both physically and spiritually.

So we started there and then we went to this right in the middle of the Exodus where if you remember, Moses stretched out his hand and caused darkness over all the middle of the Exodus, where, if you remember, Moses stretched out his hand

and caused darkness over all the land of Egypt. So much darkness that it could be felt,

thick darkness, that people couldn't see each other, they couldn't stand up, they couldn't move.

There was this physical and probably also a spiritual component to this oppressive darkness.

But then we read this one small detail.

All the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.

Now, I think there's a spiritual component to that,

but the physical component is they had, probably,

some sort of lamp that gave light to them as they were in their dwelling. There's no, of course,

electric lights in the ancient Near East. And so everything that they got, every kind of light

they got would have come from some kind of either natural source,

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