Welcome to Meridian Magazine's Come Follow Me podcast. We're Scott and Maureen Proctor,

and we're thrilled to be with you again this week as we discuss Exodus,

chapters 19 and 20, 24, and 31 to 34, a very important and wonderful part of the Old Testament. Now, as you've been seeing,

we have some special guests that we have invited to be with us in these podcasts, and we welcome

another one this week that we think you'll be very excited to have join us.

Carrie Mulestein is one of our favorites because we love his book so much.

He's written many, but we have favorites.

We love Let God Prevail, which is all about the covenant in the Old Testament.

And of course, his prolific work on the book of Abraham.

He's an Egyptologist, a professor at BYU, but most of all, we are impressed

with his passion to make what people consider the hard things of the Old Testament easier.

So welcome, Kerry. We're so glad to have you with us. Thank you. It's wonderful to be with you.

Now, Carrie, I have a question for you.

The Lord says an interesting thing in the first part of chapter 19.

He says that, you know, you've seen what I did to the Egyptians and how I have, I bear you

on eagle's wings and brought you unto myself. Now, do you have any thoughts about this bear you on eagle's wings and brought you unto myself.

Now, do you have any thoughts about this bear you on eagle's wings?

Because Isaiah uses that same kind of language later, and I just, I love that concept.

I love the phrase, and it does seem like Isaiah is intentionally borrowing from it here to give us,

and they're both just drawing on imagery that is fantastic.

So the Lord is saying, look what I've done to the Egyptians,

and he has specifically set up things, I believe,

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