{"id":2372,"date":"2022-01-09T07:47:36","date_gmt":"2022-01-09T14:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=2372"},"modified":"2022-01-09T07:47:36","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T14:47:36","slug":"parsha-bo-teaching-from-shabbat-shalom-mesa-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=2372","title":{"rendered":"Parsha \u201cBo\u201d teaching from Shabbat Shalom Mesa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This week&#8217;s Torah portion completes the story specific to the plagues of Egypt, in parsha &#8216;Bo,&#8217; (Exodus 10:1 through 13:16), and the basis for literally &#8216;the beginning of months&#8217;, and the time of Pesach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Again, the bottom line for the signs, miracles, and plagues is &#8220;Ani YHVH!&#8221;. And this time there&#8217;s a specific instruction as a result &#8212; albeit one that the &#8216;whore church&#8217; has ignored, often even lied about, for centuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Erev Shabbat, as usual, Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa goes through the whole story, picking up this time with the plague of locusts, and culminating with the &#8216;death of the firstborn&#8217;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/hebrewnation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/08152006\/SSM-1-7-22-Bo-teaching-podcast-xx.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Be sure to &#8216;stay tuned&#8217; for the Sabbath Day teaching, and &#8220;food for thought.&#8221; Often, we tend to look for prophetic parallels, and indications from accounts like this one to attempt to establish &#8220;where we are&#8221; on a timeline. And Mark has always been a big proponent of understanding cycles, and patterns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the Sabbath day teaching this week definitely explores a slightly different perspective. There are certainly things in this week&#8217;s plagues that suggest parallels. We have plagues of locusts, not only literal but certainly metaphoric. And that applies even more so to the kind of &#8220;darkness which may be FELT.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet there are other major differences, too. Pharoah then did NOT want to &#8220;let the people go,&#8221; while today&#8217;s pharoah-equivalents seem intent on killing masses of them instead. And there&#8217;s certainly no candidate for a Moses-like contender to confront hard-hearted tyrants now like there was then, much less a general understanding of just Who is driving the narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All the more reason to look very closely into what the story is teaching us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8220;Bo: Plagues and Pharohes &#8211; Then and Now&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/hebrewnation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/08231353\/WT-CooH-1-8-22-Bo-Pharoah-Then-and-Now-Darkness-and-THIS-plague-podcast-xxx.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The combined two-part podcast is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/mark-call-parsha-bo-teaching-from-shabbat-shalom-mesa-4\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a><\/strong>, via Hebrew Nation Radio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa&#8217;s 2022 Torah-cycle teachings for parsha &#8220;Bo&#8221; (Exodus\/Shemot 10:1-13:16) and related Scripture. <a href=\"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=2372\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,185,35,9,11,12],"tags":[46,511,28,315,104,1158,1591,1443,1589,114,203,1319,101],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2372"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2373,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2372\/revisions\/2373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}