Title: Escape from Hell: The Details (Exod 5-14)

Topic: Salvation

Summary: Exodus 5 to 14; Moses gets stronger and Pharaoh gets weaker. This parallels our repentance, and the thrash it puts hell through. Developing faith and being saved is a long process.

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References:
Matthew 5:21-22, 27-28
Exodus 6:7; 12; 17:8
James 1:19-end
Matthew 6:6-18
Luke 6:27-end
Daniel 6:10
Jonah 2:1-end
Habakkuk 3:17-18
2 Timothy 1:7
1 Corinthians 10:13

8567. 'Why do you tempt Jehovah?' means that their complaining is against the Divine, from whom they despair of receiving aid. This is clear from the meaning of 'tempting Jehovah' as complaining against the Divine. The reason why going so far as to despair of receiving aid from Him is meant is that such despair lies within what people say when they complain in temptations; for temptations consist in ever-recurring feelings of despair over salvation. Initially those feelings are slight, but in course of time they weigh heavily on a person, till finally he doubts, almost denies God's presence or the possibility of aid from Him. In temptations the spiritual life is for the most part brought to this extremity, for in that way the natural life is snuffed out, since while a person is in the midst of despair the Lord keeps his inmost actively engaged in the fight against falsity. As a consequence also such despair is soon after that dispelled by the comfort which is then supplied by the Lord; for all spiritual temptation is followed by comfort and so to speak newness of life. Regarding the prolongation of temptations to the point of despair, see 1787, 2694, 5279, 5280, 7147, 7155, 7166, 8165; and regarding comfort after temptations, 3696, 4572, 5246, 6829, 8367, 8370 (end).