Scripture Credenda/Agenda

Something different today:
A list of what I highlight, having connections to the other Testament of Scripture.

Reading Exodus 17-18

1. Vs 2: "Why do you tempt Yahweh?" Moses asks as they grumble for water.
---Acts 15:10: "why do you test God by putting a yoke on the neck of the disciples...?"
--- In both cases, soon after God's redemptive act (Exodus and Cross), God's people were agitating out of accord with God's will. In both cases, the leaders stand and warn them not to test God.

2. Vs 4: Moses to God: "They are ready to stone me!"
---John 8:59 - after Jesus' long argument with the Jews about bread to eat in the wilderness, they pick up stones to stone Him...

3. Vs 6: God to Moses: "Strike the rock, and water will come out of it, that the people may drink."
---1 Corinthians 10:4 - "All our fathers... drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ."

4. Vs 7: "So he called the name of that place Massah (rebellion/contention) and Meribah (trial/test)..."
---Hebrews 3:8 and Psalm 95:8: Do not harden your hearts, as in the rebellion, as in the day of trial in the wilderness."

5. Vs 11: not quite highlight material, but a connection between Moses lifting up hands over the battle, and 1 Timothy 2:8 and James 5:16. Moses was probably praying to God for victory, not just holding his hands up and automatically or magically producing victory...

6. 18:3 - Jethro brings Zipporah back to Moses, with their two sons.
---Acts 7:29 - Stephen notes Moses' two sons, too.

7. 18:4 - Moses names his second son Elizer because "God of my father was my help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh."
---Acts 12:11 - Peter is released from prison, and when he comes to by himself outside, says, "the Lord... has delivered me from the hand of Herod..."

8. 18:17, 21 - "The thing that you do is not good.... select from all the people able men..."
---Acts 6:2-3 - "It is not desirable.... seek out from among you... men of good reputation..."

9. 18:21, 25 - Moses sets rulers of 1000s, 100s, 50s and 10s, which means there are now "parishes" of that many people, too.
---Mark 6:40 - Jesus feeding the 5000 of Israel has them sit down in 100s and 50s; a symbol of the re-constituting of Israel under His leadership.