Exodus 14 ; Matthew 2:13-15 How many of you grew up watching the Cecil B. DeMille version of The Ten Commandments on TV? Fun fact, Charlton Heston’s son played the baby, Moses. Ok, how many of you have seen the movie, The Prince of Egypt ? Fun fact, Treva and I went to see it in the theater on our first date. While there are several other film adaptations, believe it or not, I want to stick with these two for a minute. Both of them have incredible presentations of the Exodus and both of them take a few liberties with the text in order to tell the story of the birth of the people of Israel. I’m not going to waste time picking those inconsistencies apart any more than I am going to tell you that the Exodus is historically problematic or mince words about translation issues between the sea of reeds and the Red Sea. As I so often say to my wife, never let the facts get in the way of a good story! Of course, that’s not a line I would use when it comes to facts like paying the bills, or iss...
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