Paul's Parables

In the huge city of Nineveh Jonah warns them that because of their great wickedness and violence God will destroy their city.  He rather enjoyed pronouncing God’s judgment against them, but they humbled themselves before God and repented with prayer and fasting and the wearing of sackcloth.  When the forty days were up, Jonah was outside the city on a hill waiting to witness the prophesied destruc...

After Jonah had been thrown into the sea and was sinking in the seaweed, he was sucked into a dark void where he found he could breathe fishy smelling air. He concluded that he was alive and praised God, praying for three days and nights.  The fish vomited him out on the shore of the sea and God told him again to go to Nineveh to preach God’s message to that city.

Jonah tells his own story about when he ran away from God, taking a ship to Tarshish rather going to Nineveh as God had told him.  God sent a storm to halt the on the ship.  Jonah’s disobedience is found to be the reason for the storm and Jonah asks to be thrown into the sea.

When Moses stretches his rod out over the Red Sea, God’s wind provides a way through the sea between walls of water on either side!  The cloud of fire provides them light all night and the darkness between them and Pharaoh’s army is lifted when they are all safely across.  Moses stretches his rod out again and the army attempting to follow is all drowned.  Miriam sings a song of praise to Give Glo...

Aaron’ son, Lazer and his Egyptian friend, Nadab, are among the two million people who just left Egypt The boys meet friends who have lots of questions about God and why they are traveling this direction.  When they stop for the night on the shore of the sea, they are told that Pharaoh and his army are coming.  They are trapped against the Red Sea by Pharaoh’s pursuing army.  Moses assured them th...

Moses expected to be summoned to Pharaoh the night all the firstborn in Egypt were killed.  He found a broken totally humbled Pharaoh who ordered them to depart with all they owned, loading them with riches beyond measure, telling them to depart immediately.  Over two million people marched out of Egypt singing of God’s greatness.  They carried Joseph’s bones with them as they began their long jou...

The Passover and preparations to leave Egypt are related as they took place in Aaron’s household.  Nadab’s Egyptian friend, Ali, and his family are also there as they accept the protection of the blood from the Passover lamb that has been placed around the top of the doors.  The Angel of Death passes over everyone who had obeyed Moses’s instructions and is under the blood but there is a great wail...

In total darkness Lazer and Nadab warn their Egyptian friend that God is about to kill all the firstborn in the land.  They want him to come to join the Israelites, assuring him that their God will help anyone who calls on Him. In dark despair, Pharaoh finally calls Moses and Aaron and says that he will allow them to go but not to take their animals.  Moses warns of the death of all the firstborn,...

Moses tells the Israelites to make preparations to go.  He said, “God has told me that after the plague of darkness, which will start tomorrow, there is one more disaster he is bringing on Pharaoh and all the land of Egypt. God is going to kill all the firstborn in the land. They will beg us to leave, and even help us with money and supplies. Tomorrow you are all to go to your Egyptian friends and...

Moses delivers God’s message to Pharaoh, “How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go to serve me. If you refuse to let them go, tomorrow I will send a plague of locusts like the world has never seen to cover the whole of Egypt. They will eat up every green thing that the hail has left you. They will fill your house and your people’s houses and you will not see the grou...

The story is told by two donkeys that are used to carry Moses and Aaron to warn Pharaoh of the terrible storm of thunder, fire and hail that will come to destroy everything that is left outside in Egypt.  Pharaoh refuses to listen even though his country is being destroyed.  He stubbornly refuses to let God’s people go to worship him.  God is displaying His power and greatness. The whole world wil...

Nadab relates the story when Pharaoh takes his chariot out to Goshen to see what happened there when the animals in Egypt all died.  He meets Moses who says, “Are you going to let the Israelite people go? Did you notice that God spared his children’s flocks so none of our animals died?” Pharaoh is furious.  He refuses.  His Hebrew slaves are burning the carcasses from the last plague and Moses thr...

Lazer and his brother Nadab both hear that all the animals in the fields of Egypt will be destroyed if Pharaoh does not change his mind.  Nadab thinks of his Egyptian friend Ali and his favorite horse.  Maybe he would believe God and bring his horse inside to save him.  Even the Egyptians want Pharaoh to let the Israelites go but he cares for none but himself.  Moses instructs the Israelites to be...

The next time Moses and Aaron talk with Pharaoh they tell him that the next plague will not affect the whole country.  God’s people would not suffer.  Lazer found out about the plague of the flies when he visited his brother Nadab who took care of the horses at the palace.  Nadab was sent to ask Moses to remove the flies and they could sacrifice to God at home.  Moses said they would not compromis...

The stinking heaps of dead frogs angered Pharaoh and he did not let the people go serve their God but became even more stubborn.  God had Aaron strike the ground and Gnats flew up to infest and torment man and beasts.  The magicians are unable to mimic what God had done and acknowledged His power, while Pharaoh wants to get help from his priests and the sun god.  He refuses to humble himself at al...

The goddess of fertility and resurrection the Egyptians called “Hekt” had a frog spirit and frogs were revered by the people.  When Aaron stretched out his rod over the Nile, frogs came up and covered the land entering even the king’s palace and kitchen where the old father of the frogs adds details.  Though his magicians brought up frogs too, Pharaoh realized that only God could remove them and p...

Aaron’s son, Eleazar, sees how angry Pharaoh becomes at his dad and Moses when the Nile is turned to blood.  His magicians do something similar and Moses calls Pharaoh a stubborn man.  He explains to his nephew, whom they call Lazer, that someone who is stubborn never admits that he is wrong, or does things any way but his own way.  He just does things his own way and doesn’t listen.

Moses shows the signs God gave him to the Israelite slaves, yet when he goes to Pharaoh, his request to let the people go is rejected.  Pharaoh becomes angry and increases the work load on his slaves.  He scoffs at the sign of the rod becoming a snake when his magicians duplicate the sign.  But the magician’s snakes are devoured by Moses’ snake showing the Egyptian’s snake god is powerless.

When God called Moses from the burning bush Moses wanted God to send someone else because he felt he couldn’t do what God was telling him to do.  God gave him special signs so the people would believe that God sent him.  He also told Moses he would tell him what to say.  Moses still objected and God told him that his Brother Aaron could help him and Moses would tell him what to say.

When Moses discovers that the murder that he had tried to hide was already known in Egypt he runs away from Pharaoh into Midian across the red sea. God cares for Moses when he helps Jethro’s daughters water their sheep.  Jethro is a godly man and his daughter Zipporah becomes his wife.  He works many years for his father-in-law and thinks of his family back in Egypt.  He sees a bush burning and co...

The Egyptian princes gives Jochebed, Moses’ mother, the responsibility to raise him until she later takes him back to care for him as her own son.  Moses learns about God and his people before being trained at the palace what a future Pharaoh needs to know to rule Egypt. He becomes afraid after he murders a cruel overseer beating an Israelite slave.

The new pharaoh, who did not know Joseph, feared that the multiplying Israelites might rebel and so forced them to become slaves, but still they thrived.  He then wanted all the male babies killed by the midwives but they feared God.  The law to throw the boys in the Nile also failed to kill Moses when his daughter rescued him.

When Joseph sees all his brothers, including Benjamin, come again to Egypt for grain he tests them once more.  They are reconciled when the whole truth is confessed and Joseph reveals himself to them.  Joseph joyfully receives the news from home and brings the 70-person family and all they have to settle in the best part of the land.

Joseph had held his brother Simeon in jail and forbidden his brothers to return without bringing his younger brother, Benjamin, to prove they weren’t spies.  Jacob recognizes the need to buy more grain, sends twice the money, with special gifts to the great man in Egypt.  Judah guarantees the safety of his youngest son.

The seven years of famine followed the seven good years as God had revealed in pharaoh’s dreams, and the famine became widespread.  Joseph’s childhood dreams also come true when his brothers bow to him after they were sent by Jacob to buy food in Egypt.  Joseph is interested to discover if they are sorry for what they did to him and if they truly love their father and his younger brother Benjamin.