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THE EVIL OF THE FATHERS I (THURSDAY MARCH 11, 2021)

// Read: Exodus 17:8-14; I Samuel 15 //

The Amalekites came and attacked the Israelites at Rephidim. Moses said to Joshua, “Choose some of our men and go out to fight the Amalekites. Tomorrow I will stand on top of the hill with the staff of God in my hands.”

10 So Joshua fought the Amalekites as Moses had ordered, and Moses, Aaron and Hur went to the top of the hill. 11 As long as Moses held up his hands, the Israelites were winning, but whenever he lowered his hands, the Amalekites were winning. 12 When Moses’ hands grew tired, they took a stone and put it under him and he sat on it. Aaron and Hur held his hands up—one on one side, one on the other—so that his hands remained steady till sunset. 13 So Joshua overcame the Amalekite army with the sword.

14 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write this on a scroll as something to be remembered and make sure that Joshua hears it, because I will completely blot out the name of Amalek from under heaven.”

MEDITATION:

There are some instances in the Bible where the sins of the fathers affected their son and the generations to come. It was not the generation that suffered that sinned; it was either their fathers or forefathers. For the next few days we will consider some of them. In today’s passage it was not the generation of the Amalekites that sinned (waged war against the Children of Israel) that suffered for it. It was generations after that did not know anything about it. Ancestral curse caught up with them!

PRAYER: Pray that whatever evil your fathers had done will not be suffered by you and your children.

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