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Much like Genesis, Exodus is full of rich characters and great stories. Moses, the Ten Plagues of Egypt, the Parting of the Red Sea, the Ten Commandments, etc. It’s tough to know which one to pick. Although I ended up going with God chatting with Moses via burning bush, that wasn’t my first choice.
I originally wanted to do the Ten Plagues, and actually worked on the design for a while. I had a PSD file full of plagues – locusts, frogs and lightning bolts. But in the end, it just felt cluttered and disconnected (plus I was struggling to figure out how to use boils, blood and a bunch of dead cows as design elements), so I decided to go in a different – and less deathy – direction.
But before I get into Exodus and the burning bush, I have one slight observation/tangent.
The Bible is Crazy
Over the course of Genesis and Exodus, I’m realizing that since I grew up hearing about the Bible (from my parents, in Sunday school, church, etc.), I think some of the complete weirdness of the stories were lost on me. As I read and think about it now, some of the stories are just plain crazy. Just in the first 2 books, there’s:
- A talking snake that duped the only 2 people on earth into eating a fruit that they weren’t supposed to eat.
- Fallen angels mating with human women and having crazy giant babies (Nephilim).
- A woman turns into salt because she looked the wrong way.
- Bread that materializes out of nowhere. Every morning. In the Desert.
- One day a sea splits in two forming a dry path so a bunch of people can walk through. The next day when a bunch of other people try to walk through, the sea closes up and they die.
That stuff is bizzare. How did I not notice that as a kid?
Burn, baby, burn
Anyways, that brings me to the Exodus design, which is another weird story. Moses is out shepherding one day and all of a sudden God starts talking to him from a bush that is on fire, but apparently isn’t being burned up? And then Moses proceeds to have a conversation with the burning (yet not burnt) bush. What the heck?
The Bible is starting to feel like a David Lynch movie.
Next week, Leviticus.
Tags: Bible, burning bush, Exodus, Moses, Word
Posted on Friday, January 29.
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Dude, these are dope. Can you say that about the bible? I’m dying to know where you’re gonna go for Leviticus and all the boring books. May even have to crack the book open to even see what those books were about.
Again, cool, Jim!
@Trevor: Thanks, man. Yeah, if Leviticus was the first book of the Bible, I don’t think I would even started this. At least I can work up to it :)
@Marie: Thanks!
Ever heard the one about the Word (Jesus)?
John 1:1
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He (Jesus) was with God in the beginning.
It sounds crazy but it fits perfectly together. I like the design on this one also. The colors and texture works well together for an historical story like this. It’s another story that mirrors the redemptive plan of God. Moses obeying God to go sacrifice his Son – God having already planned to send Jesus to be sacrificed. Moses son was to be sacrificed like a lamb (if God had allowed Moses to go through with it – Jesus came and was sacrifice like a sacrificial lamb. When it was completed, Jesus said, “It’s finished”. The price was paid for our sin, now all we have to do is believe and repent. God is good :)
OR, the sons of God, the seed of the woman, the line of Seth, God’s covenant community, began to fall apart by intermarrying with the line of Cain, the seed of the Serpent, until only Noah was left that was faithful. Snip out the genealogical interlude of ch 5, and the redemptive-historical thrust of the narrative becomes more clear:
Gen 4:1-16 Cain & Abel
Gen 4:17-24 The sinful line of Cain
Gen 4:25-26 “And Adam knew his wife again, and she bore a son and called his name Seth, for she said, ‘God has appointed for me another offspring instead of Abel, for Cain killed him.’ To Seth also a son was born, and he called his name Enosh. At that time people began to call upon the name of the LORD.”
Gen 6:1-2 “When man began to multiply on the face of the land and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw that the daughters of man were attractive. And they took as their wives any they chose.”
…things keep getting worse…
Gen 6:8 “But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord”
Also, Sez Calvin: