Fully Following #13 - Hear, Mind, See, Act
- God heard
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- Heard = shema.
- Perhaps you were with us when I taught on this Hebrew word years ago - that it means to OBEY as much as it means to simply listen.
- For God to “shema” means His compassion for His people was understood and that it was now finally time for His justice to be carried out on Egypt.
- God remembered
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- In the Hebrew, the word zâkar means “to mark” as in to “place something”
It also means “to bring to mind again” - but that doesn’t have to imply that something was forgotten.
- God saw
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- What/Who did He see? “God saw the people of Israel.”
- Râ'âh is used in many contexts. It can mean to simply behold something with our eyes, but it also means “considered” and “perceived” and “regard” and “respect”
- God knew (acknowledged)
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- Acknowledged what?
- The original text simply says, “And God knew” (better translated “acknowledged”)
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- What/Who did He see? “God saw the people of Israel.”
- Heard = shema.