Their plan was working well: they avoided the famine, they avoided attack and they were becoming wealthy at the hands of the king Their plan was also causing some problems: They were losing each other, they were jeopardizing the seed of the savior and they were forfeiting all the promises of God. It was a long-term loss for a short-term gain.
At this point God intervenes. We do not know what and for how long but Pharaoh's family and household begin to suffer plagues. In some way the Pharaoh is made to understand that the cause of it is Sarai and that she is Abraham's wife. He is also made to understand that these people are protected by God. Otherwise he would have killed them both or at least have killed Abram and enslaved Sarai. We see instead that the Pharaoh gives a sharp rebuke to Abram. In the rebuke the king reproaches him not only for his deception but his lack of faith:
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June 6, 2013 Segment 1 "States of Mind: Mental Illness in America" (2013). Download: MP3 Here's another contribution from Backstory and the American History Guys (backstoryradio.org): "in this episode of BackStory, the American History Guys look back over the history of mental illness in America --- exploring how the diagnostic line between mental health and madness has shifted over time, and how we've treated those on both sides of it. We'll hear how the desire of slaves to escape bondage was once interpreted as a psychological disorder, how a woman's sleepwalking landed her in the state asylum, and how perspectives on depression altered in the 1970s. Plus, the Guys walk us through a mid-20th century quiz that promised to identify a new kind of mental 'disorder' -- our susceptibility to fascism. Guests Include: Katherine Bankole-Medina, Coppin State University; Allan Horwitz, Rutgers University; Jonathan Metzl, Vanderbilt University; Jamie Cohen-Cole, George Washington University; Benjamin Reiss, Emory University; Elyn Saks, University of Southern California." Segment 2 "R.D. Laing Talking About Transpersonal Psychology" (1982). Download: MP3
May 16, 2013 Segment 1 "Judy Juanita on the Black Panthers" (2013). Download: MP3 At a time when the world was changing, the Black Panther Party in Oakland came along to transform the US civil rights movement. How has the world changed (or not) since? What lessons can we learn from the Panthers' radical perspective on US society? Judy Juanita, a member of the party in its early days, describes in her debut novel those times and the people she knew. Juanita is the author of Virgin Soul (Viking, 2013) and "Five Comrades in the Black Panther Party, 1967-1970," in Black Bird Press News & Review. Segment 2 "Bobby Seale on Black Power." Download: MP3 2ff7e9595c
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