Walking Without Talking May 21, 2012 at 5:15pm Bishop Emilio Alvarez "After that Moses and Aaron approached Pharaoh. They said, "God, the God of Israel, says, 'Free my people so that they can hold a festival for me in the wilderness.'" (Exodus 5:1 MSG) Single Line, Straight Ahead, No Talking! These were our elementary school hallway instructions. Rigid, strict and sometimes even harsh but always for our safety and protection and ultimately for the assurance of our determined destination. The word Wilderness in the Hebrew is (Midabar) which can mean (Mi) without and (dabar) speech. Thus God's instructions to Moses and ultimate demand to Pharaoh, was that His people would be set free to hold a festival in the place "Without Speech." Perhaps God desired to correlate the crying He had heard in slavery with the many voices of excessiveness (Exodus 3:7-9) thus teaching Israel and consequently us today of a true and factual reality
