This content of this video comes from a CES fireside and this Ensign article.
This week I studied and prepared to teach the gospel doctrine Old Testament lesson #14 which covers the first couple months of time after the of the Israelites escape bondage from the Egyptians. The House of Israel face many challenges and opportunities to learn how to recognize the hand of the Lord in their lives as they are taught by the prophet, Moses. One BYU scholar said "that while the Lord gets the people out of Egypt, the real challenge is getting Egypt out of Israel." Isn't that so true with us today as we live in the world, but try to get the worldliness out of ourselves?
The manna from heaven provided them with physical food and a daily reminder of who they relied on for both their physical and spiritual nourishment. Can you imagine living 40 years on manna and quail? The word "manna" comes from the Hebrew word "man-hu" meaning, "What is it."
So many lessons can be learned from this manna, including lessons of: strict obedience, faith that they would be provided for daily, avoiding greed, and keeping the Sabbath day holy.
Recently our family has been studying Moses in the Bible and the Book of Abraham. Our children are facinated by the old 1956 movie, The Ten Commandments. We have been reading the scriptures with the children and then watching the movie in short segments as we read. It has taken us a couple weeks. It is really funny how they beg to watch the movie, they have never begged for any other movie like they have this one. It has been a great opportunity to teach them what we know from the scriptures and what Hollywood elaborated on.
