Jesse Tree Day 13 Plagues of Egypt

Day 13 – November 27 (December 10 OC)

Ornament - Frog
Materials - Plastic sun catcher from Hobby Lobby painted by my son with paints I had on hand.

 Read Exodus 6:29-7:6-;7:14-22;7:24-8:15;11:1;12:1-13,28-32

-St John Climacus, "The Ladder of Divine Ascent”
Run from places of sin as from the plague. For when fruit is not present, we have no frequent desire to
eat it.

(The Orthodox Study Bible, p. 74)

Egypt's gods were lords of Egypt, but the Lord is the Lord of all the earth. Therefore, the gods of

Egypt were not lords in any sense, but Pharaoh was too arrogant to acknowledge the true Lord. After
the Lord became incarnate, His parents took Him to Egypt, where as a baby He destroyed the idols of
Egypt and brought the nation to Himself.

See also Law of God, Sacred History Chapter 25, Pascha (Passover) and the Exodus of the Hebrew
People From Egypt (excerpt below):
http://www.fatheralexander.org/booklets/english/law_of_god_slobodskoy_1.htm#_Toc36163705
Six hundred thousand men left with Moses, not counting women and children. Moses took with
him the bones of Joseph, as Joseph himself had instructed in his last will. As soon as the Hebrews left
Egypt, a pillar appeared before them in the form of a cloud in the daytime and fire at night. It guided
them in their journey.
The day of the Hebrews’ deliverance from bondage in Egypt forever remained in their memory.
On this day the Lord established the main feast of the Old Testament, which He called Pascha. The
word Pascha means "passing by," "passover," or "deliverance from misfortune" — the angel of death
passed over the Hebrew dwellings. Every year on the evening of this day the Hebrews slaughtered and
prepared the Paschal lamb and ate it with unleavened bread. This feast lasted for seven days.
The Paschal lamb, by whose blood the first born of the Hebrews were delivered from death,
foreshadowed the Saviour Himself, Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God, Who took upon Himself the sins of
the world, Whose blood delivers all the faithful from eternal death.
The Old Testament Hebrew The Old Testament Hebrew Pascha prefigured our New Testament Christian Pascha.
In the Old
Testament Pascha, death passed over the dwellings of the Hebrews. They were liberated from bondage
in Egypt and given the Promised Land. Thus also in the Christian Pascha, the Resurrection of Christ,
eternal death has passed over us. The Risen Christ, having freed us from the slavery of the Devil, has
given us eternal life.
Christ died on the Cross on the day when the Paschal lambs were slain, and He rose
immediately after the Hebrew Pascha. This is why the Church always celebrates the Resurrection of Christ after the Jewish Passover and calls the feast Pascha.