Bitter Herbs Bitter herbs symbolize the bondage of slavery and sin cut off from God. It shows the ongoing plight of the world until the end and the repentance of mankind. Exodus 1:13-14 And the Egyptians compelled the sons of Israel to labor rigorously; 14 and they made their lives bitter with hard labor in mortar and bricks and at all kinds of labor in the field, all their labors which they rigorously imposed on them. Exodus 12:5-10 Your lamb shall be an unblemished male a year old; you may take it from the sheep or from the goats. 6 And you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month, then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel is to kill it at twilight. 7 Moreover, they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the houses in which they eat it. 8 And they shall eat the flesh that same night, roasted with fire, and they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. 9 Do not eat any of it raw or boiled at all with water, but rather roasted with fire, both its head and its legs along with its entrails. 10 And you shall not leave any of it over until morning, but whatever is left of it until morning, you shall burn with fire. Numbers 9:10-12 Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, If any one of you or of your generations becomes unclean because of a dead person, or is on a distant journey, he may, however, observe the Passover to the LORD. 11 In the second month on the fourteenth day at twilight, they shall observe it; they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. 12 They shall leave none of it until morning, nor break a bone of it; according to all the statute of the Passover they shall observe it. 2Kings 14:26-27 For the LORD saw the affliction of Israel, which was very bitter; for there was neither bond nor free, nor was there any helper for Israel. 27 And the LORD did not say that He would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven, but He saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash. Israel is sent into bondage, and repentance is required in order for it to be restored. Restoration can only come through the activities of Messiah in the Plan of God. Amos 8:7-12 The LORD has sworn by the pride of Jacob, Indeed, I will never forget any of their deeds. 8 Because of this will not the land quake And everyone who dwells in it mourn? Indeed, all of it will rise up like the Nile, And it will be tossed about, And subside like the Nile of Egypt. 9 And it will come about in that day, declares the Lord God, That I shall make the sun go down at noon And make the earth dark in broad daylight. 10 Then I shall turn your festivals into mourning And all your songs into lamentation; And I will bring sackcloth on everyones loins And baldness on every head. And I will make it like a time of mourning for an only son, And the end of it will be like a bitter day. 11 Behold, days are coming, declares the Lord God, When I will send a famine on the land, Not a famine for bread or a thirst for water, But rather for hearing the words of the LORD. 12 And people will stagger from sea to sea, And from the north even to the east; They will go to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, But they will not find it. Micah 2:1-7 Woe to those who scheme iniquity, Who work out evil on their beds! When morning comes, they do it, For it is in the power of their hands. 2 They covet fields and then seize them, And houses, and take them away. They rob a man and his house, A man and his inheritance. 3 Therefore, thus says the LORD, Behold, I am planning against this family a calamity From which you cannot remove your necks; And you will not walk haughtily, For it will be an evil time. 4 On that day they will take up against you a taunt And utter a bitter lamentation and say, We are completely destroyed! He exchanges the portion of my people; How He removes it from me! To the apostate He apportions our fields. 5 Therefore, you will have no one stretching a measuring line For you by lot in the assembly of the LORD. 6 Do not speak out, so they speak out. But if they do not speak out concerning these things, Reproaches will not be turned back. 7 Is it being said, O house of Jacob: Is the Spirit of the LORD impatient? Are these His doings? Do not My words do good To the one walking uprightly? James 3:8-14 But no one can tame the tongue; it is a restless evil and full of deadly poison. 9 With it we bless our Lord and Father; and with it we curse men, who have been made in the likeness of God; 10 from the same mouth come both blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not to be this way. 11 Does a fountain send out from the same opening both fresh and bitter water? 12 Can a fig tree, my brethren, produce olives, or a vine produce figs? Neither can salt water produce fresh. 13 Who among you is wise and understanding? Let him show by his good behavior his deeds in the gentleness of wisdom. 14 But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not be arrogant and so lie against the truth. The plagues of Egypt are not just in the past; the pestilence and the trials of the Last Days are designed to bring the world to repentance. Revelation 8:8-11 And the second angel sounded, and something like a great mountain burning with fire was thrown into the sea; and a third of the sea became blood; 9 and a third of the creatures, which were in the sea and had life, died; and a third of the ships were destroyed. 10 And the third angel sounded, and a great star fell from heaven, burning like a torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs of waters; 11 and the name of the star is called Wormwood; and a third of the waters became wormwood; and many men died from the waters, because they were made bitter.
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