196 myths · Page 7 of 7
Israel came out of the sea calling herself a queen, the daughter of kings. Forty days later Moses climbed the mountain to keep her from being erased.
Empty-handed before the throne, Israel names God's righteousness alone as the case for rescue, while David waits on hope that has no other coin left.
As Edom, Moab, and Canaan massed to strike the leaving slaves, God encircled the camp like a shepherd before any spear could land.
Moses names Nissan for redemption. Israel points at Egypt's idol peaks. God leaps the mountains of their sin the way dew lifts a lily from Esau's shadow.
In a palace no one else may enter, a thousand halls deep in longing, the Messiah weeps and waits for the sign that his hour has come.
When the Temple burned, the fire found only an empty shell. The true sanctuary had slipped out of sight, still standing, waiting on Zion.
Gold, silver, bronze and iron carried into the desert sanctuary rise again as a king's dream idol, until a stone no hand cut grinds it to dust.
A dying master shows his companions a single parting in the hair of the divine head, the channel where the light that will summon the Messiah waits.
Before it was born the soul already owned a perfect body of giving, yet it had to wear a garment of hungry dust to make that body its own.
God handed Abraham a secret too heavy to speak, hidden in five doubled letters and one small word, and it traveled his blood down to Egypt.
The ten blows that broke Egypt were never spent. Blood, hail and darkness wait in God's hand to fall on wicked Rome exactly as they fell on Pharaoh.
Roman soldiers were hunting Shimon bar Yochai. He stood in the cave mouth forty days and prayed, and on the fortieth night the rock seemed to thin.
God orders every Israelite household to bind Egypt's holy lamb at the doorpost and slaughter it the night the empire's firstborn die.
Before light or sea, the name and spirit of the King Messiah waited among God's treasures, sealed until the age when he judges the poor with righteousness.
Rabbi Yose ben Qisma names the hour by a gate that keeps falling, and his students break their word before the dust leaves the road.
Pharaoh's chariots behind them and a sea that will not open ahead, and God answers Israel's weeping by remembering a knife on Moriah.
