Yoke of Fire: Moses and the Ten Commandments

When God's yoke of fire burns into the backs of mortals, Freedom becomes the heaviest commandment. In the infanticide of the Nile, Moses, the son of a Hebrew slave, was cast as an Egyptian prince. Forty years later, he fled into the desert for his blood-crime, until the burning bush tore his soul apart—God burning his identity in his native tongue: "Go and break Pharaoh's staff!" The ten plagues washed Egypt with blood, and the bones of the Red Sea paved the road to freedom. But when three million people kneel before the golden calf, He broke the tablets of the law which he took with his own hands: "If the law is not a yoke, freedom will be tyranny!" During the forty years of wandering in the wilderness, manna fell from the sky but could not satisfy greed, and living water gushed out of the rock but could not wash away rebellion. When Joshua's sword sharpened the law, the old Moses stood at the edge of the Promised Land and heard God's final judgment: "You light the fire, but you can never step into the light." The fire on Mount Sinai still burns, And in the fragments of the broken monument, The struggle between humans and gods It's just the beginning…