9/27/22 - From Lack to Abundance (Genesis 47:1-12)

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Pharoah gave Jacob’s family the best part of the land, namely Goshen (cf. 45:10)

Even giving some of the brothers oversight of his own livestock (47:6).

(v.47:6), “elos sukosok in muta kutena an in facl Egypt.

Tuh lela elos in oakwuki in an Goshen, an ma wo emeet in facl se inge.

Ac fin oasr mwet pisrla inmasrlolos, sang in karingin un kosro nutik.”

Goshen is not referred to in ancient Egyptian writings,

but the name it bore in later times was

the district of Rameses (v.11),

Na Joseph el oakiya papa tumal ac mwet lel nukewa Egypt,

ac sang an lalos ke an ma wo omeet,

yen ma apkuran nu ke siti lun Rameses,

oana ke Tokosra el sap.

This, plus the fact that it was FERTILE, and near to JOSEPH at court,

suggests that it was near the eastern part of the Nile Delta.

Lesson Context:

God had promised Abraham, a nomadic herdsman from Mesopotamia,

THAT HIS DESCENDANTS WOULD BE NUMEROUS (GEN. 15:5),

JOSEPH WAS REMOVED FROM HIS ANCESTRAL LAND AND WAS TAKEN TO EGYPT.

THROUGH GOD’S POWER AND DIRECTIVES,

JOSEPH ENDED UP POSITION OF HIGH REGARD (GEN 41:41-57)

WHEN JACOB WAS PRESENTED BEFORE PHARAOH,

THE PATRIARCH ACKNOWLEDGED HIS TROUBLE LIFE FOR 130 YEARS.

TO HIM, IT HAD BEEN A PILGRIMAGE.

WHEN JACOB BOTH ENTERED AND LEFT,

HE BLESSED PHARAOH.

IT IS INTERESTING TO THINK OF THE ISRAELITES IN A FOREIGN LAND,

A COUNTRY WITH A DIFFERENT CULTURE,

IN WHICH THE PATRIARCH WISHED GOD’S BLESSING ON THE PHARAOH!

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THRIVING IN SPITE OF ADVERSITY

Exodus 1:8–22 ESV

Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph. And he said to his people, “Behold, the people of Israel are too many and too mighty for us. Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, lest they multiply, and, if war breaks out, they join our enemies and fight against us and escape from the land.” Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with heavy burdens. They built for Pharaoh store cities, Pithom and Raamses. But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and the more they spread abroad. And the Egyptians were in dread of the people of Israel. So they ruthlessly made the people of Israel work as slaves and made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and brick, and in all kinds of work in the field. In all their work they ruthlessly made them work as slaves. Then the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah, “When you serve as midwife to the Hebrew women and see them on the birthstool, if it is a son, you shall kill him, but if it is a daughter, she shall live.” But the midwives feared God and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but let the male children live. So the king of Egypt called the midwives and said to them, “Why have you done this, and let the male children live?” The midwives said to Pharaoh, “Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women, for they are vigorous and give birth before the midwife comes to them.” So God dealt well with the midwives. And the people multiplied and grew very strong. And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families. Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, “Every son that is born to the Hebrews you shall cast into the Nile, but you shall let every daughter live.”

King of Egypt did not know Joseph

People of Israel, too many

worried about fighting them in the future

Then the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah, “When you serve as midwife to the Hebrew women and see them on the birthstool, if it is a son, you shall kill him, but if it is a daughter, she shall live.”

4. And the people multiplied and grew very strong. And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families.

5.Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, “Every son that is born to the Hebrews you shall cast into the Nile, but you shall let every daughter live.”

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THURSDAY, GOD PREPARES MOSES

Acts 7:17–29 ESV

“But as the time of the promise drew near, which God had granted to Abraham, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt until there arose over Egypt another king who did not know Joseph. He dealt shrewdly with our race and forced our fathers to expose their infants, so that they would not be kept alive. At this time Moses was born; and he was beautiful in God’s sight. And he was brought up for three months in his father’s house, and when he was exposed, Pharaoh’s daughter adopted him and brought him up as her own son. And Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and he was mighty in his words and deeds. “When he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brothers, the children of Israel. And seeing one of them being wronged, he defended the oppressed man and avenged him by striking down the Egyptian. He supposed that his brothers would understand that God was giving them salvation by his hand, but they did not understand. And on the following day he appeared to them as they were quarreling and tried to reconcile them, saying, ‘Men, you are brothers. Why do you wrong each other?’ But the man who was wronging his neighbor thrust him aside, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge over us? Do you want to kill me as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?’ At this retort Moses fled and became an exile in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons.

v.17-19,

400 years passed, when God would fulfill his promise to Abraham (Gen 15:13-15).

Number of Israelites in Egypt greatly increased (from 75 to over 2 million (Exo 12:37),

experienced great prosperity until Egyptian dynasties changed and a new king arose who knew nothing about Joseph.

The reference to abandoing their newborn babies is a reminder of the events of Exodus 1:15-22;

Pharaoh ordered the Hebrew midwives to kill every male newborn.

The slaughter of the innocents by Herod at the birth of Jesus Christ a few decades earlier should have been ringing a bell in the minds of Stephen’s listeners.

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(vv. 20-22)

During the days when Hebrew midwives were under orders to kill Hebrew baby boys,

Moses was born.

God did not choose a convenient time for the child to be born

instead, he chose the worst times.

During this horrible time in Israel’s history, the nation’s 1st real “deliverer” was born.

(See Exodus 1-2) Moses was a great figure of the nation of Israel, greater in the estimation of many than even the founding father, Abraham.

Moses was the vehicle God used for the salvation of the nation,

for letting in so much of ligh through the revelation on Mount Sinai,

and bringing the nation to the very edge of entrance into the Promised Land.

vv.23-25 (Moses 1st attempt to lead his people)

tried to save an Israelite who was being mistreated by an Egyptian.

Moses, the prince, came to the defense of his fellow Israelite and avenged him

killing the Egyptian.

Apparently, Moses knew his calling and assumed his brothers

would realize that God had sent him to rescue them.

Unfortunately, they didn’t.

6. vv. 26-29, “Who made you a ruler and judge over us?”

a. The Jewish council showed the same belligerence concerning Stephen’s speech, in effect saying, “What makes you think this Jesus of Nazareth should be ruler and judge over us?

b. The parallels between the nation’s rejection of Jesus and its early rejection of Moses should have been another wake-up call.

7. vv. 29-30,

Life Application New Testament Commentary Stephen Addresses the Council / 7:1–60

7:29–30 Rejected by his own people and fearing for his life because he had killed an Egyptian, Moses fled the country and lived as a foreigner in the land of Midian (northwest Arabia).

Life Application New Testament Commentary Stephen Addresses the Council / 7:1–60

For forty long years, he served his father-in-law as a shepherd.

Life Application New Testament Commentary Stephen Addresses the Council / 7:1–60

Eighty years of his life were gone—it seemed that Moses had spent most of his life waiting. But the wait soon would be over. There

Life Application New Testament Commentary Stephen Addresses the Council / 7:1–60

There in the desert, after what must have seemed an eternity, God spoke to him.

Life Application New Testament Commentary Stephen Addresses the Council / 7:1–60

Stephen reminded his audience of the incredible moment when an angel appeared to Moses in the flame of a burning bush (see Exodus 3–4).

Life Application New Testament Commentary Stephen Addresses the Council / 7:1–60

God was working.

Life Application New Testament Commentary Stephen Addresses the Council / 7:1–60

God was speaking.

Life Application New Testament Commentary Stephen Addresses the Council / 7:1–60

God was about to deliver his people.

Life Application New Testament Commentary Stephen Addresses the Council / 7:1–60

There was no Temple here, no Tabernacle, and they were nowhere near Jerusalem.

Life Application New Testament Commentary Stephen Addresses the Council / 7:1–60

God had chosen to speak from a bush in the desert!

Bruce Barton et al., Life Application New Testament Commentary (Wheaton, IL: Tyndale, 2001), 497.

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