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Intro
Have you ever been exiled?
Maybe you were exiled from a classroom for misbehaving?
(I have)
Maybe you were at odds with your spouse and you were exiled to the couch?
Perhaps you were exiled by people at work, they excluded you from a group of colleagues?
Perhaps you were exiled from society and spent time in prison?
What did it feel like?
Exile is not a nice place to be - excluded.
Did you feel abandoned?
Left behind?
Unloved?
Even if you were exiled for good reason, something you did, you can feel a bit lost.
You are in some sense out of fellowship with others.
God made us to live in community, and so exile can be a painful experience, even if it is only temporary.
There is much relief and joy when exile is over, when there is restoration in relationships.
You were separated but now you are united.
You were apart, now together.
Fellowship is restored through reconciliation!
Exile is one of those things that shows up a bunch of times across the pages of the Bible.
Exile is a theme that communicates something wonderful about our God.
Counter-intuitively, the story of Exile in the Bible brings God’s people hope!
This is our 6th and last look at the Big Picture of the Bible.
There are plenty more themes we could explore but as is always the case with God’s Word, it is so deep that we cannot exhaust it!
We can mine all day and keep finding gold!
Yet we will be leaving this series here.
Hopefully you have a greater appreciation for the cohesiveness of scripture.
I hope that you have seen the unfolding picture of salvation that takes place across the pages and over thousands of years!
As ever, we will start in the beginning, with Genesis.
Exile from Eden
Perfect unity.
Humans living with God.
Walking with Him in fellowship.
A Wonderful place, yes work to do, but good work.
Fruitful garden, wonderful life.
There was a break.
Disloyalty, disobedience meant that the relationship was severed, and humans were exiled from the Garden.
Humans were exiled East of Eden.
In the scriptures, going out to the east is always ominous.
This started the exile of the whole human race.
The image bearers of God, who were given a wonderful job to do under God were now wandering apart from God.
This is the general state of humanity, down to this day.
Exile in Egypt
God had a rescue plan to save humanity.
Starting with one family and then spreading it to the rest of the world.
That Family was Abraham’s family, specifically through Israel.
They would be the people of God, united to Him, and they would be a light to the world of what it looked like to belong to and follow God.
God was going to bring them to a Promised Land, a kind of redo of Eden where they would live with God.
Before the time came for them to settle the land, they had to sojourn in Egypt, but the sojourn turned sour.
What should have been an intermission became a disaster.
The people of God started to serve the gods of Egypt, they became idol worshipers.
They became unfaithful, and they were enslaved in Egypt.
They gave themselves over and were oppressed.
They became trapped outside the Promised Land, languishing in Egypt.
They stayed there for hundreds of years.
Then they finally remembered the LORD their God, and they called out to Him.
Despite their poor choices, and the disloyalty of their forefathers, God graciously heard their prayers and came to deliver them from Egypt.
Her promised to bring them into the Promised Land, and live with them there.
They would flourish there under God’s blessing as they remained faithful to God.
Exile in the Wilderness
Unfortunately this was short lived.
After God sprung the Israelites from Egypt they started making their way though the desert to the Promised Land.
They were ready to go in and take control of the land.
God’s enemies were living in the land, and so Israel was going to have to drive them out by force.
They were criminal squatters.
So Israel sent 12 spies into the Promised Land to do some reconnaissance.
They were sent to get intel on the bad guys and what-not.
But the spies came back, and most of them were terrified, so they gave a bad report.
Even though there were a couple dissenting voices, the nation basically said “God you’re going to kill us and our kids if we go into the Promised Land”
They trusted 10 spies over God and the 2 spies that gave the good report.
Despite God’s faithfulness demonstrated in their miraculous escape from Egypt, they wouldn't trust Him.
So God sent them into exile - a forty year wandering in the wilderness...
This forty years was roughly equivalent to a generation of people, basically all the adults who came up out of Egypt, their rebellion would mean they would wander the desert for the rest of their life.
A hard thing to bear, but once again it is the judgment of God that unfaithfulness leads to exile.
Yet, like Egypt, it would not last forever.
God would rescue his people from their exile and be merciful to them.
He brought them into the land, drove out their enemies, set them up with blessings.
Exile in Assyria & Babylon
Yet like before, the pattern repeats.
The people were unfaithful.
Time after time they rejected God.
The worshiped idols or just did their own thing.
Time after time across the pages of Judges he restored them.
They had kings just like themselves who would be unfaithful.
God was very patient, but eventually he sent his judgment: They would be exiled.
By this time the place of Israel had split into two kingdoms - Israel & Judah.
North and South kingdoms.
God promised to send them into exile.
But He didn’t do it strait away, he sent plenty of warnings through the prophets.
They were called to repent and turn back to the Lord.
But they wouldn’t listen, so the north was defeated and sent into exile under the Assyrian empire.
Then later Judah was defeated and sent into exile by the Babylonians...
Part of turning to the lord meant keeping the good law God had given them such as Sabbaths - resting the land every 7 years.
So When God sent them into exile for 70 years, it was as if the land got it’s backlog of sabbaths all at once.
The people were unfaithful, so God sent judgment.
It meant that there were a whole lot of people who lost out on God’s blessing.
Now there were some faithful few caught up in all this, like the prophet Jeremiah, and Ezekiel.
But they ended up suffering along with all the rest because of the rebellion of the many.
Yet there was hope, God had promised the exile would be temporary, He would return them to the land and restore God’s people like never before.
They would be able to live with God, and God would overcome their perpetual infidelity by working in their hearts.
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