Exodus Chronicles
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17 These are a shadow of the things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ.
Covenants.... Judgments…
Todays we look at arguably the central chronicle of all chronicles in the OT — that of the Exodus.
In , when the sons of Israel sold their brother Joseph into slavery, they could not have anticipated what would happen to their brother.
In , when the sons of Israel sold their brother Joseph into slavery, they could not have anticipated what would happen to their brother.
Purchased by Potipher
Thrown in Prison
Interpreting Pharaoh’s dream.
Ascending to power
Saving both the Egyptians and Israelites.
8 Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph.
Under Pharaoh, the purpose for which the sons of Israel sold Jospeh to the Midianites was realized, and the Egyptians mades the Israelites slaves.
Under Pharaoh, the purpose for which the sons of Israel sold Jospeh to the Midianites was realized, and the Egyptians mades the Israelites slaves.
Once they lived as Egypt’s neighbor in the land of Goshen as blessed and esteemed, that shifted… and now, in , they find themselves at home and in exile.
All of the Israelite baby boys were commanded to be executed.
All of the Israelite baby boys were commanded to be executed.
The Israelites began to pray… and God decided to move.
The Israelites began to pray… and God decided to move.
23 During those many days the king of Egypt died, and the people of Israel groaned because of their slavery and cried out for help. Their cry for rescue from slavery came up to God. 24 And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. 25 God saw the people of Israel—and God knew.
God appeared to Moses and revealed God’s self to Moses in the second most important moment of self revelation in the Bible.
God appeared to Moses and revealed God’s self to Moses in the second most important moment of self revelation in the Bible.
13 Then Moses said to God, “If I come to the people of Israel and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ what shall I say to them?” 14 God said to Moses, “I am who I am.” And he said, “Say this to the people of Israel: ‘I am has sent me to you.’ ”
The Lord, under Moses leadership, frees the Lord’s people by leading them through the Red Sea and to the Mountain where the Lord gives them The Book of the Covenant — the 10 Laws of God given to the Lord.
The Lord, under Moses leadership, frees the Lord’s people by leading them through the Red Sea and to the Mountain where the Lord gives them The Book of the Covenant — the 10 Laws of God given to the Lord.
On the way to the Promised Land, the Lord’s people are tempted in the wilderness — where they eventually spend 40 years wandering due to their disbelief and disobedience.
On the way to the Promised Land, the Lord’s people are tempted in the wilderness — where they eventually spend 40 years wandering due to their disbelief and disobedience.
Moses leads them all the way to the borders of the Promised Land, tho Moses himself does not get to enter the Promised Land — tho the Lord allows Moses to look into the Land… and under Joshua’s leadership, the Israelites move into the Promised Land.
Moses leads them all the way to the borders of the Promised Land, tho Moses himself does not get to enter the Promised Land — tho the Lord allows Moses to look into the Land… and under Joshua’s leadership, the Israelites move into the Promised Land.
This story of the Exodus is Israel’s central story… from slavery and exile and prayers for deliverance, the Lord hears and moves in might and power.
This story of the Exodus is Israel’s central story… from slavery and exile and prayers for deliverance, the Lord hears and moves in might and power.
The story of the Exodus is powerful enough on its own merits, but as we consider the story in light of the Jesus Christ, we come to have the light and reality of the Gospel shown on it in the face of Christ.
The story of the Exodus is powerful enough on its own merits, but as we consider the story in light of the Jesus Christ, we come to have the light and reality of the Gospel shown on it in the face of Christ.
Two strands:
Israel — the nation of promise.
Israel — a huge part of the problem.
Jesus understood himself as the one who was to take the place of Israel, and take the place… and it seems clear God understood the story of Jesus to be the story of Israel as well.
Jesus understood himself as the one who was to take the place of Israel, and take the place… and it seems clear God understood the story of Jesus to be the story of Israel as well.
Out of a season of exile and slavery, God hears the prayers of God’s people.
46 How long, O Lord? Will you hide yourself forever?
How long will your wrath burn like fire?
47 Remember how short my time is!
For what vanity you have created all the children of man!
48 What man can live and never see death?
Who can deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah
49 Lord, where is your steadfast love of old,
which by your faithfulness you swore to David?
50 Remember, O Lord, how your servants are mocked,
and how I bear in my heart the insults of all the many nations,
51 with which your enemies mock, O Lord,
with which they mock the footsteps of your anointed.
2. The Lord hears and answers the prayers of the Lord’s people — sending Jesus, Emmanuel, “God with us.”
3. Immediate complications arise in the life of the young lad
Herod has word of the young ruler’s birth and determines to hunt the boy… and God sends Joseph, Mary and Jesus to… that’s correct: Egypt.
13 Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, “Rise, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and remain there until I tell you, for Herod is about to search for the child, to destroy him.” 14 And he rose and took the child and his mother by night and departed to Egypt 15 and remained there until the death of Herod. This was to fulfill what the Lord had spoken by the prophet, “Out of Egypt I called my son.”
4. At the proper time, Jospeh and Mary and Jesus go to Israel… the promised land.
5. Jesus quickly emerges and determines his first public step includes a journey through water… baptized by John the baptist.
6. Jesus is then “cast” into the wilderness — not for 40 years but for 40 days — and where the Israelites failed their tests in the desert, Jesus succeeded.
7. And in , Jesus heads straight to a mount — a mountain — where his new followers sit down and he begins to teach them and offer the law of His people in the Sermon on the Mount… as he begins to make available and accessible life in the true Promised land — that is the Kingdom of God.
15 and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.”
The story of Passover… and the Passover Lamb.
The story of Passover… and the Passover Lamb.
29 The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
36 and he looked at Jesus as he walked by and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God!”
At Passover, Jesus offers himself to the Lord — by the breaking and blessing of his body and by the spilling of his blood — the one true and final passover lamb.
11 But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things that have come, then through the greater and more perfect tent (not made with hands, that is, not of this creation) 12 he entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves but by means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption. 13 For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the sprinkling of defiled persons with the ashes of a heifer, sanctify for the purification of the flesh, 14 how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.
15 Therefore he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, since a death has occurred that redeems them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant. 16 For where a will is involved, the death of the one who made it must be established. 17 For a will takes effect only at death, since it is not in force as long as the one who made it is alive. 18 Therefore not even the first covenant was inaugurated without blood. 19 For when every commandment of the law had been declared by Moses to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people, 20 saying, “This is the blood of the covenant that God commanded for you.” 21 And in the same way he sprinkled with the blood both the tent and all the vessels used in worship. 22 Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.
23 Thus it was necessary for the copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these rites, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. 24 For Christ has entered, not into holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true things, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf. 25 Nor was it to offer himself repeatedly, as the high priest enters the holy places every year with blood not his own, 26 for then he would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But as it is, he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. 27 And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment, 28 so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.