Exodus Notes wk 11 - The Exodus
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The Lord Struck down the Egyptians (12:29)
But watched over the Israelites (12:42)
This is the theme of the same act of Judgment for some
is and act of Salvation for other.
There was a death in every house that night
Egyptians it was the 1st born
Israelites is was the lamb
Christ again fulfills this as the “first” born of God, he dies in our place, as we are all in the place of the Egyptians.
Pharaoh is broken and humbled
The Egyptians were “urgent” fearing “we shall all be dead”
The Israelites simply did what they were told to do
given favor in sight of the Egyptians
A ‘mixed’ multitude goes out — meaning some non-Israelites b/c Israelites
Some responded to the great acts of the Lord and came with them.
Most did not
The difference was the Israelites were given the message of salvation, but Egyptians were not.
But we today, are given the message and explicitly told to tell the whole world about it.
Notes
Notes
how can God kill first born sons?
all are born in sin — like coronavirus.
Time Time has come:
Time Time has come:
Exodus 12:
29 At midnight the Lord struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of the livestock. 30 And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians. And there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where someone was not dead.
This is a terrifying moment.
The moment that God fulfills his promises of destruction.
Let’s remember, Pharaoh has had ample time to turn.
9 plagues to have changed his mind.
Why is that so important?
Why is it so important that we submit to the God of the bible?
Because he is the one true God and he tells the truth about us.
He tells the truth about you which you need to hear in order to come and experience life
Often times we need tragedies and pandemics to bring us to the end of ourselves and to God.
Maybe this is what God is doing right now with Coronavirus?
leading us back to him? if we would listen?
Unfortunately for Pharaoh this is the result when we continue to harden our heart and refuse to listen God.
It always results in death and pain.
Ultimately this will result in spiritual death and agony.
For Pharaoh, and all those whom Pharaoh is leading they are now paying the tragic price of a failure to recognize and respond to who God is.
This is the cost of leadership and of following ungodly leadership.
This is why leadership is so important.
James 3:
1 Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness.
We who lead and teach take on a great responsibility.
Who are you following right now?
31 Then he summoned Moses and Aaron by night and said, “Up, go out from among my people, both you and the people of Israel; and go, serve the Lord, as you have said. 32 Take your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone, and bless me also!”
Pharaoh is a broken man
He has been humbled, and this is not a place any of us want to be.
Prov 3:
6 But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”
This is not about an oppressing, vindictive , self consumed God demanding worship, that’s a human condition.
this is a Father longing for his son to return.
Luke 15:
20 And he arose and came to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion, and ran and embraced him and kissed him. 21 And the son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’ 22 But the father said to his servants, ‘Bring quickly the best robe, and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet. 23 And bring the fattened calf and kill it, and let us eat and celebrate. 24 For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found.’ And they began to celebrate.
Bless me also — pray for me
I think Pharaoh is deeply broken at this point.
But…it is more likely Worldly Sorrow than Godly Remorse.
GODLY SORROW VS. WORLDY SORROW
10 For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death.
JUDGMENT & SALVATION
JUDGMENT & SALVATION
At the same time Egypt is experiencing judgment (condemnation)
The Israelites are experiencing salvation, deliverance
The very thing that would be the judgment on Pharaoh would be deliverance for the Egyptians.
But notice again…the lamb. why the lamb?
Because God is Just.
Sin always leads to death.
23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
There had to be a death in every household that night.
Because God is just. He shows no partiality.
The blood of the lamb was the only thing that could spare the household.
The difference: Israel had been given the message, Egypt had not been given the means for salvation.
Same with the church today.
We’ve been given the message of the blood of the lamb and actually explicit been told to tell the whole world.
Do you honestly think that if Pharaoh had recieved this information he would have done anything about it?
Were the Israelites free to tell the Egyptians? I think so.
As the Church, we have been given the message, but in fact in every place where Bibles are common place they message is available.
It’s also why organizations like Jesus Film, Pioneers and Wycliffe work so hard to send missionaries, reach the unreached and translate bibles into every language.
So they too can be given the message.
There is another place where God’s Judgment and Deliverance converge: THE CROSS
THE GREAT EXCHANGE
On the Cross Jesus died as the firstborn of Egypt in our place as our passover lamb, so that those who believe, those who have faith, would be spared.
Death comes.
Death to jesus, life to us.
Judgment to Jesus, mercy to us
Condemnation to Jesus, salvation for us
Sin into jesus, Forgiveness into us.
The Exodus
The Exodus
33 The Egyptians were urgent with the people to send them out of the land in haste. For they said, “We shall all be dead.” 34 So the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading bowls being bound up in their cloaks on their shoulders. 35 The people of Israel had also done as Moses told them, for they had asked the Egyptians for silver and gold jewelry and for clothing. 36 And the Lord had given the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. Thus they plundered the Egyptians.
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Self-Preservation - The Default Mode
Self-Preservation - The Default Mode
https://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/corona-carts-grocery-store
The Egyptians are fearing only for their own lives — this is their motivation.
This is what happens when the **** hits the fan.
We go into self-preservation mode
is this happening now with Coronavirus?
How easily we turn inwards to care only about ourselves.
This is why something like covid 19 can be such an opportunity for the church
Only we, who have a sure confidence in teha ge to come, can be truly self sacrificing and willing to give up our very lives for teh sake of ohers.
Why?
21 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
Matt 19:
28 Jesus said to them, “Truly, I say to you, in the new world, when the Son of Man will sit on his glorious throne, you who have followed me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. 29 And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or lands, for my name’s sake, will receive a hundredfold and will inherit eternal life. 30 But many who are first will be last, and the last first.
So consumed for their own lives they were literally willing to give up anything, even their treasures.
Just ast eh Lord had said.
They plundered the Egyptians.
Why? B/C God provides for his people.
The Israelites
The Israelites
37 And the people of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides women and children. 38 A mixed multitude also went up with them, and very much livestock, both flocks and herds.
Indeed they had to leave in a hurry
Exod 12:37-
God had prepared them, had they listened.
Parable of Ten Virgins ()
Definitely given the idea of surprise, they literally had to get up and go and do it quickly.
Hast, rush, rapid
Have we been ready and prepared for something because we listened to the Lord?
God’s Promise Fulfilled
God’s Promise Fulfilled
40 The time that the people of Israel lived in Egypt was 430 years. 41 At the end of 430 years, on that very day, all the hosts of the Lord went out from the land of Egypt. 42 It was a night of watching by the Lord, to bring them out of the land of Egypt; so this same night is a night of watching kept to the Lord by all the people of Israel throughout their generations.
God is fulfilling the promise to Abraham to this generation, just as he fulfilled the promise he made to Abraham in
What’s neat about this is this is Moses writing the same story to the Israelites in his day.
B/C God is a God of the Past, Present and Future
And he is writing the story and we can be assured of the goodness of his plan and story.
Which story do you want to be apart of?
The one God has been writing since eternity past to eternity future
Or your own story that is infinitesimal blip on the eternal timeline?
This has implications for how we live every day.
Especially during a time like this.
We show whose story we are trusting in by how we react and respond to tragedy.
to hardship
to challenges
How’s your stress level?
Who can you reach out to and check in on? (digitally or in person)
What will you do with the time you have been allotted?
Parallel to Abraham in
Parallel to Abraham in
This is fulfilling what was promised 430 years ago.
13 Then the Lord said to Abram, “Know for certain that your offspring will be sojourners in a land that is not theirs and will be servants there, and they will be afflicted for four hundred years. 14 But I will bring judgment on the nation that they serve, and afterward they shall come out with great possessions. 15 As for you, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age. 16 And they shall come back here in the fourth generation, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.”
Gen 15:
1 After these things the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision: “Fear not, Abram, I am your shield; your reward shall be very great.” 2 But Abram said, “O Lord God, what will you give me, for I continue childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?” 3 And Abram said, “Behold, you have given me no offspring, and a member of my household will be my heir.” 4 And behold, the word of the Lord came to him: “This man shall not be your heir; your very own son shall be your heir.” 5 And he brought him outside and said, “Look toward heaven, and number the stars, if you are able to number them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your offspring be.” 6 And he believed the Lord, and he counted it to him as righteousness. 7 And he said to him, “I am the Lord who brought you out from Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess.” 8 But he said, “O Lord God, how am I to know that I shall possess it?” 9 He said to him, “Bring me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.” 10 And he brought him all these, cut them in half, and laid each half over against the other. But he did not cut the birds in half. 11 And when birds of prey came down on the carcasses, Abram drove them away. 12 As the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram. And behold, dreadful and great darkness fell upon him. 13 Then the Lord said to Abram, “Know for certain that your offspring will be sojourners in a land that is not theirs and will be servants there, and they will be afflicted for four hundred years. 14 But I will bring judgment on the nation that they serve, and afterward they shall come out with great possessions. 15 As for you, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age. 16 And they shall come back here in the fourth generation, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.” 17 When the sun had gone down and it was dark, behold, a smoking fire pot and a flaming torch passed between these pieces. 18 On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your offspring I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates, 19 the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites, 20 the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, 21 the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites and the Jebusites.”
Gen 15:13
God’s promise is ratified with a promise
Gen 15:17
17 When the sun had gone down and it was dark, behold, a smoking fire pot and a flaming torch passed between these pieces. 18 On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your offspring I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates, 19 the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites,
Previously God had made a very similar promise to Abraham
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1 After these things the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision: “Fear not, Abram, I am your shield; your reward shall be very great.” 2 But Abram said, “O Lord God, what will you give me, for I continue childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?” 3 And Abram said, “Behold, you have given me no offspring, and a member of my household will be my heir.” 4 And behold, the word of the Lord came to him: “This man shall not be your heir; your very own son shall be your heir.” 5 And he brought him outside and said, “Look toward heaven, and number the stars, if you are able to number them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your offspring be.” 6 And he believed the Lord, and he counted it to him as righteousness.
Abraham Had doubted but God doubles down on his promise
Then he backs it up with a similar promise.
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7 And he said to him, “I am the Lord who brought you out from Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess.”
Abraham asks for assurance
Gen 15:8
8 But he said, “O Lord God, how am I to know that I shall possess it?” 9 He said to him, “Bring me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.” 10 And he brought him all these, cut them in half, and laid each half over against the other. But he did not cut the birds in half. 11 And when birds of prey came down on the carcasses, Abram drove them away.
Words
Words
“urgent”
“urgent”
33 The Egyptians were urgent with the people to send them out of the land in haste. For they said, “We shall all be dead.”
The New American Commentary: Exodus 5. The Exodus Is Permitted under God’s Vigil (12:31–36)
A somewhat more literal translation of v. 33 would read: “The Egyptians pressured the people in order to get them to leave the land quickly because they said, ‘We are all dead!’ ”
Mixed Multitude
Mixed Multitude
38 A mixed multitude also went up with them, and very much livestock, both flocks and herds.
The New American Commentary: Exodus Excursus: How Many Israelites Left Egypt?
The verse would best be translated as follows: “A huge ethnically diverse group also went up with them, and very many cattle, both flocks and herds.”
The New American Commentary: Exodus Excursus: How Many Israelites Left Egypt?
. In Num 11:4 Moses also referred to the significant numbers of non-Israelites among the Israelites, after leaving Sinai and in the wilderness travels, by a term most modern English translators render as “the rabble” or the like.
A Handbook on Exodus (3) The Departure of the Israelites (12:37–39)
A mixed multitude is literally “a large mixture,” but the exact meaning of “mixture” is uncertain. The word is used in Neh 13:3 (12:38 RSV “those of foreign descent”), and in Jer 25:20 (“foreign folk”) and 25:24 (“mixed tribes”). NAB has “a crowd of mixed ancestry,” and Durham “a large and motley group.” At least the word also indicates that the “other people” (12:38 TEV) were not considered Israelites. This first sentence may then be expressed as “A large number of people who were not Israelites also went with them.”
The Number
The Number
The New American Commentary: Exodus Excursus: How Many Israelites Left Egypt?
We have no evidence from ancient times that allows us to calculate precisely the number of nonfighting Israelites, so the exact number of the whole nation will presumably never be known. It was a few tens of thousands but almost surely not several million.
on 600,000 (; ; )
The ESV Study Bible The Large Numbers in the Pentateuch
3. The numbers were changed due to scribal misunderstanding. This view suggests that the numbers were originally much smaller, but that larger numbers were substituted later due to scribal misunderstanding of the Hebrew word ’elep, which can be translated either as “thousand” or “group” or “clan.” Thus it has been proposed that a number that now appears in Hebrew as 46,500 (1:21) originally meant 46 groups totaling 500 persons. Following this hypothesis, there would have been a total of 598 families, with a total of 5,550 male warriors, yielding a total population of about 20,000. This hypothesis, however, presents other difficulties, as do other similar proposals based on the meaning of the Hebrew word ’elep, one of which yields an estimated population of 140,000 and another that proposes a total population of 72,000. Those who support this general line of argument agree that it still needs refinement. They also agree that there is no one-size-fits-all solution for every OT case of what may seem to be very large numbers.