From Genesis to Exodus

Abraham’s Federal Headship and Prefiguring the of Israel.

Lets read Exodus 1:1-7.

Who is being named here?

What cataclysm urged their descent into Egypt?

Abraham the man

Goes down to Egypt in escape of a famine. Gen 12:10

The Pharaoh experiences great plagues. Gen 12:17

“Went up from Egypt” upon the completion of these plagues with riches taken from Egypt. Gen 13:1-2. In this way Abraham prefigures the people as a whole.

Interceding for the salvation of Gentiles. Gen 18:27-33

Willing to offer up his son, his only son. Gen 22:1-14

In this way Abraham prefigures both the Father and the Son as They work redemption for Their people.

The Abrahamic Covenant

AC passages

Gen 12:1-3

Echos of the Covenant of Redemption. Prefigures the Christ.

Echos of Creation commands given to Adam. “Be fruitful and multiply and take dominion.”

Gen 15:5, 12-21

Ratification of the covenant. Gen 15:18, Gal 3:15

No covenant terms issued to Abram.

God takes all the covenant curses on himself.

His offspring would undergo this sojourning for 400 year and bring them out with great possessions.

Gen 17:1-14

Circumcision. The single binding condition for himself and his descendants. Gen 17:14,

This mark will function as an identification with their place in the covenant.

Not limited to his physical offspring. v. 12-13

Gen 18:27-33

This was a preaching of the Gospel to Abraham by God. Gal 3:8

Abraham invited into intercession for Gentiles on the basis of his covenant with God. “all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?”

Gen 22:15-19

A picture of a father sacrificing “his son, his only son”.

“YHWH will provide”

AC further expansions to Isaac

Gen 26:1-5

There is a keeping of “charges, commandments, statutes and laws” by Abraham.

The keeping of these laws is not covenantally binding.

AC further bestowed on Jacob

Gen 27:26-29

Gen 28:10-17

Abraham is a physical man given promises that would be fulfilled physically to a physical people and then spiritually to a spiritual people.

As it relates to the physical seed. He would be the sent by God to be the father of a great nation that would find themselves in slavery upon their birth. In slavery due to another generation. But this people God will redeem from slavery because of my covenant God has made with them. God will provide the necessary substitution that will afford them this redemption. This physical people will be marked by a physical sign, “circumcision of the flesh”. They will be fruitful a multiple in the land God gives to them.