Exodus II Notes Week 2-4
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Notes:
Notes:
Remember — Redemption/Salvation — The Red Sea this is where it all began.
I am the Lord who brought you out of Egypt.
4 Provisions:
Bitter Water made sweet
Bread from Heaven
Meat from Heaven
Water from the Rock
Grumbling:
Grumbling:
Grumbling mentioned a lot
Also that the Lord heard their grumbling.
Movements:
Movements:
Egypt to Red Sea
Egypt to Red Sea
2 “This month is to be the beginning of months for you; it is the first month of your year.
Rameses to Succoth (Exod 12:37)
Not the way of the land of Philistines but the way of the wilderness let they turn back out of fear of war (Exod 13:17-18)
Succoth to Etham (Exod 14:20)
Etham to PiHahiroth, Migdol and the Sea, Baalzephon
Year One
Year One
Red Sea to Wilderness of Shur (Exod 15:22) — 3 days
Wilderness of Shur to Oasis of Elim (Exod 15:27)
Elim to Wilderness of Sin (Exod 16:1) (arrived on 15th day of second month after leaving Egypt ~45 days)
Wilderness of Sin to Rephidim (Exod 17:1) (by stages according the the word of the Lord) (see Num 33:8-15)
He takes some Elders to Mt Horeb (Sinai) - Exod 17:7
Rephidim to Sinai Wilderness (Exod 19:2) - In the Third Month (days 60-90)
They are at Mt Sinai for about 11 months. (235-355 days)
Year Two
Year Two
The Second Passover (Num 9:1)— 1st Month of 2nd Year
Lord commands Census (Num 1:1) — 1st day of 2nd Month of 2nd Year (Day 395)
Movements Described by Cloud and Fire (Num 9:15-23)
Sinai to Paran (Kadesh) (Num 10:11-13, Deut 1:6,19) — 20th day of 2nd Month of 2nd Year - Day 415 since Egypt.
6 “The Lord our God spoke to us at Horeb: ‘You have stayed at this mountain long enough. 7 Resume your journey and go to the hill country of the Amorites and their neighbors in the Arabah, the hill country, the Judean foothills, the Negev and the sea coast—to the land of the Canaanites and to Lebanon as far as the great river, the Euphrates River. 8 See, I have set the land before you. Enter and take possession of the land the Lord swore to give to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and their future descendants.’
According to Numbers
According to Numbers
8 They traveled from Pi-hahiroth and crossed through the middle of the sea into the wilderness. They took a three-day journey into the Wilderness of Etham and camped at Marah.
9 They traveled from Marah and came to Elim. There were twelve springs and seventy date palms at Elim, so they camped there.
10 They traveled from Elim and camped by the Red Sea.
11 They traveled from the Red Sea and camped in the Wilderness of Sin.
12 They traveled from the Wilderness of Sin and camped in Dophkah.
13 They traveled from Dophkah and camped at Alush.
14 They traveled from Alush and camped at Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.
15 They traveled from Rephidim and camped in the Wilderness of Sinai.
The Torah
The Torah
Genesis — From Creation to beginnings of the Nation (72 in Egypt)
Exodus — The Formation of a Nation under Moses
Leviticus — Detailed instructions regarding the Laws
Numbers — Details journey in the wilderness for 40 years due to unbelief
Deuteronomy — Written to 2nd Generation before entering Promised Land
Names
Mara — means bitter
The ESV Study Bible Chapter 17
(Massah means testing and Meribah means quarreling
NT
NT
1 Now I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, that our ancestors were all under the cloud, all passed through the sea, 2 and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea. 3 They all ate the same spiritual food, 4 and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual rock that followed them, and that rock was Christ. 5 Nevertheless God was not pleased with most of them, since they were struck down in the wilderness.
Key Verses
Key Verses
27 Then they came to Elim, where there were twelve springs and seventy date palms, and they camped there by the water.
A microcosm of their jounrey
He makes that which was not drinkable, enjoyable and nourishing
a picture of spiritual rebirth?
That which was not fit for consumption — to sweet
What the Lord does in rebirth — takes that which was not consummable (obediance to God) and makes it sweet.
6 So Moses and Aaron said to all the Israelites, “This evening you will know that it was the Lord who brought you out of the land of Egypt,
This evening you will KNOW that it was the Lord who brought you out.
8 Moses continued, “The Lord will give you meat to eat this evening and all the bread you want in the morning, for he has heard the complaints that you are raising against him. Who are we? Your complaints are not against us but against the Lord.”
We really are grumbling against the Lord, not his servants (leaders)
10 As Aaron was speaking to the entire Israelite community, they turned toward the wilderness, and there in a cloud the Lord’s glory appeared.
Presence: The Lord appears in a cloud — the glory of the Lord
15 When the Israelites saw it, they asked one another, “What is it?” because they didn’t know what it was. Moses told them, “It is the bread the Lord has given you to eat.
They did not recognize the bread from heaven
6 I am going to stand there in front of you on the rock at Horeb; when you hit the rock, water will come out of it and the people will drink.” Moses did this in the sight of the elders of Israel.
Moses takes SOME of the ELDERS
Moses is back at Horeb — where he saw the burning bush
1 Meanwhile, Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.
12 He answered, “I will certainly be with you, and this will be the sign to you that I am the one who sent you: when you bring the people out of Egypt, you will all worship God at this mountain.”
God has fulfilled his promise they are right back where God said they would be. Don’t miss the significance of this
7 He named the place Massah and Meribah because the Israelites complained, and because they tested the Lord, saying, “Is the Lord among us or not?”
This is the crucial question, theirs (and ours) persistent doubt.
Thoughts
Thoughts
Providing for Basic Needs
Clearly God is providing for their most basic needs:
Drinkable Water
Food (Meat then Bread) — (Incarnation & Bread from Heaven)
Water from the Rock — (Christ and springs of living water)
Makes me think of Matt 6:33, that God will provide all of our basic needs, our call is to seek his Kingdom and Righteousness — obedience
similar to God’s command to see if they would follow his instructions for life.
Persistent Doubt and Grumbling
The people grumble and then fail to follow instructions
The Text emphasizes that GOD heard their Grumbling
and that their Grumbling was ultimately against God.
Hardness of Heart
Psalm 95:6-7, Hebrews 3:7-4:14
It is good of God to keep us from material possession (of the land) in order to give us spiritual possession (in heaven)
The last verse sums it up: “Is God with us?”
God Provides in miraculous ways:
6 Days of Manna, 7th without
Bread from Heaven, Meat from Heaven, Water from the Rock
All points to Jesus (1 Cor 10)
Water from the Rock
Why the staff? — extension of God’s power
Rod of discipline?
God provides for our Spiritual Needs (to know he is present)
God’s presence
This was the burning question for them, are we going to die? Is God amongst us or not?
He was and he manifested himself through miraculous works (like Jesus)
and in physical appearance (his glory in a cloud)
God was with his people.
Jesus is the most concrete expression of God’s presence with his people.
God was present with his people in Jesus
Jesus also performed miracles like no one else in History do reveal his divinity as God
Jesus too gave bread from heaven (for he was the bread form heaven)
Jesus too gave water from the rock (spiritual living water, that springs up for eternity — that is eternal life — and he was struck)
John 7:37-39 On the last and most important day of the festival, Jesus stood up and cried out, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink. 38 The one who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, will have streams of living water flow from deep within him.” 39 He said this about the Spirit. Those who believed in Jesus were going to receive the Spirit, for the Spirit had not yet been given because Jesus had not yet been glorified.
You will know I am the Lord
You will know I am the Lord
6 So Moses and Aaron said to all the Israelites, “This evening you will know that it was the Lord who brought you out of the land of Egypt,
12 “I have heard the complaints of the Israelites. Tell them: At twilight you will eat meat, and in the morning you will eat bread until you are full. Then you will know that I am the Lord your God.”
Intro
Intro
“Is the Lord among us or not?”
you have been saved, miraculously, but we still wonder, where is God.
He is with us.
In more spiritually significant ways
Manna
Manna
The Lord answers their complaints
He says you will see my Glory in the Morning (Exo 16:7)
You will eat meat tonight and bread in the morning
He shows u p in a clout that night (Exo 16:10)
He says he is going to do this in order to test them
To see whether or not they will follow my instructions (Exo 16:4)
They Don’t:
Exo 16:20, 27
Why?
Maybe becuase he had just established a Statute/Ordinance/Command to obey in Exo 15:25-26
He promises if you:
carefully obey the Lord, your God
Do what is rigth in his sight (presence?)
pay attention to his commands
Then I will not inflict the diseases I did on Egypt…for I the lord am your healer
THEN he leads them to the Oasis of Elim
a mini promised land
Why would they ever leave there?
Because God had them on a journey
to both learn about themselves (their unbelief and need for God)
and about God’s goodness
Overall:
The Israelites have crossed the read sea, they have been freed, redeemed
Now they turn to face the wilderness
the unknown — they have never known this kind of freedom
They are going to have to learn how to follow God
How to trust God
What immediately happens?
complaining — “when are we going to get there” “I’m hungry”, “I have to go to the bathroom”
But the Lord gives: water
and in order to learn how to follow him, he must test them
we learn best when we do wrong
National MHC Exam — learn by failing
They must learn to trust God
to follow him, to obey him, to hear his voice
Water — Food
God provides the most basic needs
Even in that it is an opportunity to trust him.
6 days gather per day
7th day — rest, take a break — gather 2x as much on day 6
They fail.
Water from the Rock
Again they move on — no water again.
This time — infront of the elders — the leaders
Strike the Rock and water flows (Strike God? — Jesus)
They were saying “Is the Lord among us?”
Big Picture
Big Picture
God has a plan. He is leading people to a place to a destination.
From Slavery — to Freedom — to The Promised Land
They were not ready to enter the promise land — their faith in God was not yet firmly established.
They doubted God’s power — unbelief.
7 The Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring, I will give this land.” So he built an altar there to the Lord who had appeared to him.
Abraham to Egypt — leaves wealthy and returns to Canaan
6 Abram believed the Lord, and he credited it to him as righteousness.
7 He also said to him, “I am the Lord who brought you from Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess.”
13 Then the Lord said to Abram, “Know this for certain: Your offspring will be resident aliens for four hundred years in a land that does not belong to them and will be enslaved and oppressed. 14 However, I will judge the nation they serve, and afterward they will go out with many possessions. 15 But you will go to your ancestors in peace and be buried at a good old age. 16 In the fourth generation they will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites has not yet reached its full measure.”
17 When the sun had set and it was dark, a smoking fire pot and a flaming torch appeared and passed between the divided animals. 18 On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, “I give this land to your offspring, from the Brook of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates River: 19 the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, 20 Hethites, Perizzites, Rephaim, 21 Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, and Jebusites.”
God had promised Abraham to bring his offspring back and give them the land.
This is the fulfillment of that promise.
God is leading the people home.
This is why they can’t stop at Elim
Exodus com
one thing to sing a song quite another to live,
Daily life in faith
Relationship between Sunday Service And Christian living
It has been 3 days since their song so this is Basically by Wed how is your Faith
The food they craved was not the food they needed, they want candy instead of vegetablesLonging for Egypt: we often long for the sin we once enjoyed.
This was a genuine miracle—or actually, two miracles.
The first was the miracle of the quail (Coturnix coturnix), a small game bird that is common in the Middle East.
Quail are migratory. Each year they pass over Sinai in the spring and fall, flying low, carried along by the wind. When they stop, they roost on the ground.
The Egyptians (who, according to Herodotus, considered quail a delicacy) trapped the birds with nets. However, when quail are exhausted from their travels, they can also be captured by hand.
On testing
Why do we break goods law?
Because we don't trust his ProvisionIt is that simple
We sin became we don't trust him
Talk with John
This is about The formation of a Faith community
Call to Obedience
Call to Obedience
Exodus 6. Grumbling Begins: Water at Marah and Elim and God’s Promise of Healing (15:22–27)
What v. 26 called for was loyalty and obedience: loyalty in the sense of a willingness to pay close attention to what God’s will was and to want above all else to please him by doing what he thinks is right (“listen carefully to the voice of the LORD your God and do what is right in his eyes”—also a hendiadys, a way of ensuring clarity by making the same point twice with different wordings) and obedience by not failing to “pay attention to all his commands and keep all his decrees” (another hendiadys—one concept stated with two different wordings). God’s expectation was sweeping. His people must give him full, not partial, loyalty and obedience. If he wanted it, they were to do it.
Testing the Lord
Testing the Lord
Exodus 9. More Grumbling and Water at Massah-Meribah (17:1–7)
What they were doing was refusing to wait for God to take care of them. Instead, soon after finding no drinkable water and having learned that their prior protests got results, they were launching a protest parallel to those of the past, thus testing God.
Exodus 9. More Grumbling and Water at Massah-Meribah (17:1–7)
“Testing God” is demanding or expecting him to do something special for you, something you haven’t earned and don’t per se deserve.
Exodus 9. More Grumbling and Water at Massah-Meribah (17:1–7)
What is impermissible is any of testing of God (how could his faith be in doubt and need testing?) since it amounts not to a genuine attempt to assess loyalty but an attempt to get something out of him earlier or in greater quantity, or the like, than would otherwise happen. Testing God always involves some degree of doubt about whether or not one’s present circumstances are all that one deserves and whether or not God could or should have done a better job of providing one’s needs
Taking Elders
Taking Elders
Exodus 9. More Grumbling and Water at Massah-Meribah (17:1–7)
“Some of the elders” (leaders) of the people as well as the staff of God were required: the elders, to be witnesses of God’s provision so as to quell the disturbance of the people, and the staff, to symbolize God’s presence (which had been doubted by the people as v. 7 indicates) so that the miracle would properly be attributed to him rather than to Moses or anyone or anything else