Heavenly Drama pt. 2
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Transcript
Focus: All of Biblical history is unto this ultimate ending and He is inviting us to join in.
Function: To fill the hearts of the listeners with hope, joy, and excitement for the Kingdom of God.
1 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth passed away, and there is no longer any sea.
2 And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband.
3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne, saying, “Behold, the tabernacle of God is among men, and He will dwell among them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself will be among them,
4 and He will wipe away every tear from their eyes; and there will no longer be any death; there will no longer be any mourning, or crying, or pain; the first things have passed away.”
5 And He who sits on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” And He said, “Write, for these words are faithful and true.”
6 Then He said to me, “It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give to the one who thirsts from the spring of the water of life without cost.
7 “He who overcomes will inherit these things, and I will be his God and he will be My son.
Recap
Recap
Last week, we looked up to season 4 of this Heavenly Drama.
Creation
The beginning of all things
The fall of man
The promise given
Noah
Sin running wild
God judges with water
Saves Noah and his family
Rainbow
Abraham
Promise to Eve is still not forgotten
Chooses Abraham
Promise for a nation that will bless all the nations
Isaac is born
Abraham and his family arrives in Canaan
Jacob and Joseph
Tragedy for Joseph
God uses the tragedy to save Jacob and his 12 sons
God promised a Seed and He is working through history to fulfill that promise.
A promise that God made to destroy sin and death.
Moses Season
Moses Season
Previously, we saw Jacob and his children relocate from the land of Canaan to Egypt because of the famine.
Sometime after Joseph, a new Pharaoh comes to power and does not know about the work of Joseph. How Joseph saved Egypt and the Hebrews are allowed to dwell in Egypt as a sign of gratitude.
New Pharaoh begins to enslave the Hebrews.
A Massacre of every Hebrew male child that is born because their number was growing rapidly
Moses was born into the tribe of Levi. The tribe of Priests.
For three months he was hidden
Can you picture the midwives, and the parents of Moses rushing in the dead of night to hide the babies cries? Staring towards the door and windows as someone outside walked by. Hoping it’s not an Egyptian soldier.
Moses is put into basket and let down the Nile River.
Princess of Egypt finds the child and takes him in as her own.
Moses is growing in his stature and is well learned under the royal family of Egypt.
One day, Moses murders an Egyptian guard to protect a fellow Hebrew slave.
Next day, a Hebrew man asks if he was going to kill him as well.
Moses fleas Egypt into the land of Midian.
As the bondage in Egypt became worse, the Hebrews groaned in agony and Exodus 2:24
24 So God heard their groaning; and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
God remembered. He did not forget. He did not break His promise. He remembered the Seed that was promised to Eve and in the manner that the Seed will come forth, which is through the offspring of Abraham.
Moses and the burning bush
Imagine the vivid picture
A large stump of desert bush blazing with fire but not burning
Moses sent to Egypt and the ten plagues
blood, frogs, lice, flies, livestock pestilence, boils, hails, locust, darkness, first born death.
Crossing of Red Sea
Put yourself in the drama
Walls of massive water to your left and right.
Egyptian army behind you
The scared but yet overwhelmed by the mighty work of God.
You cross the sea and the walls of water collapse on the Egyptians.