UPHELD (EXODUS 17:8-16)

THE EXODUS IS NOT AN END UNTO ITSELF...

Exodus 17:8 ESV

8 Then Amalek came and fought with Israel at Rephidim.

INSULT TO INJURY

AMELEK = GRANDSON OF ESAU (GEN 36:12) MOTHER WAS A HORITE CONCUBINE. DESCENDANTS BECAME A NOMADIC TRIBE KNOWN FOR DOMESTICATING THE CAMEL AND USING IT IN SWIFT SURPISE ATTACKS.

DEUT 25 TELLS US MORE...

Deuteronomy 25:17–18 ESV

17 “Remember what Amalek did to you on the way as you came out of Egypt, 18 how he attacked you on the way when you were faint and weary, and cut off your tail, those who were lagging behind you, and he did not fear God.

THIS IS MORE THAN A POLITICAL/MILITARY HISTORY. THIS IS THEOLOGICAL HISTORY.

THINK GEN 11/DEUT 32 WORLDVIEW! AMALEK/AMALIKITES ARE PART OF THE DISINHERITED NATIONS.

THIS IS WHY ISRAEL WAS FORMED...

Genesis 15:12–16 ESV

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.”

AMORITES = BABYLON = ANTI-EDEN

Exodus 17:9–14 ESV

9 So Moses said to Joshua, “Choose for us men, and go out and fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the staff of God in my hand.” 10 So Joshua did as Moses told him, and fought with Amalek, while Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill. 11 Whenever Moses held up his hand, Israel prevailed, and whenever he lowered his hand, Amalek prevailed. 12 But Moses’ hands grew weary, so they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat on it, while Aaron and Hur held up his hands, one on one side, and the other on the other side. So his hands were steady until the going down of the sun. 13 And Joshua overwhelmed Amalek and his people with the sword. 14 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write this as a memorial in a book and recite it in the ears of Joshua, that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven.”

STAFF = TREE = EDEN

HUR = ELDER AND JUDGE OF ISRAEL = JOSEPHUS CLAIMS HE WAS MIRIAM’S HUSBAND

STEADY = FAITHFUL/TRUSTWORTHY/TRUE = MORAL TERM ONLY USED OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY HERE

Exodus 17:14–16 ESV

14 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write this as a memorial in a book and recite it in the ears of Joshua, that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven.” 15 And Moses built an altar and called the name of it, The Lord Is My Banner, 16 saying, “A hand upon the throne of the Lord! The Lord will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.”

A BOOK = THE BOOK

A HAND = MY HAND???

CHRIST IS THE ULTIMATE BANNER! = ISA 11:12 SON OF MAN LIFTED UP ON THE HILL...

Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord our God. (PS 20:7)

Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the Lord of hosts. (Zechariah 4:6)

THE BATTLE IS THE LORD'S. (DAVID IN 1 SAM 14)

TRUST IN CHRIST AND LEAN ON EACH OTHER

2 Corinthians 10:3–5 ESV

3 For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh. 4 For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds. 5 We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ,

1 John 4:1–4 ESV

1 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2 By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, 3 and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and now is in the world already. 4 Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.