Transcript Joseph (just finishing up)

The Exodus
Chapter 7
Pharaohs command
• Israelites are living in Goshen in Egypt
• Pharaoh wants to deal harshly with the
Israelites cuz there are too many of
them
• They were first enslaved by Pharaoh
• Exodus 1:22 - He will kill all the male
children but the let the girls live
• Why not the Girls?
• Because they would grow up and marry the
Egyptians, thus surrendering all the good land
into Egyptian hands
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Moses’ Birth
• Moses was hidden by his
mother and set in the
river to be found by
Pharaoh’s daughter
• She named him Moses
• Moses means “Brought
up out of the water”
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Moses Grows up
• Moses grows up in
privilege
• His own mother is
his nurse and taught
him the faith of his
ancestors
• He knows that he is
a Hebrew boy
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Moses’ Crime
• Moses kills an Egyptian
for beating a Hebrew
slave
• P.S. Not an accident!
• Moses runs away to the
land of Midian
• Midianites are
descendants of Abraham
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Moses meets Zipporah
• He meets her at a well
• He defended Zipporah and her
sisters from some shepherds
and watered their flock
• Zipporoah’s father Jethro
invited him to live with them
• He married Zipporah and gave
birth to Gershom
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The Burning Bush
• God reveals himself as the
God of Abraham, Isaac and
Jacob
• This narrows Him down to the
God of those enslaved in Egypt
• Ex 3:14 God calls himself “I
AM”
• Often in the NT Christ calls
himself “I AM” and many
become angry because they
believe him to be blaspheming.
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Message to Pharaoh
• Exodus 5:1 “Thus says the Lord, Let
my people go, that they may
celebrate a feast to me in the
desert”
• They needed to go for 3 days to
offer sacrifice
• Important cultural note:
• Egypt worshipped god’s that were
depicted as animals
• Israel had also fallen into idol worship
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Message to Pharaoh
• Why would they need to
go 3 days?
• Because the sacrifices
they were going to do
would have been offensive
to the Egyptians
• Israel was to be a
royal/priestly nation, the
‘first-born’ son, and
example to other nations
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Pharaoh will not listen
• Exodus 4:21 - “I will make him
obstinate”/ “I will harden his heart”
• This means that God will let pharaoh have
his way.
• Pharaoh refuses and makes their work
harder
10 Plagues
The Plagues and what they mean
[See Handout]
Exodus 7:14-24 - 1st Plague
• Water to Blood
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• Hapi - the god of the
Nile
• Symbolic death of
Hapi
Ex 7:25-8:11- 2nd Plague
• Plague of Frogs
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• Heket - the goddess
of fertility
• “they will swarm all
over…”
• This is a mockery of
their goddess of
fertility
Ex 8:12-15 - 3rd Plague
• Plague of gnats or
lice
• This is strike at their
vanity
Ex 8:16-28 - 4th Plague
• Plague of flies/bugs
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• Khepra god of
resurrection
• Goshen did not
suffer the plague
(the Israelites lived
there)
Ex 9:1-7 - 5th Plague
• Plague on the cattle
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• They had many god’s
that were
represented by
livestock (cows,
goats, etc)
Ex 9:8-12 - 6th Plague
• Boils
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• In Egypt, ashes were
like holy water.
They blessed
themselves with it,
but now, this ritural
would cause pain
and give them boils.
Ex 9:13-35 - 7th Plague
• Plague of hail
• The gods Nut, Shu,
Tefnut are being
mocked here
• They are the gods
who made the
weather good for
agriculture
Ex 10:1-20 - 8th Plague
• Plague of locusts
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• Crop god that
protected their
crops
• This god is obviously
being mocked
Ex 10:21-28 - 9th Plague
• Plague of Darkness
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• Amon-Re is the head god, the
chief god
• The god of the Sun
• When the sun went down it
meant that he had gone to the
realm of the dead and in rising
again he ‘conquered’ death.
• This plague shows he had been
conquered
Ex 11:1ff - 10th plague
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• Death of the firstborn sons of
children and cattle
• Pharaoh was warned
this would happen
in Ex 4:23
• He didn’t listen!
10th plague is unique
• The first plague to require Israel to do
anything
• 1st born sons are ransomed by the
blood of the lamb
• The 1st born son’s of each Israelite
family are to be the priests of this
“priestly nation”
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Understanding Passover
Exodus 12
Passover Instructions
12:5- Unblemished male lamb
12:7 - Apply the blood over door post
12:8 - Eat lamb and unleavened bread
12:9 - lamb must be roasted (not raw or
boiled)
• 12:10 -None may be left in the morning
• 12:11 - Eat meal in traveling clothes
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Passover Instructions
• One of the most important instructions
• 12:14 - all generations to come will
celebrate
• A perpetual institution
• 12:17 • 12:24 - you must observe this when you
arrive in the land God shows you
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Passover Lamb as a “Type” of Christ
• Christ was an unblemished male whom
we now call the Lamb of God
• Jn 20:32-36 none of Christ’s bones
were broken on the Cross
• Blood of both lambs saves from death
• The sacrifice of the Lamb brings the
people out of slavery
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What this means for us!
• We also will
participate in it
forever
• This Passover is to be
celebrated still
• How do we do this?
• In the Eucharist
• “This is the Lamb of
God who takes away
the sins of the world,
happy are those who
come…”
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Passover as a “Type” of the
Eucharist
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Escape from Egypt
• Ex 12:31-36 Pharaoh sends them
away
• “Leave my people at
once…Go and
worship the Lord as
you said. Take your
flocks and your
herds too…”
• They are being
guided by a pillar of
fire at night/cloud
by day
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Pharaoh pursues them
• Pharaoh changed his
mind about them
leaving and
gathered an army to
go chase them
down.
• Israelites have set
up camp near the
Red sea
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Israel Panics
• Ex 14:11
• “Where there no
burial places in
Egypt….Leave us
alone. Let us serve
the Egyptians.”
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• God tells him to lift
his staff and the sea
will split
• The Israelites pass
through the Water
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Egypt Defeated
• The greatest empire is defeated by the
Israelites with the help of God
• It was God’s victory!
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A Type of Baptism
• Crossing the Red
Sea was a type of
Baptism
• Why? Because
through the water
of the Red Sea God
saved the people
from death.
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Almost a Nation
• Exodus means “going out”
• Though they are free they are not
quite a nation yet.
• No land
• No government except what God tells
them through Moses
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