Review:

• Moses received The Ten Commandments

 
Exodus 21 – Laws about injuries
Exodus 22 – Social Matters
Exodus 23 – 3 Annual Festivals
Exodus 24 – Covenant Confirmed
7 He then took the covenant scroll and read it aloud to the people. They responded, “We will do and obey all that the Lord has commanded.”
8 Moses took the blood, splattered it on the people, and said, “This is the blood of the covenant that the Lord has made with you concerning all these words.”[1]
 
16 The glory of the Lord settled on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it for six days. On the seventh day he called to Moses from the cloud. 17 The appearance of the Lord’s glory to the Israelites was like a consuming fire on the mountaintop. 18 Moses entered the cloud as he went up the mountain, and he remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights.[2]
 
Exodus 25-31 – Tabernacle Revealed
EXODUS 25
25 The Lord spoke to Moses: 2 “Tell the Israelites to take an offering for me. You are to take my offering from everyone who is willing to give. 3 This is the offering you are to receive from them: gold, silver, and bronze; 4 blue, purple, and scarlet yarn; fine linen and goat hair; 5 ram skins dyed red and fine leather; acacia wood; 6 oil for the light; spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense; 7 and onyx along with other gemstones for mounting on the ephod and breastpiece.,
8 “They are to make a sanctuary for me so that I may dwell among them. 9 You must make it according to all that I show you—the pattern of the tabernacle as well as the pattern of all its furnishings.[3]
 

• Ark, table & lampstand

 
THE ARK
10 “They are to make an ark of acacia wood, forty-five inches long, twenty-seven inches wide, and twenty-seven inches high. 11 Overlay it with pure gold; overlay it both inside and out. Also make a gold molding all around it. 12 Cast four gold rings for it and place them on its four feet, two rings on one side and two rings on the other side. 13 Make poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold. 14 Insert the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark in order to carry the ark with them. 15 The poles are to remain in the rings of the ark; they must not be removed from it. 16 Put the tablets of the testimony that I will give you into the ark. 17 Make a mercy seat of pure gold, forty-five inches long and twenty-seven inches wide. 18 Make two cherubim of gold; make them of hammered work at the two ends of the mercy seat. 19 Make one cherub at one end and one cherub at the other end. At its two ends, make the cherubim of one piece with the mercy seat. 20 The cherubim are to have wings spread out above, covering the mercy seat with their wings, and are to face one another. The faces of the cherubim should be toward the mercy seat. 21 Set the mercy seat on top of the ark and put the tablets of the testimony that I will give you into the ark. 22 I will meet with you there above the mercy seat, between the two cherubim that are over the ark of the testimony; I will speak with you from there about all that I command you regarding the Israelites. [4]
 

• Exodus 26 - Curtains & walls
• Exodus 27 – Altar, court & oil
• Exodus 28 - Priestly Clothing
• Exodus 29 – Consecration/Ordination of the Priests
• Exodus 30 - Anointing Oil, Altar & Incense
• Exodus 31 - The Sabbath

18 When he finished speaking with Moses on Mount Sinai, he gave him the two tablets of the testimony, stone tablets inscribed by the finger of God. [5]
 
Exodus 32 – Golden Calf

• The scene now changes, and we see what was happening down in the Israelite camp, while Moses was still up in the heights of Sinai receiving the instructions for the Israelites' worship.
• The people were already apostatizing (renouncing their beliefs) and were devising their own form of worship.

7 The Lord spoke to Moses: “Go down at once! For your people you brought up from the land of Egypt have acted corruptly. 8 They have quickly turned from the way I commanded them; they have made for themselves an image of a calf. They have bowed down to it, sacrificed to it, and said, ‘Israel, these are your gods, who brought you up from the land of Egypt.’ ” 9 The Lord also said to Moses, “I have seen this people, and they are indeed a stiff-necked people. 10 Now leave me alone, so that my anger can burn against them and I can destroy them. Then I will make you into a great nation.”[6]
 
19 As he approached the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, Moses became enraged and threw the tablets out of his hands, smashing them at the base of the mountain. [7]
 
Exodus 33-34 – Covenant Renewed

• God’s Glory (Moses’ veil)

EXODUS 33
12 Moses said to the Lord, “Look, you have told me, ‘Lead this people up,’ but you have not let me know whom you will send with me. You said, ‘I know you by name, and you have also found favor with me.’ 13 Now if I have indeed found favor with you, please teach me your ways, and I will know you, so that I may find favor with you. Now consider that this nation is your people.”
14 And he replied, “My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”
15 “If your presence does not go,” Moses responded to him, “don’t make us go up from here. 16 How will it be known that I and your people have found favor with you unless you go with us? I and your people will be distinguished by this from all the other people on the face of the earth.”
17 The Lord answered Moses, “I will do this very thing you have asked, for you have found favor with me, and I know you by name.”
18 Then Moses said, “Please, let me see your glory.”
19 He said, “I will cause all my goodness to pass in front of you, and I will proclaim the name ‘the Lord’ before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.” 20 But he added, “You cannot see my face, for humans cannot see me and live.” 21 The Lord said, “Here is a place near me. You are to stand on the rock, 22 and when my glory passes by, I will put you in the crevice of the rock and cover you with my hand until I have passed by. 23 Then I will take my hand away, and you will see my back, but my face will not be seen.” [8]
 

• New Tablets

EXODUS 34
29 As Moses descended from Mount Sinai—with the two tablets of the testimony in his hands as he descended the mountain—he did not realize that the skin of his face shone as a result of his speaking with the Lord., 30 When Aaron and all the Israelites saw Moses, the skin of his face shone! They were afraid to come near him. 31 But Moses called out to them, so Aaron and all the leaders of the community returned to him, and Moses spoke to them. 32 Afterward all the Israelites came near, and he commanded them to do everything the Lord had told him on Mount Sinai. 33 When Moses had finished speaking with them, he put a veil over his face. 34 But whenever Moses went before the Lord to speak with him, he would remove the veil until he came out. After he came out, he would tell the Israelites what he had been commanded, 35 and the Israelites would see that Moses’s face was radiant. Then Moses would put the veil over his face again until he went to speak with the Lord. [9]
 
Exodus 35-40 – Tabernacle Construction

• Materials
• Skilled Artisans
• The Ark
• The Courtyard
• Moses Inspects
• God’s Glory

EXODUS 39
43 Moses inspected all the work they had accomplished. They had done just as the Lord commanded. Then Moses blessed them.[10]
 
Exodus 40:34-38 -  34 The cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. 35 Moses was unable to enter the tent of meeting because the cloud rested on it, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.
36 The Israelites set out whenever the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle throughout all the stages of their journey. 37 If the cloud was not taken up, they did not set out until the day it was taken up. 38 For the cloud of the Lord was over the tabernacle by day, and there was a fire inside the cloud by night, visible to the entire house of Israel throughout all the stages of their journey. [11]
 
 
LIVING BY FAITH
HEBREWS 11
1 Now faith is the reality of what is hoped for, the proof of what is not seen. 2 For by this our ancestors were approved.
3 By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was made from things that are not visible.
4 By faith Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than Cain did. By faith he was approved as a righteous man, because God approved his gifts, and even though he is dead, he still speaks through his faith.
5 By faith Enoch was taken away, and so he did not experience death. He was not to be found because God took him away. For before he was taken away, he was approved as one who pleased God. 6 Now without faith it is impossible to please God, since the one who draws near to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
7 By faith Noah, after he was warned about what was not yet seen and motivated by godly fear, built an ark to deliver his family. By faith he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.
8 By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed and set out for a place that he was going to receive as an inheritance. He went out, even though he did not know where he was going. 9 By faith he stayed as a foreigner in the land of promise, living in tents as did Isaac and Jacob, coheirs of the same promise. 10 For he was looking forward to the city that has foundations, whose architect and builder is God.
11 By faith even Sarah herself, when she was unable to have children, received power to conceive offspring, even though she was past the age, since she considered that the one who had promised was faithful. 12 Therefore, from one man—in fact, from one as good as dead—came offspring as numerous as the stars of the sky and as innumerable as the grains of sand along the seashore.
13 These all died in faith, although they had not received the things that were promised. But they saw them from a distance, greeted them, and confessed that they were foreigners and temporary residents on the earth. 14 Now those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking a homeland. 15 If they were thinking about where they came from, they would have had an opportunity to return. 16 But they now desire a better place—a heavenly one. Therefore, God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.
17 By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac. He received the promises and yet he was offering his one and only son, 18 the one to whom it had been said, Your offspring will be traced through Isaac. 19 He considered God to be able even to raise someone from the dead; therefore, he received him back, figuratively speaking.
20 By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come. 21 By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph, and he worshiped, leaning on the top of his staff., 22 By faith Joseph, as he was nearing the end of his life, mentioned the exodus of the Israelites and gave instructions concerning his bones.
23 By faith Moses, after he was born, was hidden by his parents for three months, because they saw that the child was beautiful, and they didn’t fear the king’s edict. 24 By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter 25 and chose to suffer with the people of God rather than to enjoy the fleeting pleasure of sin. 26 For he considered reproach for the sake of Christ to be greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, since he was looking ahead to the reward.
27 By faith he left Egypt behind, not being afraid of the king’s anger, for Moses persevered as one who sees him who is invisible. 28 By faith he instituted the Passover and the sprinkling of the blood, so that the destroyer of the firstborn might not touch the Israelites. 29 By faith they crossed the Red Sea as though they were on dry land. When the Egyptians attempted to do this, they were drowned…
 
39 All these were approved through their faith, but they did not receive what was promised, 40 since God had provided something better for us, so that they would not be made perfect without us.[12]
 

• The greatest love story of all time…
• “Jesus, I Believe” – Big Daddy Weave

[1] Christian Standard Bible (Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers, 2020), Ex 24:7–8.
[2] Christian Standard Bible (Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers, 2020), Ex 24:16–18.
[3] Christian Standard Bible (Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers, 2020), Ex 25:1–9.
[4] Christian Standard Bible (Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers, 2020), Ex 25:10–22.
[5] Christian Standard Bible (Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers, 2020), Ex 31:18.
[6] Christian Standard Bible (Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers, 2020), Ex 32:7–10.
[7] Christian Standard Bible (Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers, 2020), Ex 32:19.
[8] Christian Standard Bible (Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers, 2020), Ex 33:12–23.
[9] Christian Standard Bible (Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers, 2020), Ex 34:29–35.
[10] Christian Standard Bible (Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers, 2020), Ex 39:43.
[11] Christian Standard Bible (Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers, 2020), Ex 40:34–38.
[12] Christian Standard Bible (Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers, 2020), Heb 11:1–40.

Review:

• Timeline & Maps

 
EXODUS 13
1 The Lord spoke to Moses: 2 “Consecrate every firstborn male to me, the firstborn from every womb among the Israelites, both man and domestic animal; it is mine.”[1]
 
6 For seven days you must eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there is to be a festival to the Lord.[2]
 
18 So he led the people around toward the Red Sea along the road of the wilderness. And the Israelites left the land of Egypt in battle formation.
19 Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, because Joseph had made the Israelites swear a solemn oath, saying, “God will certainly come to your aid; then you must take my bones with you from this place.”
20 They set out from Succoth and camped at Etham on the edge of the wilderness. 21 The Lord went ahead of them in a pillar of cloud to lead them on their way during the day and in a pillar of fire to give them light at night, so that they could travel day or night. 22 The pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night never left its place in front of the people.[3]
 
EXODUS 14
1 Then the Lord spoke to Moses: 2 “Tell the Israelites to turn back and camp in front of Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea; you must camp in front of Baal-zephon, facing it by the sea. 3 Pharaoh will say of the Israelites: They are wandering around the land in confusion; the wilderness has boxed them in. 4 I will harden Pharaoh’s heart so that he will pursue them. Then I will receive glory by means of Pharaoh and all his army, and the Egyptians will know that I am the Lord.” So the Israelites did this.
 
THE EGYPTIAN PURSUIT
5 When the king of Egypt was told that the people had fled, Pharaoh and his officials changed their minds about the people and said, “What have we done? We have released Israel from serving us.” 6 So he got his chariot ready and took his troops with him; 7 he took six hundred of the best chariots and all the rest of the chariots of Egypt, with officers in each one. 8 The Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued the Israelites, who were going out defiantly., 9 The Egyptians—all Pharaoh’s horses and chariots, his horsemen, and his army—chased after them and caught up with them as they camped by the sea beside Pi-hahiroth, in front of Baal-zephon.
10 As Pharaoh approached, the Israelites looked up and there were the Egyptians coming after them! The Israelites were terrified and cried out to the Lord for help. 11 They said to Moses, “Is it because there are no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the wilderness? What have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt? 12 Isn’t this what we told you in Egypt: Leave us alone so that we may serve the Egyptians? It would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.”
13 But Moses said to the people, “Don’t be afraid. Stand firm and see the Lord’s salvation that he will accomplish for you today; for the Egyptians you see today, you will never see again. 14 The Lord will fight for you, and you must be quiet.”
 
ESCAPE THROUGH THE RED SEA
15 The Lord said to Moses, “Why are you crying out to me? Tell the Israelites to break camp. 16 As for you, lift up your staff, stretch out your hand over the sea, and divide it so that the Israelites can go through the sea on dry ground. 17 As for me, I am going to harden the hearts of the Egyptians so that they will go in after them, and I will receive glory by means of Pharaoh, all his army, and his chariots and horsemen. 18 The Egyptians will know that I am the Lord when I receive glory through Pharaoh, his chariots, and his horsemen.”
19 Then the angel of God, who was going in front of the Israelite forces, moved and went behind them. The pillar of cloud moved from in front of them and stood behind them. 20 It came between the Egyptian and Israelite forces. There was cloud and darkness, it lit up the night, and neither group came near the other all night long.
21 Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea. The Lord drove the sea back with a powerful east wind all that night and turned the sea into dry land. So the waters were divided, 22 and the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with the waters like a wall to them on their right and their left.
23 The Egyptians set out in pursuit—all Pharaoh’s horses, his chariots, and his horsemen—and went into the sea after them. 24 During the morning watch, the Lord looked down at the Egyptian forces from the pillar of fire and cloud, and threw the Egyptian forces into confusion. 25 He caused their chariot wheels to swerve, and made them drive with difficulty. “Let’s get away from Israel,” the Egyptians said, “because the Lord is fighting for them against Egypt!”
26 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the sea so that the water may come back on the Egyptians, on their chariots and horsemen.” 27 So Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and at daybreak the sea returned to its normal depth. While the Egyptians were trying to escape from it, the Lord threw them into the sea. 28 The water came back and covered the chariots and horsemen, plus the entire army of Pharaoh that had gone after them into the sea. Not even one of them survived.
29 But the Israelites had walked through the sea on dry ground, with the waters like a wall to them on their right and their left. 30 That day the Lord saved Israel from the power of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore. 31 When Israel saw the great power that the Lord used against the Egyptians, the people feared the Lord and believed in him and in his servant Moses. [4]
 
EXODUS 15

• Isreal’s Song

25 The Lord made a statute and ordinance for them at Marah, and he tested them there. 26 He said, “If you will carefully obey the Lord your God, do what is right in his sight, pay attention to his commands, and keep all his statutes, I will not inflict any illnesses on you that I inflicted on the Egyptians. For I am the Lord who heals you.[5]
 
EXODUS 16

• 2.5 months upon leaving 430 years of slavery in Egypt the Israelites began talking about how much better they had it in Egypt.
• Imagine if they had FB… all the grumbling (entire Israelites)

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, 7 and in the morning you will see the Lord’s glory because he has heard your complaints about him. For who are we that you complain about us?” 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.[6]
 
13 So at evening quail came and covered the camp. In the morning there was a layer of dew all around the camp. 14 When the layer of dew evaporated, there were fine flakes on the desert surface, as fine as frost on the ground. 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. 16 This is what the Lord has commanded: ‘Gather as much of it as each person needs to eat. You may take two quarts per individual, according to the number of people each of you has in his tent.’ ”[7]
 
31 The house of Israel named the substance manna. It resembled coriander seed, was white, and tasted like wafers made with honey.[8]
 
35 The Israelites ate manna for forty years, until they came to an inhabited land. They ate manna until they reached the border of the land of Canaan.[9]

• The provision of mannah for 40 years.
• 2 quarts a day… maggots and rotten
• 8 cups = 64 oz = 2 quarts = 1/2 gallon
• Day 7… not available
• Preserve 2 quarts for remembering

 
EXODUS 17

• Repeat of 16 except they wanted water this time.
• Moses told them again… you are complaining against God.
• Moses put staff in a rock at Horeb and water was provided.
• Then Joshua was told to battle Amalek
• Moses used the name Amalek to represent the Amalekites, as he often used the name Israel for the Israelites.
• The Amalekites were a tribe of Semites.
• They were descendants of Esau (Gen. 36:12), and had moved into the part of Sinai that the Israelites now occupied.
• They would win as long as Moses held up his hands.
• Aaron & Hur helped him hold up his arms.

 
EXODUS 18

• Jethro (Moses’ Father-in-Law) came to check on Moses (also brought his wife, Zipporah and kids)
• Jethro assessed how God provided for Israelites
• He also assessed what Moses was doing as he dealt with all the problems of the people.

21 But you should select from all the people able men, God-fearing, trustworthy, and hating dishonest profit. Place them over the people as commanders of thousands, hundreds, fifties, and tens. 22 They should judge the people at all times. Then they can bring you every major case but judge every minor case themselves. In this way you will lighten your load, and they will bear it with you. 23 If you do this, and God so directs you, you will be able to endure, and also all these people will be able to go home satisfied.[10]
 
EXODUS 19

• God heard the Israelites and told Moses the plan to meet with him on Mt. Sinai.

3 Moses went up the mountain to God, and the Lord called to him from the mountain: “This is what you must say to the house of Jacob and explain to the Israelites: 4 ‘You have seen what I did to the Egyptians and how I carried you on eagles’ wings and brought you to myself. 5 Now if you will carefully listen to me and keep my covenant, you will be my own possession out of all the peoples, although the whole earth is mine, 6 and you will be my kingdom of priests and my holy nation.’ These are the words that you are to say to the Israelites.” [11]

• Moses consecrated the people and told them to stay away from the holy mountain.

16 On the third day, when morning came, there was thunder and lightning, a thick cloud on the mountain, and a very loud blast from a trumpet, so that all the people in the camp shuddered. 17 Then Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet God, and they stood at the foot of the mountain. 18 Mount Sinai was completely enveloped in smoke because the Lord came down on it in fire. Its smoke went up like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain shook violently. 19 As the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke and God answered him in the thunder.[12]
 
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
EXODUS 20
1 Then God spoke all these words: 2 I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the place of slavery. 3 Do not have other gods besides me. 4 Do not make an idol for yourself, whether in the shape of anything in the heavens above or on the earth below or in the waters under the earth. 5 Do not bow in worship to them, and do not serve them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, bringing the consequences of the fathers’ iniquity on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate me, 6 but showing faithful love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commands.
7 Do not misuse the name of the Lord your God, because the Lord will not leave anyone unpunished who misuses his name.
8 Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy: 9 You are to labor six days and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. You must not do any work—you, your son or daughter, your male or female servant, your livestock, or the resident alien who is within your city gates. 11 For the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and everything in them in six days; then he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and declared it holy.
12 Honor your father and your mother so that you may have a long life in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.
13 Do not murder.
14 Do not commit adultery.
15 Do not steal.
16 Do not give false testimony against your neighbor.
17 Do not covet your neighbor’s house. Do not covet your neighbor’s wife, his male or female servant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.
 
THE PEOPLE’S REACTION
18 All the people witnessed the thunder and lightning, the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain surrounded by smoke. When the people saw it they trembled and stood at a distance. 19 “You speak to us, and we will listen,” they said to Moses, “but don’t let God speak to us, or we will die.”
20 Moses responded to the people, “Don’t be afraid, for God has come to test you, so that you will fear him and will not sin.” 21 And the people remained standing at a distance as Moses approached the total darkness where God was. [13]

[1] Christian Standard Bible (Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers, 2020), Ex 13.
[2] Christian Standard Bible (Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers, 2020), Ex 13:6.
[3] Christian Standard Bible (Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers, 2020), Ex 13:18–22.
[4] Christian Standard Bible (Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers, 2020), Ex 14:3–31.
[5] Christian Standard Bible (Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers, 2020), Ex 15:25–26.
[6] Christian Standard Bible (Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers, 2020), Ex 16:6–8.
[7] Christian Standard Bible (Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers, 2020), Ex 16:13–16.
[8] Christian Standard Bible (Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers, 2020), Ex 16:31.
[9] Christian Standard Bible (Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers, 2020), Ex 16:35.
[10] Christian Standard Bible (Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers, 2020), Ex 18:21–23.
[11] Christian Standard Bible (Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers, 2020), Ex 19:3–6.
[12] Christian Standard Bible (Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers, 2020), Ex 19:16–19.
[13] Christian Standard Bible (Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers, 2020), Ex 20:1–21.

Review:

• Exodus 4:10-11 – But Moses replied to the Lord, “Please, Lord, I have never been eloquent—either in the past or recently or since you have been speaking to your servant—because my mouth and my tongue are sluggish.”
• The Lord said to him, “Who placed a mouth on humans? Who makes a person mute or deaf, seeing or blind? Is it not I, the Lord? 12 Now go! I will help you speak and I will teach you what to say.” [1]
• This passage emphasizes God's sovereignty over creation, including the physical capabilities of humans.
• This passage highlights God's sovereignty over creation, including human abilities and disabilities.
• It emphasizes that God is the Creator and has authority over all aspects of life.
• While this verse acknowledges God's role in creating people with various abilities, it is important to understand it within the broader context of Scripture.
• The Bible consistently reveals God's character as loving, compassionate, and just.
• Disabilities and challenges in life are part of the fallen world we live in, and they can serve various purposes in God's plan.
• In the New Testament, Jesus' ministry often involved healing the sick and restoring sight to the blind, demonstrating God's compassion and power (Matthew 11:5; John 9:1-7).
• These miracles were signs pointing to the coming of God's kingdom and the ultimate restoration that believers will experience.
• Moreover, challenges such as disabilities can serve to draw people closer to God, deepen their faith, and display His strength in their weakness (2 Corinthians 12:9-10).
• They can also provide opportunities for the body of Christ to demonstrate love, support, and unity by caring for one another.
• Ultimately, while we may not fully understand why certain challenges exist, we can trust in God's goodness and His ability to work all things together for the good of those who love Him (Romans 8:28).

GOD PROMISES FREEDOM
EXODUS 6
2 Then God spoke to Moses, telling him, “I am the Lord. 3 I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as God Almighty, but I was not known to them by my name ‘the Lord.’ 4 I also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, the land they lived in as aliens. 5 Furthermore, I have heard the groaning of the Israelites, whom the Egyptians are forcing to work as slaves, and I have remembered my covenant.
6 “Therefore tell the Israelites: I am the Lord, and I will bring you out from the forced labor of the Egyptians and rescue you from slavery to them. I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and great acts of judgment. 7 I will take you as my people, and I will be your God. You will know that I am the Lord your God, who brought you out from the forced labor of the Egyptians.[2]
 
8 I will bring you to the land that I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and I will give it to you as a possession. I am the Lord.” 9 Moses told this to the Israelites, but they did not listen to him because of their broken spirit and hard labor.
10 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, 11 “Go and tell Pharaoh king of Egypt to let the Israelites go from his land.”
12 But Moses said in the Lord’s presence, “If the Israelites will not listen to me, then how will Pharaoh listen to me, since I am such a poor speaker?” 13 Then the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron and gave them commands concerning both the Israelites and Pharaoh king of Egypt to bring the Israelites out of the land of Egypt. [3]
 
Verses 14-25 - Genealogy of Moses and Aaron.
Verses 6:26 – 7:5

• God reminded Moses of who He was and the promise He made to His ancestors.
• God told Moses to remind the Hebrews.
• God told Moses & Aaron to return to Pharaoh

 
EXODUS 7
6 So Moses and Aaron did this; they did just as the Lord commanded them. 7 Moses was eighty years old and Aaron eighty-three when they spoke to Pharaoh.
8 The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, 9 “When Pharaoh tells you, ‘Perform a miracle,’ tell Aaron, ‘Take your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh. It will become a serpent.’ ” 10 So Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh and did just as the Lord had commanded. Aaron threw down his staff before Pharaoh and his officials, and it became a serpent. 11 But then Pharaoh called the wise men and sorcerers—the magicians of Egypt, and they also did the same thing by their occult practices. 12 Each one threw down his staff, and it became a serpent. But Aaron’s staff swallowed their staffs. 13 However, Pharaoh’s heart was hard, and he did not listen to them, as the Lord had said.[4]
 

• Plague #1
  God tells Moses to return to Pharaoh
• Staff in the Nile… river to blood… fish died, smelled bad
• Then all water sources in Egypt were turned to blood.
• Egyptian magicians did similar
• 7 days passed

 
8

• Plague #2
• God tells Moses to return to Pharaoh
• Plague of Frogs (magicians matched)
• Pharaoh bartered with Moses
• Take frogs away and I will respond
• Frogs died except in the Nile
• Pharaoh reversed his decision
• Plague #3
• Plague of gnats… rose up from the dust
• Magicians could not match (finger of God)

 

• Plague #4
• God tells Moses to return to Pharaoh
• Plague of flys (only to Egyptians… not Goshen)
• Pharaoh bartered with Moses (stay in Egypt)
• Take flies away and you can go worship

 
9

• Plague #5
• God tells Moses to return to Pharaoh
• Plague of livestock
• Pharaoh got report it was only the Egyptians animals that died
• Pharaoh’s heart was still hardened
• Plague #6

8 Then the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “Take handfuls of furnace soot, and Moses is to throw it toward heaven in the sight of Pharaoh. 9 It will become fine dust over the entire land of Egypt. It will become festering boils on people and animals throughout the land of Egypt.” 10 So they took furnace soot and stood before Pharaoh. Moses threw it toward heaven, and it became festering boils on people and animals. 11 The magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils, for the boils were on the magicians as well as on all the Egyptians. 12 But the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart and he did not listen to them, as the Lord had told Moses. [5]

• Plague #7
• God tells Moses to return to Pharaoh
• All plagues & worst hail storm
• Man and livestock were crushed by hail
• Some crops destroyed
• Pharaoh bartered with Moses
• Hardened his heart again

 
10

• Plague #8
• God tells Moses to return to Pharaoh
• Plague of locusts
• Ate everything green
• Pharaoh bartered with Moses (all families must go too)
• Hardened his heart again

 
21 

• Plague #9
• God tells Moses to return to Pharaoh
• Plague of darkness except in Goshen for 3 days
• Pharaoh bartered with Moses (animals must go too)
• Hardened his heart again

 
11

• Plague #10
• God tells Moses to return to Pharaoh
• One more plague
  
  

4 So Moses said, “This is what the Lord says: About midnight I will go throughout Egypt, 5 and every firstborn male in the land of Egypt will die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne to the firstborn of the servant girl who is at the grindstones, as well as every firstborn of the livestock. 6 Then there will be a great cry of anguish through all the land of Egypt such as never was before or ever will be again. 7 But against all the Israelites, whether people or animals, not even a dog will snarl, so that you may know that the Lord makes a distinction between Egypt and Israel. 8 All these officials of yours will come down to me and bow before me, saying: Get out, you and all the people who follow you. After that, I will get out.” And he went out from Pharaoh’s presence fiercely angry.
9 The Lord said to Moses, “Pharaoh will not listen to you, so that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.” 10 Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh, but the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he would not let the Israelites go out of his land.[6]
 
12

• God gave instruction to Moses
• Take unblemished animal (you can share)
• Sacrifice it at Twilight
• Spread the blood over the door
• Roast the meat and eat it all
• Be prepared to leave

 
24 “Keep this command permanently as a statute for you and your descendants. 25 When you enter the land that the Lord will give you as he promised, you are to observe this ceremony. 26 When your children ask you, ‘What does this ceremony mean to you?’ 27 you are to reply, ‘It is the Passover sacrifice to the Lord, for he passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt when he struck the Egyptians, and he spared our homes.’ ” So the people knelt low and worshiped. 28 Then the Israelites went and did this; they did just as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron.
 
THE EXODUS
29 Now at midnight the Lord struck every firstborn male in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the prisoner who was in the dungeon, and every firstborn of the livestock. 30 During the night Pharaoh got up, he along with all his officials and all the Egyptians, and there was a loud wailing throughout Egypt because there wasn’t a house without someone dead. 31 He summoned Moses and Aaron during the night and said, “Get out immediately from among my people, both you and the Israelites, and go, worship the Lord as you have said. 32 Take even your flocks and your herds as you asked and leave, and also bless me.” [7]
Hebrews left quickly taking their unrisen dough

• Egyptians paid the Hebrews to leave
  
  

40 The time that the Israelites lived in Egypt was 430 years. 41 At the end of 430 years, on that same day, all the Lord’s military divisions went out from the land of Egypt. 42 It was a night of vigil in honor of the Lord, because he would bring them out of the land of Egypt. This same night is in honor of the Lord, a night vigil for all the Israelites throughout their generations.[8]

• They partook in the Passover meal

 
"What we refer to as the ten 'plagues' were actually judgments designed to authenticate Moses as God's messenger and his message as God's message.
Their ultimate purpose was to reveal the greatness of the power and authority of God to the Egyptians (7:10—12:36) in order to bring Pharaoh and the Egyptians into subjection to God."

[1] Christian Standard Bible (Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers, 2020), Ex 4:10–12.
[2]  Christian Standard Bible (Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers, 2020), Ex 6:2-7.
[3] Christian Standard Bible (Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers, 2020), Ex 6:8-13.
[4] Christian Standard Bible (Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers, 2020), Ex 7:6-13.
[5] Christian Standard Bible (Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers, 2020), Ex 9:8–12.
[6] Christian Standard Bible (Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers, 2020), Ex 11:4–10.
[7] Christian Standard Bible (Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers, 2020), Ex 12:24–32.
[8] Christian Standard Bible (Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers, 2020), Ex 12:40–42.

Review:

• Exodus 3:16 “Go and assemble the elders of Israel and say to them: The LORD, the God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, has appeared to me and said: I have paid close attention to you and to what has been done to you in Egypt. 17 And I have promised you that I will bring you up from the misery of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites, Hethites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—a land flowing with milk and honey. 18 They will listen to what you say. Then you, along with the elders of Israel, must go to the king of Egypt and say to him: The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. Now please let us go on a three-day trip into the wilderness so that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.
• 19 “However, I know that the king of Egypt will not allow you to go, even under force from a strong hand. 20 But when I stretch out my hand and strike Egypt with all my miracles that I will perform in it, after that, he will let you go. 21 And I will give these people such favor with the Egyptians that when you go, you will not go empty-handed. 22 Each woman will ask her neighbor and any woman staying in her house for silver and gold jewelry, and clothing, and you will put them on your sons and daughters. So you will plunder the Egyptians.

 
MIRACULOUS SIGNS FOR MOSES
EXODUS 4
1 Moses answered, “What if they won’t believe me and will not obey me but say, ‘The Lord did not appear to you’?”

• His mind was filled with imaginary scenarios.
• This is a form of doubting God.

2 The Lord asked him, “What is that in your hand?”
“A staff,” he replied.
3 “Throw it on the ground,” he said. So Moses threw it on the ground, it became a snake, and he ran from it.

• The snake represents the evil power of Satan
• The Pharaohs wore a religiously symbolic metal cobra around their heads.
• It was a common symbol of Egyptian royal authority.

4 The Lord told Moses, “Stretch out your hand and grab it by the tail.” So he stretched out his hand and caught it, and it became a staff in his hand. 5 “This will take place,” he continued, “so that they will believe that the Lord, the God of their ancestors, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you.”

• Who actually has the power?

6 In addition the Lord said to him, “Put your hand inside your cloak.” So he put his hand inside his cloak, and when he took it out, his hand was diseased, resembling snow. 7 “Put your hand back inside your cloak,” he said. So he put his hand back inside his cloak, and when he took it out, it had again become like the rest of his skin.

• God would bring him and the Israelites out of their defiling environment—and heal them.

8 “If they will not believe you and will not respond to the evidence of the first sign, they may believe the evidence of the second sign.

• Moses' leprous hand miracle would also have suggested to Pharaoh that Yahweh could afflict or deliver through His representative at will.

9 And if they don’t believe even these two signs or listen to what you say, take some water from the Nile and pour it on the dry ground. The water you take from the Nile will become blood on the ground.”

• God would humiliate the Egyptians by spoiling what they regarded as a divine source of life.

10 But Moses replied to the Lord, “Please, Lord, I have never been eloquent—either in the past or recently or since you have been speaking to your servant—because my mouth and my tongue are sluggish.”

• Rather than inspiring confidence in Moses, God's commission frightened him.
• Stephen said Moses was "proficient in speaking" (Acts 7:22).

11 The Lord said to him, “Who placed a mouth on humans? Who makes a person mute or deaf, seeing or blind? Is it not I, the Lord? 12 Now go! I will help you speak and I will teach you what to say.”

• God reminded Moses that He was the Creator 

13 Moses said, “Please, Lord, send someone else.”

• "I don't have all the answers" (3:13),
• "I may not have their [the Israelites'] respect" (4:1),
• "I'm slow in my expressions" (4:10),
• "I'm not as qualified as others" (4:13).

14 Then the Lord’s anger burned against Moses, and he said, “Isn’t Aaron the Levite your brother? I know that he can speak well. And also, he is on his way now to meet you. He will rejoice when he sees you. 15 You will speak with him and tell him what to say. I will help both you and him to speak and will teach you both what to do. 16 He will speak to the people for you. He will serve as a mouth for you, and you will serve as God to him. 17 And take this staff in your hand that you will perform the signs with.”

• Sometimes, you just need a buddy.
• To challenge you, to encourage you, and to shoulder you.
• Jesus sent the disciples out in twos.
• He regarded himself as a failure, the objects of his ministry as hopeless, and God as unfaithful, uncaring, and unable to deliver His people.
• He had learned his own inability to deliver Israel, but he did not yet believe in God's ability to do so.
• Even the miraculous revelation of God at the burning bush, and the miracles that God enabled Moses to perform, did not convince him of God's purpose and power.
• As time passed, Moses grew more confident and communicative and increasingly took his proper place as Israel's leader.

 
MOSES’S RETURN TO EGYPT
18 Then Moses went back to his father-in-law, Jethro, and said to him, “Please let me return to my relatives in Egypt and see if they are still living.”
Jethro said to Moses, “Go in peace.”
19 Now in Midian the Lord told Moses, “Return to Egypt, for all the men who wanted to kill you are dead.”

• Midian Map & Modern Google Map

20 So Moses took his wife and sons,

• We learn here for the first time that Moses had sons (plural).

put them on a donkey, and returned to the land of Egypt. And Moses took God’s staff in his hand.
21 The Lord instructed Moses, “When you go back to Egypt, make sure you do before Pharaoh all the wonders that I have put within your power. But I will harden his heart so that he won’t let the people go.

• He was not saying that Pharaoh would be unable to choose whether he would release the Israelites.
• God made Pharaoh's heart progressively harder as the king repeatedly chose to disobey God's will.
• Leviticus 26:23-24 - “If in spite of these things you do not accept my discipline, but act with hostility toward me, 24 then I will act with hostility toward you; I also will strike you seven times for your sins.[1]
•  It is not till after the sixth plague that it is stated that Jehovah made the heart of Pharaoh firm (9:12).
• Even though God's hardening of Pharaoh's heart was only the complement of Pharaoh's hardening his own heart, God revealed only the former action in verse 21.
• God's purpose in this revelation was to prepare Moses for the opposition he would face.
• He also intended to strengthen Moses's faith, by preventing any questions that might arise in his mind—concerning God's omniscience—as his conflict with Pharaoh intensified.

22 And you will say to Pharaoh: This is what the Lord says: Israel is my firstborn son. 23 I told you: Let my son go so that he may worship me, but you refused to let him go. Look, I am about to kill your firstborn son!”

• This is the first mention in Exodus that Moses was to perform signs before Pharaoh.
• Since Israel is God's firstborn son, the appropriate punishment against Egypt for harming Israel is for God to harm Egypt's firstborn son.

24 On the trip, at an overnight campsite, it happened that the Lord confronted him and intended to put him to death. 25 So Zipporah took a flint, cut off her son’s foreskin, threw it at Moses’s feet, and said, “You are a bridegroom of blood to me!” 26 So he let him alone. At that time she said, “You are a bridegroom of blood,” referring to the circumcision.

• Moses had neglected to circumcise his second son, Eliezer, and God struck Moses down with an illness that could have taken his life.
• We get the impression that when Moses had circumcised Gershom, his firstborn, Zipporah had been appalled by the ceremony and therefore had resisted having Eliezer circumcised.
• Moses let her have her way and this displeased the Lord.
• After all, Moses couldn’t lead the people of Israel if he was disobedient to one of the fundamental commandments of the Lord (Gen. 17:10–14).
• Even if the Jews didn’t know it, God knew about his disobedience, and He was greatly displeased.

 
REUNION OF MOSES AND AARON
27 Now the Lord had said to Aaron, “Go and meet Moses in the wilderness.” So he went and met him at the mountain of God and kissed him. 28 Moses told Aaron everything the Lord had sent him to say, and about all the signs he had commanded him to do. 29 Then Moses and Aaron went and assembled all the elders of the Israelites. 30 Aaron repeated everything the Lord had said to Moses and performed the signs before the people. 31 The people believed, and when they heard that the Lord had paid attention to them and that he had seen their misery, they knelt low and worshiped.[2]
 
MOSES CONFRONTS PHARAOH
EXODUS 5
1 Later, Moses and Aaron went in and said to Pharaoh, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: Let my people go, so that they may hold a festival for me in the wilderness.”

• By Egyptian law, the Israelites could have worshipped only the gods of Egypt while in the land, but they had to leave Egypt to worship a non-Egyptian God.

2 But Pharaoh responded, “Who is the Lord that I should obey him by letting Israel go? I don’t know the Lord, and besides, I will not let Israel go.”
3 They answered, “The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go on a three-day trip into the wilderness so that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God, or else he may strike us with plague or sword.”

• Moses is only asking for PTO.

4 The king of Egypt said to them, “Moses and Aaron, why are you causing the people to neglect their work? Get to your labor!” 5 Pharaoh also said, “Look, the people of the land are so numerous, and you would stop them from their labor.”

• Consequently when Moses and Aaron asked Pharaoh to obey the command of Yahweh, Pharaoh saw this request as a threat to his sovereignty.

 
FURTHER OPPRESSION OF ISRAEL
6 That day Pharaoh commanded the overseers of the people as well as their foremen, 7 “Don’t continue to supply the people with straw for making bricks, as before. They must go and gather straw for themselves. 8 But require the same quota of bricks from them as they were making before; do not reduce it.
Verses 9-21 – Israelites were oppressed because of the situation they placed in by Pharaoh through Moses.
 
22 So Moses went back to the Lord and asked, “Lord, why have you caused trouble for this people? And why did you ever send me? 23 Ever since I went in to Pharaoh to speak in your name he has caused trouble for this people, and you haven’t rescued your people at all.” [3]
 
EXODUS 6
1 But the Lord replied to Moses, “Now you will see what I will do to Pharaoh: because of a strong hand he will let them go, and because of a strong hand he will drive them from his land.”
 
GOD PROMISES FREEDOM
2 Then God spoke to Moses, telling him, “I am the Lord. 3 I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as God Almighty, but I was not known to them by my name ‘the Lord.’

• God proceeded to remind Moses of His promises to the patriarchs, and to reveal more of Himself by expounding another one of His names.
• "During the patriarchal period the characteristic name of God was 'God Almighty' (Gen. 17:1), the usual translation of the Hebrew El Shaddai, which probably literally means 'God, the Mountain One.'
• That phrase could refer to the mountains as God's symbolic home (see Ps. 121:1), but it more likely stresses His invincible power and might. …
• But during the Mosaic period the characteristic name of God was to be 'the LORD,' the meaning of which was first revealed to Moses himself (Exod. 3:13-15).
• Exodus 6:3 is not saying that the patriarchs were totally ignorant of the name Yahweh."

4 I also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, the land they lived in as aliens. 5 Furthermore, I have heard the groaning of the Israelites, whom the Egyptians are forcing to work as slaves, and I have remembered my covenant.
6 “Therefore tell the Israelites: I am the Lord, and I will bring you out from the forced labor of the Egyptians and rescue you from slavery to them. I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and great acts of judgment. 7 I will take you as my people, and I will be your God. You will know that I am the Lord your God, who brought you out from the forced labor of the Egyptians. 8 I will bring you to the land that I swore, to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and I will give it to you as a possession. I am the Lord.”
 
Names of God in the Bible:

1. Yahweh (LORD): This is the personal name of God revealed to Moses, often translated as "LORD" in English Bibles (Exodus 3:14-15).
2. Elohim: A general term for God, used in the context of His power and might as Creator (Genesis 1:1).
3. El Shaddai: Often translated as "God Almighty," emphasizing God's ultimate power and sovereignty (Genesis 17:1).
4. Adonai: Meaning "Lord" or "Master," highlighting God's authority and lordship (Psalm 8:1).
5. Jehovah Jireh: Meaning "The LORD Will Provide," used by Abraham when God provided a ram as a substitute sacrifice for Isaac (Genesis 22:14).
6. Jehovah Rapha: Meaning "The LORD Who Heals," reflecting God's power to heal and restore (Exodus 15:26).
7. Jehovah Nissi: Meaning "The LORD Is My Banner," signifying God's protection and leadership in battle (Exodus 17:15).
8. Jehovah Shalom: Meaning "The LORD Is Peace," used by Gideon to describe God's presence and peace (Judges 6:24).
9. Jehovah Tsidkenu: Meaning "The LORD Our Righteousness," pointing to God as the source of righteousness (Jeremiah 23:6).
10. Jehovah Sabaoth: Meaning "The LORD of Hosts," emphasizing God's command over the armies of heaven (1 Samuel 1:3).
11. El Elyon: Meaning "God Most High," highlighting God's supremacy over all (Genesis 14:18-20).
12. Abba: An Aramaic term for "Father," used by Jesus to express intimacy with God (Mark 14:36; Romans 8:15).
13. Yahweh (LORD): This is the personal name of God revealed to Moses, often translated as "LORD" in English Bibles (Exodus 3:14-15).
14. Elohim: A general term for God, used in the context of His power and might as Creator (Genesis 1:1).
15. El Shaddai: Often translated as "God Almighty," emphasizing God's ultimate power and sovereignty (Genesis 17:1).
16. Adonai: Meaning "Lord" or "Master," highlighting God's authority and lordship (Psalm 8:1).
17. Jehovah Jireh: Meaning "The LORD Will Provide," used by Abraham when God provided a ram as a substitute sacrifice for Isaac (Genesis 22:14).
18. Jehovah Rapha: Meaning "The LORD Who Heals," reflecting God's power to heal and restore (Exodus 15:26).
19. Jehovah Nissi: Meaning "The LORD Is My Banner," signifying God's protection and leadership in battle (Exodus 17:15).
20. Jehovah Shalom: Meaning "The LORD Is Peace," used by Gideon to describe God's presence and peace (Judges 6:24).
21. Jehovah Tsidkenu: Meaning "The LORD Our Righteousness," pointing to God as the source of righteousness (Jeremiah 23:6).
22. Jehovah Sabaoth: Meaning "The LORD of Hosts," emphasizing God's command over the armies of heaven (1 Samuel 1:3).
23. El Elyon: Meaning "God Most High," highlighting God's supremacy over all (Genesis 14:18-20).
24. Abba: An Aramaic term for "Father," used by Jesus to express intimacy with God (Mark 14:36; Romans 8:15).
25. The Lord of Hosts: Emphasizing God's command over the heavenly armies and His power in battle (Isaiah 1:24).
26. The Holy One of Israel: Highlighting God's holiness and His special relationship with Israel (Isaiah 1:4).
27. The Redeemer: Signifying God's role in delivering and saving His people (Isaiah 47:4).
28. The King of Kings and Lord of Lords: Titles that emphasize God's supreme authority over all rulers (1 Timothy 6:15; Revelation 19:16).
29. The Light of the World: A title for Jesus, illustrating His role in bringing spiritual illumination and truth (John 8:12).
30. The Bread of Life: Another title for Jesus, emphasizing His role in providing spiritual sustenance (John 6:35).
31. The Good Shepherd: Describing Jesus' care and guidance for His followers (John 10:11).
32. The Way, the Truth, and the Life: Titles for Jesus that highlight His role as the path to God, the embodiment of truth, and the source of eternal life (John 14:6).
33. The True Vine: Illustrating the vital connection between Jesus and His followers (John 15:1).
34. The Word: Referring to Jesus as the divine Logos, the ultimate revelation of God (John 1:1).
35. The Almighty: Emphasizing God's omnipotence and supreme power (Revelation 1:8).
36. The Lord Our Banner: Signifying God's protection and victory (Exodus 17:15).
37. The Lord Our Peace: Highlighting God's role in bringing peace to His people (Judges 6:24).
38. The Lord Our Righteousness: Emphasizing God's provision of righteousness for His people (Jeremiah 23:6).
39. The Lord Who Heals: Reflecting God's power to heal and restore (Exodus 15:26).
40. The Lord Who Provides: Illustrating God's provision for His people's needs (Genesis 22:14).
41. The Lord Who Sanctifies: Highlighting God's role in setting His people apart for His purposes (Leviticus 20:8).
42. The Lord Who Sees: Emphasizing God's awareness and care for His people (Genesis 16:13).
43. The Lord Who Is There: Reflecting God's presence with His people (Ezekiel 48:35).
44. The Lord of Peace: Highlighting God's ability to bring peace into the lives of His people (2 Thessalonians 3:16).

[1] Christian Standard Bible (Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers, 2020), Le 26:23–24.
[2] Christian Standard Bible (Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers, 2020), Ex 4:1–31.
[3] Christian Standard Bible (Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers, 2020), Ex 5:1–23.

Review:

• Jacob (Israel) and his family of 70 people transferred to Egypt with Joseph.
• Jacob moved from Canaan to Egypt about 1876 B.C., during the reign of Pharaoh Senusert III (Sesostris, ca. 1878-1871).
• His predecessor, Senusert II (1894-1878), would have been the man whose dream Joseph interpreted and who made Joseph his 1st in command.
• Moses, who lived from about 1525 to 1405 B.C., wrote Exodus (17:14; 24:4; 34:4, 27-29).
• Exodus embraces about 431 years of history, from the arrival of Jacob and his family in Egypt (ca. 1876 B.C.) to the erection of the Tabernacle in the wilderness of Sinai (ca. 1445 B.C.).
• However, 1:1-7 is a review of Jacob's family.
• If we eliminate this section, the narrative resumes the story of the Israelites where Genesis ends, after Joseph's death.
• About 364 years elapsed between Joseph's death and the Tabernacle's building.
• The bulk of the book (chs. 3—40) deals with only two of those years, the year before and the year after the Exodus from Egypt.
• The Exodus event is the focus of this book.
• The Israelites lived in Egypt 430 years (12:40).
• Genesis 15:13 has the rounded number "400 years" as the total time of Israel's oppression in Egypt.
• It may be helpful to remember that about 400 years elapsed between the end of Malachi and the beginning of Matthew and that about 400 years elapsed between the end of Genesis and the beginning of Exodus.
• The deliverance of Israel out of Egypt by Yahweh in the Old Testament is parallel in importance to the resurrection of Christ in the New Testament.
• The historicity of these events is a critical foundation for adequately understanding the rest of the Bible.

 
ISRAEL OPPRESSED IN EGYPT
EXODUS 1
1 These are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt with Jacob; each came with his family:

• NASB ’95 – “Now” – We couldn’t have Exodus without Genesis.

2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah;
3 Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin;
4 Dan and Naphtali; Gad and Asher.
5 The total number of Jacob’s descendants was seventy;, Joseph was already in Egypt.
6 Joseph and all his brothers and all that generation eventually died. 7 But the Israelites were fruitful, increased rapidly, multiplied, and became extremely numerous so that the land was filled with them.

• His purpose was to contrast the small number of Israelites that entered Egypt, with the large number that existed when Moses was born, which was about two million individuals (cf. 12:37; 38:26; Num. 1:45-47). 603,550 men

8 A new king, who did not know about Joseph, came to power in Egypt.

• The "new king" may have been Ahmose (Gr. Amosis), who founded the eighteenth dynasty and the New Kingdom Period and ruled from 1570 to 1546 B.C.
• However, the identity of this new king, Israel's oppressor, was not important enough for the writer to identify by name.
• His emphasis was instead on the oppression of the Israelites, the awful condition out of which God would redeem His people.

9 He said to his people, “Look, the Israelite people are more numerous and powerful than we are. 10 Come, let’s deal shrewdly with them; otherwise they will multiply further, and when war breaks out, they will join our enemies, fight against us, and leave the country.” 11 So the Egyptians assigned taskmasters over the Israelites to oppress them with forced labor. They built Pithom and Rameses as supply cities for Pharaoh. 12 But the more they oppressed them, the more they multiplied and spread so that the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites. 13 They worked the Israelites ruthlessly 14 and made their lives bitter with difficult labor in brick and mortar and in all kinds of fieldwork. They ruthlessly imposed all this work on them.[1]

• The first plan (plan A) was to make the Hebrews toil hard in manual labor.
• Normally a population grows more slowly under oppression than in prosperous times.
• However, the opposite took place in the case of the Israelites ("the more they oppressed them, the more they multiplied," v. 12).
• Physical oppression also tends to crush the spirit, and in this objective the Egyptians were somewhat successful (2:23-24).
• Tell vv. 15-22 - second plan (plan B)
• Pharaoh instructed the midwives to kill all the male babies born to a Hebrew woman.
• The midwives feared God and did not do this.
• When confronted by Pharaoh, they responded, “The Hebrew women are stronger than the Egyptian women and birth their children on their own before we can get there.”
• They lied to Pharaoh.
• God blessed the midwives, and they multiplied.
• Third plan (plan C) - Pharaoh then instructs the Hebrews to have all the male babies thrown into the Nile after birth.

 
MOSES’S BIRTH AND ADOPTION
EXODUS 2
1 Now a man from the family of Levi married a Levite woman.

• At this point Scripture's aim is to inform us that from an ordinary man, … and from an ordinary woman, … whose names there was no need to mention [at this point – 6:20], God raised up a redeemer unto his people.

2 The woman became pregnant and gave birth to a son; when she saw that he was beautiful, she hid him for three months. 3 But when she could no longer hide him, she got a papyrus basket for him and coated it with asphalt and pitch. She placed the child in it and set it among the reeds by the bank of the Nile. 4 Then his sister stood at a distance in order to see what would happen to him.

• Miriam is Moses’ only sister in the Bible that is mentioned by name.

5 Pharaoh’s daughter went down to bathe at the Nile while her servant girls walked along the riverbank. She saw the basket among the reeds, sent her slave girl, took it, 6 opened it, and saw him, the child—and there he was, a little boy, crying. She felt sorry for him and said, “This is one of the Hebrew boys.”
7 Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Should I go and call a Hebrew woman who is nursing to nurse the boy for you?”
8 “Go,” Pharaoh’s daughter told her. So the girl went and called the boy’s mother. 9 Then Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child and nurse him for me, and I will pay your wages.” So the woman took the boy and nursed him. 10 When the child grew older, she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, “Because,” she said, “I drew him out of the water.” [2]
 

• Tell vv. 11-25
• Stephen’s Message in Acts 7:17-36
• 17 “As the time was approaching to fulfill the promise that God had made to Abraham, the people flourished and multiplied in Egypt 18 until a different king who did not know Joseph ruled over Egypt. 19 He dealt deceitfully with our race and oppressed our ancestors by making them abandon their infants outside so that they wouldn’t survive. 20 At this time Moses was born, and he was beautiful in God’s sight. He was cared for in his father’s home for three months. 21 When he was put outside, Pharaoh’s daughter adopted and raised him as her own son. 22 So Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful in his speech and actions.
• 23 “When he was forty years old, he decided to visit his own people, the Israelites. 24 When he saw one of them being mistreated, he came to his rescue and avenged the oppressed man by striking down the Egyptian. 25 He assumed his people would understand that God would give them deliverance through him, but they did not understand. 26 The next day he showed up while they were fighting and tried to reconcile them peacefully, saying, ‘Men, you are brothers. Why are you mistreating each other?’
• 27 “But the one who was mistreating his neighbor pushed Moses aside, saying: Who appointed you a ruler and a judge over us? 28 Do you want to kill me, the same way you killed the Egyptian yesterday?,
• 29 “When he heard this, Moses fled and became an exile in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons. 30 After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in the flame of a burning bush. 31 When Moses saw it, he was amazed at the sight. As he was approaching to look at it, the voice of the Lord came: 32 I am the God of your ancestors—the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob., Moses began to tremble and did not dare to look.
• 33 “The Lord said to him: Take off the sandals from your feet, because the place where you are standing is holy ground. 34 I have certainly seen the oppression of my people in Egypt; I have heard their groaning and have come down to set them free. And now, come, I will send you to Egypt.,
• 35 “This Moses, whom they rejected when they said, Who appointed you a ruler and a judge?—this one God sent as a ruler and a deliverer through the angel who appeared to him in the bush. 36 This man led them out and performed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, at the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.[3]

 
MOSES AND THE BURNING BUSH
EXODUS 3
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. 2 Then the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire within a bush. As Moses looked, he saw that the bush was on fire but was not consumed. 3 So Moses thought, “I must go over and look at this remarkable sight. Why isn’t the bush burning up?”
4 When the Lord saw that he had gone over to look, God called out to him from the bush, “Moses, Moses!”
“Here I am,” he answered.

• This was the first time that God had revealed Himself to Moses, or anyone else as far as Scripture records, for over 430 years.

5 “Do not come closer,” he said. “Remove the sandals from your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.” 6 Then he continued, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” Moses hid his face because he was afraid to look at God.

• Clarifying that He was the God who had been and who always would be—the same God that their forefathers worshipped

7 Then the Lord said, “I have observed the misery of my people in Egypt, and have heard them crying out because of their oppressors. I know about their sufferings, 8 and I have come down to rescue them from the power of the Egyptians and to bring them from that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the territory of the Canaanites, Hethites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites. 9 So because the Israelites’ cry for help has come to me, and I have also seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them, 10 therefore, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh so that you may lead my people, the Israelites, out of Egypt.”
11 But Moses asked God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and that I should bring the Israelites out of Egypt?”
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.”
13 Then Moses asked God, “If I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your ancestors has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ what should I tell them?”
14 God replied to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM.

• "I am that I am" means "God will reveal Himself in His actions through history."

This is what you are to say to the Israelites: I AM has sent me to you.” 15 God also said to Moses, “Say this to the Israelites: The Lord, the God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is my name forever; this is how I am to be remembered in every generation.
16 “Go and assemble the elders of Israel and say to them: The Lord, the God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, has appeared to me and said: I have paid close attention to you and to what has been done to you in Egypt. 17 And I have promised you that I will bring you up from the misery of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites, Hethites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—a land flowing with milk and honey. 18 They will listen to what you say. Then you, along with the elders of Israel, must go to the king of Egypt and say to him: The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. Now please let us go on a three-day trip into the wilderness so that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God.
19 “However, I know that the king of Egypt will not allow you to go, even under force from a strong hand. 20 But when I stretch out my hand and strike Egypt with all my miracles that I will perform in it, after that, he will let you go. 21 And I will give these people such favor with the Egyptians that when you go, you will not go empty-handed. 22 Each woman will ask her neighbor and any woman staying in her house for silver and gold jewelry, and clothing, and you will put them on your sons and daughters. So you will plunder the Egyptians.”[4]
 

• The outstanding contribution of this book is the revelation that Yahweh is the sovereign God who provides deliverance for man from the slavery in which he finds himself.
• Jesus has delivered His Church from the slavery of sin.
• Jesus’ death & resurrection rescued us from the penalty of sin and even from the power of sin.
• Jesus has rescued us from doing our own works, and the Spirit constantly encourages us to rest in Him.

[1] Christian Standard Bible (Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers, 2020), Ex 1:1–14.
[2] Christian Standard Bible (Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers, 2020), Ex 2:1–10.
[3] Christian Standard Bible (Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers, 2020), Ac 7:17–36.
[4] Christian Standard Bible (Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers, 2020), Ex 3:1–22.

Numbers 26:59 - 59 The name of Amram’s wife was Jochebed, a descendant of Levi, born to Levi in Egypt. She bore to Amram: Aaron, Moses, and their sister Miriam.[1]
 
Exodus 6:20 - 20 Amram married his father’s sister Jochebed, and she bore him Aaron and Moses.[2]
 
Exodus 1:8-10 - 8 A new king, who had not known Joseph, came to power in Egypt. 9 He said to his people, “Look, the Israelite people are more numerous and powerful than we are. 10 Let us deal shrewdly with them; otherwise they will multiply further, and if war breaks out, they may join our enemies, fight against us, and leave the country.”[3]
Exodus 1:22 - 22 Pharaoh then commanded all his people: “You must throw every son born to the Hebrews into the Nile, but let every daughter live.”[4]
Exodus 2:1-10 - 1 Now a man (Amram) from the family of Levi married a Levite woman (Jochebed).
 Jochebed’s Credentials:
 - Jews – God’s chosen people.
 - Levites – Priests who carried out the duties of the temple/tabernacle. Very religious people.
 - They were willing to defy orders of the Pharaoh.
 - Jochebed – She had a relationship with the Lord. This is essential for parents.
2 The woman became pregnant and gave birth to a son; when she saw that he was beautiful, she hid him for three months.
Jochebed’s Courage:
 - Jochebed refused to give into a godless system that would have cost her the life of her son.
 - Hebrews 11:23-29 - 23 By faith, after Moses was born, he was hidden by his parents for three months, because they saw that the child was beautiful, and they didn’t fear the king’s edict.
 - God… make us parents who aren’t afraid to take a stand in our faith through these sinful days.
24 By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter 25 and chose to suffer with the people of God rather than to enjoy the short-lived pleasure of sin.[5]
 - Jochebed instilled her faith in her child so that one day he would have his own faith and pursue it.
Exodus 2:3-10 - 3 But when she could no longer hide him, she got a papyrus basket for him and coated it with asphalt and pitch. She placed the child in it and set it among the reeds by the bank of the Nile. 4 Then his sister stood at a distance in order to see what would happen to him.
Jochebed’s Confidence (faith):
 - It took faith to place the child in the river.
 - This was the same instrument which was being used to destroy the other babies.
 - It took faith for this mother to take her hands off the life of this child and leave him to the will of God.
 - It takes faith for us to let our children go.
 - It takes faith to just leave them in the hand of God, but the child who has a praying mother, a past filled with the Bible and training in the way of the Lord has the advantage and will do well.
5 Pharaoh’s daughter went down to bathe at the Nile while her servant girls walked along the riverbank. Seeing the basket among the reeds, she sent her slave girl to get it. 6 When she opened it, she saw the child—a little boy, crying. She felt sorry for him and said, “This is one of the Hebrew boys.”
7 Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Should I go and call a woman from the Hebrews to nurse the boy for you?”
8 “Go,” Pharaoh’s daughter told her. So the girl went and called the boy’s mother. 9 Then Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child and nurse him for me, and I will pay your wages.” So the woman took the boy and nursed him. 10 When the child grew older, she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, “Because,” she said, “I drew him out of the water.”[6]
Jochebed’s Giving Away her Son:
 - Jochebed refused to let her child be trained in the ways of the world.
 - Faith is taught at home.
 - Don’t trust the system to teach your child about faith.
 - I left what I was doing because I didn’t want anyone else to teach my kids what I had come to understand.
 - Jochebed taught Moses God’s ways rather than the world system.
 - She trained Moses then gave Moses away for God’s service.

• This is no different than what God for us with His only Son… Jesus.

[1] The Holy Bible: Holman Christian standard version. (2009). (Nu 26:59). Nashville: Holman Bible Publishers.
[2] The Holy Bible: Holman Christian standard version. (2009). (Ex 6:20). Nashville: Holman Bible Publishers.
[3] The Holy Bible: Holman Christian standard version. (2009). (Ex 1:8–10). Nashville: Holman Bible Publishers.
[4] The Holy Bible: Holman Christian standard version. (2009). (Ex 1:22). Nashville: Holman Bible Publishers.
[5] The Holy Bible: Holman Christian standard version. (2009). (Heb 11:23–29). Nashville: Holman Bible Publishers.
[6] The Holy Bible: Holman Christian standard version. (2009). (Ex 2:1–11). Nashville: Holman Bible Publishers.

Exodus 16

   - 2.5 months upon leaving 430 years of slavery in Egypt the Israelites began talking about how much better they had it in Egypt.
   - Imagine if they had FB… all the grumbling (entire Israelites)
   - The provision of mannah for 40 years.
   - 2 quarts a day… maggots and rotten
   - 8 cups = 64 oz = 2 quarts = 1/2 gallon
   - Day 7… not available
Preserve 2 quarts for remembering

Exodus 17
   - Repeat of 16 except they wanted water this time.
   - Moses told them again… you are complaining against God.
   - Moses put staff in Nile and water was provided.
   - Then Joshua was told to battle Amalek
   - They would win as long as Moses held up his hands.
   - Aaron & Hur helped him hold up his arms.

Exodus 18
   - Jethro (Moses’ Father-in-Law) came to check on Moses (also brought his wife and kids)
   - Jethro assessed how God provided for Israelites
   - He also assessed what Moses was doing
   - Encouraged him to put faithful men in charge of duties that seemed as if only he could do them.

Exodus 19
   - God heard the Israelites and told Moses the plan to meet with him on Mt. Sinai.
   - Moses consecrated the people and told them to stay away from the holy mountain.

Exodus 20 (Ten Commandments)
Exodus 21 – Laws about injuries
Exodus 22 – Social Matters
Exodus 23 – 3 Annual Festivals
Exodus 24 – Covenant Confirmed
Exodus 25-31 – Tabernacle Revealed
   - Ark & lampstand
   - Curtains & walls
   - Altar & Court
   - Priestly Clothing
   - The Priests
   - Anointing Oil
   - The Sabbath
Exodus 32 – Golden Calf
Exodus 33-34 – Covenant Renewed
   - God’s Glory (Moses’ veil)
   - New Tablets
Exodus 35-40 – Tabernacle Construction
   - Materials
   - Skilled Artisans
   - The Ark
   - The Courtyard
   - Moses Inspects
   - God’s Glory

Exodus 40:34 -  The cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. 35 Moses was unable to enter the tent of meeting because the cloud rested on it, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. [1]

Hebrews 11
1 Now faith is the reality of what is hoped for, the proof of what is not seen. 2 For our ancestors won God’s approval by it.
3 By faith we understand that the universe was created by God’s command, eso that what is seen has been made from things that are not visible.
4 By faith Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than Cain did. By faith he was approved as a righteous man, because God approved his gifts, and even though he is dead, he still speaks through his faith.
5 By faith Enoch was taken away so he did not experience death, and he was not to be found because God took him away. For prior to his removal he was approved, since he had pleased God. 6 Now without faith it is impossible to please God, for the one who draws near to Him must believe that He exists and rewards those who seek Him.
7 By faith Noah, after he was warned about what was not yet seen and motivated by godly fear, built an ark to deliver his family. By faith he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.
8 By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed and went out to a place he was going to receive as an inheritance. He went out, not knowing where he was going. 9 By faith he stayed as a foreigner in the land of promise, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, coheirs of the same promise. 10 For he was looking forward to the city that has foundations, whose architect and builder is God.
11 By faith even Sarah herself, when she was unable to have children, received power to conceive offspring, even though she was past the age, since she considered that the One who had promised was faithful. 12 Therefore from one man—in fact, from one as good as dead—came offspring as numerous as the stars of heaven and as innumerable as the grains of sand by the seashore.
13 These all died in faith without having received the promises, but they saw them from a distance, greeted them, and confessed that they were foreigners and temporary residents on the earth. 14 Now those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking a homeland. 15 If they were thinking about where they came from, they would have had an opportunity to return. 16 But they now desire a better place—a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them.
17 By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac. He received the promises and he was offering his unique son, 18 the one it had been said about, Your seed will be traced through Isaac. v19 He considered God to be able even to raise someone from the dead, and as an illustration, he received him back.
20 By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come. 21 By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph, and he worshiped, leaning on the top of his staff. a22 By faith Joseph, as he was nearing the end of his life, mentioned the exodus of the Israelites and gave instructions concerning his bones.
23 By faith, after Moses was born, he was hidden by his parents for three months, because they saw that the child was beautiful, and they didn’t fear the king’s edict. 24 By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter 25 and chose to suffer with the people of God rather than to enjoy the short-lived pleasure of sin. 26 For he considered the reproach because of the Messiah to be greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, since his attention was on the reward.
27 By faith he left Egypt behind, not being afraid of the king’s anger, for Moses persevered as one who sees Him who is invisible. 28 By faith he instituted the Passover and the sprinkling of the blood, so that the destroyer of the firstborn might not touch the Israelites. 29 By faith they crossed the Red Sea as though they were on dry land. When the Egyptians attempted to do this, they were drowned. [2]
…
39 All these were approved through their faith, but they did not receive what was promised, 40 since God had provided something better for us, so that they would not be made perfect without us.[3]

Exodus 20 (Ten Commandments)
3 Do not have other gods besides Me.
4 Do not make an idol for yourself, whether in the shape of anything in the heavens above or on the earth below or in the waters under the earth. 5 You must not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the fathers’ sin, to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, 6 but showing faithful love to a thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My commands.
7 Do not misuse the name of the Lord your God, because the Lord will not leave anyone unpunished who misuses His name.
8 Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy: 9 You are to labor six days and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. You must not do any work—you, your son or daughter, your male or female slave, your livestock, or the foreigner who is within your gates. 11 For the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and everything in them in six days; then He rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and declared it holy.
12 Honor your father and your mother so that you may have a long life in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.
13 Do not murder.
14 Do not commit adultery.
15 Do not steal.
16 Do not give false testimony against your neighbor.
17 Do not covet your neighbor’s house. Do not covet your neighbor’s wife, his male or female slave, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor[4]

   - The greatest love story of all time…
   - “Jesus, I Believe” – Big Daddy Weave

[1] The Holy Bible: Holman Christian standard version. (2009). (Ex 40:34–35). Nashville: Holman Bible Publishers.
[2] The Holy Bible: Holman Christian standard version. (2009). (Heb 11:1–29). Nashville: Holman Bible Publishers.
[3] The Holy Bible: Holman Christian standard version. (2009). (Heb 11:39–40). Nashville: Holman Bible Publishers.
[4] The Holy Bible: Holman Christian standard version. (2009). (Ex 20:3–17). Nashville: Holman Bible Publishers.

Exodus 1
   - Chapter 1 begins where we left off in Genesis
   - Jacob (Israel) and his family of 70 transferred to Egypt with Joseph.
   - Then they died (v6)
7 But the Israelites were fruitful, increased rapidly, multiplied, and became extremely numerous so that the land was filled with them.
8 A new king, who had not known Joseph, came to power in Egypt. 9 He said to his people, “Look, the Israelite people are more numerous and powerful than we are. 10 Let us deal shrewdly with them; otherwise they will multiply further, and if war breaks out, they may join our enemies, fight against us, and leave the country.” 11 So the Egyptians assigned taskmasters over the Israelites to oppress them with forced labor.
15 Then the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, 16 “When you help the Hebrew women give birth, observe them as they deliver. If the child is a son, kill him, but if it’s a daughter, she may live.”
   - Midwives did not carry this out because they feared God.

 21 Since the midwives feared God, He gave them families. 22 Pharaoh then commanded all his people: “You must throw every son born to the Hebrews into the Nile, but let every daughter live.”

Exodus 2 1 Now a man from the family of Levi married a Levite woman. 2 The woman became pregnant and gave birth to a son; when she saw that he was beautiful, she hid him for three months. 3 But when she could no longer hide him, she got a papyrus basket for him and coated it with asphalt and pitch. She placed the child in it and set it among the reeds by the bank of the Nile. 4 Then his sister stood at a distance in order to see what would happen to him.
5 Pharaoh’s daughter went down to bathe at the Nile while her servant girls walked along the riverbank. Seeing the basket among the reeds, she sent her slave girl to get it. 6 When she opened it, she saw the child—a little boy, crying. She felt sorry for him and said, “This is one of the Hebrew boys.”
7 Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Should I go and call a woman from the Hebrews to nurse the boy for you?”
8 “Go,” Pharaoh’s daughter told her. So the girl went and called the boy’s mother. 9 Then Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child and nurse him for me, and I will pay your wages.” So the woman took the boy and nursed him. 10 When the child grew older, she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, “Because,” she said, “I drew him out of the water.”
11 Years later, after Moses had grown up, he went out to his own people and observed their forced labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his people. 12 Looking all around and seeing no one, he struck the Egyptian dead and hid him in the sand. 13 The next day he went out and saw two Hebrews fighting. He asked the one in the wrong, “Why are you attacking your neighbor?”
14 “Who made you a leader and judge over us?” the man replied. “Are you planning to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?”
Then Moses became afraid and thought: What I did is certainly known. 15 When Pharaoh heard about this, he tried to kill Moses. But Moses fled from Pharaoh and went to live in the land of Midian, and sat down by a well.
   - Moses ends up marrying a Hebrew woman (Zipporah) and having a son with her.

23 After a long time, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned because of their difficult labor, and they cried out; and their cry for help ascended to God because of the difficult labor. 24 So God heard their groaning, and He remembered His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 25 God saw the Israelites, and He took notice.

Exodus 3
   - Moses takes his flocks to Horeb and God appears to him in a burning bush.
   - God tells Moses He is very aware of the Hebrews situation and hears their cries.
   - Therefore, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh so that you may lead My people, the Israelites, out of Egypt.”
11 But Moses asked God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and that I should bring the Israelites out of Egypt?”
12 He answered, “I will certainly be with you, and this will be the sign to you that I have sent you: when you bring the people out of Egypt, you will all worship God at this mountain.”
13 Then Moses asked God, “If I go to the Israelites and say to them: The God of your fathers has sent me to you, and they ask me, ‘What is His name?’ what should I tell them?”
14 God replied to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM. fThis is what you are to say to the Israelites: I AM has sent me to you.” 15 God also said to Moses, “Say this to the Israelites: Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is My name forever; this is how I am to be remembered in every generation…

19 “However, I know that the king of Egypt will not allow you to go, unless he is forced by a strong hand. 20 I will stretch out My hand and strike Egypt with all My miracles that I will perform in it. After that, he will let you go.
   - God promises to provide for Hebrews and wipe out the Egyptians.

Exodus 4 
1 Then Moses answered, “What if they won’t believe me and will not obey me but say, ‘The Lord did not appear to you’?”
   - Throw your staff down… snake... pick it up.
   - Stick your hand in your robe pull it out (diseased)
   - Do it again (healed)
   -  Moses then says he is not a good speaker.
   - God will speak for Moses
   - Take your brother Aaron with you.
   - Tell him what to say
   - I will work through both of you.
   - Don’t forget your staff
   - Moses took his family back to Egypt
21 The Lord instructed Moses, “When you go back to Egypt, make sure you do all the wonders before Pharaoh that I have put within your power. But I will harden his heart so that he won’t let the people go.
   - Moses meets Aaron at Hebron
   - They make a game plan and gather everyone
   - Moses shows them God is in this
   - They believed and worshipped God.

Exodus 5 
1 Later, Moses and Aaron went in and said to Pharaoh, “This is what Yahweh, the God of Israel, says: Let My people go, so that they may hold a festival for Me in the wilderness.”
   - Pharaoh (different one) said I do not know your God
   - Pharaoh said to Moses that there was too much work to be done and couldn’t stop
   - Pharaoh them made it even harder on the Hebrews.
15 So the Israelite foremen went in and cried for help to Pharaoh: “Why are you treating your servants this way? 16 No straw has been given to your servants, yet they say to us, ‘Make bricks!’ Look, your servants are being beaten, but it is your own people who are at fault.”
17 But he said, “You are slackers. Slackers! That is why you are saying, ‘Let us go sacrifice to the Lord.’ 18 Now get to work. No straw will be given to you, but you must produce the same quantity of bricks.”
   - Moses asked God why more trouble for his people?

Exodus 6
1 But the Lord replied to Moses, “Now you are going to see what I will do to Pharaoh: he will let them go because of My strong hand; he will drive them out of his land because of My strong hand.”
   - God reminded Moses of who He was and the promise He made to His ancestors.
   - God told Moses to remind the Hebrews.
   - God told Moses & Aaron to return to Pharaoh

Exodus 7
6 So Moses and Aaron did this; they did just as the Lord commanded them. 7 Moses was 80 years old and Aaron 83 when they spoke to Pharaoh.
8 The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, 9 “When Pharaoh tells you, ‘Perform a miracle,’ tell Aaron, ‘Take your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh. It will become a serpent.’ ” 10 So Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh and did just as the Lord had commanded. Aaron threw down his staff before Pharaoh and his officials, and it became a serpent. 11 But then Pharaoh called the wise men and sorcerers—the magicians of Egypt, and they also did the same thing by their occult practices. 12 Each one threw down his staff, and it became a serpent. But Aaron’s staff swallowed their staffs. 13 However, Pharaoh’s heart hardened, and he did not listen to them, as the Lord had said.
   - God tells Moses to return to Pharaoh
   - Staff in the Nile… river to blood… fish died, smelled bad
   - Then all water sources in Egypt were turned to blood.
   - Egyptian magicians did similar
   - 7 days passed

Exodus 8
   - God tells Moses to return to Pharaoh
   - Plague of Frogs (magicians matched)
   - Pharaoh bartered with Moses
   - Take frogs away and I will respond
   - Frogs died except in the Nile
   - Pharaoh reversed his decision
   - Plague of gnats… rose up from the dust
   - Magicians could not match (finger of God)
   - God tells Moses to return to Pharaoh
   - Plague of flys (only to Egyptians… not Goshen)
   - Pharaoh bartered with Moses
   - Take flies away and you can go worship

Exodus 9
   - God tells Moses to return to Pharaoh
   - Plague of livestock
   - Pharaoh got report it was only the Egyptians animals that died
   - Pharaoh’s heart was still hardened
8 Then the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “Take handfuls of furnace soot, and Moses is to throw it toward heaven in the sight of Pharaoh. 9 It will become fine dust over the entire land of Egypt. It will become festering boils on man and beast throughout the land of Egypt.” 10 So they took furnace soot and stood before Pharaoh. Moses threw it toward heaven, and it became festering boils on man and beast. 11 The magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils, for the boils were on the magicians as well as on all the Egyptians. 12 But the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart and he did not listen to them, as the Lord had told Moses.
   - God tells Moses to return to Pharaoh
   - All plagues & worst hail storm
   - Man and livestock were crushed by hail
   - Some crops destroyed
   - Pharaoh bartered with Moses
   - Hardened his heart again

Exodus 10
   - God tells Moses to return to Pharaoh
   - Plague of locusts
   - Ate everything green
   - Pharaoh bartered with Moses (all families must go too)
   - Hardened his heart again
   - God tells Moses to return to Pharaoh
   - Plague of darkness except in Goshen for 3 days
   - Pharaoh bartered with Moses (animals must go too)
   - Hardened his heart again

Exodus 11
   - God tells Moses to return to Pharaoh
   - One more plague
4 So Moses said, “This is what Yahweh says: ‘About midnight I will go throughout Egypt, 5 and every firstborn male in the land of Egypt will die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne to the firstborn of the servant girl who is behind the millstones, as well as every firstborn of the livestock. 6 Then there will be a great cry of anguish through all the land of Egypt such as never was before, or ever will be again. 7 But against all the Israelites, whether man or beast, not even a dog will snarl, so that you may know that Yahweh makes a distinction between Egypt and Israel. 8 All these officials of yours will come down to me and bow before me, saying: Leave, you and all the people who follow you. After that, I will leave.’ ” And he left Pharaoh’s presence in fierce anger.
9 The Lord said to Moses, “Pharaoh will not listen to you, so that My wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.” 10 Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh, but the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he would not let the Israelites go out of his land.

Exodus 12
   - God gave instruction to Moses
   - Take unblemished animal (you can share)
   - Sacrifice it at Twilight
   - Spread the blood over the door
   - Roast the meat and eat it all
   - Be prepared to leave
24 “Keep this command permanently as a statute for you and your descendants. 25 When you enter the land that the Lord will give you as He promised, you are to observe this ritual. 26 When your children ask you, ‘What does this ritual mean to you?’ 27 you are to reply, ‘It is the Passover sacrifice to the Lord, for He passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt when He struck the Egyptians and spared our homes.’ ” So the people bowed down and worshiped. 28 Then the Israelites went and did this; they did just as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron.
29 Now at midnight the Lord struck every firstborn male in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the prisoner who was in the dungeon, and every firstborn of the livestock. 30 During the night Pharaoh got up, he along with all his officials and all the Egyptians, and there was a loud wailing throughout Egypt because there wasn’t a house without someone dead. 31 He summoned Moses and Aaron during the night and said, “Get up, leave my people, both you and the Israelites, and go, worship Yahweh as you have asked. 32 Take even your flocks and your herds as you asked and leave, and also bless me.”
   - Hebrews left quickly taking their unrisen dough
   - Egyptians paid the Hebrews to leave
 40 The time that the Israelites lived in Egypt was 430 years.
   - They partook in the Passover meal

Exodus 13 
1 The Lord spoke to Moses: 2 “Consecrate every firstborn male to Me, the firstborn from every womb among the Israelites, both man and domestic animal; it is Mine.” …

6 For seven days you must eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there is to be a festival to the Lord…

 18 So He led the people around toward the Red Sea along the road of the wilderness. And the Israelites left the land of Egypt in battle formation.
19 Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, because Joseph had made the Israelites swear a solemn oath, saying, “God will certainly come to your aid; then you must take my bones with you from this place.”
20 They set out from Succoth and camped at Etham on the edge of the wilderness. 21 The Lord went ahead of them in a pillar of cloud to lead them on their way during the day and in a pillar of fire to give them light at night, so that they could travel day or night. 22 The pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night never left its place in front of the people. [1]

[1] The Holy Bible: Holman Christian standard version. (2009). (Ex 1:1–13:22). Nashville: Holman Bible Publishers.