Exodus: These Are The Words, an Overview

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These Are The Words or These Are the Names, deals with escape; departure; sin can be overcomed; God is needed; God's chosen people; deliverance; can't keep the Law without His Spirit; going out; originaly called "These the names"; written by Moses, 1443-1403 BC.

Referance: "The Compodemium of History", by Dr. Hoeh

Joseph brought his family to Egypt and protected them there. But after Joseph's death, as they multiplied into a nation, they were forced into slavery. God then prepared Moses to free his people from slavery and lead them out of Egypt. To help Moses, God unleashed ten plagues upon the land. After the the tenth plage, Pharaoh let the people go. On the night before their deliverance God's new nation celebrated the Passover. Just as God delivered Israel from Egypt, He delivers us from sin, death, and evil.

Exodus 17:14 "...Then the Lord said to Moses, "Write this for a memorial in the book and recount it in the hearing of Joshua, that I will utterly block out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven..."

Exodus 34:27-28 "...Then the Lord said to Moses, "Write these words, for according to the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel." So he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread nor drank water. And He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments..."

Exodus 24:5-7 "...Then he sent young men of the children of Israel, who offered burnt offerings and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen to the Lord. And Moses took half the blood and put it in basins, and half the blood he sprinkled on the altar. Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read in the hearing of the people. And they said, "All that the Lord has said we will do, and be obedient..."

Mark 12:26-27 "...But concerning the dead, that they rise, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the burning bush passage, how God spoke to him, saying, "I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob"? He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living. You are therefore greatly mistaken..."

Mark 7:10 "...For Moses said, "Honor your father and mother", and, "He who curses father or mother, let him be put to death."

THEME: Redemption and Deliverance

Exodus 6:6 "...Therefore say to the children of Israel: I am the Lord; I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, I will rescue you from their bondage, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great judgments..." (Plagues)

v. 15:13 "...You in Your mercy have led forth the people whom You have redeemed; You have guided them in Your strength to Your holy habitation..."

v. 12:27-28 "...that you shall say, "It is the Passover sacrifice of the Lord, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt when He struck the Egyptians and delivered our households." So the people bowed their heads and worshiped. Then the children of Israel went away and did so; just as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did..."

v. 3:8 "...So I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites and the Hittites and Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites..."

PURPOSE: (1) To show God's power over sin

Exodus 14:17-18; 30-31 "...And I indeed will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall follow them. So I will gain honor over Pharaoh and over all his army, his chariots, and his horsemen. Then the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, when I have gained honor for Myself over Pharaoh, his chariots, and his horsemen...So the Lord saved Israel that day out of the hand of theEgyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore. Thus Israel saw the great work which the Lord had done in Egypt; so the people feared the Lord, and believed the Lord and His servant Moses..."

(2) To show the purpose and application of the Law

Exodus 19:5-8; 6 "...Now therefore, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be a special treasure to Me above all people; for all the earth is Mine. And you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel." So Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and laid before them all these words which the Lord commanded him. Then all the people answserd together and sid, "All that the Lord has spoken we will do." So Moses brought back the words of the people to the Lord..." (v. 5-6 Apply to God's Church of today, along with Exodus 20, the Ten Commandments)

(3) To show Israel as HIS nation

Exodus 12:37-38 "...Then the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses toSuccoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides children. A mixed multitude went up with them also, and flocks and herds--a great deal of livestock..."

(4) To show how to worship God

Exodus 34:10-14 "...And He said: "Behold, I make a covenant. Before all our people I will do marvels such as have not been done in all the earth nor in any nation; and all the people among whom you are shall see the work of the Lord. For it is an awesome thing that I will do with you. Observe what I command you this day. Behold, I am driving out from before you the Amorite and the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jubusite. Take heed to yourself, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it be a snare in your midst. But you shall destroy their altars, break their sacred pillars, and cut down their wooden images (for you shall worship no other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God)..."

CHAPTER OVERVIEWS

Chapters 1-15: Oppression and Release

Chapters 16-24: The Old Covenant

Chapters 25-31: Instruction for the Tabernacle

Chapters 32-34: Provocation, Punishment, and Pardon

Chapters 34-40: Construction of the Tabernacle

Exodus 2:1-3, 11-15 "...And a man of the house of Levi went and took as wife a daughater of Levi. So the woman conceived and bore a son. And when she saw that he was a beautiful child, she hid him three months. But when she could no longer hide him, she took an ark of bulrushes for him, daubed it with asphalt and pitch, put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river's bank...Now it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out to his brethren and looked at their burdens. And he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his brethren. So he looked this way and that way, and when he saw no one, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand. And when he went out the second day, behold, two Hebrew men were fighting, and he said to the one who did the wrong, "Why are you striking your companion?" Then he said, "Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you intend to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?" So Moses feared and said, "Surely this thing is known!" When Pharaoh heard of this matter, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh and dwelt in the land of Midian; and he sat down by a well.."

(2) Delivered From Pharaoh (From the Devil Spiritually)

Moses Delivers Israel

Exodus 3:7-10 "...And the Lord said, "I have surely seen the oppression of My people who are in Egypt,and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows. So I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land to a good and a large land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites. Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to Me, and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egytians oppress them. Come now, therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring My people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt..."

Moses A Type of Christ

Romans 11:26 "...And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: (Psalm 14:7) "...Oh, that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion! When the Lord brings back the captivity of His people, let Jacob rejoice and Israel be glad...")...The Deliverer will come out of Zion, and He will turn away ungodliness of Jacob..."

Colossians 1:13 "...He has delivered us from the power of darkness and translated us into the kingdom of the Son of His love..."

Exodus 2:8, 1-3 "...And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Go." So the maiden went and called the child's mother..when she saw that he (Moses) was a beautiful child, she hid him three months...took an ark and put the child in it, and laid it..by the river's bank...">)

Exodus 2:9-10 "...Then Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Take this child away and nurse him for me, and I will give you your wages." So the woman took the child and nursed him. And the child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. So she called his name Moses, saying, "Because I drew him out of the water..."

Hebrews 11:24, 27-28 "...By faith Moses, when he became of age, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter...By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured as seeing Him who is invisible. By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood, lest he who destroyed the firstborn should touch them..."

Acts 7:20, 23 "...At this time Moses was born, and was well pleasing to God; and was brought up in his father's house for three months...but when he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren, the children of Israel..."

Exodus 2:14 "...Then he (The Hewrew man who was fighting) said, "Who made you prince and a judge over us? Do you intend to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?..."

Acts 7:35-36, 30 "...This Moses whom they rejected, saying, "Who made you a ruler and a judge?" is the one God sent to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the Angel who appeared to him in a bush. He brought them out, after he had shown wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness forty years...And when forty years had passed, an Angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire in a bush, in the wilderness of Mount Sinai..."

Exodus 7:1-7 "...So the Lord said to Moses: "See, I have made you as God to Pharaoh, and Aaron, your brother shall be your prophet. You shall speak all that I command you. And Aaron your brother shall speak to Pharaoh, that he must send the children of Israel out of his land. And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply My signs and My wonders in the land of Egypt. But Pharaoh will not heed you, so that I may lay My hand on Egypt and bring My armies and My people, the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgments. And the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, when I stretch out My hand on Egypt and bring out the children of Israel from among them. Then Moses and Aaron did so; just as the Lord commanded them, so they did. And Moses was eighty-three years old when they spoke to Pharaoh..." (HIS plagues were to undermine the gods of Egypt, that HIS People, the Israelites had been slaves to for 200 years)

God Reveals Himself

Exodus 15:11 "...Who is like You, O Lord, among the gods? Who is like You, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders..."

Exodus 18:10-11 "...And Jethro said, "Blessed be the Lord, who has delivered you out of the hand of Pharaoh, and who has delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians. Now I know that the Lord is greater than all the gods; for in the very thing in which they behaved proudly, He was above them..."

Israel at Mount Sinai: Exodus 19

Exodus 20:3, 23 "...You shall have no other gods before Me...You shall not make anything to be with Me-- gods of silver or gods of gold you shall not make for yourselves..."

Exodus 23:13, 24, 32-33 "...And in all that I have said to you, be circumspect and make no mention of the name of other gods, nor let it be heard from your mouth...You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do according to their works; but you shall utterly overthrow them and completely break down their sacred pillars...You shall make no covenant with them, nor with their gods. They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against Me. For if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you..."

The Passover: Chapter 12

The Passover Instituted (Exodus 12:1-28)

The Tenth Plague: Death of the Firstborn (Exodus 12:29-30)

The Exodus (Exodus 12:31-42)

Passover Regulations (Exodus 12:43-51)

The Manna, The Sabbath: Chapter 16

Bread from Heaven Exodus 16:1-36

The Old Covenant: Chapters 19-24

Israel at Mount Sinai Exodus 19:1-25

The Ten Commandments Exodus 20:1-17

The People Afraid of God's Presence Exodus 20:18-21

The Law of the Altar Exodus 20:22-26

The Law Concerning Servants Exodus 21:1-11

The Law Concerning Violence Exodus 21:12-27

Animal Control Laws Exodus 21:28-36

Responsibility for Property Exodus 22:1-15

Moral and Ceremonial Principles Exodus 22:16-31

Justice for All Exodus 23:1-9

The Law of Sabbaths Exodus 23:10-13

Three Annual Feasts Exodus 23:14-19

The Angel and the Promises Exodus 23:20-33

Israel Confirms the Covenant Exodus 24:1-8

On the Mountain with God Exodus 24:9-18

Exodus 20, 31, 40

The Ten Commandments

The Law of the Altar

Artisans for Building the Tabernacle

The Sabbath Law

The Tabernacle erected and Arranged

The Cloud and the Glory

Exodus 14:13-14 "...And Moses said to the people, "Do not be afraid. Stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord, which He will accomplish for you today. For the Egyptians whom you see today, you shall see again no more forever. The Lord will fight for you, and you shall hold your peace..." (The Lord will do His part, we must do our part by obedience)

Exodus 15:26 "...and said, "If you diligently heed the voice of the Lord your God and do what is right in His sight, give ear to His commandments and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have brought on the Egyptians. For I am the Lord who heals you..." (Yahweh-Ropheka)

Exodus 20:1-17 "...And God spoke all these words, saying: "I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

1. You shall have lno other gods before Me.

2. You shall not make for yourself any carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.

3. You shall not take the name of the Lord our God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.

4. Rember the Sabbbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your manservant, nor your maidservant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.

5. Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

6. You shall not murder.

7. Your shall not commit adultery.

8. You shall not steal.

9. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

10. You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's..."

Exodus 31:17 "...It is a sign between Me and the children of Iasrael forever; for in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day He rested and was refreshed..."

Exodus 12:40-41 "...Now the sojourn of the children of Israel who lived in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years. And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years (1443 B.C. approx.)--on that very same day--it came to pass that all the armies of the Lord went out from the land of Egypt..."

Genesis 17:2-8 "...And I will make My covenant between Me and you, and will multiplly you exceedingly. Then Abram fell on his face, and God talked with him, saying: "As for Me, behold, My covenant is with you, and you shall be a father of many nations. No longer shall your name be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham; for I have made you a father of many nations. I will make you exceedingly fruitful; and I will make nations of you, and kings shall come from you. And I will extablish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and your descendants after you. Also I give to you and your descendants after you The Land (1873 B.C.) in which you are a stranger, all the land of Canaan, as an everlasting possession; and I will be their God..." (Sojourning lasted 45 years before The Land)

Genesis 15:13 "...Then He said to Abram: "Know certainly that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them, and they will afflict them four hundred years..." (1397 B.C.)

Genesis 25:7-8 "...This is the sum of the years of Abraham's life which he lived: one hundred and seventy-five years. Then Abraham breathed his last and died in a good old age, an old man and full of years, and was gathered to his people..." (1797-400 = 1397 B.C.)

(5) The Urim and Thummim

Exodus 28:30 "...And you shall put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim, and they shall be over Aaron's heart when he goes in before the Lord. So Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel over his heart before the Lord continually..."

Leviticus 8:8 "...Then he put the breastplate on him, and he put the Urim and the Thummim in the breastplate..."

Ezra 2:63; Nehemiah 7:65 "...And the govenor said to them that they should not eat of the most holy things till a priest could consult with the Urim and Thummim..." (Lights and Perfection; the perfect Revelation or Truth from God; the revealing of God's judgment)

This concludes the overview of Exodus. Our next overview is Leviticus. Till we meet again, God bless!

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