THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MOSES – WEEK 1
INTRODUCTION TO EXODUS
JANUARY 19, 2025
EXODUS 1:1-7 – These are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt with Jacob, each with his household: 2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, 3 Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin, 4 Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher. 5 All the descendants of Jacob were seventy persons; Joseph was already in Egypt. 6 Then Joseph died, and all his brothers and all that generation. 7 But the people of Israel were fruitful and increased greatly; they multiplied and grew exceedingly strong, so that the land was filled with them.
Exodus answers life’s biggest questions:
Who is God?
Who are we?
What does freedom look like?
Story of two nations:
Egypt
Israel
Adventures in Exodus:
Pharaoh’s edict to have babies killed
Moses survives Nile River
Burning bush that talks
Plagues
Death Angel
Passover
Parting of the Red Sea
Bread from heaven
Water from a rock
10 Commandments
God leading His people
Golden calf
The Tabernacle
Exodus (צֵ֥את) – exit, departure.
EXODUS 19:1 – On the third new moon after the people of Israel had gone out of the land of Egypt, on that day they came into the wilderness of Sinai.
The book of Exodus is:
Biblical
Historical
Theological
Practical
BIBLICAL
EXODUS 17:14 – Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write this as a memorial in a book and recite it in the ears of Joshua…”
EXODUS 24:4 – And Moses wrote down all the words of the LORD.
EXODUS 34:27 – And the Lord said to Moses, “Write these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.”
MATTHEW 2:15 – This was to fulfill what the Lord had spoken by the prophet, “Out of Egypt I called my son.”
JOHN 6:31-35 – Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written, ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’ ” 32 Jesus then said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven. 33 For the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.” 34 They said to him, “Sir, give us this bread always.” 35 Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.
1 CORINTHIANS 5:7 – “…For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.
HISTORICAL
OT Genres:
Prophetic – Isaiah, Hosea, Jeremiah.
Apocalyptic – Revelation, Daniel
Wisdom/Poetic – Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes
Historical – Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy…
Possible Dates of Exodus:
15th Century BC (1500-1400 BC)
13th Century BC (1300-1200 BC)
EXODUS 13:17 – When Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them by way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near. For God said, “Lest the people change their minds when they see war and return to Egypt.”
“The book of Exodus cannot possibly be fictional. No nation would be likely to invent for itself, and faithfully transmit century after century and millennium after millennium, an inglorious and inconvenient tradition of this nature.”
Nahum Sarna (Jewish scholar and professor)