The birth of Moses to
entering the Promised Land
Exodus 1:5-7 The children of Israel came to Egypt in a family group of seventy persons, and at the beginning of this lesson they have multiplied exceedingly and the land was filled with them.
Exodus 1:8-14 Because of Pharaoh's fear that these people would rise up against him, He oppressed them and they became slaves instead of remaining the free group that had come down to Egypt to live.
Exodus 1:15-22 The king of Egypt made a decree that the midwives to the Hebrew women were to kill a baby if it was a son and let it live if it was a daaughter. But the midwives did not do as the king of Egypt commanded because they feared God and the people continued to multiply.
Moses
There are three distinct 40 year periods in the life of Moses.
- The first forty years were learning in the courts of Egypt.
- The second forty years were spent on the back side of the desert on the
plains of Sinai herding sheep
- The third forty years were spent leading the children of Israel to the Promised Land.
The first forty years of Moses
- Exodus 2:1-4 birth of Moses. Because of the decree of Pharaoh the mother of
Moses was trying to keep him hidden.
- Exodus 2:5-6 Pharaoh's daughter finds Moses and has compassion on him and
wants him for her own.
- Exodus 2:7-9 The mother of Moses was paid by Pharaoh's daughter to nurse him.
- Exodus 2:10 Moses becomes the son of Pharoah's daughter.
- Exodus 2:11-12 Moses slays an Egyptian that was smiting an Hebrew.
The second forty years of Moses
- Exodus 2:13-13-15 Moses flees from the wrath of Pharaoh.
- Exodus 2:16-25 Moses becomes a shepherd.
- Exodus 3:1-10 The burning bush. God tells Moses that he is to bring the children
of Israel out of Egypt.
- Exodus 4:10-17 Moses argued with God and the anger of the Lord was kindled
against Moses. God sends Aaron with Moses to Pharaoh.
The third forty years of Moses
Moses the deliverer.
- Exodus 5:1-9 Moses and Aaron meet with Pharaoh. Pharaoh is angered and increases
the peoples workload by making them gather their own straw to make bricks.
- Exodus 7:7 Moses was eighty years old when he spoke to Pharaoh.
- Exodus 7:8-13 Pharaoh refuses to hear what Moses and Aaron have to say.
In adding to the hardness of Pharaoh's heart,
God was acting on a divine principle that applies to all the unrepentant. When a person persists in
rebellion against God and His Word, God finally ordains that the heart be hardened. This principle is
seen in God giving people up to their own sinful desires (Romans 1:24-25), and in His sending a
delusion on those who refuse to love the truth of His Word (II Thes 2:11-12).
Notice that the judgments of the early plagues softened
Pharaoh's heart a little. When God removed each plague, his heart was hardened again. Pharaoh hardened his
own heart whenever God showed mercy.
The ten plagues
- Exodus 7:14-25 Water in the river turned to blood.
- Exodus 8:1-14 Frogs.
- Exodus 8:15-19 Lice.
- Exodus 8:20-32 Swarms of flies.
- Exodus 9:1-7 Cattle of Egypt die.
- Exodus 9:8-12 Boils breaking forth with blains.
- Exodus 9:13-16 Pestilence.
- Exodus 9:17-30 Grievous hail.
- Exodus 10:12-27 Locusts.
- Exodus 12:29-30 Every firstborn in Egypt died.
Exodus 12:1-28 God gives the children of Israel instructions to follow so their children will not be destroyed. They are also to keep this feast every year to remember their deliverence from Egypt.
Children of Israel leave Egypt
- Exodus 12:30-39 Children of Israel thrust out of Egypt.
- Exodus 14:5-9 Pharaoh changes his mind and chases after the children of Israel.
- Exodus 14:10-12 The children of Israel fear when they see Pharaoh and his army.
- Exodus 14:13-14 Moses said,"Fear not, stand still, and see the salvation of the
Lord".
- Exodus 14:15-22 The children of Israel cross the sea on dry ground when the waters
are parted by God.
- Exodus 14:23-28 All the Egyptians that were chasing the children of Israel died in the sea when
it came crashing down on them.
The Law
- Exodus chapter 20 The Ten Commandments.
- Exodus chapters 21,22,and 23 The rest of the Law.
The Tabernacle - Man's approach to God.
Exodus 25:1-9 God orders a sanctuary be built for him. Hebrews 8:5,
Hebrews 9:8-10,24-26 The design and layout of the Tabernacle was a shadow and example of the
New Testament salvation.
- Exodus 27:9-19 The Court of the Tabernacle. 50 cubits wide, 100 cubits long,
10 cubits high. Only one entrance on the east end showing that there is only one way to
salvation.
- Exodus 27:1-8 The Brazen Altar of Burnt Sacrifices was just inside the gate
and everyone hade to enter by way of the altar and make sacrifice for their sin. Leviticus 17:11
- John 1:29, Hebrews 9:28 Jesus Christ was our lamb and perfect sacrifice.
- Exodus 30:17-21 The Laver of brass is where the priest had to wash himself
in the court before entering the tabernacle. If the priest did not wash before going into the tabernacle he
would die. The laver was a place of washing and cleansing just as baptism is a washing annd cleansing
from sin.
- I Corinnthians 6:11 Sins are forgiven at the altar of repentance and washed away
in baptism.
- The Holy Place of the Tabernacle. 10 cubits wide, 20 cubits long, 10 cubits high.
In the Holy Place was placed the golden candlestick, the altar of incense, and the table of shewbread.
- Exodus 25:31-40 The Golden Candlestick provided the only light in the
tabernacle for the priest to perform his duties. It was made of one beaten piece of gold just as Christ
was first beaten before we could recieve his light.
- Exodus 25:23-30 The Table of Shewbread contained twelve loaves of
unleavened bread which provided sustenance for the priest and his sons. It points to Jesus, who is the
bread of life, and to his word, which is food for the soul. Just as the table exhibited the bread, the Christian
life exhibits Jesus to a dying world.
- Exodus 30:1-10 The Altar of Incense represents prayers to God
(Revelation 5:8). The incense was offered each morning and evening. Likewise, we should pray each
morning and evening. The fire for the altar of incense came from the altar of sacrifice, signifying that before
we can truely pray we must be a death to sin and self. The altar of incense was located before the veil that
separated the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place.
- The Most Holy Place of the Tabernacle. 10 cubits wide, 10 cubits long, 10 cubits high.
Behind the veil at the west end of the Holy Place was the Most Holy Place, which was the dwelling place of
God (Exodus 25:22). In the Most Holy Place was the Ark of the Covenant, which contained Aaron's rod that
buddes, The tables of stone (Ten Commandments), and a golden pot of manna.
- Exodus 25:10-22 Ark of the Covenant God's dwelloing place. Resting on top of
the Ark was the mercy seat stained with the blood of innocent sacrifice.
- Numbers 17:6-10 Aaron's rod budded and placed in the Ark.
- The Golden Pot of Manna was a reminder of God's ability to provide miraculously
for the needs of his children during their journey through the wilderness.
Journey toward the Promised Land
- Numbers 13:1-24 Moses sends spies into the Promised Land to check it out.
- Numbers 13:25-33 The spies return and give a negative report talking about giants
in the land.
- Numbers 14:1-10 The people rebel against moses and God.
- Numbers 14:11-25 God was going to destroy all of the children of Israel because
of their rebellion but Moses talked him out of it.
- Numbers 14:26-37 Punnishment for rebellion Everyone who was 20 years old and
up that rebelled was to die in the wilderness during a 40 year period of wandering. The spies that gave the
evil report that caused the rebellion died by the plague.
- Numbers 20:1-13 Moses and Aaron will not enter the Promised Land.
- Numbers 20:22-29 Aaron dies.
- Numbers 33:1-49 A warning to the children of Reuben not to rebel and cause
another period of wandering.
- Deuteronomy 31:1-8 Moses tells the people it is time to go into the Promised Land
and Joshua will be their leader.
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