GENERAL

EPISTLES
NEW TESTAMENT 5
THE BOOK
OF EXODUS

“THE WAY OUT”

 EXODUS
- “GOING OUT” – PATHWAY OUT
-WE SEE MAN REDEEMED
-THE JEWISH NAME FOR EXODUS CONSISTS OF THE
FIRST TWO WORDS IN THE HEBREW, AND IT MEANS
“AND THESE ARE THE NAMES.”
-THE BOOK IS CONCERNED WITH THE
ESTABLISHMENT OF ISRAEL AS A NATION.
-THE EXODUS OF CHAPTER 12 MARKED THE
BEGINNING OF ISRAEL AS AN INDEPENDENT NATION.
1. EGYPTIAN BONDAGE
-THE NEW KING OVER EGYPT WHICH KNEW NOT JOSEPH WERE
THE NOMAD HYKOS IN EGYPT. THEY WERE FROM ASIA. ISRAEL
STANDS AS A TYPE OF GOD’S PEOPLE.

A. ISRAEL WAS FORCED TO SERVE THE STATE AS A SLAVE.

B. PHARAOH DECREED THAT AL THEIR MALE CHILDREN BE
DESTROYED.
2. EARLY LIFE OF MOSES
A. MOSES WAS BORN TO AMRAM AND JOCHEBED AT THE TIME WHEN ALL
ISRAELITISH CHILDREN WERE TO BE DESTROYED. THE HEART OF EVERY
WOMAN WAS PLOT AGAINST PHARAOH.
B. THERMOUTIS , PHARAOH’S DAUGHTER WAS THE ONE THE WHO RAISED
MOSES.
C. MOSES WAS LEARNED IN ALL THE WISDOM OF THE EGYPTIANS, ARTS,
MATHEMATICS, WRITING, ASTRONOMY, MUSIC, CHEMISTRY. MOSES WAS
40 YEARS OLD WHEN HE SLEW THE EGYPTIAN. HE WENT TO MIDIAN AND
MOSES RECEIVED ZIPHORAH, JETHRO’S DAUGHTER IN MARRIAGE.
JETHRO WAS A PRIEST IN MIDIAN.
3. THE CALL & COMMISSION OF MOSES.
THE BURNING BUSH & CALLING OF MOSES TOOK PLACE AT
MT. HOREB. THE LORD’S COMMAND TO MOSES TO REMOVE HIS
SHOES SERVE TO IMPRESS HIM WITH THE SACREDNESS OF THE
SPOT WHENEVER A MAN’S SOUL IS BROUGHT IN THE PRESENCE
OF GOD ALMIGHTY. THE GROUND IS SACRED NO DOUBT, THE
BURNING THORN BUSH WAS A TYPE OF PERSECUTED ISRAEL IN
EGYPT.
SUMMARY OF CONTENTS
I. BONDAGE (1-11) :
AS GOD HAD GIVEN THE COVENANT TO
ABRAHAM HE HAD TOLD HIM IN A DREAM THAT
HIS DESCENDANTS (ISRAEL) WOULD BECOME
ENSLAVED IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY FOR 400
YEARS BUT THAT GOD WOULD DELIVER THEM
OUT OF THAT BONDAGE (GE. 15:12-14).
BONDAGE (1-11) :
GENESIS 15:12-14
12 AS THE SUN WAS SETTING, ABRAM FELL INTO A DEEP SLEEP,
AND A THICK AND DREADFUL DARKNESS CAME OVER HIM. 13
THEN THE LORD SAID TO HIM, “KNOW FOR CERTAIN THAT FOR
FOUR HUNDRED YEARS YOUR DESCENDANTS WILL BE
STRANGERS IN A COUNTRY NOT THEIR OWN AND THAT THEY
WILL BE ENSLAVED AND MISTREATED THERE. 14 BUT I WILL
PUNISH THE NATION THEY SERVE AS SLAVES, AND AFTERWARD
THEY WILL COME OUT WITH GREAT POSSESSIONS.
BONDAGE (1-11) :
GENESIS CLOSES WITH JACOB AND HIS FAMILY IN
EGYPT WITH JOSEPH. WHAT STARTED OUT AS
DELIVERANCE FROM THE FAMINE WOULD
ULTIMATELY END IN BONDAGE TO THE EGYPTIANS.
WHILE IN EGYPT FOR 400 YEARS, THE HEBREWS
BECAME A GREAT NATION BUT ALSO FOUND
THEMSELVES IN SLAVERY TO PHARAOH. BONDAGE
TO SLAVERY IN EGYPT REPRESENTED BONDAGE TO
SIN FOR EGYPT IN SCRIPTURE SYMBOLIZES THE
WORLD AND SIN.
BONDAGE (1-11) :
THE HEBREWS CRIED OUT TO GOD IN DISTRESS AND GOD
HONORED THE PROMISES OF THE ABRAHAMIC COVENANT (EX.
2:23-25) BY CALLING OUT A DELIVERER FOR HIS PEOPLE —
MOSES. AFTER 40 YEARS OF TRAINING IN THE WILDERNESS, GOD
SENT MOSES TO PHARAOH WITH A SIMPLE MESSAGE —“LET MY
PEOPLE GO!” WHEN PHARAOH REFUSED AND HARDENED HIS
HEART, GOD SENT 10 PROGRESSIVELY SEVERE PLAGUES AGAINST
THE EGYPTIANS CULMINATING IN THE DEATH OF THE FIRST-
BORN. GOD DEMONSTRATED HIS ABSOLUTE SUPERIORITY OVER
THE EGYPTIAN “GODS” AND PHARAOH. WITH THE 10TH PLAGUE
(DEATH) PHARAOH DECIDED TO LET THE HEBREWS GO.
BONDAGE (1-11) :
EXODUS 2:23-25
22 “ZIPPORAH GAVE BIRTH TO A SON, AND MOSES NAMED HIM
GERSHOM, SAYING, “I HAVE BECOME A FOREIGNER IN A FOREIGN
LAND.” 23 DURING THAT LONG PERIOD, THE KING OF EGYPT DIED.
THE ISRAELITES GROANED IN THEIR SLAVERY AND CRIED OUT,
AND THEIR CRY FOR HELP BECAUSE OF THEIR SLAVERY WENT UP
TO GOD. 24 GOD HEARD THEIR GROANING AND HE REMEMBERED
HIS COVENANT WITH ABRAHAM, WITH ISAAC AND WITH JACOB. 25
SO GOD LOOKED ON THE ISRAELITES AND WAS CONCERNED ABOUT
THEM.”
II. REDEMPTION (12-18):
IN EXODUS 12 IS THE RECORD OF GOD
INSTITUTING THE “PASSOVER” WHERE THE ANGEL
OF DEATH PASSED OVER THE HOUSES OF THOSE
WHO BY FAITH HAD PLACED THE BLOOD OF A SLAIN
LAMB ON THE DOORPOSTS TO AVOID THE
CONSEQUENCES OF THE 10TH PLAGUE. ALL THOSE
WHO OBEYED WERE “SAVED” (HEB. 11:23-29). GOD
THEN MIRACULOUSLY LED THE HEBREWS OUT OF
EGYPT AND THUS BEGAN THE EXODUS OF THE
NATION OF ISRAEL —PERHAPS 2 MILLION PEOPLE.
REDEMPTION (12-18):
HEBREWS 11:23-29 23 “BY FAITH MOSES’ PARENTS HID
HIM FOR THREE MONTHS AFTER HE WAS BORN,
BECAUSE THEY SAW HE WAS NO ORDINARY CHILD, AND
THEY WERE NOT AFRAID OF THE KING’S EDICT. 24 BY
FAITH MOSES, WHEN HE HAD GROWN UP, REFUSED TO
BE KNOWN AS THE SON OF PHARAOH’S DAUGHTER. 25
HE CHOSE TO BE MISTREATED ALONG WITH THE
PEOPLE OF GOD RATHER THAN TO ENJOY THE
FLEETING PLEASURES OF SIN.”
REDEMPTION (12-18):
HEBREWS 11:23-29 26 “HE REGARDED DISGRACE FOR THE
SAKE OF CHRIST AS OF GREATER VALUE THAN THE
TREASURES OF EGYPT, BECAUSE HE WAS LOOKING AHEAD TO
HIS REWARD. 27 BY FAITH HE LEFT EGYPT, NOT FEARING THE
KING’S ANGER; HE PERSEVERED BECAUSE HE SAW HIM WHO
IS INVISIBLE. 28 BY FAITH HE KEPT THE PASSOVER AND THE
APPLICATION OF BLOOD, SO THAT THE DESTROYER OF THE
FIRSTBORN WOULD NOT TOUCH THE FIRSTBORN OF ISRAEL. 29
BY FAITH THE PEOPLE PASSED THROUGH THE RED SEA AS ON
DRY LAND; BUT WHEN THE EGYPTIANS TRIED TO DO SO, THEY
WERE DROWNED.”
REDEMPTION (12-18):
GOD OPENED UP THE “RED SEA” AND ALLOWED
ISRAEL TO PASS SAFELY ACROSS BUT DESTROYED
THE PURSUING EGYPTIANS. IN THE DESERT ON THE
OTHER SIDE GOD LED BY A CLOUD IN THE DAY
AND A PILLAR OF FIRE BY NIGHT. THE EXODUS
WOULD BECOME A SYMBOL OF GOD’S DELIVERANCE
OF HIS PEOPLE AND THE MOST CELEBRATED EVENT
IN ISRAEL’S HISTORY.
REDEMPTION (12-18):
IN THE WILDERNESS GOD PROVIDED MANNA AND
QUAIL FOR FOOD AND MET EVERY NEED OF THE
PEOPLE. EVEN SO THE PEOPLE BEGAN TO GRUMBLE
AND COMPLAIN ABOUT DIFFICULT CIRCUMSTANCES.
SOME EVEN LONGED TO RETURN TO EGYPT.
III. REVELATION (19-40) :
ABOUT TWO MONTHS LATER THE HEBREWS ARRIVED
AT MT. SINAI WHERE GOD GAVE THEM THE MOSAIC
COVENANT AS A NATION AND INSTRUCTED THEM IN HIS
LAW AND WAYS. MOSES WENT UP ON THE MOUNTAIN TO
RECEIVE THE 10 COMMANDMENTS AND EXPERIENCED
THE GLORY OF GOD. THE LAW REVEALED THE
HOLINESS OF GOD, THE SINFULNESS OF MAN AND
PROVIDED GUIDANCE FOR RIGHT LIVING. THE SABBATH
WAS GIVEN AS THE SIGN OF THE MOSAIC COVENANT.
REVELATION (19-40) :
GOD INSTRUCTED THE PEOPLE TO BUILD A
“TABERNACLE” (TENT) WHERE HIS GLORY
(PRESENCE) COULD DWELL ON A TEMPORARY BASIS
AND WHERE THEY COULD COME TO WORSHIP AND
RECEIVE INSTRUCTION FROM GOD. (EXODUS 26)
REVELATION (19-40) :
WHILE MOSES WAS ON THE MOUNTAIN RECEIVING
INSTRUCTION FROM GOD, THE PEOPLE BUILT A
“GOLDEN CALF” UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF AARON
AND ENGAGED IN IDOLATRY FOR WHICH
GOD PUNISHED THEM SEVERELY.
REVELATION (19-40) :
FINALLY, THE TABERNACLE WAS COMPLETED AND
THE GLORY OF GOD FILLED IT. THE HEBREWS
SPENT ABOUT A YEAR AT MT. SINAI RECEIVING
REVELATION FROM THE LORD. THEY WERE BEING
PREPARED TO ENTER THE PROMISED LAND OF
CANAAN IN FULFILLMENT OF THE ABRAHAMIC
COVENANT.
GENERAL
EPISTLES
NEW TESTAMENT 5
THE FAMILY BIRTHRIGHT :
1. IN THE ABSENCE OF THE FATHER, THE FIRTSBORN HAS AUTHORITY
OVER HIS BROTHERS AND SISTERS (GEN. 25:25-30)
2. THE RIGHT OF THE FIRSTBORN IS FIRSTLY APPRECIATED. GE. 25:29
3. IN CASES OF MISCONDUCT, IT COULD BE GIFTED TO ANOTHER SON.
(GE. 49:3-4)
4.THE FIRSTBORN INHERITED TWICE AS MUCH AS ANY OTHER SON.
DEUT. 21:15-17
5. FORBIDS THE ARBITRARY REMOVAL OF THE RIGHT FROM ACTUAL
FIRSTBORN SON TO THE SON OF THE MOST HIGHLY FAVORABLE. DEUT.
21:15-17
THE FAMILY BIRTHRIGHT :
DEUTERONOMY 21:15-17
15 “IF A MAN HAS TWO WIVES, AND HE LOVES ONE BUT NOT THE OTHER,
AND BOTH BEAR HIM SONS BUT THE FIRSTBORN IS THE SON OF THE
WIFE HE DOES NOT LOVE, 16 WHEN HE WILLS HIS PROPERTY TO HIS
SONS, HE MUST NOT GIVE THE RIGHTS OF THE FIRSTBORN TO THE SON
OF THE WIFE HE LOVES IN PREFERENCE TO HIS ACTUAL FIRSTBORN,
THE SON OF THE WIFE HE DOES NOT LOVE. 17 HE MUST ACKNOWLEDGE
THE SON OF HIS UNLOVED WIFE AS THE FIRSTBORN BY GIVING HIM A
DOUBLE SHARE OF ALL HE HAS. THAT SON IS THE FIRST SIGN OF HIS
FATHER’S STRENGTH. THE RIGHT OF THE FIRSTBORN BELONGS TO HIM.”
THE FAMILY BIRTHRIGHT :
6. THELAW DOES NOT APPLY TO THE SON OF THE CONCUBINE OR
HANDMAID: GE. 21:9-13
HAGAR (CONCUBINE)- ISHMAEL = SARAH (LEGITIMATE) - ISAAC
7. IN HARAN, FIRTBORN DAUGHTERS ARE GIVEN TO MARRIAGE
BEFORE THE YOUNGER . 1 SAM 18:17-27 -(LABAN’S DAUGHTER RACHEL)
8. AMONG KINGS, THE RIGHT OF THE FIRSTBORN IMPLIED
SUCCESSION TO HIS FATHER’S WILL. 2 CHRON. 21:1-3
9.THE SCRIPTURES SHOW CERTAIN PREDICTION FOR THE YOUNGEST
SON AS BEING THE LEAST PRIVILEGE. (BENJAMIN AND JACOB)
THE FAMILY BIRTHRIGHT :
10. THE LEVITES REDEEM THE FIRTSTBORN. NUM. 3:40-41
11. AFTERWARDS, THE MONTH OLD FIRSTBORN WAS REDEEMED BY
SHEKELS OF SILVER. NUM. 18:16. 8.
12.THE MALE FIRSTLINGS OF CLEAN ANIMALS SHOULD BE OFFERED AS
SACRIFICE. NUM. 18:17-18
13. UNCLEAN ANIMALS FIRSTLINGS REDEEMED WITH A LAMB OR
BREAK THE NECK. EX. 13:13
BLESSINGS - PATERNAL PROUNOUNCED ORALLY AND COULD NOT BE
CHARGED. IT IS BY LAYING OF HANDS. GE. 27
THE PATRIARCHAL BLESSINGS:
THE OCCASION OF JACOB’S DEATH IS DESCRIBED AS IMPERATIVE SCENE.
THE AGED PATRIARCH GATHERED HIS SONS ABOUT HIM AND IN POETIC
FORM ADDRESSED EACH IN TURN. NOTEWORTHY FACTS THE MESSAGES
TO EACH INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING.
1.REUBEN. ALTHOUGH HE WAS JACOB’S FIRSTBORN, HE LOST HIS
PRIVILEGES, AND THE TRIBE WAS TO BE RELEGATED TO COMPARATIVE
OBSCURITY. REUBEN HAS DEMONSTRATED HIMSELF RASH IN HIS
ACTIONS AND HE ESPECIALLY STOOD CONDEMNED BECAUSE HE HAD
COMMITTED ADULTERY WITH BILHAH, HIS FATHER’S CONCUBINE.
(GENESIS 35:22)
THE PATRIARCHAL BLESSINGS:
2.SIMEON. TO BE SCATTERED IN ISRAEL SO AS TO BECOME ONE OF
THE WEAKEST OF THE TRIBES.
3.LEVI. TO BE DIVIDED IN (OR FROM) ISRAEL. SIMEON AND LEVI
ACTED WRONGLY IN THE TREACHEROUS MURDER OF THE
SHECHEMITES, (GEN. 34:25-26). THEY HAD THUS DISQUALIFIED
THEMSELVES FROM PATRIARCHAL CONDEMNATION. IN
HISTORICAL OUTWORKING, SIMEON WAS LARGELY ABSORBED BY
JUDAH AND THE IDENTITY OF THE TRIBE WAS LOST. THE LEVITES
WERE, OF COURSE, DESTINED TO BE PRIESTLY GROUP WHO DID
NOT RECEIVE AN INDIVIDUAL TRIBAL INHERITANCE.
THE PATRIARCHAL BLESSINGS:
4.JUDAH. TO INCREASE IN STRENGTH UNTIL SHILOH (PEACE-
BRINGER) SHOULD COME (PROBABLY A REFERENCE TO THE
MESSIAH). A SCEPTRE WAS A SHIEK’S STAFF WHICH INDICATED HIS
RIGHT TO LEAD. THE PROPHECY TO JUDAH IS ACTUALLY THE
HEART OF JACOB’S PRONOUNCEMENT FOR, OF COURSE, JESUS
CHRIST WAS TO BE OF THIS TRIBE AND BE KNOWN AS “THE LION
OF THE TRIBE OF JUDAH”. THE FIGURE IN VERSES 11 AND 12
SEEMS TO BE THAT OF PROSPERITY AND ABUNDANCE WHICH
WOULD BE THE EVIDENCE OF DIVINE APPROVAL UPON THE TRIBE.
THE PATRIARCHAL BLESSINGS:
5.ZEBULUN. TO SETTLE IN THE COASTAL REGION AS A TRADER.
6.ISSACHAR. A PATIENT AGRICULTURAL WORKER PURSUING A
POLICY OF APPEASEMENT.
7.DAN. THOUGH PROVIDED A SMALL INHERITANCE DAN WAS TO
BECOME A LEADING TRIBE, SHREWD AND CLEVER AND BY NATURE
PREDATOR.
8.GAD. TO BE THE VICTIM OF INVADERS, BUT ULTIMATELY TO
TRIUMPH. (WHEN THE TRIBE SETTLED IN THE LAND IT WAS
LOCATED EAST OF JORDAN AND THEREFORE PARTICULARLY
SUBJECT TO PLUNDERERS.
THE PATRIARCHAL BLESSINGS:
9.ASHER. TO ENJOY PROSPERITY AND THE BLESSING OF GOD.
10.NAPHTALI. TO BE FREE AND PROSPEROUS. A SPECIAL PRIVILEGE
PROVIDED TO NAPHTALI IN LATER HISTORY WAS THAT IT WAS IN
THIS TRIBAL SETTLEMENT THAT CHRIST LIVED AND PERFORMED
HIS MINISTRIES.
11.JOSEPH. TO BE NUMEROUS AND BLESSED ABOVE HIS FORBEARS
AND TO MAINTAIN SPIRITUAL VIRTUE. GOD, OF COURSE, HAD
PROVIDED THAT JOSEPH’S TWO SONS EPHRAIM AND MANASSEH
ACTUALLY PARTOOK OF HIS INHERITANCE AND REPRESENTED HIM
AMONG THE TRIBES.
GENESIS 48:5 – ADOPTION OF EPHRAIM AND MANASSEH
GENESIS 48:10-22 – BLESSING OF EPHRAIM AND MANASSEH
THE PATRIARCHAL BLESSINGS:
GENESIS 48:5 – ADOPTION OF EPHRAIM AND MANASSEH
5 “NOW THEN, YOUR TWO SONS BORN TO YOU IN EGYPT BEFORE I
CAME TO YOU HERE WILL BE RECKONED AS MINE; EPHRAIM AND
MANASSEH WILL BE MINE, JUST AS REUBEN AND SIMEON ARE
MINE.”
THE PATRIARCHAL BLESSINGS:
GENESIS 48:10-22 – BLESSING OF EPHRAIM AND MANASSEH
10 NOW ISRAEL’S EYES WERE FAILING BECAUSE OF OLD AGE, AND
HE COULD HARDLY SEE. SO JOSEPH BROUGHT HIS SONS CLOSE TO
HIM, AND HIS FATHER KISSED THEM AND EMBRACED THEM. 11
ISRAEL SAID TO JOSEPH, “I NEVER EXPECTED TO SEE YOUR FACE
AGAIN, AND NOW GOD HAS ALLOWED ME TO SEE YOUR CHILDREN
TOO.” 12 THEN JOSEPH REMOVED THEM FROM ISRAEL’S KNEES
AND BOWED DOWN WITH HIS FACE TO THE GROUND. 13 AND
JOSEPH TOOK BOTH OF THEM, EPHRAIM ON HIS RIGHT TOWARD
ISRAEL’S LEFT HAND AND MANASSEH ON HIS LEFT TOWARD
ISRAEL’S RIGHT HAND, AND BROUGHT THEM CLOSE TO HIM.
THE PATRIARCHAL BLESSINGS:
GENESIS 48:10-22 – BLESSING OF EPHRAIM AND MANASSEH
14 BUT ISRAEL REACHED OUT HIS RIGHT HAND AND PUT IT ON
EPHRAIM’S HEAD, THOUGH HE WAS THE YOUNGER, AND CROSSING
HIS ARMS, HE PUT HIS LEFT HAND ON MANASSEH’S HEAD, EVEN
THOUGH MANASSEH WAS THE FIRSTBORN. 15 THEN HE BLESSED
JOSEPH AND SAID, “MAY THE GOD BEFORE WHOM MY FATHERS
ABRAHAM AND ISAAC WALKED FAITHFULLY,THE GOD WHO HAS
BEEN MY SHEPHERD ALL MY LIFE TO THIS DAY, 16 THE ANGEL WHO
HAS DELIVERED ME FROM ALL HARM—MAY HE BLESS THESE
BOYS. MAY THEY BE CALLED BY MY NAME AND THE NAMES OF MY
FATHERS ABRAHAM AND ISAAC, AND MAY THEY INCREASE GREATLY
ON THE EARTH.”
THE PATRIARCHAL BLESSINGS:
GENESIS 48:10-22 – BLESSING OF EPHRAIM AND MANASSEH
” 17 WHEN JOSEPH SAW HIS FATHER PLACING HIS RIGHT HAND ON
EPHRAIM’S HEAD HE WAS DISPLEASED; SO HE TOOK HOLD OF HIS
FATHER’S HAND TO MOVE IT FROM EPHRAIM’S HEAD TO
MANASSEH’S HEAD. 18 JOSEPH SAID TO HIM, “NO, MY FATHER, THIS
ONE IS THE FIRSTBORN; PUT YOUR RIGHT HAND ON HIS HEAD.”19
BUT HIS FATHER REFUSED AND SAID, “I KNOW, MY SON, I KNOW. HE
TOO WILL BECOME A PEOPLE, AND HE TOO WILL BECOME GREAT.
NEVERTHELESS, HIS YOUNGER BROTHER WILL BE GREATER THAN
HE, AND HIS DESCENDANTS WILL BECOME A GROUP OF NATIONS.”
THE PATRIARCHAL BLESSINGS:
GENESIS 48:10-22 – BLESSING OF EPHRAIM AND MANASSEH
20 HE BLESSED THEM THAT DAY AND SAID, “IN YOUR NAME WILL
ISRAEL PRONOUNCE THIS BLESSING: ‘MAY GOD MAKE YOU LIKE
EPHRAIM AND MANASSEH.’” SO HE PUT EPHRAIM AHEAD OF
MANASSEH. 21 THEN ISRAEL SAID TO JOSEPH, “I AM ABOUT TO DIE,
BUT GOD WILL BE WITH YOU AND TAKE YOU BACK TO THE LAND OF
YOUR FATHERS. 22 AND TO YOU I GIVE ONE MORE RIDGE OF LAND
THAN TO YOUR BROTHERS, THE RIDGE I TOOK FROM THE
AMORITES WITH MY SWORD AND MY BOW.”
RECAP