BIBL105: Old Testament Survey
4 EXODUS – LEVITICUS
Moses’s Life
-Found by ____Pharaoh____’s _____daughter_____ and raised as a prince of Egypt
-Flees after killing an Egyptian
-Becomes a shepherd in Midian
-God appears to Moses as a ____burning ____ ____bush____ at Mt. Sinai
o“I have seen the affliction of my people… and have heard their cry” (Exod 3:7)
The Exodus
-“I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I
will deliver you from slavery to them, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm
and with great acts of judgment. I will take you to be my people, and I will be your God,
and you shall know that.” (Exod 6:6-7)
o__Pharaoh___ refuses to let the people go
oGod sends ____plagues_____ to demonstrate his power
oThe 10 plagues are God’s intentional demonstration of God’s supremacy over the
____Egyptian___ ___Gods__.
The Passover
-Instructions: kill a lamb and place ___blood____ on posts and lintel of the doorway
-The angel of death will __pass___ ___over___ the homes with the covering of blood
-This becomes an ___annual ___ ___holiday____ to remember what God did
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The Exodus Concluded
-Pharaoh finally let the Israelites leave after the death of his firstborn son
-After ___430___ years in Egypt, the Israelites leave with the ___riches__ of Egypt and a
___mixed____ ____multitude___ (12:35-38)
-Pharaoh changes his mind and chases after the Israelites
oMoses and the Israelites are trapped between the army and the Red Sea
oGod parts the _____Red sea_______ and the Israelites safely cross on __dry __
___land__!
-“Know that I am the Lord” (9 times) shows that ___God__ constantly intervenes to both
deliver His people and show His power to the nation of Egypt
-The Exodus becomes the greatest example of God’s ___Deliverence_____ in the Old
Testament
Israel in the Wilderness
-God leads them with a pillar of __cloud_____ by day and pillar of __fire___by night
-God’s provision
o____Manna___ = “what is it?”
oQuails
oWater from the rock
-Israel’s response: ____complains____
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The Law
•A lifestyle gives by ____God___ to __Israel____ through ____Moses___
•More about ___relationship____ than rules
•How to live in right relationship with ____God___
•How to live in right relationships with _____others____
•A ___gift___ and display of God’s mercy and love for his people
-The 10 Commandments (Exodus 20)
oSummarize the Law in 10 commands
oDuties to ____God__ (commandments 1-4)
oDuties to ___other______ (commandments 5-10)
The Tabernacle
-Where God ____dwells___ among His people.
•Where __sacrifices___ are made for the people.
•A worship sanctuary in the wilderness
•Priesthood
•The tribe of ___levi___ becomes the tribe of the priests
•The High Priest serves as the religious leader for the nation
• ___Aaron____ becomes the first high priest
The Golden Calf (Exod 32)
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•While Moses is on Mt Sinai with God, Aaron has the people to build a __golden calf___
_______.
•Moses is horrified when he sees it and destroys the idol
•God plans to destroy the entire nation and start over with Moses, but Moses
____intercedes____ for the people and God spares them.
Exodus & Jesus
•Jesus as the _____passover_____ _______lamb________
•Jesus as the ___ultimate________ _____deliverer______
LEVITICUS
-Theme: _____sanctification____
-Purpose: instructions for holy worship and holy living
-“Be __holy___ as I am __holy___.”
-Ways to the Holy One: ______sacrifice_____ (Lev 1-10)
oProactive offerings: ____voluntary_______ (1-3)
oReactive offerings: ____mandatory_______ (4-7)
oConsecration of _____priesthood_____ (8-10)
-Ways of Holiness: _____Sanctification______ (Lev 11-27)
oSanctification: purity of ____body_____ (11-16)
Clean food (kosher diet), bodies, clothes
oSanctification: purity of __soul____ (17-27)
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Laws of priesthood, worship, society
-__feasts___ of Israel
oPassover: God’s deliverance
oPentecost
oTrumpets (Rosh Hashanah)
oDay of ___atonement____ (Yom Kippur)
oTabernacles: 40 years of wilderness wandering
The Purpose of the Law
-Value of __life______
oDeath penalty (Num 35:3)
oLife of the ___unborn____ equal to life of born (Exod 21:22-23)
o____human____ and ___child____ sacrifices forbidden (Lev 18:21)
-Taking care of the ___poor__ (Exod 23:6; Lev 19:9-10)
oUnlawful to take advantage of the poor
oSystems created so that poor would be able to access food
-Treating _______foreigner_____ with ____dignity____ (Exod 22:21)
-Elevating ___women_____ (Exod 22:16-17; Lev 20:10; Num 5; Deut 23:17)
The Law & Slavery
-Israelites were not allowed to buy other Israelites into direct slavery but instead had to
allow them to be bought into ___indentured____ ___servitude______
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-Indentured servants had a temporary contract that would end when the Year of Jubilee
occurred
The Law and Jesus
-Jesus ___fulfills____ the Law (Mt 5:17)
-Jesus is the ____atoning_____ sacrifice (1 Jn 2:2)
-Jesus is the ____Holy____ One (Mk 1:24)
The Law and Christians
-We are not under the OT Law
-However, many of the moral principles of the OT Law were not only rededicated by
Christ but were even ____________.
-The Old Testament Law should be embraced as a part of the biblical story and salvation
history
The Law and Salvation
-People never worked their way to heaven
-The Old Testament sacrificial system was a means of providing a _________ “covering”
for sin, but not a permanent “removal” of our sin. The means of salvation, both then and
now, was trusting in God’s gracious provision of the One who would remove sin.
-Old Testament saints were clearly saved the same way the New Testament saints were,
by _________ alone through ____________-
