Week 4
Monday - 09/12/22
Moses
Three Sections
- 1st 40 years: A prince in egypt
- Second 40 years: Shepherd in Midian
- Last 40 Years: Leader of Israel
Prince in Egypt
- Found by the Egyptian princess
- Fleeing from Pharoah for murdering an Egyptian
Shepherd in Midian
- Meets Jethro and marries his daughter, Zepporah
- Meets God and is called to liberate Israel from Egypt
- Exodus 4
- Moses is insecure and incompetent
- “What if they don’t believe me?” (Exodus 4:1)
- “I’m not very good with words…and my words get tangled” (Exodus 4:10)
- Moses is given Aaron
- The sufficiency of God
- God doesn’t say “you can do it,” he says “you will be okay because I am with
you”
Exodus 1-12
- God confronts Pharoah through Moses. Pharoah’s heart is hardened by God because of
his continuous rejection to God’s message
- God didn’t turn Pharoah into a hardened man, he took an already crooked individual and
made sure that he would stay as such
- Romans 9:7
- God confronts Pharoah through the ten plagues
- A revealing of God’s character and power
- Exodus 6:7; 7:5, 17; 8:22; 10:2; 14:4, 18)
God Confronting Pharoah through the Ten Plagues
- Each plague contends with one of the Egyptian Gods
- Water to blood
- Osiris
- Frogs
- Hekt
- Gnats
- Seb
- Flies
- Kephera
- Cattle
- Apis and Hathor
- Boils
- Typhon
- Hail and Fire
- Shu
- Locusts
- Serapis
- Darkness
- Ra
- Death
- Ptah
The Passover
- The Israelite people were able to paint the blood of a lamb over their doorstep in order to
be passed by when the angel of death appears
- The bread and the cup become the two elements that Christ singles out during hte last
supper
- Bread
- Cup
- Lamb
- Bitter Herbs
Implications of God’s Rescue
- God’s rescue was a rescue from slavery, but it was also a rescue for something else (life
in Canaan)
- In the same way, God delivers us from Satan and to himself and his will
- God brought Israel out, along with many other ethnic groups who were Israelites
theologically but not biologically
- Implications of God’s promise to Abraham
God Preserves His People
- God provides on the journey
- Water (bitter water to sweet water)
- Manna
- Quail
- Water (from rock)
- Victory over the Amalekites
- Foreshadows Israel’s future characteristics of being “hard hearted” and “stiff necked”
- Whose heart is harder? Pharoah or the Israelites?
The Roundabout Way
- What was God’s plan?
- A path of protection
- A path of insufficiency
- A path to dependance
- A path marked by God’s victory
- The Israelites have no excuse for not perceiving God’s power through this
God’s Instruction at Mt. Sinai
- God settles the Israelites at Mt. Sinai
- God provides them with his commands and hte blueprint for a place to worship him
The Ten Commandments
- Duties to God
- No other Gods
- No graven images
- Do not take his name in vain
- Keep the Sabbeth holy
- Duties to Man
- Honor your parents
- Do not kill
- Do not commit adultery
- Do not steal
- Do not commit a false witness
- Do not covet
- Jesus and the Ten Commandments
- Jesus explained the law, summarized the law, and fulfilled the law on our behalf
- Our redemption is possible through both the death and life of Jesus. He kept
what we could not and his death exchanged our disobedience with obedience
The Message of the Tabernacle
- Given by God as a display of truth
- A visual aid of God’s character, comforting the Israelites with grace and assuring them of
the hope he extends to them
- Each piece of furniture
- Showed the sinner’s need
- Symbolized God’s temporary provision
- Pointed to a greater fulfillment in the coming Messiah
The Elements of the Tabernacle
- The tabernacle: God livingamong sinners
- The altar: God saving sinners
- The laver: God cleansing sinners
- The showbread: God fellowships with sinners
- The lampstand: God giving light to sinners
- The incense: God hears sinners
- The curtain: God is separate from sinners
- The ark: God reigns over sinners
Wednesday - 09/14/22
Leviticus - How to Approach a Holy God
- God provides a way for people to live in his presence
- Leviticus 16
- Themes of Leviticus
- Rituals
- A way of saying “i’m sorry” and “thank you” to God
- Reflects the seriousness of sin
- The reality of God’s justice
- The grace offered by God
- Thank you:
- Grain Offering
- Fellowship Offering
- I’m Sorry:
- Burnt Offering
- Sin Offering
- Guilt Offering
- Feasts
- Spring Feasts
- Passover
- Unleavened Bread
- First Fruit
- Pentecost
- Fall Feasts
- Trumpets
- Atonement
- Tabernacle
- Retold Israel’s story
- Reminded Israel of who they were and who God is to them
- Preists
- Ordained
- Moses installs Aaron’s line as the first line of priests
- Disqualified
- Aaron’s sons Nadab and Abihu take the holiness of God lightly
- Represent God to the people
- Represent the people to God
- Qualifications:
- Highest level of moral integrity
- Highest level of ritual holiness
- Purity (Ritual)
- Disallowed:
- Contact with reproductive fluids
- Having a skin disease
- Touching dead bodies
- Touching mold
- Eating unclean animals
- Why:
- Associated with mortality and death
- Cultural symbols to remind Israel that God’s holiness effects every
part of life
- Purity (Moral)
- Care for the poor
- Sexual integrity
- Social justice
- Why:
- Israel is called to live differently than the Canaanites
Day of Atonement
- Two Goats
- Goat One
- Sacrificed
- Forgiveness of sin
- Propitiation
- Goat Two
- Set free (scapegoat)
- Removal of sin
- Expiation
- Atonement and Christ
- At the cross:
- Sin forgiven and removed
- Propitiation and expiation
- 1 John $:10
- Hebrews 9:26
Numbers: From Death to Life
- Starts in Sinai; ends in the Promised Land
- Purpose:
- Demonstration that the old Israel will not hinder God from creating a new Israel in
order to fulfill his promise to Abraham
- Movement:
- First 25 chapters are the death of old Israel
- Last 10 chapter is about new Israel
- 603,550 men of fighting age were counted
- Ordered: The Israelites were organized around the tabernacle
- Equal access to God
- Ruled: If God was going to live with the Israelites, the Israelites needed to stay
ritualistically pure
- Complaining: The Israelites started to complain about the food three days into the
journey
- Complaining: Aaron and Miriam challenge Moses’ authority and try to claim equal
leadership status
