Episode Transcript
[00:00:01] I'm Rich Young iii. And this is an amazing thing.
[00:00:17] I am here to facilitate learning the word of God on a fundamental level.
[00:00:23] So join me and let's grow together and let's build a relationship with our Creator.
[00:00:29] And that starts now.
[00:00:40] Hello, everybody. Welcome to an Amazing Thing. Thank you for joining me today. This is our midweek show where we have a continual Bible study.
[00:00:49] And we're on lesson 10 of in the Beginning today.
[00:00:52] And remember, you can always go back where they're categorized, either on our website or on our YouTube page, and watch our midweek lessons from the beginning and lead up to where we are and they are in order.
[00:01:05] They're not in order if you listen to us on one of our podcast sources, but you can maneuver around and find them in the order. So however you choose to do it, we're happy to have you here. We're continuing where we left off last time. Now, Jacob and Joseph are both now dead, and we a few hundred years later.
[00:01:25] And we're going to begin by reading in Exodus, chapter 1, verse 7.
[00:01:29] And the children of Israel were fruitful and increased abundantly and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mightily, and the land was filled with them. Now Israel has grown and multiplied in such a great number until the Egyptians are starting to feel threatened by them.
[00:01:47] And so we're going to continue to read here. This is Exodus, chapter 1, verse 8.
[00:01:54] Now there arose a new king of Egypt who knew not Joseph. So now we get to the part where Joseph is not remembered, is not. They don't remember that he was the one who saved the world, that God used to save the world during this, the time of the famine. So in this passage, there came a great distance between that time, as we just said. So now they start dogging the Israelites around and they feeling threatened by them, the Israelites are made slaves by this time.
[00:02:26] This is Exodus, chapter 1, verse 11 and 14.
[00:02:31] Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them in their burdens. And they built Pharaoh treasure cities, Pittim and Ramses.
[00:02:41] And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar and with brick, and in all manners of service in the field.
[00:02:49] All this service wherein they made them serve was with rigor. It got rough. Israel's made a complete subculture now, full fledged slaves. Overseers whipped them, beat them, and made them build the cities. And there was very, very work, a lot, a lot of work. And they were working very hard.
[00:03:10] The people who visit Egypt today, they say that they still make bricks in the same place now as they Made them back in the time, because I guess that's a water source, and that's where they made them 3,500 years ago. And they say they still make them in the same place.
[00:03:29] Well, Israel is starting to have all the male children killed by Pharaoh. This is Exodus, chapter 1, verse 22.
[00:03:40] And Pharaoh charged all, saying, every son that is born, ye shall be cast into the river. And every daughter should be saved alive.
[00:03:51] So Satan tries to kill the deliverer, as we'll see throughout these lessons and in future lessons, that every time God is doing something or beginning to do something, Satan tries to stop it, but he can never stop it. He tries to stop it here with Moses. He's gonna try to stop it in the future with Jesus.
[00:04:11] But God always perseveres here. And by killing the male leadership, it always subverts the growth of a people.
[00:04:20] And so that's a way to stymie people's growth by.
[00:04:25] By subverting the male leadership. And we can see that throughout time, including our present time.
[00:04:32] So that is what Satan is trying to do here. A deliverer is born. This is Exodus, chapter 2, verses 2 and 3.
[00:04:41] And the woman conceived and bear a son. And when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him for three months. And when she could hide him no longer, she took him an ark of bulrushes, dab them with slime and with pitch, and put the child in there. And she laid him by the flags at the riverbank. Now, pitch is like a tar that seals up things. And they. She took the bulrushes, made a little basket, and dabbed them in and out with this pitch so it would float. And also the slime glowed with a red color. So therefore it would be able to be seen.
[00:05:25] Yasha bed his mother, the mother of Moses, refused to accept Pharaoh's decree that they should throw all the male child into the river. She refused that.
[00:05:36] So we should never accept what Satan commands that we should do and submit our lives to God and do what God would have us to do. So this was an interesting idea that she had something different. And we have to realize, too, that different locations around the world, there's different knowledge that people have about their present environment.
[00:06:02] Now, I talked to a zoologist one time, and he said that alligators and crocodiles will only eat at an established place that they've established to eat. So they took the little ark bulrushes that Moses was put in and tied it to the flags where the daughter of Pharaoh and her friends Came to bathe every day. So I doubt that Pharaoh's daughter would be bathing in a place where there was dangerous crocodiles. Nick of Eden. So they knew that there was no crocodiles there.
[00:06:33] And so that's where they put Moses so he would be seen by. By them and also wouldn't be in any danger. And this was a very, very interesting idea. Also, you know, I've talked to people who are from places where in. In America where there are alligators from Louisiana. And they say that they would encounter alligators from time to time, walking to school and stuff. I said, what would you do? They said, we. We were taught to run and zigzag because an alligator can't run zigzag.
[00:07:02] Now, I'm not instructing anybody to do that if they encounter an alligator. That. That's what I was told. So I'm assuming it must be true.
[00:07:11] Yoshi bed is now going to be paid to raise her own child. So Pharaoh's daughter came to bathe at the Nile at her usual time. They have Moses out there. She sees a glowing red basket floating.
[00:07:24] And so she goes and looks, and she finds that Moses is in there. She obviously knows when she sees him that this is one of the Hebrew children.
[00:07:32] She knows her father has set forth this degree to kill all the male children.
[00:07:37] She knows that this is someone trying to save their baby. And then Moses starts crying. And then, you know, she picks him up, and next thing you know, she wants to keep this baby. So Pharaoh's daughter decides to keep Moses. This is Exodus, chapter 2, verses 7 and 8.
[00:07:56] Then said Miriam, Miriam is watching there. Then said Miriam, his sister says to Pharaoh's daughter, shall I go call a nurse of the Hebrew women that she may nurse the child for thee? And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, go.
[00:08:12] And Yoshibed, who's Moses mother? And Miriam's mother comes, and now she's back. Moses is back in her arms before nightfall. So when we use what we have, God can use whatever little bit we have and what we're willing to do and use it for the good. And now Yoshi bed is going to be paid to nurse her own child. And now Moses is going to be safe under the protection of Pharaoh, because now she's going to adopt Moses. Moses is going to become Pharaoh's grandson. And so now he's going to be protected. And when we accept whatever decree Satan tries to put upon us, we always end up accepting it instead of looking for it. I heard a great man of God say one time that Satan will usually give us two choices and they're both bad. You can either shoot him or divorce him, but what about choices 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10? You know that there's always something more we can do. And so Satan will mesmerize us with just two things that we can do. But when we look to do what God would have us to do, or look for just another way, there's always a better way. You know, Romans 8:28 tells us, and you'll find that I'll read that scripture time and time again through these studies, that all things work together for good to them who love the Lord, who are the called according to his purpose. But their key is we have to love the Lord. And so once if we continue to love the Lord, we can find ourselves in whatever situation, we in it working out for our good. But we have to trust in the Lord.
[00:09:57] This is Moses. Okay, now this is Exodus, chapter 2, verse 10 that we're going to read from. And the child grew and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter. And he became her son. And she called his name Moses. And she said, because I drew him out of the water.
[00:10:15] So now Yasha bed takes Moses to Pharaoh's daughter for the last time. And she knows now I'm probably never going to see Moses, or I'll maybe glance at him from time to time. But Moses is alive and he'll thrive in the house of Pharaoh.
[00:10:31] Moses is adopted by Pharaoh's daughter. He's protected now by the protection of Pharaoh. He's going to get the best education now that he can possibly have.
[00:10:43] And according to God's plan now Moses will escape the slave mentality and the boundaries that the slave mentality have that the people will have to endure. A lot of times when people are in the slavery have a slave mentality that goes on from more than just the slave enslaved generation. It goes on for to several generations. So Moses is going to escape that, that mental bondage that goes along with the physical bondage here.
[00:11:13] So the burden of leadership now settles on Moses as he grows up. This is Exodus, chapter 2, verse 11.
[00:11:20] And it came to pass in those days when Moses was grown that he went out into his brethren and looked upon their burdens. And he spied an Egyptian smiting a Hebrew, one of his brethren.
[00:11:33] Moses kills the Egyptian the now and he hides the body in the sand. He thinks nobody will find out about it. Moses is about 40 years old when this happens and when you know when we're getting ready or being used by God, we Sometimes think that everybody knows that we're being used by God, but sometimes we're the only person who knows, and sometimes other people never know.
[00:12:02] And so that's going to be the case here. Also, when God is preparing to use someone or preparing you to do something for the kingdom of God, he's going to prepare you to do it. And a lot of times we're being prepared without even knowing that we're being prepared to do it. So Moses is about to learn how to navigate through the desert. Moses brethren reject him and his leadership. This is Exodus, chapter 2, verses 13 and 14.
[00:12:31] And when he went out the second day, behold, two of the Hebrews strove together. And he said to him that did the wrong Wherefore smiteth thy fellow? And he said, who made thee a prince or a judge over us, intending to kill me like you killed the Egyptian?
[00:12:49] And Moses feared and said, surely this thing is known. The Israelites didn't know that Moses was their chosen leader at this time.
[00:12:59] And we know throughout the word of God, we'll read, when the fullness of time came, this thing happened.
[00:13:07] So sometimes, like I said, when God is working in our lives, others don't know that God is working with us. And some of them may never know. And we find this a lot of times in our lives when we feel called to do a thing for the kingdom of God in leadership. Sometimes, you know, the person he's using, you know, we have to confidently walk with God and what he's doing, because a lot of times we don't know that we're ready to do it. But God is continuing to teach Moses here.
[00:13:40] So now Moses says this thing is being, it must be known, obviously they have strict rules against murder in Egypt, even if you're a member of the royal family. So Moses flees to Midian. Now this is Exodus, chapter 2, verse 15.
[00:13:56] Now, when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh and dwelt in the land of Midian. And he sat down by a well.
[00:14:09] And so now he ran and flees out into the desert in Midian. And Moses stays in midian now for 40 years. God is preparing him to leave Israel for 40 years. Now he goes admitting is out in the middle of the desert. So obviously he learns how to dwell there, knows how to find water, knows how to do different things that he probably wouldn't know if he hadn't flee from Pharaoh and ran out to Midian.
[00:14:36] Also, things happen when the fullness of God's time Clock comes to pass now, you know, this is later. We know that Moses didn't think that he could do the things that God had.
[00:14:55] Had instructed him to do. But you know, he. Now he. He's. He's going to be able to do it now. Moses stayed out in meeting for 40 years.
[00:15:05] And like I said, when the fullness of the time came and God set forth that he would hear the. The. The cries of Israel. This is Exodus, chapter 2, verse 23. And it came to pass in the process of time that the king of Egypt died. And the children of Israel sighed by the reason of the bondage. And they cried. And their cries came up unto God by reason of the bondage. And God heard their groaning. And God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac and with Jacob. God had told Abraham that his descendants would dwell in a land that was not their own and that he would visit them and bring them out. And that the land of Egypt that they were in right now and the covenant that God made with, with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob with their descendants would dwell in. In the promised land. So where they were in the land of Israel was not a permanent thing, that God had just forgot about them all together. They were going to dwell there for a certain amount of time.
[00:16:09] Now God appears to Moses now that he's getting ready to bring the children of Israel out. This is Exodus, chapter three, verses two and three.
[00:16:18] And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him, unto Moses, in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush.
[00:16:26] And he looked, and behold, the bush burned with fire. And the bush was not consumed.
[00:16:33] And Moses said, I will now turn and see this great sight why the bush is not burned up. I would imagine that Moses watched this bush on fire for a while to come to a conclusion that it was not being burned.
[00:16:47] So he stood there and watched it just burn, burn, burn, burn. We don't know how long Moses looked at it, but he must have looked at it for a while. Moses speaks to God for the first time in that burning bush.
[00:16:59] God denotes his holiness to Moses and asks him to remove his shoes when he's on holy ground. I will send you unto Pharaoh. This is Exodus, chapter 3, verses 8 and also verse 10. I come down to deliver out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring up out of the land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey, unto a place of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Hivites and the Jebusites.
[00:17:31] Come now, therefore, I will Send thee unto Pharaoh, thou that thou mayest bring forth my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt. So God says he will bring them out of Egypt. And God said that he would bring them out to the promised land.
[00:17:51] So it's important that we know that God said he's the one doing these things and is going to be the one doing it. So in all of our lives, we should realize that God gets the glory. God is the one doing it. We happen to be people that God will use from time to time to make sure his will is being done. In this, God tells Moses, pharaoh is not going to let you go at first.
[00:18:14] So God always. He sends us to do something, gives us enough of belief to know what's going to happen. So he. This is what he's doing here. He let. Don't be discouraged, Moses. He's not going to let them go. If I'm gonna have to soften him up a little bit first.
[00:18:30] This is Exodus, chapter 3, verse 19 and 20.
[00:18:35] I am sure the king of Egypt will not let you go, not by a mighty hand.
[00:18:41] And I will stretch out my hand and smite the Egyptians with all my wonders, which I will do in the midst thereof. And after that, he'll let you go.
[00:18:54] So God carefully tells Moses that Pharaoh would not let them go at first. I would smite them. So there's no surprises here.
[00:19:04] And God lets Moses know that he himself, God, will soften up Pharaoh, and then he will let you go. God says, I will smite him.
[00:19:15] So, you know, I heard a great man of God say one time, you know, God can use us. We don't have to be smart. We don't have to be strong. We don't have to be anything. Just be willing to do what God says do. And it'll work, because God is using us. And so that's an amazing thing that we can see here. Moses, I can't do this. Well, none of us can. But God's gonna show Moses what he wants him to do. This is Exodus, chapter four, verses two and. And three.
[00:19:43] And the Lord said unto him, what is that in thy hand? He says, a rod. He said, cast it on the ground. He cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent. And Moses fled before it. Moses not running. And God asked, what is.
[00:20:01] God asked Moses what is in his hand?
[00:20:05] You know, no matter what God asks us to do, he can use whatever we have. We learned that from Moses, Mother. She made the little ark, and that saved Moses. Like now, here, God has given Moses a staff.
[00:20:20] It Seems small to Moses. But God says I can use that. And God, it becomes powerful when God is working my lives. God told Moses to pick up the serpent. Pick it up, Moses. Moses, that's a snake. Look. Pick it up. And so he did. Moses reluctantly picks it up. It turns back into a staff. Mo. God is showing Moses the power that he's going to empower Moses to do.
[00:20:46] And so God also knows that Moses is going to be talking to a people that's been enslaved for hundreds of years now. They. They're going to need to believe what? That I'm going to use you to bring them out of this bondage. So God tells Moses to put his hand into his bosom. Moses does it. Becomes leprous. God tells Moses to put it back. And he does. He pulls it out. It's normal again. God says by these signs, Moses, the people will be assured that God is with you. So God gives us a measure of faith. The word of God says. And so that's what he's doing here.
[00:21:24] God. And Moses still doesn't believe that he can do it. I am not a good speaker is what Moses said. This is Exodus, chapter 4, verse 10. And Moses said unto the Lord, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore nor since. How I'm sorry. Nor since thou has spoken unto thy servant. But I am slow of speech.
[00:21:49] So I don't know what it with the speech impediment that Moses had. But obviously he saw it as an impediment to be able to do what God asked him to do.
[00:21:58] Forty years earlier, Moses was ready to start freeing the slaves and taking them with him and standing up. But now, 40 years after that, Moses now doesn't feel like he's ready. Now he's somewhat cowering from doing what God has asked him to do.
[00:22:15] God says he'll send your brother. Your brother can speak candy. I'll send him with you.
[00:22:21] Now God speaks to Aaron and he meets Moses on the way to Egypt. And so when God joins two pieces together, he's not two people together. He's not just gonna tell one. And he shows up and tries to convince the other. In this case, God showed them both. So they were looking for each other. So as. As Moses is on his way to Egypt, Aaron is on his way from Egypt to meet Moses. So that's an amazing thing right there.
[00:22:49] The people believed God's word. This is Exodus, chapter 4, verses 29 through 31.
[00:22:56] And Moses and Aaron went and gathered together the elders of the children of Israel and Aaron spake all the words that the Lord had spoken to Moses and did the signs in the sight of the people, and the people believed. And when they had heard the Lord had visited the children of Israel, of Israel, of Israel, and that he had looked upon their burdens, and they bowed their heads and worshiped them. So once they had seen these signs, and they were convinced that the Lord has heard us and he's coming to bring us out. Because they still, after all these years, they still had the promise that God was going to visit them. From the time of Joseph, he told them that. And. And God. God always gives us a measure of faith. And the signs were enough to convince the people that Moses that the. The people that Moses and Aaron were sent by God also.
[00:23:53] Well, we know that the people had that promise. And you got to think for. For 400 years, that's probably the only thing they had to hold on to was that promise that God was going to visit them someday.
[00:24:08] That probably was the crux of their prayers for a long, long time. God had spoken to Abraham that his people would be in a land that was not theirs. 400 years, they remembered that as well. They know this is not our land.
[00:24:21] And so now they're convinced that Moses is there to bring them out.
[00:24:27] Moses and Aaron, they now go before Pharaoh. This is Exodus, chapter 5, verses 1 and 2.
[00:24:33] Afterwards, Moses and Aaron went and told Pharaoh, thus saith the Lord God of Israel, let my people go, that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness. And Pharaoh said, who is the Lord, that I shall obey his voice and let Israel go? I know not the Lord, neither will I let them go.
[00:24:57] Let my people go as what God says. So now God is already, you know, pronouncing them. They're his people.
[00:25:05] So they are the physical people of God. And so God acknowledges that here Pharaoh refuses to let the people go, just as God had foretold Moses in the beginning. He's not going to let him go.
[00:25:18] So with this, I'm. Have I. I'll take this opportunity to show Pharaoh who God is, as well as reinforcements. What you're going to be telling the people about me when you get there, so I'll get to work with this whole thing. Everybody can see it. So Pharaoh, the people are idle now. When Moses shows up and tells the Pharaoh that the Lord has sent them, Pharaoh probably inquires and finds out what they've been doing. Well, these people showed up now. They decided they want to go. And so now Pharaoh is upset over this. This is Exodus chapter 5, verses 5 through 7.
[00:25:59] And Pharaoh said, behold, the people of the land are now many, and ye make them rest from their burdens. And Pharaoh commanded the same day, the taskmasters of the people and their officers saying, ye shall no more give them straw to make brick. Heretofore from now on, let them go and gather the straw for themselves.
[00:26:22] You know, the Israelites, if they got enough time to have meetings in the middle of the night and talk about they want to leave here and go out in the. In the wilderness and worship God, they must not have enough work to do.
[00:26:33] So from now on, you're not going to take them to give to the straw to put in those bricks. They're going to gather the straw for themselves. And I will not accept not one brick less.
[00:26:47] And that's what Pharaoh is doing here. So things are about to get tough for Israel here.
[00:26:53] I heard a great man of God say one time, when, when.
[00:26:58] When God uses you to start fighting the devil, don't be surprised when the devil fights back.
[00:27:06] So that's certainly what they're having here.
[00:27:10] So Israel's leaders now are beaten and they're being abused. This is Exodus, chapter five, verses two.
[00:27:17] I'm sorry, verses 20 and 21.
[00:27:20] And they met Moses and Aaron who stood in the way, and they came forth from Pharaoh, and they said unto the Lord, look upon and judge, because ye have made our Savior to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh and in the eyes of his servants, and put a sword in their hand that they will slay us.
[00:27:39] From what the Israelites are saying to Moses, it certainly looks like what we would call stock Stockholm syndrome. They were enslaved, but they were looking that Pharaoh would look them with favor. Now they're starting to be beaten and abused, and they're saying, now you've made Pharaoh abhor us.
[00:28:00] So they not only were slaves and Pharaoh, they wanted Pharaoh to like them.
[00:28:05] So that's an amazing thing. So Aaron and Moses are now, you know, looked at as troublemakers in the eyes of Israel. Instead of you letting us go, now they beat us. And now it's getting really, really bad around here.
[00:28:20] So when God starts to change some things, sometimes it does look worse before it starts to look better.
[00:28:27] Now God says, okay, now it's time for me to show Pharaoh who he's dealing with. God starts to send the 10 plagues water into blood. That's the first plague. We know that some of these plagues, the magicians of Pharaoh could do them. So Satan has some power to do some miracles, but The Bible calls those miracles lying wonders.
[00:28:51] The land was filled with frogs, dust turned into lice, swarms of flies. Now none of these plagues were on the the Israel Israelites, so there were no flies in Goshen where the Israelites live. Plagues on the livestock and the cattle. The bursting, bursting and festering boils upon the people and the cattle.
[00:29:13] The Egyptians precious, I'm sorry.
[00:29:17] Hailstones destroyed everything left out in the opening their crops, so it beat all the crops so they wouldn't bring forth any, any harvest.
[00:29:31] Plagues of locusts came and ate up what was left.
[00:29:35] Extreme darkness. For three days the Egyptians couldn't see each other.
[00:29:40] And the Bible describes this darkness as freezing them in place.
[00:29:45] So it was more than just that physical dog. The Bible says that it was a physical dark, that they could feel it. But in other places it describes that as a, a way that froze them. So obviously there was a terror connected to that darkness that, that goes beyond an understanding that we have of that. And also in the future, one of our future lessons, we will talk about the darkness that will be upon the victim when God pours out his wrath at the end of the Great Tribulation.
[00:30:20] After the Great Tribulation, it will be God's wrath. The Great Tribulation is the wrath of Satan. After the wrath of Satan is when God wrath start. And that plague, or many of these plagues will be the plagues that God will use once again.
[00:30:33] And we'll have future lessons where we talk more about that. But it just reminded me of that since we were covering it in this lesson. Now the, these 10 plagues here. Well, there's nine plagues that I've talked about so far. And this is about to establish God's Passover, which, let's just talk about that. This is Exodus, chapter 12, verses 21 and 22.
[00:30:57] Then Moses called for the elders of Israel and said unto them, draw out and take you a lamb according to your families and kill the Passover, verse 22. And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop and dip it into the blood into the basin and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the basin. And none of you shall go outdoors of your house until the morning.
[00:31:24] Now at this time, God is establishing the Passover.
[00:31:28] Don't go out till the morning. So stay inside. Don't be looking out the window.
[00:31:33] And God's people have never been children of the night. They've always been children of the day. God stay in at night because the, the death angel is going to pass over you and it's going to smite the people of the night.
[00:31:46] And God is sending the lad. He's getting ready to send the last pet plague of on Egypt. Now he sent nine plagues before, and it hasn't been enough to make Pharaoh and the Egyptians do what God says. And God said tells Moses, I'm getting ready to send one more plague, and this time I'm gonna put some stink on this one. And they'll let you go. And the blood guards against death. This is Exodus, chapter 12, verses 23 and 24.
[00:32:15] For the Lord will pass through to smite the Egyptians. And when he sees the blood upon the door, the lintel and the two side posts, the Lord will pass over the door and not suffer and destroy to come inside your houses to smite you.
[00:32:32] And ye shall observe this thing for an audience, for an ordinance to thee and thy sons forever. This is something that you're going to continue to do.
[00:32:43] The Passover is going to be observed from Moses time for the next 1500 years. And now we've looked back back at the fulfillment of this thing for 2000 years from where we live, from where the Passover celebration and the observance was turned into the, the Lord's Supper. So Lord says, you're gonna, you're gonna observe this forever. Well, we didn't stop observing it when the Messiah came, but we looked at it in a different way. The Messiah came, then it became something that we remembered.
[00:33:18] So we've been remembering this for the last 2000 years. And you know, the people who are listening to these shows here, not all of them believe or our Christians are believe in what we're, what we're teaching here, but just continue with us and then we'll get to the part that will show you why we believe the things that we do. And so we'll continue here. So we look back for 2000 years that the ordinance changed from the pass over to the Lord's Supper.
[00:33:45] And so this is what we've observed now for the, for the last 2000 years. And we will continue to observe it in one way or the other until the wrapping up of things. These are many of the aspects of the type and shadow of what is going to be the reality from these people future point of view and what we enjoy in the time that we live now we have the reality that what these people merely had a type and shadow. And we are going to cover these things in detail.
[00:34:18] So just continue with us and continue to, to go along with us so that you can understand what these things mean. And the purpose of us going and beginning at the beginning of the Bible and continuing so that we. We can understand all the things that were a type and a shadow, we certainly will be able to see the fulfillment and the reality that we now enjoy.
[00:34:40] The firstborn was killed in every house where there was no blood. This is Exodus, chapter 12, verses 29. 30 at midnight, the Lord smote all of the firstborn of the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon and all the firstborn of the cattle. And Pharaoh rose up in the night and.
[00:35:07] And he and all his servants and all the Egyptians.
[00:35:10] And there was a great cry in Egypt. There was not a house where there was not one dead.
[00:35:18] So every Egyptian in every house, the firstborn of their house was dead from Pharaoh to the lowest of the Egyptians, from the. From the wino up to the president is what I heard a great comedian say one time. And that's what they did. It was not one house or there wasn't one dead in it.
[00:35:38] So that would have. They would.
[00:35:41] All through the night you had people getting up, hearing the screaming and the commotion that's going out all through the land and then going in to check on their children and seeing that their firstborn was there, then they would start screaming. And this continued all throughout the night. And there was not one house of the Egyptians that didn't have one dead in it.
[00:36:02] And that caused Pharaoh to see the power of the Lord. Pharaoh. Go.
[00:36:08] This is Exodus, chapter 12, verses 31 and 32.
[00:36:12] And he called for Moses and Aaron by night and said, rise up and get ye for from among my people both ye and your children of Israel, and go serve the Lord as you have said. Also, take your flocks and your herds as you said, and be gone.
[00:36:35] And bless me also.
[00:36:37] Bless me also.
[00:36:40] So Pharaoh was contrite and everybody you know, he had knew in the citizens of Egypt had a loved one that died that night.
[00:36:49] And so that was an amazing thing for everybody involved. From the.
[00:36:54] From the people of Egypt who lost their loved ones, from the people of Israel who saw these things.
[00:37:00] It was an amazing night, a night to be much observed, for sure. This is Exodus, chapter 12, verses 35 and 36.
[00:37:08] And the children of Israel did according to the words of Moses, and they borrowed of the Egyptians the Egyptian jewels and silver, jewels of gold. And Raymond and the Lord gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians. So they Lent unto them such things as they required. And they spoiled the Egyptians. So they were able to go and say, you know, we want to borrow some of this gold that you got in here. That outfit you wanted to that dinner last night, I need to get that too. So they were. God put in their heart to give them whatever they asked for.
[00:37:43] So reparations were required by God for the slavery and the bondage of the Israelites for the last 400 years. And they've been working on the bondage.
[00:37:52] So God felt that they needed some reparations. But these things were going to be used by God for God to build his physical kingdom for these people. So these things God provided from the Egyptians for the worship of God and to create the things needed for God to build and to show them that how to build these things that were going to be a type and show of the worship.
[00:38:17] And God provided these things to them.
[00:38:19] So the Israelites went, you know, into Egypt 400 years prior to this, 70 souls plus Joseph and his two sons, and came out a mighty nation. They went in as herdsmen, but they came out craftsman, goldsmiths, silver smiths, blacksmiths, builders and brick makers. And so God in the. In the point of all this, this time, as them as being slaves in Egypt, God was able to take them in. Usually, if you look at people who are.
[00:38:59] Are downtrodden throughout the world, they usually have a lot of children. So this may have been one of the things that God used to enlarge his physical people and to teach them how to do and use and to build all the things in the cities that God. The land that God had promised them. God says, you're going to be a mighty nation, so you need the skills to do so. By the time they came out of Egyptian bondage, they possessed the skills to build anything that God would have them to be able to build.
[00:39:32] And so a lot of times when we see things and we look at things, we see the negative in that.
[00:39:39] But all things were together for good to those who love the Lord, who are the called according to his purpose. And this certainly was a time that the Israel people, the Hebrews, frowned upon, but God used it for what he was going to do in building his physical people. And also we look at the Egyptian bondage of the physical people of God as a type and shadow of the bondage of sin that we live in now in the New Testament.
[00:40:08] And so all of these types and shadows are things that we should be able to take note of so we can know what God is trying to do what he's doing in our lives, to help us to see who he is and to be a part of his kingdom.
[00:40:25] And we'll be right back after this message.
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