Exodus

Let’s get the Egypt out of

here
 Joseph’s buddy…
• The Pharaoh
• Dies
• The new guy
• Doesn’t know Joe
• Oh No
• Here we go.
• Feel my flow?
 No?
• Oh……
• It’s so fun though
• Rhyming ya know?
• Okay okay…
• Anyway….
 The new Pharaoh
• Sees that the Israelites have grown
• “Too numerous”
• So he enslaves them.
• And orders the midwives to kill all male
children.
• They refuse.
• So he orders the children to be thrown
into the Nile.
• So you ask yourself?
What about the
Covenant?
 A Levite child is born
• His mother hides him.
• In a papyrous basket
• And sends him down the river.
• Pharaoh’s daughter finds it.
• And takes the child in.
• She names him Moses…which
means
“I drew him up out of the
water”
(Nothing typological here)
 Moses
• Grows up with the Egyptians.
• (We don’t know too much about
the Egyptian years…but he grew
up with the Egyptians.)
• As an adult he sees an Egyptian
strike a Hebrew.
• And this makes Moses very angry!
 You wouldn’t like Moses
when he’s angry
• He kills the Egyptian.
• This angers everybody…Egyptians
and Hebrews…
• Especially Pharaoh.
• Who decided to kill Moses.
• (gulp…)
So he does what any one of
us would do in his shoes…
• He goes to the desert to hang
out with the Midianites.
• And lays the smack down on
some bandits who are
attacking the Midainite girls.
• And…he gets a wife out of it.
• What a hunk, that Moses.
 It’s a boy!
• Moses and his new lady
friend Zipporah have a
baby named Gershom.
• Moses does the shepherd
thing with the midianites
and lives happily ever after.
The end
 I
know..
There’s more
Out there in the desert…
 Theophany
• God shows up…

•Big time!
• Take your shoes off kids.
• Holy Ground!
• Burning Bush!!!
• Why a burning bush?
 God has heard the
Israelites
• And promises a deliverer
• And Moses is to be that deliverer.
• Moses is to go to Pharaoh and
demand
• That the people be allowed to go
and worship.
• And as a huge bonus
 SHEM SHEM
• God reveals his SHEM HA SHEM!!!!
• I AM WHO AM
• YHWH
• WOW!!!!!
• What does this reveal?
 Who is and Who was and
Who is To Come
• God i s “Beauty so Anci ent
and Yet so N ew. ” (St.
Augusti ne. )
• God I S pure Be ing. ( He e xists
through Himsel f and no one
el se. )
• His name is MEG A HOLY.
• YH WH is the
Tetragrammaton…a name so
Hol y to the H ebrew peopl e
that it was onl y whi sper ed
So Moses has to go back
And tell Pharaoh
Let my
people
GO!!!
Moses returns to Pharaoh
• And lets him know what’s up.
• God works wonders.
• But Pharaoh’s heart is hardened.
• He will not let the people go.
• So it comes time for plagues.
• Nasty plagues…
• 10 of them.
Know them…
in order.
 Oh…by the way.
• Look at John 2….Jesus’ first
public miracle.
• Notice anything?
 Plague after Plague
• Pharaoh will not give…
• So there comes the worst.
• The saddest…
• The wage of sin…
 Nope

Even worse
Even worse!!!
DE AT H
 The first born
• Of the Egyptians were struck
down.
• Only I the celebration of the
Passover are the Hebrews to
be saved.
• By the blood of the Lamb.
• Death passes over.
• The blood of a sacrificed,
unblemished lamb.
• And at this…pharaoh lets them go.
• So they set out.
• But his heart is hardened.
• And he chases them out.
• To the Red Sea.
God leads with a pillar
of fire.
Them He splits the sea.
The Israelites pass through
the waters…
From slavery to freedom
And they are led out into
the wilderness.
And they
all live
happily
ever