Exit from Death, Enter into Exit from Death, Enter into Life—The Deliverance of Life—The Deliverance of

IsraelitesIsraelites

Exodus 12: 31-41Exodus 12: 31-41

Rev. Ruey LaiRev. Ruey Lai

• Introduction

• Narrative Criticism

• Location: Egypt, Red Sea, Desert of Sinai

• Time: 1500 BC

• Major Character: God, Moses, Pharaoh

• Dialogue: the narrator, God, Moses, Pharaoh

• Outlines

• 1. The Passover

• 2. Regulations and Significance of the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread

• 3. Israelites out of Egypt

• 4. Israelites walked through the Red Sea

• 5. Concluding Remarks

• 6. Response and Challenge

• 1. The Passover

• Exodus 12

• The Israelites are to take some of the blood of the lamb and put it on the sides and tops of the doorframes of the houses.

• The blood will be a sign.

• When the angel see the sign, He will pass over them.

• “This is the Lord's Passover.”

• Ex. 12

• Pharaoh and all his officials and all the Egyptians got up during the night.

• There was loud wailing in Egypt, for there was not a house without someone dead.

• Heb 11:28

• “By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood, so that the destroyer of the firstborn would not touch the firstborn of Israel.”

• 2. Regulations and Significance of the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread

• Ex 12

• “When your children ask, 'What does this ceremony mean?'

• tell them,

• 'It is the Passover sacrifice to the Lord,

• who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt and spared our homes

• when he struck down the Egyptians.”

• (1). No foreigner is to eat of it.

• (2). Do not break any of the bones of the lamb.

• (3). The whole community of Israel must celebrate it.

• (4). Consecrate to the Lord every firstborn male.

• (5). This observance will be for the Israelites like a sign on their hand and a reminder on their forehead that the law of the Lord is to be on their lips.

• The feast of the unleavened bread last for seven days though.

• The Lord instructed the Israelites to eat bread made without yeast for seven days.

• Ex 12:42

• “Because the Lord kept vigil that night to bring you out of Egypt,

• on this night all the Israelites are to keep vigil to honor the Lord for the generations to come.”

• Matt 26:26-28

• “While they were eating,

• Jesus took bread, gave thanks and broke it,

• and gave it to his disciples,

• saying, "Take and eat; this is my body."

• Then he took the cup,

• gave thanks and offered it to them,

• saying, "Drink from it, all of you.

• This is my blood of the covenant,

• which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.”

• 1Cor 11:28-29

• “A man ought to examine himself before he eats of the bread and drinks of the cup.

• For anyone who eats and drinks without recognizing the body of the Lord

• eats and drinks judgment on himself.”

• 3. Israelites out of Egypt

• Route 1: The way along the coast

• This route is too dangerous for the Israelites because of the presence of the Philistine.

• Route 2: The way through the Desert of Shur.

• This route is also dangerous because of the limited supply of drinking water.

• Route 3: The long way.

• Eventually, the Israelite ended up with route 3

• This route is going south toward Mountain Sinai and then going north toward the city of Kadesh Barnea .

• How many people actually got out of Egypt that night?

• Personally, I believe there are two answers.

• The first answer:

• Based on the scripture, 600,000 men left Egypt (Ex. 12:37, Ex. 38: 26, Numbers 1: 46; 2: 32 ; 26: 51)

• The total number of people left Egypt is two millions.

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• The second answer,

• if “elep” is not an unit of one thousand, then,

• the number of men of Israelite who left Egypt would be 5,500 .

• Ex 23:29-30

• (29) “But I will not drive them out in a single year, • because the land would become desolate • and the wild animals too numerous for you. • • (30) Little by little I will drive them out before you, • until you have increased enough to take

possession of the land.”

• 4. Israelites walked through Red Sea

• Ex 14

• “The angel of God, who had been traveling in front of Israel's army, withdrew and went behind them.

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• Throughout the night the cloud brought darkness to the one side and light to the other side;

• so neither went near the other all night long.”

• Ex 14

• Moses stretched out his hand over the sea

• The Lord drove the sea back with a strong east wind and turned it into dry land.

• The waters were divided, and the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground.

• Red sea or Reed sea ?

• Heb 11:29

• “By faith the people passed through the Red Sea as on dry land;

• but when the Egyptians tried to do so,

• they were drowned.”

• (1Cor 10:1-4)

• (1) “For I do not want you to be ignorant of the fact, brothers, that our forefathers were all under the cloud and that they all passed through the sea.

• (2) They were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea.

• (3) They all ate the same spiritual food and

• (4) drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ.”

• Ex 15: 1-19• (1) "I will sing to the Lord, for he is highly

exalted. The horse and its rider, he has hurled into the sea.

• (2) The Lord is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation. He is my God, and I will praise him, my father's God, and I will exalt him.

• (3) The Lord is a warrior; the Lord is his name.

• (11) Who among the gods is like you, O Lord? Who is like you - majestic in holiness, awesome in glory, working wonders?

• (12) You stretched out your right hand and the earth swallowed them.

• (14) The nations will hear and tremble; anguish will grip the people of Philistia.

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• (15) The chiefs of Edom will be terrified,

• the leaders of Moab will be seized with trembling, the people b of Canaan will melt away;

• (16) terror and dread will fall upon them.

• By the power of your arm they will be as still as a stone — until your people pass by, O Lord, until the people you bought pass by.

• (17) You will bring them in and plant them on the mountain of your inheritance —

• the place, O Lord, you made for your dwelling, the sanctuary, O Lord, your hands established.

• (18) The Lord will reign for ever and ever."

• 5. Concluding Remarks

• 6. Response and Challenge