Exit from Death, Enter into Life—The Deliverance of Israelites Exodus 12: 31-41 Rev. Ruey Lai.
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Transcript of Exit from Death, Enter into Life—The Deliverance of Israelites Exodus 12: 31-41 Rev. Ruey Lai.
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.
•
• 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.
• -----
• 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.
•
• (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