Scheme of Redemption

Goals of Our Study To learn how God moved from man's problem of sin to His solution of Jesus on the cross To understand how everything in the scriptures relates to, and points to, Jesus and the cross To understand how everything in the Bible reveals God to mankind - who He is and what He is like Get a better understanding of how we got here tonight on the orange carpet

Main concepts of our study "Scheme of Redemption" - The plan of God, established before creation, to redeem mankind from sin View the Bible as a novel, with 66 different chapters The real division taking place at Genesis 3:6 rather than between Malachi and Matthew This division covers two drastically different worlds: The world prior to sin and the world after sin

Main concepts of our study Genesis 1-2: God and perfection, man and innocence Genesis 3-12 – The Background of Redemption Genesis 12-50 – Redemption through Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph Exodus 1-12 – Slavery In and Judgement On Egypt

Recap The descendants of Israel (Jacob) grew VERY large within the land of Egypt A new Pharaoh arose who did not know Joseph, and who feared that Israel’s sheer size could lead to a take over of some sort So, he forced them into hard labor

Recap We discussed the promise and prophecy that we see being fulfilled right here in chapter 1 Prophecy – The oppression that God informed Abraham of 215 years prior was happening Promise – Abraham’s descendants had grown into a great nation that was still growing exponetially

Intro to Exodus – Overview We discussed Moses’ birth, and how his mother kept him as long as she could She finally could keep him hid no longer, and laid him in a basket alongside the Nile Pharaoh’s daughter discovered Moses and she hired Moses’ mother, Jochebed, to nurse and rear Moses Eventually, Moses moved into the house of Pharaoh and was raised and educated in the Egyptian ways (Acts 7:22)

Moses’ life Exodus 2:11-13 – Now it came about in those days, when Moses had grown up, that he went out to his brethren and looked on their hard labors; and he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his brethren. So he looked this way and that, and when he saw there was no one around, he struck down the Egyptian and hid him in the sand. He went out the next day, and behold, two Hebrews were fighting with each other; and he said to the offender, “Why are you striking your companion?”

Moses’ life Exodus 2:14-15 –But he said, “Who made you a prince or a judge over us? Are you intending to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?” Then Moses was afraid and said, “Surely the matter has become known. When Pharaoh heard of this matter, he tried to kill Moses. But Moses fled from the presence of Pharaoh and settled in the land of Midian, and he sat down by a well.

Moses’ life While Midian, Moses marries Zipporah and they have a son named Gershom Zipporah’s father, Jethro, was the priest of Midian (Druze religion?)

Moses’ life from Stephen Acts 7:22-25 - Moses was educated in all the learning of the Egyptians, and he was a man of power in words and deeds. But when he was approaching the age of forty, it entered his mind to visit his brethren, the sons of Israel. And when he saw one of them being treated unjustly, he defended him and took vengeance for the oppressed by striking down the Egyptian. And he supposed that his brethren understood that God was granting them deliverance through him, but they did not understand.

Moses’ life from Stephen Acts 7:30-31 - “After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in the flame of a burning thorn bush. 31 When Moses saw it, he marveled at the sight; and as he approached to look more closely, there came the voice of the Lord

Moses’ life Moses was 40 when he struck down the Egyptian and fled to Midian His was ~80 when God met him in the burning bush Exodus 7:7 - Moses was eighty years old and Aaron eighty-three, when they spoke to Pharaoh

Moses and the burning bush Exodus 3:1-3 – Now Moses was pasturing the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian; and he led the flock to the west side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. The angel of the Lord appeared to him in a blazing fire from the midst of a bush; and he looked, and behold, the bush was burning with fire, yet the bush was not consumed. So Moses said, “I must turn aside now and see this marvelous sight, why the bush is not burned up.”

Moses and the burning bush Exodus 3:4-6 – When the Lord saw that he turned aside to look, God called to him from the midst of the bush and said, “Moses, Moses!” And he said, “Here I am.” Then He said, “Do not come near here; remove your sandals from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.” He said also, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” Then Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God.

Another interesting encounter Moses joins the ranks of Adam, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in direct interaction with God Verse 2 – “The angel of the Lord appeared to him…” Verse 4 – “When the Lord saw that he turned aside to look, God called to him…” As with Abraham, it’s hard to tell what representation of God Moses is speaking with (Jesus?)

Another promise to be fulfilled Exodus 2:23-25 – Now it came about in the course of those many days that the king of Egypt died. And the sons of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried out; and their cry for help because of their bondage rose up to God. So God heard their groaning; and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. God saw the sons of Israel, and God took notice of them.

Another promise fulfilled Exodus 3:7-9 – The Lord said, “I have surely seen the affliction of My people who are in Egypt, and have given heed to their cry because of their taskmasters, for I am aware of their sufferings. So I have come down to deliver them from the power of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land to a good and spacious land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite. Now, behold, the cry of the sons of Israel has come to Me; furthermore, I have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians are oppressing them

Another promise fulfilled Genesis 15:18-21 –"To your descendants I have given this land, From the river of Egypt as far as the great river, the river Euphrates: the Kenite and the Kenizzite and the Kadmonite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Rephaim and the Amorite and the Canaanite and the Girgashite and the Jebusite. Exodus 3:8 – the place of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite

Moses is commissioned God tells Moses to go to the elders of Israel and inform them that “I AM” has sent him to them Genesis 3:15 – Thus you shall say to the sons of Israel, ‘The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.’ This is My name forever, and this is My memorial-name to all generations.

“I AM” Exodus 3:13-14 – Then Moses said to God, “Behold, I am going to the sons of Israel, and I will say to them, 'The God of your fathers has sent me to you.' Now they may say to me, 'What is His name?' What shall I say to them?” God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM”; and He said, “Thus you shall say to the sons of Israel, 'I AM has sent me to you.'

“I AM” This is something that the Israelite people would know of Genesis 15:6 – I am the Lord who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to give you this land to possess it. “Lord” here is Yahweh/Jehovah which means “the One who is”, “the existing one”. So, Moses and Israelites would have clearly understood who Moses was referring to based upon their knowledge of Abraham’s encounters

Coming Up God commissions Moses and gives him certain abilities as proof of truth Moses and Aaron confront Pharaoh