3. Exodus-Deut: The Founding of the Nation
Overview of time period, key events, key figures:
Moses, Aaron
Other characters – Miriam, Eleazar, Phinehas, Pharaoh, Korah
Exodus from Egypt, time at Mt. Sinai, wilderness happenings
Game
Take a look at the focus scriptures
Exodus 34:6-7
Deuteronomy 6:4-9
Christ in the Exodus
Take a closer look at the life of Moses

4. Israel in Egypt

5. Israel in Egypt Genesis
Begins with God creating the heavens and the earth
Ends with death of Joseph
God foretells of the slavery to Abraham
And God said to Abram, “Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, where they will be enslaved and oppressed four hundred years. But I will also judge the nation whom they will serve; and afterward they will come out with many possessions” (Gen 15:13-14).
Joseph predicts the Exodus, tells them to carry his bones with them (Gen 50:24-25)

6. Israel Enslaved in Egypt
Brings us to Exodus
Hundreds of years have passed
Jacob’s family that went down to Egypt was 70
Now there are well over million
Conservative estimates are 2 million at the time of the Exodus
“Now a new king arose over Egypt, who did not know Joseph” (Ex 1:8).
Israelites are made slaves
The Israelites are more and mightier than we (Ex 1:9)

7. Hebrew Babies Killed

8. Hebrew Babies Killed
Pharaoh commands midwives to kill babies, but they don’t (Ex 1:15- 21)
Pharaoh commands the Hebrew baby boys be thrown into the Nile (Ex 1:22)

9. Moses (First 40)

10. Moses (First 40)
His parents saw he was a beautiful child and they were not afraid of the king’s edict (Heb 11:23)
Hidden for 3 months, placed in a basket in the Nile
Princess finds baby, mother nurses him
40 years as Egyptian prince

11. Moses (Second 40)

12. Moses (Second 40) Kills an Egyptian Flees to Midian
40 more years as a shepherd in the wilderness

13. Call of Moses (Ex 3-4)

14. Call of Moses (Ex 3-4)

15. Moses Back in Egypt Moses goes back to Egypt On the way (Ex 4:24-26)
God seeks to “put him to death”
Zipporah circumcises their son (Ex 4:24-26)
Initially confrontation doesn’t go well
Gets better & better for Israelites as it goes along
Judgement on the Egyptian gods
Magicians replicating plagues instead of stopping them!

16. God’s Judgement on Egypt’s gods

17. The Exodus

18. The Exodus 10th plague, death of every 1st born
Institution of the Passover
Crossing the Red Sea

19. Traditional Route of the Exodus

20. Possible Alternate Route of the Exodus

21. Intriguing Articles… http://www.arkdiscovery.com/red_sea_crossing.htm

22. Journey to Mount Sinai

23. Journey to Mount Sinai Joshua defeats Amalek (Ex 17:8-16)
Grumbling about bitter water (Ex 15:22-26)
Moses cries to God
God shows him a tree to throw in the water
Waters became sweet
Lack of food (Ex 16)
“Would that we had died by the Lord’s hand in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the pots of meat, when we ate bread to the full…” (Ex 16:2)
God gives manna
Lack of water
Water from a rock

24. Mount Sinai

25. Mount Sinai Israel there 11-12 months Giving of the 10 commandments
Giving of the Law
The incident of the golden calf
Construction of the Tabernacle
Aaron & sons become priests

26. Moses on Mount Sinai Moses receives lots of stuff from God
During two 40 day fasts – no food or water
Deuteronomy 9:9
Exodus 34:28, Deuteronomy 9:18
10 commandments
Lots of laws
New calendar, festivals
Sacrifices
Instructions on building the tabernacle

27. The Incident of the Golden Calf

28. The Incident of the Golden Calf
Exodus 32
“We do not know what happened to [Moses]” (Ex 32:1)
Aaron builds a golden calf
Aaron’s explanation – “… I threw [the gold] into the fire, and out came this calf” (Ex 32:24)
Punishment
Moses’ grinds the calf into dust and puts it in the water
The Levites go through the camp killing offenders
Moses’ intercession (Ex 32:32)

29. The Tabernacle

30. The Tabernacle

31. The Tabernacle Copy of what is in heaven (Ex 25:40; Heb 8:5)
Bezalel & Oholiab
The builders
Filled with the Holy Spirit (Ex 31:3)
Laid out as the court of the King
Outer courtyard
The Holy Place
The Most Holy Place or Holy of Holies, where the King is “enthroned between the cherubim” (Isaiah 37:16)
All items associated with the tabernacle are portable

32. The Ark of the Covenant

33. The Ark of the Covenant

34. The Priests

35. The Priests Aaron and his descendants (Lev 8-10) Nadab & Abihu sin
Eleazar & Ithamar

37. Jewish Sacrifices

38. Israel Leaves Mt. Sinai

39. Israel leaves Mt. Sinai People complain about the food (Num 11)
Miriam & Aaron speak against Moses (Num 12)

40. Israel at Kadesh-Barnea
Spies travel through land 40 days
Their report
It is a land flowing with milk and honey
There are giants in the land
Caleb & Joshua – we can take this land
People’s disobedience
Consequences
God kills 10 spies immediately
Israel to wander in wilderness 40 years
No one 20 years and over will enter the promised land

41. Rebellion of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram

42. What Israel did in the wilderness
Number 9:17-23:
And whenever the cloud lifted from over the tent, after that the people of Israel set out, and in the place where the cloud settled down, there the people of Israel camped.
At the command of the LORD the people of Israel set out, and at the command of the LORD they camped. As long as the cloud rested over the tabernacle, they remained in camp.
Even when the cloud continued over the tabernacle many days, the people of Israel kept the charge of the LORD and did not set out.
Sometimes the cloud was a few days over the tabernacle, and according to the command of the LORD they remained in camp; then according to the command of the LORD they set out.
And sometimes the cloud remained from evening until morning. And when the cloud lifted in the morning, they set out, or if it continued for a day and a night, when the cloud lifted they set out.
Whether it was two days, or a month, or a longer time, that the cloud continued over the tabernacle, abiding there, the people of Israel remained in camp and did not set out, but when it lifted they set out.
At the command of the LORD they camped, and at the command of the LORD they set out. They kept the charge of the LORD, at the command of the LORD by Moses.

43. Toward the end of the Wilderness Wandering
Miriam dies (Num 20:1)
Moses sins (Num 20:2-13)
God tells him to speak to the rock
He strikes rock
He loses the privilege of entering the promised land (Num 20:12)
 Aaron dies (Num 20:24-29)
High priesthood transferred to Eleazar

45. Israel takes land east of the Jordan River
Defeat of Sihon, king of the Amorites (Num 21)
Defeat of Og, king of Bashan (Num 21)
God tells Moses, “Do not fear him” (Num 21:34)
Og is a descendant of the Rephaim
His bed was 13’ x 6’ (Deut 3:11)
Reuben, Gad & half of Manasseh to settle east side of Jordan (Num 32)
Must fight with their brothers for the land of Canaan

46. Israel takes land east of the Jordan River

47. Balaam

48. Balaam Balaam, son of Beor, from Pethor (Num 22-24)
Hired by Balak, son of Zippor, king of Moab, to curse Israel
Blesses Israel instead
Finds another way to make money…
Killed in later attack on Midian (Num 31)
The affair of Peor (Num 25)
The people “play the harlot” with the daughters of Moab
The people worship their gods, join themselves to Baal of Peor
Phinehas kills offenders, God gives him a “perpetual priesthood”
Moab & Midian allied against Israel in all of this

49. Moses views the promised land

50. Deuteronomy Second giving of the law
Delivered the final months of Moses’ life, while in the plains of Moab
Moses commissions Joshua as the next leader
Moses gets to see the promised land from Mount Nebo, but not to enter

51. Focus Scriptures Exodus 34:6-7 Deuteronomy 6:4-9
God’s revelation of himself to Moses
Similar revelation in the Ten Commandments (Ex 20:5-6)
Psalm 103:8
Deuteronomy 6:4-9
Shema – the core Hebrew prayer
Psalm 139:2-3
Revelation 13:16
The ultimate rebellion
To put the name or number of the name of the beast where God’s word is supposed to be

52. Christ in the Exodus Israel is a type of Christ
Israel & Jesus are both God’s son (Ex 4:22; Matt 4:17)
Israel & Jesus both came out of Egypt (Exodus; Matt 2:15)
Israel & Jesus were both baptized
Israel passed through the Red Sea
Jesus baptized in the Jordan River
Israel & Jesus spent 40 in the wilderness following baptism
40 years for Israel
40 days for Jesus

53. Christ in the Exodus Moses is a type of Christ
He interceded for the people (Ex 32:30-33)
He said God would raise up a prophet like himself (Deut 18:15-19)
He was over the Jewish priesthood (Lev 8-9)
God spoke to Moses face to face (Ex 33:7-11; Num 12:6-8)
Moses compared to Jesus (who is better!) (Heb 3:1-6)

54. Christ in the Exodus The Feasts The Sacrifices The Cities of Refuge
The Year of Jubilee
Etc., etc.