1. Scheme of Redemption

2. 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

3. 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

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

5. Abraham was made three promises
Recap
Abraham was made three promises
God would make of him a great nation
His descendants would inherit the land of Canaan
Through his lineage, all the nations of the earth would be blessed
These promises were also made, verbatim, to Isaac and Jacob, whose name was changed to Israel.

6. Recap
Jacob had 12 sons, 10 of which would become tribes of Israel, along with Joseph’s two sons Manasseh and Ephraim.
Joseph and Levi would not become “tribes” in and of themselves.
Genesis ends with a backward look at the promises made and a forward look to the promises being realized with the dying words of both Jacob and Joseph.

7. Intro to Exodus – Overview
Slavery in Egypt
Birth and life of Moses
God commissioning Moses and Aaron
The 10 plagues
The Passover
Exodus from Egypt, crossing of the Red Sea
The journey to Mt. Sinai
Giving of the Law (10 Commandments)
Aaron, Israelites, and the golden calf
Building of the tabernacle

8. Promise and Prophecy Fulfilled
In Exodus, as quickly as the first chapter, we see both prophecy and promise being fulfilled
Promise: God would make Abraham into a great nation
Prophecy: Abraham’s descendants would be oppressed, but God would judge their oppressors

9. Intro to Exodus – A Prophecy Fulfilled
Genesis 15:13-14 – 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.

10. Intro to Exodus – A Promise Fulfilled
Exodus 1:8-11 – Now a new king arose over Egypt, who did not know Joseph. He said to his people, “Behold, the people of the sons of Israel are more and mightier than we. Come, let us deal wisely with them, or else they will multiply and in the event of war, they will also join themselves to those who hate us, and fight against us and depart from the land.” So they appointed taskmasters over them to afflict them with hard labor.

11. Intro to Exodus – A Promise Fulfilled
Exodus 1:15-17 – Then the king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other was named Puah; and he said, “When you are helping the Hebrew women to give birth and see them upon the birth stool, if it is a son, then you shall put him to death; but if it is a daughter, then she shall live.” But the midwives feared God, and did not do as the king of Egypt had commanded them, but let the boys live.

12. Intro to Exodus – A Promise Fulfilled
Exodus 1:18-22 – So the king of Egypt called for the midwives and said to them, “Why have you done this thing, and let the boys live?” The midwives said to Pharaoh, “Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are vigorous and give birth before the midwife can get to them.” So God was good to the midwives, and the people multiplied, and became very mighty. Because the midwives feared God, He established households for them. Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, “Every son who is born you are to cast into the Nile, and every daughter you are to keep alive.”

13. Just how long was it??
Genesis 15:13 – ...“your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, where they will be enslaved and oppressed four hundred years…”
Exodus 12:40-41 – Now the time that the sons of Israel lived in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years. And at the end of four hundred and thirty years, to the very day, all the hosts of the Lord went out from the land of Egypt

14. Just how long was it??
Using genealogical records (Exodus 6:16- 20, 1 Chronicles 6:1, 1 Chronicles 23:6-13) the number seems to be more around 350 years
In Acts 7:6, Stephen recalled the 400 years that God said that Abraham’s descendants would be enslaved and mistreated for

15. Just how long was it?? Paul agrees with Exodus 12:40-41
Galatians 3:17 – “Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He does not say, “And to seeds,” as referring to many, but rather to one, “And to your seed,” that is, Christ. What I am saying is this: the Law, which came four hundred and thirty years later, does not invalidate a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to nullify the promise.”

16. Just how long was it??
Calculations of people’s lifespans show that 215 years passed between the time God made the promises to Abraham and the time that Jacob entered into Egypt.
This gives the appearance that a total of 645 years ( ) had passed between the promises given and the Exodus. Was Paul and Moses wrong?

17. How long has it been?
Genealogical records from Levi (grandfather of Moses) to Moses are also in conflict with the 430 years
Best case scenario, if Jochebed (Moses’ mom) was born on very last day of Levi’s life, she would have had to been 257 years old when she gave birth to Moses to make the 430 years fit
This isn’t logical as this is almost triple Sarai’s age with birth of Isaac. Also people weren’t living this long by this time

18. How long has it been?
Apologetics Press research and authors suggest that the 430 timespan covers Abraham receiving the promises in Genesis 12 all the way until the Exodus began
215 between the promises and Jacob entering Egypt
215 between Egypt and the Exodus
Apologetics Press – “How Long Was the Israelites’ Egyptian Bondage?” (Butt, Bass, Thompson)

19. Pharaoh threatens God’s plan
First he informed Hebrew midwives to kill all of the male children as they were born
Upon their “failure” to do this, he instructed them to instead begin casting newborn males into the Nile River
The midwives chose God instead, and God blessed and cared for them
What’s the lesson for us in this?

20. Moses is born
Jochebed gives birth to Moses, and hides him for 3 months
She finally seems to give up and lays him in a basket beside the Nile
The Pharaoh’s daughter finds him, and decides to keep him. She PAYS Jochebed to nurse and raise Moses
After he grew up some, Moses is delivered to Pharaoh’s daughter and is raised in Pharaoh’s house

21. Coming Up
Moses kills an Egyptian for beating a Hebrew and flees
Moses is commissioned by God, and his brother Aaron is brought into it
They confront the Pharaoh