Survey of The Book of Exodus PT 1

BIBLE SURVEY STUDY BY BISHOP ROBERT JAMES KAKANDE
KNOWLEDGE IS POWER
The Book of Exodus.

Introduction
This is the second book in the Old Testament Canon.
The book is named Exodus. Exodus means a mass departure of people from one area to
another. The Passover night recorded the departure of Israelites from Egypt in haste. This
momentous happening was ordered to be remembered during the Passover festival.
Therefore, the book of Exodus records the Divine show of Might in getting the Israelites
out of the grips of slavery and rule of Pharaoh to the wilderness and thereafter to the
promised land of Canaan.
The book is seasoned by great exhibition of divine power where God positioned himself
as the most powerful being both in heaven and on earth in spiritual realm and in physical.
The Book paints the sovereignty of God over all manners of authority: human and spiritual
authorities.
Exodus was written not to record just historical events but to prefigure what God was yet
to do in the mission of redeeming his elect out of the slavery of sin and Dominion of
Satan. The book records very sobering military maneuver which depicts God as the greatest
of all fighters whose mission always ends in victory. The book records the organization of
the former slaves into a nation under the rule of God. This means God is seeking people
over which he will be enthroned king. The concept of the kingdom which had its embryonic
layout in the Eden is here, laid down in clarity.
The people under God are shown the manner of worship they should adapt to and
denounce the other modes of worship if they were to maintain a good relationship with
Jehovah God.
A nation to be ruled by God had to be initiated into a relationship commanded by a

“suzereign” covenant. (This covenant is drafted by the power that has gained supremacy
and Dominion over a nation or territory). The sovereign Lord had to read out the deed of
cooperation to those he has brought under his rule. They would only hear what he says
without their input in the treaty. So, Exodus brings to us very sobering truth about what
God planned before hand to do in his mission of redeeming lost mankind. This surgery of
the book lays down what we will discuss in detail, starting with chapter 1.
BIBLE SURVEY Pt 1 OF THE BOOK OF EXODUS

This book forms a bridge between the Genesis narrative as it reports to us what happened
to the Hebrew people for the period they settled in Egypt. It should be known that their
coming to Egypt was within God’s design, for this is part of the covenant God made with
Abram. (Genesis 15:12......)
The opening Chapter attests to God’s faithfulness and his power to foretell the future with
the ability to coordinate events to bring what he determined beforehand come true as he
purposed it.
Exod.1:5 - The descendants of Jacob numbered seventy in all; Joseph was already in Egypt.
Exod.1:6 - Now Joseph and all his brothers and all that generation died,
Exod.1:7 - but the Israelites were fruitful and multiplied greatly and became exceedingly
numerous so that the land was filled with them.
Exod.1:9 - “Look,” he said to his people, “the Israelites have become much too numerous
for us.
The report records the original patriarchs of the twelve tribes of Israel, 70 in Number, who
went to Egypt.
The seventy people who went to Egypt were forced to migrate from Canaan, the land of
promise by famine. A search for what to eat to survive prompted their migration. Leaving
Canaan to Egypt was within divine providence. Canaan was still controlled by mighty
nations, well organized, and whose sins had not reached the ripe level to invoke the
judgement of God.
Egypt by then was an upcoming imperial power. When Joseph became prime minister,
Egypt became a state of influence in the entire Middle East as it was the only land that
had food during the seven years of famine. The Pharaoh of Egypt became very powerful
and influential in the area. Roads were made from Egypt through Palestine, connecting
Egypt to the northern territories and even to the East. God wanted a place that would
providentially prepare his people for his future engagement.
Egypt had advanced technology in civil engineering and agriculture. It was the cradle of
human civilization as writing was invented there. It was militarily powerful. It had the most
advanced schools of the time, and during Joseph’s time, many Jews enjoyed the privileges
that would only be a preserve for the royals of the kingdom. They were trained in military
science, civil engineering, architecture, writing, agriculture, the textile industry, and many
other arts.
This period was designed to prepare a people God was to use to replace the seven tribes
in Canaan. He brought them to test and experience the idolatry of Egypt so that they
would make a difference between Him and the mere idols worshipped in Egypt.
This period of forming a nation and giving it the lease to increase in numbers was divinely
appointed. When Joseph and all his brothers (call the first generation) died, the dynasty
that ruled during Joseph time was overthrown and a new King (new dynasty) took over
power. It has to be noted that the Hebrew people had maintained their racial and cultural
purity and diversity all the way that it was easy for the new king to notice a unique people
living in Egypt. He connived with his officials to put the Hebrew people under slavery and
to curtail their population increase.
Even with these attempts, the providential grace of God maintained the Hebrew people as
God kept faithful to his promises made to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
It’s apparent that the Israelites were protected and preserved by an invisible hand that
foiled all attempts to destroy them. Chapters 1 and 2 narrate how what God predicted
concerning the slavery and torture of Abraham’s seed came into shape. It also reveals how
God designed his means to deliver the people from slavery.
The design of redemption for the Israelites is pregnant with prefigurements of how God
would in almost similar ways plan to deliver the human race from the slavery of sin. We
are quickly introduced to the birth of the deliverer (Moses). He was born in the ripe times
of God’s preparation to take the Hebrew people out of Egypt back to the promised land.
When something unusual is about to happen on earth, it’s apparent that some uncommon
signs appear in the spiritual realm that gets noticed by satanic forces. They then gang up
to foil what God is moving to do by using the authorities to do evil and harm the innocent.
But in similar ways, we see the supernatural providential wisdom and power of God put to
display to protect the one he has anointed to use in his mission. Moses and Jesus survived
the onslaught of Satan to destroy them in their infancy. Nothing can foil God`s plans on
earth. We are, a preserved people for God’s purpose!
BIBLE SURVEY OF THE BOOK OF EXODUS PT2
The first five books of the Old Testament are ascribed to Moses as their author. However,
it has to be noted that some sections of some books were added on by other people to
make the book story complete.
Some of what was recorded in these books were sourced from oral traditions where stories
stored through the storytelling process reached the people who put them in writing. Other
sections were direct communications by God and are often recorded as quotations.
In some sections of the books, the writers were eyewitness of what they recorded. The
Book of Exodus, therefore, will have sections which, when read, come in as commentaries
to the story, but all aimed at making clarity of what is recorded.
Chapter 2 begins by setting a platform for the Birth of Moses. Moses was born to a Levite
man who got married to a Levite woman. Because the reporter did not name them, a
commentary to clarify this was made in chapter 6
Exod.6:17 - The sons of Gershon, by clans, were Libni and Shimei.
Exod.6:18 - The sons of Kohath were Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel. Kohath lived 133
years.
Exod.6:19 - The sons of Merari were Mahli and Mushi. These were the clans of Levi
according to their records.
Exod.6:20 - Amram married his father’s sister Jochebed, who bore him Aaron and Moses.
Amram lived 137 years.
Exod.6:21 - The sons of Izhar were Korah, Nepheg, and Zicri.
Exod.6:22 - The sons of Uzziel were Mishael, Elzaphan, and Sithri.
Exod.6:23 - Aaron married Elisheba, daughter of Amminadab and sister of Nahshon, and
she bore him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar
Exod.6:24 - The sons of Korah were Assir, Elkanah, and Abiasaph. These were the Korahite
clans.
Exod.6:25 - Eleazar son of Aaron married one of the daughters of Putiel, and she bore
him Phinehas. These were the heads of the Levite families, clan by clan.
Exod.6:26 - It was this same Aaron and Moses to whom the LORD said, “Bring the Israelites
out of Egypt by their divisions.”
Therefore, the father of Moses and Aaron was Amram and their mother, Jochebed. The
three sons of Levi are crucial to note because of their special assignments concerning the
tabernacle. Also, other names in the quoted list will appear as they make up the story of
the Israelites wilderness time of wanderings.
Moses was born in a time of Hebrew crisis. The new king was bent on decimating the rate
of their numerical increase. At a heightened time of desire for deliverance, a Messiah
(Moses) was born. The way his story of infancy, adoption, and Palace nurturing is presented
shows how God elects people for his work even before they are formed in their mother’s
wombs. God elects and even controls every event in the person’s life until he anoints him
for the crucial purpose for which he was caused to be. This way of doing things falls with
God divine economy by which he foreordains people, times, and places that will play an
important role in his redemptive mission.
Moses like Jesus survived being killed in his infancy. He was saved by an Egyptian Royal.
Jesus, too, was saved by Egyptian state when his parents fled to Egypt. Moses was raised
under a cover of secrecy growing in the Palace as a prince (yet he was a Jew)
Jesus, too, was covered by lowly human status and grew in Nazareth, a place of little social
attraction. His deity was hidden away from the human notice by his human nature.
Moses, when he grew up, chose to identify with his people the Jews, the people he was
born to deliver from slavery and forsook pomp and pleasures offered by the Egyptian
Palace. In similar ways Jesus identified with sinners at river Jordan baptism and refused to
be hailed for is holiness.
Heb.11:24 - By faith, Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be known as the son of
Pharaoh’s daughter.
Heb.11:25 - He chose to be mistreated along with the people of God rather than to enjoy
the pleasures of sin for a short time.
Heb.11:26 - He regarded disgrace for the sake of Christ as of greater value than the
treasures of Egypt because he was looking ahead to his reward.
Jesus, too, though being God and royal by right, chose to identify with those he was born
to save.
Phil.2:5 - Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus:
Phil.2:6 - Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something
to be grasped,
Phil.2:7 - but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in
human likeness.
Phil.2:8 - And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became
obedient to death--even death on a cross!
It’s apparent that by having the event of Moses infancy recorded, God was setting in place
a mirror to reflect the course of life the Messiah will take to save his people. The parents
of Moses by faith hid him away from danger because they saw he was an extraordinary
child.
Heb.11.23 - By faith Moses’ parents hid him for three months after he was born, because
they saw he was no ordinary child, and they were not afraid of the king’s edict.
In obedience to the directives of the Angel, Mary and Joseph fled with baby Jesus to Egypt
to hide him from king Herod who was bent on killing him.
Matt.2.13 - When they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream.
“Get up,” he said, “take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt. Stay there until I
tell you, for Herod is going to search for the child to kill him.”
BIBLE SURVEY OF THE BOOK OF EXODUS PT3

THE FORMATION OF A DELIVERER OF THE CHOSEN PEOPLE
It is an established principle that God sets in motion, the course of life for everyone, and
wisely arranges every event he predetermined beforehand to happen in one’s life path,
which is divinely intended to have a contributing effect in shaping the Man for his purpose
and mission.
Moses was truly a not so ordinary child. His good looks were not ordained to win a beauty
contest, but to earn him favour aimed at opening him an entry into the Palace of the King
for preservation and preparation.
Exod.2:1 - Now a man of the house of Levi married a Levite woman,
Exod.2:2 - and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was
a fine child, she hid him for three months.
Exod.2:3 - But when she could hide him no longer, she got a papyrus basket for him and
coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in it and put it among the reeds
along the bank of the Nile.
Exod.2:5 - Then Pharaoh’s daughter went down to the Nile to bathe, and her attendants
were walking along the river bank. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her slave
girl to get it.
Exod.2:6 - She opened it and saw the baby. He was crying, and she felt sorry for him.
“This is one of the Hebrew babies,” she said.
Exod.2:7 - Then his sister asked Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and get one of the Hebrew
women to nurse the baby for you?”
Exod.2:8 - “Yes, go,” she answered. And the girl went and got the baby’s mother.
Not every child born during this hard time, got a preferential treatment and protection. It
was in God’s divine determination and plan to expose Moses to the Palace etiquette and
privileges aimed at offering him opportunities for study in the best schools prepared for
royals of the Egyptian aristocracy. Moses was educated so highly to qualify for being the
leader of the chosen people who would record down in exquisite detail all that God was
going to do when delivering the Israelites and to trace their historical roots and
experiences. Slaves the Hebrew people had been made, and none could have a chance to
study the best disciplines required of a future leader.
Moses, being a son to Pharaoh’s daughter, was a prince and prospecting candidate to the
throne had Pharaoh died without a son. Moses was by divine arrangement to grow up
with the prince, later Pharaoh whom he was to engage with when times of releasing the
Israelites came ripe. He was not a foreigner when it came to the culture and practices of
the Palace. He learned the Egyptian language and the Hebrew language that he could
easily communicate God’s message to Pharaoh and the Israelites.
He was trained as a military officer during his youthful period and became decorated
General. All these aspects were essential in forming a leader God wanted to use to lead
his people out of slavery. He developed the right self-consciousness, accepting his
Jewishness despite enjoying the goodies of the Egyptian Palace. He never lost his identity.
He saw the injustice and mistreatment subjected to his people and developed a heart of
concern and compassion. He possessed a right mental picture of hardships caused by
slavery.
God will providentially take you through incidentals of life experiences to imprint in your
life ingredients that will in future become valuable assets in your calling to the service of
God.
Instead of bemoaning the hardships you encounter, critically examine how positively such
experiences shaped up the man or woman you are today. Your calling will never be without
what you went through!!!!
When God talked about the misery of his people, Moses was not hearing news but had
seen and known it all. Moses had to discover that all physical advantages and natural
strength were not enough to play the savior role to the people under a powerful ruler who
subjected them to slavery. He had to be drained of self-confidence and learn to depend
solely on God.
This he could not learn until he was made to feel weak and vulnerable. His becoming a
fugitive was designed to make a Moses who trusted in God’s power and ability than his
own efforts and power.
Exod.2:11 - One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to where his own people
were and watched them at their hard labour. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one
of his own people.
Exod.2:12 - Glancing this way and that and seeing no one, he killed the Egyptian and hid
him in the sand.
Exod.2:13 - The next day, he went out and saw two Hebrews fighting. He asked the one
in the wrong, “Why are you hitting your fellow Hebrew?”
Exod.2:14 - The man said, “Who made you ruler and judge over us? Are you thinking of
killing me as you killed the Egyptian?” Then Moses was afraid and thought, “What I did
must have become known.”
Exod.2:15 - When Pharaoh heard of this, he tried to kill Moses, but Moses fled from
Pharaoh and went to live in Midian, where he sat down by a well.
Exod.2:16 - Now a priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came to draw water
and fill the troughs to water their father’s flock.
Exod.2:18 - When the girls returned to Reuel, their father, he asked them, “Why have you
returned so early today?”
Exod.2:19 - They answered, “An Egyptian rescued us from the shepherds. He even drew
water for us and watered the flock.”
Moses possessed the burden to see his people free from slavery but later learnt that the
burden for doing right is not all that is needed to be the man God uses. His burden and
self-effort caused him more trouble than victory. It caused him rejection even by the people
he was ordained to deliver from slavery. He acted outside God’s time and caused himself
a negative backlash.
In fearing for his life, he hid his identity and accepted to be called an Egyptian. Until you
know and accept your inability to do what God is providentially calling you to do, you will
delay in being promoted to the ranks of performers.
Why did God lead Moses to Midian?
The midianites were cousins to the Jewish people. Jethro was a priest of Jehovah. It is
presumed that Moses learnt lots of information about Abraham and his seven sons from
Jethro. This time of learning was so important for someone who was to act within the
covenant promises of God to the descendants of Abraham.
Moses was also brought to learn the geography of the wilderness, the very place he was
to lead people to and through. He tasted of the wilderness experiences before he could
qualify to be the leader of those destined to go through it.
Only those who have suffered and passed through trials have the credentials to lead those
appointed for the same course of life.
We see that in the future, he would need Jethro and His son to assist him in his
assignments. God was not taking people to Canaan before the wilderness experience, and
it required one who had become accustomed to the wilderness and its adversities to lead
a people who hardly had the feel of it.
Leadership waiting Moses, required a man pruned of all pride and self-confidence, and no
other humbling experience would change Moses than one of being a shepherd of his
father-in-law flock of sheep. The meanest job of those times was to tend the sheep of
another person. This meant Moses was poor. God had brought him so low so as to pick
him up to glory.
Jesus, our Lord, took the same course of life to become our savior. He lost all for the sake
of his brothers, that in the end, he would have it back shared with those he was called to
save.
Moses lost the privileges of being a leader in the Pharaoh’s kingdom but gained it back
when he became a leader in God’s kingdom.
BIBLE SURVEY PT4 OF THE BOOK OF EXODUS.

Why slavery was decreed by God for Israel?
It has to be noted all the way from Genesis that after the fall of man, God used several
approaches and scenarios to teach humanity the gravity of sinfulness. He showed how sin
affected the relationship between him and his treasured creation- mankind.
He showed how he treats sin and sinners.

He showed his love and avowed steps to be taken to save mankind.
He goes on to show the process of forming the chosen nation.
He predicts how Israel will end up in slavery and stay in that state for four generations
(400 years)
The prediction of this slavery reveals God's foreknowledge about the fall of mankind. Israel,
as a people, represented the entire human race who, after the sin of Adam, ended up in
slavery of sin, under a ruthless king: Satan.
Israel means the prince before God. This title connotes the aspect of the firstborn.
God calls Israel, " my first born."

Adam, on the other hand, is the first born of God. Luke genealogy calls him the "son of
God."
The law demands that when the first born goes into slavery either by choice or capture,
his father is obliged to send the second son to rescue his brother from slavery. Therefore,
the slavery of Israel was typological in that it fully illustrated the means and ways God will
use to redeem the fallen human race suffering in the servitude of sin under the reign of
Satan
It was because of famine (desiring what meets the body appetites, the cravings of the
flesh) that Israel ended up in self-caused slavery.
It was in similar ways that Adam and Eve ended up in slavery of sin and Satan. However,
by God's grace and providence, he had set in place a salvation program to preserve and
protect the nation Israel, like he had set in place a salvation program to preserve and
protect humanity, the people he created to always have fellowship with him.
Paul uses the concept of slavery to explain our state before salvation. We were slaves to
sin and ruled by death (Satan’s power of Dominion). No one sent Adam into slavery, it was
his choice and self -willed act.
Similarly, it was the choice of Jacob and his progeny to relocate from Canaan to Egypt
because of the famine.
They did not trust God enough to survive in Canaan, the land of their heritage, but run for
the temporary food in Egypt. Where they expected to live in peace and freedom, they
ended up slaves.
Similarly, when Adam thought he would become God and live free of God's orders and
laws, He ended up losing the fellowship with God and sent outside Eden. Where he
expected life, he reaped Death for himself and his sons` children.
Jacob died in Egypt the same way Adam died outside Eden.

THE CALL OF MOSES TO THE SALVATION MISSION
Chapter 3 of Exodus records the moments when Moses was called to embark on the
mission for which he was born.
The manner in which someone is called denotes the magnitude of the task and the
measure of the anointing he will bear for the task.
All of us are born to do something for God this side of heaven but when the time gets
ripe for our tasks to be executed, God creates moments to make what we are born to do
become clear.
Moses, when contrasted with Jesus, we get to see what his call entailed from Divine
perspective. Moses was God’s representative on earth. He was endowed with divine power
and authority to act on behalf of God. He spoke only what God told him to speak. His
words were God’s words. He was sent to release his own. To these, he brought the good
news that the God of their forefathers had seen their misery and has come to set them
free.
Exod.3:15 - God also said to Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘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, the name by which I am to be remembered from generation to
generation.
Exod.3:16 - “Go, assemble the elders of Israel and say to them, ‘The LORD, the God of
your fathers-the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob-appeared to me and said: I have
watched over you and have seen what has been done to you in Egypt.
Exod.3:17 - And I have promised to bring you up out of your misery in Egypt into the
land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites and with milk
and honey.
The following points are worth noting concerning God’s plan of redemption.
1- one man will be sent to deliver thousands from slavery

2- This man will come from God’s presence. Moses was made to stand in God’s
presence before he was commissioned.
3- This man would be equipped with power to perform signs and wonders. This would
fully testify of his being sent of God. Jesus invited the Jews to take note of the
miraculous works he performed as a testimony that he was the Messiah.
This assignment prefigured the Messiah, who would later come to rescue Israel (the entire
human race), not from physical but spiritual bondage. Jesus was to first bring the good
news of God’s redemption mission to Israel. Jesus was the full representation of God, that
whoever saw him saw God. He was “one man” sent to save thousands!!!
The angel of the Lord appeared to Moses. (The term angel of the Lord is used to identify
the being as divine.) Angel of the Lord therefore means, “the deity in his body form”. This
angel always spoke with authority and received worship which indicated that he was not
an ordinary angel but one of divine origin. We therefore, come to note that this angel of
the Lord was the pre incarnate manifestation of the Lord Jesus.
This simply means Jesus appeared to Moses in his pre incarnation. In the Godhead, only
the Son assumes the visible stature to fully represent the invisible members of the
Godhead. Seeing him is seeing the invisible essence of the deity.
So, Jesus sent Moses to Egypt to deliver the Israelites. This was first to typify How he, Jesus
would come from God as a sent one to save humanity. Secondly as he was to show how
God would use men he had anointed and commissioned to go and deliver their kins from
slavery.
Jesus would later say, “As the Father sent me, so I send you “
This theologically illustrates that the people God sends on mission must first be drawn to
his presence, get to know who he is, what he is sending them for, and even receive what
they will use to authenticate their message. This principle is eternal and unchangeable.
Jesus obeyed it when he was appointing the Apostles and even commissioning them.
Men or women who have gone through those steps succeed in “what God has
commissioned them to do.
Moses gets to know the eternal name of God.
Exod.3:14 -15
God said to Moses, “I am who I am. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I AM has
sent me to you.’” God also said to Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘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, the name by which I am to be remembered from generation
to generation.
Why was it so Important Moses to know the name of the LORD.?
Nations by those olden times had gods identified by Names. First God reveals the name
that reveals his eternal state. He is I AM WHO I AM. this means he is unchanging, constant
and always existing. This name connotes his essence of righteousness and Holiness. He is
the immutable God, creator of all things and transcendent.
However, he goes to reveal to Moses that, even though he is so lofty and transcendent,
he is immanent as well for he relates to people. Therefore, he is the God of Abraham, Isaac
and Jacob. It is with this relational name that he should be known for ever in all
generations.
What does this mean in relation to his redemptive mission?
He is seeking a relationship of mutual love and companionship with the people he created
in his image. He seeks to be identified with his covenant people. This means God has two
types of attributes. Those he will never share with anyone and those he is willing to share
with his creation for he loves fellowship and living in a company of love.
So, salvation is about forging a relationship between God and his created being based on
love and obedience.
BIBLE SURVEY PT6 OF THE BOOK OF EXODUS

THE DESIGN OF THE RESCUE MISSION.
It is critically important to note that the deliverance of Israel, which typifies the salvation
program of God, was designed as a military rescue mission.
In the primeval epoch, sovereign Kings offered peaceful terms to those who had offended
them. These peaceful terms were used for bargaining before a full show of power and
force was used. When God sent Moses and Aaron to Pharaoh, he sent them as his
emissaries. They took the message of the sovereign Lord to a territorial king.
Pharaoh was simply a king of Egypt, but the Lord Jehovah was the king of Kings and Lord
of Lord. He was ruling both heaven and entire earth.
This is God’s message to Pharaoh.
Exod.4:22 – 23” Then say to Pharaoh, ‘This is what the LORD says: Israel is my firstborn
son, and I told you, “Let my son go, so he may worship me.” But you refused to let him
go; so, I will kill your firstborn son.’”
This message sets the terms and conditions to Pharaoh. The one setting terms is not
begging but giving orders to the junior King because he is sovereign. They bring to
Pharaoh`s attention who Israel is. To Pharaoh, Israel is his slave but to Jehovah is his
firstborn. Pharaoh was to know that the one demanding the release of Israel was king and
with power to affect his terms and conditions.
When Moses entered the Palace of Pharaoh, they told him the LORD’s message.
Exod.5:1 - Afterward Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said, “This is what the LORD,
the God of Israel, says: ‘Let my people go, so that they may hold a festival to me in the
desert.’”
Exod.5:2 - Pharaoh said, “Who is the LORD that I should obey him and let Israel go? I do
not know the LORD, and I will not let Israel go.”
Pharaoh had grown proud and arrogant that he feigned ignorance of who the Lord is.
What caused him this? The Israelites looked deserted and vulnerable. They were foreigners
in Egypt with no traceable land of their own. When he turned them into slaves, no one
rose to fight for their freedom. By that time, Egypt was the dominant power and Pharaoh
was arguably the Lord to many states. His word was law in itself. Anyone had to beware
of Pharaoh, or else they faced his wrath. Moses tried to explain to him who this Lord is
and the relationship he has with Israel.
Exod.5:3 - Then they said, “The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Now let us take a
three-day journey into the desert to offer sacrifices to the LORD our God, or he may strike
us with plagues or with the sword.”
This message annoyed Pharaoh, for it sounded provocative to his political and spiritual
authority. Pharaoh was a god in his own right. He could imagine another god could try to
exercise power in his territory. This ignited the increase of hardships for the Israelites.
Before God could reveal his political prowess, he had to deal with the spiritual thrones that
ruled in Egypt. The Spiritual reign of God was to proceed the physical reign over his people.
Spiritual forces were the key determinants in the slavery of the Israelites and to deliver
Israel, spiritual forces had to be brought to their knees. God had to show his supremacy
and Almightiness over all territorial and tribal deities. This set in, the sequence of plagues.
One is to note that the first sign that Moses performed connotes a very significant point
in God`s salvation program. Chapters 7 to 11 will show different ways God showed his
might works, and all these had spiritual implications to the nation of Egypt and the people
of Israel.
In chapter six, after Pharaoh had doubled the burden of slavery for the Israelites, God
repeats his solemn pledge of deliverance for the Israelites and commits himself to make
them into a nation and to accord to them a territory of their own as he promised Abraham,
Isaac and Jacob. However, in the pledge God brings into the relationship, something worth
noting. To these slaves, he will be Lord, something he was not to Abraham, Isaac, and
Jacob. He was going to be Lord.
What does this mean? We shall continue from here
BIBLE SURVEY PT 7 OF THE BOOK OF EXODUS.

WHY GOD CHOSE AND ELECTED ISRAEL MADE KNOWN?
I want us not to forget that all that is played out in the Old Testament foreshadowed Jesus
and the church. We can easily get to know God’s mind and plans by making critical
examination of all that he did in the Old Testament.
The New Testament is actually hidden in the Old and the Old Testament fully explained in
the New Testament. We are right theologically if our concepts find it easy to be knitted
well to form a wholesome truth that germinated in the Old Testament but got its full
bloom in the New Testament.
In chapter 6 of the book of Exodus, God makes a very definitive explanation of why he is
courting Israel to be his people.
Exod.6:1 – 9” Then the LORD said to Moses, “Now you will see what I will do to Pharaoh:
Because of my mighty hand, he will let them go out of his country.” God also said to
Moses, “I am the LORD. I also established my covenant with them to give them the land
of Canaan, where they lived as aliens. Moreover, I have heard the groaning of the Israelites,
whom the Egyptians are enslaving, and I have remembered my covenant. “Therefore, say
to the Israelites: ‘I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the yoke of the
Egyptians. I will free you from being slaves to them, and I will redeem you with an
outstretched arm and with mighty acts of judgment. I will take you as my own people, and
I will be your God. Then you will know that I am the LORD your God, who brought you
out from under the yoke of the Egyptians. And I will bring you to the land I swore with
uplifted hand to give to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob. I will give it to you as a possession.
I am the LORD.’” Moses reported this to the Israelites, but they did not listen to him
because of their discouragement and cruel bondage.
A very analytical study of the above texts reveals great truth relating to the redemption
mission. God made a covenant with the patriarchs while they were aliens in the land, which
from eternal standpoint belonged to them by divine promise. The land was still under
occupation by tribes who were objects of God`s wrath because of their wickedness.
The aliens were God’s covenant people. Later, their descendants got themselves into
slavery in Egypt. All this was within God’s design. God wanted a people to be his own. He
could only pass to be Lord when he has a people he reigns over.
When he introduces the term, he asserts his position in the universes as the sovereign
Lord. He has the right to conquer kingdoms, deliver his people, and also give land to them
without anyone standing in his way.” I am the Lord” means all power and authority belong
to him. All properties on earth belong to him. The Israelites were beneficiaries of his
covenant he made with the patriarchs. He is God, meaning he has the legal right to
demand obedience from all people on earth. Even Pharaoh has the duty to obey him. He
has the power to bring anyone to his judicial seat and have them charged. He tells Moses,
“Now you will see what I will do to Pharaoh with my mighty hand. He is the Lord God.
Lordship connotes he is a king and owns everything. He is master and demands
accountability from all his subjects. He is going to turn the fortunes of the Israelites from
being slaves to subjects of his divine kingdom.
Exod.6:6 -7 “Therefore, say to the Israelites: ‘I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from
under the yoke of the Egyptians. I will free you from being slaves to them, and I will
redeem you with an outstretched arm and with mighty acts of judgment. I will take you
as my own people, and I will be your God. Then you will know that I am the LORD your
God, who brought you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians.
He is to translate them from the kingdom of an oppressor to the kingdom of one who
grants freedom. They will not be aliens anymore but will be citizens in the land he promised
to their forefathers. He will be their God, and they will be his people.
With all this, we get to know why Jesus came with a message of the kingdom. GOD is
redeeming people to make them subjects and citizens in his kingdom. Subjects means
people who have a Duty to obey and serve him. Citizens are people with full rights to
enjoy the privileges due to their status, but equally ones who have a duty to promote and
protect their country. They have a duty to promote the interest of the king so that he does
not suffer from loss.
They live to bring the king pleasure and to work to expand his territorial rule by colonising
other territories for the king. Therefore, salvation had inherent duties and obligations to
whosoever has been blessed to receive the grace of God.

Chapter 7 of the book of Exodus opens up with a very powerful statement. God Informs
Moses how he will be his exact representation in the mission of liberating Israel. He was
his chosen co- worker, and his success was to premise on doing all that God commanded
him. Then he assigned to him the services of Aaron, his elder brother, to act as his prophet
(mouthpiece).
What does this imply? It means the Godhead will always have a full representation on
earth in the mission of redeeming people. When Jesus came, he was the full representation
of the Godhead and he did all that he was commanded to do, where after he ascended
on high. When he left, the Holy Spirit was sent to do that, which was in tune with God`s
mission of redemption. Then, as God works here, he will need the services of committed
and available men and women to be his mouthpiece in the bid to release those kept in
captivity of sin.
Exod.7:1 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and
your brother Aaron will be your prophet.
This is one of the most fascinating verses in the Bible! What was behind God making
Moses a human being to be like God?
This statement was pregnant with the prediction of the coming one who will not be “just
like God” but fully God but in the temple of humanity. Salvation was not to be completed
until the one promised by God in Eden is born and fully does all that his father commanded
him.
God will move out to work with men who are in a relationship with him to carry out his
redemptive mission. The incarnation of Jesus is prefigured here in what God spoke to
Moses. In one occasion, Jesus picked up on this by saying, “One greater that Moses is
here” if Moses was merely made to be like God, then one who God in his full rights is
here. If those who disobeyed Moses died without mercy, then it would be terrible for those
who disobey God himself in the person of Jesus Christ.
From this verse, God introduces another mind-blowing principle on which he will be able
to separate mankind.
Exod.7:2 - You are to say everything I command you, and your brother Aaron is to tell
Pharaoh to let the Israelites go out of his country.
Exod.7:3 - But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and though I multiply my miraculous signs
and wonders in Egypt,
Exod.7:4 - He will not listen to you. Then I will lay my hand on Egypt, and with mighty
acts of judgment, I will bring out my divisions, my people, the Israelites.
Exod.7:5 - And the Egyptians will know that I am the LORD when I stretch out my hand
against Egypt and bring the Israelites out of it.”
Here, we find what is called the doctrine of predetermination. God in mind is set on saving
those he chose to be his people whereas those he did not choose will see his judgment.
This is drawn from his very statements made in the portion quoted.
” I will harden the heart of Pharaoh even with the miraculous signs he will see he will not
let you until I lay my hand of judgement on Egypt. Here, Egypt symbolised the wicked
world, packed up by sinners whose hearts are unyielding to do God’s will.
God, in his sovereignty, has chosen some people from among the entire human race to
be his people, a special possession and a kingdom of chosen ones (priest of God)
God works on people’s hearts to soften them for salvation or harden them for perdition.
Paul reminds us in the Epistles to the Ephesians of this principle.
Eph.2:4 - But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy,
Eph.2:5-7” God made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions--it
is by grace you have been saved.
And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ
Jesus, in order that in the coming ages, he might show the incomparable riches of his
grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus.
Salvation is solely God’s work, and our response to his invitation is still enabled by his
spirit. His mission is saving mankind (those he elected to be saved) is to fully manifest “the
incomparable riches of his grace”
This does not make mankind idle in the process, but one has to respond to pressing
conviction brought to bear on our heart by the Holy Spirit. It is how we would respond to
his means of approach to us that set-in place our election to salvation or judgement.
Pharaoh was foreseen by God never to Burge to demands of God. Pride was always
building up, for he did not see any potential in these two elderly men to cause an uprising
against his solid political and military power. His eyes ended on Moses and Aaron, and he
took them to at the same level with his school of magicians.
The scriptures say” God chose the foolish things of this world to shame the wise. “Surely
Pharaoh was to discover, but after a great loss, Moses and Aaron were not the authority
he was disregarding. Many in this world will discover, like Pharaoh, that they missed an
opportunity to avoid divine Judgement.
BIBLE SURVEY PT 9 OF THE BOOK OF EXODUS

In chapter seven, we begin to see the demonstration of God's power and also predicting
what will be done.
Exod.7:9 - "When Pharaoh says to you, 'Perform a miracle,' then say to Aaron, 'Take your
staff and throw it down before Pharaoh,' and it will become snake"
Exod.7:10 - So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and did just as the LORD commanded.
Aaron threw his staff down in front of Pharaoh and his officials, and it became a snake.
Exod.7:11 - Pharaoh then summoned wise men and sorcerers, and the Egyptian magicians
also did the same things by their secret arts:
Exod.7:12 - Each one threw down his staff, and it became a snake. But Aaron's staff
swallowed up their staff.
The snake was a common symbol of Divinity in Egyptian mythology.
Wadjet was the Egyptian snake goddess. The snake symbolised divinity, sovereignty, and
right to rule over lower ranks of the kingdom. It also symbolised Pharaoh`s role as the law
maker, maintainer of order with power to protect the Egyptians from any danger or chaos.
The snake also depicted the risen one. Pharaoh was believed to be reincarnated being
ruling over the people. So, he was a son of gods and thus a god himself. Critical reading
of this scripture will lead one to discover truth hidden in what appears to be magical.
The first miracle Commanded to be performed was to turn Aaron's staff into a snake. It
was Moses sent with a staff, that turned into a snake, but this time, it had to be Aaron's
staff to be thrown down to turn into a snake.
That the snake to the Egyptian was a symbol of Divinity, royalty and right to rule over
people, and that is depicted a one who died and rose again (risen), the staff of Aaron
which later to be used when it budded (a sign of resurrection) to test for those God had
called to his service during the contest for priesthood, Aaron`s staff symbolised Jesus, who
will die and rise again after defeating all powers and authorities. Aaron's staff swallowed
the staffs of the Egyptian magicians, meaning only the Lord is the true Lord and has power
even over Pharaoh and all his officials.
It depicted that in this battle, Pharaoh a symbol of Satan, was headed for defeat and
destruction. Only Jesus is divine and royal and has the right to rule over all people and
kingdoms.
Swallowing the staffs of Pharaoh's trusted magicians symbolised the neutralization of all
spiritual powers of Egyptians. Jesus, equally defeated Satan at the place where he hoped
to have power over him. The cross was the place of the greatest battle fought by God the
son, to earn the right to rule over all people and to protect them, for he is the true Prince
of this world and beyond. He has authority to command Pharaoh to release his people.
Aaron was later to be the high priest of the redeemed Israelites, depicting Jesus` role,
where he became the High priest, because by his death, he defeated the devil, swallowed
all his power and authority and opened a door of escape from prison of slavery, and a
door of access to the throne of Grace. From this sign, all the other plagues were to deal
death blow to the other ranks of deities worshipped by the Egyptians.
It is therefore true, that God (Moses) through his man (Aaron) defeated Satan's (Pharaoh)
base of power and authority, and lost the right to keep his people in slavery. I believe God
will drive you deeper in revelation. This portion is so reach with redemption theology.
BIBLE SURVEY PT 10 OF THE BOOK OF EXODUS

The second plague brought by the staff of Aaron and that of Moses was to turn the waters
of River Nile and all other sources of water into blood, killing fish and making it hard for
the Egyptian to drink it. The Nile River held a very significant place in the lives of the
people of Egypt. They regarded the Nile River with great esteem and believed they could
not live without it. They believed it had its source from heaven and the gods of the skies
sailed on its earthly course. It had a dual nature. Heavenly and earthly.
The mythological God of the Nile was Sobek “God of the Nile” or it was named “God of
Crocodile” represented fertility, wetlands, medicine. The Nile River is regarded to be the
sweat of Sobek. Another god related to the Nile in Ancient Egypt is “Hapy” it’s called
“Lord of the River, bringing the yearly floods of the Nile which greatly controlled the water
level, and symbolised fertility. The overflows carried rich silt to the lands of the Nile Valley
in order to cultivate crops. Another role the Nile played in ancient Egyptian life is to divide
the ancient calendar into three seasons, each one consisted of four months, “Akhet”
represents the flood season when the Nile overflowed, Peret is the growing season when
the soil is fertile by Nile silt, and Shemu, symbolised the harvest season at the times of
drought.
The position the Nile held in the cult worship of the Egyptian made it venerable and
believed the river to have a direct play in their survival. They thanked the gods for giving
them the "river of life". Moses struck the Nile River and water turned into blood. Aaron
stretched his staff over other sources and blood was everywhere. This sign was also
mimicked by the magicians.
Why did God have the river turn into blood?

Blood was later to be revealed as the life to every living human. Life is in the blood not in
the water that the Egyptian drunk. There was no life in what they treasured, but life was
in the blood which they could not drink. The Egyptians were mistaken to believe that water
was life, yet blood was the life that sustained them.
The act of striking the Nile and changing the nature of its water showed God's power over
what he created. Nile was his creation and had the power to turn it into something else.
Even though the magicians did the same, it took seven days for water to return to normal.
This plague did not soften the heart of Pharaoh but instead made it hard. The Egyptian
treated blood as a symbol of judgement. The river was struck when the king was standing
near it. Before him, God pronounced judgement on the entire land of Egypt. There was no
place in the Egyptian settlements that lacked blood.
Rebellion against God is met with Judgement.

All the following plagues will increase to reveal God divine judgment over the land of
Egypt. They were going to be punished for all the wrong they had done to God's people.
Judging Egypt and punishing it was part and parcel of the Covenant God made with
Abraham. Blood also indicated death. There was going to be death spread all over Egypt
that no house will be worth a dead. Though Pharaoh might have understood the
significance of this plague, his heart was hardening to allow God carry out his full show of
wrath over the land of Egypt.
The Nile also controlled the sowing and harvesting in the land of Egypt. It was time for
harvest and Egypt was going to harvest what they sowed. The mistreatment they made
the Jews to face, they were going to suffer for it as well.
Divine recompense was on the way.

The turning of water into blood indicated God as the Judge and who must bring to account
every person responsible for the slavery of the Hebrew people.
Similarly, God will judge sin, Satan and death and cast them in the lake of fire as their final
abode. Whoever caused slavery to the Hebrew people (human race) was going to face the
full wrath of God. Judgement is on the way!!!

Plagues are advance warning signs of a more serious divine act of judgement. God sends
plagues before his full exhibit of wrath on all manners of rebellion towards his person and
laws.
From chapter 7 to 12 of Exodus, we get introduced to various plagues that God used to
send a warning signal to the Pharaoh, his officials, and their Egyptian community. It is not
of uttermost importance to God to see people perish, but still can’t let rebellion and
disregard of his Deity go unpunished when he has availed opportunity for people to repent.
THE PLAGUE OF THE FROGS

In the ancient Egyptian religion and mythology, Heqet (also spelt Heqtit or Hekt) was a
frog-headed goddess who personified generation, birth, and fertility. Heqet was sometimes
depicted with the body of a frog, and frog amulets were common in ancient Egypt as
charms for fertility.
God instructed Moses to go to Pharaoh and inform him of the next act of Judgement if
he does not let his people God. Frogs were to be summoned to fill the whole country and
households as a sign of God`s power.
Exod.8:5 – 14 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Stretch out your hand with your
staff over the streams and canals and ponds, and make frogs come up on the land of
Egypt’” So Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt, and the frogs came up
and covered the land. But the magicians did the same things by their secret arts; they also
made frogs come up on the land of Egypt.........
Moses said to Pharaoh, “I leave to you the honour of setting the time for me to pray for
you and your officials and your people that you and your houses may be rid of the frogs,
except for those that remain in the Nile.” And the LORD did what Moses asked. The frogs
died in the houses, in the courtyards and in the fields. They were piled into heaps, and the
land reeked of them.
Since the human settlement of the Egyptian was so done along the Nile and any other
place with water, frogs gained a venerable position in Egyptian mythology.
It connoted a preservation of generation, fertility, and birth. Charm hamlets were won by
people for fertility, which means to be able to produce children. They believed “Heqet” the
frog goddess gave them the children and also preserved their Generation. The succession
of a family was always based on the first born, and this firstborn was also believed to be
a child of the gods.
Why God summoned the frogs from the waters, he showed his authority over nature. It is
him who decided where each creature will live and find survival. When the magicians did
the same, he showed their limits by failing their ability to remove the frogs from the land
back to water. Only God had the power to begin and end what he had begun.
All power and authority belong to him and him alone.

When Pharaoh requested Moses to pray to God to remove the frogs, he conceded to his
supreme power. He realised that though his magicians can call the frogs out of water, they
can’t send them back at their command.
This section teaches us the limited abilities possessed by Satan. His power is mere magic,
very deceptive and undependable. Moses’ response to Pharaoh was that the frogs that left
the waters and came on land would not go back alive. They will die on the land. Only
those remaining in the river Nile were to stay alive.
” When you deliberately decide to leave your place of safety and choose to go where you
do not have safety, what awaits is death, the wages of rebellion.
Pharaoh had left his place of safety by deciding to harden his heart towards God, the
sovereign Lord. He was now in the open field with no shelter from harm. Like the frogs
died in piles and reeked the land, a moment was on the way that the Egyptian and Pharaoh
will be without protection from God`s wrath and bodies will be piled up in every place
most especially those of the first born of every living creature in Egypt.
This meant that the sitting dynasty was heading for its total destruction, as the first born
of Pharaoh will be killed, and no successor will be left to reign in his place. Every Egyptian
home will be left with no successor, and this meant that this generation that has
disbelieved and rebelled against God was coming to an end.
These warnings were neglected by Pharaoh and the Egyptian people because nothing
seemed to be changing the slavery state of the Hebrew people. They were becoming worse
in the slavery, and Moses and Aaron were appearing as Comedian in the whole saga. God
loves it that way. He wants all to treat him as weak, for in such a state, his power will be
greatly appreciated.
The message to the Israelites remained the same. “I am your God, have seen your misery
and will deliver you and take you to the land I promised your ancestors. He is a promise
keeping God and calls us to remember and trust his word.
Believers must believe God’s person and power. His promises are yes and amen in Christ
Jesus. Unbelievers continue to disregard his person and power. As Believers await the
salvation of the Lord, the unbelievers await his judgement.
As Believers are encouraged even in their hardships. Unbelievers are shown signs of their
soon destruction.
As we wait for the savior, the world awaits the judge and destroyer of their pride and
power. A separation will be made and those on the salvation side will start their Exodus
to safety, and those on the judgement side will also start theirs to meet their final
destruction.
We will go through the same route death (going through the sea) but separated by the
pillar of fire. Those with a Moses as a master and shepherd will land to shores of safety
and those with a Pharaoh as a master and shepherd will be buried in the sea of death
never to be seen again.
Jesus is the shepherd of God’s flock, leading it out to safety. No wonder John heard the
redeemed church singing the Song of Moses and of the lamb (Rev. 15:3-4) in heaven.
Satan too is a shepherd of his flock, leading it to destruction where he will also be
destroyed, never to be a problem to creation and to God again.
The frogs were separated. Those that remained in the river their natural home survived
death, those that left their position of safety died. It becomes clear that God had two offers
to give to people. Life and Death, but in his living, kindness guides us on what is best-life,
and this is found in Jesus Christ
BIBLE SURVEY INQUIRY OF THE BOOK OF EXODUS.

Before we examine the implications of the insect plagues, let us inquire as to why God
brought the first three plagues to touch even the Israelites, the people he came down to
save?
Secondly, why did he use the plagues in such a measured manner as he carried out his
judgement on the rebellion of Pharaoh and the Egyptian people. When God instructed
Moses to Pharaoh, he foretold him that Pharaoh would not let the Israelites go unless a
might hand compels him!!!
Exod.3:19 - But I know that the king of Egypt will not let you go unless a mighty hand
compels him.
Exod.3:20 - So I will stretch out my hand and strike the Egyptians with all the wonders
that I will perform among them. After that, he will let you go.
This expressly reveals God’s foreknowledge of the future and people’s courses of action in
every event. When Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh to inform him to let the Israelites
go, Pharaoh replied, showing ignorance of who the Lord is!!!!
Exod.5:1 - Afterward Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said, “This is what the LORD,
the God of Israel, says: ‘Let my people go, so that they may hold a festival to me in the
desert.’”
Exod.5:2 - Pharaoh said, “Who is the LORD that I should obey him and let Israel go? I do
not know the LORD, and I will not let Israel go.”
The two quotations in here will suffice to give us a clue as to why God brought plagues
that touched the Israelites and also in a measured manner. From the start of the
redemption mission, God was aware that it would take his extraordinary show of power
and sacrifice to create room for the release of his people from captivity. The king of Egypt
(Prince of the word- Satan) had enjoyed space to do havoc and to torment the people of
God without any iota of fear. He took God for a weakling. He took the Israelites (God’s
elect people from the human race) as vulnerable and ones depending on his mercy. He
thought he held the key to their final destiny. Israelites had been in slavery for over 300
years, and many died in slavery with no sign of savior on the horizon. The king and his
officials and the Egyptian people knew Israelites were to be slaves forever.
Pharaoh (Satan) had grown so firm and confident that God resigned from saving his
people. So, the Israelites (read human race) were forever his property and instrument of
abuse. The fact that Pharaoh sat in comfort of pride and arrogance, expecting nothing of
great harm to his person and power, he had the confidence to question Moses, who the
Lord is! This question had to be answered by God in an exhibition of power and might.
God was not only God but was Lord as well. Lord, was God’s covenant name with the
Israelites, his chosen people from the multitudes of the world. He was not only their God
but also their Lord.
God connotes his nature and works but Lord means his reign and power. Even though all
nations are his creation, only Israel (the elect from the nations) is his possession and sphere
of rule. He is king to them, and they belong to him on covenant.
God introduced himself as Lord to Pharaoh because that is what he had to prove. Pharaoh
had to taste the bitter truth that God (Elohim) was as well the Lord (Yahweh or Jehovah).
Regarding this, God will not rest until Pharaoh bows and surrenders to this truth. It will be
the Lord to let his people leave the land of Egypt, not Pharaoh. Pharaoh will have his back
broken.
Every time Pharaoh hardens, Moses reports that he did so as the Lord said.
A delay in the divine act is not a show of weakness nor a resignation on what God set out
to do but grants all creation opportunity to recognize the folly in rebelling against God.
Satan has led many to misinterpret God’s ways. He seems to move on snail’s pace
according to human scales of time measure, but from divine scales, God has his appointed
time to do what he set out to do. This seeming delay has led many people to neglect
God’s warning.
So, plagues were made to push Pharaoh, and all the Egyptian people know that the God
of the Israelites was the sovereign Lord of the heavens and the earth. Then, when plagues
were first introduced, even the Israelites suffered from them! Why?
Much as the Israelites were chosen of God, they were not righteous by merit because they
too doubted God and his message to them. They grumbled when Pharaoh increased their
slave labour. They were sinners like the Egyptian. They, too, were objects of God`s wrath
because of their unbelief.
They posed no significant difference in character from Pharaoh and the Egyptian people.
They were cut and made of the same staff.
However, God had made a covenant with their ancestors (for Israelites- Abraham, Isaac
and Jacob - for the Human race, Adam), God was obliged to stay faithful to his covenant.
As the covenant- keeping God, he will create a difference between his covenant people
and Pharaoh’s people. It is this difference that will reveal his self-sacrificing love to those
he elected to be his people and a kingdom so special to him.
God came to save his people from the slavery state and take them to freedom and to
judge and punish Pharaoh’s people and cast them to the destruction.
BIBLE SURVEY PT12 of The Book of Exodus.

THE INSECT PLAGUES
Wisdom is required to analyse what God communicates through the plagues and their
increasing magnitude and intensity.
Chapter 8 of Exodus records the insect plagues.
Here, we find the unannounced plague that caught Pharaoh and the entire Egypt by
surprise. Pharaoh hardened his heart after the second plague of frogs. Without warning,
God instructed to have the ground stricken to produce gnats. Gnats are lice like insects.
Exod.8:16 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Stretch out your staff and strike
the dust of the ground,’ and throughout the land of Egypt, the dust will become gnats.”
Exod.8:17 - They did this, and when Aaron stretched out his hand with the staff and struck
the dust of the ground, gnats came upon men and animals. All the dust throughout the
land of Egypt became gnats.
Exod.8:18 - But when the magicians tried to produce gnats by their secret arts, they could
not. And the gnats were on men and animals.
Exod.8:19 - The magicians said to Pharaoh, “This is the finger of God.” But Pharaoh’s heart
was hard, and he would not listen, just as the LORD had said.
Why did God cause Gnats?
The law of first mention guides us to interpret what seems hard in later records. When
God formed mankind, he got him from the dust of the earth. He breathed into him the
breath of life.
When he sinned, he was told he would return to dust, for from dust he was made. Dust,
therefore, symbolised mankind. Before man sinned, dust as he was, had value before God.
He was the image carrier of his maker. He had fellowship with him. He was never an
insignificant creature in his eyes. He was of value, and the land was his to produce food
for his sustenance. Never was the ground to be a source of his fears and torments. He had
it under his feet all the time.
His rebellion turned tables upon him. He lost favour with God and also caused creation to
turn hostile towards him. He lost value before God and, in his eyes, became as insignificant
as insects, the lowest creatures in his creation order.
Sin reduces our value status before God. Rebellion is like witchcraft before God. It’s
distasteful and repugnant before him. It only invites his wrath and condemnation. God,
without telling Pharaoh what he was to do, made all people both Israelites and Egyptian
and even the animal kingdom. The level of status to which sin had reduced what he
created. They were like insects in his eyes. No one commits an offense to kill an insect.
God would not be blamed if he chose to destroy what he created because of sin.
GEB was the Egyptian god of the earth. The earth dust was under his control. He lost
control of it, for Jehovah can pick it up and use it to become something else. The God of
Israel showed his sovereign power even on earth. He rules both spheres. Heaven and earth.
The magicians acknowledged this act as the finger of God. They failed to duplicate it and
noted the limit of their deceptive powers.
Dust, which once was used to create a treasured creation in the image of God, is here now
used to torment the same creation -mankind and all living things. It pointed to their
mortality and death, which are all wages of sin.
Sin corrupted the whole human race. No one, Egyptian or Israelites is without sin. All are
sinners and have their values reduced to nothingness before God. Sin also affected the
whole creation. Only God’s grace and mercy can have mankind regain value before God.
Where he shows mercy, mercy rejoices over judgement. Man becomes acceptable before
God by grace and becomes one of a difference from others.
This therefore Introduces us to the fourth plagues of FLIES
Exod.8:20 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Get up early in the morning and confront
Pharaoh as he goes to the water and say to him, ‘This is what the LORD says: Let my
people go, so that they may worship me.
Exod.8:21 - If you do not let my people go, I will send swarms of flies on you and your
officials, on your people, and into your houses. The houses of the Egyptians will be full of
flies and even the ground where they are.
Exod.8:22 - “’But on that day I will deal differently with the land of Goshen, where my
people live; no swarms of flies will be there, so that you will know that I, the LORD, am in
this land.
Exod.8:23 - I will make a distinction between my people and your people. This miraculous
sign will occur tomorrow.’”
Exod.8:24 - And the LORD did this. Dense swarms of flies poured into Pharaoh’s palace
and into the houses of his officials, and throughout Egypt, the land was ruined by the flies.
In normal circumstances, swarms of flies happen to be on something dead and giving a

bad odor. The Egyptian god of flies was called KHEPLI- the god of creation, movement of
the sun, and rebirth.
They believed flies work hard to quicken the rotting process to facilitate rebirth. This plague
introduces a new form of the actions of God. Here, God is to begin to show separation
and differentiation. The Egyptian and Israelites are going to be treated differently. Because
God has chosen and elected Israel to be his people, he is going to deal with them
differently from the Egyptian.
Flies will be upon those who smell foul in God’s nostrils. They are rejected and have
become a full object of his wrath. No flies will be upon those who have found favour
before God- the Israelites, for they smell fragrance which repels flies (divine judgement).
They produce a pleasant aroma before God. They attract his grace, not judgement. They
win his love not rejection.
Yes, moment of separation will inevitably come when God moves to defeat Satan, sin and
death.
The flies were a clear testimony to people how God valued and treated them. They were
as good as dead and smelly things and good for dumping into the garbage pit.
Rebellion to God robs us of the fragrance with which we can attract his love and favour.
The fellowship offering which the priests were to give to God had to be of pleasant aroma.
Priests were to be anointed with strong fragrance of the anointing oil. Holiness and
righteousness are a fragrant aroma before God.
This plague was given a time by which it will occur to offer an opportunity for people to
choose which side to be. The Egyptian would quickly move to Goshen, the place where
Israelites were to avoid flies.
Sinners won’t have an excuse for opportunities are given to them to escape the judgement
of God.

THE PLAGUES
We have come a long way expounding on the plagues and what they teach us in God’s
overall redemption plan.
The first plague was turning water into blood, followed by summoning frogs from rivers
and ponds, killing them after seven days.
The third was striking the dust to produce Gnats and followed by swarms of flies.
From chapter nine to the end, we have increased intensity of the plagues and weakening
but still unyielding Pharaoh. We see an embolden Moses and Aaron after seeing the might
and faithfulness of the Lord.
Exod.9:1 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh and say to him, ‘This is what the
LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: “Let my people go, so that they may worship me.”
Exod.9:2 - If you refuse to let them go and continue to hold them back,
Exod.9:3 - The hand of the LORD will bring a terrible plague on your livestock in the field
on your horses and donkeys and camels and on your cattle and sheep and goats.
Exod.9:4 - But the LORD will make a distinction between the livestock of Israel and that
of Egypt so that no animal belonging to the Israelites will die.’”
Exod.9:5 - The LORD set a time and said, “Tomorrow, the LORD will do this in the land.”
Exod.9:6 - And the next day, the LORD did it: All the livestock of the Egyptians died, but
not one animal belonging to the Israelites died.
The distinction between the Israelites and the Egyptian as God metes out judicial acts
against the rebellion of Pharaoh and the Egyptian people is instructive in matters regarding
his redemptive mission.
We learn what Sin brought to bear on the entire creation. Goshen, where the Israelites
lived, is a reminder of Eden, the garden of God. It would have been peaceful, joyful, and
life forever, in God’s presence if mankind had not sinned. Sin, which drove mankind away
from God and hardened his heart (causing total depravity), brought about the untold
suffering even on innocent lower creation.
The only hope for both man and creation is the advent of the Messiah who will shade his
blood and atone for their sins. This love act of the Messiah dying innocently for the sinners
is the only hope for restoration to the Edenic, serene and immaculate life.
The fifth plagues targeted the livestock in a sinful world (Egypt). Death reigns on all
living things because of the Sin of Adam, who in this selected theological drama is
represented by Egyptians (fallen human race) where they settled since their nation was
formed will see what has never been seen as God goes out to punish rebellion against
him.
The people in Goshen, God’s people, those who have earned his favour will be spared his
wrath, not because they do not deserve it but because He has chosen to show them mercy
and to have accepted his rule over them.
The sin of Adam did not only affect his descendants but did affect living things in their
order, animals, plants and grass, landscapes, air and everything in the sphere where
mankind ended up after his fall.
The sixth plague was of Boils coming on animals and men when Moses tossed the
shoot from furnace into the air. This reveals the onset of sickness as a result of sin. Air
we breathe was corrupted by sin, for before we breathe the breath of God. In his mercy,
he shows he can prevent those in his fellowship to fall sick. He is the Lord who heals. He
will protect us from sickness much as we live in a disease Infested environment. That is
why God heals because there are sickness people can contract. He healed the Egyptian
when Moses prayed for them.
Before the seventh plague we learn a very important truth as to why Lucifer who turned
Satan was left to be for all this time. Remember Pharaoh typifies Satan in the whole
redemption mission.
Exod.9:15 - 17
For by now I could have stretched out my hand and struck you and your people with a
plague that would have wiped you off the earth.
But I have raised you up for this very purpose, that I might show you my power and that
my name might be proclaimed in all the earth. You still set yourself against my people
and will not let them go.
We see God`s sovereignty and patience here explained. He allowed the usurper of power
over his people to be, so that he may be shown the mightiness of God and through that
God`s name to be eternally revered. All that happens under the sun have a profiteering
return to God as he drives his redemptive mission to its conclusive ending.
The seventh plague is that of the Hailstorm. The earth and all plant cover are subjected
to punishment because of human disobedience. This may connote environmental
degradation caused by human carelessness being the cause of great natural disasters.
Exod.9:23 - When Moses stretched out his staff toward the sky, the LORD sent thunder
and hail, and lightning flashed down to the ground. So, the LORD rained hail on the land
of Egypt;
Exod.9:24 - hail fell and lightning flashed back and forth. It was the worst storm in all the
land of Egypt since it had become a nation.
Exod.9:25 - Throughout Egypt hail struck everything in the fields-both men and animals;
it beat down everything growing in the fields and stripped every tree.
Exod.9:26 - The only place it did not hail was the land of Goshen, where the Israelites
were.
The eighth plague was one of locusts
Exod.10:3 - So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said to him, “This is what the LORD,
the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me?
Let my people go, so that they may worship me.
Exod.10:4 - If you refuse to let them go, I will bring locusts into your country tomorrow.
Exod.10:5 - They will cover the face of the ground so that it cannot be seen. They will
devour what little you have left after the hail, including every tree that is growing in your
fields.
Exod.10:6 - They will fill your houses and those of all your officials and all the Egyptians-
something neither your fathers nor your forefathers have ever seen from the day they
settled in this land till now.’” Then Moses turned and left Pharaoh.
The locusts are known for being a harbinger for famine. Egypt was to face untold season
of famine when God’s army of locust devour its green cover. Famine is death trap for many
people world over. GOD will show that he is in control of every aspect of nature through
what he commands it to do to meet his purpose.
The nineth plague was one of solid darkness.
Exod.10:20 - But the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he would not let the Israelites
go.
Exod.10:21 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the sky so that
darkness will spread over Egypt-darkness that can be felt.”
Exod.10:22 - So Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky, and total darkness covered
all Egypt for three days.
Exod.10:23 - No one could see anyone else or leave his place for three days. Yet all the
Israelites had light in the places where they lived.
Exod.10:24 - Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and said, “Go, worship the LORD. Even your
women and children may go with you; only leave your flocks and herds behind.”
Darkness symbolised removal of God’s presence and life. This typified the final stage of
God`s patience and points to the separation of the Israelites and the Egyptian forever.
The people of God will be marked for salvation and those for Pharaoh will be left
unprotected from death for that will be their reward for rebellion against God.
The tenth and last plague was the death of the first born of Pharaoh and of all the
Egyptians and their livestock. Death of first-born means termination of their continuing
existence.
Sinners will cease to see the face of God, (light) but only those in his fellowship will see
him (the light) forever and ever. He will guide them by the light and will never leave them
a single day in their sojourn to the land of promise.
Pharaoh became more stubborn to the point of threatening Moses with death.
Exod.10:28 - Pharaoh said to Moses, “Get out of my sight! Make sure you do not appear
before me again! The day you see my face you will die.”
Exod.10:29 - “Just as you say,” Moses replied, “I will never appear before you again.”
This was the peak of Pharaoh stubbornness and the final of God patience towards his
rebellion and disregard of his power.
Exod.11:1 - Now the LORD had said to Moses, “I will bring one more plague on Pharaoh
and on Egypt. After that, he will let you go from here, and when he does, he will drive you
out completely.
Exod.11:2 - Tell the people that men and women alike are to ask their neighbors for
articles of silver and gold. “
Exod.11:3 - (The LORD made the Egyptians favourably disposed toward the people, and
Moses himself was highly regarded in Egypt by Pharaoh’s officials and by the people.)
Exod.11:4 - So Moses said, “This is what the LORD says: ‘About midnight I will go
throughout Egypt.
Exod.11:5 - Every firstborn son in Egypt will die, from the firstborn son of Pharaoh, who
sits on the throne, to the firstborn son of the slave girl, who is at her hand mill, and all the
firstborn of the cattle as well.
Exod.11:6 - There will be loud wailing throughout Egypt-worse than there has ever been
or ever will be again.
Exod.11:7 - But among the Israelites not a dog will bark at any man or animal.’ Then you
will know that the LORD makes a distinction between Egypt and Israel.
The tenth plague sets in the two Exodus.
The first was the redemptive mass removal of God`s people from Egypt to the
wilderness
And the second was the removal of Pharaoh and his armies from Egypt to the sea.
The Egyptian who remained on the main land Egypt were without Pharaoh and the
Israelites in the wilderness were with Moses (Jesus the savior of mankind)
Pharaoh and his loyalist will be cast in the sea (lake of fire) and Moses and his followers
will land safely on the shores of safety (paradise). As you can reflect you will come to learn
that what happened to Egypt through the plagues was instructive, illustrative and predictive
to us who are nearing the end of ages.
WHAT IN ALL TRUTH DID THE PLAGUES OF EGYPT SIGNIFY IN THE REDEMPTION
MISSION PROGRAM?
The layout of the redemption mission is pregnant in the way God carried his mission to
rescue Israelites from Egyptian captivity and slavery. The Israelites were not only aliens in
Egypt but were captives and slaves as well. The three classifications of the status lay down
God`s view of the fall of man and its effects on his destiny. Mankind was tempted to leave
his inheritance of abundance and immortality and went to Egypt (this world), where he
ended up a captive, a slave and a total alien in the land.
God’s grace and love coupled with his justice had to be made fully obvious to all intelligent
beings. In this mission, he had to raise up a man for his mission. He had to give all that
needed to accomplish his mission. He had to appoint from among the people he wants
to save men and women who would be used to carry out and accomplish his redemptive
mission.
Moses and Aaron play a dramatic role in the redemption drama as God uses the occasions
to prefigure what he will fully bring into real spiritual action, for redemption is more about
the spiritual issues than physical appearances. God is out to restore mankind to his original
state and also grow him into what he planned him to finally be at the end of his works.
The redemption mission begins with a show of a sign to Pharaoh and his magicians. The
sign was making the staff of Aaron turn into a snake. The magicians too performed the
sign but the snake of Aaron swallowed all the staff of the magicians.
This act connotes the act of first defeating Satan’s power and authority before the onset
of the salvation of the elect of God. Jesus had to incarnate (become human like us) and
then turn up like a snake on the tree (this played out by the brazen serpent on the tree)
yes even the sinners on the same day were crucified on the same cross but one “snake”
emerged alive on that day. Jesus was asked by the Pharisees to show them a sign and he
pointed to the sign of Jonah, where he spends three days in the belly of a big fish and
later got vomited on the land of the people he was sent to preach to the message of God.
This simply meant that salvation will be launched after the “snake” swallows’ other snakes
and leaves the floor without any snake to hinder the salvation program. Satan was totally
defeated on the cross and rendered naked that he has no authority and power to stop
what God is doing. Pharaoh was undressed of his kingly authority and power when the
snakes were swallowed by the staff of Aaron. Egypt and all other deities were now at the
mercy of God. There is not battle to fight to defeat Satan, but one to fight to reclaim
stolen territory in our lives. We fight to become what he never wanted us to become, but
not to defeat him, for Jesus defeated and disarmed him already.
This plan was eternally designed and waited for the opportune time to be revealed. The
Israelites (people of God) have to suffer in slavery for some time until God will raise among
them the man, he had given a staff (call it authority and power) to redeem them. He will
be their relative, born among them, but will grow in a secret place to avoid being destroyed
before his time. He will be nurtured in all that is needed to suit him for the job. Jesus was
grown in a humble home and environment to shield him from enemies as he waited for
his ripe time to begin ministry.
He had a man who would speak on his behalf before he could fully show who he was,
John the Baptist, who played a spokesman for his deity and mission. This man died before
Jesus; the same way Aaron died before Moses.
After laying down the mission strategy, God went to show what would bring life to people.
The blood. The first plague was blood. This blood was a turning of River and all sources
of water by the staff of Aaron. Yes, blood came from Aaron’s staff raised towards water
sources and Moses` staff striking the river Nile. GOD struck his son as he was raised on
the tree, and he released his blood, that no devil or sinners could drink, but which every
man needed for his redemption. Blood covered all the entire land. This means the sufficient
provision of God. No animal, man or any being could produce such amount of blood, but
God. This means the staff of Aaron raised to cause blood on all water sources was typifying
the Lord Jesus, who in the right time will be raised to provide blood that suffices to remove
the sins of mankind.
The death of Jesus was a divine judgement, that is why it is mentioned in the plagues. He
died as a punishment for sins and a ransom for redemption.
BIBLE SURVEY; SUMMARY OF THE PLAGUES.
WHAT DID FROGS SIGNIFY.
The plague of the frogs revealed the results of cutting our relationship with God due to
our sinfulness. Frogs were created with natural habitats where they find it easy to survive.
Any moving away from the waters is a sure guarantee of death. The frogs were everywhere
in Egypt, including the land of Goshen. This meant the entire human race was under the
condemnation. We all sinned, and none of us is without a case to answer before God. We
are all like frogs that left their place of safety. The magicians called out the frogs from the
water but could not order them back. This means Satan tempted us to move out of the
waters (presence of God) but can’t help us to return to God. He is also under
condemnation. The final result of our rebellion is death.
The frogs that left the river and ponds died on the land. They never returned to their
natural habitat. They became a stench in the land. This means they polluted the land. Only
frogs that remained in the river Nile, a place of their natural habitat, survived. Sin affected
our relationship with God. The longer we stay away from him, we have nothing else to
expect but to die off.
The message is clear here. Return to me for I am the river of life. Mankind was created
with a God aided living. He became a living soul because God breathed into him a breath
of life. Separation from this breath of his life is a sure passage to death. Every creation is
adaptive to the environment of its survival, and any removal from its life condition
environment is a license to death.
Jesus revealed this principle by the parable of the vine. He said “I am the vine, and you
are the branches, abide in Me and I in you. Only in the presence of God we can find the
ability to survive.

SALVATION EXPLAINED
Chapter 12 of the book of Exodus records in metaphors what salvation means, how it will
be affected and how one can partake of its benefits.
Salvation from slavery connoted a new beginning of one`s life or a birth of a new nation
that concerned Israel. We start to be alive in God`s view on the day we are saved from his
judgement. We read in the opening verses very profound truth regarding what God set
out to do to save his elect from slavery and captivity.
Exod.12:1 - The LORD said to Moses and Aaron in Egypt,
Exod.12:2 - “This month is to be for you the first month, the first month of your year.
Exod.12:3 - Tell the whole community of Israel that on the tenth day of this month, each
man is to take a lamb for his family, one for each household.
Exod.12:4 - If any household is too small for a whole lamb, they must share one with their
nearest neighbour, having taken into account the number of people there are. You are to
determine the amount of lamb needed in accordance with what each person will eat.
Exod.12:5 - The animals you choose must be year-old males without defect, and you may
take them from the sheep or the goats.
The month of the salvation of Israel was going to mark a new beginning in their lives and
establish a new relationship with God and grant them a new status in the world. The
Passover feast followed by seven days of eating unleavened bread was the mark of the
new calendar for Israel. Our physical birth and existence serve its part in the land of slavery
but the Passover grants us the birth into a new relationship with God and an offer of a
God kind of life, which is eternal life. (This is emphasized by the phrase” this is an ordinance
for generations to come”) when the month began, ten days to pass (Number ten means”
bringing to completions of a divine activity “) before they had to choose the animal of
slaughter.
Salvation is shown to be a response to God’s provided means of salvation. “Each family is

to choose a lamb or goat.” they must keep it four days for examination. (This connoted
Jesus’ process of inquiry by the four officials before his crucifixion) then the house was to
slaughter the selected animal and use a hyssop to sprinkle blood on the door lintel and
frames. The format symbolised the cross on which the true lamb will be crucified.
They were also to shut themselves inside the houses whose doors had been smeared with
blood. This means the house had turned into a vessel of safety like the Ark of Noah.
Following this, they were to eat bitter herbs, roasted meat, and bread without yeast. (Bitters
means they were to always remember their slavery. Roasted meat informed them of the
need to do total surrender to God. Unleavened bread informed them of a need to live a
non-rebellious life with God).
They were also to eat in haste, having the cloak tucked in. This called for their preparedness
to leave the land of Egypt. They were allowed to share the lamb or goat with another
family. This was to remind them that they were a fellowship of brothers. Aliens were not
to eat of the Passover lamb. If they wanted to partake of it, they needed to be circumcised.
This pointed to the need of Gentile people to repent and then shared in the covenant
promises of Israel. They were to ask for silver and gold and purple cloth from Egyptians.
This means we are to use the wealth of this world to build God a temple of dwelling. Later,
the gold and silver they collected were used to build God a tabernacle in the wilderness.

The start of the Exodus. In the night of the day God had purposed to carry out a judgement
on the people of Egypt by killing their first born, the Israelites were shut inside their houses
smeared by the blood of the sacrificed animal, one-year-old and without blemish.
One-year-old animal was of tender meat, easy to roast, and eat but it also connoted a call
for Israel to begin a new relationship with God, with softness of their hearts, for he was
separating them to be his people and a kingdom of his reign. They needed to know that
they had to relate with him on the premises of obedience and righteousness. Nothing
much was required of them but to love God and obey his commandments.
The night of Passover found them in Egypt but locked in the houses covered by the blood
of the sacrificed animal. (Saved people are still in this world but not of this world for they
are ready for the exodus). It was the blood that shielded them from the destroyer, not
their goodness or merits.
This means our salvation is actually sourced from the bloodshed, and without it, we too
are objects of God’s wrath. Not a single good work can qualify us of God`s pardon. Only
the blood of Jesus turns away his vengeance from our lives. This is a humbling notion!!!!
Exod.12:21 - Then Moses summoned all the elders of Israel and said to them, “Go at once
and select the animals for your families and slaughter the Passover lamb.
Exod.12:22 - Take a bunch of hyssops, dip it into the blood in the basin, and put some of
the blood on the top and on both sides of the doorframe. Not one of you shall go out
the door of his house until morning.
Exod.12:23 - When the LORD goes through the land to strike down the Egyptians, he will
see the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe and will pass over that doorway, and
he will not permit the destroyer to enter your houses and strike you down.
Exod.12:24 - “Obey these instructions as a lasting ordinance for you and your descendants.
God provided a means of salvation to his people. The way he could save his people from
his wrath was provided and communicated. This protection was even available for the
Egyptian, for the act of slaughtering the animal and smearing the blood on doors carried
a public testimony to their neighbours. The Grace of God is for all people, but those who
benefit from it are those who follow his prescription.
To the elected for his salvation program, he sent an informer to tell them what to do to
be saved. (This is the principal purpose of preaching the good news). The destroyer was
to come in the cover of darkness, and he did not know which house was of the Israelites
or Egyptian, but had the blood to see to spare those inside, the destruction God was
carrying out. The universality of salvation is here captured. Every man is free to choose
salvation over judgement, for God has shown us how we can be saved from his judgement.
Salvation depends on which house the night of judgement finds you in. Those in blood
labelled houses wake up to the news only to find themselves spared and ready to be
caught away to the wilderness. Those in houses without blood, the night becomes their
time of mourning. This Passover feast was ordered to be an everlasting rite for the
Israelites.
This simply meant that the death of Jesus will be an everlasting cause of worship and
celebrating in the eternal bliss. His saving act will always be a song to us throughout
eternity. No wonder Apostle John hears this in Revelation.
Rev.5:8 - And when he had taken it, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders
fell down before the Lamb. Each one had a harp, and they were holding golden bowls full
of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.
Rev.5:9 - And they sang a new song: “You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its
seals, because you were slain, and with your blood you purchased men for God from every
tribe and language and people and nation.
Rev.5:10 - You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to serve our God, and they
will reign on the earth.”
Judgement is aimed at all people of the world, but the provision of salvation is there for
whosoever, (Whosoever believes will be saved) accepts the atonement of sin, done and
offered by his chosen and selected Lamb.
The blood of the animal performed the following actions to save the Israelites.
1. It stopped the wrath of God, for God’s anger was appeased by the blood.
2. It made the Israelites acceptable before God. Their unworthiness was expiated. Guilt
was removed and cast away, removing any ground of condemnation.
3. It brought a reconciliation between them and God, thus giving them a new
beginning to be God’s people forever.
4. Blood sanctified them. They were set aside as God`s people from the people of the
world and Pharaoh sent them away to go and worship their God. He accepted that
he no longer has the right to hold them back, but let them go!!!! He could not
continue to hold those God has determined to claim as his. Free, they should be
allowed to become!
Exod.12:30 - Pharaoh and all his officials and all the Egyptians got up during the night,
and there was loud wailing in Egypt, for there was not a house without someone dead.
Exod.12:31 - During the night, Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “Up! Leave
my people, up the Israelites! Go worship the LORD as you have requested.
Exod.12:32 - Take your flocks and herds, as you have said, and go. And also bless me.”
Exod.12:33 - The Egyptians urged the people to hurry and leave the country. “For
otherwise,” they said, “we will all die! Salvation was not our work. It took God full show of
his power to the forces that held us captive to release us from their grips and let us be
free. We did nothing to deserve this intervention, but God chose and decreed beforehand
that we are his people, and with us, he has prepared to stay with in eternity future. We
owe lots of gratitude to God, for sparing us his wrath and gifting us with life instead of
death.
WHAT DID THE PLAGUE OF GNATS (LICE) ILLUSTRATE?
Exod.8:15 - But when Pharaoh saw that there was relief, he hardened his heart and would
not listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the LORD had said.
Exod.8:16 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Stretch out your staff and strike
the dust of the ground,’ and throughout the land of Egypt, the dust will become gnats.”
Exod.8:17 - They did this, and when Aaron stretched out his hand with the staff and struck
the dust of the ground, gnats came upon men and animals. All the dust throughout the
land of Egypt became gnats.
Exod.8:18 - But when the magicians tried to produce gnats by their secret arts, they could
not. And the gnats were on men and animals.
Exod.8:19 - The magicians said to Pharaoh, “This is the finger of God.” But Pharaoh’s heart
was hard, and he would not listen, just as the LORD had said.
In the ancient world, bearing lice on your body was a sign of being under a curse of your
parents, being poor, and treated a social outcast. You were excluded from any meaningful
gathering because of the insects on your body. The message in the plague is clear. God
did not announce as he had commonly done because this was everyone’s message to pick
a lesson from. Both Egyptians and Israelites were under a curse from the father (creator)
they seemed outcasts before him. They were poor in all aspects and could not pay the
ransom for their redemption. To this depth of degradation, sin had pulled man. Mankind
had become insignificant as the insects he carries on his body.
Insects are the lowest in God`s creation order. Mankind was created as the epitome or
crown of God’s creation, but sin had robbed him of that prestige and cast him low to
being like an insect. This reveals the universal need of a savior. No one is without a need
to be redeemed from the grips of sin. Tables had turned against Mankind. The ground
from which his food to sustain his life was to be grown turned out to the place he would
return after death. This ground was no longer blessed for him, but cursed because of him.
This graphic illustration must have spoken to the Israelites, for it is the last in which they
shared with the Egyptian people. They must have humbled themselves with a sense of
remorse. They may have recalled their history and promises from God. Maybe they prayed
for forgiveness from God. This is actually what God desires of a sinner, to be contrite and
accept your guilt. We are all sinner by judicial description and declaration. Nothing is good
about and in us. We all need mercy for mercy, which exempts us from what we legally
deserve and gives way to grace to gift us with what we don’t deserve.
In your salvation walk, all victories you attain over sin should never make you proud, for it
is God who works in your such victories. Humility in righteousness is a show of maturity
for all that we are by Grace.

The Exodus began on the 15th day of the month of Abib. This month is somewhere
between march and April. This period was made a holy month where Israelites were to
celebrate for generations to come the mighty acts of God when he killed the first born of
the Egyptians but spared and redeemed Israelites. (The term “Generations to come
connotes eternity in regards to the redeemed church) the month of Abib became the first
month of the religious calendar of the Israelites. The manner in which Israelites left Egypt
points to the Rapture of the church is important. A mighty show of God`s power will be
exercised to catch up the redeemed of the Lord and carry them into the heavens before
he introduces a great tribulation that will last the seven years.
The Israelites were not to eat anything with yeast (yeast symbolised sin, which corrupts
the nature of the dough) this means they were to live a righteous life devoid sinful act in
their entire lives. To symbolise this, they had to celebrate the feast on unleavened bread
for seven days. (Seven days means totality of their lives). All their lives were to be lived
like a dough without yeast. They were to be a Holy people belonging to God. These truths
were woven in rites and symbols because they pointed to something bigger than what
met the eyes and minds of the Israelites. They were to eat the roasted lamb and baked
bread inside the house. (This connoted an intimate relationship with their redeemer. Only
in a relationship with God are permitted to have a communion of love with him. Eating
symbolised having a communion with God, with a thankful attitude for his redemptive
works)
Exod.12:42 - Because the LORD kept vigil that night to bring them out of Egypt, on this
night all the Israelites are to keep vigil to honour the LORD for the generations to come.
Exod.12:43 - The LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “These are the regulations for the
Passover: “No foreigner is to eat of it.
Exod.12:44 - Any slave you have bought may eat of it after you have circumcised him,
Exod.12:45 - but a temporary resident and a hired worker may not eat it.
Exod.12:46 - “It must be eaten inside one house; take none of the meat outside the house.
Do not break any of the bones.
Exod.12:47 - The whole community of Israel must celebrate it.
Exod.12:48 - “An alien living among you who wants to celebrate the LORD’s Passover
must have all the males in his household circumcised; then he may take part like one born
in the land. No uncircumcised male may eat of it.
Exod.12:49 - The same law applies to the native-born and to the alien living among you.”
The regulations given here are instructive in line with the redemptive mission of God. No
alien was allowed to eat of the Passover, but the entire community of Israelites were to
eat the Passover lamb. No born was to be broken (This pointed to Jesus’ death on the
cross where his bones were not broken because he died earlier than normal) the unbroken
bones also pointed to the one for all work of redemption. It will not be in broken (carried
out or done pieces), but in one single act of love, God will redeem his people. (Aliens
symbolised unsaved peoples, those who do not share in the Covenants of God with
Israelites. But they could become part of the community by being circumcised.
(Circumcision here pointed to the repentance of aliens from serving foreign gods to serving
Jehovah). This means the salvation program of God has a universal appeal to all who come
and decide to according to the covenant obligations of the redeemed people of God.
BIBLE SURVEY PT 17. BOOK OF EXODUS.

THE EXODUS TREK.
Exod.13:17 - When Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them on the road through
the Philistine country, though that was shorter. For God said, “If they face war, they might
change their minds and return to Egypt.”
Exod.13:18 - So God led the people around by the desert road toward the Red Sea. The
Israelites went up out of Egypt armed for battle.
Exod.13:19 - Moses took the bones of Joseph with him because Joseph had made the
sons of Israel swear an oath. He had said, “God will surely come to your aid, and then you
must carry my bones up with you from this place.”
Exod.13:20 - After leaving Succoth, they camped at Etham on the edge of the desert.
Exod.13:21 - By day the LORD went ahead of them in a pillar of cloud to guide them on
their way and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, so that they could travel by
day or night.
Exod.13:22 - Neither the pillar of cloud by day nor the pillar of fire by night left its place
in front of the people.
This portion of scripture tells how the exodus began and how it was directed and managed
by God. The Israelites left when armed for battle, but God did not lead them through a
shortcut. He led them around by the desert road towards the Red Sea. God’s work was
not limited to securing freedom for the Israelites but had more attached to it. The exodus
of the people of God must be followed by an exodus of Pharaoh and his army. As the
Israelites are moving away from the land of slavery to the place of refuge in the desert,
the Egyptians will also have to move from their place of comfort to judgement and
destruction. This truth is embryonic of what will happen at the end of the time. The church
(Israel of God) will be removed through a supernatural act of God. This act will stir up the
king of Egypt (the Beast in end times) to go after Israelites but God will snatch Israel and
hide him in the wilderness for a specific time before he gets her into the promised land.
Pharaoh and his armies were tricked to amass their forces and pursue Israel, which trap
led to their destruction. This same play of events will occur soon when God will remove
the church from the world.
Rev.12:12 - Therefore, rejoice, you heavens, and you who dwell in them! But woe to the
earth and the sea, because the devil has gone down to you! He is filled with fury because
he knows that his time is short.”
Rev.12:13 - When the dragon saw that he had been hurled to the earth, he pursued the
woman who had given birth to the male child.
Rev.12:14 - The woman was given the two wings of a great eagle, so that she might fly
to the place prepared for her in the desert, where she would be taken care of for a time,
times and half a time, out of the serpent’s reach.
Reading this leads us to examine and come to find a reason why God took Israel through
the route and what the red seas served literally and typologically in God`s wider
redemption plan. God showed that he was the planner of everything concerning the
redemption exodus. He had his map, which Israel had to follow. He had his means of
executing what he wanted done and had reasons for doing so. When we come to God’s
reign and sphere of rule, we need to know that he takes charge of our day to day lives
and directs every step of our journey to his final destination he decreed for us. He led
them by pillar of fire and a cloud by day a sign of his ever-present presence in their new
relationship with him. The red sea typifies the valley of Armageddon where the anti-Christ
and his armies will be destroyed while Israelite is hidden in Bozrah, a place prepared for
her safety.
The wilderness served as haven to regroup and organise Israel into a nation under the rule
of God. It was prepared to breed a new people who only know Jehovah as their king,
groomed on new law and worship mode. This too will be replayed during the millennial
rule of Jesus. Nations will be trained on the true mode of worship under the rule of the
righteous king. This section is illustrative, instructive and predictive.
Chapter 14 is an enlargement on the last part of chapter 13. We see how God plans a
lure or an attraction for Pharaoh and his armies. God tells Moses to tell the Israelites turn
back and camp directly opposite the red sea. It would appear that the Israelites are lost in
their way and are just wandering about. This will cause a change in the Pharaoh mind to
go after them, hoping to bring them back to slavery. Our salvation is not complete until
Pharaoh and all his armies are buried in a place of their everlasting destruction. Until
Pharaoh is around and about, the safety of the Israelites is still in jeopardy. This critically
teaches us the emphases of our salvation.
Passover gives us an escape from God`s wrath and reconciles us to God. We begin the
journey to the land of promise. But as we do, though armed with the presence and
promises of God, Pharaoh who is eager to pull us, is still around. God is aware that the
Israelites will only settle down and rest from their fears of the past when they are made
aware that Pharaoh and all his forces were destroyed in the Red Sea. This stage is intended
to formulate a new mindset devoid of fear of the past and a focus on the new work God
is doing.
Exod.14:3 - Pharaoh will think, ‘The Israelites are wandering around the land in confusion,
hemmed in by the desert.’
Exod.14:4 - And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and he will pursue them. But I will gain
glory for myself through Pharaoh and all his army, and the Egyptians will know that I am
the LORD.” So, the Israelites did this.
Exod.14:5 - When the king of Egypt was told that the people had fled, Pharaoh and his
officials changed their minds about them and said, “What have we done? We have let the
Israelites go and have lost their services!”
Exod.14:6 - So he had his chariot made ready and took his army with him.
Exod.14:7 - He took six hundred of the best chariots, along with all the other chariots of
Egypt, with officers over all of them.
Exod.14:9- The Egyptians-all Pharaoh’s horses and chariots, horsemen, and troops-pursued
the Israelites and overtook them as they camped by the sea near Pi Hahiroth, opposite
Baal Zephon
Exod.14:10- As Pharaoh approached, the Israelites looked up, and there were the
Egyptians, marching after them. They were terrified and cried out to the LORD.
The plan of the Lord was to draw Pharaoh to a place of his destruction. It is amazing how
God uses the people he has redeemed to be instruments of his use in gaining the glory
over Pharaoh and the Egyptian. Our salvation course is such charted and planned with
places where the enemy is made to see our vulnerability and come to destroy us only to
meet his greatest surprise and defeat. God who set you free, is with you, but want to use
you to make the Egyptians know how grand and unmatchable are his wisdom and power.
God created a scenario intended for his exhibit of power. Israel never took themselves to
be hedged by the red sea, God did it. Why? It was time for Israel to grow faith in their
God. Their battle was not with physical armory, but was one of faith. Faith in God and
obedience to his word was the only weapon they needed to walk all the way to the
promised land. So, when Pharaoh approached, the Israelites cried!
Exod.14:10 - As Pharaoh approached, the Israelites looked up, and there were the
Egyptians, marching after them. They were terrified and cried out to the LORD.
Exod.14:11 - They said to Moses, “Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you
brought us to the desert to die? What have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt?
Exod.14:12 - Didn’t we say to you in Egypt, ‘Leave us alone; let us serve the Egyptians’? It
would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the desert!”
Exod.14:13 - Moses answered the people, “Do not be afraid. Stand firm and you will see
the deliverance the LORD will bring you today. The Egyptians you see today you will never
see again.
Exod.14:14 - The LORD will fight for you; you need only to be still.”
Exod.14:15 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Why are you crying out to me? Tell the
Israelites to move on.
Exod.14:16 - Raise your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea to divide the water
so that the Israelites can go through the sea on dry ground.
Our salvation calls for sanctification. We can’t be God`s true people until we are remolded
to see things as God sees them. The Israelites were still captives of Pharaoh much as they
had matched miles with herds of flocks, silver and gold. They were still captives of Pharaoh
much as their first born were spared by God. They were avowed citizen of Egypt for they
wished to be buried there. Their cry revealed why God could take to fail while in the
promised land. They had to undergo a spiritual purgatory, to form into them a new mindset
premised on God’s character and power. These people of God were far away from being
heirs of the promised land because they still had the longings of Egypt and held Pharaoh
in great esteem. They feared him and his armies. He was in their daily conversation and
dream. Such needed a baptism of separation. They had to notice a difference God makes
for those he had chosen to save and those he has appointed for destruction. The red sea
was a place of separation.
The Israelites were to be made a way out of trouble but the Egyptians will have it made
as a way into trouble. The Israelites will run to safety but the Egyptians with run into their
death trap. The Israelites will walk as if on dry ground, to the Egyptian muddy will the
passage be. The Israelites will be baptized under Moses as their leader, the Egyptians will
be baptized under Pharaoh as their leader. That was a day to enthrone God as the
sovereign Lord of all the earth. These acts as sited here will be played back when the
seventh week of Daniel is unfolded.
During the last three and half years of the great tribulation, God will lead the elect of the
Jews people who will about one third of the faithful Jews. These will by special ministry of
prophets be gathered in the valley near Mount of olives. When the anti-Christ sees this
great gathering, he will be enticed to come after them. As they cry out fear and terror,
suddenly the son of man will appear on the sky. They will see him who they crucified and
he will step on mount olives and made a huge escape passage for them into a place called
Bozrah in modern day Turkey.
As they escape, Jesus will have the armies of ant Christ destroyed by the breath of his
mouth (remember the waters that buried the Egyptians were brought back by the wind)
He will have the Beast and the false prophet arrested and cast into lake of fire as the first
resident of eternal torment and will have Satan bound in chains and cast into the abyss
for one thousand years. With Pharaoh now out of sight and his armies it was the right
time to form a nation built on the statutes and ordinances of God.
This teaches us until we overcome the residual perceptions about Satan and his works, it
will take us long to be heirs of the promises of God.
BIBLE SURVEY PT 18 B OF THE BOOK OF EXODUS.

REDEMPTION A WORK TO REVEAL GOD AND HIS ATTRIBUTES.
When God set out to draft and plan the redemption mission, he proposed it to be a means
that will explicitly reveal his person and his very nature and attributes. God would not
afford to forge a relationship with people who were ignorant of his very nature and
attributes.
Faith is drawn from experiences one has had and is grown by increased knowledge of God
and his attributes. The Israelites were now enrolled in a school of faith. It was time for
them to build a strong faith base built of what they have seen, touched, and heard. This
they needed because they were soon sanctified and anointed to be the missionary nation
of God. God dramatically and powerfully took them through the Red Sea to reveal that he
was far superior to all gods of Egypt. He had power over nature and all its resident beings.
Exod.14:18 - The Egyptians will know that I am the LORD when I gain glory through
Pharaoh, his chariots, and his horsemen.”
Exod.14:19 - Then the angel of God, who had been travelling in front of Israel’s army,
withdrew and went behind them. The pillar of cloud also moved from in front and stood
behind them,
Exod.14:20 - coming between the armies of Egypt and Israel. 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.
Exod.14:21 - Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and all that night, the LORD
drove the sea back with a strong east wind and turned it into dry land. The waters were
divided,
Exod.14:22 - and the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with a wall of water
on their right and on their left.
Exod.14:23 - The Egyptians pursued them, and all Pharaoh’s horses and chariots and
horsemen followed them into the sea.
Exod.14:24 - During the last watch of the night, the LORD looked down from the pillar of
fire and cloud at the Egyptian army and threw it into confusion.
Exod.14:25 - He made the wheels of their chariots come off so that they had difficulty
driving. And the Egyptians said, “Let’s get away from the Israelites! The LORD is fighting
for them against Egypt.”
Exod.14:26 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the sea so that
the waters may flow back over the Egyptians and their chariots and horsemen.”
Exod.14:27 - Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and at daybreak, the sea went
back to its place. The Egyptians were fleeing toward it, and the LORD swept them into the
sea.
Exod.14:28 - The water flowed back and covered the chariots and horsemen-the entire
army of Pharaoh that had followed the Israelites into the sea. Not one of them survived.
God was not just brutal but was bringing justice in his way of dealing with rebellion and
disregard of his nature and power. The Israelites who obeyed his dictates and followed his
leads were spared at every turn his express show of anger towards rebellion. They walked
through the waters, seeing for themselves how the Lord is not just obeyed by intelligent
beings but even inanimate things like water obeys his commands. They walked unhindered
and shown the passage by the pillar of fire that separated them from the Egyptian.
The chasm of divide between the people of God and the people of Pharaoh is a critical
point to note for it establishes the principle that God will use during the judgement day.
Israel will be led safely to the shores of safety, but the Egyptian (those who chose to
disregard his person and power) will be met with destruction. Here, we find the two
baptisms typified;
The baptism of the Holy spirit which is intended to guarantee our salvation and guide
us to the safe landing into God`s prepared place of rest and the
Baptism of fire which is a preserve of those who disregard the person and power of God.
All these baptisms will be carried out by Jesus, who in this scenario is reported as an angel
of the Lord. God, the son, is the savior of God’s people taking them safely through the sea
(life on earth) to the shores of everlasting safely and peace. He will also act the Judge to
all those who disregarded the person and power of God. God used power exhibits to grow
faith in the Israelites and to send warning to the people who remained in Egypt mainland.
The defeat of Pharaoh was to serve as a message of inspiration to the Israelites and as a
message for repentance for those on Egyptians. There was room for the Egyptian to discard
their idolatry and embrace the God of Israel. More to this, the mighty acts of God were
military tactics to send and create a fear factor in the nations ahead of the Israel course
to her heritage.
God is not only active in your present situations, but he also manages your future before
it unfolds. Using what is done today to ensure what is yet in the future is God`s way of
sustaining people’s faith. God works to prop up put faith by his continued show of power
in the course of our redemption. Enemies fall before our eyes and chariots of kings get
swept into the seas by a mere breath of his mouth. Such is the Lord of our salvation.
Exod.14:30 - That day, the LORD saved Israel from the hands of the Egyptians, and Israel
saw the Egyptians lying dead on the shore.
Exod.14:31 - And when the Israelites saw the great power the LORD displayed against the
Egyptians, the people feared the LORD and put their trust in him and in Moses his servant.
Israelites were now learning what it means to trust God and his servants. Much as the
whole community belonged to God, Moses was ordained and anointed to be their leader.
Their success was to depend on their respect for both agencies in his redemptive mission.
The divine and human agencies are the principle play makers in the mission of God. The
man God whose staff has been blessed of God is the man the people of God need always
to have their challenges solved. With God in their midst and Moses in the lead, reaching
their destiny was assured. Any failure to become what God called them to become will be
based on how they relate to the two agencies. Honour God and respect his prophets is an
ordinance for God-fearing people.

SALVATION BREEDS JOYFUL CELEBRATIONS.
Chapter 15 of Exodus records a very powerful song sung by the Israelites after the
destruction of Pharaoh’s army and chariots.
Exod.15:1 - Then Moses and the Israelites sang this song to the LORD: “I will sing to the
LORD, for he is highly exalted. The horse and its rider he hurled into the sea.
Exod.15:2 - 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.
Exod.15:3 - The LORD is a warrior; the LORD is his name.
Exod.15:4 - Pharaoh’s chariots and his army he has hurled into the sea. The best of
Pharaoh’s officers is drowned in the Red Sea.
Exod.15:5 - The deep waters have covered them; they sank to the depths like a stone.
Exod.15:6 - “Your right hand, O LORD, was majestic in power. Your right hand, O LORD,
shattered the enemy.
Exod.15:7 - In the greatness of your Majesty, you threw down those who opposed you.
You unleashed your burning anger; it consumed them like stubble.
Exod.15:8 - By the blast of your nostrils, the waters piled up. The surging waters stood
firm like a wall; the deep waters congealed in the heart of the sea.
Exod.15:9 - “The enemy boasted, ‘I will pursue, I will overtake them. I will divide the spoils;
I will gorge myself on them. I will draw my sword, and my hand will destroy them.’
Salvation is meant to bear fruits in our lives, and one of them is a joyful heart that overflows
with singing songs and hymns in praise of God. Praising God is a means of giving to God
a sacrifice of thanksgiving for his redemptive works in our lives and in his creation realm.
Praises express the inner man state of thankfulness to God. The Israelites sang a poetic
song that narrated what had been done and also pointed to what he would do in the
future.
The doctrine of praise and worship is here introduced in its nursery stages but which got
its full growth and employment in the worship order of Israel during King David`s Reign.
Israel was to a God`s praising and worship community. His works were to be recounted
always in songs of praise and worship. Their history and God`s mighty works among them
were to be stored in poems and Songs. Songs were to be means of expressions of their
testimony about God`s love and goodness. Songs of praise were not for entertainment but
were informative and instructive about the faithfulness and love of God. The Israelites had
never sung a song of liberty, but after crossing the red sea as on dry ground and seeing
their enemies defeated by God, it became natural for them to dance and sing with
jubilation to God.
This scenario depicts what the redeemed of the Lord will do when we cross beyond the
sea of death and suffering to the shores of eternal bliss. All activities will cease to be, but
singing and worshipping the God of our salvation will be an endless action before the
throne of his Majesty. We shall name God names that reflect what we have made out of
his salvation to us. His wondrous works will never leave our lips, for day in and day out
God will continue to amaze us by his Grace, for we shall see our unworthiness in light of
his holiness but be always encouraged by his love for us.
The spontaneous worship of Israel is a fruit and a sacrifice before God. Joy must define
the life of the redeemed, and it should form the sacrifice of thanksgiving to God. It’s our
daily burnt offering of pleasant aroma to God. God rejoices over and in the praises of his
redeemed people.
Singing to God strengthens intimacy with God. Singing also draws to us into the presence
of God and also increases the anointing of his grace upon our lives. Israel was to sing a
different brand of music because the nations around them were also singing music but
which were not centered on God and his works amongst mankind. Egyptian sing to arouse
their sensuous feelings but Israel sings to elate the heart of their God.
God is the object of Israel music. He is the one to harvest joy and pleasure in our worship
and praise. When singing becomes an entertainment for humankind, it has lowered its
value to secular levels. Music is heard revealed to Israel as one of those expressions that
will reveal their knowledge of him. What we know of God must be declared, and there is
no better way to form our inner gripping truth into songs of praise.
Music is a body of doctrine but expressions of human inner sentiments which at times are
only understood by God. Music expresses the inner longings of the human soul. Singing
to God strengthens our inner spiritual muscles, for our soul builds up as we joy in the Lord
and his works. Music is also an avenue of prophesy. Many predictive prophesies come
through songs. Music encourages, comforts and edifies the human soul. A believer must
learn to sing to the Lord all times.

BUILDING A CONDITIONAL RELATIONSHIP.
Salvation is meant to bring us into a relationship with God. We are saved to be a people
in an intimate relationship with God. Our salvation is by Grace and premised on
unconditional love, but our relationship is by faith and obedience premised on conditional
love. The Israelites, after celebrating the victory over the Egyptian death in the Red Sea,
started on a journey where they were to be tested and proven as a people deserving to
partake of the promises of God. We read as follows;
Exod.15:22 - Then Moses led Israel from the Red Sea, and they went into the Desert of
Shur. For three days, they travelled in the desert without finding water.
Exod.15:23 - When they came to Marah, they could not drink its water because it was
bitter. (That is why the place is called Marah.)
Exod.15:24 - So the people grumbled against Moses, saying, “What are we to drink?”
Exod.15:25 - Then Moses cried out to the LORD, and the LORD showed him a piece of
wood. He threw it into the water, and the water became sweet. There, the LORD made a
decree and a law for them, and there he tested them.
Exod.15:26 - He said, “If you listen carefully to the voice of the LORD your God and do
what is right in his eyes, if you pay attention to his commands and keep all his decrees, I
will not bring on you any of the diseases I brought on the Egyptians, for I am the LORD,
who heals you.”
Exod.15:27 - Then they came to Elim, where there were twelve springs and seventy palm
trees, and they camped there near the water.
For three days in a desert, they walked but found no water, but what they found was bitter
water. This was designed to check on their spiritual state. After seeing the extraordinary
show of God`s power over nature, they still had not grasped that the Lord who was in
their midst was able to provide for their daily needs. The greatest aspect of our spiritual
lives concerns our faith. There is only one proven way by which we can live in mutual
intimacy with God, and that is by faith. The water of Marah, which was bitter, symbolised
a sick world. Only God can heal it and make it sweet and enjoyable. We are a people prune
to sickness, but our relationship with God can protect us from diseases. God said to them
after he made the bitter water sweet that;
Exod.15:26 - He said, “If you listen carefully to the voice of the LORD your God and do
what is right in his eyes, if you pay attention to his commands and keep all his decrees, I
will not bring on you any of the diseases I brought on the Egyptians, for I am the LORD,
who heals you.” The relationship with God was going to be based on “works”. They were
to exhibit the faith that works. Because they had been by grace freely redeemed from
slavery, they needed to grow the faith in God hearing and obeying his commands. As
noted in this section, it stated that God tested them!!! Why did he test them? To prove
the genuineness of their faith. Peter draws of this to write in his epistle concerning faith.
1Pet.1:6 - In this, you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, you may have had to
suffer grief in all kinds of trials.
1Pet.1:7 - These have come so that your faith--of greater worth than gold, which perishes
even though refined by fire--may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory, and
honour when Jesus Christ is revealed.
Our journey in the salvation course is one waylaid with tests and trials. These are intended
to grow our faith and intimacy with God. Only the redeemed are called into the fellowship
with God, but this relationship is not a free-floating relationship where the redeemed will
do as they wish this relationship is one where God determines the way it’s upheld. In this
relationship, God is to be the Lord and redeem his subjects. The redeemed are no longer
slaves but are called into a new relationship of servants. The Lord of their lives dictates the
terms and conditions of their relationship, and they stand to enjoy the privileges of being
faithful servants of the Lord. This type of relationship is called a covenanted relationship.
This means God is in search of covenant people over whom his reign will be exercised
freely in love and obedience. Such a people will be his special possession and a kingdom
in which he is enthroned as king. After the Marah waters, the Israelites came to Elim, a
place with water.
Exod.15:27 - Then they came to Elim, where there were twelve springs and seventy palm
trees, and they camped there near the water.
God brought them to the place of reflection and anticipation. These Israelites descended
from the 70 patriarchs who went to Egypt. The seventy were descended from the twelve
sons of Jacob. Israel was formed by the twelve tribes but Israel was born out of the 70
nations, which descended from Noah. Elim was an oasis of refreshment discovered after
the bitter water was healed. Our moments of refreshments come after moments of testing
After the bitter experience of this life, God will take us to an oasis of peace and rest.
BIBLE SURVEY pt 20 of The Book of Exodus.
Relationship with God is strengthened by transformation. We are called to undergo a

spiritual cleansing of our actions and mind to reflect the new people we have become.
Before we got saved, our lives suffered from corruption caused by the sinful nature that
we partook as descendants of Adam. The principle of sin is a resident element in our
being, which requires our surrender and cooperation with God as he leads us on the way
from Egypt to the promised land. In these reported segments of the Israel trek from the
Red Sea inside the wilderness, God is illustrating for us what better way to live in a
relationship with him.
Exod.16:1 - The whole Israelite community set out from Elim and came to the Desert of
Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they
had come out of Egypt.
Exod.16:2 - In the desert, the whole community grumbled against Moses and Aaron.
Exod.16:3 - The Israelites said to them, “If only we had died by the LORD’s hand in Egypt!
There, we sat around pots of meat and ate all the food we wanted, but you have brought
us out into this desert to starve this entire assembly to death.”
Exod.16:4 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “I will rain down bread from heaven for you.
The people are to go out each day and gather enough for that day. In this way, I will test
them and see whether they will follow my instructions.
The Israelites grumbled to Moses for lack of food. They had exhausted the dough they left
with from Egypt. The desert is a place of no physical source of provision. It is an arid land
with nothing to grow and produce food. In the wilderness, Israel was to learn of the
supernatural source of provision for their needs. Not only will the provision be made, but
its sufficiency will be noted. Not only will the sufficiency be noted, but also the preservation
be made clearer. When God rained quills in the evening for meat and manna in the
morning, each family was to collect what was enough for the day. It was only on the sixth
day that they had to collect twice as much, and manna collected on the sixth day would
rot like in other days. The manna that was collected on the morning of a sixth day typified
the Lord Jesus, the bread of life. It was on the sixth day of the week in the morning that
Jesus was crucified, and his body was collected and buried hurriedly because it was nearing
the sabbath. He rose again on the first day of the week when new manna was to be
collected. Because this had a typology illustration, Moses was ordered to keep a measure
of the Manna as memorial for generations to come.
Exod.16:21 - Each morning everyone gathered as much as he needed, and when the sun
grew hot, it melted away.
Exod.16:22 - On the sixth day, they gathered twice as much-two comers for each person-
and the leaders of the community came and reported this to Moses.
Exod.16:23 - He said to them, “This is what the LORD commanded: ‘Tomorrow is to be a

day of rest, a holy Sabbath to the LORD. So bake what you want to bake and boil what
you want to boil. Save whatever is left and keep it until morning.’”
Exod.16:24 - So they saved it until morning, as Moses commanded, and it did not stink
or get maggots in it.
Exod.16:25 - “Eat it today,” Moses said, “because today is a Sabbath to the LORD. You will
not find any of it on the ground today.
The manna collected from first day to sixth day symbolised our daily physical needs which
are supplied on each day. God is aware of our daily needs and supplies us with food that
does not last. But God also knows that we have a spiritual need, the sabbath of our lives.
This need is only supplied by the bread that doesn’t rot away. Jesus talked of this bread
in John.
John.6:26 - Jesus answered, “I tell you the truth, you are looking for me, not because you
saw miraculous signs but because you ate the loaves and had your fill.
John.6:27 - Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life,
which the Son of Man will give you. On him God, the Father has placed his seal of
approval.” Jesus is the Manna collected before the sabbath. This means salvation is a
means into the sabbath of the Lord.
Israelites needed to recognize that their needs were not just physical but spiritual. There
was manna that spoils and manna that lasts and it was for them to choose which to eat
and be satisfied. There was no manna on the Sabbath day. This typified the end of needs,
for we shall be fully supplied and satisfied. The sabbath will end our physical needs and
bring us to eternal rest with God. The manna that lasts was kept as a memorial before the
ark of testimony. It was to remind people of God`s provision for their salvation. They were
no longer slaves because God reached out to them by his mercy and love.

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BIBLE SURVEY STUDY BY BISHOP ROBERT JAMES KAKANDE

The Book of Exodus.

A nation to be ruled by God had to be initiated into a relationship commanded by a

BIBLE SURVEY Pt 1 OF THE BOOK OF EXODUS

BIBLE SURVEY OF THE BOOK OF EXODUS PT2

Exod.6:17 - The sons of Gershon, by clans, were Libni and Shimei.

Exod.6:21 - The sons of Izhar were Korah, Nepheg, and Zicri.

Exod.6:22 - The sons of Uzziel were Mishael, Elzaphan, and Sithri.

Phil.2:5 - Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus:

BIBLE SURVEY OF THE BOOK OF EXODUS PT3

Exod.2:1 - Now a man of the house of Levi married a Levite woman,

Why did God lead Moses to Midian?

BIBLE SURVEY PT4 OF THE BOOK OF EXODUS.

He showed how he treats sin and sinners.

God calls Israel, " my first born."

BIBLE SURVEY PT5 OF THE BOOK OF EXODUS.

1- one man will be sent to deliver thousands from slavery

Moses gets to know the eternal name of God.

What does this mean in relation to his redemptive mission?

BIBLE SURVEY PT6 OF THE BOOK OF EXODUS

This is God’s message to Pharaoh.

What does this mean? We shall continue from here

BIBLE SURVEY PT 7 OF THE BOOK OF EXODUS.

BIBLE SURVEY PT8 OF THE BOOK OF EXODUS

BIBLE SURVEY PT 9 OF THE BOOK OF EXODUS

The snake was a common symbol of Divinity in Egyptian mythology.

BIBLE SURVEY PT 10 OF THE BOOK OF EXODUS

Why did God have the river turn into blood?

Rebellion against God is met with Judgement.

Divine recompense was on the way.

BIBLE SURVEY PT11 OF THE BOOK OF EXODUS

THE PLAGUE OF THE FROGS

All power and authority belong to him and him alone.

BIBLE SURVEY INQUIRY OF THE BOOK OF EXODUS.

BIBLE SURVEY PT12 of The Book of Exodus.

Chapter 8 of Exodus records the insect plagues.

Why did God cause Gnats?

This therefore Introduces us to the fourth plagues of FLIES

In normal circumstances, swarms of flies happen to be on something dead and giving a

BIBLE SURVEY PT13 OF THE BOOK OF EXODUS.

The eighth plague was one of locusts

The nineth plague was one of solid darkness.

The tenth plague sets in the two Exodus.

BIBLE SURVEY PT 14 OF THE BOOK OF EXODUS.

Exod.12:1 - The LORD said to Moses and Aaron in Egypt,

Salvation is shown to be a response to God’s provided means of salvation. “Each family is

BIBLE SURVEY PT 15 OF THE BOOK OF EXODUS.

WHAT DID THE PLAGUE OF GNATS (LICE) ILLUSTRATE?

BIBLE SURVEY PT16 OF THE BOOK OF EXODUS

Exod.12:47 - The whole community of Israel must celebrate it.

BIBLE SURVEY PT 17. BOOK OF EXODUS.

BIBLE SURVEY PT 18 OF THE BOOK OF EXODUS.

BIBLE SURVEY PT 18 B OF THE BOOK OF EXODUS.

BIBLE SURVEY PT 19 OF THE BOOK OF EXODUS.

Exod.15:2 - The LORD is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation. He is

Exod.15:3 - The LORD is a warrior; the LORD is his name.

BIBLE SURVEY PT 20 OF THE BOOK OF EXODUS.

BIBLE SURVEY pt 20 of The Book of Exodus.

Relationship with God is strengthened by transformation. We are called to undergo a

Exod.16:23 - He said to them, “This is what the LORD commanded: ‘Tomorrow is to be a

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