Exodus - Deuteronomy

© John Stevenson, 2016

 Genesis Exodus
Begins with all of Begins with all the
humanity in view Israelites in view
Eventually focuses on Eventually focuses on
one man―Abraham one man―Moses and
and his family his family
Abraham has two Moses has two
siblings: Nahor & siblings: Aaron &
Haran Miriam
Abraham called to Moses forced to leave
leave and travel to a and travel to a foreign
foreign land land
Old Testament New Testament
EXODUS CROSS
 Exodus
Exodus from Egypt: 10 Plagues
Giving of the Law: 10 Commandments
Building the Tabernacle: 10 Items

The Presence
of the Lord
“I Am”
 Egypt
• The Nile River
 Old New

2nd Intermediate Period

3rd Intermediate Period

Middle

1st Intermediate Period

Kingdom Kingdom Kingdom
Archaic Period

Dynasties Dynasties Dynasties

3-6 11-12 18-20
2686 – 2181 1991 - 1786 1587 - 1085

Pyramid Era of the Era of

era biblical Moses
patriarchs and the
Exodus
Suspicions against Israelites

• Foreigners
• Shepherds
• Goshen
• Religious differences
The Early Career of Moses
• Birth & Infancy
• Education (Acts 7:22)
• The Decision of Moses (Acts
7:23; Hebrews 11:24-26)
• Murder (Exodus 2:11-12; Acts
7:25)
• Flight to Midian
EGYPT

MIDIAN
 Exodus 7:2-3
“You shall speak all that I command
you, and your brother Aaron shall speak to
Pharaoh that he let the sons of Israel go out
of his land. 3 But I will harden Pharaoh's
heart that I may multiply My signs and My
wonders in the land of Egypt.
For Christ our Passover
also has been sacrificed
(1 Corinthians 5:7)

In what ways
does Jesus
fulfill the idea
of the
Passover?
 Exodus 13:18
Hence God led the people around by
the way of the wilderness to the Red Sea;
and the sons of Israel went up in martial
array from the land of Egypt.

@Ws
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“Yam Suph”
EGYPT
 For Pharaoh will say
of the sons of Israel,
‘They are wandering
aimlessly in the land;
Succoth the wilderness has
● shut them in.’”
● Etham (Exodus 14:3)
…he took six hundred select chariots, and
all the other chariots of Egypt with officers
over all of them (Exodus 14:7)
 Exodus 14:21-22
Then Moses stretched out his hand
over the sea; and the LORD swept the sea
back by a strong east wind all night and
turned the sea into dry land, so the waters
were divided. 22 The sons of Israel went
through the midst of the sea on the dry land,
and the waters were like a wall to them on
their right hand and on their left.
 Then all the
congregation of
the sons of Israel
journeyed by
stages from the
wilderness of Sin,
EGYPT according to the
command of the
LORD, and
camped at
Rephidim, and
there was no
water for the
people to drink.
(Exodus 17:1)
 Exodus 17:6
Behold, I will stand before you there
on the rock at Horeb; and you shall strike
the rock, and water will come out of it,
that the people may drink.” And Moses
did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.
 1 Corinthians 10:1-2
For I do not want you to be
unaware, brethren, that our fathers were
all under the cloud and all passed
through the sea; 2 and all were baptized
into Moses in the cloud and in the sea…
 1 Corinthians 10:3-4
…and all ate the same spiritual food; 4
and all drank the same spiritual drink,
for they were drinking from a spiritual
rock which followed them; and the
rock was Christ.
 Exodus 19:5-6
“Now then, if you will indeed
obey My voice and keep My
covenant, then you shall be My own
possession among all the peoples, for
all the earth is Mine; 6 and you shall
be to Me a kingdom of priests and a
holy nation.” These are the words that
you shall speak to the sons of Israel.
 The Ten Commandments
• They are singular (“thou” instead of “ye”)
• They can be divided into two groups
– Those directed toward God
– Those directed toward men
 The first four The last six
commandments commandments
Deals with Israel’s Deals with men’s
relationship with the relationship with one
Lord. another.
Reasons given for No reasons needed.
each command.
Completely unique to These laws are
this constitution. No common to most of
other society in the the ancient cultures of
ancient world had that day.
similar laws.
 The Ten Commandments
• They are singular (“thou” instead of “ye”)
• They can be divided into two groups
– Those directed toward God
– Those directed toward men
• The Stipulations that follow serve as
further interpretation of the Ten
Commandments
God meets Moses, Tabernacle built
then Israel exits and God enters
from Egypt (1-13) (35-40)

Israel rebels Israel rebels

(14-18) (32-34)

Covenant Laws Commands for

& Commands building the
(19-24) Tabernacle (25-31)
The cloud covered the
tent of meeting, and the
glory of the Lord filled
the tabernacle (Exodus
40:34)
 Outline of Leviticus
Rituals: Laws of the Offerings (1-7)
Laws of the Priests (8-10)
Laws of the Holiness (11-15)
Day of Atonement (16)
Laws of the Holiness (17-20)
Laws of the Priests (21-22)
Rituals: Appointed Times (23-25)
Penalties and Vows (26-27)
If you walk in My statutes and keep
My commandments… (26:3)
• I will give you rain
• The land will yield its produce
• The trees of the field will bear fruit
• You will eat your food to the full
• I will grant you peace
• You will chase your enemies
• I will make you fruitful and multiply you
• I will dwell with you
If you do not obey Me and carry out
all these commandments… (26:14)
• I will appoint over you a sudden terror,
consumption and fever
• You shall sow your seed uselessly
• You shall be struck down before your
enemies
• Those who hate you shall rule over you
• You shall flee when no one is pursuing
If, after these things, you do not
obey me… (26:18)
• I will punish you seven times more
• I will break down your pride of power
• Your strength will be spent uselessly
• Your land will not produce its produce
• The trees of the land will not yield their
fruit
If, then you act with hostility toward
Me and are not willing… (26:21)
• I will increase the plague seven times
• I will let loose among you the beast of
the field
• They shall bereave you of your children
and destroy your cattle
If, by these things you are not
turned to Me… (26:23)
• I will strike you seven times
• I will bring upon you a sword
• I will strike you with a pestilence
• Your bread shall be rationed
If, in spite of this, you do not obey
Me… (26:27)
• I will punish you seven times more
• You shall eat the flesh of your sons
and daughters
• I will cut down your high places
• I will lay waste your cities
• I will make the land desolate
• I will scatter you among the nations
and you will perish among the nations
If they confess their iniquity or if
their uncircumcised heart becomes
humbled... (26:40-41)
• I will remember My covenant
• I will remember the land
• I will not reject them to destroy them
• I will remember for them the covenant
with their ancestors
1:1 10:10 10:11 14:45 15:1 21:41 22:1 36:13

Mount From Sinai Kadesh to The Plains

Sinai to Kadesh Moab of Moab
Preparation
Wilderness End of the
for the The Test
Wanderings Journey
Journey
The New
The Old Generation
Generation
Several Several
38 Years
Weeks Months
Mount Sinai Mount Hor Mount Nebo
 MOAB
Kadesh
Barnea

EGYPT EDOM
Reuben
Gad
Mannaseh
Deuteronomy & the Suzerain
Treaties
• The Preamble
• The Historical Prologue
• The Stipulations
• Deposit and Reading of the
Covenant
• Witnesses
• Curses & Blessings
Outer Frame: A look backwards
(1-3)
Inner Frame: Covenant summary
(4-11)
Central Core: Covenant stipulations
(12-26)
Inner Frame: Covenant ceremony
(27-30)
Outer Frame: A look forwards
(31-34) Arnold & Beyer,
Pg 143
 Deuteronomy 18:15-16
The LORD your God will raise
up for you a prophet like me from
among you, from your countrymen,
you shall listen to him. 16 This is
according to all that you asked of the
LORD your God in Horeb on the day
of the assembly, saying, “Let me not
hear again the voice of the LORD
my God, let me not see this great fire
anymore, or I will die.”
 Deuteronomy 18:18-19
I will raise up a prophet from
among their countrymen like you,
and I will put My words in his mouth,
and he shall speak to them all that I
command him. 19 It shall come about
that whoever will not listen to My
words which he shall speak in My
name, I Myself will require it of him.
 Deuteronomy 34:10-12
Since that time no prophet has
risen in Israel like Moses, whom the
LORD knew face to face, 11 for all
the signs and wonders which the
LORD sent him to perform in the
land of Egypt against Pharaoh, all
his servants, and all his land, 12 and
for all the mighty power and for all
the great terror which Moses
performed in the sight of all Israel.