Introduction to Exodus, Exodus 1

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Introduction to Exodus, Exodus 1

• Elder Mark E. Petersen testified
• The true Moses was one of the mightiest men of
  God in all time
• He walked and talked with God, received of
  divine glory while yet in mortality, was called a
  son of God, and was in similitude of the Only
  Begotten.
• He saw the mysteries of the heavens and much of
  creation, and received laws from God beyond any
  other ancient man of whom we have record (Moses,
  49).

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• Even Jesus Christ was called a prophet like unto
  Moses (Acts 322).
• Exodus Ex - means - out,
• odus means way or road
• Therefore, Exodus means the way out.
• Septuagint
• The Hebrew Bible was translated into Greek
  somewhere around 200 years before Christ.
• Therefore, the names in the Bible are not
  Hebrew.
• The Land of Canaan was not a country, but city
  states. They were not united, which was to
  Israels advantage. It was the language which
  unified them.

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• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vBIxToZmJwdI

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• The Rise of Moses
• It is a rare moment in the upward struggle of
  the race when a single life flashes across the
  horizon of human history with so much brilliance
  that its power for good remains undimmed 3,400
  years later. Such was the life of Moses.
• Except for Jesus Christ, there is more
  information concerning the prophet Moses and the
  works of his hands than any other personality in
  the Bible. His interests and capacities were
  almost encyclopedic. His career involved sixteen
  different functions, any of which would have been
  a notable accomplishment. Moses was all of the
  following things
• 1. A scholar, learned in all the wisdom of
  the Egyptians.
• 2. A military leader, with victories which
  Josephus says made him Egypts national hero.

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• 3. A writer who recorded more full-length books
  in the Bible than any other one man.
• 4. A historian, who put together 2,500 years of
  the great human saga.
• 5. A crown prince, whose adoption by the kings
  daughter could have made him the next Pharaoh of
  Egypt.
• 6. A shepherd, who patiently followed his flocks
  by day and by night for forty years.
• 7. An emancipator, whose liberation of between
  two and three million Israelites from Egyptian
  slavery is a classic event in history.
• 8. A prophet, raised up by God at the age of
  eighty to perform a labor which could have
  overwhelmed a younger man.
• 9. A seer, who saw God face to face, and spoke
  to him, as one man speaketh to another.

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• 10. A revelator, who recorded the Creation
  Story and other scriptures as they were given
  to him by the Lord.
• 11. A High Priest, who functioned in that holy
  office from his ordination by Jethro to the
  time of his death.
• 12. A miracle-worker, the greatest of which
  was the dividing of the Red Sea.
• 13. A legislator, who enunciated the divine
  laws which still serve as the sinews of
  entire civilizations.
• 14. A judge, who presided as chief justice
  over Israel for f forty years.
• 15. A pioneer, who set up 40 different
  city-camps in the desert wilderness of Egypt
  and Arabia during four strenuous nomadic
  decades.
• 16. A temple-builder, who built by divine
  blueprint a portable house of holiness and
  established Gods approved pattern of
  worship from then until the coming of Christ.

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• Exodus is a Type of the Plan of Salvation
• Map 2 Israels Exodus from Egypt and entry
  into Canaan
• Consider the three main Jewish Feasts
• 1. The Passover feast Location Ramses
• Month 1 (Spring) Sin/ bondage
  (March-April) Telestial
• 2. The Feast of Pentecost Location Mt.
  Sinai
• Month 3 (May-June) Gathering Terrestrial
• 50 days after Passover
• 3. Feast of the Tabernacles Location
  Land of Canaan (September-October)
  Celestial
• Reaching the Promised Land

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• The Process
• 1. We must leave the world (sin and bondage).
  (Telestial)
• 2. We must be baptized (parting of the Red
  Sea, cutting a covenant) and walk on the strait
  and narrow path. (Terrestrial)
• That path leads to the Temple (Mt. Sinai) and
  receiving the saving ordinances of the gospel.
• 3. We then qualify for exaltation (Land of
  Canaan) and enter the promised land. (Celestial)

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• Moses Life
• 1. Lived in Egypt (Telestial)
• 2. Left for Sinai (Terrestrial)
• 3. Prepared himself to lead his people into
  the promised land. (Celestial)
• This is called the
• First Gathering

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• The Exodus Typology
• Egypt Ways of the World we live in
• Promised Land Celestial Kingdom
• Pharaoh Satan
• Bondage Sin
• Firstborn Christ/ Sacrifice
• Moses Christ
• Crossing/ Red Sea Baptism
• Egyptian Gods Ways of the World
• Plagues Power of God over the world

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• Exodus 17 The Land was filled with them
• Egypt was a good place to grow in numbers as had
  been promised. Because of their hatred toward
  the Egyptians it helped them not to inter-marry
  and remain a pure people.
• At the end of 430 years, the Lord now decreed
  that the time had arrived for Israel to occupy
  her own land and there become that peculiar
  people who would await the coming of their
  Messiah (Peterson, Moses, 27-30).

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• Exodus 18 A Pharaoh who knew not Joseph
• My experience with my office after Christmas
  break
• There is a new Pharaoh in the Land.
• Exodus 116-17 If it be a son, then ye shall
  kill him
• Both Josephus and Jonathan ben Uzziel, another
  ancient Jewish writer, recorded that the pharaoh
  had a dream wherein he was shown that a man soon
  to be born would deliver Israel from bondage, and
  this dream motivated the royal decree to drown
  the male children (Josephus Flavius Josephus
  Antiquities, bk. 2, chap. 9. par. 2 Clarke,
  Bible Commentary, 1294).
• How about the courage of the mid-wives? (DC
  36-7)

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• Exodus 122
• Boys drown, Girls save
• Why?
• The Jewish historian Flavius Josephus had
  written concerning this period in Israels
  history

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• One of the Egyptian scribes who was very good in
  foretelling future events told the king, that
  about this time there would be a child born to
  the Israelites, who, if he were reared, would
  bring the Egyptian dominion low, and would raise
  the Israelites that he would excel all men in
  virtue, and obtain a glory that would be
  remembered through all ages.
• This was feared by the king so he commanded all
  male children, born to Israelites, drowned in the
  river. He enjoined also, that if any parents
  should disobey him, and venture to save their
  male children alive, they and their families
  should be destroyed also.
• Another collection of Jewish legends gave a
  similar prediction A son will be born unto
  Israel, who will destroy the whole of our land
  and all its inhabitants, and he will bring forth
  the Israelites from Egypt with a mighty hand
  (Flavius Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews,
  2.9, in Josephus Complete Works, 55-56).