Bible Survey: Exodus
Exodus means the way out, and the theme of the book is redemption through blood. Its key verse comes on the night of the first Passover: when I see the blood, I will pass over you (Exodus 12:13).
Moses wrote it, and the Lord Jesus called it the book of Moses (Mark 12:26). In Exodus the family of Jacob, seventy souls when they went down into Egypt, becomes a nation of perhaps two million. Here are the first Passover, the name I AM THAT I AM, the crossing of the Red Sea, the Ten Commandments, and the golden calf.
The book is full of pictures of Christ. The Passover lamb, for even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us (1 Corinthians 5:7). The manna from heaven, and He said, I am the bread of life (John 6:35). The rock that Moses struck, and the water that came out of it. And the tabernacle, which fills most of the last sixteen chapters and had only one door. I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved (John 10:9).
Moses' own life falls into three forties: forty years in Pharaoh's palace, forty on the backside of the desert, and forty leading Israel. D. L. Moody said Moses spent forty years thinking he was somebody, forty years learning he was nobody, and forty years discovering what God can do with a nobody.
Egypt is a picture of the world, and Pharaoh a picture of Satan. God said, I will put a division between my people and thy people (Exodus 8:23), and once Israel came through the Red Sea there was no going back. It is the same for a Christian today — the old way of life is to be left behind.
And the disregard for children we see in abortion is nothing new. Pharaoh told the Hebrew midwives, if it be a son, then ye shall kill him (Exodus 1:16).
Next in the series: Leviticus.
Taught by Brother James Barker in Sunday School at Naples Independent Baptist Church, April 26, 2020. Watch the lesson.
