Moses (pt 2) from Calling to Packing up

Here are the notes from Thursday's class. The series is looking at the Old Testament to help us understand the context of the rest of the bible. Last week we looked at the story of the growth of the Hebrew people in Egypt. Joseph's family (70 people) moved to Egypt because of famine throughout the land. After 400 years that 70 turned into a nation's worth of people. That made the Egyptians nervous but Pharaoh was not about to let all his cheap labor leave.

God called and sent Moses and Aaron to bring the people out into the desert.It was an ordeal, but God opened the way. We got up to passover and talked about how it is connected to the New Testament.

Exodus 3 God’s instructions to Moses

· God calls – Moses makes excuses

· (map from Egypt to Siani)

· Gives Aaron as a helper

Ex 7:8 sign that they’re backed by God – staff turns to a snake

V 10 – the Egyptian sorcerers could do the same “miracle” but Aaron’s swallowed up the others.

The enemy can mimic and do “the same” but the end shows the truth

V14 Even though he saw this, Pharaoh hardened his heart

“Let my people go” 1^st plague (Next sign) – turned the water into blood

Ex 8: second plague – frogs

Third plague – gnats/mosquitos/piojos

Fourth plague – flies *distinction between Israelites and Egyptians

Ex 9 Fifth plague – livestock died

Sixth plague – boils/skin ulcers – the sorcerers couldn’t show up

Seventh plague – hail – hit men, animals, stripped crops and trees – except in Goshen, where the Israelites were

Ex 10 Eighth plague – locusts to finish the work on the plans that the hail left – cover the earth and living

Ninth plague – darkness – dense clouds for 3 days. Pharaoh got mad and told Moses not to come back.

Ex 11 Tenth plague- death of the firstborn –

Ex 12 Passover

The Passover lamb represents what Jesus was to do – inmolar/put the sins on the scapegoat

Passover dinner – modern equivalent - eat with your coats and shoes on, purse in hand – be ready to go

Rom 3:23 for all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God

Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.