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Exit from Death, Enter into Life—The Deliverance of Israelites . Exodus 12: 31-41 Rev. Ruey Lai. Introduction. Narrative Criticism. Location: Egypt, Red Sea, Desert of Sinai Time: 1500 BC Major Character: God, Moses, Pharaoh Dialogue: the narrator, God, Moses, Pharaoh. Outlines
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Exit from Death, Enter into Life—The Deliverance of Israelites Exodus 12: 31-41 Rev. Ruey Lai
Location: Egypt, Red Sea, Desert of Sinai • Time: 1500 BC • Major Character: God, Moses, Pharaoh • Dialogue: the narrator, God, Moses, Pharaoh
Outlines • 1. The Passover • 2. Regulations and Significance of the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread • 3. Israelites out of Egypt
4. Israelites walked through the Red Sea • 5. Concluding Remarks • 6. Response and Challenge
Exodus 12 • The Israelites are to take some of the blood of the lamb and put it on the sides and tops of the doorframes of the houses. • The blood will be a sign. • When the angel see the sign, He will pass over them. • “This is the Lord's Passover.”
Ex. 12 • Pharaoh and all his officials and all the Egyptians got up during the night. • There was loud wailing in Egypt, for there was not a house without someone dead.
Heb 11:28 • “By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood, so that the destroyer of the firstborn would not touch the firstborn of Israel.”
2. Regulations and Significance of the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread
Ex 12 • “When your children ask, 'What does this ceremony mean?' • tell them, • 'It is the Passover sacrifice to the Lord, • who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt and spared our homes • when he struck down the Egyptians.”
(1). No foreigner is to eat of it. • (2). Do not break any of the bones of the lamb. • (3). The whole community of Israel must celebrate it.
(4). Consecrate to the Lord every firstborn male. • (5). This observance will be for the Israelites like a sign on their hand and a reminder on their forehead that the law of the Lord is to be on their lips.
The feast of the unleavened bread last for seven days though. • The Lord instructed the Israelites to eat bread made without yeast for seven days.
Ex 12:42 • “Because the Lord kept vigil that night to bring you out of Egypt, • on this night all the Israelites are to keep vigil to honor the Lord for the generations to come.”
Matt 26:26-28 • “While they were eating, • Jesus took bread, gave thanks and broke it, • and gave it to his disciples, • saying, "Take and eat; this is my body."
Then he took the cup, • gave thanks and offered it to them, • saying, "Drink from it, all of you. • This is my blood of the covenant, • which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.”
1Cor 11:28-29 • “A man ought to examine himself before he eats of the bread and drinks of the cup. • For anyone who eats and drinks without recognizing the body of the Lord • eats and drinks judgment on himself.”
Route 1: The way along the coast • This route is too dangerous for the Israelites because of the presence of the Philistine.
Route 2: The way through the Desert of Shur. • This route is also dangerous because of the limited supply of drinking water.
Route 3: The long way. • Eventually, the Israelite ended up with route 3 • This route is going south toward Mountain Sinai and then going north toward the city of Kadesh Barnea .
How many people actually got out of Egypt that night? • Personally, I believe there are two answers.
The first answer: • Based on the scripture, 600,000 men left Egypt (Ex. 12:37, Ex. 38: 26, Numbers 1: 46; 2: 32 ; 26: 51) • The total number of people left Egypt is two millions.
The second answer, • if “elep” is not an unit of one thousand, then, • the number of men of Israelite who left Egypt would be 5,500 .
Ex 23:29-30 • (29) “But I will not drive them out in a single year, • because the land would become desolate • and the wild animals too numerous for you. • (30) Little by little I will drive them out before you, • until you have increased enough to take possession of the land.”
Ex 14 • “The angel of God, who had been traveling in front of Israel's army, withdrew and went behind them. • -----
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.”
Ex 14 • Moses stretched out his hand over the sea • The Lord drove the sea back with a strong east wind and turned it into dry land.
The waters were divided, and the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground.
Heb 11:29 • “By faith the people passed through the Red Sea as on dry land; • but when the Egyptians tried to do so, • they were drowned.”
(1Cor 10:1-4) • (1) “For I do not want you to be ignorant of the fact, brothers, that our forefathers were all under the cloud and that they all passed through the sea. • (2) They were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea.
(3) They all ate the same spiritual food and • (4) drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ.”
Ex 15: 1-19 • (1) "I will sing to the Lord, for he is highly exalted. The horse and its rider, he has hurled into the sea. • (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.
(3) The Lord is a warrior; the Lord is his name. • (11) Who among the gods is like you, O Lord? Who is like you - majestic in holiness, awesome in glory, working wonders?
(12) You stretched out your right hand and the earth swallowed them. • (14) The nations will hear and tremble; anguish will grip the people of Philistia.
(15) The chiefs of Edom will be terrified, • the leaders of Moab will be seized with trembling, the people b of Canaan will melt away;
(16) terror and dread will fall upon them. • By the power of your arm they will be as still as a stone — until your people pass by, O Lord, until the people you bought pass by.
(17) You will bring them in and plant them on the mountain of your inheritance — • the place, O Lord, you made for your dwelling, the sanctuary, O Lord, your hands established.
