2024-09-11 Exodus L01 - Joe Wilson

well we are uh starting a week behind just because of the uh summer series that went over a week but uh we should have plenty of time I think uh to get through the book of Exodus it made sense to me that uh we would start Exodus after Troy had finished Genesis I know it was uh from Sunday morning and we're doing this on Wednesday night but still on the heels of Genesis it makes sense to to go through Exodus so that's the plan for the next 12 weeks I guess it will be um so that's that's what we're going to do so before we get started if you would bow with me and we'll open with prayer Our dear heavenly father we come before your throne this evening we're so thankful for you being our father that we have this Avenue of prayer that can come to you and and express our love uh for you and to you uh we are so very grateful for the sacrifice of Jesus that came to this Earth and uh now uh 2,000 years ago uh to to show the world how to live a perfect life and we are mindful of that perfect example and uh we often and many times uh fall short uh of that example uh but we we ask that you would give us the strength and boldness and courage to uh strive for that Perfection and to be holy as you our father Are Holy uh we pray we're mindful of those in our prayer list that have been mentioned here uh tonight and the the spiritual and and physical needs that they have and we pray that we will be uh to we that we will minister to them and and fulfill those needs if we can and as we open up your word tonight I pray that everything that we say and do and uh what I teach uh is in accordance with your will and your word and your truth and uh that uh only the truth is taught we pray all in Jesus name amen amen okay so I have discovered and we had a class not too long ago uh at the the men's bible study Um Kingdom leaders about about teaching and I think it has occurred to me that my manner of teaching is uh that I teach the way I learn and I think that most teachers probably do the same thing we default to the way we learn and so I tend to teach classes in the way that I study the Bible and the way that I learn uh the scriptures and so what I do I just kind of give you the idea and if you've heard me Teach acts I think I taught acts five times in a row here one time but acts to me for the New Testament is a is a framework for the New Testament really other than the gospels um and Revelation most everything else in the New Testament fits into the timeline and chronology of Acts um I study the old Old Testament the same way and I use that really in two different ways I study it and I think I've probably uh shown these charts that I've I used and have created myself in my own Bible studies and I have them taped to the back of my Bible and somebody will say you're not supposed to add to the word but I have uh added you know in in the back margins and other things uh two things in the way I study this is really helpful for me in the Old Testament is a chronology so the dates of these events because to me understanding when things happened uh makes sense it's the same way for acts when you understand what period of time acts covers which is about you know in the range of 35 to 38 years when you think about the book of Acts that way acts you can cover multiple years in one verse and you can cover a day a night and a day in two chapters so sometimes we think about scriptures and we read the chapter and then we read the next chapter and we think chapter 1 and chapter two are an equivalent amount of time um well that's just not the case uh fortunately uh The Exodus when we study through it it is like some of the other books are is for the most part chronological so we start at the beginning and when we get to the end it's the end of the story according to uh Exodus so it it makes sense to us in that way there's many of for example the gospels uh Matthew writes more topical than he does chronological and so Luke writes chronological so when you're studying the Gospels it sometimes things are out of order when you compare the gospels together but Exodus is one that start to finish when you start in Exodus 1 and end at the end of chapter 40 in Exodus it really it goes chronologically so that's the way I think I think that's the way most people think uh but it helps to understand kind of where we're going so to give a little bit of a background and on the heels of Genesis I want to back up and give you at least the way I learn uh these uh scriptures and to give you some perspective so Genesis is 50 chapters okay if you uh I don't I don't want to get into a new Earth old Earth uh debate tonight I'm very convinced that it is a new Earth and that Adam and Eve were created about 4,100 uh BC and so the Earth is about 6,000 years old there's so much evidence for that I was uh in a young young person going through school and when you're bombarded with uh Evolution and the millions and millions of years uh that's what makes sense because that's what you keep hearing but the evidence particularly the uh math calculations that I love math um as you know uh simply do not support that the the math uh very much supports A New Earth but if you look at the dates in Genesis you can actually calculate back to when Adam and Eve uh were created according to when the next people of course you know I'm going to I'm going to give you some dates tonight but they weren't counting backwards to zero in the Old Testament right they didn't know when Jesus was coming so all these were um done after the fact uh to go backwards so when I give you a date of 4100 BC they weren't you know counting down to when Jesus uh was going to come they just weren't doing that so we've we've dated it back backwards but to get get an idea and these dates I think are really something that you should really kind of remember and these dates of course because they are going backwards are um Circa right so it's it's about uh about these dates but if you think about these dates so Adam and Eve were about 4,000 BC okay Noah was about 3,000 BC okay Jacob was about 2,000 BC Moses was about 1500 BC okay so to me the way I learn I understand that there's a thousand years between Adam and Eve and Noah there's a thousand years between Noah and Jacob who's also known as Israel and then there's about 500 years between Israel and Moses okay so that gets us to about 1500 BC when Moses is alive okay so again when you're reading a chapter of the Bible and you look at Genesis 1 Genesis 2 Genesis 3 okay the first five chapters of Genesis cover about a thousand years because on the first verse of Genesis chapter 6 we're introduced to Noah okay so Genesis 1-5 covers about a thousand years okay so in my mind uh that helps me understand so I'm going to give you that same kind of chronology when we go through Exodus so just so you know where we're going the first chapter of Exodus covers 350 years okay um chapter 2 two the first half of chapter 2 covers 40 years the last uh section last half of chapter 2 covers 40 years and then uh chapters 3 and four cover one year and then chapter 5 through 40 cover about one year okay so you go from 350 years to 80 years in chapter 2 and then the rest of Exodus from uh chapter 3- 40 is 2 years okay to me that helps me understand kind of where Things Fall because we cover a lot of time in chapter one because when you look at the death of Joseph which is mentioned at the end of Genesis in the beginning of Exodus um that's going to be in about 18 uh 76 BC and and then we cover to about 1446 okay so that's that's the uh um the the book of Exodus but when you're talking about how much you're covering you cover a lot in the first chapter and then it slows down you you cover 80 years because you can think of Moses's life as really in three parts right the first 40 years the second 40 years and the last 40 years because he he lived to be 120 the first 40 years he's in Egypt when he is uh learning and you know he's the account of him uh you know being adopted basically by um Pharaoh's daughter uh that's the first 40 years he kills the Egyptian he goes to Midian uh basically starts a family when he's 80 they tell him to go back and free his people he frees his people uh after all the plagues uh and then they wander in the wilderness for the next 40 years and then he dies before they go into the conquest of uh Canaan the promised land right so Moses's life is 40 years 40 years 40 years um he's on the mountain for 40 days I mean sometimes it just they God made it easy for us um to remember so that's the first way that I study the Bible because I have to know kind of what the chronology is so when I think about big picture where in 2024 ad right and so in my mind I have a mental uh timeline essentially and when I think of Moses I put him right about 1500 BC now he was born approximately 1527 BC so but in my mind I'm thinking about 1500 because if I can remember 1500 um that gives me an idea of hey I've it it's been longer since Christ than it was from Moses to Christ it just gives me a perspective as to understand kind of where they fit so you got Adam and Eve Noah Jacob and then Moses right so you got 4,000 3,00 2,500 and so that's that's the way I learn the first way the second way that I learn is the is a genealogy and so I have to know essentially the family tree of of how everybody fits and what I have in the back of my Bible and I've offered this many times to anybody that wants it and will still offer it um to anybody that wants it but I have a a genealogy chart that I've created and I can I can probably bring it up next time that we're uh in here but I go all the way from Adam and Eve to Jesus uh in the chronology and that's it's all in the Bible um it's there you just got to know where it is and for me yeah see I give my mom one so she's got one yeah it's okay we'll get we'll get it now I think we can look at it together next time but for me I have to understand where where these people uh come into play because we're going to get mentioned uh for instance the amalekites I need to know in my mind how do the amalekites fit in Uriah the hittite you know where do the Hittites where are they from where do they you know what do we know about UAH okay who he was uh killed right he was put at the front line and killed so how does Uriah the hittite where the Hittites come from to me I just need to understand and have a mental picture not only the chronology of where everybody fits but then kind of their family tree as to where they fit so I'm going to go through this uh and I'm going to do it in kind of cursory fashion so that you can not get bogged down in the weeds so that we know how we get to Moses okay because the main character well obviously the main character of exodus in any book in the Bible is God but the main um human character is Moses um so we go from Adam and Eve and we're told specifically that they have three children now they they have probably many many more children than that but we are told about really the first two and then almost in the story we forget about the third right so it's Cain and Abel and who Seth okay so Seth is actually where the genealogy continues in the Bible so you come down Noah is of a descendant of Seth uh obviously not of Abel because what happened to Abel um yeah Cain killed him so it's not it's not Abel uh and it's not Cain um it's Seth and so from Adam and Eve you have Seth and then uh after uh um you know it's about seven or eight Generations um you get down to Noah and then we know that Noah got on the ark and he had there were eight individuals right him and his wife uh unless you watch the movie and then somehow somebody else gets on the boat doesn't make sense so but there's eight individuals and he had three sons right who are the three sons shemam and japeth okay so we know that and so that's where it starts getting a little interesting so shim ham and jath so where do the Israelites come from I don't have to remember that cuz I just look at my chart comes from shim right so shim uh comes uh Noah and then shim and then you get all the way down and you get Abraham Isaac Jacob okay so I know that from the genealogy we can go from Adam and Eve uh to Seth to Noah uh and then from Noah to to Shem and then Shem down to Israel okay but but when you when you look at the Hittites they came from Ham okay so all the way back up at Noah um you have the Hittites that come from ham so that's how they're related that's how far back they go you have the jebusites um ailec the Philistines those are from the genealogy of ham not shim so when you to me it just when I can look at it it makes sense so then when you get down to uh Abraham Abram and then Abraham uh Abraham Isaac Jacob we know of that right so Abraham Isaac Jacob but then it starts to split and then you see the the um problems that are still carrying on today right so the first child of Abraham uh was who we think of Isaac right but it's not Isaac who is it ishma right because he had a a concubine Hagar right so Ishmael was the first born um the what we I I believe I believe this is correct that what we commonly uh think of as Arabs in the Middle East are from the genealogy of Ishmael okay now it little makes a little bit more sense as to the conflicts uh in the Middle East as to the holy lands and that sort of thing so um Ishmael and those descendants believe that they are the firstborn of Abraham uh whereas the Bible and what we would believe is the the one that is has was chosen by God uh was Isaac all right so Abraham Isaac now ishmail is his older brother um half brother because he's the son of Hagar and then Isaac has of course Jacob is a twin right so you know know that so Jacob and who es Esau now who was the firstborn of those Esau was the firstborn uh and so then you have the right they're from Esau uh and what do they also just like you would understand from the perspective of the descendants of Ishmael thinking that they've been cheated out of uh what they were entitled to as the first born what about Esau I mean that's a very familiar story to us uh right because um that he in fact sold his Birthright for nothing more than a bowl of Stew okay and then uh was tricked uh you know um Isaac was tricked in giving the blessing to Jacob rather than to Esau because of the fur on his hands so again you can understand maybe that perspective of hey we we're descendants of Esau we were the first born etc etc so the conflicts sometimes we look on the news and we see the conflicts in the Middle East and we think you know it doesn't make sense but these conflicts um go all the way back to 1,500 years or more before Christ right and so you know we have politicians that say oh there's the simple solution to this and yet I mean this is this is a problem that's been started 3500 years ago right and that that's how far it goes back back um so that's where we are after Abraham Isaac Jacob and then you know you have uh the 12 tribes right and that's where you should be able to tell uh I say the story but the account of what happened you should be able to say you know what happened to this I mean Troy just went through it there's at least 12 Sons there's 12 sons and one daughter right who's the daughter Dina right and then you have the 12 sons okay and those are the 12 tribes and what happens is is that Joseph uh is the younger he's not the youngest right it was Benjamin but uh Joseph taken by his brothers they want to kill him because they don't like him and but they sell him into slavery in Egypt right and that's how this is how the whole account starts is that Joseph is sold into slavery in Egypt all right and then there's famine uh where the Israel family is and then there's not a famine in Egypt and then of course uh Isaac sends his sons uh to Egypt to try to find some relief from this famine and then Joseph has worked his way up through uh um you know the the Egypt and and the hierarchy there and and is able to receive them in and how many Israelites go from their famished land to Egypt 70 right giv 70 and then it talks about Joseph is already there and then there's another account that says 72 um but it's about 70 people I don't know how many people are in this Auditorium but we're close to that right so we're close to um 70 unless you're watching online and then it's packed to the gills it's about 300 people so it's about 70 people in here and we certainly had more than that I mean we probably average double that on a Wednesday night so when everybody was in here before for the devotional um you're looking at 140 see I mean this is this is this is a manageable crowd right when they leave Egypt and cross the Red Sea I mean we don't know exactly how many but you're pushing upwards to a million people okay just men yeah so it's 600 I forgotten the exact number 600 and something thousand men right so and then they took all their livestock with them too so you're looking at the estimates are I've heard is a million up to three million people so let's just say it's a million people um the the modern football stadium for college the one of the bigger stadiums um holds about a 100,000 people so you're looking at trying to transport 10 Stadium fulls of people um with livestock um out of Egypt and they went there with 70 okay so understanding two those two things the the chronology of how this fits in and then the genealogy of how everybody fits together and where these descendants are um helps me understand when I study Exodus where am where am I in this in the huge you know framework of the Bible where where do where does all this fit so when I fit it in I fit it in at about 1500 BC uh and I fit it in knowing that it's come through that genealogy from Adam and Eve to Noah to shim uh down to uh um Abraham Isaac and Jacob and then through that genealogy right so that's where I know and when I hear we're going to hear uh about amalekites in Exodus and they are descendants of Esau right so when we think of the amalekites and how they um they fought and conquered the amalekites well it would be like you know the cousins you know they're their long-lost cousins because this is Jacob and Esau right so these are basically the the cousin tribe of the Israelites when you think of the amalekites so to me it just helps me understand where those uh people fit in does that make sense to everybody does anybody have any questions about anything that I have uh covered thus far okay so let's start um and and really I want to start at the end of uh Genesis just so that we can see the the end it's almost like it it continues and so if you will turn to the the 50th chapter of Genesis and to the towards the end of the chapter verse 22 uh we'll see the end of this account and where Exodus starts so um verse 22 of Genesis chapter 50 so Joseph dwelt in Egypt he and his father's household and Joseph lived 110 years Joseph saw ephraim's children to the third generation the children of maer and the son of of Manasseh were also brought up on Joseph's knees and Joseph said to his Brethren I am dying but God will surely visit you and bring you out of this land to the land of which he swore to Abraham to Isaac and to Jacob then Joseph took an oath from the children of Israel saying God will surely visit you and you shall carry up my bones from here so Joseph died being 110 years old and they unbaled him and he was is put in a coffin in Egypt okay when they leave they take Joseph's bones okay they take them with him uh Joseph died and I have I don't know if you write in your Bible Troy talked about writing in your Bible I write in my Bible I have to have everything in one place if I don't have everything in one place then then it doesn't make sense to me so if I have a a reference or a note or something it's it's in my Bible because if I have it in a notebook I mean I take notes um but to me it's trans it's transmitted over to my Bible because I need to know what it is so I write in my Bible you you that's your choice or not but Joseph died approximately in 1805 BC okay I have that written in my Bible you're welcome to write it in your Bible but 1805 BC is when Joseph died okay so now we pick up in Exodus chapter 1 okay and that helps me that's about where we start and remember in Exodus chapter 1 we're going to cover 350 years okay because we got to get all the way from Joseph dying to Moses being born because if you look in in uh the beginning of chapter 2 that's when Moses is born okay well Moses isn't born until 1527 BC and we just ended at 1805 okay okay so uh it's going to be uh a little bit of time so let's start reading um and this is going to be about 1805 to 1527 okay verse uh one now these are the names of the children of Israel who came to Egypt so we're remember we're backing up just a little bit it's almost like you know an introduction you kind of back up and give the start because uh when Joseph was there he was in Egypt his family came to him they all came uh to escape the famine right so they're all coming so you you'll recognize these names verse two Ruben Simeon Levi Judah iser zebulun and Benjamin Dam nap Gad and Asher all those who were descendants of Jacob were 70 persons for Joseph was in Egypt already and Joseph died okay so we just talked about at the end of Genesis that Joseph died okay that's about 1805 BC and Joseph died all his brothers and all that generation but the children of Israel were fruitful and increased abundantly multiplied and grew exceedingly Mighty and the land was filled with them okay so in one verse we probably covered a couple hundred years okay that's what he just said uh we believe that Moses is the Penman of Exodus that's likely in verse 7 we likely covered a couple hundred years uh the children of Israel were fruitful increased abundantly multiplied and grew exceedingly Mighty and the land was filled with them so basically the all the the direct descendants the children of Jacob Israel that generation died but the Israelites these 70 people that came over um they kept having babies right and so they were uh going to just grow and grow and grow and grow and so they were basically becoming a new Nu to the Egyptians you know at first if if we went um to Pensacola um as a group of 70 as long as we didn't try to fit into MaGuire's Restaurant um we could probably go over there and nobody would even notice I mean you're not going to notice a population increase of 70 people in Pensacola but if you uh put three million people in Pensacola and then try to get a table at the restaurant it's going to be a little difficult right so they got to where they were a nuisance they were just there were too many people too many Israelites and so we just covered a couple hundred years in that in that couple of verses that that generation died but they kept growing so verse eight now there arose a new king over Egypt who did not know Joseph and he said to his people look the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we come let us deal shrewdly with them lest they multiply and it happen in the event of war that they also join our enemies and fight against us and so go up out of the land so if you're not understanding the context and how much time we've just covered um we think of we think of it in our lifetime and our kind of period so in um who's in power at at this time president you know whatever the president is and then we have a new president and the new president doesn't even know who you know such and such is well that doesn't make sense I mean it's only been four years to us you know the change of a president takes is in four years and so when we read there's a new King in Egypt and he has no idea who Joseph is what do you mean he has no idea who Joseph is um it'd be like somebody saying you know what kind of uh singing voice did George Washington have George Washington lived you know 50 years ago I don't know what kind of singing voice George Washington had um why is that because we understand the context that I never heard George Washington seeing because he lived 250 years ago right so we understand it when we put it like that but when we just read it um the new king didn't know Joseph what do you mean the new king didn't know Joseph well he didn't know Joseph probably because we covered 2 200 years in the verse right before it so that's how uh we can read too quickly through these verses and not understand and not comprehend we've covered a lot of time because you don't read chapter one and cover a year and read chapter two and cover a year right it's it's very much different time you have to pay attention so the new king doesn't know Joseph he just knows that he's got these people that aren't supposed to be there that came over that were a really really small group and now they're a really really big group uh and they're potentially big enough to take over Egypt that's what he's worried about okay there's so many people that he's worried they're going to take over Egypt join their adversaries uh and his kingdom is going to be overthrown so that's his concern so verse verse 11 that yeah that that um clock is just a little fast um verse 11 therefore they set task Masters task Masters over them to afflict them with their burdens and they built for Pharaoh Supply cities pthm and Ramsey but but the more they Afflicted them the more they multiplied and grew and they were in dread of the children of Israel so the Egyptians made the children of Israel serve with rigor and they made their lives bitter with hard bondage in mortar and brick and in all manner of service in the field all their service in which they made them serve was with rigor so again we've covered a lot of time uh in these few verses so what have you you have 70 people go couple hundred years go by and now they're just in the million to three million we don't know how many there are but there's a bunch um enough to make an impact that the entire Kingdom of of Egypt is concerned that they're they're big enough in Num uh enough numbers of them to take them over that's how many there were and so they enslaved them so when you talk about I mean when you're looking for where did it it say that they were enslaved in Egypt we just read it it's just in a couple of verses they were enslaved okay so uh now they're enslaved that's where this uh ens slavery begins so now in verse uh then the king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives of whom the name uh the name of one was shifra and the name of the other was Pua and he said when you do the duties of a midwife for the Hebrew women and see them on the burst stools if it is a son then you shall kill him but if it is a daughter then she shall live now why would that be why would you kill the males and and not the females yeah they're the threat they're the threat so they're the the Warriors they grow up to be uh the Warriors and they can take over um the women are are not okay so um The Midwives basically you're you know you're you're committing uh postbirth abortions is what they're doing is what he they're commanded to do but thankfully they did not uh verse 17 but the midwives feared God and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them but saved the male children alive so the king of Egypt called for The Midwives and said to them why have you done this thing and saved the male children alive and The Midwives said to Pharaoh because this is actually quite funny to me because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women so they've managed to compliment the the Hebrew women and insult the Egyptian women at the same time because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women for they are Lively and give birth before the midwives come to them therefore God dealt well with the midwives and the people multiplied and grew very Mighty and so it was because the midwives fear God that he provided households for them so Pharaoh commanded all his people saying every son who is born you shall cast into the river and every daughter you shall save alive so his first plan didn't work and so now the second plan is and he got a male child you're going to throw them in the river okay which begins uh where the Ten Commandments starts right so I was a little kid my parents I don't know if they made me or I got to watch I don't know what it was um The Ten Commandments and so we all know who Moses looks like who does he look like Charlton hon right can you can you I I challenge you to go through the book of Exodus this quarter with me and not think of Moses as Charlton hison um it's impossible for me um I've not seen the movie in a long time but um we will see in the book of Exodus that very much um a major player in the plagues and all the events of Exodus is Aaron and my memory of the 10 commandments is that the character of Aaron is almost non-existent um Moses is the primary one Moses doesn't have a speech impediment or any problem public speaking in the Ten Commandments movie um but Aaron is very much a major player uh in um The Book of Exodus and if you see when when you think about Moses being such a major character in The Bible and he he truly truly is I mean um he's mentioned throughout the Old Testament throughout the New Testament um he was at least the third child born uh in that family right because when he is put in the basket in the river who's following his older sister right and then we're told in Exodus 7 I believe uh Exodus 7 that Aaron when you know I told you that Moses has you know three 40-year periods of his life it says Moses is 80 how old is Aaron 83 so Moses is at least uh the Third born uh in his family so we don't I don't think about that unless you unless you consciously read the scriptures and know it um specifically so um we're out of time I hope that's giving you a good overview of where we're going so that you kind of know where we end up um so um thank you very much for your attention and we are dismissed