Notes + Questions: Covenant: The Life of Moses (Part 1)

Covenant: Moses Pt. 1 Deliverance

RECAP:

God makes all things very good and creates mankind to be in relationship with Himself

But, tempted and deceived by the dragon mankind rebels

God promises a Redeemer who will crush the head of the dragon

God chooses one man - Abraham

And his family - Isaac, Jacob, Joseph and his brothers

Through the wickedness of his brothers Joseph ends up a slave in Egypt, so as to fulfill Gen.15

In Egypt Joseph becomes Prime Minister and sustainer of life for Egypt and her neighbors

In Egypt Israel remains separate and grow from a family into a nation of maybe 2 million people

Genesis ends with Joseph dead and in a tomb in Egypt - but by faith (cf. Hebrews 11) Joseph asks the children of Israel to take his body when God is going to lead them into the Promised Land.

OUTLOOK:

REDEMPTION - OUR GOD IS GREATER!

COVENANT AT SINAI - RULES?!

JOSHUA - COVENANT FULFILLMENT

TODAY:

Our God is Greater!

Israel’s Suffering - Exodus 1:1-22

Moses 

Birth - Exodus 2:1-10

Exile - Exodus 2:11-22

Calling - Exodus 3:1-22

Power - Exodus 4:1-17

God sees - God hears

Exodus 2:23-25

Exodus 3:7-10

Exodus 6:1-13

I am - YHWH 3x

I am the LORD - v.2, 6, 7

I will - 7x

I will bring you out - v.6

I will deliver you - 

I will redeem you

I will take you to be my people - v.7

I will be your God

I will bring you into the land that I swore to Abraham, Isaac and to Jacob - v.8

I will give it to you as a possession

—> But the people of Israel did not listen to Moses because of their broken spirit and harsh slavery (v.9)

God’s Power on Display

10 Plagues

Judgment on the gods of Egypt - Exodus 12:12

God Almighty is greater than any of the other gods, God executed judgment on the gods of Egypt:

THE TEN PLAGUES

Water to Blood - Exodus 7:14-25 (magicians replicate v.22)

Khnum - Guardian of the River’s source

Hapi - god of annual flooding and lord of fish: goddess of fertility 

Osiris - nile is his bloodstream

Frogs - Exodus 8:1-15 (magicians replicate v.7)

Heqt goddess with the head of a frog

Also 4 male frog-headed gods (frogs could not be killed - penalty on whoever did)

Gnats - Exodus 8:16-19 (magicians warn Pharaoh: ‘this is the finger of God’ v.19)

Geb - god over the dust of the earth

Flies - Exodus 8:20-32 (land of Goshen set apart v.22)

Khepri had the head of a beetle or head of a fly and moved the sun along its path.

Also shui and Isis (gods associated with flies)

Cattle struck down - Exodus 9:1-7 (Israel’s cattle is safe v.7)

Hathor was a fertility goddess often depicted with the horns of a bull

Boils - Exodus 9:8-12 (magicians cannot stand before Moses bc of the boils v.11)

Isis - goddess of health

Imhotep - god of health

Serapis - goddess of healing

Hail - Exodus 9:13-35 (whoever feared the LORD saved their livestock and servants v.20-21)

Nut - goddess of the sky

Shu - her father god of wind and air (a calming god)

Locusts - Exodus 10:1-20 (tell it to your sons and grandsons so their faith will be strengthened v.2)

Neper and Nepri god and goddess of grain

Darkness - Exodus 10:21-29 (all the people of Israel had light v.24)

Ra - Sun-god most worshipped and most revered god in Egypt after Pharaoh

Death of the Firstborn - Exodus 12:29-32 (even Pharaoh’s firstborn dies - Israel exempted bc Passover blood)

Pharaoh was considered god - he killed the sons of Israel and in turn the firstborn of all Egypt was killed

OUR GOD IS GREATER!

GREATER THAN THE GODS OF THIS WORLD

GREATER THAN MY SIN

GREATER THAN MY SHAME

GREATER THAN DEATH