Exodus - an Authentic Record of Events

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Part 10  Exodus - an Authentic Record of Events

We continue from last time to see in what ways the record of Israel’s exodus from Egypt is a parable of the redemption which was to come through Jesus Christ.

• Moses, along with the other Hebrew baby boys, was to be destroyed at Pharaoh’s command.

  • “Then the king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives… ‘When you do the duties of a midwife for the Hebrew women...if it is a son, then you shall kill him; but if it is a daughter, they he shall live’.” - Exodus 1:15-16.

  • After that, “Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, ‘Every son who is born [to the Hebrews] you shall cast into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive’.”

• Jesus, who Hebrews 3:3 declares “has been found worthy of greater honour than Moses”, was also the target of death by another king.

  • “Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, ‘Arise, take the young Child and His mother, flee to Egypt, and stay there until I bring you word; for Herod will seek the young Child to destroy Him’.” - Matthew 2:13.

• Another parallel between these two men is seen in how Moses trusted in the promises of God rather than in the riches of Egyptian royalty.

  • Now it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out to his brethren and looked at their burdens. And he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his brethren. So he looked this way and that way, and when he saw no one, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand” - Exodus 2:11.

  • The New Testament comments on this:“By faith Moses, when he became of age, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the passing pleasures of sin, esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt; for he looked to the reward” - Hebrews 11:24.

• Jesus, similarly in his case, “...though He was rich, yet for our sakes He became poor, that we through His poverty might become rich” - 2 Corinthians 8:9.

  • “Now it happened as they journeyed on the road, that someone said to Him, ‘Lord, I will follow You wherever You go.’ And Jesus said to him, ‘Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head’.” - Luke 9:57.

  • “...looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God” - Hebrews 12:2.

  • “... Christ Jesus...did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name...” - Philippians 2:5.