Exodus - an Authentic Record of Events

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Part 12  Exodus - an Authentic Record of Events

We continue from last time to see some more ways in which the record of Israel’s exodus from Egypt is a parable of the redemption which was to come through Jesus Christ. Last time we saw another parallel.

• Moses, while attempting to rescue his own people, was rejected by them, as Stephen declared in Acts 7:25 - “For he supposed that his brethren would have understood that God would deliver them by his hand, but they did not understand....But he who did his neighbour wrong pushed him away, saying, “Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?”

• Jesus also, despite his mighty words and deeds, was also rejected by Israel when after the arrest of Jesus, we learn in John 19:13, “When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he brought Jesus out and sat down in the judgment seat...And he said to the Jews, ‘Behold your King!’ But they cried out, ‘Away with Him, away with Him! Crucify Him!’ Pilate said to them, ‘Shall I crucify your King?’ The chief priests answered, ‘We have no king but Caesar’!”

• Moses was commissioned by God to save His people. And so Moses was sent by God to lead the people of Israel out of Egypt and their slavery.

  • Exodus 3:2 “And the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire from the midst of a bush....And the Lord said: ‘I have surely seen the oppression of My people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.’

  • ‘So I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey...Come now, therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring My people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt’.”

• Jesus, many years after the exodus from Egypt, was sent by God to rescue His people from their slavery to sin. And so we read that Jesus:

  • “came to Nazareth... And as His custom was, He went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read. And He was handed the book of the prophet Isaiah. And when He had opened the book, He found the place where it was written: “The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He has anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor. He has send me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord...And He began to say to them, ‘Today this Scripture is fulfilled in your hearing’.” - Luke 4:16.

  • After the ascension of Jesus, the apostle Peter declared, “God shows no partiality. But in every nation whoever fears Him and works righteousness is accepted by Him. The word which God sent to the children of Israel, preaching peace through Jesus Christ... which was proclaimed throughout all Judea...: God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him” - Acts 10:38.