Saturday, December 15, 2007

Exodus: Getting out from the bondage of Egypt

God brought us up.. from the challenges

What are the details: what parallels or relevance?

He hath brought us up from the land of bondage.
Which did those great signs in our sight
Preserved us all the way wherever we went.
And among all the people through whom we passed.

From Egypt on to freedom

After 10th Plague Pharaoh frees them
After they left the nobles protest
Incident at the Red Sea
Israelites are divinely guided through it
Israelites sing God’s praises ( 13:2)

God goes before them, a pillar of cloud by day, a fire by night.
Once in the desert they complain about…
God provides a daily shower of…
They are attacked by the Amalekites ( Amalek, the grandson of Essau)
Joshua fought them off.

Jethro hears what Moses is doing and advises setting up judges.
In the third month, they arrive at Mt Sinai. God appears to some of them as a light.
God announces, via Moses that the Children of Israel as God’s …………..

God announces a summarized moral code.
God promises the land of Canaan to the children ( it comes with a warning against…)

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