 | Aug 31, 2009
Daniel 11 - How Prophecy Became History
A while back my family and I undertook to study the book of Daniel. We wanted to do an inductive study so we purchased a Kay Arthur study book on Daniel. That study was the beginning of preparat... |
 | Aug 31, 2009
Several years back we came across the following list of ways to pray for the clergy, I believe, in a Newsletter from Intercessors for America. I say "I believe" because we cut it out and laminated it and it has nothing on to tell me f... |
 | Aug 29, 2009
Several years back we came across the following list of ways to pray for people of influence in a Newsletter from Intercessors for America. We cut it out and laminated it. Since that time we have been using it as a guide in praying for ou... |
|
Author: Moses
Chapters: 40
Verses: 1213
Bible Division: Pentateuch
Hebrew Arrangement: Torah
Key Word(s): Redeem
Theme: The introduction of redemption by blood.
Date Covered: 1496 BC - 1335 BC.
Writing Completed: ~ 1310 BC.
Exodus is the second book of the Christian Scriptures and the second book of the Torah. Another name given for the first five books of the Scriptures was the Pentateuch. The name "Exodus" was probably first used for this book in the Septuagint.
Exodus begins with the sad story of a people (a big family actually) who had gone to live in a new country at the invitation of that country's leader. After having been there many years the people and leaders of that country became afraid of them, imagined many things in their fear, and decided to make these "interlopers" slaves. The story doesn't stop there. It speaks of these Hebrew people crying out to God about their situation and Him raising up a leader to lead them out of this country to a country of their own.
There are over 80 years between the book's beginning and the leader actually coming to lead them out of this country, Egypt, and slavery. Sometimes it seems that God takes His time in delivering us from our problems, but if He does, think of waiting 80 years! What struck me more even than the waiting for Moses to get to 80 before sending him to lead the Hebrews out of slavery was how they reacted all along the way. They asked for God's help, yet every time He helped they complained about how He was doing things. You don't know anyone like that, do you?
Exodus is the book where you'll find many interesting incidents. You find God showing the leader of Egypt that He (God) was stronger than all the gods of Egypt. Check it out. The 10 plagues of Egypt each involved something about one of their gods. It's the book of the parting of the Red Sea. The drowning of an entire army in the same sea almost immediately after over a million people walked across on dry land is related in this book. This book tells us how to relate to God and to each other. The Ten Commandments are found in this book. These are laws on which the laws of the United States were based. In fact, all of man's good laws are ultimately based on these ten whether people want to admit it or not.
Exodus also shows a people acting and reacting toward God in ways that seem rather stupid from our perspective, yet, if we really think about it, we act and react in almost the exact same way many times when God is trying to help or lead us.
When it comes right down to it, Exodus is a picture of people in general, not just a story about the Hebrews. It is the story of bondage, redemption, education, and consecration of a people, then finally some worship of God by that people. You are or were in bondage. Have you been redeemed?
|
Thank you for visiting our web site!
|
|
|
|