Exodus 1

Overview:

Theme: Redemption Key Scripture: 3:14

Exodus 1-18: The Exodus from Egypt. The Presence of God Exodus 19-24: The Law is given. The Holiness of God Exodus 25-40: The Tabernable is made. The Worship of God

Purposes: 1. To show how God delivered His People (Israel) from Slavery. 2. To show the origin of the Jewish religion under the Mosaic Covenant.

Message: 1. God reveals himself through natural Grace and special Grace. 1. Reveals Himself to Pharoah as God of miracles through plagues (natural). Reveals Himself to Israelites his desire for relationship with Israel. 2. God is holy and dwells with unholy people to make them holy. 1. There is no compromise in who God is or in his desire to bring people closer to them (by making them like Him). 3. God is supreme over every other god.

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v.7

but the Israelites were fruitful and multiplied greatly and became exceedingly numerous, so that the land was filled with them.

With the vocabulary of God's promised blessing of multiplication and increase as given to Adam (Ge 1:28), Noah (Ge 8:17; 9:1-7), Abraham (Ge 17:2-6; 22:17), Isaac (Ge 26:4), and Jacob (Ge 28:3, 14; 35:11; 48:4), Moses recorded that God had been fulfilling his plan during the 430 years Israel was in Egypt.

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v.8

Then a new king, who did not know about Joseph, came to power in Egypt.

v.17

The midwives, however, feared God and did not do what the king of Egypt had told them to do; they let the boys live.

v.21

And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families of their own.