The document provides an overview of key events and themes in the book of Exodus. It summarizes the Israelites' oppression in Egypt, their deliverance through the 10 plagues, and their escape from Egypt led by Moses after the final plague. It also discusses the giving of the law at Sinai, including the Sabbath commandment, and references how some aspects of the law like the sacrificial system point forward to Jesus as the ultimate redeemer.

1. Blueprints of Redemption
Book of Exodus
The Genesis account
continues

2. The book opens with ‘and’
Vav in Hebrew
The last 38 chapters in Genesis were largely focused on
Abraham, Isaac and Joseph
And… these are the generations of the children of Israel
And… they were fruitful and multiplied and filled the
land
Reminiscent of Genesis

3. A stair-case like ( chiastic )
organization of the book
Building for Pharaoh
God sees and helps
The (Passover) lamb
God comes down (at Sinai)
( the law and
the pattern of the tabernacle given
from
the inside out)
The (golden calf) anti-lamb
God dwells with his people
Building (the tabernacle) for God from the inside out
(Starting with the ark then working the way to the
courtyard)

4. And there arose a Pharaoh
that know not Joseph

5. A war of hearts
Pharaoh’s heart is claimed God like and sinless
and Pharaoh himself ‘the healer of Egypt’

6. • But Pharaoh’s heart was
– was hardened
– and sinned
• His daughter’s heart, however
– Was made tender by God
To the crying baby Moses
God will harden Pharaoh’s heart, Pharaoh’s heart was hardened,
Pharaoh's heart had been hardened and Pharaohs hardened his
heart

7. 400 years of silence
• And then a baby
• A bit like ‘the seed of the
woman’ in Genesis in some
measure
– The two Egyptian midwives
protecting the Hebrew baby boys
despite the Pharaoh’s decrees
– The mother of Moses prepares an
ark
– The sister of Moses watches over
it
– The daughter of Pharaoh has
compassion on it
– Woman significantly appearing in
the story

9. A God who burns in holiness, but doesn’t burn up.
A self existent God who can say His name is I AM
I AM. I AM THAT I AM

10. God stretches Moses hope
• Some help
– promising to send Aaron
– giving signs of Moses rod to become a
snake
– Moses hand becoming and being healed
from leprosy
• Even ending by saying how when he’s done
that even the women will plunder the
Egyptians of their treasures.

11. A flashback to Genesis
and Abraham’s vision
Genesis 15 12 As the sun was going
down, a deep sleep fell on Abram. And
behold, dreadful and great darkness fell
upon him. 13 Then the Lord said to
Abram, “Know for certain that your
offspring will be sojourners in a land
that is not theirs and will be servants
there, and they will be afflicted for four
hundred years. 14 But I will bring
judgment on the nation that they serve,
and afterward they shall come out with
great possessions

12. Enter Moses:
Moses’ life, being a mini-picture of Israel
Moses Israel
• Saved through river - Saved through red sea
• Trained in laws of Egypt - Trained in laws of God
• Almost killed by Pharaoh - Almost killed by Pharaoh
• God seen as burning bush - God seen as burning mountain
• Escaped to Midian - Escaped to Midian

13. Exodus 4:22-
22 Then you shall say to Pharaoh,
‘Thus says the Lord, Israel is my
firstborn son, 23 and I say to you,
“Let my son go that he may serve
me.” If you refuse to let him go,
behold, I will kill your firstborn
son.’”
And a son of God motif

14. The rod of Moses turns to a snake, Moses is told to grab the snake by the tail
and he does

16. The gods of Egypt judged
• In three sets of plagues
• God is God over
– The water
– The land
– The sky
– Man
• Egypt plagued
• Israel protected

17. Hymn to the Nile
ca. 2100 BCE
Hail to thee, O Nile! Who manifests thyself over this
land, and comes to give life to Egypt! Mysterious is thy
issuing forth from the darkness, on this day whereon it
is celebrated! Watering the orchards created by Re, to
cause all the cattle to live, you give the earth to
drink, inexhaustible one! Path that descends from the
sky, loving the bread of Seb and the first-fruits of
Nepera, You cause the workshops of Ptah to prosper!
From http://www.reshafim.org.il/ad/egypt/texts/hymn_to_the_nile.htm

18. God speaks from the water

20. 7 days later plagues continue
And another of the godz judged

21. The godz of Egypt judged
Heket
Goddess of fertility
Frogs from the overflow of
the Nile
Killing a frog is taboo
But in this plague the frogs
Will be stacked up and
burned
In each cycle of plagues two
are announced as to time
and one not.
1st three plagues::
waters turned to blood
Frogs, then lice The
magicians said: “This is the
finger of God.

23. Second set of three plagues
God is the God of the land
The river gods judged
Uatchit - The fly god of Egypt
Ptah and Mnevis }Egyptian gods associated
Serapis and . Imhotep }Egyptian gods of healing
Sekhmet - Egyptian goddess of Epidemics
.

24. God speaks from the land

25. The godz of Egypt judged
Isis, goddess of healing
But when God sends a
plague, Isis is of no help
Next 3 plagues:
Flies
Diseases in livestock
Boils

26. Soot from the kiln
(where bricks are made)

27. Soot from the kiln
(where bricks are made)

28. Soot from the kiln
(where bricks are made)

29. Soot from the kiln
(where bricks are made)

30. Could it be? Jewish slaves in Egypt?
The Brooklyn Papyrus suggests yes
• Slaves with names like Menachem,
Issachar, Asher
• Who suffered terribly and didn’t like long
• And were previously prosperous in an area
of Egypt with a ‘canal of Joseph’ named
from antiquity

31. The goddess of healing
is
Not much help
With the boils
And Pharaoh's
magicians
Cannot stand before
Pharaoh because of the
boils

32. .

33. God warns Pharaoh
God could just wipe out the Egyptians
but He was not in order that the fame
of his name and his works will be
known

34. Heavy hail, lightning and thunder

35. Some Egyptians take notice
• Some Egyptians heeding warnings
• Pharaoh’s advisers warning Pharaoh to
relent and let the Jews go
• Some Egyptians will choose eventually to
join the Jews and turn to their God

36. The godz of Egypt judged
Ra the ‘sun God’
God turned out the
lights in Egypt
God kept the lights on in
Goshen
Next 3 plagues:
Hail
Locusts
Darkness

37. 9th plague Darkness
A time for all Egypt to reflect on what happened
3 days of darkness

38. 10th and last plague
• Man judged
• The plague of the firstborn
• A reminder given of a promise to bring
them to the land with wonders

39. 10 Plagues and a hard heart

40. God said ‘I will harden Pharaohs heart
Pharaoh’s heart had been hardened
Pharaoh’s heart was hardened
Pharaoh hardened his heart

41. A defining moment in history
• Exodus 12:
– 1The LORD said to Moses and Aaron in the land of
Egypt, 2“This month shall be for you the beginning
of months. It shall be the first month of the year for you.
3Tell all the congregation of Israel that on the tenth day of
this month every man shall take a lamb according to their
fathers’ houses, a lamb for a household.

44. The Passover points back to the Exodus
but also forward
• It is the most spectacular deliverance in
the Old Testament
• But points to deliverance by ‘The lamb of
God that takes away the sins of the world’
as John the Baptist said (John’s birth
announced on the day of atonement in the
Holy of Holies)
• And the Passover lamb is to be completely
eaten as Messiah is to be taken not in part
but in whole by believers

45. In many (more) ways the Passover
points forward continued…
• And points to the church ( ‘the church of the
first born (ones), first born being plural…
those redeemed in similar manner covered by
the blood
• Hebrews 12:22 But you have come to
Mount Zion and to the city of the living
God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to
innumerable angels in festal gathering,
23 and to the assembly of the firstborn
[plural] who are enrolled in heaven

48. And 3 days after traveling though the
dessert…
• Freedom, thirst follows, water
found but bitter
• The waters of Marah
• Three days ago was dancing and
now there is not enough faith for
‘the next thing.’
• And God tells Moses to put a log in
the water

49. And the tree that made the bitter
water sweet
I am Jehovah Rapha
- ‘the God who heals you’

50. Followed by refreshment
12 springs with 70 palm trees at Elim

51. And 3 months later
traveling through desert…
The people admonished to consecrate
themselves
Wash their clothes (using some of the
precious water for the dessert journey)
Don’t come dirty! And Don’t come close!

52. And a promise
You shall be a kingdom of priests
• Exodus 19 :4 ‘You yourselves have seen
what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore
you on eagles' wings and brought you to
myself. 5 Now therefore, if you will indeed
obey my voice and keep my covenant, you
shall be my treasured possession among all
peoples, for all the earth is mine; 6 and you
shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a
holy nation.’ These are the words that you
shall speak to the people of Israel.”

53. See and hear! But don’t come near
( And if a person or animal touches the mountain kill
them but do not touch them doing it )

54. And a promise for the future
speaking someday not through a burning mountain but a person
• Duet 18: 16just as you desired of the LORD
your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly,
when you said, ‘Let me not hear again the
voice of the LORD my God or see this great
fire any more, lest I die.’
• 17And the LORD said to me, ‘They are right in
what they have spoken.
• 18I will raise up for them a prophet like you
from among their brothers. And I will put my
words in his mouth, and he shall speak to
them all that I command him.

55. And a better washing to come
Hebrews 10:22
let us draw near with a true heart in full
assurance of faith, with our hearts
sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and
our bodies washed with pure water.

56. The promise of being a kingdom of
priests deferred (until the church)
After the golden calf only Aaron’s son’s
would be priests but someday the promise
would still yet come in it’s fullness.
1 Peter 2:9 But you are a chosen race, a royal
priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his
own possession, that you may proclaim the
excellencies of him who called you out of
darkness into his marvelous light.

57. Freedom from slavery
freedom to obey the law
• The law reflecting the character of God
• Two tablets, two copies on for each
party in the agreement
• Respect God, parents and others

58. Some prayer help in defeating the
Amalikites
As Aaron and Hur hold up Moses hands
Jehovah Nissi - God our banner

59. Two craft workers are filled with the
spirit in the start of Exodus 31
• the first mention of someone filled with
the spirit in the Bible
• experts in metal work, fabrics and such
• They were to ‘devise patterns’ of beauty
for the work of the tabernacle

60. And an ‘out of place’ ‘above all’
in the second half of Exodus 31
• lest you get lost in all the details up to now
…
• lest you forget to be dependent on God….
• lest you forget the commandments
• ‘above all’ remember the Sabbath
• It is a bit out of place as to the flow of
thought but perhaps that’s a reminder to pay
special attention (says Matt Chandler of the
Village church)

61. But not all idols are so obvious

62. Some idols of the heart are more
troublesome to see

63. And the intercession of Moses
as if offering himself for the people
Exodus 32 9 “I have seen these people,” the Lord said to Moses,
“and they are a stiff-necked people. 10 Now leave me alone so that
my anger may burn against them and that I may destroy them. Then
I will make you into a great nation. But Moses sought the favor of
the Lord his God. “Lord,” he said, “why should your anger burn
against your people, whom you brought out of Egypt with great power
and a mighty hand? 12 Why should the Egyptians say, ‘It was with evil
intent that he brought them out, to kill them in the mountains and to
wipe them off the face of the earth’? Turn from your fierce anger;
relent and do not bring disaster on your people. 13 Remember your
servants Abraham, Isaac and Israel, to whom you swore by your own
self: ‘I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky
and I will give your descendants all this land I promised them, and it
will be their inheritance forever.’” 14 Then the Lord relented and did
not bring on his people the disaster he had threatened.

64. The people grumbled
‘give us water!’
And
God is put on trial
The people were save, fed, led and
protected up till then…
…but couldn’t trust God for the next thing

65. God on trial before the elders, struck and gave living water
God on the rock

66. The people grumbled
Not every being able to conclude God is
trustworthy for
The next thing
( As if they’re getting in touch with
‘their inner Pharaoh’
There is sin lurking in the heart )

67. A warning about this from Psalm 95
part of the prelude to ‘the enthronement Psalms
95 Oh come, let us sing to the Lord; let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation!
2 Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving; let us make a joyful noise to him with
songs of praise!
3 For the Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods.
4 In his hand are the depths of the earth; the heights of the mountains are his also.
5 The sea is his, for he made it, and his hands formed the dry land.
6 Oh come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the Lord, our Maker!
7 For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand.
Today, if you hear his voice,
8 do not harden your hearts, as at Meribah, as on the day at Massah in the wilderness,
9 when your fathers put me to the test and put me to the proof, though they had seen
my work.
10 For forty years I loathed that generation and said, “They are a people who go astray in
their heart, and they have not known my ways.”
11 Therefore I swore in my wrath, “They shall not enter my rest.”

68. The bronze serpent

69. John 3:13-15 (ESV)
13 No one has ascended into heaven
except he who descended from heaven,
the Son of Man. 14 And as Moses lifted
up the serpent in the wilderness, so
must the Son of Man be lifted up,
15 that whoever believes in him may have
eternal life.

70. Aspects of the law
point to a redeemer
• The scapegoatActually two. One stays and is
sacrificed; the other is sent
away, out of the camp.

71. The scapegoat points forward
to a future redeemer
• A scapegoat sent away from the camp
• Jesus is rejected
• And his people often rejected and suffer
(outside the camp)

72. The scapegoat points forward
to a future redeemer
• Hebrews 13: 1 For the bodies of those animals
whose blood is brought into the holy places by the
high priest as a sacrifice for sin are burned outside
the camp. 12 So Jesus also suffered outside the
gate in order to sanctify the people through his own
blood. 13 Therefore let us go to him outside the
camp and bear the reproach he endured. 14 For
here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city
that is to come. 15 Through him then let us
continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God,
that is, the fruit of lips that acknowledge his name.
16 Do not neglect to do good and to share what you
have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God.

73. And the most chapters in Exodus
devoted to:
The tabernacle

74. A tour of the tabernacle
from the inside out
• We will start with the Holy of Holies and
move out
• The most sacred thing in the Holy of
Holies being the ark
• The pattern of the tabernacle was given
at Mt Sinai already
– And now the craftsmen are ‘filled with the
Holy Spirit’ and building it

75. The ark
• The ark is made with both woods and
gold, the more common and the precious
• The also points to the two natures of the
Messiah: Divine and unfallen human

76. The ark of the covenant
Gold overlaying woods, made with poles so that Levites
could carry without touching, as was the other furniture

77. And the largest section of Exodus
the tabernacle
• In various ways point to the dwelling of God
with us
• “The word became flesh and dwelt
[tabernacled] with us” from John 1
• The tabernacle was made with precious metals
and more common metals
• Royal colors and fabrics and more dull
coverings
• This points to the royal divine aspects of the
Messiah as well as his human but unfallen
nature

78. The tablets with the 10
commandments
Manna and Aaron’s rod that budded

79. Question
• How many cherubim are in the Holy of
Holies?

80. Answer:
• 14
– 2 on the ark
– 2 larger ones with wings touching on walls
– 10 on curtains

81. Moving out of the Holy of Holies
• The Holy of Holies it covered by the veil
and only the High Priest enters and only
once a year
• Next place is the Holy Place
• Table of show bread
• Lampstand ( the Menorah)
• Table for incense
• Priests will minister there

82. The lampstand is over 100 lb of solid gold and only purpose
is to give light
It adds to the garden of Eden feel

83. The tabernacle and the garden
Temple Items in the Garden
Mankind is in the Garden to “work it and keep it” (Genesis 2:15); similar wording is used to describe the
job of the priests in the tabernacle (“keep guard” Numbers 3:7–8).
Later, after the fall guardian cherubim are placed at the entrance to keep mankind away from the
Garden and from the Tree of Life
Further Callbacks to Eden
The narrative describing the construction of the tabernacle is in seven segments (Exodus 25:1; 30:11,
17, 34; 31:1, 12). The sixth segment—Exodus 31:1—describes the Spirit of God fills men to create and
craft the objects for the tabernacle. And the seventh segment—Exodus 31:12—reminds the nation of
keeping the sabbath. These two segments both correspond nicely with the sixth and seventh days of
Creation in Genesis 1.
taken from http://liveagreaterstory.com/tabernacle-as-reflecting-the-garden-of-eden/

84. The ‘re-Edin-ization’ of the world
• Many Eden-like symbols in the tabernacle
• The materials, the cherubim, the plant
like furniture such as the lamp stand
• God’s presence is depicted as ‘Eden like’
• and in Ezekiel a trickle flowing out from
under the door of the temple will become
an ever widening river going and growing
towards the Dead Sea and making it alive
again

85. Then the courtyard
• Brazen alter: Sacrifices on an alter of
earth and stones
• Washings
• White linen fence
• A gate

86. The altar of earth and stone for
sacrifice and laver for washing

89. The tabernacle
•described by God
•parts built under the guidance of
men filled with the Holy Spirit
•assembled and finished
•filled with God’s glory (so even
Moses could not enter until God
called him to enter)

90. The way to the ark was always hindered from fallen people
by the veil until…
• And the veil to the holy of holies was
torned top to bottom when Jesus died
Matt 27:50 And Jesus cried out again with a
loud voice and yielded up his spirit.
51 And behold, the curtain of the temple was
torn in two, from top to bottom. And the earth
shook, and the rocks were split.

91. The covenant in Egypt point forward
• To a time where ‘The Lord will be our
righteousness’
– Jer 33 14 “Behold, the days are coming, declares
the Lord, when I will fulfill the promise I made to
the house of Israel and the house of Judah. 15 In
those days and at that time I will cause a righteous
Branch to spring up for David, and he shall execute
justice and righteousness in the land. 16 In those
days Judah will be saved, and Jerusalem will dwell
securely. And this is the name by which it will be
called: ‘The Lord is our righteousness.’

92. The covenant in Egypt point forward
• Hearts will change
–Jeremiah 32:40 English Standard Version
(ESV) 40 I will make with them an everlasting
covenant, that I will not turn away from
doing good to them. And I will put the fear of
me in their hearts, that they may not turn
from me.

93. A second Exodus
• Where our sins will be thrown in the
depths of the sea
– Micah 7:19
– He will again have compassion on us; he will
tread our iniquities underfoot. You will cast
all our sins into the depths of the sea.

94. Exodus 40 36 Throughout
all their journeys,
whenever the cloud was
taken up from over the
tabernacle, the people of
Israel would set out.
37 But if the cloud was
not taken up, then they
did not set out till the day
that it was taken up
. 38 For the cloud of the
Lord was on the
tabernacle by day, and
fire was in it by night, in
the sight of all the house
of Israel throughout all
their journeys.