Wednesday Night Worship & Study Exodus Bible Study June 9th, 2021

3 Acts of Exodus: • ACT 1 - Ex 1-13:16 – God remembering the promises of Genesis 15 and redeeming Israel from Egyptian slavery through wonders and signs. o Suffering in Egypt 430 years after Genesis. o Population explosion – 75 to >603,000 males! (2 million) o Moses and his first 40 years as a prince but: ▪ Acts 7 we see that Moses sees himself as an Israelite and a God follower. ▪ Heb 11:25-26 we see Moses chose to suffer affliction with God’s people than “to enjoy the passing pleasures of sin, esteeming the reproach of Christ greater than the riches treasures in Egypt, for he looked to the reward.” ▪ Kills an Egyptian and flees. o Moses and his 2nd 40 years in Midian as a shepherd until God calls him to be His agent, messenger, deliverer, prophet, and giver of the law. ▪ Ex 2:24 So God heard their groanings, and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. ▪ Deliver them…to the place of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites. ▪ I AM (3:5, 14). o Moses says and does what God tells Aaron and him to do utterly destroying the most powerful kingdom and king in the world and showing their gods as nothing: ▪ God on display to the world against the world’s most powerful empire Ex 9 16 But indeed for this purpose I have raised you (Pharaoh, Egypt) up, that I may show My power in you, and that My name may be declared in all the earth. ▪ God on display to the Israelites on who God is, that they may tell their children Ex 12 24 And you shall observe this thing as an ordinance (Feast of Unleavened Bread) for you and your sons forever. 25 It will come to pass when you come to the land which the LORD will give you, just as He promised, that you shall keep this service. 26 And it shall be, when your children say to you, ‘What do you mean by this

1 service?” 27 that you shall say, ‘It is the Passover sacrifice of the LORD, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt when He struck the Egyptians and delivered our households.’ ” ▪ Specifically: • The final 10th plague with the death of firstborn where Pharaoh tells them to leave and they plunder Egypt. • The consecration of Israel’s firstborn who have been spared (redeemed - saved), and now set apart to God. • The Passover instituted and to be remembered annually and by the Feast of Unleavened Bread. o They march out…2M plus.

• ACT 2 - Ex 13:17 - Ex 18 – 3 months of God providing on the road to Mt. Sinai. o Israel grumbles (over everything). o God provides safety, mana, quail, water, and victory.

• ACT 3 - Ex 19 - 40 – 11 months at Mt. Sinai where God was creating His new nation with new laws and new way of life. 5 major sections: o Ch 19 – 24: Law of God prescribed ▪ 19 – Israel at the foot of Mt. Sinai, God descends upon the Mt in fire. ▪ 20 – ten commandments introduced, people afraid of God and Moses intermediary, altar and sacrifice ▪ 21-22 – various laws on servants, violence, animal control, property, moral and ceremonial principles ▪ 23 – justice, Sabbath law, promise of the Angle who would go before them into the Promise Land ▪ 24 – covenant affirmed, Moses 40 days and nights on Mt Sinai.

o Ch 25 – 31: Tabernacle of God and priesthood described: ▪ 25: • vs 8-9 – And let them make Me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them. According to all I show you, that is the pattern of the tabernacle and the pattern of all its furnishings, just so you shall make it.” • Ark, table for showbread, gold lampstand

2 ▪ 26 – tabernacle (inner tent) ▪ 27 – altar for burnt offering, court of the tent, care of lampstand ▪ 28 – garments for priest, ephod, breastplate, robe, tunic ▪ 29 – consecrating the priest, daily offerings ▪ 30 – altar of incense, census tax, bronze laver, anointing oil, incense ▪ 31 – artisans, Sabbath law o Ch 32: Worship of God defiled (golden calf) o Ch 33 – 34: Presence of God confirmed ▪ 33 – command to leave Mt. Sinai, promise of God’s presence ▪ 34 – new tablets, covenant renewed, Moses shining face o Ch 35 – 40: Tabernacle of God constructed and filled by God ▪ 35 – Sabbath law, offerings to buy the material and make components of the tabernacle ▪ 36 – building the tabernacle ▪ 37 – making the Ark, table for showbread, gold lampstand, oil and incense ▪ 38 – making altar for burnt offering, laver, court ▪ 39 – making the priests’ garments… work completed! ▪ 40 Tabernacle erected and arranged; cloud (God) covered the tabernacle

3 TONIGHT - Ransom Money (census tax)

Exodus 30 11 The LORD said to Moses, 12 “When you take the census of the people of Israel, then each shall give a ransom for his life to the LORD when you number them, that there be no plague among them when you number them. • Census – “sum”: o God commanded a count. o Counted and registered the males 20 years old and older. o Purpose of the census not provided, but LORD numbered those who are His – was this for God or the individuals of Israel?

• Give a ransom for his life: o Ransom shows a personal debt…they owed God their lives. ▪ Everyone had to pay on their own behalf; each personally responsible. ▪ Points us to Christ: • Ps 49:7-9 Truly no man can ransom another, or give to God the price of his life, for the ransom of their life is costly and can never suffice, that he should live on forever and never see the pit. • 1 Peter 1 17 And if you call on Him as Father who judges impartially according to each one's deeds, conduct yourselves with fear throughout the time of your exile, 18 knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold, 19 but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot. • Eph 1:7 In Him, we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace.

o Serious language, both: ransom and plague! ▪ 1 Chronicles 21 – David took a census. • v1 “Now Satan stood up against Israel and moved David to number Israel.”

4 • v7, 9-12 – God was displeased and gives David 3 choices to punish Israel for David’s foolishness (sin): o 3 years of famine. o 3 months of defeat by enemies. o 3 days of Angel of the Lord (chosen) – 70,000 men killed.

13 Each one who is numbered in the census shall give this: half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs), half a shekel as an offering to the LORD. 14 Everyone who is numbered in the census, from twenty years old and upward, shall give the LORD's offering. • Half a shekel: .4 oz or 2 days wages. Later became the temple tax (Matt 17:24). • As an offering to the LORD: payment was to God by the mature men.

15 The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less, than the half shekel, when you give the LORD's offering to make atonement for your lives. • All give the same, rich and poor: o All life is worth equal value AND/OR we are all sinful regardless of wealth or status. o Acts 10:34 So Peter opened his mouth and said: “Truly I understand that God shows no partiality. o Job 34:19 Yet He (God) shows no partiality to princes, nor regards the rich more than the poor, for they are all the work of his hands?

• “To make atonement for your lives (soul)”: o Atonement: to cover, to make reconciliation, ▪ Christ’s death was payment for sin that satisfied God wrath. Reconciling sinful man with a holy God. ▪ 1 John 2:2 He (Christ) is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world. o The money didn’t atone but marked those who atoned!

5 16 You shall take the atonement money from the people of Israel and shall give it for the service of the tent of meeting, that it may bring the people of Israel to remembrance before the LORD, so as to make atonement for your lives.” • For the service of the tabernacle: o Ex 25:2 – willingly offering for the sanctuary. o Ex 35:4-9 – willingly offering for the tabernacle. o Ex 35:2029 – those whose hearts were stirred willingly brought… o Ex 36:2-7 – the people brought so much that Moses told them to stop! o Ex 38:21-31 – inventory of all that was offered!

• To bring the people of Israel to remembrance before the LORD.: o Purpose of the tabernacle: Ex 25:8 And let them make Me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them. o God remembered His people in Exodus 1-2. o God did mighty works before His people and the world in Exodus in Exodus 5-11. o God provided for His people in Exodus 12-18. o God gave His people His laws and ways to be His people in Exodus 19-40.

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