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EXODUS CHAPTERS 5-20
FROM EGYPT TO SINAI
 “Then Moses and Aaron went to the king of
Egypt and said, ‘The LORD, the God of
Israel, says, Let my people go, so that they
can hold a festival in the desert to honor
me.’
 “Who is the LORD?’ the king demanded.
‘Why should I listen to him and let Israel go?
I do not know the LORD; and I will not let
Israel go...’
 ‘What do you mean by making the people
neglect their work? Get those slaves back to
work! You people have become more
numerous than the Egyptians. And now you
want to stop working!’” (Exodus 5:1,2,4,5 –
GN)
 “The foremen realized that they were in trouble
when they were told that they had to make the
same number of bricks every day as they had made
before. As they were leaving, they met Moses and
Aaron, who were waiting for them. They said to
Moses and Aaron, ‘The LORD has seen what you
have done and will punish you for making the king
and his officers hate us. You have given them an
excuse to kill us.’ Then Moses turned to the LORD
again and said, ‘Lord, why do you mistreat your
people? Why did you send me here? Ever since I
went to the king to speak for you, he has treated
them cruelly. And you have done nothing to help
them!’” (Exodus 5:19-23 – GN)
 “Then the LORD said to Moses,
 ‘Now you will see what I will do to Pharaoh. I
will show him my power, and he will let my
people go. I will show him my power, and he
will throw them out of his country.’” (Exodus
6:1 – GODS WORD)
 “The LORD said to Moses and Aaron, ‘When
Pharaoh says to you, 'Give me a sign to prove that
God has sent you,' tell Aaron, 'Take your shepherd's
staff and throw it down in front of Pharaoh,' and it
will become a large snake.’ Moses and Aaron went to
Pharaoh and did as the LORD had commanded.
Aaron threw his staff down in front of Pharaoh and
his officials, and it became a large snake. Then
Pharaoh sent for his wise men and sorcerers. These
Egyptian magicians did the same thing using their
magic spells. Each of them threw his staff down, and
they all became large snakes. But Aaron’s staff
swallowed theirs. Yet, Pharaoh continued to be
stubborn and would not listen to them, as the LORD
had predicted.” (Exodus 7:8-13 GW)
 “Here is what the LORD says: ‘This is the
way you will recognize that I am the
LORD’: With this staff in my hand, I’m
going to strike the Nile, and the water will
turn into blood.” (Exodus 7:17 GW)
The plagues
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Blood
Frogs
Gnats
Flies
Death of the animals
Boils
Hail
Locusts
Darkness
Passover
The plagues
 Blood – Hapi, the god of the Nile who was
thought to bring water and life to Egypt
 Frogs – Heka, the ‘toad goddess’, a symbol of
resurrection
 Gnats – Geb, the god of earth and vegetation
 Flies – Khepri, the god of insects
 Death of the animals – Apis, the god of cattle
 Boils – Thoth, the god of medicine and wisdom.
The Egyptians would sacrifice humans and burn
them alive on high alters and then spread their
ashes into the air as a blessing to heal people
 “Then the LORD said to Moses and Aaron,
‘Take a handful of ashes from a furnace, and
have Moses throw them up in the air as
Pharaoh watches. They will become a fine
dust throughout Egypt. The dust will cause
boils to break into open sores on people and
animals throughout Egypt.’” (Exodus 9:8-9
GW)
 Hail – Nut, the ‘sky goddess’ of harvest
 Locusts – Anubis, the god of the fields
 Darkness – Ra, the ‘sun god’ believed to
the physical father of all pharaohs
 Passover – “On that night I will go through
the land…punishing all the gods of Egypt”
(Exodus 12:12 - GN)
 “And when Pharaoh saw that the rain, the hail,
and the thunder had ceased, he sinned yet
more; and he hardened his heart, he and his
servants. So the heart of Pharaoh was hard;
neither would he let the children of Israel go,
as the LORD had spoken by Moses. Now the
LORD said to Moses, ‘Go in to Pharaoh; for I
have hardened his heart and the hearts of his
servants…’” (Exodus 9:34-10:1 – NKJV)
 Romans 1-8
 “I am speaking the truth; I belong to Christ
and I do not lie. My conscience, ruled by the
Holy Spirit, also assures me that I am not
lying when I say how great is my sorrow, how
endless the pain in my heart for my people,
my own flesh and blood! For their sake I could
wish that I myself were under God's curse and
separated from Christ.” (Romans 9:1-3 GNB)
 “For he said to Moses, ‘I will have mercy on
anyone I wish; I will take pity on anyone I
wish.’ So then, everything depends, not on
what we humans want or do, but only on
God’s mercy. For the scripture says to the king
of Egypt, ‘I made you king in order to use you
to show my power and to spread my fame
over the whole world.’ So then, God has
mercy on anyone he wishes, and he makes
stubborn anyone he wishes.” (Romans 9:15-18
GNB)
 “But one of you will say to me, ‘If this is so,
how can God find fault with anyone? Who can
resist God's will?’ But who are you, my friend,
to talk back to God? A clay pot does not ask
the man who made it, ‘Why did you make me
like this?’ After all, the man who makes the
pots has the right to use the clay as he wishes,
and to make two pots from the same lump of
clay, one for special occasions and the other
for ordinary use. And the same is true of what
God has done.”(Romans 9:19-23 GNB)
 “The LORD said to me, ‘Go down to the potter's
house, where I will give you my message.’ So I went
there and saw the potter working at his wheel.
Whenever a piece of pottery turned out imperfect, he
would take the clay and make it into something else.
Then the LORD said to me, ‘Don’t I have the right to
do with you people of Israel what the potter did with
the clay? You are in my hands just like clay in the
potter's hands. If at any time I say that I am going to
uproot, break down, or destroy any nation or
kingdom, but then that nation turns from its evil, I
will not do what I said I would. On the other hand, if I
say that I am going to plant or build up any nation or
kingdom, but then that nation disobeys me and does
evil, I will not do what I said I would.’” (Jeremiah 18:110 GNB)
 “Turn from your evil ways, change your
lives, and do good.’ But they will answer,
‘It’s useless! We’ll live the way we want to.
We’ll go our own stubborn, evil ways.’”
(Jeremiah 18:11-12 GW)
 “…the point of the potter clay analogy is not
God’s unilateral control, but God’s willingness
and right to change his plans in response to
changed hearts…the sovereign potter remains
flexible. If the Jews abandon their unbelief –
clearly God’s hardening is not determinative or
irrevocable – the potter will once again refashion
his plans. Conversely, if the Gentiles abandon
their belief and become prideful – clearly God’s
mercy is not determinative or irrevocable – the
potter will once again refashion his plan for
them…”
 Greg Boyd, Is God to Blame? (pg. 173,174)
 “This is how the judgment works:
 the light has come into the world, but
people love the darkness rather than the
light, because their deeds are evil.” (John
3:19 GNB)
 “Jesus answered, ‘The light will be among you a
little longer. Continue on your way while you have
the light, so that the darkness will not come upon
you; for the one who walks in the dark does not
know where he is going. Believe in the light, then,
while you have it, so that you will be the people of
the light.’ After Jesus said this, he went off and hid
himself from them. Even though he had
performed all these miracles in their presence,
they did not believe in him…as the prophet Isaiah
said, ‘God has blinded their eyes and closed their
minds, so that their eyes would not see, and their
minds would not understand, and they would not
turn to me, says God, for me to heal them.’” (John
12:35-40 GNB)
Romans 9
 “This is what he says in the book of Hosea:
‘The people who were not mine I will call 'My
People.' The nation that I did not love I will
call 'My Beloved.' And in the very place where
they were told, 'You are not my people,' there
they will be called the children of the living
God.’” (Romans 9:25-26 GNB)
 “Who are you to talk back to God” (GNB)
 “Weren’t there any graves in Egypt? Did you
have to bring us out here in the desert to die?
Look at what you have done by bringing us
out of Egypt?” (Exodus 14:11 GNB)
 “We wish that the LORD had killed us in
Egypt. There we could at least sit down and
eat meat…you have brought us into this
desert to starve us all to death.” (Exodus 16:3
GNB)
 “The LORD said to Moses, ‘I will come to you in a thick
cloud, so that the people will hear me speaking with you
and will believe you from now on…Go to the people and
tell them to spend today and tomorrow purifying
themselves for worship. They must wash their clothes
and be ready the day after tomorrow. On that day I will
come down on Mount Sinai, where all the people can
see me. Mark a boundary around the mountain that the
people must not cross, and tell them not to go up the
mountain or even get near it. If any of you set foot on it,
you are to be put to death; you must either be stoned or
shot with arrows, without anyone touching you. This
applies to both people and animals; they must be put to
death. But when the trumpet is blown, then the people
are to go up to the mountain.’ Then Moses came down
the mountain and told the people to get ready for
worship. So they washed their clothes, and Moses told
them, ‘Be ready by the day after tomorrow and don't
have sexual intercourse in the meantime.’”
 “On the morning of the third day there was thunder
and lightning, a thick cloud appeared on the
mountain, and a very loud trumpet blast was heard.
All the people in the camp trembled with fear.
Moses led them out of the camp to meet God, and
they stood at the foot of the mountain. All of Mount
Sinai was covered with smoke, because the LORD
had come down on it in fire. The smoke went up like
the smoke of a furnace, and all the people trembled
violently. The sound of the trumpet became louder
and louder. Moses spoke, and God answered him
with thunder. The LORD came down on the top of
Mount Sinai and called Moses to the top of the
mountain.”
 “So Moses climbed the mountain. Then the LORD told
Moses, ‘Go back down and warn the people not to break
through the boundaries to see the LORD, or they will die.
Even the priests who regularly come near to the LORD
must purify themselves so that the LORD does not break
out and destroy them.’ ‘But LORD,’ Moses protested, ‘the
people cannot come up to Mount Sinai. You already warned
us. You told me, 'Mark off a boundary all around the
mountain to set it apart as holy.' But the LORD said, ‘Go
down and bring Aaron back up with you. In the meantime,
do not let the priests or the people break through to
approach the LORD, or He will break out and destroy
them.’ So Moses went down to the people and told them
what the LORD had said.” (Exodus 19:9-25)
“The LORD said to Moses, ‘I will come to
you in a thick cloud, so that the people
will hear me speaking with you and will
believe you from now on.’”
 “When the people heard the thunder and the
trumpet blast and saw the lightning and the
smoking mountain, they trembled with fear and
stood a long way off. They said to Moses, ‘If you
speak to us, we will listen; but we are afraid that
if God speaks to us, we will die.’ Moses replied,
‘Don’t be afraid; God has only come to test you
and make you keep on obeying him, so that you
will not sin.’” (Exodus 20:18-20)
 “When the whole mountain was on fire and you heard
the voice from the darkness, your leaders and the
chiefs of your tribes came to me and said, ‘The LORD
our God showed us his greatness and his glory when we
heard him speak from the fire! Today we have seen that
it is possible for people to continue to live, even though
God has spoken to them. But why should we risk death
again? That terrible fire will destroy us. We are sure to
die if we hear the LORD our God speak again. Has any
human being ever lived after hearing the living God
speak from a fire? Go back, Moses, and listen to
everything that the LORD our God says. Then return
and tell us what he said to you. We will listen and
obey.’”
 “When the LORD heard this, he said to me, ‘I
have heard what these people said, and they are
right. If only they would always feel this way! If
only they would always honor me and obey all my
commands, so that everything would go well
with them and their descendants forever. Go and
tell them to return to their tents. But you, Moses,
stay here with me, and I will give you all my laws
and commands. Teach them to the people, so
that they will obey them in the land that I am
giving them.’” (Deuteronomy 5:23-31)
 “There on the mountain the Lord spoke to you
face-to-face from the fire. I stood between you
and the Lord at that time to tell you what he
said, because you were afraid of the fire and
would not go up the mountain” (Deuteronomy
5:4,5)
 “I stood as an intermediary between you and the
LORD.” (NLT)
 “I was the mediator and stood between the Lord
and you at that time” (Douay-Rheims Bible).
Intercession
Did someone need to intercede between Moses and
God?
 “He sees me face to face, and everything I
say to him is perfectly clear.” (Numbers 12:8
– CEV)
 “The LORD would speak with Moses faceto-face, just as someone speaks with a
friend.” (Exodus 33:11 – GN)
Intercession
 “Forgive then, Father! They don’t know
what they are doing.” (Luke 23:34 – GN)
 “If you have seen me, you have seen the
Father”; “The Father and I are one”; “He
reflects the brightness of God’s glory and
is the exact likeness of God’s own being”
(John 14:26; John 10:30; Hebrews 1:3).
Intercession
“That is why he is always able to save those who
come to God through him. He can do this because
he always lives and intercedes for them.”
(Hebrews 7:25 – GW)
“At the same time the Spirit also helps us in our
weakness, because we don’t know how to pray for
what we need. But the Spirit intercedes along with
our groans that cannot be expressed in words.”
(Romans 8:26 – GW)
“I am writing this to you, my children, so that you
will not sin; but if anyone does sin, we have
someone who pleads (intercedes) with the Father
on our behalf—Jesus Christ, the righteous one” (1
John 2:1)
 “I have told you these things in parables (veiled
language, allegories, dark sayings); the hour is
now coming when I shall no longer speak to
you in figures of speech, but I shall tell you
about the Father in plain words and openly
(without reserve).” (John 16:25 - Amplified)
 “I have been speaking to you in parables - but
the time is coming to give up parables and tell
you plainly about the Father. When that time
comes, you will make your requests to him in
my own name, for I need make no promise to
plead to the Father for you…
 for the Father himself loves you…” (John
16:25-30, JB Phillips).
 “…and I do not promise to intercede with the
Father for you, for the Father loves you
himself…” (Goodspeed)
 “There on the mountain the Lord spoke to
you face-to-face from the fire. I stood
between you and the Lord at that time to
tell you what he said, because you were
afraid of the fire and would not go up the
mountain” (Deuteronomy 5:4,5)
 “So let us come boldly to the throne of our
gracious God. There we will receive his
mercy, and we will find grace…” (Hebrews
4:16, NLT).