Transcript A Walk Through the Bible With Bro. Bill Parker

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A Walk Through the Bible
Lesson 5
Exodus Thru Deuteronomy
With Bro. Bill Parker Sr.
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Outline of Exodus – The Deliverance
A. Exodus Highlights
● Exodus is all about God. Exodus is
God’s answer to man’s need and
God’s supply for man’s sin.
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Israel entered Egypt as a family and
emerged as a nation.
1. The first 18 chapters recount
the plagues, the institution of
the Passover, the exodus from
Egypt, and crossing the Red
Sea.
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2. Chapters 19-24 describe the giving
of the Law at Sinai, the Ten
Commandments, and the Mosaic
Covenant.
3. Chapters 25-40 deal with the
Tabernacle and the Priesthood.
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The Exodus was necessary for
two reasons:
1. Israel’s expansion in Egypt.
2. Israel’s oppression in Egypt.
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The Burning Bush.
1. Rabbinic tradition says it was
an Acacia bush, the thorn bush
of the desert.
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2. The thorn bush is Levitically
suggestive of sin. The curse of
Adam was characterized by thorns.
3. The thorny crown that Jesus wore
was emblematic of the curse God
placed on mankind from Adam’s fall.
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The Passover
1. The Passover delivered them
from bondage.
2. They were covered by blood,
not by their race.
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3.
4.
It restructured their calendar. Nisen
became their first month and Tishri
became their seventh month.
The Passover was also prophetic.
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Passover has two roles:
A. A commemorative role –
Commemorating the
deliverance from Egypt.
B. A prophetic role – describing
the deliverance of the entire
world from the bondage of sin.
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Ancient Egypt was a type or
model of the world
1. It represented material wealth
and power.
2. It was ruled by a despotic prince
of this world (a title of Satan).
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Egypt is our world today – different
vocabulary, same issues.
4. Egypt was organized on the basis
of force, ambition and pleasure.
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2.
The deliverance was a
measurement standard of several
things.
Of judgment because of the plagues.
Of grace because of the blood
covering.
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4.
Of might because of the Red Sea
crossing.
Guidance because of the Shekinah
which is the Holy Spirit.
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6.
Of provision because of the water,
manna and quails.
Faithfulness because it all derives
from God’s commitment in the
Abrahamic Covenant.
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Condescension because of the
Tabernacle.
8. They were delivered by the
shedding of lamb’s blood.
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We are delivered by Christ’s
blood.
10. The exodus was national; faith in
Jesus is universal: “whosoever
believeth”.
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The Law is Given – Here are the
Ten Commandments:
1. Thou shalt have no other gods
before Me.
2. Thou shalt not worship any
graven image.
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3. Thou shalt not take the name of
the Lord thy God in vain.
4. Remember the Sabbath Day to
keep it holy.
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5. Honor thy father and thy mother.
6. Thou shalt not murder.
7. Thou shalt not commit adultery.
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8. Thou shalt not steal.
9. Thou shalt not bear false witness.
10. Thou shalt not covet.
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Chapters 21 & 22 deal with social
issues, rights, and practices of the
community.
Chapters 23 & 24 are the
ordinances concerning the
Sabbaths, the feasts, and other
religious topics.
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The Why of The Law – Why was
the Law given?
1. To provide a standard of
righteousness.
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2.
3.
How do you know right from
wrong?
a. By looking at God’s standard.
The Law was given to reveal the
divine holiness.
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The Gospel supersedes the Law.
The commandments of God were
fulfilled by Jesus Christ.
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We are in a new Dispensation what
some call the Dispensation of
Grace. Grace replaces the outward
command of the Law.
Our whole challenge is to walk, not
after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
(read Romans 8:3-4)
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The Tabernacle
1. One of the more important
accounts in the book of
Exodus is the construction of
the Tabernacle.
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2.
More space is devoted in the
Scriptures to the description of the
Tabernacle than any other single
subject, except Christ Himself.
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The Tabernacle was about 75 feet
wide and 150 feet long.
Surrounded by a white linen fence
7 ½ feet high.
1. Only one entrance on the east
side.
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The first room was 15’ x 30’ and
was called The Holy Place.
3. The inner sanctum was the Holy
of Holies. It was an exact cube
15 feet square.
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5.
The Holy Place had a seven
branched lampstand called the
menorah.
Across from it was the Table of
Showbread.
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7.
In front of the Holy of Holies was a
golden altar.
In the Holy of Holies was the Ark of
the Covenant. A wooden box that
held the Ten Commandments and
a few other items.
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All together there were 7 pieces of
furniture, each of these was
linked to Jesus Christ.
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• The Law Of The Nation
• Outline Of Leviticus
Exodus sets the stage for
Leviticus, the Law of the Nation
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2.
3.
It contains the requirements for
fellowship, namely holiness.
The precepts of His Law, the
standards, the conduct.
And the penalties for violating
those requirements.
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It presents the grounds for
fellowship – the sacrifices
necessary when the other
requirements are missed.
These sacrifices are symbolic.
They all point to the ultimate
Sacrifice made on a wooden cross.
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A group of voluntary offerings
called “sweet savor offerings”.
1. A burnt offering
2. A meal offering
3. A peace offering
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The compulsory offerings are for
you and me.
1. A sin offering
2. A trespass offering
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Leviticus also stresses the
requirement for Israel to stay
separate, not to commingle with
other nations.
The Jewish calendar is heptadic or
seven-fold in structure
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2.
Their calendar has a week of
weeks, a week of months and a
week of years.
Six years they plow the land and
the seventh it lies fallow.
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3.
4.
Following the seventh week of
years is the jubilee year.
All debts are forgiven, slaves are
set free, all accounts settled.
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The Jewish calendar revolved
around the Seven Feasts of Israel.
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There were 3 feasts in the first
month of their year.
A. Passover
B. The Feast of Unleavened
Bread.
C. The Feast of First Fruits.
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There were four feasts in the
seventh month. The Fall Feasts.
A. The Feast of Trumpets.
B. The Day of Atonement.
C. Yom Kippur
D. Feast of Tabernacles
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They all were prophetic and Paul
said they were all “a shadow of
things to come”.
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B.
The first 3 feasts were
prophetic of Christ’s
first coming.
The last 3 feasts were
prophetic of His
second coming.
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• The Wilderness Wanderings
• Outline Of Numbers
Numbers picks up where
Exodus left off. It’s a book
about arrested progress.
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It took 40 hours to get Israel out of
Egypt, but it took 40 years to get
Egypt out of Israel.
Moses sent 12 spies to spy out the
land.
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2.
3.
10 came back terrified. There were
giants in the land.
Joshua and Caleb came back with
a different story. The land was rich.
Who’s report do you believe?
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When God is on our side, the
enemy is outnumbered!!!
1. The people believed the 10
spies and were afraid and
murmured against Moses.
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3.
God was listening to their
murmuring and gave them their
desires.
Moses interceded and his
arguments are fascinating.
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Joshua and Caleb were the only
two of the original group that
survived to enter the promised land.
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Types (examples) are common in
the Bible, where some event, some
object, some situation is a lesson in
advance of what’s coming.
1. Manna is a type – God
provided a daily provision of
manna (bread).
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A. It was provided only on 6 days
of each week.
B. There was a double portion on
the sixth day.
C. No portion on the seventh day.
The Sabbath.
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The Brazen Serpent is a type.
A. In response to Israel’s
murmuring, God sent fiery
serpents that killed anyone
they bit.
B. Moses prayed and God
provided a remedy.
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C. Moses was told to place a brass
serpent on a cross shaped
pole and put it up on a high hill.
D. Everyone that looked at the
cross would be spared.
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The waters at Mirabah is a type.
A. At Rephidim Israel needed
water. God told Moses to
strike the rock with his staff
and that would bring water.
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B.
Many years later, God told
Moses to speak to the rock.
Moses was angry with the
people and struck the rock with
his staff.
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C. Water came but Moses had
disobeyed God and was denied
entrance to the promised land.
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In Numbers Chapter 2 When
Israel camped in the desert, the
groupings of the 12 tribes were
in the shape of a cross.
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The Law That Delivers
Outline Of Deuteronomy
Deuteronomy is the bridge
between the first four books
that are outside the land, and
the next seven books which
are inside the land.
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Jesus quoted from this book
more than any other book.
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Jesus quotes the Sh’ma, the
Great Commandment
(Deuteronomy 6:4-9) “Hear, O
Israel, the Lord our God is one
Lord: and thou shalt love the
Lord thy God with all thine heart,
and with all thine soul, and with
all thine might”.
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Moses’ great sermon in
Deuteronomy falls into three
divisions.
1. The first four chapters
review God’s love and care
of Israel in the wilderness.
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2. Most of the people waiting to
enter the promised land had gone
through only part of the wilderness
journey.
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They needed to be reminded of
what God had done during the
wilderness journey.
4. Moses’ first task is to recite to
them the wonderful care and love
of God watching over them.
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6.
God led them by a pillar of fire by
night and a cloud by day.
He tells them how God brought
water from the rock.
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7. How God delivered them from
their enemies.
8. How He fed them with manna
that did not fail.
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The second division is a great
resume of the law.
1. The Ten Commandments
appear in the Bible here for
a second time.
2. Here are the laws on divorce.
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3. On faithlessness and the penalty
if any were caught in some
suspicious situation.
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4.
Here are the penalties for idolatry
and sorcery. And the warnings of
God against falling into the terrible
deeds of those that inhabit the
land.
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At the end of this section there is a
review of the sanitary laws.
The third division of the book,
chapters 27 through 34 is a
mighty revelation of the future.
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2.
The 28th chapter is one of the
most amazing prophecies ever
recorded.
It is a prediction of the entire
history of the Jewish people.
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There is the prediction of the
Babylonian dispersion.
B. The prediction of their return
to the land.
C. They would fall again into the
sin of rejecting the Messiah.
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D. A strange nation would come in
from the west, (the Romans) who
would be hard and cruel.
E. They would burn the cities, and
disperse the Jews to the ends of
the earth.
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3.
Israel would wander for many
centuries as a people without
a land.
G. God would gather them and
restore them as a nation.
All of this is precisely predicted in
chapter 28 of Deuteronomy.
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This concludes our review
of the books of Exodus
through Deuteronomy.