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Michigan Conference of Seventh-day Adventists

From Moses' Exodus to Christ's Advent

Royce Snyman

From Moses’ Exodus to Christ’s Advent- Part 1

From Moses’ Exodus to Christ’s Advent- Part 2

From Moses’ Exodus to Christ’s Advent- Part 3

From Moses’ Exodus to Christ’s Advent- Part 4

From Moses’ Exodus to Christ’s Advent- Part 5

Father in heaven, as once again we take up our study, we pray that your Holy Spirit will be present here and that from our time here we learn more about you, but more also about ourselves.

In the time in which we live and the issues that we face in this day and age.

May the exodus, the type, help us to understand the anti-type, the last days in which we live in the Advent movement.

A couple of general comments as we're beginning our study today, and that is that as we go through this study in the next few days that remain, ask yourself some key questions in relationship to being a Seventh-day Adventist Christian.

You know, a lot of people will accuse you because you're a Seventh-day Adventist that you're a legalist and that you don't really believe in righteousness by faith, you believe in righteousness by works, that you see salvation in the Sabbath.

By keeping the Sabbath you are earning your way to heaven.

As you study the experience of the Exodus, and we're going to look at some of that a little bit today, but not only today, but as we continue on, keep asking yourself, where is the message of righteousness by faith in this study?

Where is the message of righteousness by faith in this journey of the children of Israel out of Exodus?

I'm going to give you an overall blanket statement.

Did the children of Israel get themselves out of Egypt or did someone else get them out of Egypt?

The change of being from captive in captivity of the Pharaoh, no it's different material.

The captive people in Egypt had the experience of being slaves.

And when Moses tried to help them get out of Egypt, the first time, you remember the first time?

He fell flat on his face and he had to run for his life and it took him 40 years to get that out of his system.

So you start to, as you look at this, you begin to realize that this whole movement of the children of Israel of Exodus, in the Exodus and coming out of Israel, was a movement that demonstrates that we do not save ourselves and that we're dependent upon God at every stage.

So look at the details as we go through this and ask yourself, what does this teach me about my relationship with Jesus and righteousness by faith?

And then also ask yourself the question, if I'm not saved by myself and by my own actions, Where do my actions fit into this situation?

Why is it that I should respond to God and if I don't respond What is the end result of that?

And you're asking these questions because you want to say, wait a minute, what is God telling me about the last days?

Remember what happened after the children of Israel got out of Egypt?

Immediately after they got out of Egypt, what was the next thing that happened?

What's going to happen at the end of time?

You know, we were close to being out of Egypt, but we had to come out of somewhere before that, and we'll talk about that.

You begin to look at these parallels, and you begin to realize that there is a deeper lesson that God is trying to teach us.

It's not just about coming out of Egypt, it's not just about plagues that hit Egypt, this is not just a history lesson, it is an illustration of God's working in our lives and what he's trying to get out of us.

And it's going to come clearer as we get into our study today.

So the first chapter that we're going to look at today is the Law and the Sabbath.

And I'd like you to take your Bibles and turn to Exodus chapter 4 verses 22-23, the first passages that are there.

A lot of passages in here, I hope you'll go back and as you review this material you look at all the Bible verses but the time doesn't allow us to do all of that, we have to kind of work our way back through it.

Exodus chapter 4 verse twenty-two and twenty-three.

And as we did yesterday, let's do some reading together here.

Exodus chapter 4 and we're gonna look at verse twenty-two and twenty-three.

So someone read verses twenty-two and twenty-three of chapter 4.

4 and we're going to look at verse 22 and 23.

So someone read verses 22 and 23 of chapter 4.

And I say unto thee, let my son go, that he may serve me.

And if thou refuse to let him go, behold, I will slay thy son, even my firstborn.

Kind of an interesting perspective here, right?

If you please, God is laying down the law to Pharaoh, isn't he?

He's reminding him that, You know, you think you're in charge, but I'm the 1 who's really in charge, right?

And what I'm telling you, Pharaoh, is to let my people go.

And then he says if you refuse, there are going to be consequences.

Again Exodus, this time chapter 9 verse 1.

Then the Lord said to Moses, Go in to Pharaoh and tell him, Thus says the Lord God of the Hebrews.'" What does he say?

See, The children of Israel had a problem.

Typically a slave has to do what in relationship to the master?

And typically, the slavery, a person who was involved or captured in slavery, had no life of their own, no control of their own, right?

Every breath they took, every job they did, every moment they spent was dictated by the master.

They didn't have the opportunity to make any personal choices.

And that's the key to what we're looking at today.

The slavery that they were involved with led them into not just physical slavery and captivity, but they also were enslaved to the world.

The notes there from our lesson, and I'm gonna hit again some of the highlights, in the first paragraph under those Bible verses, the second sentence says, while in bondage, they were serving man instead of God and were therefore guilty of idolatry.

Now you and I are privileged to be in the United States and slavery more or less is banished and gone, although you hear a lot now today about slaves, women being brought into slavery, sexual slavery, All that kind of thing that seems to have a resurgence.

But aside from that, we basically are free people, right?

The truth is, most of us have to answer the question, who are we really serving?

And when we get into slavery, we realize that the world we're living in right now is, we're enslaved, enslaved to the world.

You know, I don't worship it, but I'm just saying there are a lot of things that control our lives, right?

But while in bondage they were serving man instead of God and therefore guilty of idolatry.

Now, naturally the experience of being slaves left them in a very difficult position because they weren't able to make choices.

When they came down from the north and came into captivity, I should say, but came into Egypt originally, who was leading the way?

Joseph led the way into Egypt, but He came as a slave, didn't he?

And he didn't have a lot of choices about what was going on, but he stood up for God.

But eventually God stood up for him, used him in the way that he had intended to in bringing him there in the first place, and was able to save Him and His family from the famine that came, right?

So that's when the people came into captivity, all of which was, as we talked about yesterday, no we didn't talk about this yesterday, we're going to talk about it later, all of which was predicted in prophecy and they were there for a period of time, they were going to be there for a period of time.

God used that as an opportunity to save them from that family, brought them into that place.

There's a lot of questions we can ask about why didn't God just feed them where they were and all of it.

God is always trying to spread the gospel message.

He's always trying to get the word out to everybody.

There's all these kinds of things that are going on.

We like to second guess God, but God is in charge.

And God has a reason for what He's doing and what He's trying to accomplish.

But here they are in captivity and they came down as Sabbath worshippers, correct?

They came down as commandment keepers, correct?

But when they got into slavery and the world got control of them and Pharaoh got control of their place, the Pharaoh who knew not Joseph, what began to happen to them?

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