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Introduction to Exodus, Exodus 1

Introduction to Exodus, Exodus 1. Elder Mark E. Petersen testified: “The true Moses was one of the mightiest men of God in all time… “He walked and talked with God, received of divine glory while yet in mortality, was called a son of God, and was in similitude of the Only Begotten.

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Introduction to Exodus, Exodus 1

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  1. Introduction to Exodus, Exodus 1 Elder Mark E. Petersen testified: “The true Moses was one of the mightiest men of God in all time… “He walked and talked with God, received of divine glory while yet in mortality, was called a son of God, and was in similitude of the Only Begotten. “He saw the mysteries of the heavens and much of creation, and received laws from God beyond any other ancient man of whom we have record” (Moses, 49).

  2. Even Jesus Christ was called a prophet like unto Moses (Acts 3:22). Exodus: Ex - means - “out,” odus means “way or road” Therefore, Exodus means: “the way out.” Septuagint: The Hebrew Bible was translated into Greek somewhere around 200 years before Christ. Therefore, the names in the Bible are not Hebrew. The Land of Canaan was not a country, but city states. They were not united, which was to Israel’s advantage. It was the language which unified them.

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  4. The Rise of Moses It is a rare moment in the upward struggle of the race when a single life flashes across the horizon of human history with so much brilliance that its power for good remains undimmed 3,400 years later. Such was the life of Moses. Except for Jesus Christ, there is more information concerning the prophet Moses and the works of his hands than any other personality in the Bible. His interests and capacities were almost encyclopedic. His career involved sixteen different functions, any of which would have been a notable accomplishment. Moses was all of the following things: 1. A scholar, “learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians.” 2. A military leader, with victories which Josephus says made him Egypt’s national hero.

  5. 3. A writer who recorded more full-length books in the Bible than any other one man. 4. A historian, who put together 2,500 years of the great human saga. 5. A crown prince, whose adoption by the king’s daughter could have made him the next Pharaoh of Egypt. 6. A shepherd, who patiently followed his flocks by day and by night for forty years. 7. An emancipator, whose liberation of between two and three million Israelites from Egyptian slavery is a classic event in history. 8. A prophet, raised up by God at the age of eighty to perform a labor which could have overwhelmed a younger man. 9. A seer, who saw God face to face, and spoke to him, as one man speaketh to another.

  6. 10. A revelator, who recorded the Creation Story and other scriptures as they were given to him by the Lord. 11. A High Priest, who functioned in that holy office from his ordination by Jethro to the time of his death. 12. A miracle-worker, the greatest of which was the dividing of the Red Sea. 13. A legislator, who enunciated the divine laws which still serve as the sinews of entire civilizations. 14. A judge, who presided as chief justice over Israel for f forty years. 15. A pioneer, who set up 40 different city-camps in the desert wilderness of Egypt and Arabia during four strenuous nomadic decades. 16. A temple-builder, who built by divine blueprint a portable house of holiness and established God’s approved pattern of worship from then until the coming of Christ.

  7. Exodus is a “Type of the Plan of Salvation” Map #2 “Israel’s Exodus from Egypt and entry into Canaan” Consider the three main Jewish Feasts: 1. The Passover feast: Location = Ramses Month 1 (Spring) Sin/ bondage (March-April) Telestial 2. The Feast of Pentecost: Location = Mt. Sinai Month 3 (May-June) “Gathering” Terrestrial 50 days after “Passover” 3. Feast of the Tabernacles: Location = Land of Canaan(September-October) Celestial “Reaching the Promised Land”

  8. The Process: 1. We must leave the world (sin and bondage). (Telestial) 2. We must be baptized (parting of the Red Sea, cutting a covenant) and walk on the strait and narrow path. (Terrestrial) That path leads to the Temple (Mt. Sinai) and receiving the saving ordinances of the gospel. 3. We then qualify for exaltation (Land of Canaan) and enter the promised land. (Celestial)

  9. Moses Life 1. Lived in Egypt (Telestial) 2. Left for Sinai (Terrestrial) 3. Prepared himself to lead his people into the promised land. (Celestial) This is called the “First Gathering”

  10. The Exodus Typology: Egypt = Ways of the World we live in Promised Land = Celestial Kingdom Pharaoh = Satan Bondage = Sin Firstborn = Christ/ Sacrifice Moses = Christ Crossing/ Red Sea = Baptism Egyptian Gods = Ways of the World Plagues = Power of God over the world

  11. Exodus 1:7 “The Land was filled with them” Egypt was a good place to grow in numbers as had been promised. Because of their hatred toward the Egyptians it helped them not to inter-marry and remain a pure people. “At the end of 430 years, the Lord now decreed that the time had arrived for Israel to occupy her own land and there become that ‘peculiar people’ who would await the coming of their Messiah” (Peterson, Moses, 27-30).

  12. Exodus 1:8 “A Pharaoh who knew not Joseph” My experience with my office after Christmas break: “There is a new Pharaoh in the Land.” Exodus 1:16-17 “If it be a son, then ye shall kill him” Both Josephus and Jonathan ben Uzziel, another ancient Jewish writer, recorded that the pharaoh had a dream wherein he was shown that a man soon to be born would deliver Israel from bondage, and this dream motivated the royal decree to drown the male children (Josephus Flavius Josephus Antiquities, bk. 2, chap. 9. par. 2; Clarke, Bible Commentary, 1:294). How about the courage of the “mid-wives?” (D&C 3:6-7)

  13. Exodus 1:22 “Boys – drown, Girls – save” Why? The Jewish historian Flavius Josephus had written concerning this period in Israel’s history:

  14. One of the Egyptian scribes who was very good in foretelling future events told the king, that about this time there would be a child born to the Israelites, who, if he were reared, would bring the Egyptian dominion low, and would raise the Israelites; that he would excel all men in virtue, and obtain a glory that would be remembered through all ages. This was feared by the king so he commanded all male children, born to Israelites, drowned in the river. He enjoined also, that if any parents should disobey him, and venture to save their male children alive, they and their families should be destroyed also. Another collection of Jewish legends gave a similar prediction: “A son will be born unto Israel, who will destroy the whole of our land and all its inhabitants, and he will bring forth the Israelites from Egypt with a mighty hand (Flavius Josephus, “Antiquities of the Jews,” 2.9, in Josephus: Complete Works, 55-56).

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