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God's Story Bible Plan

Exodus 16-18

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DAy 35

God’s Redemptive Story includes resting on the 7th day beginning in Genesis 2:2

In Exodus 16 God tells His people to rest on the sabbath. This is a command that is given even before Moses goes up to Mount Sinai in Exodus 19 and recieves the 10 commandments in Exodus 20.

Hebrews 4 speaks of A Sabbath-Rest for the People of God and Jesus the Great High Priest.

Jesus is “our Sabbath rest.” His finished work on the cross frees us up to rest, to stop striving and trying to earn His approval and favor

God/Jesus is revealed as the Bread of Life

Exodus 16:10 The Glory of the Lord appeared in the Cloud

The manna can be described as the Bread of Life. Jesus is the bread of life in John 6:

31 Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written, ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’” 32 Jesus then said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven. 33 For the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.” 34 They said to him, “Sir, give us this bread always.”

35 Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst. 

In fact, Jesus tells us here that the entire Old Testament is about himself:

Look at John 5:39, “You search the Scriptures,” Jesus says, “because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me.” The word Scriptures here refers to the Jewish Scriptures, what we call the Old Testament, which is another word for Old Covenant.

John 5:46 If You Believed Moses, You Would Believe Me, for He Wrote of Me Resource by John Piper

Names of God – Jehovah – Nissi

In Exodus 17:15 Moses says “The Lord is my Banner” . “The Lord is my Banner” is the translation of the Hebrew Yahweh-Nissi.. The Lord is my Refuge. God is victorious.

What does it mean that the Lord is my banner?

Exodus 13-15

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Day 34

God’s Redemptive Story is seen in the Parting of the Red Sea

The passing through the Red Sea is used as a symbol of the believer’s identification with the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.. Also, note that the Israelites went under the water and came out of the water to a new life- baptism:

Here’s a good article on the importance of the parting of the Red Sea.

God is Revealed as he manifests himself in the form of a deliverer, warrior and healer.

God is our deliverer. He delivered His people through the sea, against all odds, and defeated the enemy who opposed them and himself.
God is our warrior and constantly wars against all the things that threaten us, including our own flesh. He is always fighting FOR us and sometimes AGAINST us.

God is our Healer. Exodus 16:26 Tells us that if we listen and do God’s commands he will be our healer.

God is worthy to be Worshipped. Exodus 15:1 records the first worship song in scripture

God reveals himself in the Fire, Cloud and as the Angel of the Lord:

The Angel of the Lord and Fire- Cloud combo is a possible double Theophany-

The Fire- Cloud is the presence of God the Father. A fire keeps by night keeps us warm and protects us from enemies. The clouds by day shields us from the heat of the blistering sun.

The Angel of the Lord is a possible Christophany or manifestation of God the Son- Jesus Christ.

Pillars of Fire and Cloud

Exodus 10-12

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Day 33

God’s Redemptive- Plan

The story of the Passover is a foreshadow of God’s plan of redemption. There are echos of Abraham and Isaac here. God sacrificed His firstborn Son.Christ died as an atonement for sins. Jesus is our passover lamb 1Cor5:7

Exodus 10:1-2 “I have hardened His heart to show My plans- We must trust God . He uses the wicked as a tool to advance His plan.

God even used Saul who was actively against Him.

Passover- God passed over their homes because of the blood of the Lamb on their doorways and didn’t kill their firstborn.

If you were to use a hyssop branch to mark to put blood on the doorposts, it would resemble the cross.

The passover feast is not only celebrated by Jews today but all Christians … It is known as Communion or the Lord’s supper.

Exodus 12:11Thier clothing resembles the Armor of God in Ephesians 6:10-18

God’s Revealed

The destroying Angel of God could be a Theophany, possibly a Christophany.

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Exodus 7-9

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Day 32

God’s Redemptive Plan

The plagues are a statement against Egypt’s False Gods :

We see in the first plague was an attack on the Hapi of the nile: Hapi (Nile god) – Wikipedia

Article:
What was the meaning and purpose of the ten plagues of Egypt?

The Israelites are the only people God is in a relationship with.

The purpose of the plagues for the Egyptians were for them to know that God is the Lord. But still did not yield to Him. Remember the “sons of God” , including the one called satan, the accuser? These fallen angels would’ve lived in heaven with God before their fall, serving Him.THey knew the truth but they didn’t yield to God as Lord.

Exodus 8:20-21 God told Pharaoh the Egyptians are your people but the Israelites are my people.

The Exodus excerpt from THE STORY OF HIS GLORY by Stephen Hawthorne

God did more for His name than to gain early worship from Abraham. God went global in a big way at the Exodus. At first glance, the story of the Exodus doesn’t look like a great missionary event. Thousands of Egyptians died. Grief covered every Egyptian home. What was God doing?

The key passage is Exodus 9:13-16 in which Moses gives an ultimatum to Pharaoh, with a bold word about His purposes:

Thus says the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, Let My people go, that they may serve Me. For this time I will send all My plagues on you and your servants and your people, so that you may know that there is no one like me in all the earth. For if by now I had put forth My hand and struck you and your people with pestilence, you would then have been cut off from the earth. But indeed, for this cause I have allowed you to remain, in order to show you My power, and in order to proclaim My name through all the earth’(my italics).

Take note that God never said, “Let My people go!” That’s just half the sentence, without the purpose. Take care to hear the entire cry of salvation: “Let my people go, that they may worship Me!” (Ex 8:1, 20, 9:1, 13, 10:3) 4

Pharaoh well understood the entire demand of Moses that the people be released to worship.

Pharaoh probably thought that the appeal for a worship vacation was a ploy to disguise plans for escape. Perhaps many of the Hebrews made the same mistake. How many of them may have thought that the plans to worship God in the wilderness were but a ruse to dupe the authorities? Is it any wonder then that many of them remained fixated on matters of comfort, diet, safety and entertainment? They were slow to comprehend that in their escape, God had a purpose for Himself in the sight of the nations. They had turned salvation inside-out: They seriously thought that their rescue was the predominate concern of God. Instead, God was orchestrating a powerful plan to draw the attention of the nations to Himself.

Exodus 4-6

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Day 31

In God’s redemptive story He calls Israel His firstborn son and the firstborn gets the blessing. God also adopted believers into His family so we get the blessing.

God doesn’t promise Moses, nor us, an easy journey. He tells Moses, “You’re going to ask Pharaoh for something, and I’m going to harden his heart so that he says no.” But he does say, “I will be with you in Exodus 4.


God calls Israel His “firstborn son” and promises to kill the firstborn of Egypt if they don’t let His son go. This is foreshadowing not just of the Passover, but also of the inclusion of the Gentiles into God’s family.

The firstborn gets the blessing, but Jesus our older brother shares His inheritance with us as co-heirs? We see this
with the Israelites too! They’re God’s “firstborn” but in God’s great generosity, He also adopted Gentiles — that is, non-Jews — into His family as a part of His promise to bless all the nations of the world through this one family. And because of that, we Gentiles share in their inheritance! Just like with Jesus!

If it was Moses that God sought to kill, then this is the second time his life has been saved through the help of a woman; if it was Gershom that God sought to kill, then this is an interesting foreshadowing of killing the firstborn son of those who don’t live under God’s protective covering.

Genesis 1-3

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Day 001

Today I’m sharing my notes from Genesis 1-3. If you haven’t read this yet, please so so before reading the rest of this post which will be a bit longer than usual, because we have to set up what’s happening here.Today in our reading we cover God’s creation of the world and mankind, as well as the fall of man. Okay, let’s get started!

What’s God’s redemptive plan here? What does this passage tell us about God, Jesus and/or the Holy Spirit?

Elohim – God the Creator of the World

Genesis 1:1 In the Beginning, God Created the heavens and the earth.

The first three words of the Bible; 

  1. bereshith bara Elohim, refers to history (there was a beginning, bereshith),
  2. to creation (bara, he created),
  3. to the Creator, Elohim. 

The Hebrew word for God is Elohim, and that this word is a plural noun. Yet the verb that goes with it is in the singular. This is already a hint of the Trinity; plurality in singularity

Genesis 1:2 And the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters

 In Genesis 1:2b the term Ruach Elohim occurs, indicating the Spirit of God. Evidence in more than one direction of the Trinity in Genesis. The work of Creation was so important that it involved God in His three persons: Elohim, YHWH and Ruach Elohim.

The name YHWH was a more intimate name than Elohim. Elohim can refer to other gods, and even to heroic figures and angels. It is the general term for God. But YHWH was the God of Abraham and his descendants, and is a personal name. For the Jews it became so sacred that they ceased to say it.

In the New Testament, Jesus allows himself to be called ‘Lord’, which is our translation of Adonai, the substitute word for YHWH. 

1:26 “Let us make man in OUR image.”

We see the 3 persons of the Trinity—God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit—were all present at creation.

1:27-28- Let us make man in our own image and likeness. God blessed them and said be fruitful and multiply. The beginning of God’s redemptive plan

Genesis 2- WHYH

Jehovah Elohim: The LORD God, the Redeemer -Creator

Genesis 2:4 These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens.

This is the first time we see “LORD”. When you see all caps L-O-R-D, like we do in Chapters 2 and 3, that represents an ancient unpronounceable Hebrew word. It was spelled YHWH.. This set of four letters has become known as the tetragrammaton. You can’t really pronounce it because it has no
vowels.. But when people do try to pronounce it, it comes out something like “Yahweh” or “Jehovah”.The Jews of the late BC period would not pronounce this word, so they substituted a word adonai meaning ‘Master’ (or ‘Lord’, as we say in a religious way). To help Jewish readers, they put the vowels of adonai against the four consonants YHWH, so that a reader would find something like YaHoWaiH, which in European languages became Jehovah, with ‘j’ pronounced at first like a ‘y’, and ‘v’ like a w.

This is God’s personal name, and by telling us His name, even though we can’t really pronounce it, right out of the gate He’s showing us how personal He wants to be with His creation. He’s not setting Himself apart as one not to be known or spoken to. He tells mankind His name! He wants to be known!

This name is somehow connected in origin, so linguists believe, with the name by which God revealed Himself to Abraham in Genesis 15:7, and even more clearly to Moses in Exodus 3:14. This name is Ehyeh or I am, implying I exist, I am alive.

Furthermore, the prefix Yehu (often spelt ‘Jeho-’ in our English Bibles) attached to the name of famous people in Scripture derives from this name, and the Hebrew form of Jesus is Yehoshua, meaning, YHWH saves. So the Genesis form YHWH has special connection with Jesus.

Genesis 2:18-20 – God let man name the animals- We are not robots, we have a choice, We have the power to make our own decisions .

references: https://answersingenesis.org/who-is-god/creator-god/the-creator/

Genesis 3- The Fall and Cost of Sin

Genesis 3:6 They took the fruit and ate… their eyes were opened. The first bad decision

Where do you see God’s commands to go, do, multiply and/or follow the leading of the Holy Spirit?

The beginning of God’s redemptive plan is found in Chapter 1:27-28- We’re made in God’s own image and likeness. God has blessed us and commanded us to be fruitful and multiply.

Who will you share what you’ve learned with?

Multiplication involves sharing with others, who will you share with today?