Free Lessons, Old Testament, Study of Exodus
After many years of oppression, God brings forth a baby boy by the name of Moses, who He will use to deliver Israel from Egyptian slavery. However, even though Moses will be aware of his uniqueness, it will not be because of his believing in his own qualifications and abilities that God will deliver the descendants of Jacob. He will attempt to deliver the Jews, but will fail magnificently. It is then that God will prepare him for the second phase of his life that he will learn to SHEPHERD the flock of God.
Free Lessons, Old Testament, Study of Exodus
Many years have passed since Jacob and his people went down into Egypt under the gentle care of Joseph. Both Jacob and Joseph are dead and a new dynasty of kings have risen over Egypt. And this family of kings have no appreciation or remembrance of how Joseph saved Egypt from starvation. So, the new kings of Egypt began to employ measures to suppress and oppress the Hebrew people, enslaving them and making their lives bitter with harsh treatment in an atmosphere of death.
Free Lessons, Old Testament, Study of Exodus
Introduction to the Book of Exodus
Free Lessons, Old Testament, Study of Genesis
After Jacob tells his twelve sons what will become of their tribal families, he closes his eyes in death. Joseph has his body embalmed and asks the pharaoh for permission to bury his father in the Land of Canaan. He is accompanied by a great entourage from Egypt and they mourn many days the death of Jacob. In time, Joseph dies and makes his brothers to promise to take his remains to the Land of Canaan, when the Lord brings the tribal family of Israel back to the Land of Promise.
Free Lessons, Old Testament, Study of Genesis
After Jacob blesses Joseph and his two sons (Genesis 48), he calls all of his sons to his bed to give a prophetic word concerning their tribal families in the future. He emphasizes how that one day the tribe of Judah and a descendant from Judah will eclipse even Joseph to reign over the entire world. But, for the near future, Joseph’s tribal family (Ephraim) will have the preeminence. Finally, he charges them all to bury him in the ancestral tomb, and the light goes out from Jacob’s eyes and he dies.
