Free Lessons, Old Testament, Study of Exodus
Moses continues instructing the elders of Israel how to observe the rites of the feasts of Passover and Unleavened Bread. He informs them that these ritual practices are to be observed from each successive generation. They are to commemorate God’s great deliverance of the Israelites from Egyptian slavery. He continues to give instructions on how non-Israelites (non-Jews) are to celebrate the Passover if they are believers in the God of Israel.
Free Lessons, Old Testament, Study of Exodus
After instructing Moses on how the Israelites are to observe the Passover, God continues instructing Moses to tell them to observe an additional ritual immediately following – the Feast of Unleavened Bread. This was a seven day observance where no leavened bread was to be eaten under threat of divine judgment. It signified holy (sinless) living before God in response to His great deliverance (Passover).
Free Lessons, Old Testament, Study of Exodus
Before God strikes Egypt with His last great plague, He commands Moses to instruct the Israelites to perform a specific custom that will allow death to pass them by – the Passover. It will be in the killing and appropriating the blood of a lamb that will allow he angel of death to pass by God’s people.
Free Lessons, Old Testament, Study of Exodus
After darkness plagues Egypt for three days, God sends Moses to pharaoh one last time. This time Moses tells him that this strike will come at midnight, killing the firstborn of Egypt. He tells him that the cry of Egypt will be so great that pharaoh’s servants will beg Moses and his people to leave Egypt. This will be God’s final strike that will bring all of Egypt to its knees.
Free Lessons, Old Testament, Study of Exodus
After God strikes the land of Egypt with hail, destroying the early harvest of barley and flax, He sends Moses to pharaoh once again. This time He threatens Egypt with a plague of locusts that will completely destroy Egypt’s remaining wheat harvest. Pharaoh’s counselors then urge him to free the Hebrew slaves because Egypt can no longer endure these blows from the Hebrew’s God. Pharaoh tries to bargain with Moses to no avail.
Free Lessons, Old Testament, Study of Exodus
After the plague of frogs and swarms of insects, God began to place a distinction between Goshen, where the Israelites dwelled and the rest of Egypt. All the rest of the plagues only struck the Egyptians. The fifth plague strikes the cattle. The sixth plague strikes the Egyptians with blistering boils on their skin. And In the seventh plague God sends a devastating hailstorm. But in all of this, pharaoh and his people’s hearts still remain hardened against the God of Israel.
