Vs. 21-28 Moses Calls the Elders of Israel to Share God S Message

Exodus 12:21-54

1. Introduction
2. Review

1. Exodus 12:21-51
2. Vs. 21-28– Moses calls The Elders of Israel to Share God’s Message
3. Vs. 21-22 - Christ our Passover
4. I Cor. 5:7- Purge out the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, even as ye are unleavened. For our passover also hath been sacrificed, even Christ:
5. Two additional similarities of Christ and the Passover:
6. The sacrifice of the Lamb and Christ became food for those delivered.

John 6:35; 48-58 – (Jews ate the lamb)

• To be saved, everyone had to be a partaker of the sacrifice.

Joh 14:6- Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no one cometh unto the Father, but by me.

1. Vs. 23 – The Destroyer
2. shaw-khath' – Ruin, corruption, destruction.
3. I do not believe this is an entity.

I believe the text is merely saying the destruction will not enter.

It is the Lord who is present, Vs. 11:4.

• If mistaken, we can still make no clear identification of what this entity is.

1. Vs. 24-28 – Continued sharing of What God had said.
2. Principles:
3. We must share the Word of God with others so they will know.
4. We must commit the knowledge of God to our Children.
5. The sons of Israel did exactly as commanded by the Lord.

 “God loves too much to destroy” – Really? No good Egyptians?

Any Israelites at that time willing to challenge God?

.Not after what they had seen and experienced.

Exodus is going to give us an excellent example of the importance of Obedience.

1. Vs. 29-32 – The 10th Judgment Arrives
2. Possibility arises that the visitation was not quiet, but possibly a painful one arousing sleepers.
3. Death was not random. It struck all homes with a first born. Struck onlyfirst born of man and beast.
4. Regarding “no homes where not one dead”. Many critics cry impossibility and discrepancy. Must have been homes without firstborn. Consider:
5. This word home can mean building or family, but in greatest useage extension of family.

Example: Christ is of the house of David.

• The house of Pharoah certainly lost a son, but also cattle. Were the cattle in the palace?
• If Chris happened to die though living in another house, did not the house of Ron suffer loss?
• If cattle died, was that not a loss to that house?

1. Vs. 31-32 - Another cry of discrepancy is that Moses saw Pharoah again as opposed to Ex. 10:28-29.
2. However, it is from the servants who shared this message with Moses and Aaron.

1. Vs. 33-36 – Fulfillment of Possessions Prophecy fromGen. 15:13-14
2. The power of these verses is the fulfillment of prophecy from a thousand years earlier.
3. The Egyptian people were developing wisdom – They had a fear of God.
4. The people took their unleavened bread and kneading bowls as well as given possessions.

1. Vs. 37-39– The Journey away from Egypt to Succoth
2. Num. 1:46 – 6,355 men men of fighting age, not Levi.
3. Also mixed multitude
4. Who? We do not know?
5. Why? A Variety of Reasons are likely
6. Some previous slaves wanting to be free.
7. Others believers in this God of the Israelites.
8. Others because Egypt was a wasteland of death.
9. Journeyed to Succoth “tents”
10. The baked unleavened cake, since they only had unleavened bread.
11. Because they had been in a hurry, they did prepare any meat for themselves.

1. Vs. 40-42– Summing up of the Time in Egypt
2. Gen. 15:13 – “four hundred years” – discrepency? No General vs. Specific.
3. Remember this deliverance! (It is a type of Salvation by Christ)

1. Vs. 43-51– Ordinances or laws of the Passover.
2. Vs. 43 & 48 – A stranger or foreigner could not partake unless he and those males with him are circumcised.
3. An owned slave was to be circumcised.
4. A hired servant or sojourner, ones that might not stay, did not have to be circumcised.
5. Vs. 49 – Note: To Live together as one body, the same laws apply.
6. This is true for all mankind today.
7. Note: They did all they were commanded. This is the second time as in vs. 28.
8. Obedience, Obedience, Obedience.