Day 35, February 4 Bible Reading

Day 35,  February 4

Ex. 12:43 – 13:10 Regulations for Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread

Ex. 13:11-22  Consecration of the firstborn / The pillars of cloud and fire

Ex. 14 – 15:21       Cross the Red Sea / Moses’ song of victory / Miriam’s song

Passover was Salvation and Redemption.  It required no effort of our own, just our agreement to eat Lamb.  The Crossing of the Red Sea is our baptism.  Baptism does not save us per se, as it comes after the Passover/ Saved with Death experience.  But it sure publicly displays a sanctification, a setting apart, a crushing of all internal enemies of carnality that seeks to hunt us, a point of no return that we are all in towards the finalization of our faith.  Baptism represents internal circumcision of the heart, a cutting off of the heart of flesh.

One is definitely saved (justified) when leaving Egypt due to no effort on his own, and may be baptized afterwards as the children of Israel was through the Red Sea (1 Cor. 10:2), but the flesh has to learn to submit under new rulership.

Ex. 12:43 - 13:10

• 12:43-50 Rules for the Passover:

• No foreigners, but servants bought for money, upon circumcision can eat

• Eat it in one house, don’t carry the flesh outside nor break one of its bones

• No uncircumcised personal shall eat.

• A stranger has to be circumcised first with all his males.

• Same law for native-born and for stanger who dwells
  
  

• In comparison, Christ as the Passover

• Every single Jew and Gentile died when He died

• He was crucified outside Jerusalem and his bones were not broken

• The servants bought for money give hints of redemption.  Christ bought us with his blood (this was his money).
  
  

• 13:1-10

• All the Firstborn were consecrated to God, both of man and beast.  God declared that it was His.  Later we would see that God sid the firstborn were His to represent the whole nation, and He bought them when He killed Egypt’s firstborn.
  

• The regulations for the Feast of the Unleavened Bread were given.
  

• Now we know where Paul got the inspiration for 1 Cor. 5:6-8. To observe the Feast of the unleavened Bread is to live a life that is free from leaven such as malice, wickedness, corrupting influence (Galatians), and doctrines of man’s traditions. It is to have a life free from corrupting influences of sin and the flesh.  This is the issue of Sanctification.

Ex. 13:11-22

• 13:11-13 The Law of the firstborn.

• Every firstborn male from an animal will be the Lord’s

• Every firstborn of a donkey, though, needs to be redeemed with a lamb, and if you do not want to redeem it, you need to break its neck. Now what in the world was this.  

• It’s interesting that he mentions the redeeming of the sons of man in the same breath as the donkey needing a lamb.  It seems that only the donkey and the firstborn of sons of men needed redemption. I wonder why ☺? Is it because of man’s track record of being an a$$ and a stubborn as a donkey?  Pharaoh in this case was the donkey whose neck needed to be broken.
  
  

• 13:14-16 So what was the meaning of this ask the children? Well By God’s strength Israel was delivered from Egypt, and when {pharaoh was too stubborn, God killed all the firstborn in Egypt which He called His sacrifice.  However instead of taking away Israel's firstborn sons, He redeemed them instead, with the blood of a lamb.
  
  

• 13:17-18 Interesting God is considering the emotional state of the children of Israel and allowing that to determine His decision. Are you telling me that even though God is God, He can influence His decision based on your emotional and mental state? Yes.
  
  

• So God did not take the shortcut through the land of the Philistines, else Israel change ther minds when they see war, so He led them around the long way by the wilderness of the Red Sea.
  
  

• 13:19 Prophecy and promises fulfilled. The bones of Joseph were taken
  
  

• 13:20-22 God was a cloud by day (and gave much needed shade) and fire by night to give much needed light.  

Ex. 14 - 15:21

• 14:1-4 God had one more entrapment for Pharaoh.  This is checkmate.  He had Israel zig  zagged in the wilderness to appear as if Israel was confused to draw Pharaoh out to his death.  What was the motivation? So that He will gain honor over Pharaoh and that the Egyptians may know that He is the Lord? Ok.
  
  

• 14:5-9 Pharaoh took the bait.
  
  

• 14:10-12 As predicted the children of Israel in their fragile slavery mental state became afraid. Funny. They asked if there were not any graves in Egypt that they were to die in the wilderness.  “They have talks boy”.
  
  

• 14:13-18  It seemed Moses talked big to the people, but cried to God.  God had to tell him, man up, why are you crying to me.  God said he will divide the sea, causing Israel to go on dry ground and when Egyptians see that, their hearts will be hardened and they will pursue, but God will have the last laugh and honor.
  
  

• 14:19-20 The Lord was said to be in a pillar of cloud by day and a fire by night.  It seems that He had a bouncer with him, an angel.  When the angel moved from in front of Israel to the back, the pillar moved and to Egypt it looked like darkness and to Israel it look like light.  Remember this was the Angel of His Face as we noted when we read about Jacob, which fought with the Angel and was permanently maimed.
  
  

• 14:21-31 Fun note.  God  sent the wind all night to divide the sea. Looks like the children of Israel went at night through the red sea, for in the morning God looked to see where the Egyptians were at.  Interesting language about God looking down through the pillar of fire and cloud to take off their chariot wheels. Well the Lord overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea while Israel walked on dry land.
  
  

• 15:1-21 Moses captured in his song a God who showed Himself as a warrior.  This may not have been a side of God they have seen before(Ex. 15:3).  Miriam, Moses' sister was called a prophetess, the first such in the Bible.