Summary In fulfilment of God's promise in the book of Genesis to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob to make the number of their descendants like the stars in the sky and like the sand on the seashore, too many to count, the Israelites have become a great nation. They were fruitful and multiplied greatly and became … Continue reading Exodus 13(17)–14(31) →

Introduction Two weeks ago we spent our time looking at the first nine plagues which the Lord sent on the Egyptians. And so we covered the long section from verse 8 of chapter 7 to the end of chapter 10. We're going to cover another large section this evening from verse 1 of chapter 11 … Continue reading Exodus 11(01)–13(16) →

Pharaoh's unbelief Rather than take each of the ten plagues separately, which might become repetitive, I thought I'd have a stab at studying the first nine today, before coming back to the tenth and last plague next week. But before we get to the plagues, there's verses 8 to 13 of Exodus 7 where Moses … Continue reading Exodus 07(08)–10(29) →

Introduction Let me remind you of what we've seen so far. In fulfilment of God's promise to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob to make the number of their descendants like the stars in the sky and like the sand on the seashore, too many to count, the Israelites have become a great nation. They were fruitful … Continue reading Exodus 06(10)–07(07) →

Introduction Last week we saw how Moses and Aaron went to the Israelites and told them what the Lord had said he was going to do for them and how he was concerned about them and was going to deliver them from their bondage in Egypt. And Aaron performed the miraculous signs the Lord had … Continue reading Exodus 05(01)–06(09) →

Introduction In the passage we looked at last week, the Lord assured Moses that he would break the power of Pharaoh and bring his people out of their captivity. And then the Lord gave Moses signs to convince the Israelites that God had indeed sent Moses to them to lead them out of their captivity. … Continue reading Exodus 04(19–31) →

Introduction We've seen how the book of Exodus is a continuation of the book of Genesis. In the book of Genesis, God promised to make Abraham's descendants into a great nation, so that they would be like the stars in the sky, and like the sand on the seashore, too many to count. And at … Continue reading Exodus 03(16)–04(18) →

Introduction The last time we were studying the book of Exodus together, we spent our time on verses 1 to 6 of chapter 3 where the Lord appeared to Moses in the burning bush. You'll perhaps remember the background: Jacob and his sons moved to Egypt in the days of Joseph. In the land of … Continue reading Exodus 03(07–15) →

Introduction We've seen how the book of Exodus is a continuation of the book of Genesis. And so, the same themes that appeared in Genesis also appear in Exodus. In Genesis, the Lord promised to make Abraham, Isaac and Jacob into a mighty nation by giving them many, many descendants. And he also promised to … Continue reading Exodus 03(01–06) →

Introduction The last time we noted that the book of Exodus is really a continuation of the book of Genesis. In fact, if you recall, I said that the first word in the book of Exodus -- although it's not translated by most English translations -- is the word 'and'. It's as if Moses got … Continue reading Exodus 02 →