Foretold - Part 4 [Notes]

Although the Bible covers thousands of years of history and is filled with true stories and accounts, there is One Story that ties all the others together—the story of God’s plan to bring people into a relationship with Himself through the death and resurrection of His Son. This story is revealed throughout the Bible through prophecies, the Old Testament Law, and through God’s interactions with humanity.

Join us for our series leading up to Easter, Foretold, where we will look at some of the hidden messages of redemption found in Old Testament Bible stories.

The time that the Israelites lived in Egypt  was 430 years. 41 At the end of 430 years, on that same day, all the Lord’s divisions went out from the land of Egypt
– Exodus 12:40-41 (HCSB)

“The time that they lived in Egypt and in Canaan was 430 years.”

Dr. Floyd Nolen Jones…concludes in his The Chronology of the Old Testament that not only was Abraham a member of the nation of Israel, but that the 400 years of sojourning and affliction started with Isaac’s weaning at five years old when Ishmael mocked him.
– Answers in Genesis

The Lord said to Moses, “I will bring one more plague on Pharaoh and on Egypt. After that, he will let you go from here. When he lets you go, he will drive you out of here.
– Exodus 11:1 (HCSB)

So Moses said, “This is what Yahweh says: ‘About midnight I will go throughout Egypt, and every firstborn male in the land of Egypt will die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne to the firstborn of the servant girl who is behind the millstones, as well as every firstborn of the livestock. Then there will be a great cry of anguish through all the land of Egypt such as never was before, or ever will be again.
– Exodus 11:4-6 (HCSB)

Jesus is our Passover lamb.

The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt: “This month is to be the beginning of months for you; it is the first month of your year. Tell the whole community of Israel that on the tenth day of this month they must each select an animal of the flock according to their fathers’ households, one animal per household. If the household is too small for a whole animal, that person and the neighbor nearest his house are to select one based on the combined number of people; you should apportion the animal according to what each person will eat.
– Exodus 12:1-4 (HCSB)

You must have an unblemished animal, a year-old male; you may take it from either the sheep or the goats. You are to keep it until the fourteenth day of this month; then the whole assembly of the community of Israel will slaughter the animals at twilight. They must take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses where they eat them.
– Exodus 12:5-7 (HCSB)

Who among you can convict Me of sin?
– John 8:46a (HCSB)

It is to be eaten in one house. You may not take any of the meat outside the house, and you may not break any of its bones.
– Exodus 12:46 (HCSB)

When they came to Jesus, they did not break His legs since they saw that He was already dead.
– John 19:33 (HCSB)

For these things happened so that the Scripture would be fulfilled: Not one of His bones will be broken.
– John 19:36 (HCSB)

…for Christ our Passover has been sacrificed.
– 1 Corinthians 5:7b (HCSB)

They must take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses where they eat them.
– Exodus 12:7 (HCSB)

Take a cluster of hyssop, dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and brush the lintel and the two doorposts with some of the blood in the basin. None of you may go out the door of his house until morning. When the Lord passes through to strike Egypt and sees the blood on the lintel and the two doorposts, He will pass over the door and not let the destroyer enter your houses to strike you.
– Exodus 12:21-23 (HCSB)

The Hebrews used it for aspersion, or to sprinkle tiny droplets of liquids, as in this case where the blood of the paschal lambs on the doorposts and lintels of their houses…[and] the New Testament also refers to hyssop in relation to the sacrifice of Christ on the cross: “A jar of wine vinegar was there, so they soaked a sponge in it, put the sponge on a stalk of the hyssop plant, and lifted it to Jesus’ lips.” (John 19:29).
– Evangelicalfocus.com

The blood on the houses where you are staying will be a distinguishing mark for you; when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No plague will be among you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.
– Exodus 12:13 (HCSB)

Now at midnight the Lord struck every firstborn male in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the prisoner who was in the dungeon, and every firstborn of the livestock. During the night Pharaoh got up, he along with all his officials and all the Egyptians, and there was a loud wailing  throughout Egypt because there wasn’t a house without someone dead. He summoned Moses and Aaron during the night and said, “Get up, leave my people, both you and the Israelites, and go, worship Yahweh as you have asked. Take even your flocks and your herds as you asked and leave, and also bless me.”
– Exodus 12:29-32 (HCSB)

The Israelites traveled from Rameses to Succoth, about 600,000 soldiers on foot, besides their families. An ethnically diverse crowd also went up with them, along with a huge number of livestock, both flocks and herds.
– Exodus 12:29 (HCSB)

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