Hence it was in no casual sort or merely arresting attention by its wonders that Jehovah here appears in the burning bush. And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot, And the children of Israel journeyed from, Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers, Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament. The actual wreck of Israelitish hopes is the result both of their assuming legal condition in the first place, and next of their rejection of the grace of God that came in by Jesus Christ our Lord, and was proclaimed by the Spirit sent down from heaven. Now as a general rule their eating was just sort of a lounging. Two difficulties are raised with respect to this estimate:(1) Could the Israelites possibly have increased during their sojourn in Egypt from the seventy souls who went down with Jacob to two millions? And is there anything that more beautifully shows the character of scripture than this? We are meant to take notice that now we can speak of "salvation," not before. Thus it is a complete deliverance from all that can be brought against us; not a going through the world with hope of protective mercy, which is the notion of man, but a complete victory over the foe present and future. Now the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, "This month shall be your beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year to you. We acknowledge them, owning nature in its place; and quite right. Verses 37 - 41 summarize the exit from Egypt. Exodus 12:38 tells us the "mixed multitude went up with" the children of Israel. In these repeated strokes we find then God dealing with the gods as well as with the men and habits of Egypt. You remember Paul warned against unbelievers partaking of communion. We are thankful for our salvation on an individual basis; but we also come together corporately to celebrate the Lords faithfulness to His people as a unified body. However, it is also highly controversial and critics have accused it of containing propaganda, historical. So their being cut off brought salvation to the Gentiles, but God is going to restore them again. I. Now a lot of people that want it to be related to this old body, they want it to be somehow related to their new body. To come in unto your houses to smite you ( Exodus 12:23 ). He loves and cherishes the name in which He has bound up the objects of His choice with Himself. Some of the most sceptical are compelled to admit that the ten plagues were all actual and historical events. The threat of the locusts to eat what remained from the hail brought Pharaoh's servants to their senses; but on the demand of Moses that all should go, old and young, children and cattle, to keep their feast to Jehovah (not a word of three days now), they are driven out from before the king, and the eighth blow falls all over the land. Accordingly this is precisely what is involved in the name of Jehovah. The latter statement is perfectly fictitious. THE DEPARTURE. as to the stranger who sojourns among you., (:50-51) EPILOGUE FAITHFUL TO DELIVER HIS PEOPLE, they did just as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron., And it came about on that same day that the LORD brought the sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their hosts.. He emphasized the importance of abiding in Him. The very magicians themselves owned themselves defeated; for whatever they might do with their enchantments at first, they were soon silenced. written independently of the foregoing narrative, and RAMESES] see on Exodus 1:11. And what a proof is this of never-failing goodness in God! This last phrase then is not merely a casual expression; it is the purposed and suited language of the Holy Ghost. Don't eat it raw, nor boiled with water, but roast it with the fire, the head with the legs, and the pertinence thereof. We all know what the Egyptians thought of the Nile. 2.) Some, perhaps, willing to leave their country, laid waste by plagues; others, out of curiosity; perhaps a few out of love to them and their religion. Whether or not such a view is fully correct concerning Israel, it is certainly the case with many Christians who lose their enthusiasm for the truth, who slip back into the careless and sinful ways of the world and neglect the plainest and most urgent duties of the Christian life. 3) Abroad Moses was discharging his duty long enough for such thoughts to have passed away from him, as we might have supposed. How this was arrested is a most instructive lesson, but it will be found later on in this book. ". Hence therefore the children of God may surely gather what its antitype must be to God Himself. Note, The great things God does for his people are not to be a nine days' wonder, as we say, but the remembrance of them is to be perpetuated throughout all ages, especially the work of our redemption by Christ. "I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant: but I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue." If you can't eat it all, then burn the rest with the fire, don't let anything remain. to the Old Testament here for instance is astounding. It would follow that the nation, at the time of its departure, was one of above two millions of souls. (2) Is it conceivable that such a multitude, with their flocks and herds, could have quitted Egypt on one day, and marched in a body through the narrow wadys of the Sinaitic region to the plain in front of Sinai? Thus even the Old Testament covenant community was called to think of themselves as a unity, symbolized by a common meal that could not be divided except as portions of its flesh were eaten: the skeleton remained unified to indicate their unity, a present fact fully to be realized in the future by the work of the Savior on the cross. And here comes in another principle of immense importance. How good the Lord that speaks to us about the things not of grace only but of nature! The chapter ends with more instructions concerning the celebration of Passover. We are here in the place where we may, alas! You're to-this is, God is going to bring them into a new relationship with Himself, and they're gonna start counting their life from this point, this new relationship that God is bringing them into.So I have-sometimes people come up who are fifty years old and they say, "I'm celebrating my second birthday this week." By redemption I mean not merely a price paid to purchase us that we may belong to God (this indeed is not the proper import of the word), but rather in its precise meaning this too that God has broken the power of the adversary, ransoming and freeing us for Himself. Such denials are merely amusing to believers. In the face of this, when enslaved to him, redemption was the putting forth of God's own power in Christ in a way suitable to His majesty and holiness, in which not a single claim was left unsettled, not a single requisite was not answered, not a single sin of man but was judged, yet all and every quality in God was honoured, and we are brought out triumphant and free. *To argue against the increase of Israel in Egypt from the data of the Pentateuch is the more unreasonable as the record does not give it as an ordinary ratio, but from the direct blessing of God according to His appearance to the fathers, and the more striking, because He kept them comparatively few till the descent into the house of bondage, and there multiplied them in the face of the hottest persecution long before they were led out in triumph. This great event was 430 years from the promise made to Abraham: see Galatians 3:17. It is by confounding the scriptures that men misunderstand them: if we would indeed enter into the real force of God's word, it must always be by distinguishing the things that differ. But besides this complete devotedness we see also the ordinance of the unleavened bread in this connection, that is, unfeigned purity of heart by faith. The two things are here put together as flowing from the sense of a divinely wrought deliverance. In the book of Exodus, the focus shifts to the deliverance of Gods people. Pharaoh had scorned Jehovah's call for the homage of His first-born Israel; and from the beginning had been warned that if he refused to let him go, "behold, I will slay thy son, thy first-born." In the number of men which he reports, he commends the incredible miracle of Gods favor in increasing and multiplying their race. Exodus 12:37New International Version. David Guzik commentary on Exodus 12 where God institutes the Passover, while the final plague, the death of the firstborn, takes place in Egypt. They could have been many of the Egyptians who had become converted to the God of Israel. In short, unbelief in the first instance is never the consequence of judicial hardness on God's part. In one house it shall be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall you break a bone of it. The beginning of the year changed, The passover instituted. So don't go looking for a bald head when you get up there to find me. And if any man abide not in Me, he is cut off like a branch withers and dies, and men gather them and throw them into the fire. (3) Furthermore, the Passover lamb was not for mere eating, so that some could be saved for leftovers or could be sold or even given away to others; and. Exodus 12:42.This first passover night was a night of the Lord, much to be observed; but the last passover night, in which Christ was betrayed, was a night of the Lord, much more to be observed, when a yoke heavier than that of Egypt was broken from off our necks, and a land better than that of Canaan set before us. between those periods, not more than 200 years, and observe how the Exo_12:37-40 The exodus as a fact in history. Arminianism naturally resists it, as its doctrine causes salvation to turn largely on man's deserts; while Calvinism would consent to salvation in "the purpose of God" or some jargon of the kind, while meanwhile the object of it may have no comfort, nor solid footing whatever for his soul. the city or the district where they had been living in Egypt, to Undoubtedly it must have been a far greater trial to his spirit than the relinquishment of any personal advantages. Thus it was when our Lord Jesus was here, and the presence of the Spirit, instead of preventing, confirmed it. Hence man gives himself up to unbelief, and then God may either at that or a later time, according to His own wisdom, seal up a person in a judicial hardness which is a distinct positive act on God's part. Many of the tents may have been pitched in the Wady-ed-Deir and the Seil Leja. Verse 37 itself is a turning point in the book of Exodus. It is a night to be much observed unto the Lord for bringing them out from the land of Egypt: it is the night of the Lord to be observed of all of the children of Israel in their generations. "They came to Elim, where were twelve wells of water, and threescore and ten palm trees: and they encamped there by the waters.". A sizable group of non-Israelite people, including Egyptians and others who had intermarried or mingled with the Israelites, went with them (37-42). "Sanctify unto me all the firstborn." So then we who are in this body do often groan earnestly desiring to be free from the restrictions of this body, from the limitations of this body, from the pain and the suffering of this body. I'm the Passover Lamb. Whenever God is doing a marvelous work and gathering His people together, and there comes a real excitement over the things of God, a genuine revival of the Spirit; there are always just a certain number who just come along for the ride, who have not made a true commitment of their own lives. It is clear that God must be the best judge. Here then having the typical redemption of Israel from Egypt the greatest and fullest type of it in the Old Testament, immediately after (without even allowing a single chapter to intervene) we hear of God glorious in holiness, as well as of a habitation prepared for Him. Not a fact only but a type, still it was a type not of an earthly woe but of a judgment before the eyes of God judgment of sin. In the land of Egypt] These words suggest that what follows was The believer is not only bought by the precious blood of Christ, but delivered from the power of the enemy, just as Israel was in type here. He did indeed accomplish it, but at all cost to Himself. For, on one hand, as surely as He is a consuming fire, so on the other the bush, weak as it is, and ready to vanish away, nevertheless remains to prove that whatever may be the siftings and judicial dealing of God, whatever the trials and searchings of man, yet where He reveals Himself in pitifulness as well as in power (and such it certainly was here), He sustains the object and uses the trial for nothing but good no doubt for His own glory, but consequently for the very best interests of those that are His.
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