# 26 2024 Dev. Ex.6: God’s Covenant! Read all of chapter six first. We invite you into God’s space, to read His Word, to think on and interact with. This is God’s Story. Do you believe that this may also be part of our story, in our time? All passages are taken from the NIV.
Ex. 6:10-11 “Then the Lord said to Moses, ‘Go, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt to let the Israelites go out of his country.’”
Ex. 6 The book of Exodus Is about three main subjects: God’s deliverance, God’s morality and how to worship. God chose the time for liberating His people Israel from Egypt. God chose the method and He chose the person to accomplish it. But Pharaoh was not ready to listen, as God had warned Moses, Pharaoh hardened his heart. The back story is that Satan is behind the destruction of the Israelites. God’s promise to Abraham, “your offspring will be as the sand of the seas, uncountable”, God means the church, both in the Old Testament and the New Testament Church of Jesus Christ.
Vs.1-5 Then the Lord said to Moses. “Now you will see what I will do to Pharaoh: Because of my mighty hand he will let them go; because of my mighty hand he will drive them out of his country.” Further, God reconfirms His covenant with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob “to give them the land of Canaan… I have heard the groaning of the Israelites…and I have remembered my covenant.”
Vs.6-8 “Therefore, say to the Israelites: ‘I am the Lord, and I will bring you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians… I will take you as my own people, and I will be your God… And I will bring you to the land…’ I promised to give ‘to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob. I will give it to you as a possession.’” This promise is still in play today. God loved us before we acknowledged Him, and He continues to love us by His grace and blessings to us, Amen! The continuing and New Covenant of Jesus’ blood, guides us in this life and brings us to the “promised land”, the New Heaven and the New Earth, the only permanent possession in our short lives on earth.
V.9 “Moses reported this to the Israelites, but they did not listen to him because of the discouragement and harsh labor.”
Vs.10-13 “Then the Lord said to Moses, Go, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt to let the Israelites go out of his country.” Moses makes more excuses but God sends Moses and Aaron with that same message.
Vs.14-25 lists a partial genealogy of the Israelite nation in Egypt. It only lists three sons of Jacob, Rubin, Simeon and Levi, the propose seems to be to establish Aaron and Moses’ place in the Nation. Ironically their fore-fathers carried some serious baggage: Reuben defiled his father’s bed. Simeon and Levi murdered all the males of Shechem and the rest of Jacob’s sons carried off all the females. In spite of all that the Levites were chosen to be the priests of Israel and Moses and Aaron were given the important job of representing God to the captives and to the Egyptians. The wonder of Gods’ grace that blesses His people and blesses us today, “Amazing Grace”!
Vs.26-30 Moses and Aaron are the ones that God chose to speak to Pharaoh, Aaron is to speak, and Moses with his staff performed signs and wonders that will punish Egypt, until the Israelites are released. God is in control but Pharaoh continues to allow Satan to harden his own heart. Satan continues his war on the Jews to this day and thousands of American youth and educational institutions are helping him. But God is in control then and He is in control now. Amen!
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