Exodus

No weapon formed against you can prosper

Facts – statements of truth –
Exodus 1
70 souls from Jacob came with him to Egypt.
That generation all died, but the children of Israel multiplied greatly.
They were more and stronger than the Egyptians.
The new Pharoah, who hadn’t known Joseph said, Let’s deal wisely with them and stop this growth, so they won’t join with our enemies when war comes, and leave us.
They made the lives of the children miserable with every kind of hard work, and treated them harshly.

[In all their affliction He was afflicted, and the angel of His presence saved them:

in His love and in His compassion He redeemed them; and He bare them, and carried them all the days of old.]
Isaiah 63:9
The worse they treated them, the more they multiplied and grew strong.
So Pharaoh commanded the midwives to kill the all the male children born.
But the midwives feared God and didn’t kill their baby boys.
God blessed the midwives and made them dynasties in His eternal royal family.
Pharaoh commanded that all the male newborns be thrown into the Nile River.

[No weapon that is formed against you will prosper; and every tongue that rises against you in judgment, you will condemn.

This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is of Me, says the Lord.]
Isaiah 54:7

God heard their cry and saw them and knew them

Facts- statements of truth –
Exodus 2
Levi married and his wife birthed a beautiful child whom they hid for 3 months from Pharoah’s edict to kill all baby boys born in Israel by throwing them in the river.
Then his mother got a basket and waterproofed it with tar and put the baby in it and set it in the reeds by the bank of the river.
Pharaoh’s daughter came to bathe and found the baby. He was crying and she said, This is one of the Hebrew children.
His sister was watching far away to see what would happen to him. When Pharaoh’s daughter found her baby brother in the basket,
she went to her and asked, Shall I find a nurse for the baby?

Then she brought her mother, and his own mother got paid wages for caring for him until he was weaned (several years old).
Pharaoh’s daughter called him Moses because she drew him out of the water. He grew up in the king’s palace in Egypt.

[In the future, 'All our children will be taught by the Lord; and great will be the peace of our children.]
Isaiah 54:13
When he was grown, Moses went out to see his brothers and found an Egyptian striking a Hebrew. He killed the man and hid the body in the sand.
The next day he went to see his brothers again and two of them were fighting.

Moses confronted them asking, Why are you striking your neighbor?

The guilty one said, Who made you a prince over us?

Are you going to kill me like you killed the Egyptian yesterday?

[I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.]
John 12:47
When Moses saw the thing was known he ran from Pharaoh, who was now trying kill him.
He went to the land of Midian and sat down by a well.
The priest of Midian had 7 daughters and they came to draw water for their flocks.

Shepherds drove them away and Moses helped them and watered their flocks for them.
The priest invited Moses to stay with him and gave him one of his daughters as a wife and she bore him a son and called his name Gershom saying, I have been a stranger in a foreign land.
After the king of Egypt died, the children of Israel sighed and cried out because of their hard slavery.
God heard them and remembered His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He saw the people and knew them.

[This is eternal life, that they might know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent.

To know Him is life eternal.]
John 17:3

He is here to deliver us

Facts – statements of truth –
Exodus 3
While Moses was feeding the flocks on the backside of the desert, he came to the mountain of God.
And the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a thorn bush: and he looked and saw the bush burned with fire, but the bush was not consumed.
He went to see this, and God called to Him out of the bush, Moses, Moses. He said, I’m here.
He said, Don’t come close: take your shoes off, for the place you are standing is holy ground.
He said, I am the God of your fathers,

I have surely seen the affliction of My people in Egypt, for I know their sorrows. (As He knows your sorrows)
I’ve come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them to a good, large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey.
[And He is here with us to deliver us from every attack of the enemy, every difficulty in life.
Into a place of peace and whatever to you would be ‘a land flowing with milk and honey.’]
Moses protested that he wouldn’t be able to do this; but God said, I will be with you (all power).
The Lord said, I’m sure that the king of Egypt won’t let you go, no, not by a mighty hand.
And I will stretch out my hand, and strike Egypt with all My wonders that I will do in the midst of it:

and after that he will let you go.
And I will give this people favor in the eyes of the Egyptians: when you go, you won’t go empty.
But every woman will borrow from her neighbor, and their guests, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and clothing,
and you will put them on your sons, and on your daughters; and you will plunder the Egyptians. (430 years back wages.)

The Lord provides everything needed

Facts – statements of truth –
Exodus 4
Moses told the Lord the children of Israel wouldn’t believe him or listen to him.
The Lord gave him 3 signs to prove the Lord had appeared to him and sent him to deliver them from slavery to Egypt:

his staff would turn into a serpent when he threw it on the ground,
his hand would turn leprous as snow when he put it to his chest,
and water from the river would turn to blood when he poured it on the ground,
Moses said, I can’t speak well. The Lord said, Who made man’s mouth. I will be with your mouth.
The Lord became angry with Moses when he said, Please send someone else.
He promised to send his brother Aaron to speak for him,

and He would tell him the words for Aaron to speak.
The Lord told Moses His full plan from the start. I will harden Pharaoh’s heart and he won’t let you go.
Tell Pharaoh, Israel is My firstborn, and if you refuse to let him go, behold, I am about to kill your son, your firstborn.
On the way, at the inn, the Lord sought to kill Moses because he hadn’t circumcised his own son, the sign of covenant with God since Abraham.
His wife did the circumcision and then called him a bridegroom of blood.
Aaron met Moses at the mt. of God and kissed him.
They went to Egypt and gathered the elders of Israel and told them the Lord had met with Moses and was going to deliver them from slavery.
They showed the signs, and when they heard that the Lord saw saw their affliction, they believed, and bowed their heads, and worshipped.

Who is the Lord?

Facts – statements of truth –
Exodus 5
Moses and Aaron went in and said to Pharaoh, king of Egypt, the Lord God says, Send My people away to hold a feast to Me in the wilderness.
Pharaoh said, Who is the Lord that I should listen to him?
They said, He met with us and said to go, so that He not fall on us with a plague or the sword.
Pharaoh said, Get back to work. And he had the slave drivers make them work harder.
They had to gather their own straw and still make the same daily number of bricks, and were whipped when they failed.
Israel’s leaders said to Moses, The Lord look on you, and judge; because you have made us stink in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to kill us.
Moses returned to the Lord and said, Lord, why have you treated this people evilly? Why have You sent me?

For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in Your name, he has done evil to this people; You haven’t delivered the people at all.

God delivers us with a strong hand

Facts – statements of truth –
Exodus 6
The Lord told Moses, With a strong hand Pharaoh will drive the children of Israel out of Egypt.
He told Moses, I am the Lord, the only self-existent one (all life depends on Me for its existence)
Until now I was only known to them as the all powerful God.
I set My covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan (the most beautiful land on earth). Ezekiel 20:6
I heard their groaning and remembered My covenant.
I will bring them out from the heavy service to the Egyptians with a strong arm and great judgments.
Moses said, How will Pharaoh listen to me when even the children of Israel won’t listen.
The Lord said, Tell Pharaoh everything I tell you.

He is not willing that any perish

Exodus 7
The Lord said to Moses, See, I have made you a god to Pharaoh: and Aaron your brother will be your prophet.

You will say all that I command you: and Aaron your brother will speak to Pharaoh, to send the children of Israel out of his land.
And I will harden Pharaoh's heart and multiply My signs and My wonders in the land of Egypt.

But Pharaoh will not hear you, that I may lay My hand on Egypt, and bring out My people by great judgments.
Then the Egyptians will know that I am the Lord.

[The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any perish, but that turn back to Him.]
2 Peter 3:9
Moses and Aaron did as the Lord commanded them. Moses was 80 years old, and Aaron 83 when they spoke to Pharaoh.
And the Lord said, When Pharaoh says to you, Show me a miracle: then say to Aaron, Take your staff, and throw it before Pharaoh, and it will become a dragon.
So Moses and Aaron went into Pharaoh, and they did as the Lord had commanded: and Aaron threw down his staff before Pharaoh, and before his servants, and it became a dragon.
Then Pharaoh called the wise men and the sorcerers they did the same thing with their secret arts. Each man threw down his staff, and they became dragons: but Aaron's staff swallowed up their staves.
And He hardened Pharaoh's heart, so that he didn’t listen to them, as the Lord had said.

The Lord said to Moses, Pharaoh's heart is great (against it), he refuses to let the people go.
Go to Pharaoh in the morning; see, he is going out to the water; and you stand by the river's bank with the staff in your hand.
And say to him, The Lord God of the Hebrews has sent me to you, saying, Send away My people that they may serve Me in the wilderness.

This will show you that I am the Lord (control everything). (The Egyptians worshipped the river and God will show them that He is over the river.)
I will strike the waters with the staff and they will turn into blood.
The fish in the river will die, and the river will stink; and the Egyptians will be weary of drinking the water of the river.
The Lord spoke to Moses, Tell Aaron, Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, on their streams, on their rivers, and on their ponds, and on all their pools of water, that they become blood; and that there will be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in pots of wood, and in pots of stone.
And Moses and Aaron did as the Lord commanded; he lifted up the staff, and struck the waters in the river in the sight of Pharaoh, and in the sight of his servants; and all the waters in the river turned to blood.
And the fish in the river died; and the river stank, and the Egyptians couldn’t drink the water of the river; and there was blood throughout all the land of Egypt.
And the magicians of Egypt did the same with their secret arts (occult practices): and Pharaoh's heart was strong (against) and he didn’t listen to them; as the Lord had said.
Pharaoh turned and went into his house, neither did he set his heart to this.
And all the Egyptians dug around the river for water to drink; for they couldn’t drink of the water of the river.
And seven days passed by, after the Lord had struck the river.