So those themes help us to understand that the Exodus is the quintessential model of redemption in all of scripture. It's so profound and crucial to understand this. The Exodus, as we'll see the historicity in just a moment, it did happen. And it also points forward to another historical event, which would be the new and greater Exodus, it's been in the New Testament here.
So if you take a look at your notes, I've got a good quote here from your commentary. I recommend the New Testament study Bible. And it says like, no other event in the early biblical history, the Exodus from Egypt looms large in the Bible as the premier paradigm of salvation. You can underline that.
It's so true and it's so crucial. Indeed, later biblical books, including those in the New Testament, we'll look back on the Exodus's deliverance as God's pledge of something still greater to come. A more definitive redemption and a more perfect covenant awaiting the people in the future. That is really, really important.
So we see the Exodus all over scripture, not just in this book that we're going to study here in the next number of weeks. We even see the Exodus back in Genesis. It was foretold to Abraham that the Exodus would take place, right? We saw that in chapter 15.
But even before that in chapter 12 of Genesis, we saw that Abraham himself pre-lived the Exodus. If you go back to chapter 12 verse the 10th, you're following. If you remember, Abraham or Abraham at the time, of course, goes down to Egypt because of the famine. And then God delivers Abraham with plagues, plagues, strikes Pharaoh's house, and then they leave with great wealth.
That's exactly what we're going to see here in the Exodus story. So they go down to Egypt because of a flag, God strikes them with plagues, and then they depart. Obviously, that's the broad stroke of it. But Abraham pre-lives the Exodus himself, like he kind of endures and lives out what his descendants will experience as a nation.
So in Genesis, we find the Exodus. Obviously, the Exodus of it happens here. But even in the historical period of the monarchy, the United Kingdom, really the divided kingdom, we have kind of a reversal event going on where Israel, the northern kingdom of Israel, the southern kingdom of Judah, kind of regress backwards into a state of spiritual slavery, as well as physical slavery, as well as a matter of fact. So they begin to worship all the false gods of the pagans and the Canaanites, and they're living like them.
And if they're turning away from God, they're spiritually enslaved during this divided kingdom period, just like they're spiritually enslaved here during the period when they lived in Egypt. Then they get conquered. In fact, Egypt conquers Judah and defeats Judah at one point. And then ultimately, there's a great exile, the Assyrian exile in 722 and the Babylonian exile in 586.
The descendants of Abraham here once again are in a foreign land. And God is going to deliver them. So there's a lot to say there, which we'll talk about in another time, or you can go to my salvation history course, or I'll talk about it a bunch there. But Israel finds themselves kind of like in a new Exodus scenario where God sends prophets to them and say, I'm going to deliver you.
So in fact, in your notes, you'll find you're in the footnote, I put one of my favorites verses about a promise of a new Exodus coming forth in Ezekiel 36, 24, and 28. And that's what it says, for I will take you from the nations and I will gather you again from all the countries and bring you into your own land. I will sprinkle clean water upon you and you shall be clean from all your uncleanliness and from all your idols, I will cleanse you and in your heart I will give you and in the spirit I will put within you. I will take out of your flesh the heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.
I will put my spirit within you and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to observe my ordinances. You shall dwell in the land which I gave to your fathers and you shall be my people and I will be your God. It's beautiful and there's some other references for you as well. We can't get into all of them for the sake of time.
But Ezekiel 36 I think really gets at the point of there's going to be a new Exodus. I'm going to gather you back again and I'm going to purify you again and you're going to be my people again. Ultimately, this is going to happen with Jesus Christ in the New Testament. So you've got this renewal of the slavery event happening in the period of the kings going to exile.
Yes, they kind of in an initial way come back to the land, but all the tribes are still scattered. So when will God regather his people again? That is the New Testament and that's Jesus Christ here. So the Exodus and all the events, the big picture themes that we've been talking about from slavery to sonship is the name of the course and we see those themes in the structure like we talked about.
All those themes here point forward to Jesus and are fulfilled perfectly with Jesus in his church, right? So the deliverance from slavery, the conquest of Egypt, the call to sonship through the establishment of the covenant Mount Sinai. All of that points forward to Jesus. In Jesus Christ we experience this new Exodus.
We are gathered back again, not just physically, but spiritually speaking here. We live this greater Exodus, this greater deliverance here. We're delivered from Satan, sin and death, right? Satan is, well Pharaoh is a type of Satan.
Satan is conquered. He is defeated here and we're made children of God through the covenant at Calvary here. So it's all pointing forward to Jesus and the big scheme of things, but also in the minor details as well, you can see all these great things pointing forward to the church and the sacramental life of the church. So for example, the Passover Lamb is like the biggest example, right?
The Passover Lamb is slain, the people are freed. Jesus is the Passover Lamb according to John, right? John, John, chapter 1, John, the Baptist says, behold the Lamb of God, lost to say there, we'll get into all those details later on. Jesus is the Lamb of God.
He is the new Passover Lamb. Then crossing the Red Sea from slavery to freedom on the other side, that according to Paul and 1 Corinthians 10 is a type of baptism. Okay, and then the wilderness wandering. Everyone always forgets about the wilderness wandering.
The wilderness wanderings are typological as well because it points forward to our wandering in the desert of this life, right? We don't, the promised land is a type of heaven, we could add that one as well, but we don't just go straight from baptism to heaven. I mean, we have the foretaste of heaven, of course, but we're wandering in this life and it feels like a desert a lot of the time here. And so the wilderness wandering is point forward to our time on this earth, okay?
And then the manna, the manna of course points forward to the Eucharist because as God gave him manna to sustain them in the wilderness wanderings, so he gives us Jesus and the bread of life, the new manna during our wanderings on this earth, okay, for our journey. And then the tabernacle, the tabernacle is really the crescendo in the high point of the entire book where God can dwell amongst his people and be in their midst. Well, that is fulfilled in Jesus Christ, where Jesus and the incarnation is God dwelling within our midst here. John, chapter 1 verse 14 says literally, Jesus became an intabernacle amongst us, right?
So there's so many other examples as well, and we're going to go through all of these in this course to see how the Exodus is in the New Testament, completes that of the Old Testament. And one more little passage I want to share with you before we move on to the historicity of the Exodus, and that is Luke 930. When does this great new spiritual Exodus take place? When is it fulfilled with Jesus Christ?
When are all the prophets fulfilled like Ezekiel 36 we just saw? It's at the Paschal Mysteries. And we know this because of the transfiguration in Luke 930 verses, yeah, Luke 930, 31 if you see your notes here, it says, Behold two men, talk with him, talk with Jesus, Moses and Elijah who appeared in glory and spoke of his Exodus, which he was to accomplish at Jerusalem. So the Paschal Mysteries, the Passion, Death and Resurrection of Jesus, is the accomplishment of this great Exodus.
Jesus endures it and we endure it with him through the sacraments, of course. But that's how we understand the Paschal Mysteries, in fact, is this conquering of Satan, sin and death and deliverance from spiritual bondage and bringing us freedom in Christ again. It's fantastic. It's fantastic.
So we have a lot to talk about throughout these next number of weeks, but I just want you to see here that the Exodus isn't just a cool story in the Old Testament. It has profound consequences and reverberations throughout all the rest of the Bible. Okay, so with that then let's look at part three. Is the Exodus Exodus historical?
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