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1. Exodus The Book Of Redemption
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anger of the LORD, as God, hearts hardened,
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Exodus 4-6

2. Last Time In Exodus 3:7, My People
• Exodus 3:7 The LORD said, "I have surely seen
the affliction of My people who are in Egypt…
• This is the 1st. Use by God of the term “My
people”
• God’s relationship to the patriarchs and their
descendants will bequeath to the
family/nation in Egypt, and on into eternity

3. Exodus 4:1, What If?
• Exodus 4:1 Then Moses answered and said,
"What if they will not believe me, or listen to
what I say? For they may say, 'The LORD has
not appeared to you.'“
• What will people think?

4. Exodus 4:2, What’s in your hand?
• Exodus 4:2 The LORD said to him,
"What is that in your hand?" And
he said, "A staff.”
• Did God need a little info from
Moses?
• Genesis 3:9 Then the LORD
• God called to the man, and
• said to him, "Where are you?"

5. Exodus 4:3, It Became A Serpent
• Exodus 4:3 Then He said, "Throw it on the
ground." So he threw it on the ground, and it
became a serpent; and Moses fled from it.
• Not, “Behold, there was a serpent.”
• That would allow for magic.
• 40 years as a shepherd, it must have been
poisonous.

6. Exodus 4:4, It Became A Staff
• Exodus 4:4 But the LORD said to Moses,
"Stretch out your hand and grasp it by its tail
"-- so he stretched out his hand and caught it,
and it became a staff in his hand—
• It was a snake, it became a
• staff
• No room for sleight of hand

7. Exodus 4:5, That They May Believe
• Exodus 4:5 "that they may believe that the
LORD, the God of their fathers, the God of
Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of
Jacob, has appeared to you.“
• God is giving reasons for His actions again.
• He doesn’t not have to explain Himself to
anybody! But He is gracious.
• As a father I’ve said, “Because I said so!”

8. Exodus 4:6,
Leprosy Had No Earthly Cure
• Exodus 4:6 The LORD furthermore said to him,
"Now put your hand into your bosom." So he
put his hand into his bosom, and when he
took it out, behold, his hand was leprous like
snow.

9. Exodus 4:7-9
• God gives 3 “if/then” scenarios

10. Exodus 4:9, Nile Will Become Blood
• Exodus 4:9 "But if they will not believe even these
two signs or heed what you say, then you shall
take some water from the Nile and pour it on the
dry ground; and the water which you take from
the Nile will become blood on the dry ground."
• Ryrie Study Bible notes on page 70, say “If Moses
could turn the water of the Nile, considered the
source of the prosperity of Egypt, into blood, a
sign of death, surely his power over pharaoh
would be accomplish."

11. Exodus 4:10, I’m Not Up To Your Job
• Exodus 4:10 Then Moses said to the LORD, "Please, Lord, I
have never been eloquent, neither recently nor in time
past, nor since You have spoken to Your servant; for I am
slow of speech and slow of tongue.”
• God can use us in our weakness, or even in spite of our
strengths.
• 2 Corinthians 12:9 My grace is sufficient for you, for power
is perfected in weakness.
• He even used Peter (3 X’s denied Christ), and James and
John the "Sons of Thunder,” (Mark 3:17) to patiently and
lovingly build the early church.
• So rather than looking at your strengths or weaknesses,
look to God, and humbly say “Yes LORD”, then get to work.

12. Exodus 4:11
Psalm 94:8-9
“Understand, ye
brutish among the
people: and [ye]
fools, when will ye
be wise? He that
planted the ear,
shall he not hear?
he that formed the
eye, shall he not
see?”

13. Ex 4:11, TODAY'S CREATION MOMENT
“Another Miracle Of Sight”
• Exodus 4:11 The LORD said to him, "Who has made
man's mouth? Or who makes him mute or deaf, or
seeing or blind? Is it not I, the LORD?
• “…The eye is a chemical and technological wonder. It
would take thousands of carefully directed mutations
for an eyeless creature to develop sight. And since a
partial eye doesn’t provide sight, each of these
thousands of mutations would offer no advantage to
the creature.
• The fact is, of course, that mutations don’t happen this
way. All the true mutations we know about have
harmed rather than helped the creature with the
mutation. This fact places the thought of

14. Ex 4:11, TODAY'S CREATION MOMENT
“Another Miracle Of Sight”
• thousands of positive mutations in a row outside the
realm of scientifically reasonable consideration. In
addition, neither living nor known fossil animals show
any evidence of gradual development of eyes.
Therefore, the most reasonable scientific conclusion is
that there is a Creator Who designed and created the
eye.
• The lens of the eye is a marvel of chemistry. It is made
up of a concentration of protein molecules inside
water-lined cells. When scientists learned this, they
were amazed. Protein molecules in water are not
transparent, as the lens must be. After more research,
they discovered God’s

15. Ex 4:11, TODAY'S CREATION MOMENT
“Another Miracle Of Sight”
• secret. The high concentration of protein
molecules in the lens of the eye causes the
proteins to pack together something like the
molecules of window glass. As a result, the
normally opaque protein solution in the lens
becomes transparent.
• The eye does more damage to ideas about origins
that leave out God than almost any other feature
of the creation because it allows us to see the
Creator’s fingerprints all around us!”

16. Exodus 4:12,
Who’s Gonna Do The Doin’
• Exodus 4:12 "Now then go, and I, even I, will
be with your mouth, and teach you what you
are to say."

17. Exodus 4:13, Anybody But Me
• Exodus 4:13 But he said, "Please, Lord, now
send the message by whomever You will.“
• Exodus 4:14 Then the anger of the LORD
burned against Moses, and He said, "Is there
not your brother Aaron the Levite? I know
that he speaks fluently. And moreover, behold,
he is coming out to meet you; when he sees
you, he will be glad in his heart.

18. Exodus 4:13, Anger Of The LORD
• This is the 1st. of 35 uses of the term “anger of
the LORD”
• All are in the OT
• Where is the greatest example of “the anger of
the LORD”?
• Isaiah 53:10 But the LORD was pleased To crush
Him, putting Him to grief; If He would render
Himself as a guilt offering, He will see His
offspring, He will prolong His days, And the good
pleasure of the LORD will prosper in His hand.

19. Exodus 4:15-16, As God To Him
• Exodus 4:15"And you are to speak to him and put
the words in his mouth; and I, even I, will be with
your mouth and his mouth, and I will teach you
what you are to do. 16 "Moreover, he shall speak
for you to the people; and it shall come about
that he shall be as a mouth for you, and you shall
be as God to him.
• Exodus 7:1 Then the LORD said to Moses, "See, I
make you as God to Pharaoh, and your brother
Aaron shall be your prophet.

20. Exodus 4:17-31

21. Exodus 4:20, The Staff Of God
• Exodus 4:20 So Moses took his wife and his sons and
mounted them on a donkey, and returned to the land of
Egypt. Moses also took the staff of God in his hand.
• Exodus 7:9… 'Take your staff and throw it down before
Pharaoh…
• 7 X’s after Exodus 4:20 the NASU refers to “your staff”. Only
in Exodus 17:9 is “the staff of God”
• How would you like to have “The Staff Of God”?
• John 15:16 "You did not choose Me but I chose you, and
appointed you that you would go and bear fruit, and that
your fruit would remain, so that whatever you ask of the
Father in My name He may give to you.
• 1 John 5:15 And if we know that He hears us in whatever
we ask, we know that we have the requests which we have
asked from Him.

22. Exodus 4:20, The Staff Of God
• Mark 10:35 James and John, the two sons of
Zebedee, came up to Jesus, saying, "Teacher,
we want You to do for us whatever we ask of
You."
• 36 And He said to them, "What do you want
Me to do for you?“
• John 14:13 "Whatever you ask in My name,
that will I do, so that the Father may be
glorified in the Son.

23. Exodus 4:21, I Will Harden His Heart
• Exodus 4:21 The LORD said to Moses, "When you
go back to Egypt see that you perform before
Pharaoh all the wonders which I have put in your
power; but I will harden his heart so that he will
not let the people go.
• Yet future, (not yet), and there are 3 ways this is
described;
• Pharaoh will harden his own heart
• God will harden his heart
• Pharaoh’s heart was hardened

24. Exodus 4:24,
The Wages Of Sin Is Death
• Exodus 4:24 Now it came about at the lodging
place on the way that the LORD met him and
sought to put him to death.
• Delayed obedience and partial obedience is
disobedience.
• 1 Samuel 15:14 But Samuel said, "What then is
this bleating of the sheep in my ears, and the
lowing of the oxen which I hear?"
• KJV Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death; but
the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ
our Lord.

25. Exodus 4:25,
Zipporah Circumcised Him
• Exodus 4:25 Then Zipporah took a flint and cut off
her son's foreskin and threw it at Moses' feet,
and she said, "You are indeed a bridegroom of
blood to me.“
• Some think that she was the reason they were
not already circumcised, and that she did it to
save Moses' life.
• “her son's foreskin” is singular in both Hebrew
and Greek texts. I’m betting that she cut both,
and only threw one.

26. Exodus 4:25 and 18:1
Zipporah Circumcised Him
• Exodus 18:1 Now Jethro, the priest of Midian,
Moses' father-in-law, heard of all that God had
done for Moses and for Israel His people, how
the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt. 2
Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took Moses' wife
Zipporah, after he had sent her away,
• Some think the circumcising incident is when
she got kicked out, and sent home.

27. Exodus 4:31, Salvation Order Is Always
• Exodus 4:31 So the people believed; and when
they heard that the LORD was concerned
about the sons of Israel and that He had seen
their affliction, then they bowed low and
worshiped.
• They hear the LORD’s messenger
• They believe
• They humble themselves and worship
• They are then saved

28. Exodus 5:1-23

29. Exodus 5:1, the LORD, the God of Israel
• Exodus 5:1 And afterward Moses and Aaron came and
said to Pharaoh, "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel,
'Let My people go that they may celebrate a feast to
Me in the wilderness.”
• 1st use of “the LORD, the God of Israel”
• Genesis 26:24 The LORD…said, "I am the God of your
father Abraham…
• Genesis 28:13…the LORD…said, "I am the LORD, the
God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac
• Exodus 3:6…"I am the God of your father, the God of
Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob."

30. Exodus 5:1, the LORD, the God of Israel
• So when people say that “Allah” is just the Arabic word meaning
“God”, you might want clarify things by suggesting the use of the
personal names God uses of Himself in the Bible.
• Wikipedia says, “The term Allāh is derived from a contraction of
the Arabic definite article al- "the" and ilāh "deity, god" to al-
lāh meaning "the *sole+ deity, God…”
• So, if we’re discussing the one, true God who created heaven and
earth, and everything in it, as described in the Bible (not Molech
or Baal). Why not use the personal names God uses of Himself in
the Bible, “the LORD, the God of Israel” or “the God of your
father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of
Jacob.” Jesus said in Matthew 7:21 "Not everyone who says to
Me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who
does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter.
• Exodus 5:3 Then they said, "The God of the Hebrews…

31. Exodus
5:1, the
LORD, the
God of
Israel

32. Exodus 5:2, Great Question!
• Exodus 5:2 But Pharaoh said, "Who is the
LORD that I should obey His voice…
• To bad he got the wrong answer

33. Exodus 5:5 Deuteronomy 5:3, Seventh
Day Adventist, The Clear Word Bible
• Question: Some Seventh day Adventist friends have what they call
"The Clear Word Bible." Something doesn't sound quite right, and
it looks like verses have been changed to support their teachings.
Response: We would agree with your concerns about the Clear
Word Bible. One doesn't have to go through much of this version to
determine that words have been added or meanings changed in
order to "more clearly" support their particular teachings….
• Consider Exodus 5:5: "And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the
land now are many, and ye make them rest from their
burdens" (KJV).
• The Clear Word Bible: "You've created enough problems by making
them rest every week on your Sabbath...." Pharaoh is made to be
complaining about the Jews keeping the Sabbath prior to the Law!
In truth, this passage says nothing about keeping the Sabbath, and
this twisting of Scriptures removes the meaning from this passage
of Holy Scripture. From the context, it is clear that Pharaoh is the
one adding to the burden of the Jews…. GotQuestions.org

34. Exodus 5:14, Hebrew Foremen
• Exodus 5:14 Moreover, the foremen of the sons
of Israel, whom Pharaoh's taskmasters had set
over them, were beaten and were asked, "Why
have you not completed your required amount
either yesterday or today in making brick as
previously?“
• Exodus 5:15 Then the foremen of the sons of
Israel came and cried out to Pharaoh, saying,
"Why do you deal this way with your servants?
• They had considerable clout, they came into
Pharaoh’s presence, but were beaten.

35. Exodus 5:23, Well I Think That…
• Exodus 5:23 "Ever since I came to Pharaoh to
speak in Your name, he has done harm to this
people, and You have not delivered Your
people at all.“
• Well I think that You should have done more
by now God.
• Don’t we do this too?

36. Exodus 6:1-13

37. Exodus 6:3, Progressive Revelation
• Exodus 6:3 and I appeared to Abraham, Isaac,
and Jacob, as God Almighty, but by My name,
LORD, I did not make Myself known to them.
• But now He has made Himself known to them
by His name, LORD (YHVH, or YHWH).

38. Exodus 6:5, I Have Remembered
• Exodus 6:5 "Furthermore I have heard the
groaning of the sons of Israel, because the
Egyptians are holding them in bondage, and I
have remembered My covenant.
• Gingrich’s definition of this Greek word in the
LXX says, “…Remember in the sense think of,
be concerned about…”

39. Exodus 6:11, Out Of His Land
• Exodus 6:11 "Go, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt to let
the sons of Israel go out of his land.”
• Exodus 3:11 But Moses said to God, "Who am I,
that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should
bring the sons of Israel out of Egypt?“
• Exodus 3:18 …'The LORD, … let us go a three days'
journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice
to the LORD our God.‘
• Exodus 5:3, 8, 11, 1 …Thus says the LORD, the
God of Israel, 'Let My people go that they may
celebrate a feast to Me in the wilderness.'"

40. THE
END
• Colorful Desserts To
make us think of the
sweet taste of
redemption

41. Proverbs 20:12 Amos 4:13 Exodus
4:11, Miracle Of Sight
• TODAY'S CREATION MOMENT
• ANOTHER MIRACLE OF SIGHT
• Listen
• Psalm 94:8-9
• “Understand, ye brutish among the people: and *ye+ fools, when will ye be wise? He that planted the ear, shall he
not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?”
• The eye is a chemical and technological wonder. It would take thousands of carefully directed mutations for an
eyeless creature to develop sight. And since a partial eye doesn’t provide sight, each of these thousands of
mutations would offer no advantage to the creature.
• The fact is, of course, that mutations don’t happen this way. All the true mutations we know about have harmed
rather than helped the creature with the mutation. This fact places the thought of thousands of positive
mutations in a row outside the realm of scientifically reasonable consideration. In addition, neither living nor
known fossil animals show any evidence of gradual development of eyes. Therefore, the most reasonable scientific
conclusion is that there is a Creator Who designed and created the eye.
• The lens of the eye is a marvel of chemistry. It is made up of a concentration of protein molecules inside water-
lined cells. When scientists learned this, they were amazed. Protein molecules in water are not transparent, as the
lens must be. After more research, they discovered God’s secret. The high concentration of protein molecules in
the lens of the eye causes the proteins to pack together something like the molecules of window glass. As a result,
the normally opaque protein solution in the lens becomes transparent.
• The eye does more damage to ideas about origins that leave out God than almost any other feature of the
creation because it allows us to see the Creator’s fingerprints all around us!
• Prayer:
• I thank You, dear Lord, for the gift of sight by faith that allows me to see the clear evidences of Your handiwork all
around me. Teach me to show others, whose sight may not be so clear, that You are not only our Creator, but our
Savior. Amen.
• Notes:
• I. Peterson. 1983. “Why the Eye Lens is Transparent.” Science News, April 16.
• Proverbs 20:12 The hearing ear and the seeing eye, The LORD has made both of them.

42. Proverbs 20:12 Amos 4:13 Exodus
4:11, Miracle Of Sight
• TODAY'S CREATION MOMENT
• ANOTHER MIRACLE OF SIGHT
• Listen
• Psalm 94:8-9
• “Understand, ye brutish among the people: and *ye+ fools, when will ye be wise? He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye,
shall he not see?”
• The eye is a chemical and technological wonder. It would take thousands of carefully directed mutations for an eyeless creature to develop sight. And
since a partial eye doesn’t provide sight, each of these thousands of mutations would offer no advantage to the creature.
• The fact is, of course, that mutations don’t happen this way. All the true mutations we know about have harmed rather than helped the creature
with the mutation. This fact places the thought of thousands of positive mutations in a row outside the realm of scientifically reasonable
consideration. In addition, neither living nor known fossil animals show any evidence of gradual development of eyes. Therefore, the most
reasonable scientific conclusion is that there is a Creator Who designed and created the eye.
• The lens of the eye is a marvel of chemistry. It is made up of a concentration of protein molecules inside water-lined cells. When scientists learned
this, they were amazed. Protein molecules in water are not transparent, as the lens must be. After more research, they discovered God’s secret. The
high concentration of protein molecules in the lens of the eye causes the proteins to pack together something like the molecules of window glass. As
a result, the normally opaque protein solution in the lens becomes transparent.
• The eye does more damage to ideas about origins that leave out God than almost any other feature of the creation because it allows us to see the
Creator’s fingerprints all around us!
• Prayer:
• I thank You, dear Lord, for the gift of sight by faith that allows me to see the clear evidences of Your handiwork all around me. Teach me to show
others, whose sight may not be so clear, that You are not only our Creator, but our Savior. Amen.
• Notes:
• I. Peterson. 1983. “Why the Eye Lens is Transparent.” Science News, April 16.
• Proverbs 20:12 The hearing ear and the seeing eye, The LORD has made both of them.

43. Exodus 5:5 Deuteronomy 5:3, Seventh
Day Adventist, The Clear Word Bible
• Question: Some Seventh day Adventist friends have what they call "The Clear Word Bible." Something doesn't sound quite right, and it looks like
verses have been changed to support their teachings.
Response: We would agree with your concerns about the Clear Word Bible. One doesn't have to go through much of this version to determine that
words have been added or meanings changed in order to "more clearly" support their particular teachings.
• For example, Deuteronomy 5:3 in the KJV reads, "The LORD made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here
alive this day." In this passage, Moses is stating that the Sabbath Day was given by God to a named people (the Jews) as part of the Mosaic Law. This
verse reads the same in all alternate translations that we consulted (NIV, NASB, ESV, NLT, etc.).
• The same verse from the SDA paraphrase (the Clear Word Bible) reads, "It wasn't only with our ancestors that He made a covenant, but with us and
with all who are alive today." It is clear to see that the meaning of the passage has been changed. There is a reason. Many SDAs believe that those
who came before--Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and the patriarchs--all kept the Sabbath. So, Jack Blanco, who produced the Clear Word Bible, changed
"not with our fathers" [did He make a covenant] to "It wasn't only with our ancestors that He made a covenant...." This is clearly wresting the Word
of God.
• Consider Exodus 5:5: "And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land now are many, and ye make them rest from their burdens" (KJV).
• The Clear Word Bible: "You've created enough problems by making them rest every week on your Sabbath...." Pharaoh is made to be complaining
about the Jews keeping the Sabbath prior to the Law! In truth, this passage says nothing about keeping the Sabbath, and this twisting of Scriptures
removes the meaning from this passage of Holy Scripture. From the context, it is clear that Pharaoh is the one adding to the burden of the Jews.
• SDAs have historically gone through a "purging" process every few decades or so. The last major one was in the 1980s, when many theologians,
pastors, and members left when Ellen G. White's plagiarism was highlighted and the governing body nonetheless issued the directive to recognize
the "spirit of prophecy" (i.e., Ellen G. White's status as a prophet) and submit.
• In SDA President Ted Wilson's inaugural sermon he chastized those who don't emphasize the Sabbath and those who speak against "the spirit of
prophecy." In his address "Go Forward" (General Conference Sabbath Sermon from July 3, 2010), he emphasized the "correct way" to interpret
Scriptures: "hold your leaders, pastors, local churches, educators, [et al.] accountable to the highest standards of belief based on a literal
understanding of Scripture. Utilize wonderful resources such as the Biblical Research Institute's new book on hermeneutics that helps us know the
correct way to interpret the Scriptures."
• Again we read in Selected Messages, Book 1 (by Ellen G. White), on p. 170, "Do not overstrain the meaning of sentences in the Bible in an effort to
bring forth something odd in order to please the fancy. Take the Scriptures as they read."
•
• The irony of this is that many SDA doctrines, such as the Investigative Judgment, do not take the Scriptures as they are read. With the "Clear Word"
Bible, there has been some "wresting" that slants the verses in this paraphrase towards particular doctrines of SDAs.
• GotQuestions.org