Journal Through the Bible: Week 12 Friday

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Exodus 6:10-7:25

I have verses underlined in this passage with an arrow drawn to connect them.
Q. (6:12 and 6:30) - [H]ow then shall Pharaoh hear me, who am of uncircumcised lips?
A. (6:29 and 7:1,2) - I am the LORD: speak thou unto Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I say unto thee.

In other words, God tells Moses, "Pharaoh won't listen to you! However, I am going to get his attention and he will definitely listen to ME!"

Does God make any promises in this passage?

• He continued to promise that He would bring His people out of bondage!
• He promised to harden Pharaoh's heart so that God's power could be magnified and so that God would receive the glory when the exodus finally occurred. 

Are there any references to Jesus?

• The very rod of Aaron was a picture of Jesus! Satan always provides counterfeit signs and wonders in order to deceive, but Jesus conquers the sinful acts of Satan every time!
• For 7 days the Nile River was filled with blood. This river was one of the gods worshiped by the Egyptians and they had to dig around it to try to find potable water to quench their thirst. Jesus said that He alone is the water of life and that any man that thirsts can come to Him and they will receive the water of life and would never thirst again.

Are there any references to yet-future events?

• We are told in Revelation of another battle between spiritually motivated forces that results in a valley running with blood. The first plague seems to foreshadow the future Battle of Armageddon unless it is merely coincidence that both battles between God's people and the nations that want to annihilate them commence with rivers of blood.

Does God issue any commands?

• God told Moses to go once again to Pharaoh to demand that the people be allowed to leave. (Moses was hesitant since even the Hebrews no longer believed him.)
• God charged Moses and Aaron with making His wishes known to the people and to Pharaoh (6:13).

Notice that it is AARON'S ROD and not Moses' rod that becomes the serpent that swallowed the magician's rods-turned-serpents and it was AARON'S ROD that turned the water to blood. It was Moses' rod in the desert but it was Aaron's rod in the presence of Pharaoh that was used. This was team evangelism supplied by God Himself!

NOTE: The genealogist in me can't help but notice that Moses told us how old his grandpa Levi was when he died (137 years). He also tells us how old his grandpa Kohath was when he died (133 years). Remember that Kohath was born when Levi was a young man and Jochebed was obviously born when Levi was an old man. Jochebed was likely not a teenager when her own children were born, but was perhaps toward the end of her childbearing years. (The fact that two generations of the same family were of approximately the same age is not hard to imagine. It has happened in my family. My aunt was so from birth and even my son was an uncle at the ripe old age of 6!) Moses tells us that his father, Amram, lived to be 137 also. The Exodus itself happened in the 15th century (the date I use is 1491 BC which mathematically lines up nicely with the date used for Solomon's Temple). A good resource book concerning the pharaohs between the time of Joseph and Moses is Unwrapping the Pharaohs by Ashton and Down, published by Master Books. 

Notice also that Moses tells us about Aaron's wife's family in 6:23. See Numbers 1:7 for the cross reference which was also written by Moses.