Man, the title of my sermon tonight is
Jesus in the Book of Exodus.
You know, this morning,
I preached about Jesus in the Book of Genesis,
and I talked about how it's not just Genesis,
but that other books of the Bible are the same way.
So I wasn't just blowing smoke at you.
Actually, Exodus is the same way.
So I wanna talk about Jesus in the Book of Exodus.
Of course, the Bible tells us to him,
give all the prophets witness,
that through his name, whosoever believeth in him,
shall receive remission of sins.
And so all throughout the Old Testament books,
they're constantly pointing us to Jesus Christ.
There are literal appearances of Jesus Christ,
as well as symbolism regarding Jesus Christ,
or prophecies of Jesus.
And we see a lot of that in the Book of Exodus.
Even right in the very first chapter of Exodus.
Turn back, if you would, to Exodus chapter number one.
Second book in the Bible is Exodus.
Go to Exodus chapter number one.
And in the first book,
we see that the children of Israel,
they went down into Egypt,
and they were only 70 souls that went down there
with Israel in that first generation.
But over the course of hundreds of years,
they multiplied and grew,
and became a great nation in Egypt.
And when they were down there multiplying,
the Egyptians began to get nervous.
And they said, you know, behold,
the people of the children of Israel
is more and mightier than we.
And they were afraid that they would turn on them,
or side with their enemies, or something like that.
So they put them into bondage, and they afflict them.
But then the Bible says the more that they afflicted them,
the more they multiplied and grew.
And so they ended up doing something horrible,
where they wanted to kill all of the male children
that were born unto the Hebrews.
Look down, if you would, at Exodus chapter one, verse 22.
It says, and Pharaoh charged all his people, saying,
every son that is born ye shall cast into the river,
and every daughter ye shall save alive.
And what could be more grotesque or wicked
than taking a newborn baby and throwing it in the river?
I mean, can you imagine just destroying the life
of a newborn baby?
But even today in the United States of America,
this is considered normal,
because New York just passed a law,
and there's a video or an image of all the lawmakers
just smiling, and all the men,
and their little faggoty pink tie for women's rights,
or feminism, or whatever stupidity they have a pink tie on
about, oh, isn't it so wonderful that now
in the state of New York, you can murder a baby
all the way up until it's born?
I mean, think about it.
How many times are babies born prematurely?
And they're fine.
You know, they're born at 36 weeks, 37 weeks, 38 weeks,
and they're born, they're fine.
But you could have a baby that's 40 weeks
inside its mother's womb,
and it could be legally murdered in the state of New York.
And I'm sure other states are gonna follow suit.
I'm sure Vermont and Massachusetts will be next
in that part of the country of just allowing
these horrific late-term abortions.
But you know what?
All abortion's wicked.
I don't care how many weeks.
I don't care if it's early-term, mid-term,
late-term abortions.
It's murder, it's infanticide, it's disgusting.
And isn't it funny that these atheists
who claim to care so much about science,
and they just believe in the evidence,
and the science, and evolution, and the big bang,
and everything like that,
isn't it amazing how they'll turn around
and look at a baby in its mother's womb
and say, it's not alive?
Even though that defies every scientific definition of life?
By any scientific definition, it's alive.
And we know it's human.
It's not like it starts out as an animal,
and then it becomes a human when it's born.
Actually, if it were an animal,
they'd probably be more likely to wanna keep it alive.
It seems like these bunch of libtards
are more interested in keeping animals alive
than human beings.
It's disgusting.
But you know what?
There's nothing new under the sun.
I mean, the Egyptians were throwing babies into the river.
There were people in the Old Testament
who offered their sons and their daughters
and sacrificed under Molech,
and they cast their children in the fire.
Babies being cast in the river.
Hey, mankind is wicked.
The heart is deceitful above all things,
and desperately wicked.
Who can know it?
And mankind has always been wicked,
and so this kind of garbage has always gone on,
and the United States is getting to that point now
where it's resembling these Old Testament
bad example nations that were so wicked
that they actually murdered their own children.
But what does this have to do with Jesus
in the book of Exodus?
I'll tell you what.
Because the same thing happened to baby Jesus.
He was threatened with what?
With murder.
Because when he was just approximately a two-year-old boy,
Herod sent out that decree
to murder all the children in Bethlehem
and in all the coasts thereof from two years old and under.
And so just as baby Moses was in peril of being destroyed
just by virtue of being born,
it's the same thing with baby Jesus, right?
So that's why Moses had to be hidden of his parents.
The Bible says in Hebrews 11,
by faith, Moses, when he was born,
was hid three months of his parents
because they saw he was a proper child
and they were not afraid of the king's commandment.
So they hid baby Moses for three months,
and then they couldn't hide him anymore.
They put him in the ark.
They put him in a boat, and you know the story.
But the point is that Jesus is being foreshadowed
in the story of baby Jesus right here in Exodus chapter one.
Of course, then in chapter two, Moses grows up,
and when he reaches 40 years old,
he refuses to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter.
He chooses rather to suffer affliction
with the people of God.
He ends up killing the Egyptian,
and then he ends up fleeing into the desert,
into the land of Midian,
and he's dwelling there when the Lord comes
and speaks to him 40 years later.
And when the Lord comes and speaks to Moses
when he's an 80-year-old man,
he speaks to him in the burning bush.
Now go to Exodus chapter number three.
Exodus chapter number three.
So we saw in chapter one the imagery
and the symbolism of baby Moses
representing baby Jesus, right?
They're both in peril of these infanticidal governments.
Look at Exodus chapter number three in verse two.
The Bible reads, and the angel of the Lord
appeared unto him, that's Moses,
in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush,
and he looked, and behold, the bush burned with fire,
and the bush was not consumed.
And Moses said, I will now turn aside
and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt.
And when the Lord saw that, he turned aside to see,
God called unto him out of the midst of the bush
and said, Moses, Moses!
And he said, here am I.
And he said, draw not nigh hither,
put off thy shoes from off thy feet,
for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.
Now, this vision of the burning bush
and the Lord speaking to him out of the burning bush,
this is Jesus in the book of Exodus.
Let me prove it to you.
This is Jesus in the book of Exodus.
First of all, the Bible says in verse two,
the angel of the Lord appeared unto him
in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush,
and often in the Old Testament,
the Bible calls Jesus the angel of the Lord.
Now, when the Bible says the angel of the Lord,
it's not always referring to Jesus
because it could be referring to
another of the Lord's messengers,
because the word angel simply means messenger.
But Jesus is called the messenger of the covenant
in Malachi chapter number three,
when it prophesies how he will suddenly come into his temple
and he's gonna purge the temple.
Remember when he flipped over the tables
and chased out the money changers.
That prophecy in Malachi three
calls Jesus the messenger of the covenant.
There are multiple times in the Old Testament
where you can prove that the angel of the Lord
in that situation is referring to Jesus.
And this is one of those situations,
because the angel of the Lord here
that speaks unto him out of the bush
is also called God,
because it says God called unto him out of the bush.
And not only that, but flip over to Joshua chapter five.
Keep your finger there in Exodus chapter three.
Let's go to Joshua five.
And I'm trying to show you that who God...
I'm trying to show you that the one with whom Moses
spake in the burning bush was actually Jesus.
Okay, that he was speaking to in that burning bush.
Go if you would to Joshua chapter number five verse 13.
The Bible says,
and it came to pass when Joshua was by Jericho,
that he lifted up his eyes and looked
and behold, there stood a man.
Remember back in Genesis,
the man who wrestled with Jacob, right?
And it turned out to be God that he wrestled with.
It says he saw and there stood a man over against him
with his sword drawn in his hand.
And Joshua went unto him and said unto him,
art thou for us or for our adversaries?
So he's by Jericho and this guy
is just holding a naked sword, right?
So that seems a little bit aggressive, right?
When somebody has just got the sword drawn.
So he says, hey, are you for us or are you for our enemies?
Are you for our adversaries?
And I love the answer and he said, nay.
Now that was not a yes or no question,
but he answers him, no.
So are you for us or are you for our enemies?
No, all right, because he's neither.
He says, nay, but as captain of the host of the Lord,
am I now come.
He's saying, basically, I'm not for you, you're for me.
All right, I'm the leader here.
I'm the boss.
I'm not following you, you're following me.
I'm the captain of the host of the Lord.
And Joshua fell on his face to the earth and did worship
and said unto him, what sayeth my Lord unto his servant?
And the captain of the Lord's host said unto Joshua,
loose thy shoe from off thy foot
for the place where on thou standest is holy
and Joshua did so.
Notice this man receives worship from Joshua.
When Joshua worships him, he doesn't correct him.
On the contrary, he says to him, put off your shoes
from off your feet for the place where on thou standest
is holy ground.
That's exactly what the angel of the Lord said
from the burning bush.
The angel of the Lord told him to take off his shoes
because he's on holy ground.
This man says the exact same thing.
He's the captain of the Lord's host and he receives worship.
Now, if you remember John in the book of Revelation,
he falls down at the feet of the angel
who's showing him things and the angel corrects him
and says, see thou do it not.
For I am of thy fellow servants and I'm thy fellow servant
of thy brother in the prophet,
which keep the sayings of this book, worship God.
So he's telling him, don't worship me, worship God.
But do we see this man saying, don't worship me,
worship God?
No, we see this man receiving the worship
and in fact demanding even more obeisance,
demanding that he remove his shoes
as a further sign of deference,
as a further sign of reverence and worship.
So this is clearly no ordinary man
and this is clearly just not some run of the mill angel.
No, this is Jesus, okay?
Jesus is called the captain of our salvation.
Jesus is the one who answered Moses out of the burning bush
and told him to remove his shoes.
And now as Moses is replaced by Joshua,
he appears to Joshua and tells him to remove his shoes
and he receives the worship
that is due unto only the Lord, right?
Because we should worship the Lord our God
and him only shall we serve.
Go to Exodus chapter 23, Exodus chapter 23.
And isn't it amazing that in all these Old Testament
appearances of Jesus, he's a man, right?
Like the man who wrestled with Jacob
and then Jacob said, I've seen the face of God
or the three men walk up to Abraham in the heat of day
and one of them is the Lord
and the other two are his two angels.
So you know what that proves that Jesus was a man
in the Old Testament?
Jesus was a human being, he was a man back then.
Why?
Because he is eternally the son of God,
he is eternally a man.
He is that member of the Godhead who is man, right?
He is the son of God, eternal son of God
and he did not just come into existence
in the New Testament.
And this is what these oneness Pentecostals
and modalists teach.
They say, oh, well, there's no son of God
in the Old Testament because God hadn't fathered a son yet.
That's Luke chapter one where that's talked about
or Luke chapter two or Matthew chapter one.
Wrong.
The son of God already existed in the Old Testament
as a man that makes numerous appearances
where people see God face to face.
Go to Exodus 23 there and look at verse number 20.
This is when Moses is up on the Mount
getting the laws from God.
And it says in Exodus 23, 20,
Behold, I send an angel before thee
to keep thee in the way and to bring thee
into the place which I have prepared.
Beware of him and obey his voice, provoke him not
for he will not pardon your transgressions
for my name is in him.
Okay, so this is the man whom Joshua is confronted with
in Joshua chapter five.
This is that angel that's gonna go before them
and lead them into the promised land.
And it says, my name is in him.
Okay, this is further proof of his deity, his divinity.
But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice,
verse 22, and do all that I speak,
then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies
and an adversary unto thine adversaries
for mine angel shall go before thee
and bring thee in unto the Amorites and the Hittites
and the Perizzites and the Canaanites,
the Hivites and the Jebusites and I will cut them off.
And you see, this is why when it talks
about the children of Israel being in the wilderness,
it talks about in 1 Corinthians 10
that they provoked Christ.
They provoked that angel that went before them.
Now you say, are you saying Jesus is an angel?
No, angel means messenger.
Just like in Revelation two and three,
when he says the angel of the church of Ephesus,
the angel of the church of Smyrna.
We're not talking about the angelic beings
like Seraphim and Cherubim.
We're talking about a messenger.
And Jesus Christ is called the messenger
of the Lord of hosts.
And multiple times in the Old Testament,
he is called the angel of the Lord.
He's being worshiped and he's called God
and the Lord and everything else.
So with that in mind, go back to Exodus chapter three.
Exodus chapter three, what's the sermon about?
Jesus in the book of Exodus.
We saw the foreshadowing in chapter one
of the baby Jesus being persecuted
and they sought to kill him, right?
Then when we get to chapter three,
we see the Lord speak to Moses out of the burning bush.
And we find that specifically the one speaking
to Moses out of the burning bush is Jesus.
It's actually the son of God, the Lord Jesus Christ
making an Old Testament appearance.
Same as Joshua five is Jesus making
an Old Testament appearance.
Same as Exodus chapter 23 is mentioning
that Jesus will go before them.
Look if you would at verse number 13 of Exodus chapter three
and Moses said unto God, so notice when he answers back
the angel of the Lord from the burning bush,
he's talking to who?
He's talking to God.
Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel
and shall say unto them, the God of your fathers
hath sent me unto you and they shall say to me,
what is his name?
What shall I say unto them?
And God said unto Moses, I am that I am.
And he said, thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel,
I am have sent me unto you.
And God said, moreover unto Moses,
thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel,
the Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham,
the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob
hath sent me unto you.
This is my name forever and this is my memorial
unto all generations.
And of course that name is significant, I am.
I am that I am.
Remember when they said to Jesus,
thou are not 50 years old and has thou seen Abraham?
He said, verily, verily I say unto you,
before Abraham was, I am.
And that's when they took up stones to stone him
because he's claiming to be deity by saying
before Abraham was, I am.
Then he also makes the seven great I am statements
in the book of John.
I'm the light of the world.
I'm the bread of life.
I am the true vine.
I'm the good shepherd.
I am the door.
I'm the way, the truth and the life.
I am the resurrection and the life, right?
These seven great I am statements of Jesus
in the book of John, identifying him as Jehovah, right?
Now, if you would flip over to Exodus chapter 12.
Exodus chapter 12.
For sake of time, we're gonna jump forward to Exodus 12.
But let me just refresh your memory that in between
Moses meeting God at the burning bush in Exodus 12,
he goes and confronts Pharaoh and says, let my people go.
And when he confronts Pharaoh, of course,
Pharaoh hardens his heart and refuses to let the people go.
Then subsequently God hardens Pharaoh's heart
so that he just will not back down.
And there are 10 plagues that are brought upon Egypt.
Well, of course those 10 plagues, as I taught this morning
are a foreshadowing of the wrath of the lamb,
the wrath of Jesus Christ in the book of Revelation
where many of the same plagues or similar plagues
will be brought not just on Egypt
but on the entire world at that time.
So there's more of Jesus in the book of Exodus
because the plagues are picturing the wrath of Jesus,
the wrath of the lamb as it states in Revelation chapter six
but Exodus chapter 12 is probably the most powerful picture
of Jesus in the book of Exodus
because it's about the Passover.
And the Bible tells in first Corinthians five
that Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us.
So look down at verse number one of Exodus chapter 12.
The Bible reads,
and the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron
in the land of Egypt saying,
this month shall be unto you the beginning of months.
It shall be the first month of the year to you.
Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel saying,
in the 10th day of this month,
they shall take to them every man a lamb
according to the house of their fathers,
a lamb for an house.
And if the household be too little for the lamb,
let him and his neighbor next unto his house
take it according to the number of the souls.
Every man according to his eating
shall make your count for the lamb.
Your lamb shall be without blemish
a male of the first year.
Ye shall take it out from the sheep or from the goats.
Here's an interesting progression here.
It starts out being a lamb and it becomes the lamb
and then ultimately it is your lamb, right?
So we need to have Jesus Christ
as our personal savior, right?
That's what you'll even hear that terminology a lot.
You know, he needs to be your savior.
He needs to be your lamb, right?
You need to have him personally as your savior.
So the Bible says in verse number five,
your lamb shall be without blemish
a male of the first year.
Ye shall take it out from the sheep or from the goats.
Of course, Jesus is the lamb of God
that taketh away the sin of the world.
And the reason the lamb had to be without blemish
is to picture the fact that Jesus Christ is totally sinless.
Jesus was tempted in all points like as we are
yet without sin.
It says ye shall keep it, verse number six,
until the 14th day of the same month
and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel
shall kill it in the evening.
Now what's interesting is that they take the lamb
on the 10th day of the month
and they keep it until the 14th.
And the reason is to examine it
and make sure that it's without blemish
just to kind of keep an eye on it
and have it there under observation.
Make sure it's a good, healthy lamb.
And then on the 14th, they kill it.
Now this is like Jesus Christ on that Sunday
that we know as Palm Sunday
where he does the triumphal entry into Jerusalem
and they lay down the palm branches and the coats
and Hosanna, blessed is he
that cometh in the name of the Lord.
That was on the 10th day of the first month
that that happened, the 10th day of the month, Abib.
That was the presentation of the lamb right there
where he's being presented.
And then just a few days later
on the 14th day of the month, Abib,
he was killed by whom?
Well, it says here that the Passover was to be killed
by the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel.
Well, you know what?
That's who killed Jesus.
The whole assembly of the congregation of Israel.
They assembled together
and the Roman governor wanted to let Jesus go.
He said three times, I find no fault in him.
I find no fault in him.
Three times to signify what?
Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty.
Just to show that he was without spot and without blemish,
he was examined and found to be guiltless
but the Jews cried out anyway, crucify him.
And Pilate said, shall I crucify your king?
We have no king but Caesar.
Oh, I'm free from the blood of this just person,
Pilate said and washed his hands.
And they said his blood be on us and on our children.
That's why all throughout the book of Acts,
the Jews are constantly accused,
you with wicked hands took Jesus and hanged him on a tree.
You slew the prince of life.
You slew Jesus.
And then the apostle Paul picks it up again
in first Corinthians chapter two,
when he says the Jews who both killed the Lord Jesus
and their own prophets.
So all throughout Acts and again in first Corinthians two,
the Bible says the Jews killed Jesus.
That's a fulfillment of prophecy
because the prophecy is that the Passover would be killed
by the congregation.
They all gathered together and screamed crucify him.
Now sure, it was some random Roman soldier
that actually drove the nails into his hands,
but that's not who killed Jesus according to the Bible.
The Bible says the Jews killed Jesus, right?
Because they were the ones who delivered him up.
And that's why Jesus said to Pilate,
when Pilate got all pompous and said,
knowest thou not that I have power to release thee
or have power to destroy thee?
Jesus said, thou wouldest have no power at all against me
except it were given thee from heaven.
Therefore, he that delivered me unto you
has the greater sin.
Jesus looked right at Pilate and said,
the one who delivered me unto you hath the greater sin.
It was the Jews who delivered up Jesus to be crucified,
who screamed crucify him.
The Bible says that Pilate had a sin obviously
by being involved.
Washing his hands isn't good enough.
Pilate was guilty.
The Romans were guilty, but you know who was more guilty?
The Jews.
They had the greater sin, the Bible says.
So here we see that prophecy.
The whole assembly of the congregation of Israel
shall kill it in the evening,
and they shall take of the blood and strike it
on the two side posts on the upper doorpost of the houses
wherein they shall eat it.
So we see that the blood is put at the top
and on the two side posts.
If you connect the dots, what do you get?
A cross symbol, right?
The two side posts on the top, it forms a cross.
That's what's being symbolized there.
And it's the blood of Jesus Christ, God's son,
that cleanses us from all sin.
So they take the blood, they put it on the house
wherein they eat.
And the Bible says in verse eight,
they shall eat the flesh in that night,
roast with fire and unleavened bread,
and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.
Eat not of it raw, nor sodden it all with water.
Sodden means boiled.
But roast with fire his head with his legs
and with the pertinent thereof.
Notice what a big deal it makes about eating it,
roast with fire.
Verse eight says, eat it, roast with fire.
And verse nine says, not raw, not boiled.
It has to be cooked a certain way.
Roast with fire.
Why is that?
That is the picture of the fact that Jesus Christ
would spend three days and three nights in hell.
His soul was made an offering for sin as Isaiah 53 says.
The Bible says that this spake he of the resurrection
of Christ, Acts 2 31, that his soul was not left in hell,
neither did his flesh see corruption.
And he cried out from hell and said,
my soul shall rest in hope,
for thou wilt not leave my soul in hell.
Neither wilt thou suffer thine holy one to see corruption.
The Bible says that Jesus Christ
descended first into the lower parts of the earth, right?
Before he ascended up to God on high.
So he died and the Bible says,
as Jonah was three days and three nights in the whale's
belly, so shall the son of man be three days
and three nights in the heart of the earth.
It says he descended into the lower parts of the earth.
You don't have to turn there,
but I'm gonna read it for you from Ephesians chapter four.
It says, wherefore he saith when he ascended up on high,
he led captivity captive and gave gifts unto men.
Now that he ascended, what is it,
but that he also descended first into the lower parts
of the earth.
He that descended is the same also that ascended up far
above all things, or I'm sorry,
far above all heavens that he might fill all things.
So the Bible's pretty clear that Jesus descended into hell
for three days and three nights.
His soul was not left in hell.
He rose again.
That's why when he rose again, he said,
I'm he that liveth and was dead and behold,
I'm alive forevermore, amen,
and have the keys of hell and of death.
Another great scripture on this is Romans chapter 10.
You don't have to turn there, but it says,
but the righteousness, which is a faith,
speaketh on this wise, say not in thine heart,
who shall ascend into heaven?
That is to bring Christ down from above.
Watch this, or who shall descend into the deep?
That is to bring up Christ again from the dead.
So to bring up Christ again from the dead
would be to descend into the deep.
You know what the deep is?
The lower parts of the earth.
And this is the same thing where the demons
cried out to Jesus.
They didn't want to be cast into the deep.
Don't send us to the deep.
Don't send us to that bottomless pit, right?
Don't send us into the abyss is what they're saying.
Don't send us down there yet, okay?
So Jesus Christ spent three days and three nights in hell
and then up from the grave he rose.
His soul was not left in hell,
neither did his body see corruption.
So his soul came up out of hell,
came back into his body and he walked out of the grave
and showed him the holes in his hands
and the hole in his side.
The body without the spirit is dead, right?
So when Jesus died, it was just a body there.
The soul went down into hell after Jesus gave up the ghost.
So we see that in Exodus 12 as well,
the roasting with fire,
picturing the fact that Jesus would be in hell
for three days and three nights.
You say, well, I don't think he went to hell.
I think he just went to Hades.
He just went to Sheol.
Well, if you're gonna believe that,
you'd have to say that the King James Bible's wrong then
because the King James Bible says that he was in hell
for three days and three nights.
And you'd also have to say that a whole bunch
of other Bibles and a whole bunch of other languages
are wrong because the majority of Bibles throughout history
and in most languages have translated that as hell.
And in fact, that Greek word Hades,
they say, well, it wasn't hell, it's just Hades, right?
Okay, well, the Bible says in Hades,
the rich man lift up his eyes in torments and he's on fire.
Every single time the Bible says hell 54 times,
it's always a bad place.
And it doesn't matter whether you look up the Greek words,
Hades and Gehenna, guess what?
It's always a bad place.
It's always fire, it's always punishment.
Well, there's a good side of hell.
Yeah, right.
Well, paradise, you know.
Folks, paradise is in heaven.
It said in 2 Corinthians chapter 12
that he was caught up to paradise.
Paradise is up, hell is down.
Two totally different places, friend.
And so this whole Abraham's bosom paradise doctrine
is a false doctrine.
Hell is hell is hell is hell, okay?
And so your King James Bible is right.
Don't let these people take you back to the Greek,
to Hades and try to show you Homer's Iliad or something
to try to tell you where Jesus went
for three days and three nights, okay?
Because of the fact that it's the same Greek word
in Luke 16, where he's burning in hell
as thou will not leave my soul in hell.
It's the same English word, same Greek word, same place.
And it's fire.
Well, it had two compartments.
Okay, just go take the Talmud and the Mishnah
and all that garbage and hang all that
because I don't believe any of that.
I believe in heaven and hell, okay?
And so anyway, that's a whole nother sermon.
And by the way, if Jesus was in paradise
for three days and three nights, here's my question.
Why is he so anxious to get out of there?
You know, I've been to paradise a few times
and I wanted to stay as long as I could.
When you're at paradise,
when you're laying on a beach somewhere in paradise,
you're not saying, well, there's hope
because you're not going to leave me here.
I just don't want to be stuck here in Maui.
You know, my only hope is that I'm not going to be stuck
here in Baja, California.
You know, I could get out of this horrible
paradise beach front property.
No, paradise isn't a place that you're dying to get out of.
But Jesus clearly is saying, hey,
my hope is that I'm getting out of hell,
that my soul's not going to be left in hell, right?
So anyway, I don't want to go on and on about that.
There's more to talk about tonight.
But anyway, let's go back here in Exodus 12.
It says, you shall let nothing of it, verse 10,
remain until the morning and that which remaineth of it
until the morning you shall burn with fire.
And thus shall ye eat it with your loins girded,
your shoes on your feet and your staff in your hand.
And you shall eat it in haste.
It is the Lord's Passover.
For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night
and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt,
both man and beast and against all the gods of Egypt,
I will execute judgment.
I am the Lord.
And the blood shall be to you for a token
upon the houses where you are.
And when I see the blood, I will pass over you.
And the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you
when I smite the land of Egypt.
And this day shall be unto you for a memorial
and you shall keep it a feast to the Lord
throughout your generations.
You shall keep it a feast by an ordinance forever.
So when we see the Passover here
and the angel coming through
and smiting all the firstborn and killing them,
the only way to survive was to be inside the house
that has the blood on the doorpost.
Well, throughout the Bible,
the house is often a symbol of our bodies.
The Bible calls our body the temple of the Holy Ghost.
And the apostle Paul said in 2 Corinthians 5 verse one,
we know that if our earthly house
of this tabernacle were dissolved,
that we have a building in the heavens, right?
So he's saying, look, the house of this earthly tabernacle,
and he's talking about his physical body.
So the blood on the doorpost represents basically
the blood applied to the doorpost of our hearts, right?
We have the blood of Christ applied
in our hearts spiritually.
That's what saves us.
So the Passover pictures salvation.
The lamb dies and then the blood is applied
and that's how you're saved.
But if you don't have the blood applied
to the doorpost of your heart, you're not saved.
The fact that Jesus died for you
doesn't get you automatically to heaven.
He's gotta be your lamb and the blood has to be applied
to your doorpost spiritually.
So when they go through this event with the Passover,
the ones who are in the house with the blood applied,
they are spared the death of their firstborn, right?
They're spared that judgment.
Flip over if you would to Exodus chapter 14.
So the next thing that happens after the blood is applied,
after they make it through the Passover,
is that they leave Egypt.
And when they leave Egypt,
they end up crossing the Red Sea, right?
To get out of Egypt and to go into Mount Sinai in Arabia.
And the Bible says in verse number 29 of chapter 14,
but the children of Israel walked upon dry land,
excuse me, in the midst of the sea
and the waters were a wall unto them
on their right hand and on their left.
Now keep your finger there in Exodus 14,
go to 1 Corinthians 10, 1 Corinthians chapter 10.
So of course the Passover lamb pictures Christ,
but the crossing of the Red Sea pictures baptism, okay?
Look at 1 Corinthians chapter number 10.
The Bible reads, moreover, brethren,
I would not that you should be ignorant,
chapter 10 verse one,
how that all our fathers were under the cloud
and all passed through the sea.
So there was a cloud there that represented God's presence.
And when they passed through the Red Sea on dry land,
the Bible told us that they had a wall of water
on the right and on the left.
So on both sides, they had a wall of water.
And the Bible tells us that they were under a cloud, right?
What is a cloud made out of?
Water.
So they were under the cloud
and they all passed through the sea.
This pictures baptism.
Look at verse two, and we're all baptized unto Moses
in the cloud and in the sea.
Do you see that?
So because they were surrounded by water,
that's a picture of baptism where you're dunked underwater,
where you're surrounded by water on all sides and above,
that's immersion in the waters of baptism.
So they were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud
and in the sea and did all eat the same spiritual meat.
What was the spiritual meat that they ate?
Well, a little bit later in the story in Exodus,
as they wander in the wilderness,
God feeds them with what?
Mana, right?
They receive mana every morning
and they gather it from the ground.
They all ate the same spiritual meat
and they all drank the same spiritual drink
for they drank of that spiritual rock that followed them
and that rock was Christ.
Now, isn't it interesting
that the rock was a spiritual rock
and that spiritual rock followed them?
Meaning that that spiritual rock did not stay in one place.
It wasn't one location where they went to the rock
and Moses smote the rock and water came out.
You remember that in Exodus?
He smites the rock, water comes out.
That rock was a spiritual rock.
That rock followed them and the Bible says
at the end of verse four, something quite astounding,
that rock was Christ, okay?
So we see here that Jesus Christ
is the rock of our salvation.
The Bible says other foundation can no man lay
than that is laid, that is Christ Jesus.
He's the rock, he's the foundation
and so that rock symbolized Jesus Christ.
So when he smote the rock and water came out,
that has to do with where the Bible said smite the shepherd
and the sheep will be scattered.
That was a prophecy of Jesus being crucified
and the wording was quote, smite the shepherd.
Well, smiting the rock caused what?
Living waters to come out and this is a picture of the fact
that when Jesus Christ would die for us,
when he would be smitten, the living water of salvation
would be made available to all.
The Bible says whosoever will,
let him take the water of life freely.
So is it just me or do parallels with Jesus abound
in the book of Exodus?
It's just like, it's another Genesis folks.
I mean, think about it, right away in chapter one,
we see a foreshadowing of baby Jesus being persecuted
and how Herod would seek to kill baby Jesus.
Then right away, we have Jesus speaking to Moses
in chapters three and four out of the burning bush.
Then we have the story of the plagues,
which is a picture of Jesus returning
in the book of Revelation and pouring out
the wrath of the lamb.
Then we get into the final plague, the 10th plague,
which is the Passover and what do we see?
Jesus is that Passover lamb.
He was the one that was presented on the 10th day of Abib.
He is the one that was killed even
by the entire congregation.
He was the one whose blood saves us.
He was the one whose blood must be applied
to the doorpost of our heart for us to be saved.
And then when we're saved, we get baptized, right?
And that's pictured by the children of Israel
then crossing the Red Sea in Exodus chapter 14,
under the cloud, through the sea.
Then when they get to the other side, what do they eat?
Mana, guess what?
The mana represents Jesus.
And we're gonna get to that in a moment.
The water that they drank represents Jesus.
The mana that they ate, Jesus.
I mean, look, it abounds.
The whole book's about Jesus.
You'd have to be blind not to see it, wouldn't you?
It's everywhere.
Now, if you would, if you're still in Exodus,
look at Exodus 16, verse 35.
They all ate the same spiritual meat, Exodus 16, 35.
And the children of Israel did eat mana 40 years
until they came to a land inhabited.
They did eat mana until they came under the borders
of the land of Canaan.
Flip over to chapter number 17, verse six.
Behold, I will stand before thee, Exodus 17, six,
upon the rock in Horeb, and thou shalt smite the rock,
and there shall come water out of it
that the people may drink.
And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.
Now let me show you that the mana is Jesus.
Go, if you would, to John chapter six, John chapter six.
So baby Moses represents Jesus.
The one who spake to Moses out of the burning bush
was Jesus.
The Passover lamb, Jesus.
The one who's pouring out his wrath on Egypt, Jesus, right?
When they go through the Red Sea, it pictures baptism.
Baptism has to do with the death, burial,
and resurrection of Jesus.
Then they get to the other side.
They're in the wilderness.
What do they eat?
Mana.
What do they drink?
Water from the rock.
The rock was Jesus.
Well now I'm gonna show you that even the mana was Jesus.
Look down at your Bible in John chapter six, verse 30.
They said therefore unto him, what sign showest thou then
that we may see and believe thee?
What does thou work?
Our fathers did eat mana in the desert.
As it is written, he gave them bread from heaven to eat.
Then Jesus said unto them, verily, verily,
I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven,
but my father giveth you the true bread from heaven.
For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven
and giveth life unto the world.
Then said they unto him, Lord, evermore give us this bread.
And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life.
He that cometh to me shall never hunger.
And he that believeth on me shall never thirst.
But I said unto you that ye also have seen me
and believe not.
All that the father giveth me shall come to me
and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.
For I came down from heaven not to do mine own will,
but the will of him that sent me.
And this is the father's will which had sent me
that of all which he giveth me I should lose nothing
but should raise it up again at the last day.
And this is the will of him that sent me
that everyone which seeth the son and believeth on him
may have everlasting life.
And I will raise him up at the last day.
The Jews then murmured at him because he said,
I'm the bread which came down from heaven.
Who do you think you are?
You're the bread that came down from heaven?
Well, I wonder if he would have told him,
you remember the rock that produced the water?
Yeah, that was me.
They wouldn't have believed that either, would they?
But what did the Bible say in 1 Corinthians 10?
They drank from the spiritual rock that followed them
and that rock was Christ.
Now obviously we know that that rock
was not literally Jesus.
Obviously the rock is a picture of Jesus.
Just like when Jesus holds up a piece of bread
and says this is my body which is broken for you,
it's called metaphor, okay?
But Jesus is saying, look, I'm the bread
that came down from heaven.
Not because they were actually chewing up
and swallowing Jesus when they chewed up
and swallowed that manna.
But what was the manna, what was it?
Manna was bread that came down from heaven,
it originated in heaven, it came down to the earth
and it fed and nourished and kept them alive.
It gave them life, right?
They can't live without it.
Now man does not live by bread alone
but by every word that proceeded out of the mouth of God.
But we need water to live, we need bread to live.
So Jesus is saying I'm the bread of life, why?
Because I came down from heaven just like the manna
came down from heaven and just as that manna
was actually basically destroyed by their bodies.
I mean they broke it down and metabolized it and ate it.
He's saying, look, my body's gonna be broken for you, okay?
And I'm gonna die for you to give you life
just like the manna was consumed
in order to give them nutrition and life.
Just as the Passover was eaten
and the Passover represents Jesus,
the manna was eaten and the manna represents Jesus.
So they murmured at this in verse 41.
The Jews then murmured at him because he said
I'm the bread which came down from heaven.
They're taking it too literally.
When he says I'm the bread that came down from heaven,
they're taking it too literally.
They're like Nicodemus, you know, born again.
So how can a man enter into his mother's womb
for the second time and be born?
That's a stupid question, right?
By someone who's taking an overly literal interpretation
of born again.
Well, they're taking an overly literal interpretation
of the bread of life and the manna and so forth.
So it says here, the Jews murmured at him, verse 42,
and they said, is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph,
whose father and mother we know?
How is it then that he saith, I came down from heaven?
Jesus therefore answered and said unto them,
murmur not among yourselves.
No man can come to me except the father
which hath sent me draw him,
and I will raise him up at the last day.
It is written in the prophets
and they shall all be taught of God.
Every man therefore that hath heard
and has learned of the father cometh unto me.
Not that any man hath seen the father,
that's a theme throughout scripture,
saith he which is of God, that's talking about Jesus,
the son of God has seen him.
He which is of God, he hath seen the father.
Verily, verily, I say unto you,
he that believeth on me hath everlasting life.
Boy, underline that soul winning verse, huh?
John 6, 47, that's a good one.
Verse 48, I am that bread of life.
Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness and are dead.
This is the bread which cometh down from heaven
that a man may eat thereof and not die.
I am the living bread which came down from heaven.
If any man eat of this bread, he shall live forever.
And the bread that I will give is my flesh,
which I will give for the life of the world.
The Jews therefore strove among themselves saying,
how can this man give us his flesh to eat?
Again, they're too literal, right?
How's he gonna give us his flesh to eat?
Then Jesus said unto them, well, sorry I offended you guys,
let me switch to a different illustration.
No, he just digs in deeper.
Then Jesus said unto them, verily, verily, I say unto you,
except ye eat the flesh of the son of man
and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.
Who so eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood
hath eternal life, and I'll raise him up at the last day.
For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.
He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood
dwelleth in me and I in him,
as the living father hath sent me and I live by the father,
so he that eateth me shall live by me.
Now this is a key phrase, he that eateth me,
he shall live by me, why?
Because the Bible said of the manna,
in Deuteronomy chapter eight verse three,
he fed thee with manna, and he suffered thee to hunger,
that thou mightest know that man did not live by bread alone
but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
So they lived by manna, the manna pictured the word of God,
the manna pictured Jesus, because Jesus is the word
made flesh and dwelt among us, amen?
And so as they lived by manna,
he's saying you will live by me, okay?
So if you eat me, you'll live by me.
Now look, he's not saying you physically take a bite, folks.
And this is the foolishness of the Jews
that he's preaching to, and it's the same foolishness
of the Roman Catholics that want to give you
a literal bread and a literal drink and say,
you're literally, you're eating Jesus right now,
and you're drinking Jesus' blood right, that's crazy.
That's bizarre, it's symbolic.
You say prove it, okay, he said if you eat it,
you'll never be hungry again.
So are these Catholics just never hungry?
Because they've eaten that bread, didn't they?
I mean, didn't they go and eat the bread?
They went and they got their little wafer
and went through all that, and guess what?
They're still hungry!
Hey, they drank the juice, and guess what?
They're still thirsty!
Guess what, it's not literal, okay?
And the proof that it's not literal is found in verse 63.
It is the spirit that quickeneth,
the flesh profiteth nothing.
The words that I speak unto you,
they are spirit and they are life.
So what is it that actually needs to be eaten?
It's not the literal, physical flesh of Christ.
Now, he was gonna literally give his flesh
by dying on the cross, his body was broken,
but what is actually eaten is the word of God.
It's the word, right?
What did the manna represent?
The word.
What did the manna represent?
Jesus.
Jesus is telling them it's not the flesh that saves you,
it's not the flesh that quickens you, it's the word.
It's the spirit.
The words that I say unto you,
they are spirit and they are life.
Why?
Because in order to get saved,
you have to eat God's word to be saved.
The Bible says thy words were found and I did eat them.
You could go to four or five different scriptures
based on eating the word of God.
When we read the Bible or hear the Bible,
when we hear God's word,
metaphorically, that's us eating God's word.
That's our food, right?
Give us this day our daily bread.
We don't just live by physical bread alone.
We also live by every word of God, right?
God's word is our food.
God's word feeds us.
So if we back up to where we were,
he that eateth me shall live by me, verse 57.
Verse 58 says, This is that bread which came down from heaven.
Not as your fathers did eat manna and are dead.
He that eateth of this bread shall live forever.
These things said he in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum.
Many therefore of his disciples, when they heard this, said, This is an hard saying.
Who can hear it?
When Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it, he decided to rethink his
teaching.
No, it says, When Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it, he said unto
him, Oh, does this offend you?
What and if ye shall see the Son of Man ascend up where he was before?
It's the spirit that quickeneth, the flesh profiteth nothing.
The words that I speak unto you, their spirit and their life.
But there are some of you that believe not, for Jesus knew from the beginning who they
were that believed not, and who should betray him.
So Jesus was like the manna in the sense that he came down from heaven.
He sacrificed himself to give them life, just as the manna was consumed to give them physical
life.
And just as getting up every morning and picking up the manna and eating it pictured getting
up every morning and picking up your Bible and reading it, it's the word of God that
saves us.
Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God.
We're saved by the word of God.
The word of God is whose entrance brings light unto us, right?
We're quickened by God's word, the Bible says in Psalm 119.
So there's a lot of symbolism of Jesus in Exodus, isn't there?
There's a lot there.
Now look, we're only in the first half of Exodus, what we've talked about so far.
And most of the first half of Exodus is the story half.
And then most of the second half of Exodus is the law and Moses getting commandments
from the mount and the building of the tabernacle and those type of things.
And look, the time would fail me to tell you of all the parallels between that second half
and Jesus.
But I want to refer you to another sermon if you didn't hear this one, if you weren't
there for this one.
Back on August 5th of 2018, I preached a sermon called Symbolism of the Rapture in Exodus.
And I deal with the second half of Exodus where Jesus' second coming in the rapture
is pictured clearly in Exodus where there's a cloud and then the Lord comes down and the
trumpet sounds.
I mean, it's amazing how the rapture is just perfectly pictured in the book of Exodus.
I did a whole sermon on that so you could get the recording of that, Symbolism of the
Rapture in Exodus.
But of course, we've got other things like the bread, the showbread, you know, obviously
Jesus is the bread of life, the candlestick and the light, Jesus is the light of the world.
All the different animal sacrifices, they all point to Jesus who is the sacrifice for
our sins.
Of course, the high priest and all of his garments and the clothing that the high priest
put on and the high priest being anointed and so forth, that's all a picture of Jesus
Christ, the high priest who is the anointed.
What does Christ even mean?
Christ means Messiah.
What does Messiah even mean?
Messiah means anointed.
That's why the Bible says against the Lord and against his anointed in Psalm 2 and it
says against the Lord and against his Christ in Acts chapter 4, I believe verse 26.
So Christ, Messiah and anointed all mean the same thing.
Hey, the high priest is anointed in Exodus.
When it talks about Jesus, our high priest, being anointed, when it talks about the Sabbath
and the teaching in Exodus on the Sabbath, six days shalt thou labor, but the seventh
day the Sabbath is holy unto you, you shall rest therein, you shall do no work therein.
Hey, that's a picture of Jesus because in Hebrews chapter 4, it says that he that has
entered into his rest, he also has ceased from his own works as God did from his.
You know what the Sabbath represents?
That God did all the work for salvation and we are supposed to rest in the finished work
of Christ.
Just as God ceased from his works, we are to cease from our own works and trust in what
Christ has already done.
And so we see that throughout the book of Exodus, Jesus is present from start to finish
in this book.
This is a book all about Jesus Christ, just as Genesis was, so is Exodus as well.
Let's power this up, word of prayer.
Father, we thank you so much for the book of Exodus, Lord, and most importantly that
it points us to our savior, Jesus Christ, Lord, help us to study, to show ourselves
approved, help us as we're reading Genesis, Exodus and the rest of the Bible throughout
this year.
Lord, I pray that we would behold wondrous things out of your law and that we would understand
that these books are not outdated or irrelevant, Lord, but help us to understand that they
are very relevant and that they teach us about our savior, Jesus Christ.
It's in his name we pray, amen.