1 00:00:02,680 --> 00:00:08,640 Speaker 1: Life Audio The Bible Study Podcast, Episode nine seventy two. Today, 2 00:00:08,680 --> 00:00:11,280 Speaker 1: The Bible Study Podcast continues the study of the book 3 00:00:11,280 --> 00:00:23,600 Speaker 1: of Exodus with Exodus chapter twelve. Welcome to the Bible 4 00:00:23,600 --> 00:00:26,720 Speaker 1: Study Podcast. I'm your host, Chris Christensen. We're going to 5 00:00:26,720 --> 00:00:30,280 Speaker 1: continue on with the Passover today, but first a word 6 00:00:30,320 --> 00:00:35,559 Speaker 1: from this sponsor. Exodus twelve, the Passover and the festival 7 00:00:35,640 --> 00:00:39,919 Speaker 1: of unleavened Bread. So remember where we left this is 8 00:00:40,360 --> 00:00:44,440 Speaker 1: Moses has already warned Pharaoh that there's going to be 9 00:00:44,520 --> 00:00:47,519 Speaker 1: the plague of the firstborn, that the firstborn of Egypt, 10 00:00:47,720 --> 00:00:50,880 Speaker 1: of the people in the livestock, will die, from Pharaoh 11 00:00:50,920 --> 00:00:53,479 Speaker 1: all the way down to the servant maid. This is 12 00:00:53,479 --> 00:00:57,400 Speaker 1: what will protect the people of Israel, the Lord said 13 00:00:57,400 --> 00:01:00,360 Speaker 1: to Moses and Aaron in Egypt. This month is to 14 00:01:00,400 --> 00:01:02,880 Speaker 1: be for you, the first month, the first month of 15 00:01:02,920 --> 00:01:05,720 Speaker 1: your year. Tell the whole community of Israel that on 16 00:01:05,800 --> 00:01:08,480 Speaker 1: the tenth day of this month, each man is to 17 00:01:08,520 --> 00:01:12,240 Speaker 1: take a lamb for his family, one for each household. 18 00:01:12,360 --> 00:01:14,959 Speaker 1: If any household is too small for a whole lamb, 19 00:01:15,240 --> 00:01:18,480 Speaker 1: they must share one with their nearest neighbor. Having taken 20 00:01:18,520 --> 00:01:21,319 Speaker 1: into account the number of people there are, you are 21 00:01:21,360 --> 00:01:24,399 Speaker 1: to determine the amount of lamb needed in accordance with 22 00:01:24,440 --> 00:01:28,679 Speaker 1: what each person will eat. The animals you choose must 23 00:01:28,680 --> 00:01:32,040 Speaker 1: be year old males without defect, and you may take 24 00:01:32,080 --> 00:01:35,320 Speaker 1: them from the sheep or the goats. Take care of 25 00:01:35,360 --> 00:01:38,080 Speaker 1: them until the fourteenth day of the month, when all 26 00:01:38,120 --> 00:01:41,039 Speaker 1: the members of the community of Israel must slaughter them. 27 00:01:41,360 --> 00:01:44,200 Speaker 1: At twilight. They are to take some of the blood 28 00:01:44,280 --> 00:01:46,880 Speaker 1: and put it on the sides and tops of the 29 00:01:46,920 --> 00:01:50,280 Speaker 1: door frames of the houses where they eat the lambs. 30 00:01:50,760 --> 00:01:53,200 Speaker 1: That same night, they are to eat the meat roasted 31 00:01:53,280 --> 00:01:56,840 Speaker 1: over the fire, along with bitter herbs and bread made 32 00:01:56,840 --> 00:02:00,440 Speaker 1: without yeast. Do not eat the meat raw or boiled water, 33 00:02:00,520 --> 00:02:03,600 Speaker 1: but roast it over a fire with the head, legs 34 00:02:03,640 --> 00:02:06,760 Speaker 1: and internal organs. Do not leave any of it till morning. 35 00:02:06,960 --> 00:02:08,960 Speaker 1: If some is left till morning, you must burn it. 36 00:02:09,600 --> 00:02:11,760 Speaker 1: This is how you are to eat it, with your 37 00:02:11,880 --> 00:02:14,720 Speaker 1: cloak tucked into your belt, your sandals on your feet, 38 00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:17,920 Speaker 1: and your staff in your hand. Eat it in haste. 39 00:02:18,280 --> 00:02:22,480 Speaker 1: It is the Lord's passover. On that same night, I 40 00:02:22,520 --> 00:02:25,320 Speaker 1: will pass through Egypt and strike down every first born 41 00:02:25,400 --> 00:02:28,560 Speaker 1: of both people and animals, and I will bring judgment 42 00:02:28,639 --> 00:02:31,559 Speaker 1: on all the gods of Egypt. I am the Lord. 43 00:02:31,680 --> 00:02:33,360 Speaker 1: The blood will be a sign for you on the 44 00:02:33,400 --> 00:02:36,239 Speaker 1: houses where you are. And when I see the blood, 45 00:02:36,320 --> 00:02:40,760 Speaker 1: I will pass over you. No destructive plague will touch 46 00:02:40,800 --> 00:02:44,880 Speaker 1: you when I strike Egypt. So there's two different things 47 00:02:44,919 --> 00:02:48,200 Speaker 1: that are going on here. That one historically here is 48 00:02:48,240 --> 00:02:50,799 Speaker 1: that God is about to do this plague, and he's 49 00:02:50,840 --> 00:02:54,720 Speaker 1: told the people of Israel that you need to kill 50 00:02:54,720 --> 00:02:57,639 Speaker 1: a lamb and put its blood over your lintel, over 51 00:02:57,680 --> 00:03:00,960 Speaker 1: your doorframe, and that that will be the sign for 52 00:03:01,040 --> 00:03:04,960 Speaker 1: this angel of the Lord not to kill the firstborn 53 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:09,120 Speaker 1: in this household. And there are specific instructions here that 54 00:03:09,160 --> 00:03:11,360 Speaker 1: we're supposed to roast it. It can be a lamb, 55 00:03:11,440 --> 00:03:13,760 Speaker 1: or it could be a goat. You know, it has 56 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:16,639 Speaker 1: to be a year old, it has to be without defect. 57 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:19,840 Speaker 1: Can't be some lamb that's on its last legs. And 58 00:03:19,880 --> 00:03:22,960 Speaker 1: then you're also supposed to eat all of it, and 59 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:26,240 Speaker 1: you eat it in haste. And then you may have 60 00:03:26,440 --> 00:03:29,280 Speaker 1: heard this weedy with the bitter herbs and the bread 61 00:03:29,320 --> 00:03:31,720 Speaker 1: mat without yeast. If you have a friend who is 62 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:34,079 Speaker 1: Jewish and you can get invited to a sator, or 63 00:03:34,120 --> 00:03:36,960 Speaker 1: if your church does a sator, you will see these 64 00:03:37,080 --> 00:03:41,640 Speaker 1: elements in that passover meal that is still celebrated to 65 00:03:41,720 --> 00:03:44,280 Speaker 1: this day, where you eat it with the bitter herbs 66 00:03:44,320 --> 00:03:46,960 Speaker 1: to remember your slavery in Egypt, to the tears that 67 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:50,000 Speaker 1: were shed, and you eat it with the different things 68 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:52,440 Speaker 1: that are going on in that meal. But the other 69 00:03:52,480 --> 00:03:55,200 Speaker 1: thing historically here is they're supposed to eat it dressed 70 00:03:55,240 --> 00:03:58,560 Speaker 1: and ready to go. Right. That's the cloak is tucked 71 00:03:58,600 --> 00:04:00,440 Speaker 1: in your belt, your sandals on your feet, your staff 72 00:04:00,440 --> 00:04:03,960 Speaker 1: in your hand. You're ready to go. God is doing 73 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:10,320 Speaker 1: this passover to deliver you from Egypt. Be ready. Now. 74 00:04:10,800 --> 00:04:14,600 Speaker 1: The other thing that we as Christians see in this 75 00:04:15,680 --> 00:04:23,159 Speaker 1: is a foretaste of the role of Jesus. With Jesus' sacrifice, 76 00:04:23,279 --> 00:04:25,760 Speaker 1: we call Jesus sometimes the lamb of God. That's what 77 00:04:25,839 --> 00:04:28,960 Speaker 1: John the Baptist called him in particular. That was the 78 00:04:28,960 --> 00:04:32,560 Speaker 1: first one to use that phrase, meaning the lamb that 79 00:04:32,680 --> 00:04:37,320 Speaker 1: was sacrificed for us. And that when God looks at 80 00:04:37,480 --> 00:04:40,760 Speaker 1: the blood of Jesus when we're baptized, we're baptized into 81 00:04:40,800 --> 00:04:44,839 Speaker 1: his crucifixion, that when God looks at us, he sees 82 00:04:44,880 --> 00:04:48,920 Speaker 1: the blood of Jesus and doesn't take account our sins 83 00:04:48,960 --> 00:04:53,039 Speaker 1: but credits those to Jesus' account, that Jesus took care 84 00:04:53,080 --> 00:04:56,279 Speaker 1: of those with the blood that was shed. And so 85 00:04:56,360 --> 00:04:58,960 Speaker 1: that's one of the reasons why we study this whole 86 00:04:58,960 --> 00:05:02,840 Speaker 1: book of Exodus, is that we see in the Tabernacle, 87 00:05:02,960 --> 00:05:07,960 Speaker 1: we see in the passover lamb, little taste, little things 88 00:05:07,960 --> 00:05:12,280 Speaker 1: that give us a clue for our own faith. Continuing on, 89 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:14,880 Speaker 1: this is a day you are to commemorate for the 90 00:05:14,920 --> 00:05:17,840 Speaker 1: generations to come. You shall celebrate it as a festival 91 00:05:17,839 --> 00:05:21,200 Speaker 1: to the Lord, a lasting ordinance. For seven days, you 92 00:05:21,240 --> 00:05:24,479 Speaker 1: are to eat bread made without yeast. On the first day, 93 00:05:24,520 --> 00:05:27,880 Speaker 1: remove the yeast from your houses, for whoever eats anything 94 00:05:27,920 --> 00:05:30,919 Speaker 1: with yeast in it from the first day through the 95 00:05:31,040 --> 00:05:34,000 Speaker 1: seventh must be cut off from Israel. On the first 96 00:05:34,080 --> 00:05:37,640 Speaker 1: day whole day's sacred assembly, and another on the seventh day. 97 00:05:38,160 --> 00:05:41,080 Speaker 1: Do not work at all on these days except to 98 00:05:41,120 --> 00:05:44,880 Speaker 1: prepare food for everyone to eat. That is all you 99 00:05:44,960 --> 00:05:48,440 Speaker 1: may do. Celebrate the festival of unloved Bread because it 100 00:05:48,520 --> 00:05:51,480 Speaker 1: was on this day that I brought your divisions out 101 00:05:51,520 --> 00:05:54,880 Speaker 1: of Egypt. Celebrate this day as a lasting ordinance for 102 00:05:54,960 --> 00:05:58,400 Speaker 1: the generations to come. In the first month, you are 103 00:05:58,440 --> 00:06:01,039 Speaker 1: to eat bread made without yeast from the evening of 104 00:06:01,080 --> 00:06:04,159 Speaker 1: the fourteenth day until the evening of the twenty first day, 105 00:06:04,640 --> 00:06:07,000 Speaker 1: for seven days, no yeast is to be found in 106 00:06:07,080 --> 00:06:12,000 Speaker 1: your houses. And anyone, whether foreigner or native born, who 107 00:06:12,040 --> 00:06:14,480 Speaker 1: eats anything with yeast in it must be cut off 108 00:06:14,520 --> 00:06:17,640 Speaker 1: from the community of Israel. Eat nothing made with yeast. 109 00:06:17,960 --> 00:06:22,840 Speaker 1: Wherever you live, you must eat unleavened bread. So these 110 00:06:22,880 --> 00:06:26,919 Speaker 1: two sections here, these two paragraphs, look forward from this 111 00:06:27,160 --> 00:06:30,880 Speaker 1: time in Egypt to how this will be celebrated in 112 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:35,040 Speaker 1: the future every year. And if we look at the 113 00:06:35,080 --> 00:06:37,919 Speaker 1: history of Israel, Israel in the time of the kings 114 00:06:38,080 --> 00:06:41,279 Speaker 1: is very does not do a good job of remembering 115 00:06:41,360 --> 00:06:45,599 Speaker 1: this and celebrating it every year. But the Jewish people 116 00:06:45,839 --> 00:06:50,279 Speaker 1: since the time of the Babylonian captivity have been very 117 00:06:50,279 --> 00:06:54,080 Speaker 1: good about celebrating it to this day, and they still 118 00:06:54,160 --> 00:06:56,800 Speaker 1: do the feast of the unlovend bread, where they they 119 00:06:56,880 --> 00:07:00,000 Speaker 1: look through the house for leaven and eat the unloved 120 00:07:00,080 --> 00:07:02,920 Speaker 1: bread or mats is the thing that you'll see in stores. 121 00:07:03,480 --> 00:07:08,040 Speaker 1: But all of this is going back to these instructions. Here. 122 00:07:09,680 --> 00:07:12,280 Speaker 1: Obey these instructions as a lasting ordinance for you and 123 00:07:12,320 --> 00:07:15,480 Speaker 1: your descendants when you enter the land, that the Lord 124 00:07:15,520 --> 00:07:19,120 Speaker 1: will give you as he promised. Observe this ceremony. And 125 00:07:19,160 --> 00:07:21,760 Speaker 1: when your children ask you, what does this ceremony mean 126 00:07:21,800 --> 00:07:24,960 Speaker 1: to you, then tell them it is the Passover sacrifice 127 00:07:25,320 --> 00:07:28,280 Speaker 1: to the Lord who passed over the houses of the 128 00:07:28,320 --> 00:07:31,760 Speaker 1: Israelites in Egypt and spared our homes when he struck 129 00:07:31,800 --> 00:07:35,040 Speaker 1: down the Egyptians. Then the people bowed down and worshiped. 130 00:07:35,200 --> 00:07:39,040 Speaker 1: The Israelites did just what the Lord commanded. Moses and Aaron. 131 00:07:39,600 --> 00:07:43,000 Speaker 1: At midnight, the Lord struck down all the firstborn in Egypt, 132 00:07:43,320 --> 00:07:45,600 Speaker 1: from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on the throne, 133 00:07:45,640 --> 00:07:48,360 Speaker 1: to the firstborn of the prisoner who was in the dungeon, 134 00:07:49,400 --> 00:07:52,080 Speaker 1: and the firstborn of all the livestock as well. Pharaoh 135 00:07:52,120 --> 00:07:54,280 Speaker 1: and all his officials and all the Egyptians got up 136 00:07:54,360 --> 00:07:58,000 Speaker 1: during the night, and then there was loud wailing in Egypt, 137 00:07:58,360 --> 00:08:03,320 Speaker 1: for there was not a house without someone dead. So 138 00:08:03,840 --> 00:08:07,160 Speaker 1: God did what God said he would do through Moses. 139 00:08:07,480 --> 00:08:10,560 Speaker 1: And this is the most terrible therefore, of all of 140 00:08:10,600 --> 00:08:14,760 Speaker 1: the plagues, and it has a result the exodus. During 141 00:08:14,800 --> 00:08:17,240 Speaker 1: the night, Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, up, 142 00:08:17,440 --> 00:08:20,360 Speaker 1: leave my people, you and the Israelites go worship the Lord. 143 00:08:20,360 --> 00:08:23,080 Speaker 1: As you've requested, Take your flocks and your herds as 144 00:08:23,160 --> 00:08:26,520 Speaker 1: you have said, and go, and also bless me. The 145 00:08:26,560 --> 00:08:30,080 Speaker 1: Egyptians urged the people to hurry and leave the country, 146 00:08:30,160 --> 00:08:32,959 Speaker 1: for otherwise, they said, we will all die. So the 147 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:36,000 Speaker 1: people took their dough before the east was added, and 148 00:08:36,040 --> 00:08:39,440 Speaker 1: carried it on their shoulders in kneading troths wrapped in cloth. 149 00:08:39,840 --> 00:08:43,200 Speaker 1: The Israelites did this as Moses instructed, and asked Egyptians 150 00:08:43,240 --> 00:08:46,960 Speaker 1: for articles of silver and gold and for clothing. The 151 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:50,440 Speaker 1: Lord had made the Egyptians favorably disposed toward the people 152 00:08:50,800 --> 00:08:53,080 Speaker 1: and gave them what they asked for, so they plundered 153 00:08:53,200 --> 00:08:58,240 Speaker 1: the Egyptians. The Israelites journeyed from Ramses to Suckoth. There 154 00:08:58,240 --> 00:09:01,280 Speaker 1: were about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides women 155 00:09:01,320 --> 00:09:04,200 Speaker 1: and children. Many other people went up with them, and 156 00:09:04,280 --> 00:09:09,760 Speaker 1: also large droves of livestock, both flocks and herds. With 157 00:09:09,880 --> 00:09:12,560 Speaker 1: the dough the Israelites had brought from Egypt, they baked 158 00:09:12,600 --> 00:09:16,080 Speaker 1: loaves of unleavened bread. The dough was without yeast because 159 00:09:16,120 --> 00:09:17,920 Speaker 1: they had been driven out of Egypt and did not 160 00:09:18,120 --> 00:09:22,080 Speaker 1: have time to prepare food for themselves. Now the length 161 00:09:22,120 --> 00:09:25,040 Speaker 1: of time the Israelite people were in Egypt was four 162 00:09:25,160 --> 00:09:28,000 Speaker 1: hundred and thirty years. At the end of the four 163 00:09:28,080 --> 00:09:31,120 Speaker 1: hundred and thirty years to the very day, all the 164 00:09:31,120 --> 00:09:35,440 Speaker 1: Lord's divisions left Egypt because the Lord kept vigil that 165 00:09:35,600 --> 00:09:38,040 Speaker 1: night to bring them out of Egypt. And on this 166 00:09:38,200 --> 00:09:41,360 Speaker 1: night all the Israelites are to keep vigil to honor 167 00:09:41,400 --> 00:09:46,400 Speaker 1: the Lord for the generations to come. And so because 168 00:09:46,520 --> 00:09:50,800 Speaker 1: of this last plague, they are practically driven out of Egypt. 169 00:09:50,800 --> 00:09:53,960 Speaker 1: Everyone wants them to leave, take our money and go, 170 00:09:54,640 --> 00:09:57,120 Speaker 1: and so they take their gold. And you may wonder 171 00:09:57,120 --> 00:09:59,600 Speaker 1: a boy the clothes, but remember that at a time 172 00:09:59,679 --> 00:10:04,400 Speaker 1: before or industrialization, clothes were part of your wealth. You 173 00:10:04,400 --> 00:10:08,040 Speaker 1: would actually pass down clothes from generation to generation and 174 00:10:08,160 --> 00:10:11,880 Speaker 1: just mend them. Passover restrictions, the Lord said to Moses 175 00:10:11,880 --> 00:10:14,440 Speaker 1: and Aaron. These are the regulations for the passover meal. 176 00:10:14,840 --> 00:10:17,839 Speaker 1: No foreigner may eat it. Any slave you have bought 177 00:10:17,920 --> 00:10:21,040 Speaker 1: may eat it after you have circumcised him. But a 178 00:10:21,080 --> 00:10:24,160 Speaker 1: temporary resident or a hired worker may not eat it. 179 00:10:24,160 --> 00:10:26,439 Speaker 1: It must be eaten inside the house. Take none of 180 00:10:26,480 --> 00:10:28,880 Speaker 1: the meat outside the house, do not break any of 181 00:10:28,920 --> 00:10:32,320 Speaker 1: the bones. The whole community of Israel must celebrate it. 182 00:10:32,880 --> 00:10:36,400 Speaker 1: A foreigner residing among you who wants to celebrate the 183 00:10:36,440 --> 00:10:40,479 Speaker 1: Lord's passover must have all the males in his household circumcised. 184 00:10:40,840 --> 00:10:43,880 Speaker 1: Then he may take part like one born in the land. 185 00:10:44,040 --> 00:10:47,600 Speaker 1: No uncircumcised male may eat it. The same law applies 186 00:10:47,679 --> 00:10:50,680 Speaker 1: to both the native born and to the foreigner residing 187 00:10:50,760 --> 00:10:53,920 Speaker 1: among you. All the Israelites did just as the Lord 188 00:10:53,960 --> 00:10:57,320 Speaker 1: had commanded Moses in Erin, And on that very day 189 00:10:57,360 --> 00:11:01,640 Speaker 1: the Lord brought the Israelites out of Egypt by their divisions. 190 00:11:02,840 --> 00:11:05,560 Speaker 1: So you'd think at this point we would be done 191 00:11:05,559 --> 00:11:08,120 Speaker 1: with this book. This book is about the Exodus, the 192 00:11:08,520 --> 00:11:12,880 Speaker 1: getting people of Israel out of Egypt, and they are 193 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:15,960 Speaker 1: now out. But we're not done with a drama. We're 194 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:19,200 Speaker 1: not done with Egypt. We'll continue on with that and 195 00:11:19,240 --> 00:11:23,199 Speaker 1: then this story of the Exodus actually continues into two 196 00:11:23,280 --> 00:11:26,280 Speaker 1: or three more books. It continues into Leviticus and Numbers 197 00:11:26,280 --> 00:11:30,960 Speaker 1: and Deuteronomy as well. We will probably continue this study 198 00:11:31,040 --> 00:11:32,480 Speaker 1: until we get to the end of this book and 199 00:11:32,520 --> 00:11:36,960 Speaker 1: then make and then perhaps continue on into Leviticus. But 200 00:11:37,080 --> 00:11:38,800 Speaker 1: with that, we're going to end this episode of the 201 00:11:38,800 --> 00:11:41,520 Speaker 1: Bible Study Podcast. If you have any questions, send an 202 00:11:41,520 --> 00:11:44,360 Speaker 1: email to Chris two x at gmail dot com, or 203 00:11:44,400 --> 00:11:47,040 Speaker 1: better yet, leave a comment on this episode at the 204 00:11:47,080 --> 00:11:50,640 Speaker 1: Bible Study podcast dot com and as always, thanks so 205 00:11:50,760 --> 00:12:02,160 Speaker 1: much for listening. I want to take just a second 206 00:12:02,160 --> 00:12:04,840 Speaker 1: to thank the team at Life Audio for their partnership 207 00:12:04,840 --> 00:12:07,680 Speaker 1: with us on this podcast. 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