(TWYWBIM) Bible Study With Dylan Epsiode 2: Exodus 12,16,17

Welcome to episode 2 of Dylan’s Bible study where I take the Old Testament and make it come to life on the symbolic side of Jesus Christ. Episodes of this Bible study comes out every Wednesday and Friday. Don’t miss Chris, Chris, and Dylan’s podcast every Thursday. Enjoy

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Welcome back to Dylan's Bible Study. Today we are going to go over three chapters of Exodus. It will be chapter twelve, chapter sixteen, and chapter seventeen. And how when these events actually happened, it was also a symbolic meaning on a future event revolving around and towards Jesus Christ. And so I hope you like the series so far. Last episode we did Genesis chapter three, chapter twenty-two, and chapter forty nine. And now we're into Exodus. Hope you all enjoy. Let's do it. So before I dive into chapter twelve, let's just do a just a little re summary on Exodus itself. Exodus explains the early life and oppression of Moses between chapters one and two, chapters twenty chapters three and four was the calling to Moses from God, chapters five to eleven is the ten plagues onto the Pharaoh of Egypt. And this is where we get into chapter twelve, which begins with the Passover, and when the Exodus actually begins. So when we look at Exodus twelve, we're not just reading a historical account of plagues going on in Egypt. We are reading the it's the original Passover a visual sermon that preaches the gospel of Christ. Let's get into the specifics of it. So for the first several verses, it's it's about specific days and specific times. If you go a little bit further, it talks about a specific animal that is to be which is a lamb, has to be spotless and without blemish, and be sacrificed in the place of the people. And we're talking about the Israelites here that are in Egypt, that God is sending an angel, the angels of death, down, and if you do not have the sacrifice lamb, the blood on top of your door frame, the firstborn in that family will perish, will die by the angels of the Lord. So he made a promise to them, hey, if you do this specifically, you know, I will spare you. And it goes more in depth on like specific things about the about like I said, like the timing, the day, how to basically honor that day, which would be Passover. And it it it gives out instructions. So so bas so basically what I want to get into is is that the blood on the doorpost wasn't just a signal of a destructive angel. It was a testament to the reality that judgment can only be averted through submit substitution. When you read this, don't just see the blood on the wood of the door, see the blood of Jesus on the wood of the cross. He is the ultimate unblemished Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world because he was sacrificed. The wrath of God passes over every believer. So think about it. So think about it. You have in Exodus twelve, we have this Passover where a sacrifice has to be made. The blood has to be on the wood of your door frame. So the angels of the Lord that is going to kill every firstborn, it's to make sure that you are good, that you have set that sacrifice. Let's talk about the New Testament, for example, on Exodus twelve. So first Corinthians chapter five verse seven. Paul is writing to Corinth, Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened, for Christ our Passover lamb has been sacrificed. Another thing in Exodus twelve is about the unleavened bread. You have leavened bread, which is made with yeast, unleavened, meaning no yeast, and there was specific restrictions on the specific commands about the bread. Of course, the whole no yeast. Also, you cannot have yeast inside of the house. So think about it. Since he bled on the wood of the cross, the angels of death when we die, that passes over us. So spiritually, if we are with Christ and in Christ, God overlooks the damnation that we are supposed to get because He is our ultimate sacrifice. So another New Testament acknowledgement to it is first Peter chapter one eighteen to nineteen. Knowing that you were ransomed from the feudal ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold, but with the precious blood of Christ, like that a like that of a lamb without blemish or spot. So essentially, it's the argument for why your stin is covered, basically. So instead of trying to buy, he's so what Peter is basically explaining is when you sin or you have or you have sinned or you are continuing to sin, there is no amount of silver or gold to buy your soul back. There's not. You know, John the Baptist being the basically the first preacher of the New Testament, he knew that the Messiah would come at that, you know, at on that timeline period. And he called him the Lamb of God. The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him and said, Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. That's what he said. And John knew exactly what that meant. He was pointing to the Passover Lamb that was finally arriving to deal with the debt of the world. So then let's go towards at the final chapter of the Bible, the Revelation, chapter five, verse twelve, staying with a loud voice, worthy is the lamb who was slain to receive power and wealth and wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing. The lamb who was sacrificed in Exodus twelve is now the lamb who is worshipped in eternity, as in we see Exodus twelve, meaning the sacrificing of a lamb to not be slain by the angel of the Lord or angels of death. Fast forward generations and generations and generations, we have the slain lamb to cleanse that sin and be your Passover sacrifice in eternal judgment. Let's move to Exodus sixteen, manna and quail. So in Exodus sixteen, God provides bread from heaven for the hungry Israelites in the desert of sin. We gotta realize the Israelites at the time were like we were being fed in Egypt. Now we come out of Egypt and we don't have anything to eat, we don't have anything to drink. You know, basically, what is the Lord doing essentially? So after discussions with Moses and Aaron and the Lord intervened, the Lord said to Moses and in verse four, I will rain down bread from heaven for you. The people are to go out each day and gathering up for that day. In this way I test them and see whether they will follow my instructions. Verse five. On the sixth day they are to prepare what they bring in, and that is to be twice as much as they gather on the other days. That's important. That's a little style reference on taking the Sabbath seriously, as in our the Lord's day being Sunday. God gave us a time to relax, reset, don't do any of the works, and just you know, fill fill in that holy presence. And this is a big uh Exodus sixteen is a big big chapter in the old testament on on that. So I would like to take on what John said in chapter six, where he says, So John six, verse thirty two, Jesus said to them, Truly I tell you, Moses didn't give you the bread from heaven, but my father gives you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is the one who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world. Verse thirty four. Then they said, Sir, give us this bread always. Verse thirty five. I am the bread of life, Jesus told them. No one who comes to me will ever be hungry, and no one who believes in me will ever be thirsty again. Let's stop at the point where he says, No one who comes to me will ever be hungry. Let's stop right there. Okay. Let's break down what he is saying. So he so John chapter six is about the Passover, okay, and there the disciples and Jesus are in conversation about this Passover. And throughout verse 32 is about Jesus declaring that it was God that sent the bread from heaven down to the Israelites. It wasn't Moses, it wasn't the Israelites, it was the Father. It was God the Father who did that. So let's continue on with no one who believes in me will ever be thirsty, but as I told you, you've seen me, and yet you do not believe. Everyone the Father gives me will come to me, and the one who comes to me I will never cast out. Verse thirty eight, for I have come down from heaven not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me. So this is a play on you know Exodus Exodus sixteen. So what we have to realize is that when the disciples are speaking to Jesus, it's about the mana, the bread. If you eat from me, I will give you eternal life. Some you know, symbolically saying, you know, hey, you believe in me with all your heart, and you repent, and you, you know, you you put the weight on me that this bread that was being thrown down from heaven in Exodus chapter sixteen, that's temporary. That was temporary bread they had to do every morning. This is eternal. This bread that Jesus is offering is eternal. Let's talk about the hidden manna in Revelation chapter two, verse seventeen. He who has an ear, let him hear, but the spirit says to the churches, to the one who conquers, I will give some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone with a new name written on the stone that no one knows except the one who receives it. This is the clear take on the Ark of the Covenant within the context of the manna from heaven is inside of the Ark of the Covenant. This is a promise that is said in Revelation that those who conquer through faith in Christ will partake the intern of the eternal. So they you know being with Christ for eternity. And to kind of sum that up, I would say, you know, the manna in Exodus was for the body, but the manna in Christ is for the soul. The manna in Exodus was for one generation, the bread of life is for all eternity. When you're feeling when it it if you start to have a feeling of being spiritually worn out or depleted of or or thinking that you know I'm I'm trying to do the I'm doing the right things, but you know, God, I don't I don't see God coming to me or dwelling with me, you need to feast on the person of Jesus. He's the only one who does not rot or expire. He is the living, eternal satisfaction for the human heart. And that's once again another take on Exodus 16 when it talks about when the people either took too much and had to leave it out, it would either go rotten or it would be filled with baggots. So this transitions into our last chapter of this episode, chapter 17 of Exodus, and this is where in John 6 it says, and no one who believes in me will be thirsty again. So, because Exodus 17 is the water from the rock. The so the Israelites were happy with the bread that they got, yet they said, Well, since we have this bread, we still we need water. You know, we definitely need water with this bread. And so Moses was like, Moses literally said, he cried out to the Lord, What am I to do with these people? They are almost ready to stone me. They are getting so angry that they don't have all of the necessities that they have that they need or that they want. They're not confident that God has their back, essentially. And what I would like to focus in on is let's look at first Corinthians chapter 10, verse 1 through 4. Paul is writing to Corinth again, for I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, and all ate the same spiritual food, and all drank the same spiritual drink, for they drank from the spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ. Paul is literally saying Christ was the rock that that made sure that the Israelites did not go of thirst. There was a physical rock that Moses struck down with his rod, the same rock, the same staff that he struck at the Nile, he struck the rock and outpoured water. And this goes in a bit deeper on this being related to Jesus. And basically, just as the rock has to be struck by the rod of judgment, because that's what it was, it was a rod of judgment, for the water to be released, Christ had to be struck by the judgment of God at the cross for the living water, which which, if we go, if we go into John chapter seven, verses thirty-seven through thirty-nine, it states, on the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the scriptures had said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water. Now this he said about the spirit. Those who believed in Jesus were going to receive the spirit, for the spirit had not yet been given because Jesus had not yet been glorified. So now we can take this back to Exodus 17, by Christ being that rock, it was a symbolic reference that later on, generations down the line, thousands of years down the line, the promise of the Messiah, this is the promise of the Spirit. So I would like to say, by wrapping this all up, if you listen to this and you feel, you know, if you s if you feel spiritually thirst or spiritually starved, I want you to see the the perfect the perfection in Jesus and how throughout this series, you know, we're going from from the lat the first book of the Old Testament to the very last, and each book is going to reference Jesus Christ, and I hope that in this particular episode with Exodus 17, look at the Israelites were desperate and they were very thirsty, they were dying of thirst and ready to revolt against Moses. They needed water or they were going to die. God told Moses to take the rod, the rod of the law, and strike the rock. The rock was Christ. When the rod of God's justice hit the rock at the cross, something supernatural happened, everyone. Life flowed out. If you're thirsty, don't look to your own works to fill your cup. You can't dig a well in the desert of your own heart. You have to go to the rock that was struck for you. Paul tells us this, as in him being the rock, he is still with us. Jesus is the rock that follows you. If you come to him, he doesn't just quench your thirst for a moment, he fills you with a river that never runs dry. This also relates to the woman at the well scenario that happened. He is the only food that we need when it comes to that spiritness that we need and that everybody desires of. You know, everyone has this desire of, you know, if it's contacting some type of spirit or entity, or you're just looking for something paranormal. This is all we need. The spirit of Jesus, we're talking about the Holy Spirit, you know, God the Father, God the Son being Jesus. You know, we that is the only spirit we need. That's the only thing we need to crave is more of Jesus and more of God. And so that finishes this episode on Dylan's Bible study on chapters twelve, sixteen, and seventeen of Exodus. In the next episode, we are doing chapters. We're going to look at chapters twenty-five to twenty-seven in Exodus. We're going to look at chapters twenty-eight to twenty-nine and Exodus thirty. So I really hope you all enjoy. I'm going to I know last episode I said I want to do this once a week. I have a feeling it's going to be twice a week. I God willing, you know, this is all God's plan. But I'm looking at releasing one episode on Wednesday of the Bible study, and then our actual podcast with Chris and Chris on Thursday, and then the second episode of the week on the Bible study on Friday. So that gives three Day Wish You Were Born in Minnesota episodes a week. And so please like, comment, subscribe. Peace.