Jesus spent time in Africa as a baby, and when the time was full scripture says, "Out of Egypt I called my son." The meaning of that phrase has a deep resonance that reaches back to the prophets (especially Hosea) and then further back to the prophet Moses. One of the great stories of the Bible is how God's people came to live in Egypt, slide into slavery and oppression, then see a mighty deliverance from Egypt by God. Today’s episode is about the story of God bringing Israel out of Egypt.
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Genesis 37:2 begins with, "These are the generations of Jacob." But the very next word after this is Joseph, and in the following chapters Joseph's figure is central to the story. We've already heard about Jacob in the previous 10 or 11 chapters of Genesis (go back to the previous episode of First Fifteen if you haven't listened to "How Jacob became Israel"). The last 13 chapters of Genesis (37-50) talk mostly about Jacob's sons (see Gen 35:23-26), and they show the remarkable story of how the entire family of Jacob came to live in Egypt.
Exodus begins by naming the sons of Jacob again, but several generations pass and even though their numbers have increased greatly, Israel is reduced to slavery. 430 years pass (Ex 12:40), and God raises up a deliverer named Moses. After God visits plagues upon Egypt, Moses leads the people out of Egypt. These 31 chapters make for an epic story that takes several hours to read. It's well worth the time to listen to it; on this podcast, though, we listen to a biblical summary of the events found in Psalm 81.
We take a closer look at the events that happened in Genesis 37-Exodus 18 and also the deeper meaning of this great story. Much like the cross for Christians, the story of deliverance from Egypt is fundamental to Jewish identity and is retold every year in the celebration of Passover.
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