Exodus 12:40-41 Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelled in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years.… I. WE CANNOT TREAT THE EXODUS AS AN ISOLATED FACT IN HISTORY. Egypt is the type of the cunning, careless, wanton world, out of which in all ages God is calling His sons. The Exodus remained a living fact in history. The infant Jesus went down into Egypt, as the infant Israel went down, not to repeat the Exodus, but to illume afresh its fading lines. 1. The Children of Israel were an elect race, because they were of the seed of Abraham: that constituted their distinctity. You are of the race of the second Adam, of the same flesh and blood as Jesus; and all who wear a human form and understand a human voice, God calls forth from Egypt; His voice calls to His sons, "Come forth to freedom, life, and heaven." 2. You, like the Israelites, are called forth to the desert, the fiery pillar, the manna, the spiritual rock; and while you aim at Canaan, His will, His heart, are on your side. II. NOTE THE MORAL FEATURES OF THE EXODUS. 1. There was a life in Egypt which had become insupportable to a man. That bondage is the picture of a soul round which the devil's toils are closing. 2. The Israelites saw the stroke of heaven fall oil all that adorns, enriches, and nourishes a worldly life. 3. They had a Divine leader, a man commissioned and inspired by God. We have the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus, who, in the house and the work in which Moses wrought as a servant, represents God as the Son. 4. We discern a condition of utter dependence on the strength and faithfulness of God. They and we were delivered by a Divine work. 5. Notice, lastly, the freedom of the delivered Israelites; a broad, deep sea flowing between them and the ]and of bondage, and the tyrants dead upon the shore. Such is the glorious sense of liberty, of wealth, of life, when the deep sea of Divine forgiving love sweeps over the past and obliterates its shame. (J. B. Brown, B. A.) Parallel Verses KJV: Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years.WEB: Now the time that the children of Israel lived in Egypt was four hundred thirty years. |
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