Hebrews 11:27a
"By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: (who of course, put a price on Moses’ head.) for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible."
What does that tell you? What kept Moses going was his trust in the invisible God, and he never lost that. And the early Hebrews did not either but those of Moses' generation were another matter when they were faced with crisis, they failed miserably. They as a nation turned to idol worship which is Idolatry the very nature of all fallen man. Because when Adam killed the essence of God (spiritual good dependency) within him by eating of the fruit and the essence (spiritual evil dependency) came in and replaced God's essence or Christ that man had at his first creation as a spirit being Genesis 1:26-27, 2:6-7. For John tells us that Christ is Life and Light and that this Life and Light came into the darkness at Genesis 1:2-3, John 1:1-4, 5, 9-10. Which brought order and Life into the realm of the earth at its re-genesis, this was necessary for the then dead earth to produce as God spoke ie...animals, sea creatures, birds, and plant life into being. It also says that this Light cause a division between darkness and night to give us day and night. Which also brought about four seasons and what is called nature. Now verse 28:
Hebrews 11:28a
"Through faith he kept the Passover,…"
Now, as the Scripture does so often, we skip 40 years. Because 40 years have gone by from the time that Moses flees from Egypt; goes to the backside of the desert, remember? Where he herds sheep for 40 years. Then one day he saw the burning bush. The bush that though it was on fire was NOT consumed by that fire. Now that’s all been skipped here in the verses of Hebrews. Well, after he stopped to see the burning bush (it was God speaking), the Lord told him that now it was time to go back into Egypt and to lead the children of Israel, Jacobs seed out of Egypt. As the 430 years had reached it appoint climax or completion though the children had only been their for about 230 of them. Remember that they were but seed in the loins of Abram when he and Sarai first transversed the edge of Egypt.
If we know our Old Testament at all, I hope you realize that that in itself was not a shock to Moses, to lead Israel out of Egypt, because that’s what he wanted to do in the first place. But that was all in his sufficiency or strength and God would not have it. That’s why he went out to the Children of Israel when he killed the Egyptian and again, that’s in Acts. Let’s go back there again. Acts chapter 7 just fills in so many of the details that the Old Testament doesn’t give us. Acts 27 verse 23.
Acts 7:23-24
"And when he was (this is speaking of Moses now in Egypt) full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren, the children of Israel. And seeing one of them (a Hebrew) suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him that was oppressed, and smote (or killed) the Egyptian:"
I don’t think he intended to murder him. He probably just hit him harder than he intended to and he killed him. All right, now verse 25 - this is what I want you to see. This is what Moses was thinking when he turned his back on Egypt and went out to the children of Israel. This is what was on his mind.
Acts 7:25
"For he supposed (he thought) his brethren would have understood how that God by his hand would deliver them: but they understood not."
So what did Moses really have on his mind when he went out to visit the children of Jacob or Israel? That he was going to start the ball rolling to move the Nation of Israel out of Egypt and back to the Promised Land. Because that was all handed down by faith, do you see it?
But the whole problem was, it wasn’t in God’s timing. Moses was hoping to do it under his own power, because of his own ability, his own political situation instead of waiting for God. Sound familiar? But forty years later, now, God can call him aside at the burning bush and say, "All right, Moses, now I’m ready to have you lead the children of Israel out of Egypt." So, all of this was still based on the man’s trusting, by knowing Him.
All right, so come back to Hebrews chapter 11 and verse 28. After skipping those forty years on the back side of the desert, we skip that time of the plagues with the Pharaoh’s there in Egypt and we come down to the last event that the Hebrews experiences in Egypt. And what is it? The night of the Passover. The night of the Passover when the blood was applied to the doorpost and the death angel passed over.
Hebrews 11:28a
"Through faith (taking God at His Word!) he kept the Passover, and the sprinkling of the blood,…"
Which we know from Exodus was simply taking a piece of hyssop, dipping it in the basin of blood and applying it to the two sides of the door posts and the lentil over head. And that here it’s just referred to as "the sprinkling." But, it’s the application of the blood of that Passover lamb and it is what caused the death angel then, to pass over the houses of the Hebrews. It made the sign of the cross, the sign of Christ, now reading on in verse 28:
Hebrews 11:28b
"…lest he that destroyed the firstborn (that is of Egypt. All the firstborn of Egypt remember, were stricken) should touch them."
The blood of the Passover lamb kept the death angel from touching the children of Israel. Now again, what did it take to take the lamb’s blood and apply it to a doorpost? Trust! They had nothing else to go by. But God had said, if you apply the blood in such and such a way, as the death angel is striking the firstborn all across Egypt, if I see the blood, I’ll pass over you. So what was the basis for putting the blood on the door? Trust and obedience. They had no other way of knowing. They had no way of knowing that that death angel would pass over, they could only take God at His Word.
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