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The Exodus & God Almighty

Daniel Ferraz

The Pharaoh That Knew Not Joseph

Moses Refused

The Meekest Man in Midian

The Plagues in Egypt

“I AM” Has Sent Me

The Great Deliverance

We should never open the Word of God without prayer.

The Bible itself says that nobody can understand the Word of God without God's help.

And you see, when we really are open to the Holy Spirit, we will be blessed.

I'm going over them, this is a series of sermons that I'm sharing with you for 2 reasons.

First of all, to show that what many scholars and people of renown have considered to be just fable or just myth is actually true and can be, there is sufficient evidence in archeology to support the accounts of the Bible regarding the story of the Exodus.

The miraculous plagues in Egypt, the miraculous deliverance, the miraculous opening of the Red Sea.

All of these things, we need to know that they are true because learned people with degrees are telling us that these were just stories and they joke about it.

So that's the first reason, to show that there is sufficient evidence in archaeology that we can believe these stories.

You know, because when somebody comes along and says well, these are just stories, you know, you can't take them seriously You don't believe in those do you especially the first 11 chapters of of the book of Genesis?

Friends what we are finding is in the last century and in the last 25 years we are finding amazing discoveries or archaeologists are finding amazing discoveries in the Nile Delta that show that the Israelite people actually lived and built houses in the northern part of the land of Egypt.

And this is something that really strengthens our faith.

The second reason why I'm sharing stories from the Exodus is because Paul in 1 Corinthians 10, verses 1 to 12, we heard verse 13 being read today during our offering time, but from those 12 verses, we see that Paul tells us that everything that was written was for our admonition.

It was for our warning, for our learning.

And then he says something very interesting that in my Bible in the margin, it says that they were types.

And you know what that means is that very often in the Bible, especially in the Old Testament, there will be stories, there will be the sanctuary service, and all of those things were a mirror or a miniature of the real thing.

And so as I look at the story of Exodus, as I read Paul under inspiration, that he says that these stories were for our admonition, for our learning, and they are types, what I deduce from that is that the things that happened to God's people, and they're wandering, they're complaining, their delay in entering into the heavenly Canaan, into, sorry, the earthly Canaan, is a story, is a parable that fits us today.

I don't know if you have ever grappled with the thought, aren't we here a little bit too long?

Friends, when we understand that the children of Israel and their story is a type, and we are the anti-type, we are the reality, we can see that we have a lot of praying to do if we want to get to the promised land.

And so we went through and saw in part 1 the Pharaoh that knew Joseph.

And we saw that the Pharaoh that knew Joseph, Djoser, the step pyramid at Saqqara, around 2630 before Christ, was actually built by somebody known as Imhotep, which we discovered had the same kind of details in his story as Joseph.

There were fragments of the statue of Pharaoh Josa in this step pyramid, And at the base inscribed were the names of Josa and Imhotep.

And he was the chancellor of the king of the lower Egypt, chief under king, administrator of the great palace.

This is Imhotep, hereditary lord, high priest of Heliopolis.

And Imhotep was the builder and the sculptor and the maker of stone vases.

We looked at National Geographic and we saw that Imhotep was an architect.

And he, of the step pyramid, the physician, a priest, a founder of a cult of healing.

Now this is what they did with him as he had helped the Egyptian nation.

In National Geographic, January 1995, describes Imhotep, this man, who saved his country from a famine.

And we saw that Charles Wilbur discovered this boulder in 1890, and on this boulder were written that there had been, the annual flooding of the Nile had failed.

And this was in harmony with the dream that Pharaoh had, and Joseph was able to interpret and show the king, the Pharaoh, what he needed to do.

Then we looked at how he was elevated to number 2 in Egypt.

Imhotep fits the characteristics of Joseph.

Friends, I am so encouraged by these things.

In part 2 we looked at the evidence of ancient Israel in Egypt and the Exodus according to the Biblical Archaeology Society and evidence of hard labor and brick being made.

And these frescoes, these artworks actually showing that.

So we can deduce from this evidence that it was the Israelites that helped build up the riches, the wealth of Egypt.

The Bible tells us that they not only were building bricks, They were also engaged in hard labor in the fields.

And here we have another depiction of harvesting and of gathering and of working in the fields.

And we looked at how Moses was miraculously preserved from death, amen?

Moses was the deliverer that was to come.

By the way, if any of you would like a book which is a compilation of the writings of Alan White on the story of the Exodus, just ask me and I might have a spare copy for you.

I know the children have loved it and I'll be sharing a little bit from that today.

Moses, look at how this parallels our Savior, how this type and anti-type fit together.

And what happened was that the pharaoh took Moses the first, made a decree that all the baby boys should be killed.

Even though he commanded the Hebrew midwives to kill all the baby boys, they did not follow his command, and Moses was kept from that fate.

And then we see that Jesus had a similar decree.

A king was going to kill, try and kill the deliverer again by killing all of these babies, the baby boys.

In researching for this morning's Sabbath service, I looked at François Duplessis.

François Duplessis is an Adventist archaeologist who fell in love with archaeology in Lebanon in 1966 when he saw an ancient Phoenician sarcophagus and his passion for biblical research continues today.

Since then, he has traveled to the important archaeological sites in Iraq, Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, Egypt, Turkey, and Armenia.

And if you've ever seen on Amazing Discoveries, you may have seen some of his presentations.

Now Moses was born, according to biblical chronology, 1530 before Christ.

That is during the time of Tutmoses when he ruled from 1532 to 1508 BC.

Aaron, his brother, was born just before Tutmoses I came into rule in 1533, a year before Tutmoses came to be king.

And you may have wondered about this, but all of these historical facts help us understand with more and more clarity the story of the Israelite exodus.

And Then we have the story of the daughter of Pharaoh.

The daughter of Pharaoh, according to archeology, is Hatshepsut, And she was the 1 that brought Moses out of the Nile, who was there just floating in a basket.

And she, being the pharaoh's daughter, adopted this little boy.

And the Bible tells us very little about the time from when he was with his mother for a period of around 12 years, and then from that 12-year period to his manhood.

As we look at this, we see the detail of this story.

We see the hand of God in this deliverer's life, Amen?

Do you know that God wants to show his hand in your life?

Whatever situation, friend, you may be in, Don't give up.

I want to encourage you to be like Moses, who refused.

In the majority of cases, he was a good man.

But Look at what the Bible tells us about him.

He refused to stop believing the word of God.

We need to have a similar spirit as Moses.

And look at what a delicate and dangerous beginning he had.

And friends, so often we in our own life can see as we look back that God has his hand, his mighty hand of deliverance and preserving our lives.

That is not to say that there isn't hardship and suffering and death, yes, we see that, we saw that all around.

We saw that all around this story of how many hundreds of baby boys were killed.

Friends, but hard though it may seem, God still promises in the darkest time of our experience, He promises us deliverance, and Moses and Jesus are assurance of that fact for you and I today.

So I looked at this and I saw how little detail there was here in Exodus chapter 2 verses 10 and 11.

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