Michigan Camp Meeting 2016: The Harvest is Great

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Michigan Conference of Seventh-day Adventists

From Moses' Exodus to Christ's Advent

Royce Snyman

From Moses’ Exodus to Christ’s Advent- Part 1

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From Moses’ Exodus to Christ’s Advent- Part 4

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Father in Heaven, today, once again we take up our study of your Word.

We are so grateful for the parallels in Scripture that connect us from the past to the present and even into the future.

Thank you for prophecy and how you have seen these things before they came and how the things that lie ahead of us you also want us to not only know about but be prepared for and especially in our relationship with you.

So guide our conversation today, we pray, and we thank you in Jesus' name, amen.

Well, we've been taking our journey here a little bit in the Exodus and the Advent movement, And we're looking at the parallels and the types between the past and the anti-type and the present, and using those nice theological terms, basically the symbols and what the symbols mean in terms of fulfillment.

1 of the points I would like to make as we start off today is that it is fascinating that God is so precise.

The world out there tends to think that, you know, God just takes anything and everything and He just kind of floats along with the flow of things and, you know, if this happens to happen then, that's fine, and if it doesn't, you know, I mean, that's the way a lot of people think of God.

But when you study the Bible out, God is precise.

When you get into the New Testament and you hear the New Testament writers saying things like, when the fullness of time was come, and then you begin to recognize how precise that was, we're not talking about within a few hundred years.

We're not just talking about within a year or so.

When you take the prophecy of Daniel chapter 9, and you recognize that the children of Israel had had this prophecy for so many years.

For so many years they had this prophecy of the 490 years and its connection also with the 2300 days.

You all know what I'm talking about, right?

If I'm confusing you, come talk to me afterwards.

But with the 490 year prophecy and The precision with which the angel Gabriel identified for Daniel what God's people could expect and how that the time was cut off from the command to restore and to build Jerusalem until the time when the Messiah would come and the details in relationship to that and how precise that was, you realize the children of Israel should have known.

They had the prophecy and God fulfilled the prophecy just the way He said it was going to happen.

So much so that the Messiah, the 1 who was going to be cut off as spoken of in the prophecy of Daniel 9, was cut off on the Passover.

He was precisely in the year, in the 3 and a half year period of time, at the Passover, on the very day.

All of these things even tie us back to the Exodus.

Luke was a physician and his details are important to us.

Because he not only wrote down the gospel story and he basically says, you know, he got this information and kind of compiled it, that's my summary of this.

But then he happens, happens, the details he happens to pick out are the ones that identify the precision of God.

He tells us it was in during the reign of Caesar Tiberius.

Okay, He tells us all of these kinds of things, these details.

So we can actually go back through archeology and history and identify the very year these things happened, the very time these things happened.

So Jesus not only was baptized on time, but he also died on time and was resurrected on time.

And all of this should tell us something about how God works.

So when we are dealing with this whole issue of the Exodus and the Advent movement, don't take it lightly that God cares about the details and takes the types and the anti-types and shows us the kinds of things that will happen along the way.

Now, be careful, I'm not trying to tell you that he's going to be precise in terms of telling us when he comes, because he clearly said, Jesus said, no man knows the day or the hour, right?

So don't fall into that trap, don't get into it.

All I'm saying is, is we look at some of these parallels, and we see the precision at which God connects the past with the present.

Yeah, we want to have you, want to make sure you do.

Alright, we're going to use the 1 from last time because I didn't get all the way through what I intended to do.

And it's a really good thing because the copy machine just broke.

And I was able to make enough I think to get us through today.

But the really bad news is this copy machine broke and we think it's old enough that there are no parts.

So I don't know what they're going to do to solve that problem.

I've got a printer and there are other devices around here that make it work for us so that we've got all we need.

But I want to start today with kind of picking up from where we left off.

And just for those of you who are new, just a little clue into what we're doing here.

We are using a document that was written by Taylor G.

Bunch, a Seventh-day Adventist minister who lived quite a long time ago, but was a pastor of the Battle Creek Tabernacle, and he wrote a 250 page manuscript, and that's why you're seeing it in manuscript form.

And he didn't type it quite like this, somebody's retyped it.

At any rate, he shared this information as a study on a Sabbath afternoons for a period of time.

It might have been a Vesper or something quite like that.

And Morris Vendon, some years later, got a copy of it given to him by a professor when he was in college.

And he took from that and wrote a smaller version of that.

Morris Vendin was a professor of mine, not professor, pastor of mine when I was at Pacific Union College.

And I've been fascinated by this because there's some parallels in here that are just deep and worthy of study, and that's what we're sharing here.

So we're going into chapter 6, and in chapter 6, the midnight of deliverance, We're not trying to get through everything.

And by the way, I do want to make sure that if you are new today, that you will make sure your name and address is on this sheet.

So Tom, if you'd do that, because what I'm going to do is when I get back, I'm going to make a copy of the whole document and those who attended the class, I'm going to provide them a copy of the whole document for their further study.

I'm only intending to whet your appetite by what we're doing here and see some of the neat parallels that are there and you go back and continue your study and use this as a basis for your study.

Maybe you'll come up with more of your own and you'll write another 1.

If your name is Bunch, then I'll know that's the case.

So let's, what I'd like to do is we did yesterday, we kind of finished out of chapter 5 and in chapter 5 we're talking about the whole experience of the plagues and the judgments that came on the children of Israel and the parallels that we saw there and their connections with our own, together with some interesting facts, the kinds of ways that the, yeah, send it all the way back, pass it all the way back, Just in case somebody else needs that.

So anyway, we had this whole situation where we were looking at some of the details of how the gods were affected and being attacked by what God did with the plagues and how they, you know, they had multiple gods.

They had multiple gods and they were doing all of that and the interesting parallels we saw with that.

There are 35 chapters in Bunch's book here, but what I'm trying to do is I'm trying to take us through because he kind of jumps back and forth a little bit what I'm trying to do is take us a little bit in kind of a chronological way and as the children of Israel got through the time of the plagues the next thing that happened was the last plague that led to their deliverance, right?

And that we know occurred at midnight because the Bible's real clear.

We're going to look at that in just a moment.

Once we've looked at the Midnight Deliverance, I want to take a look at Chapter 16, which talks about the journey from Egypt.

He has some other things in between, but I'm going to jump over to that journey from Egypt, and not all the way to the promised land, but they begin that journey and the kinds of parallels that connect with that.

So, all right, anybody else need to sign that sheet?

That's, I'm just giving you a little bit idea where we're going today.

All right, let's start first of all with the word of God, Exodus chapter 12.

And we're going to read through this story we all know so well, but let's remind ourselves of some of those details.

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From Moses' Exodus to Christ's Advent

From Moses’ Exodus to Christ’s Advent- Part 5

1h 12m

From Moses' Exodus to Christ's Advent

From Moses’ Exodus to Christ’s Advent- Part 1

1h 12m

Out on a Limb

45m

Talking Points 3rd Quarter 2025: Exodus

07 The Bread and Water of Life

30m

Talking Points 4th Quarter 2025: Lessons of Faith from Joshua

09 Heirs of Promises, Prisoners of Hope

30m

Righteousness by Faith

Revival and Reformation in the Last Days

1h 11m

The Power of Perspective

Two Covenants

57m

Talking Points, 4th Quarter 2021: Present Truth in Deuteronomy

02 Moses’ History Lesson

31m

Talking Points 3rd Quarter 2025: Exodus

03 Rough Start

30m

All the World Marveled

Preparing For the Lion’s Den

58m

The Big Three

How to Know God’s Leading in Your Life

42m

Sound Doctrine