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It Is Written

Sabbath School 3rd Quarter 2025: Exodus

Eric Flickinger

Jiřί Moskala

01 Oppression: The Background and the Birth of Moses

02 The Burning Bush

03 Rough Start

04 The Plagues

05 Passover

06 Through the Red Sea

07 The Bread and Water of Life

08 Covenant at Sinai

09 Living the Law

10 The Covenant and the Blueprint

11 Apostasy and Intercession

12 Please Show Me Your Glory

13 The Tabernacle

Welcome to Sabbath School brought to you by It Is Written.

We're glad that you are joining us today.

We are beginning a brand new 13 week, 13 lesson journey through the book of Exodus.

The book of Exodus is an incredible story of how God led and continues to lead His people.

And we're going to be exploring that as we journey through this book.

But before we begin, let's start with prayer.

Father, we want to thank you for being with us today.

And as we begin this brand new journey through the book of Exodus, we ask that you would lead us, guide us, direct us into your truth, help us to get a clearer picture of your character and to see how we can live our lives to glorify you in the last days of earth's history.

We ask your blessing upon our time together and we thank you in Jesus name, Amen.

Well we are also grateful to have with us the author of this quarter's Sabbath school lesson, Dr.

He is the Dean of the Theological Seminary at Andrews University, and also a professor of Old Testament exegesis and theology.

This is an incredible story that we're going to be going through, a journey in many senses of the Word, to see how God has led in the past and to see how he is leading us today and desires to lead us in the future.

Now, you've written on the book of Exodus and on this journey that Moses kind of leads us through.

Why is this book something that you are clearly passionate about?

What about this kind of grabs your attention and your heart and and compelled you to study into this subject more deeply?

Well the book of Exodus is actually the foundation because it is part of the Torah, the Pentateuch, and the Torah is really what you have in the basis for the whole teaching of the Bible.

And Exodus is the very beautiful narrative, is a story about God, how he was leading his people out of the difficulties of life.

But besides lecturing, it was going back also to my life.

Because I was growing up in the former Czechoslovakia.

It was a communist country, and there was some kind of oppression there for the religion.

And the book of Exodus was speaking to my heart because this was God who also was hearing our prayers, our cries, our frustrations, and He was also helping us.

So this is 1 of the backgrounds which helped me to really embrace the book of Exodus.

And when I was invited to write about that, I said, yes, why not?

Because this is really close to my heart.

So it's something that you're very passionate about.

It has a personal application based on experiences that you've had and something you've been studying for many, many years.

How long, How far back were you asked to write about this?

It was, I think, like 5 years ago when I was asked if I would take this task.

It's a book which brings all the biblical themes, biblical teaching together, is part of the Torah.

And Torah is not only something like a law, which is iron and cold and telling us what to do and what not to do.

But Torah, this biblical message, is actually God's instruction.

It's coming from the word Yara, Torah from Yara, and it's like pointing with the finger to the path on which we should go.

And there are God's instructions, and these instructions are not only laws.

Actually, the first law is coming in chapter 20 of Exodus, but there are stories, there are narratives, there are songs, there are beautiful conversations, and all this is teaching us something deep about God and about life and how to relate to God and to life.

And so we're going to get to at least touch on many of these themes as we go through here.

Of course, we don't have an entire semester at the university to go through it.

We're kind of taking 13 half-hour episodes and condensing as much as we can into it, but we'll get the most that we can out.

I notice you've got a pin on your lapel there.

Yes, it's now a very recent pin because Andrews University are celebrating 150 years of existence.

It was first in Battle Creek and then later came to the Berrien Springs, Michigan.

And then I have the pin of Seventh Adventist Theological Seminary, where I have the privilege to be the dean.

And we have all the important things in this beautiful logo that we need to, you know, serve God.

We need to prepare how to serve and also to proclaim.

It's like a flame there representing the Holy Spirit, also the Trinity, and also the eternal gospel, 3 angel message.

And also the globe is in this setting that we are university for the worldwide church.

Fantastic, taking the gospel to all the world.

Well, we're gonna get to experience part of that as we look at the book of Exodus.

So I want to dive into our first chapter here, our first lesson.

Let's start with a good place to start, and that is what about the meaning of the word Exodus?

What does the word Exodus mean, and why in the grand scope of the biblical narrative is understanding this really important for us?

Well, the word Exodus is actually from the Greek exodus, which means to go out.

It's like ex, out, and then Hodos, like the way.

And yes, it is God who is leading in this way out.

Here, God's people are in Egypt, they're in oppression, and God is finding the way in his intervention, in his love, in his care, to take these people out of Egypt.

So we're going to go with them out of Egypt, and of course as the book gets started, and we'll delve into it here very shortly, they're in Egypt and they would really like to be somewhere else.

Even the word Egypt, if you take it from Mitsrayim, it's like a duel.

It's like God's people are in double grip.

They are there, and they need to be liberated.

So Egypt is not only like a country, but we can take it as a model for us.

And it was for me personally that we are in this grip of sin, of difficulties of life, persecution, and misery, and despair, and God who is intervening and he can find the way this to from this difficulties out, X, so Exodus, so that he can really bring liberation, deliverance and redemption.

And we're going to see that as we continue throughout.

You know, I was in Greece not too long ago and driving along the highways as you get ready to go off on an exit.

So you still see that day to day driving through Greece.

You are in the building and then you have, you know, Exodus sign.

We've kind of touched on it a little bit.

What are some of the key events that sort of set the stage for the story in the book of Exodus?

Well of course the book of Exodus is continuation of Genesis and in Genesis at the end you see after God created everything and the sin came and flood and God called God's people Israel to existence through Abraham, Isaac, Jacob.

Then you end with Joseph who is in Egypt, and then the whole family is coming to Egypt.

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Sabbath School 3rd Quarter 2025: Exodus

01 Oppression: The Background and the Birth of Moses

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