Exodus

Question 1

What does the Exodus mean?

Answer 1

Outgoing, from a Greek word meaning exit of departure. This name is from the Septuagint.

Question 2

What is the title of Exodus in Hebrew?

Answer 2

These are names of

Question 3

What is the Theology of the Exodus? (5)

Answer 3

1) God speaks powerfully to all Mankind!
2) The theology of Salvation.
3) God’s now has a testimony people on earth.
4) The theology of the law
5) the theology of mediation.

Question 4

What is the order of the themes of Exodus? (3)

Answer 4

1) The Exodus
2) the law
3) the tabernacle

Question 5

What is the estimated size of the Jewish people, at this time?

Answer 5

It is estimated the Abraham’s descendants had grown to over two million strong. (600,000 men plus women and children.)

Question 6

What is important of the Call of Moses?

Answer 6

God’s new name- I am who I am. later, Jesus would apply this name to himself.

Question 7

John 8:58 (I am)

Answer 7

” Very truly I tell you,”Jesus answered, “before Abraham was born, I am!”

Question 8

What were the purposes of the plagues? (2)

Answer 8

1) To show Israel their true God.

2) To show Egypt their false gods and to display his glory to all humanity.

Question 9

What is proof that the plagues were not coincidences (3)?

Answer 9

1) Moses predicted the coming of each, and it was only at his word that many of them ceased.
2) There was a sense of orderliness-they were marked by increasing severity.
3) There was some discrimination- after the first plagues, the Israelite’s were completely protected from the suffering involved.

Question 10

What is Pharaoh an example of?

Answer 10

The type of person who sets his heart against any conviction from God, and interprets any act of God’s mercy as a sign the God will not, or cannot, enforce His predicted judgments. According to the book of Revelations, this will be the same attitude of many to God’s final judgments.

Question 11

Why were the Israelites passed over? why not?

Answer 11

they were not exempt from God’s final judgment of the firstborn simply because they were Israelites, but only if they individually showed faith in God by giving obedience to His direction.

Question 12

What was the Passover lamb a foreshadow of?

Answer 12

it was a beautiful type and foreshadow of the Lord Jesus.

Question 13

John 1:29 (Lamb of God)

Answer 13

The next day John saw Jesus coming towards him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!”

Question 14

How can the hyssop represent faith?

Answer 14

As the hyssop plant was used to apply the lamb’s blood in the OT, so faith applies the blood to the human heart in the NT. (Ephesians 2:8-9) The death of the lamb did not automatically save anyone UNTIL the blood was applied using the hyssop.

Question 15

What is the importance of the Passover? (3)

Answer 15

1) The festival is kept by the Jews to this day.
2) Since the crucifixion and resurrection took place on the Passover, it coincides with our Easter celebrations.
3) The New Testament makes it clear that this great event in Egypt speaks of the greater Passover and deliverance wrought by Jesus at Calvary.

Question 16

What are some comparisons of the Exodus and the Gospel? (5)

Answer 16

1) The exodus brought deliverance to all of Israel and the Gospel brings a universal deliverance to all who believe.
2) The exodus centers on the slain lamb of the Passover and the Gospel centers on the lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
3) The exodus became forever remembered by the Passover feast and the Gospel is remembered in the church by the Lord’s supper.
4) The sheltering blood in the Exodus was that of an animal and the precious blood in the Gospel was that of Christ.
5) In the exodus many lambs are slain and in the Gospel One is slain for all.

Question 17

How long did they eat the Manna?

Answer 17

40 years

Question 18

How is Manna a type of Christ? (4)

Answer 18

1) Sent down from heaven.
2) Sustained life.
3) It was a Divine gift provided for all.
4) Personal appropriation was necessary.

Question 19

What was the Rock in the desert and example of?

Answer 19

A type of Christ. ( the rock water came from)

Question 20

What happened at Mt. Sinai? (4)

Answer 20

1) They would be there for 11 months and 5 days
2) The law is given
3) the golden calf built and worshiped.
4) the construction of the tabernacle.

Question 21

what is the 3- fold nature of the law? (3)

Answer 21

1) The 10 Commandments (the moral code)
2) The Judgments (the social code)
3) the tabernacle (the spiritual code)

Question 22

What is are the 10 commandments also know as?

Answer 22

It is also known as the Decalogue, from the Greek word meaning “ten words”

Question 23

What were the first 4 commands for?

Answer 23

Their personal relationship with God.

Question 24

What were the last 6 commands for?

Answer 24

Their personal relationship with others.

Question 25

What is important about the Sabbath?

Answer 25

It was a day set aside for rest and worship. God provided a Sabbath because humans beings need to spend unhurried time in worship and rest each week.

Question 26

Why was the house of Levi chosen to be priests?

Answer 26

They showed zeal in defending God’s honor so God chose them.

Question 27

Exodus 25:9 (make the tab)

Answer 27

Make this tabernacle and all its furnishings exactly like the pattern I will show you.

Question 28

What was important about the warning God gave Moses about the Tab?

Answer 28

Because he was making a copy of what already existed in heaven.

Question 29

What happened to the Veil of the Tab, at Christ death?

Answer 29

It was torn from top to bottom meaning this was a Divine act.

Question 30

What was important about the Veil being torn?

Answer 30

Now the Holy of Holies was exposed. God’s presence was now accessible to all.

Question 31

what three items did God instruct to be put in the Ark of the Convent?

Answer 31

1) A golden pot of Manna
2) Aaron’s (budded) staff
3) the two stone tablets of the 10 commandments