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Lesson # Exodus 1:1-5 Study Material - Exodus 1:1-5 You must be in fellowship prior to your Bible study, so that the spiritual information you receive can become a source of blessing to your soul and produce spiritual growth. Ex. 1:1-5 1 Now these are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt with Jacob; they came each one with his household: 2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi and Judah; 3 Issachar, Zebulun and Benjamin; 4 Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher. 5 And all the persons who came from the loins of Jacob were seventy in number, but Joseph was already in Egypt. Here we need to look quickly to Deu. 32:8, as Moses observes that God, way back in the time of Noah, divided up the inheritance of the world into 70 nations, Gen. 10. So now that same number, is the portion which God claims His own, which is going into Egypt and will be committed into slavery, not by force, but by their own choosing through their negative attitude toward God. The sons of Jacob, moved to Egypt out from a severe famine. That famine representing the lack of Bible doctrine in their lives. When Bible instruction is lacking, then learning suffers. When learning of Bible doctrine suffers, then spiritual growth suffers. When spiritual growth is deficient, then the soul loses ground and sin takes possession of the life of the believer. That possession by means of a life pattern of sin, is slavery to sin. This is where we find the Israelites as they will one day become known as - slaves. But that is about 400 years off. We will see that by their own choice the sons of Jacob (the chiseler) lived in Egypt, not in tents, as one would expect in a temporary state, but they lived in homes, established and constructed for permanent residence. They left the promised land, Canaan, and went into slavery. It did not happen over night. It will take another generation and the slow process of getting away from Bible instruction. Soon the children will have very little instruction from their parents, therefore they will lack spiritual resources. It will not be until the fourth generation when Moses will represent a recovery of that spiritual spark, that the Israelites will be finally delivered from their slavery. Even that deliverance will not come from their own initiative, but from Gods work alone. Though the names of the twelve sons are herein given, it is the number seventy which is pertinent. The post flood world started out with seventy nations. They failed miserably. Now the selected nation, the nation of Gods choice will begin in the same manner. Eventually it too will fail miserably. All pointing out that man has no ability to deliver himself out of anything, not even a wet paper bag. But man does nearly everything to get himself into trouble. Only God can deliver us out from our predicament. Why does God care, or even put up with us? 'God so loved the world...', God looked down through the tunnel of time and saw the positive volition of man, or rather a large number of people. Despite our individual and collective failures, there are millions, even billions of believers who look to God for their future. For this sake, 'He gave His only begotten Son.' Joseph was already in Egypt. He was sent there not by his own choice, but by the deception of the other brothers. Their jealousy and hate led them to turn on their own brother. Sin knows no relationship, knows no color, knows no culture, knows no boundary. Sin is insatiable and will consume everything in its path if given any room whatsoever. Against sin we have no defense except Bible doctrine, and that doctrine requires our daily attention in order for us to avoid becoming like Abimelech, self righteous, 'What did I do?', or like Sodom where everything was perceived as a joke. The sons are listed in the order of their legitimate births to legitimate wives first, then to secondary wives, then mistresses. Though there is a mixture of legitimacy and illegitimacy, slavery will pay no heed to the physical birth status of these twelve sons and their families. Being biologically legit or illegitimate is no advantage or disadvantage in the spiritual life. Of course it has its drawbacks in this world as people have their prejudices. The physical does not have anything to do with the spiritual. Salvation, grace, all things spiritual set everyone as equals in the spiritual life, or at least it gives everyone equal opportunity. Your volition determines whether or not you will take advantage of that opportunity. God represents order not chaos, seventy nations, seventy offspring. God has a plan. No matter what mans plans are, man fails. Gods plan succeeds despite mans incompetence. God gives grace to mankind, but despite that grace and the many promises, man still manages to come up with the weirdest ideas, and a better 'plan', which still fail miserably. So Jacob has moved from famine into the fire. So it goes when Bible doctrine drifts away from our lives. Famine is the absence of production, from the absence of good seed and water. Starvation results. To avoid starvation people will compromise their lives. They do not turn to doctrine but sin and embrace it and are trapped by slavery. 
Now is the time to post a prayer. End Of Lesson Study to show thyself approved (mature) unto God, a workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly dividing (studying/discerning), the Word of truth. |
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