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| Exodus 12:33-36 |
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Lesson # Exodus 12:33-36 Study Material - Exodus 12:33-36 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. 12:33-36 33 And the Egyptians urged the people, to send them out of the land in haste, for they said, 'We shall all be dead.' 34 So the people took their dough before it was leavened, with their kneading bowls bound up in the clothes on their shoulders. 35 Now the sons of Israel had done according to the word of Moses, for they had requested from the Egyptians articles of silver and articles of gold, and clothing; 36 and the LORD had given the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have their request. Thus they plundered the Egyptians. The Egyptians herein are representative of unbelievers, and negative unbelievers in God at that. They have received considerable spiritual information. They have witnessed and been directly affected by considerable events. The status of their souls is that of a hardness or calloused over and darkness of soul. They make the wrong decisions constantly, even in the face of clear truth. They have now endured death within each respective family. Prior to this they have given away considerable wealth to the Hebrews, when asked. Probably thinking that this price when paid would buy them some protection, but that is yet another principle of this passage. Man can do nothing to buy his way out of Gods judgment. Man can do nothing to save himself, except to believe in Gods Word, and follow Hiss commands explicitly. Just as Cain rejected Gods sacrifice conditions and was rejected by God, so these Egyptians who paid considerable wealth to the Hebrews as they were inclined to do just to get some peace back into their lives, but were wrong in their interpretation of Gods policy. Therefore the Egyptians were plundered in effect. The wicked accumulate wealth, but they will lose it eventually and the righteous (Gods chosen) will enjoy the benefits of that wealth, Prov. 13:22 and Job 27:17. Only God can free the prisoners, Psa. 146:7. Man can do nothing to free himself. With darkness in their souls, the Egyptians, and any who aligned up with them, whether foreigner, Hebrew, or otherwise, they too will suffer the consequences of Gods wrath. There were many a person in prisons, in slavery service to the Egyptians, etc., that rejected God as well. Not just the Egyptians lost their first born, but non-Egyptians as well. The Hebrews were in the region of Goshen, which is up in the northern delta region along the Nile. They were spread out in a wide area. Their number was probably around the two million mark. There was no telephone service, no television, no radio, no method of instant communication other than with the use of runners or messengers. Prior to this night Moses had instructed them to get ready, to ask their masters for some of their wealth, to follow the sacrifice procedures to the letter including the making of bread dough without leaven. They were packed and ready. Whatever carts they might have had, whatever back pack pouches they might have had, they packed and were ready. Then the trumpets sounded so to speak. Not really trumpets, but I am using this as an expression. The call went out and they moved out from their respective residences. Once they were poor and slaves, now they were rich and free. They were told to move out, to not look back (ie. Sodom) at the former life style. Now was the time to move forward in their new 'free' life. So it is in the Christian life. We are too, to look forward, and that means that we study our Bible daily, ever learning, ever preparing ourselves for the new or promised land which God has waiting for each one of us. Our promised land is spiritual maturity. We are not to look back at life without Bible study. That is, we are not to go through life in disregard for God and the study of His Word. Certainly we are trapped so to speak in this world, but our freedom comes from within our soul. The spiritual life is beyond the senses, beyond what you can see, smell, taste, measure, etc. It is a link between you and God through your fellowship status, and your relationship with Him through your knowledge of His Word. After midnight, at a time when most people are fast asleep in bed, the call came to move out. One can almost hear the bells or trumpets of announcement sounding throughout the land of Goshen. People awake in their houses, dressed, shoes on, staff in hand, luggage packed, finishing up the last of their sacrificial meal, listening in the night and hearing the cries of those families who did not put the blood of lambs on their door posts, then the announcement, the trumpets sounded in the distance, then other trumpets sounding from out of the darkness. The people would look out of their windows and then venture slowly out of their houses. Probably at first cautiously, then heading out in small groups toward the rendezvous point previously planned by Moses, then gradually gathering into larger groups as they head out down the road. So back to our individual lives. When the command is made 'study to show thyself approved' do we listen and then prepare ourselves for Gods plan for our lives? Girded in our souls with doctrine so that we are ready to travel? Or do we ignore it all and live our lives in the fog of this busy little world of ours doing whatever it is we do, to be suddenly taken by surprise and then left behind when the call finally does come. Certainly there are important things in life that we need to do. We need to be responsible, we need to pursue an education, we need to work, we need to raise our families and so forth, but we need also to prepare in our spiritual lives as well, and that requires a simply commitment to a daily study of Gods word. After the strike of midnight (figuratively speaking - don't get caught asleep without a spiritual life; don't get so caught up in your worldly life that you disregard Gods will for your life and His commands), then anything can happen to you. Christ's hand is on the laver of history, arm flexed and straining, ready to pull it at any moment. Urgency is the issue or should be the issue in each of our individual spiritual lives. One day there is going to be a great procession for us, as there was at the Exodus, as there was when Christ led, after the Cross, 'captives', (Old Testament believers) from the old Paradise in the subterranean parts of earth, in a great victory procession as in a great parade following victory of a war, to the new Paradise in heaven. So it will be with us one day in the future. A great parade from earth to heaven with dancers, singers, choirs, instruments of music of all types which we have never seen. That is what is in a parade, a victory procession. We will see the song of Moses and Miriam in chapter 15, and can only imagine the tremendous event as two million Israelites moved out from Egypt, out from slavery and into their new life. A life they knew nothing about, knew not where they were headed, but would follow that dark cloud and pillar of fire (Jesus Christ) wherever it took them. 
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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