Asian Fellowship teacher: Ed van Ouwerkerk Today we discuss the “People of the Promise”, the descendants of Abraham: Isaac, Jacob, Joseph and Moses, and.

Asian Fellowshipteacher: Ed van Ouwerkerk

Today we discuss the “People of the Promise”, the descendants of Abraham: Isaac, Jacob, Josephand Moses, and how God leads the Hebrew people in Egypt out of slavery.

Last time we discussed God’s plan through . . . . . . . Abraham

People of the Promise

The covenant promise given by God to Abraham was:“I swear by myself, declares the LORD, that because you (Abraham) have done this and have not withheld your son (Isaac), your only son, I will surely . . . . . you and make your descendants as . . . . . . . as the . . . . . . in the . . . . and as the . . . . . on the . . . . . . . . . “ (Gen. 22:15-17)

Who was Joseph?

This promise of God passes through Abraham’s descendants: Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, etc.

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Let’s first have a look at Abraham’s family tree.

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Jesus, the Son of God

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Watch the movie “The Hope” Chapter 6: People of the Promise

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How did Joseph end up in Egypt?

Genesis 37Jacob, also named Israel, loved his son Joseph. Therefore and because Joseph had dreams, his brothers were jealous and threw him in a pit, sold him to traders to Egypt, dipped his clothes in blood and told father Jacob that Joseph was eaten by a wild beast.

Genesis 39 and Genesis 41Joseph entered Egypt as a slave, and was trapped in a false accusation, but God placed Joseph in a powerful position, because Pharaoh asked Joseph to interpret a dream of Pharaoh and Joseph interpreted the dream (a famine would come) correctly and Pharaoh placed Joseph in authority over Egypt.

But God had a higher plan. Read Exodus 2:1-10

Exodus 2:11-25When Moses had grown up he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, and he killed the Egyptian. Afraid for Pharaoh’s repercussions Moses fled to the desert and lived there as a shepherd for 40 years.

A Hebrew mother laid her baby in a basket and let it float on the river, where a daughter of . . . . . . . . found the baby. The daughter adopted the baby and named him Moses. Moses grew up as a prince.

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Exodus 7-11 God sent a series of terrible plagues on Egypt, but non of the plagues touched the Hebrew people. After each plague the Pharaoh still refused to let the Hebrew people go.Again we see God’s judgment on sin through the plagues He brings on Egypt, which ultimately brings the judgment of death.

God brings the Hebrew people out of Slavery

Exodus 12Then God commanded each Hebrew family to slay a lamb and place blood of the lamb over the door of the houses. And God sent death over every firstborn in the land, except those with blood on the doorposts.

The people of Israel were saved from the angel of death by the blood of the lamb on their doorposts. Read Exodus 12:12-13

This is a picture of the death of Christ and how the shedding of blood (a sacrificial substitute) is shown to be necessary for God’s salvation. This (the blood of a lamb) is another example of a sacrificial substitute to deliver people from Satan, sin and death.

Central theme in God’s Word is: ‘how to be saved, sacrificial substitute’Do you remember three events?1. After the first sin committed by Adam and Eve, God provided an animal skin to cover their nakedness. In order to provide that skin God must have slaughtered an animal. Gen. 3:21.

2. The first Jew Abraham was called to sacrifice his own son. After he had shown that he was willing to put his son to death, God inter-vened and provided an animal as substitute sacrifice. Gen. 22:2,13.

3. God commanded each Hebrew family living as slaves in Egypt to slay a lamb and place blood of the lamb over the door of the houses. This act of obedience was followed by saving them from death, delivering them, and bring them out of slavery. Exodus 12:13.

All these events point to the turning point in history, when God sent His only Son as a sacrificial substitute for the sins of all people at all times. Jesus is the promised deliverer, our Savior and Lord. In Him is ‘The Hope’!