Key Learning from Sunday School
February 2025
Youth Sunday School (The Book of Exodus)
The Book of Exodus begins where Genesis leaves off as God deals with His chosen people. It traces the events from the time Israel entered Egypt as guests of Joseph until they were eventually living under the cruel bondage of slavery.
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⁃ Our understanding of Exodus is influenced by Hollywood.
- Pharaoh’s edict was to cull the Hebrews and not circumvent a prophecy
• Moses, nursed by his own mother, may have always known he was a Hebrew
• His pedigree (a non-human) may have made him an outsider in Pharaoh’s court
• The working class (Hebrews) did not accept him as they saw him as part of the ruling class
⁃ Midianites were the descendants of Abraham and his 3rd wife (counting Hagar), Keturah (Genesis 25:1-4)
• A priest of Midan; The God of Midian = the God of Abraham?
• The four part promise made to Abraham & Sarah (Name, Nation, Blessing, Home [Genesis 12:2-3,7]) was passed down through Isaac, and Jacob
• The Hebrews were God’s chosen people, not His only believers
⁃ 70 descendants of Jacob who went into Egypt
• Scripture lays no stress upon the number itself.
• 70 is likely a rounded number
• LXX - Septuagint
• Named after a rounded number of translators assigned
• Greek translation of the Hebrew Text
• Translation predates Christ by 300 years
• Christ quotes the LXX 90% of the time in the new testament
⁃ Ancient Egypt
• Exodus likely during the New Kingdom period (3rd of the 3 golden ages)
• One of the Pharaohs in the 20th Dynasty are a likely choice
⁃ The edict to kill the sons of the Hebrews is mirrored in the Book of Matthew with the slaughter of the innocence in Bethlehem