Exodus 6:1 - 7:13 Notes: Israel's Deliverance Assured

Section 10: Exodus 6:1 – 7:13 – Israel’s Deliverance Assured 

Theme or topic of this section

Let Everyone Know That I Am the Lord

God is Building a Relationship with the People

Yinz Have to Know That I Am the Lord

Just Wait and Watch

Some interesting points

Pharaoh is a sore loser! 

Aaron’s snake was hungry!

“uncircumcised lips” – a curious expression.

Verse 6:7, first half  (“I will take you as my people, and I will be your God.”)

We see this as comforting because we know how the story ends.

The Israelites might says,  “Wait a minute – I want to read the fine print.”
Did the Israelites even know what this meant?  Did they remember the covenant?

Right now, it’s no wonder the Israelites don’t listen to Moses – in Chapter 5 things got worse.

It’s a transition, and transitions are painful.  In Egypt, things are certain for the Israelites, but Moses’ proposal is full of uncertainty.

Verse 6:7, second half (God is “the Lord your God”)

Maybe by repetition it will begin to sink in.

Did the Israelites have a sense of their own oral history?

The genealogy is there to make the link from their oral history to the events of Moses’ time.

OR the genealogy is there as a way to get Reuben, Simeon, and Levi back into good graces (compare to Genesis chapter 49).

Things our parents said to threaten discipline:

Don’t make me come up there!

Do I have to stop the car?

You don’t want me to come back there.

            - the Book of Mothers and Fathers

More about God hardening Pharaoh’s heart

- What about the Egyptian people’s free will?!  They paid the price of Pharaoh’s hard heart!

God does the hardening in this sense:  God knows that by what He does (the plagues), Pharaoh’s heart will be hardened.

Pharaoh was groomed to be the ultimate power, and he just can’t imagine a god like God.

What we learned about the nature of God from this passage

God uses sinners.

God knows more about me that I know about me.

God wins in the end.

He can take sinners and restore them (Reuben, Simeon, Levi).

God is powerful.

God will meet us where we are.