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Feast of Unleavened Bread 2007 — Day 7
Speaker: Richard Agee
The timing of the exodus, travel to the sea, crossing the sea and travel to Mt. Sinai to receive God’s instructions mirrors Messiah’s deliverance of us from slavery to sin, taking us to baptism and then leading us toward His instructions.
Questions tackled in the discussion [download PDF notes]
- What happened during the first month during the exodus of Israel from slavery from Egypt?
- What do the 430 years God told Abraham that his children would be in Egypt mean?
- What happened on the 15th day of the first month, called the month of Aviv?
- Where are Succoth, Etham and Pi Hairoth in relation to exodus story, and why are they important?
- If there are supposed to be a "holy assembly" on the 15th and 21st days of the first month, also the first and seventh days of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, what does God want to say on those days?
- What does "unleavened" mean? Why can’t anyone in Israel have leaven in his home during that seven-day period?
- What does "the self-same day" mean in Exodus 12:40–41 in relation to the day of the exodus in relation to the 430-year period?
- Why are the 430 years so significant that apostle Paul mentioned it in Galatians 3:17? Is there a discrepancy, because Acts 7:6 mentions the period was 400 years?
- Why did God in Exodus 13:17–18 not send Israel on the direct road to Philistia and Caanan, the Promised Land?
- Why did God give Israel cloud cover by day and light at night as they were traveling?
- What’s the missing connection between the Ten Commandments and Pentecost for most Christians? For example, can you follow the law of God without being baptized?
- What’s the significance of the crossing of the sea coming on the seventh day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread? With the parallel between Passover, Firstfruits, Unleavened Bread, Shavuot (Pentecost) and the death and resurrection of Yeshua as well as the giving of God’s spirit on Shavuot?
- What’s the significance of the cloud of God’s movement between Israel and the Egyptian army before the sea crossing, as described in Exodus 14? What’s the connection between that account and what God does when He leads us away from our old life and through baptism to new life in Yeshua (see 1st Corinthians 10:1–2)?
- What was Israel delivered from when it traveled through the sea, as recounted in Exodus 15:1–24?
- Like Israel, do we get afraid where God is taking us when He calls us?
- Does our story end at baptism? If not, what does the story of the exodus tell us about the connection between baptism and the in-filling with God’s law (teaching and direction)?