![]() ![]() But there are also some important lessons we can learn from the Israelites’ years spent wandering. It's a sad story - even though we know how great the eventual ending is - and it's normal to wonder why the Israelites couldn't just do what they were supposed to do. During this time, the Israelites experienced the humbling dependence on God that comes from learning to fully rely upon Him. Because of their lack of loyalty to the God who had just liberated them from tyranny, he punished them with 40 years of wandering through desert wilderness before being able to enter the Promised Land. But the Israelites failed to obey God, almost immediately breaking commandments by indulging in idolatry. ![]() Sinai, where God bestowed Moses with the Ten Commandments. At last, the Israelites were a free people.įrom here, they pressed onward to Mt. Here, God delivers the Israelites from Pharaoh’s clutches once more by parting the waters and allowing the Israelites to cross safely, and then closes the gap and swallows the Pharaoh and his army in the ensuing torrent (Exodus 14). At the cost of losing his firstborn son in the 10th and final plague, Pharaoh finally agrees to set the Israelites free but then has a sudden change of heart and pursues them to the Red Sea. When Pharaoh gives no regard to Moses’s petition to let the Lord’s people go free, God inflicts the Ten Plagues upon Egypt. As Exodus continues, the Lord commissions Moses to spearhead this deliverance and lead the Israelites into the Promised Land, a central part of the covenant God had made with Abraham in Genesis 12 to make his descendants into a great nation. After spending 430 years in abject poverty and enslaved by the Egyptian monarchy, the Israelites were desperately crying out to God for the deliverance promised by Joseph in Genesis 50:25. Moses and the IsraelitesĪlthough the book of Exodus opens over four centuries after the end of its predecessor Genesis, it picks up right where Genesis left off. ![]() Whether you're looking for a new topic for your next Bible study at an assisted living community under the Bethesda Senior Living Communities umbrella or just wanting to explore the Old Testament on your own time, Moses and the Israelites is a good place to start. But it has many interesting stories and lessons that we can learn. The Old Testament is part of the Bible we may not often turn to in favor of comforting Psalms or tidbits about Jesus' life in the Gospels. ![]()
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