The primary purpose of the Exodus was to tell the world who Yahweh is by Name. It was no coincidence that He chose Egypt as the country from which to deliver His people. At that time, Egypt was the lone superpower; pharaoh was the most powerful person in the world; and Egypt’s many gods were recognized throughout the known world. Yahweh wanted to establish a written record about Him and His sovereignty. During the Exodus, He was going to make it clear that nations, leaders of nations, so-called “gods,” viruses, bacteria, insects, and even the forces of nature are subservient to Him. Jewish people call that written record the Torah and Christians refer to it as the Pentateuch, or the five books of Moses: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.

“For here we are not afraid to follow the truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.” (Thomas Jefferson)

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Video: The Aaronic Blessing—This is a beautiful video rendition of The Aaronic Blessing (Numbers 6: 24-26) in Hebrew and English, but notice that the title Adonai is used instead of the Name Yahweh. That is in keeping with a Jewish tradition that dates back to the mid-second century B.C., but you can be certain about this fact. Yahweh’s Name is essential to The Aaronic Blessing and should be there.
Video: He is Yahweh

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Scripture:

Today I’ll show where Yahweh’s Name belongs in 1 Corinthians 3:

1 Corinthians 3

And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual men, but as to men of flesh, as to infants in Christ.
I gave you milk to drink, not solid food; for you were not yet able to receive it. Indeed, even now you are not yet able,
for you are still fleshly. For since there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not fleshly, and are you not walking like mere men?
For when one says, “I am of Paul,” and another, “I am of Apollos,” are you not mere men?
What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, even as Yahweh gave opportunity to each one.
I planted, Apollos watered, but God was causing the growth.
So then neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but God who causes the growth.
Now he who plants and he who waters are one; but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.
For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, God’s building.
According to the grace of God which was given to me, like a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another is building on it. But each man must be careful how he builds on it.
For no man can lay a foundation other than the one which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
Now if any man builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw,
each man’s work will become evident; for the day will show it because it is to be revealed with fire, and the fire itself will test the quality of each man’s work.
If any man’s work which he has built on it remains, he will receive a reward.
If any man’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire.
Do you not know that you are a temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?
If any man destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him, for the temple of God is holy, and that is what you are.
Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you thinks that he is wise in this age, he must become foolish, so that he may become wise.
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness before God. For it is written, “He is THE ONE WHO CATCHES THE WISE IN THEIR CRAFTINESS”;
and again, “YAHWEH KNOWS THE REASONINGS of the wise, THAT THEY ARE USELESS.”
So then let no one boast in men. For all things belong to you,
whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or things present or things to come; all things belong to you,
and you belong to Christ; and Christ belongs to God.

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Yahweh Declares Himself to the World

The primary purpose of the Exodus was to tell the world who Yahweh is by Name. It was no coincidence that He chose Egypt as the country from which to deliver His people. At that time, Egypt was the lone superpower; pharaoh was the most powerful person in the world; and Egypt’s many gods were recognized throughout the known world. Yahweh wanted to establish a written record about Him and His sovereignty. During the Exodus, He was going to make it clear that nations, leaders of nations, so-called “gods,” viruses, bacteria, insects, and even the forces of nature are subservient to Him. Jewish people call that written record the Torah and Christians refer to it as the Pentateuch, or the five books of Moses: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.

The Exodus also illustrates Yahweh’s salvation or deliverance. By delivering His people from bondage in Egypt, Yahweh demonstrated His power to save under the most adverse conditions imaginable. Literally, He can reach down and pluck His people out of danger and then inflict punishment on His enemies with laser-guided precision. Nothing is impossible for Him.

The Exodus Begins

As the book of Genesis comes to an end, the Children of Israel are moving to Egypt because of a famine in the Promised Land. Joseph had been brought to Egypt as a slave, and eventually he became viceroy or prime minister, a position that was second only to Pharaoh. In that capacity, he was able to provide for the Children of Israel, and they were treated well and prospered while Joseph was alive.

According to Rabbi Phillip Sigal, the pharaoh in Egypt at the time of Joseph’s arrival was probably from the Hyksos line, and many Hyksos were Semites—as were the Children of Israel. Sigal says,

“It is conceivable that the pharaoh of Joseph’s period welcomed the Hebrews to his kingdom because he was one of the Hyksos and a Semite like themselves. When the Hyksos were overthrown, the new Egyptian monarch, regarding the Hebrews as consorts of the Hyksos, and therefore enemies, proceeded to enslave them.” (Sigal, Rabbi Phillip. Judaism: The Evolution of a Faith, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1988, p. 7)

Yahweh Initiates the Exodus

The events described in the book of Exodus take place about 300 years after Joseph’s death. As Exodus begins, a pharaoh had come to power in Egypt who had not known Joseph. He was concerned because he thought the Hebrews, who had grown in number to several million people, could turn against Egypt if enemies invaded the country and possibly could help to bring about her defeat. Thus, he decided to enslave the Children of Israel, and he put them to work making bricks to build cities and temples that were needed as Egypt grew and prospered.

The Hebrew people continued to increase rapidly in number despite their difficult circumstances. Thus, Pharaoh decided to kill their male children at birth. Moses was born during this time. Pharaoh’s daughter spared his life when she found him floating in a basket in the Nile River. She brought him into Pharaoh’s house and raised him as her own son.

Yahweh protected Moses, and He arranged things so that his real mother became his wet nurse. She must have taught Moses about his true identity as an Israelite because when he was 40 years old, Moses decided to forego the life of luxury that he could have lived as the son of pharaoh’s daughter, and he attempted to rescue his Hebrew relatives.

One day he got involved in a dispute between an Egyptian taskmaster and a Hebrew slave, and he killed the taskmaster. When news of the incident reached pharaoh, he ordered Moses’ execution. Thus, Moses fled to the Land of Midian which is known today as Saudi Arabia. While living in Midian, Moses married the daughter of the priest of Midian and began raising a family. He worked for his father-in-law (Jethro) as a shepherd of his flocks. Moses spent long hours in the barren wilderness alone grazing sheep. When he was 80 years old, Moses met Yahweh on Mount Sinai.

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