The Bible Study Podcast, episode 221.

Today, the Bible Study podcast continues the study of freedom.

Welcome to the Bible Study podcast. I'm your host, Chris Christensen.

We're going to go back and look at some ground that

we've tread not that long ago in the Bible study podcast as we go back and look at the

children of Israel. We dealt with the children of Israel not that long ago when we were dealing

with the theme of the wilderness. And so we talked about them in episode 210, which was

part three in a study in the wilderness, and we talked about the 40 years that they spent in

the wilderness. And so let's go back and look at that. The whole story starts here in Exodus

3. I'm going to skip Exodus 1 through 2, where we learn that things are bad for the

children of Israel. They have become slaves in Egypt. Remember, they went to Egypt because they were being

saved from the famine through Joseph. Joseph, he of the coat of many colors, who was sent ahead.

His brothers thought they were selling him into slavery

to get rid of him, and instead they end up coming to him, little be known to them, to beg for food

when things are going bad. And he says, God sent me ahead so that we could save you. And so

they end up in Egypt, they get numerous, and they get so numerous that basically one of the pharaohs decides that if something isn't done about them, if something hasn't done about this pest control, this population control problem with these Hebrews, then they're going to have a problem because when an enemy comes, the Hebrews could align with an

enemy and there'd be an internal revolt. And so they become slaves. In Exodus 3, Moses gets

drawn in the problem because he runs into a burning bush. And the Lord says, I have indeed

seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave

drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering. So I have come down to rescue them from the

hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land

flowing with milk and honey. The home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amarites, Parasites, Hivites, and Jebusites.

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