So in Exodus, the Lord declares himself to be the great I am. In John chapter 8, Jesus does the same.

In Exodus, you have a Passover lamb that sacrificed to deliver the Israelites from destruction.

In Jesus, we have a Passover lamb who's sacrificed to deliver us from final destruction.

When you're reading John 1 in the context of Exodus, it's clear, oh, Yahweh has shown up in our midst.

He's with us again in Christ.

J. Sclar serves as Professor of Old Testament and vice president of academics at Covenant Theological Seminary,

and he's also the author of a commentary on the book of Exodus in Crossway's ESV expository commentary series.

Jay, thanks so much for joining me today on the Crossway podcast.

It is such a pleasure to be here, Matt. Thanks for joining me today on the Crossplay podcast. It is such a pleasure

to be here, Matt. Thanks for having me. So my guess is that the book of Exodus is one of those

biblical books that maybe many Christians tend to stall out on when they, after they start

there through the Bible in a year reading plan. You know, Genesis has all these foundational

stories, very well-known stories that we've all read many times before. And even the first,

maybe half of Exodus has got a lot of those similar stories. But you kind of start getting

past that and things maybe start to slow down a little bit or feel like they're getting almost like a preview of Leviticus, and I think we can struggle.

Do you resonate with that?

I think that's a very common experience, especially once you get past the Ten Commandments,

what do you have?

You have another two chapters of case law, followed by six or seven chapters on tabernacle instructions.

You get a bit more interest when you get the Golden Calf incident, though it's not a happy story.

And then the last five chapters of Exodus, or last six actually repeat basically chapters 31 through 35 on the tabernacle. And people just, they get

lost in the desert of details and find it to be drier than the dust of Sinai. Yeah. I love those,

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