Welcome to a year in the Bible with Daily Grace.

This year, we want to spend a few minutes with you every day walking through our study, Christ and all of Scripture.

Each week we will dive deeply into two passages of Scripture, one from the Old Testament and one from the New,

seeing how they connect and point to Jesus.

Whether you are doing the study yourself or just following along with us here, we are

hopeful that through studying these passages each week, you will see how Christ is not only present

throughout the entire biblical story, but the center of it.

Hey everyone, welcome back to your year in the Bible. My name is Alexa, and I'm joined as always

with my co-host

Beth. Hi, friends. Today we are going to be walking through our Old Testament annotations for this

week, which we are studying Exodus 4, 22 through 23, which says, and you will say to Pharaoh,

this is what the Lord says. Israel is my firstborn son. I told you, let my son go so that he may worship me, but you refuse to let him go.

Look, I'm about to kill your firstborn son. So, this is a wild passage. Alexa, how is this

annotation day for you? Yeah, you know, this one felt a little hard for me. Just because I felt like there wasn't a whole lot for me

to note personally but there are still definitely some great things to consider so in thinking

about which phrases or words point to Christ I highlighted my son and my firstborn son

as well as the phrase kill your first son, because Jesus is God's son,

and God experienced his firstborn son being killed on the cross. And then with the prompt that

asks us to know any attributes of God, I was thinking about what could capture that in this particular

context, God is calling Israel his first born son.

So God is like a father for Israel and Israel is like his child. And I think perhaps God being

loving could capture that relationship. You know, God desires for Israel to worship him, but he's

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