Exposing the World

1. God's Desire - For His People to be Separated and to Hold a Feast to Him

Exodus 5:1 And afterward Moses and Aaron came and said to Pharaoh, Thus says Jehovah the God of Israel, Let My people go that they may hold a feast to Me in the wilderness. 

2. Satan's World System - Usurpation and Slavery Under Pharaoh

Exodus 5:2 But Pharaoh said, Who is Jehovah that I should listen to His voice to let Israel go? I do not know Jehovah, and I also will not let Israel go. 

2 Corinthians 4:4 In whom the god of this age has blinded the thoughts of the unbelievers that the illumination of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, might not shine on them. 

John 12:31 Now is the judgment of this world; now shall the ruler of this world be cast out.

1 John 5:19 We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the evil one. 

3. God's Mercy in Judgment - Exposing the World (Ten Plagues)

1 John 2:17 And the world is passing away, and its lust, but he who does the will of God abides forever. 

Ten plagues (Exo. 7:15-13:22)

• The First Plague - Blood

• The Second Plague - Frogs

• The Third Plague - Lice

• The Fourth Plague - Flies

• The Fifth Plague - Pestilence

• The Sixth Plague - Boils

• The Seventh Plague - Hail

• The Eighth Plague - Locusts

• The Ninth Plague - Darkness

• The Tenth Plague - Killing the Firstborn

4. Our Cooperation

Exodus 6:9 And Moses spoke this to the children of Israel, but they did not listen to Moses on account of anguish of spirit and harsh bondage. 

Exodus 6:26 It was this same Aaron and Moses to whom Jehovah said, Bring out the children of Israel from the land of Egypt according to their armies.

1 John 2:15 Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in him. 

Week 4 Bible Reading: Exodus 8-10