40 Minutes In The Old Testament - Episode 62 (Exodus 1:15-2:4)

Episode Date: November 8, 2016

Pharaoh plots to have all the male babies of the Israelites killed, the midwives obey God rather than man and Moses is born and hidden. Chad and Daniel talk about all this and much more in this episode. Check it out!

welcome to 40 minutes in the old testament this is episode 62 we are still in exodus and will be for some time i'm daniel emery price i'm joined by chad bird who is in texas but not in dallas texas which me and him were both in dallas texas just last weekend and uh now we're back we were there for the city event and that was a good time chad it was we had a great time great turnout great presentations uh just a fantastic chance to get together with uh with folks around uh around the word and uh enjoy uh enjoy some time together yeah it's fun yeah yeah so we're gonna be uh leaking that content out over the next uh couple weeks as we edit it all up and stuff but one thing that uh that happened there was we were uh able to announce a different conference that's

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there that's it all right we won't waste your time i know you guys love that we just jump right in so but that's that's important because we we love you and we want to see you there chad where we leave off in this story of the exodus we're about halfway through chapter one of exodus uh we kind of get we got to lay some groundwork here before we really uh go full steam ahead through the story so we talked a little bit about exodus just kind of in general as a book kind of give a kind of a basic outline of how the story how story shapes up and some of the major themes that we see uh traced through through the whole story of exodus so we did that and then we got started with the book itself made it through those first 14 14 verses and we kind of

went from a a high point to a low point already in these these opening verses because we start out with kind of a recap so it tells how many of the of the sons of jacob went down into egypt and that that generation eventually got old they died but that god richly blessed the israelites in egypt they had this piling up of verbs in verse 7 that they were fruitful they increased greatly they multiply they were exceedingly mighty the land was just filled with them so everything's going great and then all of a sudden everything doesn't go great we have this reversal that takes place because there's a new pharaoh that takes the throne and he is frightened of the of the israelites because there's so many of them and he's afraid that if a foreign army invades

egypt that the israelites will join up with these invaders and then together they're going to be able to conquer Egypt. So what does he do? Well, he implements a plan. And the first step in this plan is that he more or less enslaves the Israelites. He appoints taskmasters over them to afflict them. And this doesn't work. In fact, it backfires because it says the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied. So Pharaoh's plan doesn't work. The exact opposite worked. And so he continues to make their lives bitter through harsh labor through slavery through building projects through all of this all of this kind of stuff and so that takes us through verse 14 we're going to pick up today is kind of the next step in his plan and this next step is is the worst step

Because failing to really kill the spirit of the Israelites by forced servitude, he instead opts to actually kill all of the male offspring who are born. And this is kind of a two-step process that we have here. First, he's going to try and do it sort of secretly, without any kind of public decree that this is what's supposed to happen. So, picking up here at verse 15, we're introduced to a couple of midwives. And depending on your translation, it probably calls them Hebrew midwives. were, it's a little bit unclear as to whether these are like Egyptian midwives that served the Hebrew people, or whether they were actually Hebrew midwives who served their fellow Hebrew people. So a little bit of ambiguity there. The ancient Greek translation called the Septuagint

opted for saying that these were actually Egyptian midwives who served the Hebrew people, But the Hebrew itself is unclear. But that's beside the point. They're midwives and they're serving the Hebrew women. And we have their names, which is significant. One was named Shipra and the other was named Pua. The reason this is significant is because it's sort of a slap in the face to the high and mighty of the day, because throughout this whole story, we are never told the name of the Egyptian Pharaoh, even though everybody would have known that. he was revered as a God incarnate, so everyone would have known Pharaoh and his name. But the biblical writer purposely leaves that out. He remains unnamed. So his significance is extremely lowered because of this. And we do know the name of these two common, ordinary, everyday, working hebrew midwives and the fact that we know their names and not the name of the egyptian pharaoh at the time is is it strikes a theme that we're going to see throughout throughout the

scriptures we've already seen in the book of genesis as well and that is that the bible has this way of directing our attention to that which we would really never focus our attention on according to you know our our everyday our everyday perspective because what the bible does what what god does in in the scriptures is is it constantly constantly focusing us not toward the things that that we and the world think are are best i mean we what do we look up to we look up to people with money we look up to people with power we look up to people who are who are smart so wealth and power and and wisdom the ancient world venerated these and the modern world venerates these as well. And yet what God does is he chooses that which is foolish to

shame the wise. He chooses that which is weak to shame the strong. He chooses that which is poor to shame the rich. So he's constantly reversing our expectations of how he should act. So you could pretty much say that, you know, whatever you think God should do, he's going to do the exact opposite. Whatever you think God should say, he's going to say the exact opposite because he doesn't work according to our ways of thinking. He doesn't look up to the same things that we look up to. Instead, he looks down. He looks on the poor. He looks on the lowly. He looks on the common. And so we see that in the case of these Hebrew midwives, because God is looking upon them. He's exalting them. He's giving names to them, and yet the high and mighty and wealthy

ruler of Egypt, we don't even know his name. I mean, he comes out sort of as a buffoon in this story, because here he is meeting with Hebrew midwives, trying to enlist them in this act of genocide that he has planned, and yet they fool him, as we're going to see in just a second. So he can't even initiate a plan that's going to work. Everything backfires against him. So the fact that we know the names of these Hebrew midwives is all part of kind of this way in which the scripture directs us ultimately to the cross, where God works to the foolishness of the cross, the weakness of the cross, the shame of the cross, in order to reveal his glory. So, the naming of these women is part of that whole theology of the cross that's woven throughout

the scriptures. So, Pharaoh calls them in, and he says to them, when you are helping the Hebrew women to give birth and see them upon the birthstool, if it's a son, then you shall put them to death but if it's a daughter then she shall live so this is where he's you know he's taking it up a notch the the oppression of the israelites because now we have an act of genocide in which he wants the midwives basically to do something secretly to the male children when they're being born so that so that they die but it doesn't appear as if they are killing them That's kind of the plan here. So he wants this to be in secret, but he wants the midwives to carry it out in order that the growth of the Israelites might be stifled. So if it's a son, they live. If it's a daughter, if it's a son he's put to death, if it's a daughter, then she lives.

Now, one of the ironies here, and there's a lot of ironies in these opening chapters of Exodus. this. One of these priorities is that actually it's the daughters of Israel. It's the women of Israel who end up thwarting the plan of Pharaoh, as we're going to see in chapter two. So by letting the daughters live, Pharaoh is actually undermining his whole endeavor because it's the women who are going to be used by God to save Moses, for instance. So all of Pharaoh's plans are coming unraveled in one way or another. Now, when the midwives are told this, we are told right away a significant thing about them. It says they feared God. And because of that, because of their fear of God, the reverence of God, their belief in him, they acted according to what God would

have them do instead of what pharaoh commanded them to do so this is kind of what we would call the act of civil disobedience it says they did not do as the king of egypt had commanded them but they let the boys live they obeyed god rather than men well when the when the king finds out about this he calls the midwives in and he begins an interrogation of them he says why have you done this thing and let the boys and let the boys live and the midwives are smart now they're i mean they're not going to tell Pharaoh outright what they've done. Instead, they act in a way which is cunning. They say to him, here's the reason that this has all happened.

It's because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women, because they're vigorous. They give birth before the midwife can get to them. So the midwives are saying, listen, we know what you told us to do, But look, we might be summoned that the Israelite woman is in labor, but before we can even get there, she's already given birth because the Israelite women are more vigorous and more lively than the Egyptian women. They're stronger than the Egyptian women. So they're really, you know, our hands are tied. There's nothing we can do.

It's not like we can kill the male child after he's already been born. So no matter what you tell us to do, it's not working because the Israelites are the way they are. There's a lot of women who are the way they are. That's a weird thing. Yeah, that is a weird thing. The compliment, you mean? That's a weird compliment. First of all, birthing stools are weird.

That's a weird thing. I don't know exactly what those are, but I can't imagine them being comfortable, whatever they are. The birthing stool sounds like a toilet. It seems like you need to have a hole in this thing where the baby drops. I don't know. I don't know.

what to see this is things like this that make reading the bible weird uh well literally it's two stones and so maybe maybe the way these two stuff the maybe the way these two stones are put together allowed for allowed for that i don't know i'm not acquainted with the ancient uh egyptian art with regard to uh to childbirth maybe it's maybe it's like the my mind immediately went Yeah, I don't know if you've ever seen this. I'm about to derail this whole thing. I don't know if you've ever seen the advertisement for the Squatty Potty, but it seems like that's what's in my mind.

It's like, this will make everything easier. Maybe, I don't know, ladies, maybe you've been doing this wrong the whole time. I don't know. But still, this is a weird compliment. Like, hey, these Hebrew women, they're just barren kids. It doesn't even faze them. That doesn't even faze them, man. By the time we get there, it's done.

The kid's grown up by the time we get there. That's weird. Yeah, it is a weird compliment. And it's no wonder he doesn't have anything to say to that, because I think no dude has anything to say to that. Yeah, what's a guy going to say? He's going to be like, no, no, that can't happen. A dude just could be like, oh.

Okay, so these women are smart in the sense that they're like, we'll just say something about burying children he won't be able to say anything you know and so and that's exactly how that goes he's it just kind of stops your mouth and you're just you gotta be like okay i mean yeah see when my wife tells me something about child about labor i don't argue yeah that's what i was gonna say i mean this is like one of those uh one of those ancient subjects that uh that it's still the same for guys today right you just can't comment on it If that's what a woman says, then you just say, amen. I believe you.

That's right. No commentary is going to come from a man on this. Yeah, sometimes I will – if I hurt myself, I'll be like, I'm telling you, it's like worse than childbirth just to see. Just to see what kind of reaction you're going to get. and then my wife's a very gracious person and i get like this this flash this look that says i don't know what i'm talking about i'm sure you do well at least you have a week in the doghouse to think about it okay now that we've derailed that i just want to point out the weirdness that's what i'm here for

i'm here to point out the weird uh nuances so uh let's continue that's fine there's a lot of weird things in the scriptures we just will point them out as we're as we're jogging along here well what kind of to pick up the story then so uh that was the conversation pharaoh didn't press the point smart guy and uh here's what happened to the midwives it says so god was good to the midwives and the people multiplied and became very mighty and it came about because the midwives feared god that he established households for for them there's an ancient jewish tradition that the The women that served as midwives are those who were unable to bear children of their own, and they use this verse as an explanation for that. It's a tradition, but I suppose that's a possibility.

Either way, one of the ways in which God rewarded these women for their fidelity is by giving them households, and the Israelites continued to multiply. lot. They kept on having babies and more babies. And so everything that Pharaoh tried wasn't working. He's tried oppressing them. He's tried enslaving them. Now he tried forcing the midwives to commit infanticide. That didn't work. So what's he going to do? Well, it's sort of the last culminating step in this process that Pharaoh has been going through. We get to the very end chapter one and here's what he says then pharaoh commanded all his people and not just the midwives and not secretly but now we have a public decree every son who was born you are to cast into the nile and every daughter you are to keep alive so no no more of this kind of you know behind the

scenes and back room kind of stuff going on where he taught tries to talk the midwives into into killing the the male children and so this becomes a public decree it's official policy of of genocide basically and presumably then this is everybody if you're if you're an egyptian you're supposed to enforce this if you're an israelite you're supposed to self-enforce it every child who was born you are to cast into the nile and every daughter you are to keep alive now since we know the whole story of the book of Exodus, this verse is significant because this sets the stage for what we're going to see later on as the story develops. For one thing, here we have the killing of the sons of the Israelites at the hand of the Egyptians. And this is going to be reflected when

we get to chapter 12, when you have the firstborn sons of the Egyptians themselves being killed when the avenging angel comes through on the night of the Passover. So it comes full circle. And so just as the Egyptians tried to kill the, not only tried, but did kill the male children of the Israelites, so their own male firstborn sons are going to be killed on the 10th plague, the night of the Passover. But not only that, go ahead, Dan.

I was going to say, maybe I'm about to steal your point, probably. I think that there's an obvious foreshadowing here of Herod killing the infant boys up to two years old. You sort of have this deliverer is born, right? And so Herod goes on this murderous rampage and kills all these infant boys. and and you have this i mean exodus as a sort of foreshadow of the great exodus that christ brings about the exodus from sin and death you have the same thing happen here where moses ends up being preserved like christ was preserved uh through the slaying of like all his brethren yeah that's uh uh that's exactly what's going on here if you if you compare the

empathy narratives of of moses with empathy narrative of jesus you're going to see multiple multiple multiple parallels and that's and that's one of them i mean you have a lot of when herod when herod issues his decree that uh all the male children in bethlehem are to be are to be slaughtered well they are but but uh but jesus escapes and you have the death of all of these israelite boys in the nile river and yet moses is moses is rescued and i mean it continues too because uh jesus ends up in egypt uh just like moses was moses was in egypt so you got really you got the life of moses uh laying the the foundation for our understanding of the life of life of jesus which is which is interesting because there's there's all sorts of parallels

between moses and jesus but also there's this great contrast between them because the law was given to moses the grace and truth came through jesus christ so you've got a parallel of their lives. And yet, as with all these kind of biblical parallels or biblical types, you have Christ as a fulfillment of that, taking it to the next level or contrasting with it in some way. But yeah, I mean, everything that happens in the Nile River with Moses and with Pharaoh and everything coming up here, that is foreshadowing what's going to happen with the Messiah. That's one of the many ways in which Exodus is pointing forward to the fulfillment that we

have in Christ in individuals as well as kind of the whole basic pattern of the book where you have enslavement and rescue and redemption through water and then finally entrance into the Holy Land. Yeah, and I think in a

real way, I think that you can consider certainly the children that Herod kills, but I think even even here um i do think that that it's okay to to call these children martyrs oh absolutely yeah yeah i mean these they're they're witnesses uh which is what a martyr is martyr means witness they're witness to uh the fact that they are they are the people of god and yet they're being

oppressed by this this foreign ruler and actually giving their lives as a witness to the fact that they are of the people of israel the chosen people of god yeah yeah that's a that's a pretty horrific scene yeah it's a it's a it's one of those i i think one of the one of the problems that we have if we know the biblical story very well is that the shock of what's happening here is sometimes lost on us you know if you've heard a story over and over and over in the scriptures then uh then the shock value of that story begins to wear over time. But this is a horrendous, really bloodthirsty decree. And I mean, if you're a father or mother, even if you're not, just imagine holding a child in your arms, standing at the banks of the Nile River, commanded

to throw that child in and to drown in those waters. It's just heart-wrenching to imagine what the israelites were were going through and especially when this was the public decree that this was to happen to every male israelite child yeah i mean i think also i mean i mean at this point the israelites are i mean a couple a few million people yeah this is this is this is widespread uh nationally sponsored murder that's taking place yeah i mean a lot of people yeah and so you're talking about in a time uh before birth control and you know i mean we've already established that the the israelites are you know the jews are multiplying like crazy i mean i i don't think this is like a couple of kids thrown in the nile i mean yeah i think you're talking

about a lot a lot of death going on here um and uh i mean the nile i mean that that's that's got to be a mess oh yeah yeah yeah big time you've got uh of course we're never told uh how many how extensive this was and certainly there were probably many who tried like the mother of Moses to prevent it from from happening but however long this took place and however many were people were affected this was a catastrophic disaster on the part of the Israelites and it it's it's what is leading us up to something that we're going to hear at the end of chapter two where the sons of israel are are crying out to god because of everything that they've been that they've been going through and also in many ways kind of uh you know it sets the stage as i mentioned

earlier for what's going to happen to what's going to happen to the sons of the egyptians they have done this they have done this to the israelites and then it's going to be turned back around on themselves on the night of uh of the passover i think there's something crazy if you look at the imagery of you know we're jumping a little bit ahead here but but with moses just talking about the nile um and he's you know he's put in a basket and it is and is put in the nile right i mean like so he's put in the nile and he's he's like floating in this basket he's that but he's floating down like this river of death where who knows how many but you must assume a whole lot of his uh kinsmen uh have you know his his brothers and sisters as it were have uh

met their death and he i mean this is a this is a crazy scene yeah yeah it's a it's it's a scene of gore and uh and sorrow and uh and oppression i mean the whole thing it's it's yeah it's like a basically like a watery graveyard that that moses has put into let's jump into that let's let's see what happens with moses uh we're at the beginning of chapter two so we have the decree every son born cast of the now every daughter is alive so now we have this kind of you know this real broad perspective this was this what's to happen to the whole whole uh uh nation of the israelites And now we're going to focus in on this one particular family with one particular child. We're told that there was a couple.

They were both at the house of Levi. We're not told their names here. We're going to learn the names just a few chapters down. In chapter 6, we're told their names are Amram and Jochebed. So they're married, and she gets pregnant, and she has a son. now you can you can imagine what kind of anxiety her pregnancy would have caused because if it's a son of course she knows what the what the decree is if it's a daughter then she lives but she bears a son and it's it's very interesting here i i got to point this out

because i think this is uh this tells us a lot about kind of the whole what kind of undergirds this this whole story it says when she saw that he was beautiful she hid him for three months now let me explain this a little bit it said literally in the hebrew it's it doesn't say when she saw that he was beautiful or that he was handsome or whatever literally in hebrew it says when she saw that he was good she hid him for three months now the reason this is significant is because this word for good, which in Hebrew is tov, is the same word that we have back in Genesis 1 that's found over and over and over. God made everything on day one, it was good.

Day two, it was good, so on and so forth, all the way through day seven, when everything is pronounced as tov ma'od, which is very good. So this word that she saw that he was tov is one of the ways in which the storyteller is connecting what happens here with Moses with what happened back in Genesis 1, it infuses the story of Moses with this theme of creation. It's almost as if this is the narrator's way of winking to us that what we have happening here is a new kind of creation, a new act in which the creative work of God is going to be manifested. The creative work of God, which is also exhibited in these saving ways.

There's this great intimate connection between creation and redemption. Redemption is basically God's way of restoring creation to the way it should be. So what God is doing in Moses is an act of redemption, but more than that, it's an act of recreation. Because you remember the way Genesis 1 begins, you have the whole earth flooded with water. And there's no organization to it. It's tovu vavohu, as the Hebrew says. It's formless and void, water all over everything. Well, once again, we have water.

We have the water that is filled with death itself here in the Nile in Egypt. And now we have a son. We have a boy who is Tov. He's good. Now, however you want to explain that or translate that, he is connected with God's creative work back in Genesis 1. And it's through him that God is going to bring about a new creation for the Israelites. He's going to bring them out of this death trap that they're in, and he's going to bring them into the freedom and liberation that they're going to experience in the Exodus.

So she hides her baby boy for three months. She sees that he is Tov, which sets the stage for what is to follow. So at three months old, she can't hide any longer. so she got she makes a a basket out of uh out of probably out of papyrus uh which was plants that grew all along all along the nile they actually made rafts and boats out of out of papyrus in ancient egypt so she makes a little basket and covers it with tar and pitch and puts a child in it and set it among the reeds by the bank of the nile now you this is one of those verses we can't just we can't just blaze past because what happens here is it's like you've got all sorts of other

biblical stories that are informing our understanding what's what's happening here so so we've already we've already jumped from genesis from this from this story to genesis chapter one with the whole creation creation theme now we jump ahead to the whole uh story of the of noah in the ark it says that she made this basket for uh for her baby boy covered it with tar and pitch well throughout the old testament there is only uh the hebrew word that's used here a noun which is teva teva is only used in two stories in the whole testament this one to describe this little basket boat that Moses is placed into. And that's the same word that's translated as ark in the story of Noah and the flood. So, the two occurrences in the Old Testament of teva or ark

are found here and then in the flood narrative. So, not only do you have all the whole story of creation informing this, but also you have Moses is presented here as kind of a second Noah. Just like Noah was set adrift upon the chaos of the waters and the flood, so Moses is set adrift in these waters of death. You cover the ark with tar and pitch, and so this little bitty ark that Moses is placed in is covered in tar and pitch as well. So you've got the creation themes, you've got the Noah and the ark and the flood themes that are informing the story of Moses. And there's one more. There's a look ahead, too, because it says that his mother put him at the Nile by the reeds that grew along the bank. And this word for reeds is the same word that's going to come up later in the description of the Red Sea, where the Israelites, I mean, where the Egyptians and Pharaoh will be drowned. Literally, in Hebrew, the Red Sea is the Sea of Reeds, Yom Suf.

So a suf is a reed. And it's the same word that's used here in Chapter 2. So you've got reeds that are going to be at the Red Sea. You've got reeds that are here at the Nile River. She places them there. And Moses is going to be saved, but Pharaoh and the Egyptians at the Sea of Reeds, or the Red Sea, later will not be saved, will, in fact, be punished by God with drowning. now the reason i bring all that up is because i think i think it's significant because

this story the language it's used in this story is intended to be read in concert with a whole lot of other stories so it's not it's not isolated it's all part of this this whole biblical framework that you see back in genesis with creation and uh and and the flood and looking forward to what happens to the red sea so everything that's happening with with moses here with baby moses here is connecting us in one way or another to god's redemptive and creative work in in other parts of other parts of the scriptures yeah and so as as we know as as uh peter tells us that the ark all right is a is a type of christ so it's a thing you got to be in right to to live uh you have to be placed in in the ark of christ to do this and

i think that there's this crazy thing that happens here and maybe it's a stretch but but i think it's i've always thought it's cool where you have moses who represents the law you have the law placed in the arcs you have the law placed in christ sailing down this river of death which is pretty awesome that is that is pretty awesome that's quite an image yeah the law resting inside the ark of christ floating down the river of death i love it yeah i don't i don't think it's a stretch at all made it if you look at this story like i was doing a minute ago from the whole biblical perspective which is what you got to do you can't just you know cut out a little passage and look at it in isolation the whole all 66 books are unity they're a body

it's like our own body is all joined together so all of these stories are joined together and so when you look at it from that perspective then yeah it's not a stretch at all actually it makes it makes makes perfect sense so just kind of set the stage here so we've got a land full of death you got a river full of death you got oppressed israelites you've got a mother who's who's scared to death for the life of her three-month-old baby boy you've got pharaoh who is who is just bloodthirsty for the israelites i mean and you've got you've got this little baby in in a tiny basket floating in a river that's full of death it's full of crocodiles it's it's full of all these things that are against it. Now, everything about this would scream that there is absolutely

zero hope for anything to come of this. I mean, everything on the surface of this says that the future of the people of Israel hangs by a thread, and this thread is wearing thinner by the moment everything seems to be against it it seems as if you know absolutely nothing is going to come of this and this this then is the perfect setup for god because god loves lost causes god loves situations where we would say oh no no way nothing's going to happen here it's all it's going to fall flat in its face when god begins something it always seems as if nothing will come of it. And that's exactly what's happening here. So this story is so much like what continues to happen in the life of the church and in our lives as well. When it seems as

if there is absolutely, you know, no hope, that is the perfect opportunity for God to step in and do his best work. When it seems as if nothing's going to happen, that's the perfect opportunity for god to step in and to and to do his work because he he does his best work with nothing we know that from genesis chapter 1 he creates everything from nothing and that's that's the way he continues to work in our world he he prefers to work with nothing that's how he does his best work like it's like the more that's there the less god works the less it's there the more god works because that's the way he exhibits his grace and his powers by by working in this vacuum that he fills with surprising acts of grace and redemption.

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