Jacob and Esau concerning things
to come. Let's turn over to Genesis 27. We have to do that and read if
we're going to understand what's written here and read what took
place. Genesis 27. In verse 1, it came
to pass that when Isaac was old and his eyes were dim, that he
could not see. He called Esau, his eldest son,
and said to him, My son, he said to his father, Behold, I. And he said, Behold, now I am
old, and I know not the day of my death. Now therefore take,
I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver, thy bow, and go out to
the field, and take me some venison. and make me savory meat such
as I love and bring it to me, that I may eat, that my soul
may bless thee before I die." Do you suppose that Rebecca told
Isaac what God told her? You remember in Romans 9, it
says definitely, let's turn over there and read it, before the
children were born, In Romans 9, verse 10, not only this, but
when Rebekah had conceived by one, even her father Isaac, the
children being not yet born, neither having done any good
or evil, that the purpose of God, according to election, might
stand, not of works, but of him that calleth. It was said to
her, God told Rebekah. That's what it says. The elder
shall serve the younger. The elder shall receive the birthright. The elder shall rule the house. The elder shall serve the younger. The younger shall receive the
birthright and rule the house. Now, here Isaac, when he gets
old, he's not going to bless Jacob with the birthright. He's going to bless the oldest
son, Esau. And I've considered and considered,
and I just don't see how Rebekah could keep that to herself. I
don't see how in all the years she lived with Isaac and raised
those two boys. One, Esau, the hunter, the outdoorsman,
the hairy man, and Jacob. God told her, He said,
Jacob is going to get the birthright. He's the youngest, but Esau is
going to serve Jacob because Jacob I love, Esau I hate. Well,
if she told him that, he didn't believe her. If she told him
God revealed that to her, he evidently didn't believe her.
Because he never intended to bless Jacob. He never intended
to give Jacob the birthright. He deliberately, on purpose,
called his son. He said, I'm dying, and I'm going
to bless you with the birthright. So evidently he didn't Just cast
that off. But now wait a minute, let's
go on. Rebecca heard when Isaac spake to Esau his son, and Esau
went to the field to hunt the venison to bring. And Rebecca
spake unto Jacob her son, saying, Behold, I heard your father speak
unto Esau your brother, saying, Bring me venison, make me savory
meat that I may eat, and bless thee before the Lord before my
death. Now therefore, my son," she says
to Jacob, "'Obey my voice according to that which I command thee.
Go to the flock and fetch meat from thence, two good kids of
the goats, and I'll make,' this is Rebecca talking, "'I'll make
savory meat for your father, such as he loves.' I know how
to do it. Thou shalt bring it to thy father
that he may eat, and that he may bless thee before his death.'"
Jacob said to his mother, Rebecca, behold, Esau, my brother's a
hairy man, I'm a smooth man. My father, peradventure, will
feel me, and I shall seem to him as a deceiver, and I'll bring
a curse upon me, and not a blessing. He's not gonna bless me, he's
gonna curse me. His mother said, upon me be thy curse, my son.
She believed God, too. She's got to work this thing
out. You obey my voice and go fetch me these things I told
you. And he went and fetched it and
brought it to his mother, and his mother made savory meat such
as his father loved. And Rebecca took goodly raiment
of her son, the eldest son Esau, which was with her in the house,
and she put the clothes of Esau on Jacob, her younger son. And she put, watch this, she
put the skins of the kids of goats on his hands. and upon
the smooth of his neck, the nape of his neck. And she gave him
the savory meat and the bread which she had prepared into the
hand of her son Jacob. And he came into his father,
and he said, My father, he said, Here am I. Who art thou, my son?
He couldn't see, remember. Jacob said, I'm Esau, your firstborn. I've done according as you baddest
me. Arise, I pray thee, and eat of
my venison, that thy soul may bless me." And Isaac said to
his son, how is it you found it so quickly? My son said, oh
my goodness, listen, the Lord, God gave it to me, brought it
to me. A miracle, Father. You know, God overrules. Man
supposes and God disposes. He overrules. shenanigans of
men, but even the wrath of man will praise the Lord. God's going
to work His will and purpose using whom He will. Now Isaac said to Jacob, Come
near, I pray thee, that I may feel thee, my son, whether thou
be my son Esau or not. Jacob went near to Isaac, his
father, and he felt him and said, Well, a voice is Jacob's voice,
but the hands are the hands of Esau. He discerned him not, because
his hands were hairy as his brother Esau's hands. So he blessed him.
He said, Are you my very son, Esau? He said, I am. And he said,
Bring it near to me, that I may eat of my son's venison, that
my soul may bless thee. And he brought it near to him,
and he did eat, and brought him wine, and he drank. And his father
Isaac said, Come near now and kiss me, my son. He came there
and kissed him, and he smelled the smell of his raiment and
blessed him. And he said, See, the smell of
my son is as the smell of a field which the Lord hath blessed.
Therefore God, give thee the dew of heaven, the fatness of
the earth. Now this is the birthright. Listen
to it. The birth fatness of the earth, plenty of corn and wine.
Let the people serve thee. Let the nations bow down to thee.
Be Lord over your brothers. Let your mother's sons bow down
to you. This is the priest of the home.
Cursed be everyone that curses thee, and blessed be he that
blesses thee. That's the birthright. It came
to pass as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob,
and Jacob had scarce, yet scarce gone out from the presence of
his father, he saw his brother came in from hunting. And he
also had made savory meat and brought it to his father. And
he said to his father, Let my father arise and eat of his son's
venison, that thy soul may bless me. And Isaac his son, his father
said, Who art thou? And he said, I am thy son, thy
firstborn Esau. And Isaac trembled very exceedingly. And he said, Who? Who, where
is he that hath taken a venison, and brought it to me? And I have
eaten of all before thou camest, and I have blessed him. Yea,
and he shall be blessed." Someone asked, well how could
Isaac by faith hold to this blessing? Bless Jacob when he was so deceived.
Everything about it was deception. And he actually thought he was
blessed and he saw. He actually thought he was blessed
and he saw. But it was the will of God that
he blessed Jacob. It may be that came back to him
what Rebecca told him a long time ago. And he saw that what
he had done was set to fulfilling the will and purpose of God.
And so Jacob He said, he's blessed. I've blessed him and he's blessed.
And he did it by faith. What does that mean? Look at
our text again. I've looked at this carefully in light of what
we're talking about here. By faith he blessed Jacob. By faith he blessed Jacob. It
says, and Esau, he went ahead and told Esau he'd be a great
man, a great nation, but not the birthright. Not the birthright,
the birthright was Jacob. But Isaac, by faith, blessed
Jacob, though he did it unknowingly, because he believed in a sovereign
will of God would be accomplished, though he didn't understand why
it was done. That's what Joseph said to his
brethren who mistreated him so badly. He said, you meant it
for evil, but God meant it for good. So I believe God. And here's
another key in verse 20. Here's another key. It says,
by faith Isaac blessed Jacob. He gave him the birthright and
he gave some good things to Esau. But he blessed him concerning
things to come. And here's what that's saying.
By faith Isaac's thoughts were not centered on these two boys
at all. Isaac's mind and thoughts were
on things to come, on the mercies and blessings of God through
the Messiah. That was the key, things to come,
the promises of God for his people Israel. And these two men, however
God was pleased to use them, They sit there like Abraham and
Isaac and all the rest of them, fit in to the divine will and
purpose of God. And that's how he, by faith,
blessed Jacob, and was satisfied with it, because he knew that
God Almighty's purpose was being done. He didn't understand why
it worked this way. But he knew God overruled this
thing. And now what's the next verse? Oh, Jacob, now here Jacob's got
no. Jacob's the younger son that
stole the birthright, but all in the purpose and providence
and will of God. Now Jacob comes to bless, he
comes to bless his son's sons. All right, look at verse 21.
By faith, Jacob, when he was dying, blessed the sons of Joseph. Joseph was Jacob's son, and he
had 12 sons, and Joseph was his son who brought him down to Egypt. But he blessed the sons of Joseph
and worshipped leaning upon the top of his staff. Now if you
hadn't read this before, I want you to read it with me. Now turn
to Genesis 48. Genesis 48. Now this is Jacob. In chapter 48 of Genesis, verse
9, now Isaac blessed Jacob, the
younger son, through all the deception and work of the mother,
but it was God's will. Now here's Jacob about to bless
Joseph's son. In verse 9 of chapter 48, and
Joseph said to his father, these are my sons, they're my sons
whom God has given me in this place, in Egypt. And Jacob said,
well bring them, I pray thee unto me and I'll bless them. There was a great deal of emphasis
and stop putting this blessing by the patriarchs, by the father,
by the head of the home. Now the eyes of Israel, Jacob
is called Israel, remember? When he wrestled with the angel,
he said, your name's Israel, remember that? All right. The
eyes of Israel were dim for age. He's like his daddy was getting
blind too. So he could not see. And he brought
them near unto him, and he kissed them and embraced these two boys.
And Jacob said to Joseph, I have not thought to see thy face any
more, and lo, God has let me see your seed. And Joseph brought
his two sons out from between his knees and bowed himself with
his face to the earth before his father. And Joseph took Ephraim
in his right hand toward Israel's left hand, Manasseh in his left
hand toward Israel's right hand. In other words, he took the oldest
son. There's his daddy sitting in
front of him, the old blind daddy sitting there in front of him.
I can picture Ronnie here now. And he took the oldest son and
pushed him over here to his right arm. His left, but Jacob's right. He took Ethan, the young boy,
put him over here on the left hand. The old man was blind.
So here the old man sat, Jacob, He's got the oldest son here
and the youngest son over here. Manasseh's on his right, Ephraim's
on his left. And Jacob stretched out his right
hand and crossed it over here and put it on Ephraim's head.
Stretched out his left hand and crossed it, put it over here
on Manasseh's head. He had his right hand, the hand of blessing,
on the younger boy and his left hand on the older boy. Now listen. Yeshua stretched out his right
hand and laid it on Ephraim's head, the younger, who was the
younger, and laid his left hand on Manasseh's head, the older,
guiding his hands wittingly. For Manasseh was the firstborn,
and he blessed Joseph, and he said, God, before whom my fathers
Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life
long unto this day, the angel which redeemed me from all evil,
bless the lads. Let my name be named on them,
the name of my fathers, Abraham and Isaac. Let them grow into
a multitude in the midst of the earth." And when Joseph saw his
father laid his right hand on the head of the younger, it displeased
him. And he reached out and held up
his father's hand to remove it from Ephraim's head and put it
on Manasseh's head. And Joseph said to his father,
Not so, my father. This is my firstborn over here.
Put your right hand on his head. And his father refused. I know
it, my son. I know it. He'll be a great people. He'll become a people. He'll
be great. But his younger brother shall be greater than he, and
his seed will become a multitude of nations. The elders shall
serve the younger again, not by nature, but by God's will
and God's providence. Turn to Romans 9. Not of him
that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that showeth
mercy. The Lord save and use whom he will. Romans 9, verse
14. Let's read this, verse 12. It's said to her, the elder shall
serve the younger. It's written, Jacob ever loved,
Esau ever hated. What shall we say then? The unrighteousness
of God, God forbid. He said to Moses, I'll have mercy
on whom I will have mercy, and I'll have compassion on whom
I'll have compassion. So then, it's not of him that
willeth, It's not of natural genealogy. It's not of human
position. It's not of firstborn rights.
Of him that runneth, it's of God that shows mercy. And now let's look at the third
one, Hebrews 11. These men believed God. They
believed the sovereign God who works all things after the counsel
of his own will. Now verse 22 in our text. Our
faith, Joseph, and all this is concerning things to come. This
is the promise. They're looking for the promise.
They're seeking a better country. They're seeking the fulfillment
of God's promises for the Messiah. And however he's pleased to use
men and women and individuals and nations or whatever, it's
to fulfill the promise concerning Christ. His church, His kingdom,
His people, that's what, all this is concerning things to
come. Their minds are only, now watch Joseph here in verse 22. By faith Joseph, now we come
to Joseph's dying. They died in faith, they believed
God. They believed there'd be a kingdom,
there'd be a promised land, there'd be a church. So by faith Joseph,
when he was dying, made mention of the departing of the children
of Israel and gave commandment concerning his bones. Did you
know, before I show you this, Jacob died when he blessed Joseph's
sons? He died a little while later
after that. But before he died, he said to Joseph, don't bury
me in Egypt, take me to Canaan. the land that the Lord promised
our people. And Joseph told Pharaoh and all
his captains and army, and you take this and read about it in
Genesis 50, they took Jacob's body and they made a pilgrimage. There was armies and bands and
people. Pharaoh, Egypt, Turned out in
Mass and went out and buried Jacob in Canaan. Took that journey
all the way to Canaan and buried him. And the heathen down in
that place said, what's the gypsies doing down here? They're burying
Jacob. And then they came back. Now
Joseph's dying. Turn to Genesis 50. This is so
thrilling. And Joseph's dying. Now, they've
been down there a long time. In Genesis 50, verse 20, you know, when Jacob,
their father, died, these boys thought Joseph would get even
with them. So his brethren, in verse 18 of Genesis 50, his brethren
also went and fell down before Joseph's face and said, Behold,
we be thy servants. And Joseph said, Now don't be
afraid. I'm not in the place of God. Am I in the place of
God? As for you, you thought evil against me, but God meant
it for good to bring it to pass as it is this day to save much
people alive. Now therefore, fear ye not, I'll
nourish you and your little ones, he comforted them and spake kindly
to them. And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he
and his father's house, and lived a hundred and ten years. And Joseph saw Ephraim, remember
the one that got the birthright? He saw his children to the third
generation, the children also of Maker, the sons of Manasseh. They were brought up on Joseph's
knees. And Joseph said to his brethren, I'm dying. I'm dying. And God will surely visit you.
God will bring you out of this land. That's faith in the promise. See, I read this morning, these
men all died in faith, not having received the promise, the fulfillment.
They received the promise, and they flat believed it. They believed. They believed God. And they were
in Egypt, and they were in slavery for 400 years nearly, but they
still believed God. And this man Joseph died, and
he said, God will visit you and bring you out of this land unto
the land which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. And Joseph
took a note, he made them take a note, of the children of Israel
saying, God will visit you, and you take my bones out of here
when you leave. Did they do it? Turn to Exodus
chapter 13. If you haven't read this before,
you just won't believe this. 200 years later, almost as old
as this country has been. Revolutionary War. Moses started out of Egypt to
deliver, to take the children of Israel out of Egypt to Canaan.
You know what Moses did? Exodus 13, verse 18. Let's read
verse 17. It came to pass when Pharaoh
had let the people go. God led them not through the
way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near. God said,
lest peradventure the people repent when they see war and
they return to Egypt. But God led the people about
through the way of the wilderness of the Red Sea. And the children
of Israel went up, harnessed out of the land of Egypt. And
Moses took the bones of Joseph with him. For he had straightly
sworn the children of Israel, saying, God will visit you. That sounds like what we've preached
today, maybe 200 years. But God's going to visit us,
take us home. There's a land, there's a promise,
there's a promise in Christ the Messiah. His blood will be effectual,
His righteousness will be effectual. God will have a people. There
will be a glory and an eternity in heaven for God's people. There's
a Canaan coming up. And Moses dug up Joseph. Oh, because He said, God will
visit you and when you leave here, you take up my bones and
carry on His. By faith. That's what all this
is about here in Hebrews 11. It's the chapter of faith. The word faith is used in this chapter 24 times. If men believe
in God, concerning things to come. That's the key there, concerning
things to come. How we fit into His purpose,
His will. It's not what's going to happen
to me. It's the glory of God that's
at stake in concern. All right, let's see about Moses.
I won't keep you much longer. I want you to see this. Verse 23, by faith Moses, when
he was born. He had three months of his parents
because they saw he was a proper child and they were not afraid
of the king's commandments. The Israelites were multiplying
to such an extent, they were getting strong, and Pharaoh,
the new Pharaoh, didn't know Joseph. There rose a Pharaoh
that didn't know Joseph. And he just sent word that if
there's a boy, baby, kill it. Born to the Hebrews. People of Israel, just like Joseph
said, God's going to lead you out of here. God's going to raise
up a deliverer. So let's read about Moses' birth over here
in Exodus 2. Let's see about the faith of
his mother. The faith of his mother. See if we can find out
something about Moses 2. Exodus 2. Let's look over there.
Exodus chapter 2. And there went a man of the house
of Levi, that's the priestly tribe, took to his wife a daughter
of Levi, took to the wife a daughter of Levi. And the woman conceived
and bear a son, and she saw him. I believe she got a message from
God. He was a goodly child. This is Moses we're talking about.
And she hid him for three months so that he wouldn't be killed.
And when she couldn't no longer hide him, she took for him an
ark, she made a little basket of bulrushes and dabbed it with
slime and with pitch, and she put her little boy baby in there.
His name wasn't Moses, here now. She didn't name him Moses. She
put that child in that basket and laid it in the flags. What
are flags? They're rushes, water plants. Over in Job, it says something
about the flags can't grow without water. It's a water plant, a
big leaf and things like that. So she laid him among those flags
that wouldn't float off. And his sister stood afar off
to wit to see what would be done to him. And the daughter of Pharaoh
came down to wash herself at the river, oh, the providence
of God. And her maidens walked along
by the river's side, and when she saw the little ark among
the flags, among the bulrushes, And the water lit as she sent
her maid to fetch it. And when she opened it, she saw
a child. And behold, the baby wept. She
had compassion on him, and she said, this is one of the Hebrew
children. She knew it was a Hebrew. Then
said his sister, here's his sister over here hiding. She pops up. His sister said to Pharaoh's
daughter, Would you like for me to call for you a nurse of
the Hebrew women so she can nurse this child for you?" Pharaoh's
daughter said to her, go. And the sister went and called
Moses' mother. And Moses' mother came. And Pharaoh's
daughter handed Moses' mother, Moses, back. I love this. And she said, I'll pay you. Take this child away and nurse
it for me. And I'll give you wages. And
the woman, Moses' mother, took Moses and nursed him. And the
child grew and was taught at his mother's knee. That's the formative years, isn't
it? Those early one, two, three,
four. And the child grew, and Moses'
mother brought him back to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son,
and she called his name Moses. Pharaoh's daughter named him
Moses. And she said, I call him Moses
because I drew him out of the water. The word Moses says here
being drawn out. So Moses knew who he was, didn't
he? Moses knew he was a Hebrew. And Moses was taught by his mother,
you know, from the earliest time he could understand words, Jehovah,
God my Savior, Messiah, the Redeemer, the promise, the promise. Now let me show you a verse in
Acts 7. A lot of people think Moses, maybe the Ten Commandments
gave him this idea that he He didn't know who he was and he
didn't know who his people were, didn't know who his mama was.
I don't believe that. I believe Moses, I believe his
mama told him he's going to lead the children of Israel out of
Egypt. Because this verse in Acts 7, 25 says this. Let's read verse 22. Okay, Acts
7, 22. Are you with me? Moses was learned
in all the wisdom of the Egyptians. He was mighty in words and deeds,
and when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to
visit his brethren, the children of Israel. He had been avoiding
them a whole lot. And seeing one of them suffer
wrong, he defended him, and he avenged him that was oppressed,
and he killed an Egyptian. He smote an Egyptian. His brethren would have understood
how that God, by his hand, would deliver them. Oh, Moses thought
that they would go right to him. I'm going to deliver you fellas.
Don't you have the deliverer? They didn't understand that.
They didn't understand that at all. Let's really see something
here. All right, our text now. Let's
go back to Hebrews. Let's look at something here
that's very interesting. Verse 23. Verse 24 now. We've covered that
when he was born. Verse 24. By faith Moses, when
he was come to years, forty years of age, refused to be called
the son of Pharaoh's daughter. Why did Moses, listen to me now,
why did he remain forty years in the courts of Pharaoh Knowing
his mother and his sister, knowing who he was, knowing he was not
Pharaoh's daughter's son, that he's a child of Hebrew, an Israelite
of God, and he was the deliverer. He thought his brethren would
recognize he was the deliverer. Let me give you three reasons,
I believe. Perhaps he thought he could deliver Israel his way. They were slaves. He was a mighty
warrior. They were ignorant men. He was
a mighty, intelligent, strong man. And he entertained the notion
that he would, in some way, by power and might, he would deliver
them as a mighty warrior out of Egypt. I believe he thought
that, and I'll tell you why. I'll turn to Exodus, Exodus chapter
2 again. Tell you why I think that. Exodus
2, because he tried to do it. It says here in Exodus 2 verse
11, it came to pass in those days when Moses was grown, 40
years old, he went out into his brethren. This is that where
they're talking about in Acts 7. He looked on their burdens.
It touched his heart. He spied an Egyptian smiting
a Hebrew, one of his brethren. He looked this way and that to
make sure nobody was looking. And when he saw that nobody was
looking, he killed the Egyptian, hit him in the sand. And when
he went out the second day, he went back again. Behold, two
Hebrews strove together. Two Hebrews were arguing, fussing,
fighting. And he said to him that did the
wrong, why do you smite your fellow? And he looked at Moses
and said, who made you a prince and a judge over us? He thought
that he could settle their differences by might and power and wisdom
and influence. You intend to kill me like you
killed that Egyptian? Moses feared and said, surely
this thing is known. And Pharaoh heard it. He sought
to slay Moses. And Moses fled from the face
of Pharaoh and dwelt in Midian, sat down by a well. So it may
be he thought, I'll do it my way. I'll do it my way. A lot of people are trying to
find eternal life that way, my way. Secondly, perhaps he felt
that he could be a witness among people in the palace, and he
could change them and their attitude towards Israel. That he could
stay in the palace and among those people, and he finally
would change them and bring them to his way of thinking. But that
can't be done. Perhaps he thought by his friendship
and influence that he could change them. But my friends, only God
can change a man's heart. Only God can deliver his people. And we'll find out only by blood. So Moses grew up. He matured
in wisdom and faith. And he learned who God is. He
learned who God's people were. And he learned the promises of
God toward those people. And he responded in five ways,
I'll show it to you. Five things, now close. Spiritual
maturity, faith in God led Moses to five important positions.
And I'll tell you, even after he left Egypt, God, for him to
be the leader that God would use, the Lord had to operate
on him for 40 years. He had to take him from the heights
to the depths, from his pride to humility, from his arrogancy
and his dependence on his power. He just killed people. The Egyptian
was striving with the Israelites. He killed him. Hit him in the
sand. That's not God's leader. So God took Moses out in the
wilderness and kept him 40 years, until he was 80 years old. And
he became the meekest The scriptures said the meekest man, isn't that
right? Now he can lead the people God's way. And when the Lord
appeared to him at the burning bush, Moses thought of every
reason in the world why he wasn't the one to do it. Forty years
ago, he thought these people would follow him and Pharaoh
would bow before him. He'd walk out of there like a
mighty general. Now he doesn't even want to go. He said, I can't
talk. I'm not the man. I'm not your
man, Lord." Well, here's the direction he took. Number one,
verse 24, he refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter.
These are faith choices. He wanted to be called a son
of God, a son of Israel. He wanted to be identified with
God's people, not with God's enemies. He chose rather to suffer
affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the pleasures
of sin for a season. He wanted to be identified with
their faith, their lifestyle. He went down there and sat on
a well, married Zipporah, was that her name? Had a son. Wanted
to be identified with their worship, with their Lord, like Ruth of
Moab, with their future. He refused to be called the son
of Pharaoh's daughter. He won't be identified with God's
people. Thirdly, he esteemed the reproach of Christ, the offense
of the cross, the reproach of the gospel, greater riches than
even the treasures of Egypt. David said, I'd rather be a doorkeeper
in God's house than to dwell in the tents of the wicked. He esteemed the reproach of Christ,
greater riches and the treasures of Egypt, because he had respect
under the recompense of the reward, still looking for the promise,
the inheritance. Fourthly, by faith he forsook
Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king. I tell you, when men fear God,
they don't fear men. When men bow to the Lord, they
no longer bow to men. When our confidence and trust
is in Jehovah, we no longer depend on the arm of flesh. So he forsook
Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king, and he endured as
seeing Jehovah, him who's invisible. That's his king. Now watch this
in closing. Through faith, he kept the Passover.
The Lord delivered to Moses directions for the Passover lamb, a type
and picture of our Lord Jesus Christ. Over there in Exodus
12, you read it many times. And Moses took the lamb and all
the people, they slew the lamb, put the blood on the door. And
God said, when I see the blood, I'll pass over you. And God used
Moses to build the tabernacle and to keep the Passover for
2,000 years on Moses' directions and orders and Levitical law
until the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. And Moses wrote
in Leviticus 1711, it's the blood that makes atonement for the
soul. The mighty warrior couldn't lead him out. All he could do
was mess it up. But when God brought him to this
place where he brought him, he led him forth. Moses in ancient days not only
had a view of Sinai's awful law, he learned the gospel too. The
types and figures were a place in which he saw the Redeemer's
the paschal lamb, the blood-sprinkled dower, taught Moses the need
of a Savior's blood to reconcile him to God. The scapegoat on
his head, the people's trespasses bore. And to the desert, Moses
led him to be seen no more. And when he did, Moses looked
to that great day when Christ, our scapegoat, would bear our
sin away. Moses kept the Passover. I hope that's a blessing to you,
it was to me.