Exodus 12

But I want to show you something about circumcision.

Let's go to Exodus 12.

Because this is going to become really important in the New Covenant.

Here God is giving them instructions about the Passover.

Let's move on to Exodus.

Exodus 12.49. I'm giving you these scriptures so that people can look them up later to see that I'm not just making stuff up.

There shall be one law for the native born and for the alien who resides among you.

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see.

Well, it's fascinating too because that's – at Exodus 12, like this is very early in their story as a nation.

Like they're still finding their identity and yet it's assumed – like God is just saying baked right in.

I can spend all night teaching you about this.

Exodus chapter 12 and verse 36 says, Exodus 12, 36.

Let's read it together if you can see it, please.

Exodus 12, help us, media.

Exodus 12, 36.

Are you ready? Let's read.

One, two, read.

Prior to the fall of Jerusalem in 587 and 586 BC, there was a rise of syncretistic worship accommodating the pagan practices of Judah's neighboring nations.

remember solomon allowed his pagan wives to build a temple and altar to their gods and first kings chapter eleven verses one through eight this led to the revival of baal worship in israel and first kings chapter sixteen verse thirty one through thirty four and chapter seventeen verses one through seven and it led to the division of the northern and southern kingdoms in first kings chapter eleven verse forty one through chapter twelve verse thirty three not only was the lord angered by his people thumbing their noses at him by conducting idolatrous worship in the temple but he was angered by the violence in the land then he said to me have you seen this o son of man is it too light a thing for the house of judah to commit the abominations that they commit here that they should fill the land with violence and provoke me still further to anger behold they put the branch to their nose ezekiel chapter eight for seventeen the statement there is some good in all religions is false the self-deification of the new age movement the revived paganism popular in our culture to-day and the embracing of false deities in the name of multiculturalism are blatant examples of contemporary idolatry and an abomination to god oh that god's people would know that he alone is god and that he is the only one who can provide salvation he does this through providing the gift of his son jesus said i am the way and the truth and the life no one comes to the father except through me john chapter fourteen verse six and there is salvation in no one else for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved acts chapter four verse twelve chapter nine provides the details for the coming judgment the executioners here are more than men they are divine messengers angels dispensing god's judgment in verse three of chapter nine we see the first stage of the departure of the glory of the lord from the sanctuary a movement which will conclude in chapter ten verse twenty two now the glory of the god of israel had gone up from the cherub on which it rested to the threshold of the house and he called to the man clothed in linen who had the writing-case at his waist is he chapter nine verse three a messenger in white linen was instructed to go through the city and place a mark on the forehead of those who grieve or lament over the detestable things that were being done in the temple exempting them from judgment others would be judged as guilty for accommodating the practices those who were spared became a remnant of hope for future restoration judgment being passed over those who have the mark on their foreheads is reminiscent of the passover story where the angel of death passed over those who had the mark of the blood of the lamb on their doorways in Exodus 12, verses 7 and 13, the passing over of Rahab's household in Jericho due to the mark of the scarlet cord hanging from the window, or the passing over those who have received the seal of God on their foreheads in Revelation 9, verse 4, exempting them from utter destruction.

the judgment began in the sanctuary.

The religious leaders were even more responsible and consequently were the first to receive punishment for leading the people astray.

I can spend all night teaching you about this.

Exodus chapter 12 and verse 36 says, Exodus 12, 36.

Let's read it together if you can see it, please.

Exodus 12, help us, media.

Exodus 12, 36.

Are you ready? Let's read.

One, two, read.