Greetings!
This begins our study of Exodus, the 2nd book of the Bible. Genesis ended with the family of Jacob in Egypt, with his son Joseph helping rule the land. Exodus begins 400 years later, where the situation devolved into the Israelites being slaves under Pharoah.
Exodus was authored by Moses roughly 1450 – 1410 B.C. Full of action, it shows how God kept his promises and delivered the Israelites to freedom despite their repeated disobedience.
Exodus starts with pain and humiliation as the Israelites were slaves in Egypt. Through countless adventures they escape from Pharaoh and go to the desert. God was with them and provided them with food and water. He gave them his laws. He told them how to build the tabernacle and how to worship him.
Exodus ends in glory, with the tabernacle completed and God showing his presence on a regular basis.
Exodus contains all sorts of stories referenced outside the church in popular culture – plagues, the parting of the Red Sea, manna from Heaven, complaining in the desert, the 10 Commandments, and more. I hope you tune in every other day to read along. We’ll cover two chapters at a time.
Eternity Matters 
I love my self-study Bible. In the introduction to Exodus it says the following:
God’s grace is portrayed in Exodus through seven types of Christ.
1. “Moses” Both Moses and Jesus are prophets, priests and rulers; both are endangered in infancy and voluntarily renounce power and wealth; both are deliverers and mediators.
2. “The Passover” Jesus is our Passover lamb.
3. “The Seven Feasts” Each portrays some aspect of the ministry of Jesus. (I can list these if someone is interested.)
4. “The Exodus” Paul relates baptism to the exodus, since both bring death to the old and the beginning of the new.
5. “The Manna and Water” The New Testament applies both to Jesus.
6. “The Tabernacle” In its materials, colors, furniture and arrangement, the tabernacle typifies the person of Jesus and the way of redemption through God’s grace – with a progressive development from suffering, blood and death to beauty, holiness and God’s glory.
7. “The High Priest” In serveral ways he foreshadows the ministry of Jesus, our great high priest.
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Thanks, Rebecca, that is a handy list of all those foreshadowings. I forgot about the manna part.
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