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- Who gave the dreams to Pharaoh?
-God.
- What was the first dream God gave to Pharaoh?
-Seven thin cows ate up seven fat cows.
- What was the second dream God gave to Pharaoh?
-Seven thin heads of grain ate up seven fat heads of grain.
- Who gave to Joseph the understanding of Pharaoh’s dreams?
-God.
- What did both of Pharaoh’s dreams mean?
-Seven years of good harvest would be eaten up by seven years of famine.
- How did God fulfill the dreams that He gave to Joseph when Joseph was still a boy?
-God made Joseph king over all of Egypt.
- Why did Jacob take all of his family to Egypt?
-Because Joseph was living in Egypt.
-Because there was much food in Egypt.
-When Jacob and his sons and their families all moved to Egypt, they were seventy in number.
Let’s read Exodus 1:1-5
1-These are the names of the sons of Israel who went to Egypt with Jacob, each with his family.
2-Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah;
3-Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin;
4-Dan and Naphtali; Gad and Asher.
5-The descendants of Jacob numbered seventy in all; Joseph was already in Egypt.
-What was the new name that God gave Jacob?
-Israel.
-The descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob were also called Israel, or the Israelites.
-Jacob, and his son, Joseph, and his brothers, and their families lived in Egypt for many years.
-The famine ended, and Joseph and his brothers continued to live in Egypt.
-Their father Jacob died, and Joseph and his brothers continued to live in Egypt.
-Later, Joseph and his brothers died, and the Israelites continued to live in Egypt.
Let’s read Exodus 1:6
6-Now Joseph and all his brothers and all that generation died.
-Because the Israelites did not return to the land of Canaan, and continued to live in Egypt for many years, they became many people.
Let’s read Exodus 1:7
7-But the Israelites were fruitful and multiplied greatly and became exceedingly numerous, so that the land was filled with them.
-After many years the king of Egypt, Pharaoh, died.
-Then, a new Pharaoh took his place.
-The new Pharaoh was not kind like the first Pharaoh.
-The new Pharaoh was very wicked.
Let’s read Exodus 1:8-11
8-Then a new king, who did not know about Joseph, came to power in Egypt.
9-“Look,” he said to his people, “the Israelites have become much too numerous for us.
10-Come, we must deal shrewdly with them or they will become even more numerous and, if war breaks out, will join our enemies, fight against us, and leave the country.”
11-So they put slave masters over them to oppress them with forced labor, and they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh.
-What did the new Pharaoh do to the Israelites?
-Pharaoh made all of the Israelites slaves.
-Why did Pharaoh make the Israelites slaves?
-Because Pharaoh was afraid that the Israelites would take over his country.
-Why was Pharaoh afraid that the Israelites would take over his country?
-Because the Israelites had become many people.
-Who was guiding Pharaoh to make the Israelites slaves?
-Satan.
-Why did Satan want to destroy the Israelites?
-Because Satan knew that God promised to send the Savior through the Israelites.
-Satan hates God.
-Satan hates all people.
-Satan did not want God to send the Savior through the Israelites.
-Satan did not want the Savior to come and save the people.
-Satan hates all of you.
-Satan does not want you to listen to God’s message.
-Satan wants all of you to go to the Lake of Eternal Fire.
-Even though Satan wanted to destroy Israel, God protected them.
-Even though Satan wanted to destroy Israel, God blessed them.
-Why did God bless the Israelites?
-Because God loved the Israelites.
-Because God would not break His promise to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Let’s read Exodus 1:12-14
12-But the more the Israelites were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread; so the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites
13-and worked them ruthlessly.
14-They made their lives bitter with hard labor in brick and mortar and with all kinds of work in the fields; in all their hard labor the Egyptians used them ruthlessly.
-Even though Pharaoh oppressed Israel more and more, God blessed Israel more and more.
-Then one day, Satan gave Pharaoh a second evil idea.
Let’s read Exodus 1:15-22
15-The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, whose names were Shiphrah and Puah,
16-“When you help the Hebrew women in childbirth and observe them on the delivery stool, if it is a boy, kill him; but if it is a girl, let her live.”
17-The midwives, however, feared God and did not do what the king of Egypt had told them to do; they let the boys live.
18-Then the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and asked them, “Why have you done this? Why have you let the boys live?”
19-The midwives answered Pharaoh, “Hebrew women are not like Egyptian women; they are vigorous and give birth before the midwives arrive.”
20-So God was kind to the midwives and the people increased and became even more numerous.
21-And because the midwives feared God, He gave them families of their own.
22-Then Pharaoh gave this order to all his people: “Every boy that is born you must throw into the Nile, but let every girl live.”
-What was the second evil idea Satan gave Pharaoh?
-Satan gave Pharaoh the idea that all of the Israelite boy children should be killed.
-Did God know that Satan planned to destroy the Israelites?
-Yes.
-Was God going to allow Satan to destroy the Israelites?
-No.
-God watched over and protected the Israelites.
-God also planned to take the Israelites out of Egypt, and back to the land of Canaan.
-God planned to take the Israelites out of Egypt, and back to the land of Canaan through a man named Moses.
-Here is the story of Moses:
Let’s read Exodus 2:1-4
1-Now a man of the house of Levi married a Levite woman,
2-and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him for three months.
3-But when she could hide him no longer, she got a papyrus basket for him and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in it and put it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile.
4-His sister stood at a distance to see what would happen to him.
-Moses’ father and mother believed in God.
-Moses’ father and mother believed that God would protect their baby.
-Therefore, God gave them the idea to place baby Moses in a basket, and place the basket in the river Nile.
-Did God protect their baby Moses?
Let’s read Exodus 2:5-10
5-Then Pharaoh’s daughter went down to the Nile to bathe, and her attendants were walking along the river bank. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her slave girl to get it.
6-She opened it and saw the baby. He was crying, and she felt sorry for him. “This is one of the Hebrew babies,” she said.
7-Then his sister asked Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and get one of the Hebrew women to nurse the baby for you?”
8-“Yes, go,” she answered. And the girl went and got the baby’s mother.
9-Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this baby and nurse him for me, and I will pay you.” So the woman took the baby and nursed him.
10-When the child grew older, she took him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, saying, “I drew him out of the water.”
-God sent the evil Pharaoh’s daughter to protect Moses.
-God sent the evil Pharaoh’s daughter to adopt Moses.
-And Moses lived with the evil Pharaoh and his daughter.
-Why did God send Pharaoh’s daughter to adopt Moses?
-Because God planned to lead the Israelites out of Egypt through Moses.
-Because God planned to lead the Israelites out of slavery through Moses.
-God knew that Moses would be safe in Pharaoh’s house.
-God knew that Moses would learn how to read and write in Pharaoh’s house.
-God knew that Moses would learn many other things in Pharaoh’s house which would help him to lead the Israelites.
-Pharaoh wanted to destroy the Israelites, but God protected the Israelites.
-Satan and his demons also wanted to destroy the Israelites, but God protected them.
-Can any person stop the work of God?
-No.
-Can any demon stop the work of God?
-No.
-Can Satan stop the work of God?
-No.
-God is all powerful.
-God protected Israel, and He will protect all those who believe in Him.
-Moses grew up in Pharaoh’s house, and grew to become a man.
-One day, Moses went out to see how much the Israelites were suffering under slavery.
Let’s read Exodus 2:11-14
11-One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to where his own people were and watched them at their hard labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people.
12-Glancing this way and that and seeing no one, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.
13-The next day he went out and saw two Hebrews fighting. He asked the one in the wrong, “Why are you hitting your fellow Hebrew?”
14-The man said, “Who made you ruler and judge over us? Are you thinking of killing me as you killed the Egyptian?” Then Moses was afraid and thought, “What I did must have become known.”
-Were the Israelites able to save themselves from Pharaoh?
-No.
-Moses tried to save the Israelites from Pharaoh, and killed one of the Egyptians.
-But Pharaoh found out that Moses had killed an Egyptian.
-What did Pharaoh do?
Let’s read Exodus 2:15
15-When Pharaoh heard of this, he tried to kill Moses, but Moses fled from Pharaoh and went to live in Midian.
-Pharaoh found out that Moses killed an Egyptian.
-So Pharaoh tried to kill Moses.
-Moses became afraid, and ran away.
-Moses ran to the land of Midian.
-Was Moses able to save the Israelites from Pharaoh?
-No.
-Moses tried to save the Israelites from Pharaoh, but he was not able to.
-Who was the only One who was able to save the Israelites from Pharaoh?
-God.
-Who is the only One who can save people from Satan?
-God.
-Just like the Israelites were held captive by Pharaoh, all people are held captive by Satan.
-Just like the Israelites were not able to save themselves from Pharaoh, all people are not able to save themselves from Satan.
-Just like Moses was not able to save the Israelites from Pharaoh, no other person is able to save us from Satan.
-Just like only God was able to save the Israelites from Pharaoh, only God is able to save all people from Satan.
-In the next lesson, we will learn more of Moses.