How Did Israel End Up in Egypt?

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Christianity, Old Testament, Torah, Theology, New Testament, God, Demons, Tim Mackie, Bible Study, Angels, Bible, Jesus, Spiritual Beings, Jon Collins, Religion & Spirituality, Spirit, Satan

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🗓️ 24 February 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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The Exodus Way E3 — Before we get to the Exodus story, we must first ask a question: How and why did Israel end up enslaved in Egypt in the first place? Throughout the book of Genesis, the biblical authors seem to imply that Abraham’s descendants land in Egypt because of their patriarch’s failures to trust God and do right by others. In this episode, Jon and Tim highlight the Exodus beats in Abraham’s story, showing how they not only anticipate Israel’s exile in Egypt but also the larger Exodus story found throughout the whole Hebrew Bible.

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0:00.0	The Exodus is a significant story in the Bible. It's the story of ancient Israel rescued from
0:10.5	brutal slavery at the hand of King Pharaoh. But biblical authors don't merely see the story as something
0:17.2	having happened in ancient Israel. The Exodus, that is the road out, is something we all need to experience.
0:24.2	There is a way out of slavery, a way through the wilderness, and a way into the land of
0:28.8	promise.
0:29.6	It's the way that we are called to take.
0:32.1	In fact, it's the journey the entire cosmos is on.
0:35.4	This is the theme study of the Exodus way.
0:38.3	So out of slavery through the wilderness into the promised land,
0:41.5	you realize that a Christian view of reality is itself an Exodus-shaped story.
0:45.9	Now, how did we end up in slavery in the first place?
0:50.0	Well, the story of ancient Israel doesn't start in slavery.
0:53.2	In fact, in scroll of Genesis, ancient Israel begins in the land of promise.
0:58.8	But by the time Genesis is over, and you turn to Exodus,
1:02.1	the Exodus story begins with the Israelites enslaved in Egypt.
1:06.8	How and why did they end up down there?
1:08.9	The narrator of Genesis is architecting a whole set of reasons for why Israel ended up in Egypt.
1:16.9	Today we look at the very first call of Abraham to go out and make his home in the land of Canaan.
1:23.0	That is the land of Phron.
1:24.6	That's our key word that will be used later in the Exodus narrative to go out of Egypt.
1:29.7	But then there's a famine in the land, and Abraham looking for food and security doesn't trust
1:34.8	that God will provide.
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