In I Corinthians 10, Paul reaches back into the life of Israel, starting with the Exodus, examining first what happens when God delivers the Israelites by bringing them through the Red Sea and then going through the events of the wilderness, warning the Corinthians, “Those things in the wilderness are patterns of things you don’t need to do!”
Jordan says, “What that tells us about the things we do is we can look back there and see us! The thing about Israel is they were also sons of Adam. When you look at the failure of Israel, you’re seeing the failure of the only part of the human race that still had a relationship with God.
“That’s why Paul says what he says in Romans 3. Israel represented everybody, and in Israel and her failure, you see the failure of Adam’s race. Right division has to do with using all of the Bible in light of Paul’s epistles. The only person who really can understand all of the Scripture is the one who rightly divides it because you’re not trying to make it all be addressing you.
“When you see the failures of man in Israel, what God’s doing is laying out a template about what humanity itself in its best relationship turns out to be.”
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Jordan highly recommends looking up every chapter 6:23 in the Bible, explaining, “You’ll be amazed how many 6:23s are fun to study. 3:16s are the same way!
“Deuteronomy 6:23 is a statement about God’s intent when He brought Israel out of Egypt. He brought them out across the Red Sea that He might bring us in ‘to give us the land which he swore unto our fathers.’ He didn’t bring them out of Egypt so they would wander in the wilderness for 40 years. He brought them out so He could bring them into Canaan, the land that He promised Abraham and his descendants.
“The fact they wandered for 38 years in the wilderness was their fault. It was their unbelief that shut them out. The murmuring and complaining and all that kind of business took place in the wilderness. All of that is a picture of wilderness life. He says in Exodus 15:7 ‘thou hast overthrown them that rose up against thee. He says ‘out of Egypt have I brought my first born son.’
“The first nation that had Sonship status, he brings them out of Egypt by blood and by power. The Passover blood takes care of the death angel. He brings them to the Red Sea. Here comes Pharaoh (a picture of Satan) and God opens up the Red Sea and the Israelites go down into the place of death and come out on the other side and then He closes the sea, destroys the horse and his rider and delivers the Israelites in power into a new life.
“The Red Sea is a picture of what happens in ‘type’ with the Cross. It’s a picture of salvation. You have the blood that delivers them and then you have the power being delivered into this new life. They literally got a newness of life. The nation Israel was BORN coming across that Red Sea. Their 4th of July came into existence there. That was their Independence Day. That’s why the Red sea is used all through the Old Testament as the power symbol--the standard for Israel.
“As they stood on that new life ground in Exodus 15 they sing that Song of Moses that looks all the way to God’s intention to establish them in His kingdom and you read about this and say, ‘Man, what these dudes knew at the very beginning was fantastic! They understood exactly what was going on!’
“The verse says, ‘The LORD is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; my father's God, and I will exalt him.’ See that? ‘I’m going to prepare a place for God to live!’
“All those phrases in there describing the Lord are used in the books of the prophets and the Book of Revelation to talk about Jesus Christ at His Second Coming. What you have is Israel coming out of Egypt; God has His nation in existence now to go out and reclaim His earth and reclaim the place on earth where He’s going to put His throne.”
The song of Exodus 15 sings, [13] Thou in thy mercy hast led forth the people which thou hast redeemed: thou hast guided them in thy strength unto thy holy habitation.
[14] The people shall hear, and be afraid: sorrow shall take hold on the inhabitants of Palestina.
[15] Then the dukes of Edom shall be amazed; the mighty men of Moab, trembling shall take hold upon them; all the inhabitants of Canaan shall melt away.
[16] Fear and dread shall fall upon them; by the greatness of thine arm they shall be as still as a stone; till thy people pass over, O LORD, till the people pass over, which thou hast purchased.
[17] Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of thine inheritance, in the place, O LORD, which thou hast made for thee to dwell in, in the Sanctuary, O Lord, which thy hands have established.
[18] The LORD shall reign for ever and ever.
Jordan says, “By this passage you should write down Psalm 132 where He talks about here in Zion is the place where He’s going to live.
“You remember Joshua 2 when the spies go in to meet Rahab? She says, ‘We heard what happened to the Egyptians and how your God destroyed them, and we been waiting on you guys to show up because we know your god’s the God of gods!’ She’s confused about why it took them 40 years to get there, but she knew based on the events who the God of heaven was.”
(Edtior's note: To be continued tomorrow--promise!)
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