Unmistakable connections Israel misses

Here's an excerpt from my church's Christmas morning Bible study:

"What does God promise Israel in exile in Egypt? He promises a redeemer, a deliverer, an exodus. Guess what Jesus is going to typify? The new Moses, the new Deliverer, the new Redeemer, and He's going to lead the new Israel out of spiritual exile in a new Exodus. Unmistakable connection here.

"Matthew 2 is a very dark, depressing chapter; you don't have Luke 2's joy and hallelujah. You have the Messiah having to escape from Jerusalem, His own city," explains Alex Kurz.

[13] And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word: for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.
[14] When he arose, he took the young child and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt:

"Why Egypt? Remember Israel's history, the first exile of God's people. The fiery furnace, the passages tell us. The cruel, hard bondage under Pharoah, a wicked Gentile king. Jesus is going to typify Israel's spiritual condition. 

Verse 15: [15] And was there until the death of Herod: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt have I called my son.

"This is Jesus identifying with exiled Israel. When it says, 'out of Egypt have I called my son,' that's a direct connection to the birth of Israel out of the iron furnace; the fiery furnace of Egypt. You know what God says about the great deliverance out of Egypt? 'That's when I gave you birth.' 'You are my son, Israel.' In type, Jesus is the spiritual Israel that needs to come out of this spiritual exile.

"Hosea 11:1 is the verse being referred to: [1] When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.

"Just as Israel is called 'my son,' hence, Matthew 2 at the end of verse 15. Jesus is taking the place of oppressed, persecuted, exiled Israel.

"All throughout Old Testament prophecy we have these prophetic predictions concerning God's repetitive activity with the nation Israel. The prophets, over and over again, foretold that God's going to repeat the events and the acts of God in relationship to the nation Israel, and if there is one prophetic prediction regarding what God's going to do with Israel, it has to do with Egypt.

"If you were a Jew, a law-abiding Bible student in the day of Messiah, you should have already started connecting the dots. If God said, 'I already told you, Israel, I'm going to repeat what I did with Israel in Egypt with my true son,' they should have identified Jesus as their Messiah.

"There are so many verses, we only have so much time. Isaiah 10: [24] Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, O my people that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian: he shall smite thee with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against thee, after the manner of Egypt.

[25] For yet a very little while, and the indignation shall cease, and mine anger in their destruction.

"In reference to this Antichrist, God will fulfill His contractually-obligated duty to punish Israel, but he's going to use the instrumentality of an Assyrian.

Verse 26: [26] And the LORD of hosts shall stir up a scourge for him according to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb: and as his rod was upon the sea, so shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt.

"You've heard the old adage--history repeats itself. God keeps telling Israel, 'I'm going to repeat history.'

Isaiah 43: [16] Thus saith the LORD, which maketh a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters. What does that sound like? Did God in Israel's history ever make a way in the sea and create a path in the mighty waters? If you're a Bible-believing Jew, you're not going to miss this one, I would hope.

"By the way, that's why when Jesus was born ALL Jerusalem was troubled. They're not Bible believers. Isn't that a disgrace? Israel nationally is so apostate that they are bothered by the chatter, the rumor--'Hey, Messiah is born.'

"They're not doing Luke 2. The angels are rejoicing, the shepherds are rejoicing. You have Mary rejoicing, Simeon, Anna, but Israel at large, they're uncomfortable. They're not Bible believers and that's the point.

Verses 17-18: [17] Which bringeth forth the chariot and horse, the army and the power; they shall lie down together, they shall not rise: they are extinct, they are quenched as tow.

[18] Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old.

"Verse 18 is a rebuke. You know what Israel's problem is? You're not learning from history, are you? The point in the passage is, 'Remember what I did for you in Egypt, when I split the Red Sea in half and I created a pathway, a way of deliverance?'

"By the way, think about John in Matthew 3. How is a Jew supposed to be born again? God says to Israel, 'You're my begotten son; I have called you out of Egypt.' A Jew in John the Baptist's day, you know what you had to do with this born-again nation? You had to cross through the Jordan, go through the pathway. The way into the kingdom of heaven on earth is by way of the water. Again, what's God saying? 'You've forgotten the past, Israel.' 

Jeremiah 2: [4] Hear ye the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel:

[5] Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?
[6] Neither said they, Where is the LORD that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt?

"The faithful remnant, they're looking for the same Deliverer that God sent historically in time past when they were suffering exile in a foreign land and God provided a miraculous physical deliverance. What the remnant is crying for is, 'Do it again, Lord!'

Jeremiah 11: [3] And say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel; Cursed be the man that obeyeth not the words of this covenant,

[4] Which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, Obey my voice, and do them, according to all which I command you: so shall ye be my people, and I will be your God:

"Jesus is in the wilderness 40 days and 40 nights. What did God do immediately after the great deliverance out of Egypt? God deliberately led Israel into the desert, into the wilderness. Why? 'I'm going to prove you, Israel; I'm going to prove whether or not you will be a loyal, faithful son.' Did Israel pass the test? Failed. Did Jesus pass the test when He was tried by the devil?

"Don't ever think there were only the three temptations recorded in Matthew and Luke. Jesus was tempted for 40 days. Think about the emotional, psychological stress that Jesus endured. He's hungry, hasn't eaten. He's tempted EVERY day.

"Eventually in Israel Moses is on Mt. Sinai. He's the great law-giver. What does Jesus do in Matthew 5? He goes on top of a mountain. He's now the new law-giver, the better Moses.

"In Matthew 5: 6-7 you have Jesus, the new Moses who's now going to give a new law; an intensified version, by the way. Which version of the law appears to be a little bit easier? You heard it said, 'Thou shalt not commit adultery.' Now it's, 'I say unto you, you lust in your heart, you've committed adultery.'

"If you're an Old Testament Jew you might want to kind of crawl back over to the old system."