The Exodus

By James Malm

A detailed study of the Exodus dating the Exodus and naming the Pharaoh. Expounds the prophecies of the Exodus and how they were precisely fulfilled. Names Moses foster mother and provides a look at Moses life in Egypt. Explains how each of the plagues was a direct challenge to one of the many gods of Egypt at that time.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Mar 26, 2020
• ISBN: 9781716126949

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The Exodus

The Exodus

James Malm

ISBN: 978-1-71612-694-9

Copyright 2020 James Malm

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Dedication

This work is dedicated to the Great God whose house is eternity; the Father and Sovereign of all that exists and the sum of all Truth, Wisdom, Love, Justice and Mercy.

May God's house be filled with children whose chief joy  is to be like Him!

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Prophecies of the Exodus

The 430 Years Prophecy

God called Abram in Ur at the age of 70, promising him that if he left to follow God to a new land he would be greatly blessed.  The family then went to Haran where Abram's father Terah died being 205 years old and Abram was 75 years old; after which Abram journeyed from Haran to Canaan at the age of 75.

The 430 years prophecy refers to 430 years after the PROMISE was made to Abraham in Ur when he was 70 years old; that promise being made 30 years BEFORE the birth of Isaac!

"Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years. And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt" (Exodus 12:40-41).

Here the word sojourning gives an impression that they sojourned or lived in Egypt for 430 years; when in fact the word sojourning refers to the wanderings of Abram and his descendants from the time of God's promise to Abram in Ur when Abram was seventy years old; which calling and promise caused Abram to leave Ur when he was 70 and go to Haran on the Euphrates which is the northern border of the land promised to Abram's descendants.

Abram then left Haran and wandered south through the whole land of promise when the promise was repeated five years later, and his descendants continue to wander without a land of their own until they became the covenant nation at Sinai.

The 430 years prophecy refers to God's PROMISE to Abraham in Ur, and not to the Genesis 15 promise made in Canaan concerning Isaac; God's PROMISE to the seventy year old Abram in Ur was made 430 years before the Covenant at Sinai and the promise was repeated five years later in Haran.

Shaul (Saul, Paul) a highly respected scholar of the Pharisees who is speaking concerning a dating on which there was absolutely no controversy in his day; wrote of the PROMISE of God being made to the seventy year old Abram in Ur 430 years BEFORE the Sinai Covenant.

The promise made by God to Abram in the land in Genesis 15, was only a repeating of the previous PROMISE in Ur when the wanderings based on faith in the promise began 30 years BEFORE the birth of Isaac.

This does not mean that the children of Israel dwelt in Egypt for 430 years.

Paul explains that the 430 years extends from the time of God's PROMISE to Abram until the children of Israel left Egypt. "And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before [at Sinai] of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after [after the PROMISE was made to the seventy year old Abram in Ur and later repeated in Haran and then repeated again in Palestine before the birth of Isaac], cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect" (Galatians 3:17).

That is, the Sinai Covenant cannot disannul the PROMISE made to Abram in Haran 430 years BEFORE the Sinai Covenant.

Genesis 11:31 And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram’s wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there. 11:32 And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.

The 430 years prophecy of Exodus 12:40-41 is a reference to Israel inheriting the promise and becoming a nation at Sinai; 430 years AFTER the PROMISE was made to Abram in Ur, to make of him a great nation!

Meanwhile the 400 years prophecy was, that from the birth of Isaac 400 years remained to the exodus and the covenant at Sinai.

The descendants of Abram exited Egypt as a great nation 400 years after the birth of Isaac and 500 years after the birth of Abram in the 130th year of Terah; and precisely 430 years after the promise was given to the seventy year old Abraham in Ur to make of him a great nation if he would faithfully follow and obey God.

God brought Israel out of Egypt and fulfilled his promise exactly 430 years after it was first given in Ur; and four hundred years after the birth of Isaac.

The 400 Years Prophecy

The belief that the children of Israel were slaves in Egypt for 400 years is largely based upon these two verses.

"And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs [This includes not only Egypt but all of the time that they were wanderers in Palestine from the birth of Isaac; before actually inheriting the land.], and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years ... (Genesis 15:13). And God spake on this wise, That his seed should sojourn in a strange land [a land that is not theirs, not necessarily Egypt]; and that they should bring them into bondage, and entreat them evil four hundred years" (Acts 7:6).

Here is the meaning; thy seed refers to the children of Abram, beginning with Isaac the son of promise, who would be wanderers having no land of their own for four hundred years beginning with the birth of Isaac.

Isaac was born when Abraham was one hundred years old; therefore the exodus and the Sinai Covenant would take place four hundred years after the birth of Isaac or five hundred years after the birth of Abraham!

Abraham was born in 2008 A.M. (c 1940 B.C.):  therefore the Exodus was 500 years later in 2508 A.M. (c 1440 B.C.) with a margin of possible error of a few years.

The Fourth Generation Prophecy

Genesis 15:14 And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge [BOTH Egypt and the nations of Canaan were judged by God]: and afterward shall they come out with great substance. 15:15  And thou [Abraham] shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age. 15:16  But in the fourth generation they [the descendants of Abraham through Isaac and Jacob] shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.

Levi was one of Jacob's 12 sons and went down to Egypt with Jacob. We see from Genesis 46:8-11 that Kohath, the son of Levi and grandfather of Moses, was already born when Jacob and his family entered Egypt. Kohath lived to be 133, and his son Amram lived to be 137 (Exodus 6:18-20).

Born 80 years before the exodus from Egypt, Moses was the son of Amram, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi (1 Chronicles 6:1-3).

Moses was thus the fourth generation of those who had entered Egypt:

Levi;

Kohath;

Amram;

Moses.

The exodus was very definitely not in early 1200 B.C. as some suppose.

Now Moses was eighty years old at the time of the exodus, so counting back 80 years from 1440 B.C. comes to the approximate birth date of Moses in 1520 B.C.

Exodus 7:7 And Moses was fourscore years old, and Aaron fourscore and three years old, when they spake unto Pharaoh.

Notice that Aaron was three years older than Moses.

Israel went down into Egypt in 1650 B.C. and came out in 1440 B.C. meaning that their total time in Egypt was 210 years.

The Temple

In 1 Kings 6:1 we are told that Solomon began building the temple in the 480th year after the exodus: which was about 960 B.C.

In Acts 13 Paul gives a longer period but Paul is giving a general historical overview and uses the word about obviously approximating and not being concerned with specific dates in his address, therefore the 1 Kings date is the accurate date.

1 Kings 6:1 And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the Lord.

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