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We're continuing this week in our study of Revelation 15, Day 3, and we're going
to focus today on something we began to look at yesterday, the Song of Moses.
The fact that a Song of Moses shows up in the book of Revelation is extremely
significant. In order to understand Revelation chapter 15 and Revelation chapter
16, you have to understand the book of Exodus.

Remember, in Exodus, a nation, the nation of Israel, was delivered from Egypt by
the blood of a lamb, and the Egyptian army was destroyed at the Red Sea. And so
in thankfulness, they sang, after that happened, the Song of Moses. Now, that
song is brought right here into the book of Revelation because God wants me, He
wants you to get the connection.

He has the same song sung here by the victorious worshippers because He wants us
to understand something we've talked about briefly a couple of times already. He
wants us to understand the connection between Exodus and Revelation. If you're
going to understand the book of Revelation, I believe the most important Old
Testament book to understand is Exodus.

Daniel is important for understanding Revelation, no doubt about it, but Exodus
is even more important because it helps you to understand the meaning of the
book of Revelation. Let's just take some time to walk through this today. So
important to understand this.

In the book of Exodus, the people of God are in slavery in a foreign land.
They've been taken into slavery, not knowing it was going to be slavery at
first, thinking that it was a good place to go. In fact, God led them to go
there, but then the Egyptians enslaved the Israelites.

For 430 years they were enslaved and it was a terrible slavery, worked to death,
many of the people were. And you remember that when Moses was born, he had to be
hidden because they were killing all of the sons. They were killing the children
so that this nation of Israel would not continue to grow and maybe become so
powerful that they could overwhelm the Egyptians.

So you know that the people of God, the people of Israel who are held in
captivity in slavery in Egypt, they are crying out in their prayers to God, "How
long, O God, must we be held in slavery in this land? " They knew the promise.
They had the Old Testament.

They knew that God was going to take them back to the promised land someday, but
they're still held in slavery. So they're crying again and again, "How long, how
long, how long? " And then God, at the right time, at His time, in His timing,
in His way, He sends a Redeemer, a man by the name of Moses, to set the people
free.

Moses goes before Pharaoh, the one who was holding the people of God captive,
and he says, "Set my people free. " And Pharaoh says, "No. " This evil ruler
tries to hold on to his power, and so God begins to judge that evil.

In order to cause Pharaoh to eventually say yes, he begins to send plagues upon
the nation of Egypt. And you remember, the Nile River has turned to blood, and
frogs are sent that invade every household, and gnats are sent, and all the
livestock die, and the sun is darkened, and eventually, in the last plague, all
the firstborn sons of the household lose their lives. And Moses is warning the
Pharaoh all along, "This is going to happen.

Set my people free. " And Pharaoh keeps saying no. In fact, the phrase that's
used in the Bible is, "He hardened his heart against God.

" Those plagues that were sent, they hardened the heart of Pharaoh, but they
also set the people free. Now, Pharaoh could have chosen, he could have chosen
to say yes. He could have chosen at the first plague, or the second, or the
third, or before any plague happened, he could have chosen to say yes and allow
the people to be set free.

But God knew that his heart would be hardened. He didn't want his heart to be
hardened. But God, knowing everything, knew what he would do.

And then comes this last plague, where the firstborn of every household is
judged, and the household is judged, and the firstborn dies, except for in the
household of the nation of Israel, because God told the nation of Israel to have
a feast, and to slay a lamb, and to take the blood of that lamb and to put it on
the doorpost of their house. And God promised that when the death angel passed
over the land, he would see the blood that was on the doorpost of that house,
and he would pass over, that's where we get the celebration of Passover, he
would pass over that house. Now, obviously, God knew who the Israelites were in
the land.

He knew the households. He knows everything. But he wanted them, he asked them
to express their faith, and they did, every one of them.

And every one of their sons were saved. A lamb is slain, and blood is put on the
doorposts. And finally, after this final judgment, Pharaoh says yes, and the
people are set free.

Now, does that have anything to do with the book of Revelation? You better
believe it does. The book of Revelation is the same story, just on a worldwide
scale.

In the book of Revelation, the people of God, you and I as believers, whether we
come from Jewish descent, or we come from Gentile descent, we are the people of
God, and we live in a world that is enslaved to sin and to Satan, to the ways of
this world. And the people of God now are crying, "How long, how long, God, do
we have to live in a world where there is evil? How long do we have to live in a
world where it is not right, where it is not fair, where you're allowing this to
happen?

How long? " And God sends a Redeemer, Jesus Christ, to set the people free. Now,
evil seems to want to hold on, seems to not want to let go of its power over
this world.

Even in Jesus coming to give his life for us, even in the experiences you and I
have today in trials and temptations and the evils that you see around this
world, and even in what we see in what's going to happen at the end in the book
of Revelation. Evil is trying to hold on. Now, in Easter, it is a different
story than Passover.

At the Passover, the firstborn son of every household died because of God's
judgment. But in Easter, it is God giving his only son, God himself giving his
life for us so that you and I can find redemption in his name, so we can find
life in his name. Redemption means freedom.

He wants to set us free. He purchased our freedom with his own blood. And so in
this case, the blood is not on the doorpost of a house, it's on our hearts.

That's where the forgiveness is. But here in the end, evil is still trying to
hold on. People are still holding on to their evil ways.

They're still holding on to this world as if that's where their hope is. And God
sends plagues, hardening the heart of those who are opposed to God. The greater
the difficulties become, the further they get from God, just like Pharaoh did.

But setting his people free, these very plagues that come are going to destroy
this world, are going to end this world, are going to set his people free
eventually. Those plagues will judge the false and idolatrous gods of trusting
in this world. You see, in the plagues of Egypt, each of those plagues judged
the gods, the false gods, the idolatrous gods of Egypt.

They worshiped the Nile River, so the Nile River was turned to blood. They
worshiped frogs, so God gave them more frogs than they could handle. They
worshiped the sun, and so God darkened the sun.

And here, God is going to take away that which we worship, that which we
idolize. And today we idolize this world, we idolize our life in this world. We
idolize what we have built for ourselves in this world, and that's all going to
fall apart.

It's all going to be destroyed. God's going to judge the idolatrous god of
trusting in this world, and he will invite people in doing that to trust in God.
Now, as I tell this story, you might be thinking, "Well, there's one big
difference.

In Egypt, it's just a single nation that's judged at one period of time. Here,
it's the whole world that's going to be judged. God's going to allow everybody,
everything, to go through this judgment.

" You need to remember, you need to understand that to God, in light of His
eternal plan, the whole world is no more significant or lasting than a single
nation. They're all but a breath of air to Him. This world is not meant to last.

That's what Revelation shows. That's what Revelation 15 and 16 finalized the
story of in many ways. This world is not meant to last, so don't idolize it.

Don't hang on to it, because if you do, the more God tries to work in your life,
the more you're going to harden your heart against Him. But as you recognize,
God has an eternal plan and purpose for your life. When you see that, then even
the evil that's happening in this world, and even when things begin to fall
apart, and you realize that life isn't fair, even when that happens, but I have
a future and a hope.

I have something greater than this world. I don't have to hold on to this world,
because it's not going to last anyway. Why hold on to something that's not going
to last?

I'm going to hold on to Him. I'm going to hold on to heaven. I'm going to hold
on to my hope in Him, because that, that is eternal.

Let's pray together. Father, thank You. Thank You for Your eternal plan, Your
eternal love.

Thank You for the wonder of how Your story unfolds. The book of Exodus
foreshadows for us what's happening here in the book of Revelation. It helps us
to picture Your heart, Your heart to draw people to Yourself, Your heart to
redeem people and set them free.

Set people free, we pray. Free from this world, free from sin, so that we can
live together with You forever. We ask this in Jesus' name, Amen.

Tomorrow, we're going to look together at the strength we can find in the song
that they sang.