Thanks for your video it helped me get the First prize in the Book of Exodus Quiz Competition in our church. Thanks to God guiding me to watch this ... Praise the Lord 😇
Thank you! I'm so thankful to find your channel. I'm in the process of reading the bible over 2022 and now I'm planning to watch your videos as I progress through the book.
You have an anointing to teach the Word of God with clarity and power. I enjoy your videos so much! Please do one for every single book of the Bible!!!
Excellent presentation 👏 on explaining the story of Exodus. My favorite story ❤ in Exodus is the entire story of Moses from the beginning to the end. Moses had a big responsibility to forfill in helping the Lord rescuer the people of Israel 🇮🇱 🙏 from the Egypt 🇪🇬 🙏. Then, when Moses does the Isreal people turn their back on him and The Lord Wow!! Sometimes man kind can be so disappointing. 😇 👼 🙏 🤲 ⛪
Excellent presentation, sir! You were clear, concise, and most importantly, faithful to the Word of God. I want to especially commend you for making God central to the explanation of the flow of the Exodus narrative. Some tend to fall into the trap of overexplaining the context and the historical details while losing sight of Godʼs centrality as the one being revealed in the Book of Exodus. May God bless this ministry of yours even more. I liked and subscribed! God bless you and your family, too! Soli Deo gloria!
I thank you so much for being obedient and making this. I used to hop around the bible but got serious about studying. i read a tip was looking at an overview 1st, rhe then read. it has helped immensely. I pray there is a vid for each book!
This was a great overview of Exodus. I'm going to use this with my Bible study with my family. We listen to God's word book Bible and we are getting ready to do Exodus. Thanks.
I enjoy your overviews... what is your view regarding the possibility that what is happening now is synchronistic and allegorically comparable to the story of Exodus? . qp
Are you sure? Wasn't that a dragon in that tent, I swear I read that was a giant dragon who lived in the tent. If memory serves, one time, they even had to feed him 400 sheep a hand full of virgins and a MESS of gold in order to keep it's ire down.
SOON! I had to put more of my effort toward finishing the manuscript of The Beginner's Guide to the Bible (overviewbible.com/product/beginners-guide-bible/). Once that's done, Leviticus and the rest of the Torah comes next!
Hey Jeffrey, I've always wondered about part of the Exodus story; 9:3 has all of the Pharaoh's animals killed w/ a murrain "Behold, the hand of the LORD is upon thy cattle which in the field, upon the horses, upon the asses, upon the camels, upon the oxen, upon the sheep, there will be a grievous murrain". Where did the Egyptians come up with the horses to chase the Jews to their doom in the Red Sea----scribal error? botched translation? Book of fairy tales???
Hi, Russell. Good question! I doubt it's a scribal error: the author and editors apparently didn't have a problem saying "All the livestock of the Egyptians died" in Exodus 9:6 (NIV), but then referencing living Egyptian livestock during the plague of hail (Ex 9:20-21) and yet again during the plague against the firstborn (Ex 12:29). It's possible that the storyteller is using hyperbole when saying "all the livestock died," exaggerating the effects to make a point to the early listeners. Of course, it's also possible that the early listeners would have assumed that the Egyptians (who could afford it) acquired more livestock via trade after the fifth plague, as they would have needed cattle and horses and such to keep the nation (and their properties) running. I can't imagine the rich people of Egypt saying, "Our donkeys died? Oh well, guess we'll just be poor then." Re: "fairy tales," this book has rods turning into snakes, the Nile turning to blood, and the sea splitting to provide a safe pathway on dry land. This is an epic story of Israel's God supernaturally rescuing them from the gods of Egypt. I wouldn't call it a fairy tale, but I also wouldn't expect this story to feature a perfectly-balanced cow ledger. ;-)
@@OverviewBible Well we certainly wouldn't want add or subtract anything from the scripture; but many love to speculate--about what early listeners may have thought-- or just make up a bunch of stuff (like there was actually private ownership of land or stock i.e. not the Pharaoh's) or the part about how Pharaoh acquired more livestock from said "private owners" is speculation on your part and appears now where in scripture. Murrain translates to "death". But I get that you need to work your apology for something that you had never noticed about this story. Good usage of the words "possible" and "assume", very definitive, must say
@@russellmillar7132 Any reason to believe the neighboring nations wouldn't sell livestock to the Egyptians? Seems like a good way to make an extra shekel on a mule-supply and demand and all.* "Private owners" isn't how I'd phrase it, especially since I'm referencing Egyptians the NIV specifically calls "officials of Pharaoh" (Ex 9:20-21). However, the story does indicate that even the Israelite slaves had some cattle that "belonged" to them (Ex 9:6-7). So even if the Israelites were the "property" of Pharaoh, the story implies some sense of ownership that the (in-story) Pharaoh and Israelite listeners shared-at least when it came to animals. * This, to use your words, also "appears nowhere in Scripture." But you already know that the Bible doesn't say where Pharaoh's livestock came from between plagues five and seven, don't you? Any attempts to give your question an honest answer are inevitably going to take us outside the Bible-which I don't see as a problem. The Bible's not going to have all the answers, and certainly won't have all the answers to the questions it prompts. But since the writers of the Bible don't seem to have an issue with answers living outside of Scripture (Nu 21:14; Jos 10:13; 1Ki 11:41; Est 10:2), I don't see why we should.
I apologize in advance for asking something, that might feel irrelevant to your channel, but I have a very good friend, who recently lost her brother to death. We all prayed very hard for him, but a week ago, he passed. Now my friend (the sister of brother who passed) is claiming to no longer believe in the Lord, she is angry with him. I have been searching for answers in the bible, and I did find some scriptures that might apply, but really unsure. I just want to provide her references to scriptures, to not give up hope, and why. He was a great man who lived in Colombia. He was Catholic. If there are any answers that the bible gives, such as why a soul is not saved, even after hundreds of faith based prayers. I have seen much death in my own life, and it does raise the question, why didn't he answer my prayers? If you, or anyone here, can share scriptures that apply, I would love to share this with my friend. She is devastated right now, and feeling suicidal. I wish I was closer to her (geographically), to help, but I am not. Thank you for any response. God Bless, and thank you sir for your channel, I just subscribed.
I am so sorry for you and your friend's loss. That must feel terrible and confusing, and God understands what she (and you) are going through better than I do. God's people have questioned him in times of loss throughout history, so your friend isn't alone in this. For example, the character Job feels similarly when he is suffering. After living a good life of loyalty to God and service to the needy, Job falls sick, loses his wealth, and loses his children to death. Job say to God, "I cry out to you, God, but you do not answer. […] Let my accuser [the Lord] put his indictment in writing […] I would give him an account of my every step!" (Job 30:20; 31:35, 37). Job is sure that there has been some mistake. Surely God wouldn't reward his own with such misfortune. But when God responds, he doesn't give Job a reason for why things have gone wrong. Instead, he tells Job that this world is a complex and delicate place-too complex for any one person to understand how it all works. However, Christians hope in a world to come when *everything* works in a more harmonious way. This is what John the Revelator sees in his final vision: God will "wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away." (Revelation 21:4) This is why resurrection has been such an important belief for Christians through the ages. In Christ, we have hope that, although we may die in this broken world, we will be be brought to life again, united with him (and our loved ones) in a restored world. This is why the apostle Paul encouraged the Thessalonians to "comfort one another with these words." (1 Thessalonians 4:18) I will say a prayer on behalf of you and your friend. =)
Oh yeah, if we look outside scripture--at archaeology and history we find the Egyptian Empire included Canaan and other lands ( together known as Phoenicia) until somewhere in 1st century BCE. The Jews were enslaved there in their own home land, similar to how they were enslaved by Assyrians, Babylonians, and Persians and later Romans. Your faith precludes you from accepting the reality that, outside scripture, there is no evidence for the story of Exodus. My main point being: the story,as written, makes no sense--despite your attempts to add and subtract stuff to help God with his story--but this is all grown-up stuff.
LOL, fair-I'm not about to debate an archeologist on whether or not the Exodus literally took place! In fact, as far as I know, modern archaeology and Ancient Near East studies have not conclusively backed the Exodus account-and that goes for pretty much any biblical account of events prior to David's conquest of Jerusalem. I write about this in my book to a small extent. The Christian faith doesn't preclude me nor anyone else from accepting this. if someone has told you otherwise, I'd be sad to hear it.
@@OverviewBible Thank you, sincerely, for the reasoned response. My hope is that you sell a lot of books! My underlying value is that we, as a literate society, move toward a fact/reality based ideology. It will always bother me when stories are presented as if substantiated by evidence rather than simply claimed and believed on faith. Knowing the difference is important in learning how to think, rather than what to think. Oh yeah--you don't get to Saul, David or Solomon w/ any 10th century BCE reading of History or archaeology either LOL buddy
How could you not even mention in exodus 21 when god specifically condones slavery? He lays out rules for owning and BEATING Hebrew slaves. This is wildly immoral. This video conveniently leaves out key points of this book that shine a bad light on gods morality.
Thank you! I just started reading Exodus and this is such a helpful overview to have in mind while I read.
Thanks for your video it helped me get the First prize in the Book of Exodus Quiz Competition in our church. Thanks to God guiding me to watch this ... Praise the Lord 😇
Are u Indian my friend?
Thank you brother, may the Lord extend your territory and continue to use you mightily for His glory.
This is, so far, the most informative talk re exodus, i’ve ever encountered here on RUclips. Kudos!
Thanks, Carlo!
Thank you so much gifted with such wonderful exposition of the book of Exodus. Blessings... prayers
Thank you! I'm so thankful to find your channel. I'm in the process of reading the bible over 2022 and now I'm planning to watch your videos as I progress through the book.
Yes sis love to hear it. 🙏🏻
You have an anointing to teach the Word of God with clarity and power. I enjoy your videos so much! Please do one for every single book of the Bible!!!
Excellent presentation 👏 on explaining the story of Exodus. My favorite story ❤ in Exodus is the entire story of Moses from the beginning to the end. Moses had a big responsibility to forfill in helping the Lord rescuer the people of Israel 🇮🇱 🙏 from the Egypt 🇪🇬 🙏. Then, when Moses does the Isreal people turn their back on him and The Lord Wow!! Sometimes man kind can be so disappointing. 😇 👼 🙏 🤲 ⛪
Excellent presentation, sir! You were clear, concise, and most importantly, faithful to the Word of God.
I want to especially commend you for making God central to the explanation of the flow of the Exodus narrative. Some tend to fall into the trap of overexplaining the context and the historical details while losing sight of Godʼs centrality as the one being revealed in the Book of Exodus.
May God bless this ministry of yours even more. I liked and subscribed!
God bless you and your family, too!
Soli Deo gloria!
I too liked the layout and will be revisiting this channel.
Love the way you outlined it and explained Exodus. Helps me to understand it all better, thank you! 😊
I'm glad it's helpful, Tina!
Thank you I had reached ch 34 in the book of Exodus. Your video has been most helpful.
great summary and very helpful! God bless you Jeffrey!
I thank you so much for being obedient and making this. I used to hop around the bible but got serious about studying. i read a tip was looking at an overview 1st, rhe
then read. it has helped immensely. I pray there is a vid for each book!
Thank you for this! I just finished reading exodus
This was a great overview of Exodus. I'm going to use this with my Bible study with my family. We listen to God's word book Bible and we are getting ready to do Exodus. Thanks.
Its impossible not to subscribe and follow you. very informative. keep up the good work. Blessings from Ethiopia!
Thanks alot I love the book of exodus more and through this video I get to know it even better than before
Thank you so much for putting this in a way that is much easier to understand 👍
Thank you. I really like your short overview explanation. Hope you do this for all books.
Excellent video, comprehensive but easy to understand. Well done.
Excellent summary, def helps to lay out all the themes to help us remember the details!
you one of the best bible teachers 🙌
Thank you so much for your videos ! God bless you
Your explanations are very clear and concise Thank You!!!!!
Thank you very much, brother. I hope you can still make more videos.
Perfect and easy to follow explanation 👍🏿
Thank you for the amazing video. I learned a lot. This is great content that everybody should be watching!
You are doing a great work here. Thanks 🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗
incredible overview...God Bless
It was Very helpful Jeffery. Thank you!
Thank you sir, stay bless.
Thank you for the lesson! It was so informative🤗
Interesting !! I was getting bored w the exodus 28. Great to read in perspective!
Good job Bro.you summed up the entire book of exodus in nutshell.thanks
Great way to summarize the chapters!
Good morning from India sir.....
I am the theology study of this year
thank you so much! this is a great video
Great summary. Easy to understand.tks bro.
Good overview! 👍
Great video , thanks for the upload.
Came here for explanation for Exodus laws for slaves, is there another video that explains the subject?
Great explanation, but it was very short.
Thanks for this , it's useful.
Thank you
I enjoy your overviews... what is your view regarding the possibility that what is happening now is synchronistic and allegorically comparable to the story of Exodus? . qp
I would avoid such comparisons like the plague. ;-)
@@OverviewBible ty..noted
Very helpful!!!
Quick question!
Why can't Moses and the Israelites enter the Tabernacle after God had entered?
♡ thank you
Well done again!
Thanks Jeff.
Awesome
Great 👍
Are you sure? Wasn't that a dragon in that tent, I swear I read that was a giant dragon who lived in the tent. If memory serves, one time, they even had to feed him 400 sheep a hand full of virgins and a MESS of gold in order to keep it's ire down.
I know this is 4 years old but I’m hoping you can answer this question: why couldn’t Moses enter the tabernacle? Was Moses holy?
I have a question too god says multiple times he is a jealous god so why does he want us to prey in the name of Jesus?
I wish I could get the chart on pdf fine.
how loves the most fierce and fearful god?
Superb. Very nicely explained.
Many thanks! =)
Question??? When you say God knew of other God's is he talking about Humans calling themselves God??
who are the pharoahs in Exodus
how can god be envious?
Are you no longer doing these ?
When do we get Leviticus? :-)
SOON! I had to put more of my effort toward finishing the manuscript of The Beginner's Guide to the Bible (overviewbible.com/product/beginners-guide-bible/). Once that's done, Leviticus and the rest of the Torah comes next!
Am I going to find out why this Lord character is so OCD about yeast? It reads like a Monty Python sketch! Very funny.
Another video for another time-but I can relate to the sentiment. A lot of things that were profound to the ancients feel comic today.
Amen
do you have a summary on Leviticus?
Comin' up next! =)
@@OverviewBible can't wait to see how you explain Yaweh's acceptance of slavery
Hey Jeffrey, I've always wondered about part of the Exodus story; 9:3 has all of the Pharaoh's animals killed w/ a murrain "Behold, the hand of the LORD is upon thy cattle which in the field, upon the horses, upon the asses, upon the camels, upon the oxen, upon the sheep, there will be a grievous murrain". Where did the Egyptians come up with the horses to chase the Jews to their doom in the Red Sea----scribal error? botched translation? Book of fairy tales???
Hi, Russell. Good question! I doubt it's a scribal error: the author and editors apparently didn't have a problem saying "All the livestock of the Egyptians died" in Exodus 9:6 (NIV), but then referencing living Egyptian livestock during the plague of hail (Ex 9:20-21) and yet again during the plague against the firstborn (Ex 12:29).
It's possible that the storyteller is using hyperbole when saying "all the livestock died," exaggerating the effects to make a point to the early listeners.
Of course, it's also possible that the early listeners would have assumed that the Egyptians (who could afford it) acquired more livestock via trade after the fifth plague, as they would have needed cattle and horses and such to keep the nation (and their properties) running. I can't imagine the rich people of Egypt saying, "Our donkeys died? Oh well, guess we'll just be poor then."
Re: "fairy tales," this book has rods turning into snakes, the Nile turning to blood, and the sea splitting to provide a safe pathway on dry land. This is an epic story of Israel's God supernaturally rescuing them from the gods of Egypt. I wouldn't call it a fairy tale, but I also wouldn't expect this story to feature a perfectly-balanced cow ledger. ;-)
@@OverviewBible Well we certainly wouldn't want add or subtract anything from the scripture; but many love to speculate--about what early listeners may have thought-- or just make up a bunch of stuff (like there was actually private ownership of land or stock i.e. not the Pharaoh's) or the part about how Pharaoh acquired more livestock from said "private owners" is speculation on your part and appears now where in scripture. Murrain translates to "death". But I get that you need to work your apology for something that you had never noticed about this story. Good usage of the words "possible" and "assume", very definitive, must say
@@russellmillar7132 Any reason to believe the neighboring nations wouldn't sell livestock to the Egyptians? Seems like a good way to make an extra shekel on a mule-supply and demand and all.*
"Private owners" isn't how I'd phrase it, especially since I'm referencing Egyptians the NIV specifically calls "officials of Pharaoh" (Ex 9:20-21). However, the story does indicate that even the Israelite slaves had some cattle that "belonged" to them (Ex 9:6-7). So even if the Israelites were the "property" of Pharaoh, the story implies some sense of ownership that the (in-story) Pharaoh and Israelite listeners shared-at least when it came to animals.
* This, to use your words, also "appears nowhere in Scripture." But you already know that the Bible doesn't say where Pharaoh's livestock came from between plagues five and seven, don't you? Any attempts to give your question an honest answer are inevitably going to take us outside the Bible-which I don't see as a problem. The Bible's not going to have all the answers, and certainly won't have all the answers to the questions it prompts. But since the writers of the Bible don't seem to have an issue with answers living outside of Scripture (Nu 21:14; Jos 10:13; 1Ki 11:41; Est 10:2), I don't see why we should.
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current events since Dec 2019 and likely continue in 2023.
We live in a world of Good and evil. Its a war!
really? do the good guys always win?
I apologize in advance for asking something, that might feel irrelevant to your channel, but I have a very good friend, who recently lost her brother to death. We all prayed very hard for him, but a week ago, he passed. Now my friend (the sister of brother who passed) is claiming to no longer believe in the Lord, she is angry with him. I have been searching for answers in the bible, and I did find some scriptures that might apply, but really unsure. I just want to provide her references to scriptures, to not give up hope, and why. He was a great man who lived in Colombia. He was Catholic. If there are any answers that the bible gives, such as why a soul is not saved, even after hundreds of faith based prayers. I have seen much death in my own life, and it does raise the question, why didn't he answer my prayers? If you, or anyone here, can share scriptures that apply, I would love to share this with my friend. She is devastated right now, and feeling suicidal. I wish I was closer to her (geographically), to help, but I am not. Thank you for any response. God Bless, and thank you sir for your channel, I just subscribed.
I am so sorry for you and your friend's loss. That must feel terrible and confusing, and God understands what she (and you) are going through better than I do. God's people have questioned him in times of loss throughout history, so your friend isn't alone in this.
For example, the character Job feels similarly when he is suffering. After living a good life of loyalty to God and service to the needy, Job falls sick, loses his wealth, and loses his children to death. Job say to God, "I cry out to you, God, but you do not answer. […] Let my accuser [the Lord] put his indictment in writing […] I would give him an account of my every step!" (Job 30:20; 31:35, 37).
Job is sure that there has been some mistake. Surely God wouldn't reward his own with such misfortune. But when God responds, he doesn't give Job a reason for why things have gone wrong. Instead, he tells Job that this world is a complex and delicate place-too complex for any one person to understand how it all works.
However, Christians hope in a world to come when *everything* works in a more harmonious way. This is what John the Revelator sees in his final vision: God will "wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away." (Revelation 21:4) This is why resurrection has been such an important belief for Christians through the ages. In Christ, we have hope that, although we may die in this broken world, we will be be brought to life again, united with him (and our loved ones) in a restored world. This is why the apostle Paul encouraged the Thessalonians to "comfort one another with these words." (1 Thessalonians 4:18)
I will say a prayer on behalf of you and your friend. =)
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Oh yeah, if we look outside scripture--at archaeology and history we find the Egyptian Empire included Canaan and other lands ( together known as Phoenicia) until somewhere in 1st century BCE. The Jews were enslaved there in their own home land, similar to how they were enslaved by Assyrians, Babylonians, and Persians and later Romans. Your faith precludes you from accepting the reality that, outside scripture, there is no evidence for the story of Exodus. My main point being: the story,as written, makes no sense--despite your attempts to add and subtract stuff to help God with his story--but this is all grown-up stuff.
LOL, fair-I'm not about to debate an archeologist on whether or not the Exodus literally took place! In fact, as far as I know, modern archaeology and Ancient Near East studies have not conclusively backed the Exodus account-and that goes for pretty much any biblical account of events prior to David's conquest of Jerusalem. I write about this in my book to a small extent.
The Christian faith doesn't preclude me nor anyone else from accepting this. if someone has told you otherwise, I'd be sad to hear it.
@@OverviewBible Thank you, sincerely, for the reasoned response. My hope is that you sell a lot of books! My underlying value is that we, as a literate society, move toward a fact/reality based ideology. It will always bother me when stories are presented as if substantiated by evidence rather than simply claimed and believed on faith. Knowing the difference is important in learning how to think, rather than what to think. Oh yeah--you don't get to Saul, David or Solomon w/ any 10th century BCE reading of History or archaeology either LOL buddy
How could you not even mention in exodus 21 when god specifically condones slavery? He lays out rules for owning and BEATING Hebrew slaves. This is wildly immoral. This video conveniently leaves out key points of this book that shine a bad light on gods morality.
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