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Exodus – And The Beginnings of Israel

Israel History, Book of Exodus April 1, 2016

The Exodus, as described by the second book of the Bible of the same name, is the story of how the Jewish (Hebrew) nation came to be. Israel is the name which God gave to Abraham’s grandson, Jacob. It also became the name by which the 12 collective tribes of the sons of Jacob were called.

The Exodus was a most unusual revolt, not only because it defeated Egypt, the world’s most powerful military nation at that time, but because God himself was the engineer of the counter-revolution that stopped the world’s revolution to enslave and destroy God’s chosen people. The story of the Exodus is the action of freeing his fledgling people and giving them a perfectly suited homeland of their own, one that he had shown and promised to their forefather Abraham over five centuries before.

It is ironic that God used the most humble man on earth, Moses, an estranged Hebrew who, by a providential act of fate, was a man of the household of the Pharaoh, to direct the rebellion by which the children of Israel were liberated from tyranny and brutal servitude to the godless ruler of the world. The story of a homeland for a nation of people is not the story of oppression and aggression against other peoples as the modern tale of people that hate God would tell it today, but rather, a story of the creation of a national state for an oppressed and enslaved nation of millions of souls.

The Hebrew people came into their own as a nation at that time when they were transformed into a sovereign nation all their own, the nation known ever since as Israel, a name God had given to Abraham’s faithful grandson, Jacob. Through the leadership of Moses and the guidance of God the children of Israel escaped Egypt, eventually settling within the boundaries of that ‘promised land’ which God had fore-promised to the fore-father Abraham.

Moses and his brother Aaron led the people out of slavery in Egypt, where they wandered in the desert for disobedience and faithlessness forty years before entering the land that God had promised to their forefathers four hundred years earlier.

It was Moses’ successor, Joshua, whom God used to lead the twelve tribes of Israel into the Promised Land around the year 1500 B.C. when the history of Israel as a nation began in earnest. Its history of prophetic happenings can be traced in timeline fashion – including the contemporary prophetic events and matters that are in a state of being fulfilled in these tumultuous last days. Many of these events, both historical and contemporary, as well as future prophecies about the ultimate fate and destiny of God’s chosen people, can be discovered within the pages of the EOE Website.