What led Israel/Jacob and his family to Egypt was a desire to escape the hardships of the world. They found a very comfortable life amongst the Egyptian people until things changed into sorrow and suffering.
It is an inescapable principle of life: sin promises freedom and happiness, but in the end, it only leads to bondage and sorrow.
To set the stage of where we are going to go I want to share what Pastor Mark Trotter wrote in his Bible study titled “52 Weeks of Pursuit”.
EGYPT is a picture of the world and sin. It will consistently stand for that which is in opposition to God—and God's people. Just as Egypt held God's people in bondage in the Old Testament—it pictures the world's system that seeks to hold us in bondage in the New Testament. (Eph. 2:2)
PHARAOH, the wicked king of Egypt, is a picture of Satan, the wicked king of the world's system who exercises his will in taking God’s people captive. (2 Tim. 2:26)
ISRAEL is a picture of the individual believer. Please note that Israel is not a picture of the church! In Exodus 4:22–23, God plainly declares that “Israel is my son” and commands Moses to tell Pharaoh to “let my son go, that he may serve me.” In the New Testament, God reveals that as individual believers in Christ, we now posses the title, “son of God.” (1 John 3:2; John 1:12; Rom. 8:14) Making the proper connection between Israel and the individual believer will keep us from “wrongly dividing the word of truth” (2 Tim. 2:13)—and misapplying God’s Word to our lives.
MOSES is a picture of the Lord Jesus Christ, the deliverer of God's people.
Our message today is titled: “A Child is Born”
