Exodus Chapter 15

                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

 1  Then Moses and the sons of Israel sang this song to the LORD, and said, “I will sing to the LORD, for He is highly exalted; The horse and its rider He has hurled into the sea. 2 “The LORD is my strength and song, And He has become my salvation; This is my God, and I will praise Him; My father’s God,a nd I will extol Him. 3  “The LORD is a warrior; The LORD is His name. 4  “Pharaoh’s chariots and his army He has cast into the sea; And the choicest of his officers are drowned in the Red Sea. 5  “The deeps cover them; They went down into the depths like a stone. 6  “Your right hand, O LORD, is majestic in power, Your right hand, O LORD, shatters the enemy. 7  “And in the greatness of Your excellence You overthrow those who rise up against You; You send forth Your burning anger, and it consumes them as chaff. 8  “At the blast of Your nostrils the waters were piled up, The flowing waters stood up like a heap; The deeps were congealed in the heart of the sea. 9  “The enemy said, ‘I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; My desire shall be gratified against them; I will draw out my sword, my hand will destroy them.’ 10  “You blew with Your wind, the sea covered them; They sank like lead in the mighty waters. 11  “Who is like You among the gods, O LORD? Who is like You, majestic in holiness, Awesome in praises, working wonders? 12  “You stretched out Your right hand, The earth swallowed them. 13  “In Your lovingkindness You have led the people whom You have redeemed; In Your strength You have guided them to Your holy habitation. 14  “The peoples have heard, they tremble; Anguish has gripped the inhabitants of Philistia. 15  “Then the chiefs of Edom were dismayed; The leaders of Moab, trembling grips them; All the inhabitants of Canaan have melted away. 16  “Terror and dread fall upon them; By the greatness of Your arm they are motionless as stone; Until Your people pass over, O LORD, Until the people pass over whom You have purchased. 17  “You will bring them and plant them in the mountain of Your inheritance, The place, O LORD, which You have made for Your dwelling, The sanctuary, O Lord, which Your hands have established. 18  “The LORD shall reign forever and ever.” 19  For the horses of Pharaoh with his chariots and his horsemen went into the sea, and the LORD brought back the waters of the sea on them, but the sons of Israel walked on dry land through the midst of the sea. 20  Miriam the prophetess, Aaron’s sister, took the timbrel in her hand, and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dancing. 21  Miriam answered them, “Sing to the LORD,  for He is highly exalted; The horse and his rider He has hurled into the sea.”

1.  If Jesus is the LORD, is Jesus, that gentle and meek carpenter’s son, a warrior?

Jesus of the NT is Yahweh of the OT.

Exodus 3:13-15 (HCSB) 13  Then Moses asked God, “If I go to the Israelites and say to them: The God of your fathers has sent me to you, and they ask me, ‘What is His name?’ what should I tell them?” 14

God replied to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM.This is what you are to say to the Israelites: I AM has sent me to you.” 15  God also said to Moses, “Say this to the Israelites: Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is My name forever; this is how I am to be remembered in every generation.

John 8:58 (NASB) ⁵⁸  Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was born, I am.”

Luke 24:27 (HCSB) ²⁷  Then beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, He interpreted for them the things concerning Himself in all the Scriptures.

His mission in the OT was different than the NT. In the OT Jesus was establishing the Hebrew nation. In the NT Jesus came to pay the penalty for the sins of all who will believe.

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2. Where did the Pharaoh’s best chariots and officers end up?

The best of Pharaoh’s officers are drowned in the Red
Sea.

The deep waters have covered them; they sank to the depths
like a stone. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.

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3. Does this sound like Pharaoh’s entire army drowned in the shallow marshy region of Egypt known as the “Reed Sea”?

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4. The surging waters stood firm like a wall; the deep waters congealed in the heart of the sea. What does it mean the waters congealed?

The Hebrew word “qupha” means to thicken, harden, curdled milk, or freeze.
By the blast of your nostrils the waters piled up. The surging waters stood firm like a wall;

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5. “In your unfailing love you will lead the people you have redeemed.” What does it mean to redeem?

 “Gaal”, to act as a next of kin and buy back lost property.We don’t have to do bad things to be lost.

John 3:18 “He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.”

Salvation is not free. Somebody has to buy us back from slavery and death.

6. “The nations will hear and tremble; anguish will grip the people of Philistia.”How was this manifest?

 In 1 Samuel the Philistines were talking about the power of the Israelite God who had brought
them out of Egypt with great power.

7. You will bring them in and plant them on the mountain of your inheritance—Where is the mountain of your inheritance?

Jerusalem, mount Mariah, the temple mount, Israel, the area which has been under missile attack from Hamas in the Gaza strip. Hamas who has stated that they are perpetually at war with Israel until they are all the Jews are driven into the sea.

Then Moses led Israel from the Red Sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness and found no water. 23  When they came to Marah, they could not drink the waters of Marah, for they were bitter; therefore it was named Marah. 24  So the people grumbled at Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?” 25  Then he cried out to the LORD, and the LORD showed him a tree; and he threw it into the waters, and the waters became sweet. There He made for them a statute and regulation, and there He tested them. 26  And He said, “If you will give earnest heed to the voice of the LORD your God, and do what is right in His sight, and give ear to His commandments, and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have put on the Egyptians; for I, the LORD, am your healer.”

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8. From a spiritual point of view, how does this incident at the bitter springs of Marah apply to us?

As a new Christians, after we receive the gift of salvation, we celebrate the great deliverance from sin and death represented by Egypt, then God leads us out into a dry wilderness area and it seems as though we are deserted. We then begin to yearn for the comfort and security of our past life, because that’s all we
know. We grumble and complain because we thought this would be easy. Then God begins to show us a better way we have never experienced. He turns to bitter water into sweetness. Then we begin about learn obedience. It’s interesting how a piece of a tree turned bitterness into sweetness and later a piece of a tree, the cross of Calvary turned the bitterness of death into the sweetness of
eternal life.

15:24 ………grumbled at Moses.

Israelite memory of victory displayed a remarkable brevity. The personalized declarations of their ode to the Lord sung 3 days earlier vanished into thin air. Their belief of Moses faded out of the picture (14:31). Their question about drinking water roughly brushed aside all recent affirmations of God’s being worthy of praise because He had done wonders and was clearly taking them to their land Some probably wanted to turn back to Egypt.

 Matt. 13: 5-8  Some fell on stony places, where they did not have much earth; and they immediately sprang up because they had no depth of earth.6 But when the sun was up they were scorched, and because they had no root they withered away.7 And some fell among thorns, and the thorns sprang up and choked them.8 But others fell on good ground and yielded a crop: some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.

Exodus 15:27 (HCSB) Then they came to Elim, where there were twelve springs and seventy palm trees, and they camped there near the water.

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9. If Marah represents the dry wilderness experience that comes to every Christian, what does Elim represent.

The time of blessing and rest, refreshing times where God seems to be near and active in our lives.

Matthew 11:28

Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

Seventy. The number seventy as reflected by the multiples seven and ten can be seen as representing the full responsibility of God to His creation: a responsibility fulfilled by the cross and entrusted to His Church (cf. the 70 elders of Israel and the 70 disciples that Jesus sent out two by two).

Twelve represents the body of believers, the nation of Israel, and later the church.

ESVN……………..….ESV Study Bible Notes

MSBN……………….MacArthur NASB Study   Notes

NIVSN……………….NIV Study Notes.

JVM ………………….J Vernon McGee’s Commentary

BN ……………………Barnes Notes

WBC………….…….Wycliffe Bible Commentary

CN ……….…………..Constables Notes

IC……………….…….Ironside Commentary

NET…………….…….Net Bible Study Notes.

JFB……………………Jamieson Fausset  Brown Commentary

VWS………………….Vincent Word Studies

CMM………………..Commentary on Matthew and Mark

BDB……………..….Barclay’s Daily Study Bible (NT)

Darby……………….John Darby’s Synopsis of the OT and NT

Johnson……………Johnson’s Notes on the New Testament

NTCMM…………..The New Testament Commentary:  Matthew and Mark.

EHS………………….Expositions of the Holy Scriptures

CPP…………………The Complete Pulpit Commentary

SBC…………………..Sermon Bible Commentary

K&D…………………Keil and Deilitzsch Commentary on the OT

EBC……………….…Expositors Bible Commentary

CBSC……………….Cambridge Bible for Schools and College

GC……………………Guzik Commentary

RD…………………..Robert  Deffinbaugh

NSB …………………The Nelson Study Bible

MHC…………………Matthew Henry Commentary

CSTTB………Chuck Smith Through The Bible

LESB…………….Life Essentials Study Bible.

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