From birth, YHWH prepared Moses to lead His people out of Egypt. Schooled in the wisdom of Egypt in his first forty years, he knew the logistics of commanding whole troops and managing resources in the desert. For the next 40 years, Moses shepherded sheep and goats in the Midian wilderness (see Blog 42). At eighty, Moses commenced his last forty years…

And God spoke to Moses and said to him: “I am YHWH. I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as El Shaddai, and did I not make Myself known to them also as YHWH? I ratified My covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, in which they were strangers. And I have also heard the groaning of…

From the Abrahamic covenant to the glory of YHWH filling Solomon’s temple, the Angel of YHWH is present with His people and often in a fiery theophany (Gen. 15:17-21; Exo. 3:1-6, 19:18, 24:16-17; Lev. 9:23-24). Why an angel, and who was he? Hebrew for angel, malak, means messenger (Strong’s H4397).

In the Garden, Adam and Eve…

Now YHWH spoke to Moses, saying: 2 “Speak to the children of Israel, that they turn and camp before Pi Hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, opposite Baal Zephon: you shall camp before it by the sea. 3 For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, ‘They are bewildered by the land; the wilderness has closed them in.’ 4 Then I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, so that he will…

Israel was caught between Yam Suph and Pharaoh with his army camped in front of Hahiroth with impassable rugged mountains on either side that terminated at the sea. Josephus described the panic within Israel’s camp since they had no way of escaping or fighting without weapons1. It appeared that the Israelites had only two choices…

In Blog 54, we saw ancient Israel passing through the underworld, the abode of the serpent, from bearings taken from Baal-Zapon (Lord of the North). Then, YHWH took Israel beyond the grave through a rebirth in the Yam Suph’s mighty waters, leading His nation to His holy mountain from bearings taken from Mount Zion, north of Mount Sinai…

When Israel had traveled three days, they came to Etham at the edge of the Wilderness of Etham, where they received YHWH’s instruction to turn south to Pi-Hahiroth. Having left Egypt on Wednesday evening (start of Abib 15), three days counting brought them to the close of the Sabbath. What is important about this juncture? If Israel had been in the Promised Land…

To walk out of Egypt was the forward movement of Passover’s justification, sanctifying a cleansed Israel as belonging to YHWH (John’s first sign). His healing (by His stripes) made none feeble (John’s second sign). In John’s third sign, Yeshua healed a man who was lame for thirty-eight years, freeing him to walk and to worship in the temple. The man went from impotence to…

John’s third sign (lame man) is chiastically linked to the sixth sign (blind man). In both signs, the site was Jerusalem, involved the Gihon (the temple water source), and the healed men, the blind and the lame, had many years of disability. Bullinger captured the two signs’ parallels (CB Ap. 176).

When John’s eight signs are overlaid on the Feast timeline