Exodus and Entering into Rest

By Cuthbert H Dawkins

People seek for ‘god’ but they do not invent God, the true God. The Bible emphasises again and again that God breaks into the human predicament. He sees, He cares, He acts. In Israelite history God indicated to all the world that He is a saving God. He demonstrated to Israel His own heart of judgment and forgiveness. He did this in the death of a lamb. He freed Israel to belong to Him, not to Pharaoh or to evil. The New Testament picks up the story in a grand finale, but it is not as simple as one might suppose. God is leading. His presence is glorious but there is much opposition! The Christian heart needs to engage with the Exodus stories as God’s provision for their understanding and discipline – the practice of their Christian lives.

• Language: English
• Publisher: White Tree Publishing
• Release date: Aug 20, 2021
• ISBN: 9781913950521

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People seek for ‘god’ but they do not invent God, the true God. The Bible emphasises again and again that God breaks into the human predicament. He sees, He cares, He acts. In Israelite history God indicated to all the world that He is a saving God. He demonstrated to Israel His own heart of judgment and forgiveness. He did this in the death of a lamb. He freed Israel to belong to Him, not to Pharaoh or to evil. The New Testament picks up the story in a grand finale, but it is not as simple as one might suppose. God is leading. His presence is glorious but there is much opposition! The Christian heart needs to engage with the Exodus stories as God’s provision for their understanding and discipline – the practice of their Christian lives.

Exodus and Entering into Rest

The Passover to Gilgal

Bible Studies by

Cuthbert H Dawkins

Missionary in East Africa 1934-97 Founder of Trinity Fellowship 1963

Copyright © The Estate of Cuthbert H. Dawkins 2021

eBook ISBN: 978-1-913950-52-1

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Scripture quotations from Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright © 1946, 1952, and 1971 the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

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Table of Contents

Cover

About the Book

Publisher’s Note

Introduction

Part 1

The Exodus

Chapter 1

THE PASSOVER

Chapter 2

CROSSING THE RED SEA

Part 2

Entering into Rest

Chapter 3

THE WILDERNESS

Chapter 4

THE RIVER JORDAN

Chapter 5

THE HIGHLANDS OF CANAAN

Chapter 6

THE FALL OF JERICHO

Chapter 7

THE BASE-CAMP AT GILGAL

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Introduction

Exodus - People seek for ‘god’ but they do not invent God, the true God. The Bible emphasises again and again that God breaks into the human predicament. He sees, He cares, He acts. In Israelite history God indicated to all the world that He is a saving God. He demonstrated to Israel His own heart of judgment and forgiveness. He did this in the death of a lamb. He freed Israel to belong to Him, not to Pharaoh or to evil. The New Testament picks up the story in a grand finale, but it is not as simple as one might suppose. God is leading. His presence is glorious but there is much opposition! The Christian heart needs to engage with the Exodus stories as God’s provision for their understanding and discipline – the practice of their Christian lives.

Entering into Rest - This Bible study is about Christian life in difficulties. As with the Hebrew people there has been a great experience of salvation. Then there has been a wilderness experience. Pain has pushed out praise, and the sense of the sureness of God - His presence, His power and His goodness - has gone. But God leads on. Through Joshua Israel is led into the Promised Land. The stories are graphic. They become pictures for the Christian mind. They need imagination and this, like all mental capacities, can be anointed and enlarged by the Spirit of God. Christian life is not small. It is long and broad and detailed but there is one point in it which God would emphasise - Destiny. In the Bible story it is called rest. It is God’s rest at the end of Creation. It is His knowing that He has done everything perfectly. It is the same with salvation. A Christian can keep going with God, pressing ever more fully into His destiny, His completeness, His rest.

The writer of these studies, Cuthbert Dawkins (a missionary in East Africa for over sixty years) would encourage fellowship members to explore his Bible teaching with a companion or in a group. Members could be a resource for each other, and a correction sometimes. The riches of their imaginative efforts, that is the formation of their insights, could be balanced with sound sense.

Publisher’s Note

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Chapter 1

The Passover – Exodus Part One

The people of Israel always looked to the Passover as the beginning of their national existence. It was the very foundation stone of their theocracy, and the annual feast commemorating the event, the Feast of the Passover, was the start of the year for them.

On that day they remembered year by year, and taught their children generation by generation, how God had