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00:00Remember, remember, these verses are the epilogue to the Lord's mighty works of deliverance
00:05and redemption, just as Exodus 7 verse 8 to 13 are the prologue.
00:11The prologue anticipates the mighty works, the epilogue recapitulates it, and fixes their
00:16significance.
00:18The regulation in verses 43 to 51 may well have been occasioned by Exodus 12 verse 38.
00:25The presence of those who join themselves to Israel in the Exodus but who are not Israelites
00:30by birth.
00:32Such are brought within the covenant of grace by circumcision and made partakers of Israel's
00:36saving experience by admission to Passover.
00:40Genesis 12 moves from the universal scope of Genesis chapters 1 to 11 to a narrow focus
00:45on one man and his family not because the world is forgotten but because it is through
00:50Abram the world will.
00:52Be blessed.
00:54Just as God's purpose for Abram was worldwide, so was his covenant.
00:59And this is continued in the Mosaic covenant.
01:02The son of a stranger or foreigner who is by nature excluded can become, by circumcision
01:07and Passover, a participating firstborn son.
01:12Thus these verses, which seem to exclude foreigners are, in fact, an invitation for them to come
01:17in and be welcomed.
01:20Exodus 13 verse 1 to 2 understandably give a special place to Israel's firstborn, who
01:25are in a particular sense the beneficiaries of the Passover blood.
01:30Very likely the firstborn sons act as Israel's priests until the particular appointment of
01:34the tribe of Levi.
01:37The interim institution of the tribe of Levi is necessitated by the great sin of the golden
01:41calf.
01:43Yet the Lord's intention, a kingdom of priests, is fulfilled in Christ.
01:49Verses 3 to 9 detail the feast of unleavened bread.
01:53Here the intention is to replicate the conditions of the Exodus and so keep the great redemption
01:58freshly in their memory.
02:00Deuteronomy 16 verse 3 calls it the bread of affliction, to recall the privations of
02:05Egypt.
02:07Reflection Paul treats leaven as symbolic of sin in
02:10our lives and calls us, as Christ's Passover people, to purge it out.
02:16This is our equivalent of keeping the feast.