God promised Moses that He would accomplish four redemptive acts:
He would bring out the Israelites from their suffering in Egypt, rescue
them from slavery, redeem them from their oppression with His outstretched arm, and take them as His own nation.
These four promises are called the Four Expressions of Redemption, and are traditionally commemorated during the Passover Seder with four cups of wine.
For each of these acts of deliverance written in Exodus 6:6–7, God used the following Hebrew words: Hotzeiti, I will bring out; Hitzalti, will rescue; Ga’alti, I will redeem; and Lakachti, I will take.
God also made a fifth expression of redemption. He promised he would bring His people back into their own land.
“And I will bring you to the land I swore with uplifted hand to give to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob. I will give it to you as a possession. I am the LORD.” (Exodus 6:8)
Two thousand years ago, when the Jewish People lived in the Promised Land, this fifth expression may have been commemorated during the Seder with a fifth cup of wine.
Although God has been rescuing the Jewish people from their exile and bringing them back into the Land, the fifth cup is often considered to represent a complete Redemption through the Messiah. This fifth cup at the Passover Seder, therefore, is called the Cup of Elijah, which is left untouched for the Prophet Elijah, who is expected to return to earth to herald the coming of the Messiah and His Messianic reign.
Even today, there are those whose bondage is so cruel and whose spirit so broken that they cannot hear those who preach the Good News of Yeshua (Jesus). Sometimes they must watch us walk in the power of God, seeing signs and wonders before they will listen and believe.
Sometimes, we must faithfully sow seeds, patiently waiting as God grows them.
"I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God has been making it grow." (1 Corinthians 3:6)
This whole account of God’s redemption of Israel from Egypt has a spiritual parallel in our salvation from the kingdom of darkness, ruled by Satan (literally, the Adversary) and our place in the Kingdom of Light, ruled by the LORD.
We are delivered from Satan through faith in Yeshua, the Passover Lamb, not simply to walk away and “do our own thing,” but to follow Jesus in our everyday lives. As it was for the Israelites, the purpose of our freedom is to serve the living God.
“For He has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son He loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.” (Colossians 1:13-14)
Perry White
Based on a daily email from Messianic Bible
news@biblesforisrael.com
These four promises are called the Four Expressions of Redemption, and are traditionally commemorated during the Passover Seder with four cups of wine.
For each of these acts of deliverance written in Exodus 6:6–7, God used the following Hebrew words: Hotzeiti, I will bring out; Hitzalti, will rescue; Ga’alti, I will redeem; and Lakachti, I will take.
God also made a fifth expression of redemption. He promised he would bring His people back into their own land.
“And I will bring you to the land I swore with uplifted hand to give to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob. I will give it to you as a possession. I am the LORD.” (Exodus 6:8)
Two thousand years ago, when the Jewish People lived in the Promised Land, this fifth expression may have been commemorated during the Seder with a fifth cup of wine.
Although God has been rescuing the Jewish people from their exile and bringing them back into the Land, the fifth cup is often considered to represent a complete Redemption through the Messiah. This fifth cup at the Passover Seder, therefore, is called the Cup of Elijah, which is left untouched for the Prophet Elijah, who is expected to return to earth to herald the coming of the Messiah and His Messianic reign.
Even today, there are those whose bondage is so cruel and whose spirit so broken that they cannot hear those who preach the Good News of Yeshua (Jesus). Sometimes they must watch us walk in the power of God, seeing signs and wonders before they will listen and believe.
Sometimes, we must faithfully sow seeds, patiently waiting as God grows them.
"I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God has been making it grow." (1 Corinthians 3:6)
This whole account of God’s redemption of Israel from Egypt has a spiritual parallel in our salvation from the kingdom of darkness, ruled by Satan (literally, the Adversary) and our place in the Kingdom of Light, ruled by the LORD.
We are delivered from Satan through faith in Yeshua, the Passover Lamb, not simply to walk away and “do our own thing,” but to follow Jesus in our everyday lives. As it was for the Israelites, the purpose of our freedom is to serve the living God.
“For He has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son He loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.” (Colossians 1:13-14)
Perry White
Based on a daily email from Messianic Bible
news@biblesforisrael.com
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