The Three Signs of Moses (Exodus 4)

(Class Notes)

• The Sign of the Serpent (Exodus 4:2-4)
  • The rod of a humble shepherd (Exodus 3:1; Numbers 12:3) became the rod of Almighty God (Exodus 4:17,20-21)
    • The FIRST encounter with Pharaoh (Exodus 7:9-10,12,15)
    • The plagues upon Egypt
      • Blood (Exodus 7:17,19-20)
      • Frogs (Exodus 8:5)
      • Lice (Exodus 8:16-17)
      • Hail (Exodus 9:23)
      • Locusts (Exodus 10:13)
    • The LAST encounter with Pharaoh (Exodus 14:16)
  • Satan as the Serpent caused man's fall and became his oppressor (Genesis 3:1,4,13 cf. Revelation 12:9), but God is able to overcome the power of Satan and make man whole by being his Redeemer (Genesis 3:14-15 cf. Hebrews 2:14-15; Revelation 1:18)
  • God promised Israel through Moses to be delivered from their oppressors (Exodus 3:7-10,14-17)

• The Sign of Leprosy (Exodus 4:6-7)
  • Leprosy described as outward physical uncleanness (Leviticus 13:43-45) is a type of sin which is inward spiritual uncleanness (Genesis 6:5; Genesis 18:20 cf. Luke 6:43-45)
  • God revealed His judgment upon sin via the plague of leprosy (Deuteronomy 24:8-9)
    • Miriam (Numbers 12:9-11)
    • Gehazi (II Kings 5:20-27)
    • Uzziah (II Chronicles 26:18-20)
  • Israel was not exempt from the first three plagues upon Egypt, because they needed to be cleansed from Egyptian idolatry (Exodus 8:22-23 cf. Deuteronomy 32:15-17)

• The Sign of Blood (Exodus 4:9)
  • Blood is associated with physical corruption and death (I Corinthians 15:50,53-54)
  • Blood is also that which sustains the life of the flesh and is, therefore, required as the atonement for a life that is alienated from God (Leviticus 17:11)
  • Israel was redeemed from Egypt by the shedding of a lamb's blood (Exodus 11:1,4-8 cf. Exodus 12:5-7,14) just as we are redeemed from sin by the blood of God's Lamb (John 1:29; I Corinthians 5:7-8; I Peter 1:18-20)

• The Voice of the Signs (Exodus 4:8)
  • God uses the expression, "voice", to amplify the meaning of physical things by means of personification as in the case of Abel's spilt blood (Genesis 4:10)
  • Paul quotes the Psalmist (Romans 10:18 cf. Psalms 19:4) to connect God's verbal revelation of the gospel (Romans 10:15) with God's celestial revelation of the SAME gospel via the heavenly signs (Psalms 19:1-3 cf. Genesis 1:14)
  • Israel was made to acknowledge via God's words and signs through Moses - the Divine promise of redemption from Egypt (Exodus 4:29-31)

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