But the LORD struck Pharaoh
and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife....Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him; and they escorted him away, with his wife and all that belonged to him. So Abram went up from Egypt to the Negev, he and his wife and all that belonged to him, and Lot with him. Now Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver and in gold" (Gen 12:17, 20; 13:1-2). Because the Torah was written to a people who had been delivered from Egypt, it would not have escaped their notice that Abram's life story prefigured their own. And the parallels to Israel and to Moses abound in this passage: bringing the whole family to Egypt because of a "heavy" famine (Gen 12:10; 43:1); the threat of killing the males and allowing the females to live (Gen 12:12; Exod 1:22); women deceiving the Pharaoh to protect the males (Gen 12:13-15; Exod 1:17-19); the prosperity of those who deceive the Pharaoh (Gen 12:16; Exod 1:17-21); taking God's people by force into Pharaoh's service (Gen 12:15; Exod 1:11); God's judgment upon the Egyptians with great plagues (Gen 12:17; Exod 6:6; 7:4; 11:1); Pharaoh's sending God's people out of Egypt because of the plagues (Gen 12:20; Exod 11:1); and an exodus out of Egypt with abundant riches (Gen 13:2; Exod 12:35, 38). Why these parallels? Many answers can be given, but one is for certain. Through these parallels, God was teaching his people to carefully study their past in order to prepare for their future. The deeds of the fathers are a sign to the sons! Because the exodus repeated itself in the past, they should expect it to repeat itself again in the future. And so, with Torah in hand, the prophets of Israel began to describe the arrival of a second Moses who would lead his people to salvation through an even greater exodus (read Isaiah 40-55 very carefully with the story of Moses and Israel's exodus in mind). Matthew's Gospel is clearly written to those who have grasped this principle of "the deeds of the fathers are a sign to the sons," and who, like the prophets, have spent much time meditating day and night waiting for the birth of the Second Moses. Blessed are those with ears to hear and eyes to see what all the prophets themselves desired to see (Matt 13:16-17): "Now when they had gone, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, 'Get up! Take the Child and His mother and flee to Egypt, and remain there until I tell you; for Herod is going to search for the Child to destroy Him.' So Joseph got up and took the Child and His mother while it was still night, and left for Egypt. He remained there until the death of Herod. This was to fulfill what had been spoken by the Lord through the prophet:
'OUT OF EGYPT I CALLED MY SON.'
Then when Herod saw that he had been tricked by the magi, he became very enraged, and sent and slew all the male children who were in Bethlehem and all its vicinity, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had determined from the magi" (Matt 2:13-16).
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