Torah Portion #13 – Shemot “names”

The deliverance of the Israelites from Egypt is a picture of our deliverance from sin. This week's Torah Portion is Shemot, which literally means names, but the West translated it as Exodus about the coming out from Egypt. Between the 215 years that the descendants of Abraham lived in Egypt, and the 215 years leading up to Moses arising, there's 430 years. At that point, the Pharaoh that was in power did not remember that Joseph, the Israelite, had been a blessing to Egypt. He decides to kill the young ones of Israel, and Moses is spared by God. His name is drawn out. He comes out of the Nile. At a point in the story, the Lord says, "Ba Yom Elohim El Moshe’a eyeh." "I am that I am." And Moses is sent to Pharaoh to be the deliverer of the Israelites, and he says, "Shalach et Ami," "Let my people go." Pharaoh is a type of Satan, Yeshua says to Satan about you and about me, "Let my people go.”