2026-2027 Bible Study — Exodus

Long before he gave Israel a law to keep, God gave them a promise to trust and an arm to save them by. Exodus opens with a people groaning under Egyptian slavery and a Pharaoh who “did not know Joseph” — and it ends, forty chapters later, with the LORD’s own glory settling into a tent pitched in the middle of their camp. In between comes some of the most dramatic action in all of Scripture: a bush that burns and is not consumed, plagues that put Egypt’s gods on trial, a sea that walls up on command, and a mountain wrapped in thunder and smoke. Exodus is the story every later act of salvation in the Bible looks back to — the pattern Israel sang about for a thousand years, and the pattern the New Testament reaches for again and again to explain who Jesus is and what he has done for you.

As we study Exodus, we’ll be working through all forty chapters together, from the first cries of an enslaved people to the closing verses, where the cloud of glory fills the finished tabernacle. Each session we will look closely at the text itself with real attention to its history and its place in the whole sweep of Scripture — but always comes back to one question: where is Christ in this? You only a willingness to open your Bible and let it be read to you as well as by you.

If you’ve ever wondered why a Christian who already has the New Testament should care about the Old, Exodus is the place to find out. It’s the book Jesus quoted to describe his own coming death as a new exodus (Luke 9:31), the book Paul opened to explain what happens in Baptism and at the Table (1 Corinthians 10:1–4) and the book Matthew intentionally mirrored to show Jesus as the fulfillment of God’s promises. The same LORD who split the sea for a people who could not save themselves is the LORD who has claimed you in the water of your own Baptism — “merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love” (Exodus 34:6), then and now. Come and see. We’d love to have you with us.