Title: More Than Meets the Eye, Part 3:Timelines

Topic: The Word

Summary: Scholars have turned inside out trying to establish a coherent chronology in the Bible, but it can't be done. So if it is not about a chronology, what is it about?

Use the reference links below to follow along in the Bible as you watch.

References:
Exodus 2:1-2
Numbers 26:57-59, 62
Exodus 12:40; 6:16-20
Genesis 15:12-13
1 Kings 6:1
Numbers 1:1; 3:1, 14-15; 1:48-49; 3:17, 19, 27-28; 1:46
1 Chronicles 6:1-3
Exodus 2:1-10
Leviticus 18:12
1 Chronicles 23:12
Acts of the Apostles 7:6
Galatians 3:17, 16

6797. Verses 23-25 And it happened in [the course of] these many days, that the king of Egypt died, and the children of Israel sighed because of their hard service, and cried out; and their cry came up to God because of their hard service. And God heard their groaning, and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. And God saw the children of Israel, and God knew [them].

'And it happened in [the course of] these many days' means after quite a number of changes of state. 'That the king of Egypt died' means the end of the falsity that had reigned previously. 'And the children of Israel sighed because of their hard service' means grief on account of the endeavour to subdue the truth of the Church. 'And cried out' means a calling for help. 'And their cry came up to God because of their hard service' means that they were heard. 'And God heard their groaning' means help. 'And God remembered His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob' means on account of being joined to the Church through the Lord's Divine Human. 'And God saw the children of Israel' means that He endowed the Church with faith. 'And God knew them means that [He endowed it] with charity.