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

7871. 'And will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt' means the damnation of those governed by faith separated from charity. This is clear from the meaning of 'striking' as damnation, for striking is killing or putting to death, and 'death' in the spiritual sense means damnation, see 6119; from the meaning of 'the firstborn' - when used in reference to the Egyptians, who represent those steeped in falsities arising from evil - as faith separated from charity, 3325, 7039, 7766, 7778, 7779. In the genuine sense the expression 'the firstborn', when it describes a feature of the spiritual Church, means faith that is wedded to charity, see 367, 2435, 3325, 3494, 6344, 7035; therefore in the contrary sense 'the firstborn' is faith devoid of charity.