Exodus outline
📘 Book Outline: Exodus
A structured overview of Christ’s death and resurrection symbols throughout Exodus, with the bride’s role revealed in midwives, mothers, deliverance, and wilderness growth.
📖 Exodus 1:1–7
Symbol: Fruitfulness after death
Pericope:
- Start: Israel enters Egypt (into flesh)
- Middle: Joseph dies = Christ’s burial
- End: Israel multiplies = resurrection fruit
📖 Like a seed in the ground, Christ dies and brings life.
📖 Exodus 1:8–2:10
Symbol: River = grave / death; Ark = burial
Pericope:
- Start: Threat of death (new king, affliction)
- Middle: Midwives fear God; baby placed in river
- End: Child raised by Pharaoh’s daughter = resurrection in the world
📖 Bride (midwives) protect the seed; child is buried and raised.
📖 Exodus 2:11–15a
Symbol: Well = grave
Pericope:
- Start: Christ lays down life (kills Egyptian)
- Middle: Flees to wilderness; sits by the well
- End: Fruitfulness begins (bride introduced)
📖 The well is the grave; Christ rises and receives the bride.
📖 Exodus 2:15b–22
Symbol: Marriage = resurrection fruit
Pericope:
- Start: Rescues bride from shepherds
- Middle: Given Zipporah
- End: Son is born = multiplication
📖 Bride (Zipporah) received in the wilderness; fruit follows resurrection.
📖 Exodus 3:1–12
Symbol: Fire in bush = God’s presence in tribulation
Pericope:
- Start: Moses called from the bush
- Middle: God reveals name and plan
- End: Promise to bring Israel out
📖 Picture of Christ called from suffering to deliver His bride.
📖 Exodus 4:24–26
Symbol: Blood covers the son = cross
Pericope:
- Start: Lord seeks to kill
- Middle: Zipporah circumcises son
- End: God relents
📖 The bride applies the blood, preserving the son = substitution at the cross.
📖 Exodus 5:1–23
Symbol: Increased suffering before deliverance
Pericope:
- Start: Moses speaks to Pharaoh
- Middle: Burden increases
- End: Moses complains to God
📖 Just as suffering increased before Christ’s death, affliction increases before deliverance.
📖 Exodus 6:1–13
Symbol: Revelation of God's name = authority of resurrection
Pericope:
- Start: God promises deliverance
- Middle: Reveals “I AM”
- End: Sends Moses to speak again
📖 God’s authority to raise and deliver is revealed at the cross.
📖 Exodus 12:1–30
Symbol: Passover = substitutionary death
Pericope:
- Start: Instruction for lamb
- Middle: Blood on doorposts
- End: Firstborn die, Israel spared
📖 Christ is the Passover lamb (1 Cor 5:7); death passes over the bride.
📖 Exodus 14:1–31
Symbol: Red Sea = baptism / grave
Pericope:
- Start: Israel trapped
- Middle: Sea opens; Israel crosses
- End: Egyptians drowned
📖 Baptism into death, rising in new life (1 Cor 10:2; Rom 6:4).
📖 Exodus 15:22–27
Symbol: Bitter water made sweet = Word transformed by cross
Pericope:
- Start: No water
- Middle: Tree cast in = cross
- End: Water sweetened
📖 The Word of God becomes life when touched by the cross.
📖 Exodus 16:1–36
Symbol: Bread from heaven = Christ’s body
Pericope:
- Start: Israel complains
- Middle: Manna sent
- End: Manna preserved in jar
📖 Christ is the true bread (John 6:32–35)
📖 Exodus 17:1–7
Symbol: Rock struck = Christ smitten
Pericope:
- Start: No water
- Middle: Moses strikes rock
- End: Water flows
📖 Christ, the Rock, was struck so living water would flow (1 Cor 10:4).
📖 Exodus 17:8–16
Symbol: Raised hands = intercession on the cross
Pericope:
- Start: Amalek attacks
- Middle: Moses’ hands raised = victory
- End: Altar built
📖 Christ defeats sin by remaining on the cross; His hands upheld.
📖 Exodus 19:1–25
Symbol: Mountain = separation / holiness
Pericope:
- Start: Israel arrives at Sinai
- Middle: God descends with thunder
- End: Boundaries established to prevent death
📖 Christ ascends the mountain alone; the people (bride) cannot yet approach.
📖 Exodus 24:1–18
Symbol: Blood of the covenant
Pericope:
- Start: Moses called up
- Middle: Sacrifice made; blood sprinkled
- End: Moses enters cloud 40 days
📖 The covenant is sealed in blood—shadow of the New Covenant at the cross.
📖 Exodus 25–27
Symbol: Tabernacle pattern = Christ’s body
Pericope:
- Start: Instructions given
- Middle: Ark, table, lampstand
- End: Structure of tabernacle
📖 Each element foreshadows the person and work of Christ (Hebrews 9).
📖 Exodus 28–29
Symbol: Priestly garments / ordination = Christ as High Priest
Pericope:
- Start: Priests chosen
- Middle: Garments described
- End: Ordination with blood and oil
📖 Christ clothes us in righteousness and mediates as our eternal priest (Heb 7:26–28).
📖 Exodus 30–31
Symbol: Incense, oil, Sabbath = rest and intercession
Pericope:
- Start: Altar of incense
- Middle: Anointing oil
- End: Sabbath command
📖 Christ is our sweet-smelling offering, anointed one, and sabbath rest.
📖 Exodus 32:1–35
Symbol: Golden calf = false worship; Moses mediates
Pericope:
- Start: Israel sins
- Middle: Moses intercedes
- End: 3,000 die
📖 Moses offers himself to be blotted out—pointing to Christ’s intercession on the cross.
📖 Exodus 33–34
Symbol: Face-to-face and veiled glory
Pericope:
- Start: Moses meets with God
- Middle: Pleads for presence
- End: Glory revealed; face veiled
📖 The veil is removed in Christ (2 Cor 3:14); the bride sees His glory unveiled.
📖 Exodus 35–39
Symbol: Tabernacle built = God dwelling in flesh
Pericope:
- Start: Command repeated
- Middle: Tabernacle constructed
- End: Garments completed
📖 The dwelling of God is among us—fulfilled in the incarnation (John 1:14).
📖 Exodus 40:1–38
Symbol: Glory fills the tabernacle = resurrection presence
Pericope:
- Start: Tabernacle raised
- Middle: Items put in place
- End: Glory descends; cloud covers tent
📖 After Christ’s death and resurrection, the Spirit (glory) dwells with His people.
✅ Exodus Complete.
Each pericope reveals a part of Christ’s journey—through suffering, death, and resurrection—revealed in symbols: rivers, mountains, tabernacle parts, garments, incense, blood, and glory.
