It's foundational from the very beginning. We see God creating the universe and unfolding a plan for fellowship with man. He wanted that with an uncorrupted Adam in the garden. Adam blew it. God demonstrated in various ways how mankind would be incapable on his own of being reconciled with God.
Agreed.
That set the foundation of His calling out of one man through whom a nation would be birthed, through whom a Savior (the One to reconcile mankind to Himself) would be born.
Just to be clear, to whom do you refer? Who is the "one man through whom a nation would be birthed?" And why do you use the term "birthed" to describe the election of the nation of Israel?
I'm not sure I understand this question. Are you asking if the exodus is foreshadowed and/or typified in the scriptures prior to the event itself?
No, I just wanted to learn your views of all the history of God's dealings with mankind that occurred prior to the exodus, and how you tie all such into God raising up the nation of Israel (if you do).
Except for the idea of a so-called Godly lineage from Seth to Noah, which isn't scriptural, then I also agree that those things set the stage for the raising up of Israel.
From Hebrews 11:4-7:
Abel, Enoch, and Noah are recorded as being men of faith. These men were related according to the genealogies recorded by Moses in Genesis 4:7-32.
In the Genesis portion, many names are inserted to reveal the lineage of these three, and all these men “began to call upon the name of the Lord” (Genesis 4:26) revealing them to be Godly men that reproduced Godly children.
We can certainly consider this family lineage as Godly, for they appear in the genealogy of the Lord Jesus Christ. Luke 3:36-38.
These individuals were distinguished from the ungodly of the world because they carried the promised seed of Jesus Christ up to and through the judgement of the flood, when all other humans perished at the hand of God.
Your OP was of particular interest to me, because I see an overall progression in God’s dealing with fallen man.
First, and for centuries, God gave faith to only a few
particular individuals, that caused them to call on His name, as recorded in the scriptures above.
Then, still within the history recorded in the book of Genesis we learn of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, all men of faith, which reveals God bestowing His grace upon
particular families.
The families of Isaac and Jacob carried the seed of the promised Savior into the Egyptian captivity and brought God’s Son out of Egypt during the Exodus, which resulted in God (Hosea 11:1; Matthew 2:15) bestowing His providential blessings upon the
particular nation of Israel, chosen out from all the other nations of the world.
This raising up of the nation of Israel, produced the Son of Man, Jesus Christ, the promised seed, Who was born into the world, so that the gospel of the grace and salvation of God would go
global and that persons out of all the nations might be saved.
IOWs, I see a progression of salvation from particular
individuals, to
families, to
a remnant chosen and represented by an entire nation, to the wonderful event of
all nations having the light of the Lord shine upon them through the incarnation and gospel of Jesus Christ.
Being a Calvinist, I believe the gospel promises have always been the one and same gospel promise of a Redeeming Seed, as was given to Eve in Genesis 3:15.
This gospel was proclaimed to particular sons of Eve (Abel-Noah), by the sons of Noah to Abraham and his sons, and through Moses to the nation of Israel, and ultimately through Jesus Christ, the same gospel is still preached globally amongst all the nations of the world.
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