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11. MOSES CONFRONTS PHARAOH
The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, sent me to you saying, "Let my people go that they may serve me". Exodus 7:16b
"...on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am the Lord." Ex. 12:12
What Moses confronted in Pharaoh was the entrenched opposition of the world system, in Egyptian culture, to the true God.

12. MOSES PARTING THE WATERS
Then Moses stretched his hand over the sea; and the Lord drove the sea back by strong east wind all night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided. Exodus 14:21
I included this episode because it symbolized Israel's separation from not only Egypt, but from all other nations.

13. THE BRAZEN SERPENT
Then the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people so that many people of Israel died. Numbers 21:6
So Moses prayed for the people. And the Lord said to Moses, "Make a fiery serpent. And set it on a pole; and everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live." So Moses made a bronze serpent, and set it on a pole; and if a serpent bit any man, he would look at the bronze serpent and live. Numbers 21:7b - 9
And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him may have eternal life. John 3:14-16
Jesus used this event in speaking of His death on the cross. In each case simply looking in an act of faith saves from death.

14. SAMSON
And Samson grasped the middle pillars upon which the house rested, and he leaned his weight upon them, his right hand on the one and his left hand on the other. And Samson said, "Let me die with the Philistines." Then he bowed with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords and upon all the people that were in it. Judges 16:29-30a
Samson represents our fallible condition and the results of willful sin and disregard of God's calling. Yet God does not abandon us.

15. DAVID AND GOLIATH
And when the Philistine looked, and saw David, he disdained him: for he was but a youth, ruddy and comely in appearance. I Samuel 17:42 Then David said to the Philistine, "You come to me with a sword and with a spear and with a javelin; but I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied." I Samuel 17:45
David represents how God chooses to use any person who trusts Him to defeat impossible odds.

16. DAVID DANCING BEFORE THE ARK
And David danced before the Lord with all his might; and David was girded with a linen ephod. II Samuel 6:14
As the ark of the Lord came into the city of David, Michal the daughter of Saul looked out of the window, and saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord; and she despised him in her heart. II Samuel 6:16
David, whose heart belonged to God, worshipped Him with abandon. His wife Michal represents to me the hatred that the world has for those who serve God.

17. DANIEL IN THE LION'S DEN
Then, at break of day, the king arose and went in haste to the den of lions. When he came near to the den where Daniel was, he cried out in a tone of anguish and said to Daniel, "O Daniel, servant of the living God, has your God whom you serve continually, been able to deliver you from the lions?" Then Daniel said to the king, "O king, live forever! My God sent his angel and shut the lion's mouths, and they have not hurt me." Daniel 6:19 - 22a
I chose to show Daniel sleeping as Jesus did during a wild storm on Galilee thus revealing His implicit trust in God. Mark 4:37-41 He was at peace and could therefore sleep. Daniel, likewise, could sleep in the presence of ravenous lions because, he too, trusted in God.

18. PETER RUSHING THROUGH THE WATER TO MEET HIS RISEN LORD ON THE SHORE - END
That disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, "It is the Lord!" When Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he put on his clothes, for he was stripped for work, and sprang into the sea. John 21:7
Peter's love for the Lord is evident in his rush to meet Him in this post resurrection appearance.

19. Peter's Vision of Unclean Animals- Top Side
Peter went up on the housetop to pray, about the sixth hour. And he became hungry and desired something to eat; but while they were preparing it, he fell into a trance and saw the heaven opened, and something descending like a great sheet, let down by four corners upon the earth. In it were all kinds of animals and reptiles, and birds of the air. And there came a voice to him, "Rise, Peter; kill and eat." But Peter said,"No, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean." And the voice came to him a second time, "What God has cleansed, you must not call common." This happened three times, and the thing was taken up at once to heaven. Acts. 10:9b-16
The rending of the curtain of the temple, in Matthew's account Matt. 27:51, represented the end of the Levitical system; Jesus, as the consummate sacrificial Lamb, had been slain. Peter's vision of the unclean animals is indicative of the new dispensation. The gentiles were now accepted and included in God's redemptive purposes.