Gods great promise to Abraham is the key to the entire Old Testament, and that is especially obvious in Exodus. At the beginning of the events recorded in Exodus, none of the three parts of the promise had been fulfilled. But the Lord delivered Israel out of bondage in Egypt to begin the fulfillment of the land promise. At Mt. Sinai he fashioned them into a nation. Thus, at the end of Exodus, the nation promise, the first part of God