Exodus 15:1-18 is a song of praise concerning the glorious triumph of Jehovah as a man of war for His salvation and His victory leading to God’s habitation and His kingdom: In verses 1 through 12 the children of Israel praised God for His salvation and His victory (v. 1b): Salvation is related to God’s […]
“Then Moses moved Israel onward from the Red Sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur. And they went three days in the wilderness and found no water. And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter; therefore its name was called Marah. […]
In order to be deeply impressed with the significance of the exodus from Egypt, we need both the picture in the Old Testament and the words in the New Testament: In Exodus 12:29-42 and 51 we have a number of details regarding Israel’s exodus from Egypt: The children of Israel did not make their exodus […]
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The Passover
The detailed account of Christ’s redemption typified in Exodus indicates that God intends for us to remember Christ’s redemption in a specific and detailed way: Fallen man ended up “in a coffin in Egypt” (Gen. 50:26); this is the reality of being “dead in your offenses and sins” and of “having no hope and without […]
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The Corporate Thornbush
In the eyes of God, Moses was a thornbush burning with the Triune God; as individuals, we all are today’s Moses, but we are also a part of the church as the corporate thornbush: When God called Moses, he saw the great sight of a burning thornbush; once we were thorns under the curse in […]
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The Purpose of God’s Calling
As revealed in Exodus, the purpose of God’s calling was to deliver the children of Israel, God’s chosen people, out of the tyranny of the Egyptians and out of Egypt, the land of bondage, and to bring them into Canaan, a land flowing with milk and honey: The nation of Egypt typifies the kingdom of […]
The case of Moses is the best one to illustrate the matter of rejecting the natural strength and ability; no other person in the Bible is as good as Moses in this aspect: The natural strength and ability have no divine element. The natural strength and ability act on their own, not according to God’s […]
In Exodus we have a revelation of God in various aspects, including the Divine Trinity: The book of Exodus reveals God in various aspects: God is the self-existing and ever-existing God. God is the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob. God is the God of the Hebrews. God is the God of Israel. […]
As those who love the Lord and seek Him, we are eventually called by our Beloved to live with Him in His ascension as a new creation in resurrection: Christ expresses His appreciation of His lover to prepare her to receive His call to live with Him in His ascension as a new creation in […]
In His ascension Christ is the divine High Priest: Christ’s divinity constitutes Him a High Priest who is living, full of life, and able to continue His priesthood perpetually. Christ has been constituted the divine High Priest according to the powerful element of an indestructible life —the divine, eternal, uncreated, resurrection life that has passed […]
