Why does the Bible connect the Exodus plagues with the tribulation and the fleeing remnant?
The connection shows God's pattern of preserving His people during judgment. In Exodus, Israel in Goshen was insulated after the third plague, with a line between Egypt and Goshen so none of the plagues entered. Likewise, the fleeing Jewish remnant is providentially protected in the wilderness for three and a half years while tribulation ravages the world.
Les explains that he wants to connect Exodus and Revelation because the same principle operates in both. After the third plague, God put a line between Egypt and Goshen, and none of the plagues went into Goshen; Israel was insulated from them all. In Revelation, the escaping remnant of Jews—the woman—is given two wings of a great eagle to fly into the wilderness to a designated place prepared by a sovereign God. There she is nourished for time, times, and half a time, a total of three and a half years, protected from the face of the serpent. This escaping remnant flees to the mountains southeast of Jerusalem and is providentially protected for that last three and a half years. Just as Goshen was isolated, this remnant will be cared for while all the ravages of the tribulation tear around them and the whole world comes under them.
And I will sever in that day the land of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there; to the end thou mayest know that I am the LORD in the midst of the earth.
See the restAnd to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.