What does the Passover night and the trip through the Red Sea illustrate?
The Passover night and Israel’s trip through the Red Sea serve as a perfect illustration of the plan of salvation as it is known today. This biblical truth builds toward salvation and shows how those events picture the salvation now revealed.
Les teaches that this is a biblical truth that helps build and build toward the plan of salvation as we know it today. When he gets further into Exodus, he jumps back to the New Testament to show how clearly, beginning with the night of the Passover, Israel’s trip through the Red Sea, and all that, is a perfect illustration of our plan of salvation. In the surrounding context, he also defines faith as taking God at His word, explaining that faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God, so faith operates only when God has spoken.