How does the exodus of Israel from Egypt picture the gospel?
Israel’s exodus pictures the gospel through bondage, Passover blood, Red Sea burial, and resurrection. Sinners are enslaved; Christ’s shed blood saves from death; passing through the Red Sea depicts His burial; emerging redeemed depicts resurrection life. Salvation is God’s power, not human works, received by faith in Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection.
Les explains that Israel’s exodus is a beautiful picture of the Gospel. Israel’s lot was slavery and bondage, but through the blood of the Passover lamb they escaped the death angel, and they did not stay in Egypt. Their Red Sea crossing pictured the burial and death of Christ, and they came out on the other side as a redeemed people—a resurrection experience. They did not work for it; it was all the power of God, yet it required the shed blood indicative of Christ’s death. Les connects this to Paul’s Gospel: believing that Christ died, was buried, and rose again, not mere head assent, but genuinely resting in the fact that when Christ died, I died; when He was buried, I was buried; when He rose, I rose from deadness in sin and the old Adamic estate, and He imparted eternal life. We go through that same process.