'I will bring you Out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I

will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you' (Exod. 6:6).

The bringing In.

'I will take you To Me for a people, and I will be To You a God ... I

will bring you In Unto the land ... I will give it You for an heritage'

(Exod. 6:7,8).

This twofold nature of the sacrificial work of Christ is subdivided in

the New Testament by the employment of two significant words exodus and

'Who appeared in glory, and spake of His exodus (decease) which He

should accomplish at Jerusalem' (Luke 9:31).

'Having therefore, brethren, boldness of the eisodus (to enter into)

the holiest by the blood of Jesus' (Heb. 10:19).

There is a considerable difference between being delivered from bondage

and of being made meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in

light; to being made partakers of His holiness, to being made partakers

of the Divine nature (Col. 1:12; Heb. 12:10; 2 Pet. 1:4).  Now upon

consideration, this twofold consequence of redeeming love is set forth in

type by the two crossings, the one of the Red Sea, the other of the Jordan.

Between these two events stretches the forty years' discipline of the

wilderness, and a comparison of the two crossings will reveal that they are

intentionally different, but also as intentionally related as Redemption is

with Atonement, or as Exodus is with Eisodus.

The two passages of Scripture that will be open before us, are:

Exodus 14 and 15, and

Joshua 3 and 4.

Naturally, other passages will be referred to but these two form the

basis of our exposition.

The redemption of Israel from the bitterness and bondage of Egypt did

not alter their nature.  We have but to consider that Aaron, the man chosen

to be the first high priest in Israel, made a golden calf, and they said,

'These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of

Egypt'! (Exod. 32:4).  So wickedly did this redeemed people act, that the

Lord threatened to consume them, and to start afresh with the descendants of

Moses (Exod. 32:9,10).  The Tabernacle that stood in the midst of the camp

was taken by Moses 'without the camp, afar off' (Exod. 33:7), so that only

those that 'sought the Lord' went out to it.  Redemption delivers us from the

bondage of sin and death, it provides for the forgiveness of our sins, but

it does not change our nature.  For this we need the Atonement, accompanied

by the discipline and experience of the forty years, as we shall see more

clearly as we proceed.

Behind them, Israel had left 'the flesh pots of Egypt' (Exod. 16:3);

'the fish ... the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions,

and the garlic' were 'remembered' (Num. 11:5), the bitterness and the bondage

forgotten, so much so that Israel said, 'Let us make a captain, and let us