An Alphabetical Analysis
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INDEX
'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).
(2)
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
eisodus.
'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:
(1)
Exodus 14 and 15, and
(2)
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