The New Exodus
God recycles themes, reuses them time and time again, returns to the same old concept, over and over again, but so often from a different perspective, you understood this physical event, well let’s try to get you to understand the same concept, but from a little different plane, at a different era, maybe at a different age, or maybe even on a spiritual concept, rather than on a physical concept. Let us re-examine “The Exodus,” from a New Testament scenario, a New Testament platform, Hebrews 3:8-15 [Ivan Panin] “To-day if ye shall hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, like as the day of trial in the wilderness: Where your fathers tried me, by proved me, and saw my works forty years. Wherefore I was grieved with this generation, and said, they alway err at heart; but they did not know my ways. As I sware in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest.) Look, brethren, lest haply an evil heart of unbelief shall be in any one of you, in falling away from a living God: but exhort one another each day, so long as it is called To-day; lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. For we are made partakers of the Christ, if indeed we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm unto the end; while it is said, To-day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.” Remember only Caleb and Joshua, just only two adults, they were the only adults who ever walked out of Egypt and walked into the Promised Land, the land of peace and safety, all of the other adults fell way short, fell short of the Glory of God, so their children grew, and they completed the journey instead of their parents, will we also fall short and also become whited bones littering the highway to Heaven?
Let us look at the Exodus from the New Testament. 1 Peter 2:8-10 JB Phillips “And he is, to them, ‘a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence’. Yes, they stumble at the Word of God [Jesus Christ the Messiah] for in their hearts they are unwilling to obey it—which makes stumbling a foregone conclusion. But you are God’s “chosen generation”, his “royal priesthood”, his “holy nation”, his “peculiar people”—all the old titles of God’s people now belong to you. It is for you now to demonstrate the goodness of him who has called you out of darkness [Egypt] into his amazing light [Promised Land.] In the past you were not “a people” at all: now you are the people of God. In the past you had no experience of his mercy, but now it is intimately yours.” Israel of old has been, through continual unfaithfulness, been replaced by Abraham’s Seed, which is ultimately and completely, Jesus Christ, but then as God’s Kids, we can be, “In Him,” Galatians 3:29 “And if ye [be] Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.” Hosea 2:23 “And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to [them which were] not my people, Thou [art], my people; and they shall say, [Thou art] my God.”
Quote; Genesis 17:7 “And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.” As the Bible presents two laws, one changeless and eternal, the other provisional and temporary, so there are two covenants. The covenant of grace was first made with man in Eden, when after the Fall, there was given a divine promise that the seed of the woman should bruise the serpent’s head. To all men this covenant offered pardon, and the assisting grace of God for future obedience through faith in Christ. It also promised them, eternal life on condition of fidelity, to God’s Law. Thus, the patriarchs received the hope of salvation.
This same covenant was renewed to Abraham in the promise, “In thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed.” Genesis 22:18. This promise pointed to Christ. So, Abraham understood it, and he trusted in Christ for the forgiveness of sins. It was this faith that was accounted unto him for righteousness. The covenant with Abraham also maintained the authority of God’s law. The Lord appeared unto Abraham, and said, “I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.” The testimony of God concerning His faithful servant was, “Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.” Genesis 17:1; 26:5.
The Abrahamic covenant was ratified by the blood of Christ, and it is called the “second,” or “new,” covenant, because the blood by which it was sealed was shed after the blood of the first covenant. The covenant of grace is not a new truth, for it existed in the mind of God from all eternity. This is why it is called the everlasting covenant. There is hope for us only as we come under the Abrahamic covenant, which is the covenant of grace by faith in Christ Jesus. The gospel preached to Abraham, through which he had hope, was the same gospel that is preached to us today . . . Abraham looked unto Jesus, who is also the author and the finisher of our faith. {FLB 78}
It is interesting to note that the Gospel of the New Testament is not the Old Testament standard being lowered to meet the sinner and to save him in his sins. God requires of all his subjects obedience, entire obedience to all his commandments, Matthew 1:21 “And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.” Quote; “It is the sophistry of Satan that the death of Christ brought in grace to take the place of the law. The death of Jesus did not change, or annul, or lessen in the slightest degree, the law of ten commandments. That precious grace offered to men through a Saviour’s blood, establishes the law of God. Since the fall of man, God’s moral government and His grace are inseparable. They go hand in hand through all dispensations. “Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.” Psalm 85:10. Each law of God is an enactment of mercy, love, and saving power. These laws, obeyed, are our life, our salvation, our happiness, our peace. Obedience to His statutes and laws is the life and prosperity of His people. {FLB 89} When you look into the Old Testament, or the New Testament, the requirements are exactly the same, Hebrews 9:22 “And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.” Adam, Noah, Job, Daniel, Abrahm, all in the Old Testament shed blood for forgiveness of sin, pointing forwards to ‘The Lamb of God,’ which we look backwards to, and appropriate this sacrifice on our behalf as ours, let us appropriate this sacrifice, sin no more, trust God way more, harden not our hearts, as we complete “The New Exodus,” and like Caleb and Joshua, walk into the Promised Land. Ezekiel 14:20 “Though Noah, Daniel, and Job, [were] in it, [as] I live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter; they shall [but] deliver their own souls, by their righteousness.” Psalm 37:11, 29 “But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace. The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell therein for ever.” Will you Exodus into The Promised land, or will you provoke God, and by this evil, perish in the wilderness, failing also to enter the Promised Land?
