Exodus - an Authentic Record of Events

The Bible is the inspired word of God. This page is a continuation in a series of articles about the Bible as God’s word.

Part 20  Exodus - an Authentic Record of Events

There are features of Israel’s travels which are also parables of the realities in Jesus Christ.

1. The Pillars - Exodus

“The Lord went before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, so as to go by day and night. He did not take away the pillar of cloud by day or the pillar of fire by night from before the people” - Exodus 13:21.

2. The Pillars - the apostles of Christ

Our spiritual enlightenment concerning the Gospel comes from the writings of the apostles and their associates. By these we are able to see the divine pathway for us to follow, which leads to eternal life in the Land of Promise.

“...and when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed [or, were acknowledged] to be pillars, perceived the grace that had been given to me, they gave me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised” - Galatians 2:9.

3. Baptism - the Exodus crossing of the “red” (reed) sea

“And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and when the morning appeared, the sea returned to its full depth, while the Egyptians were fleeing into it. So the Lord overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea. Then the waters returned and covered the chariots, the horsemen, and all the army of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them. Not so much as one of them remained.

“But the children of Israel had walked on dry land in the midst of the sea, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand and on their left. So the Lord saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore” - Exodus 14:27.

“Moreover, brethren, I do not want you to be unaware that all our fathers...passed through the sea, all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea...” - 1 Corinthians 10:1

4. Baptism – the New Testament release from slavery to sin, to service to God

“Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we...should walk in newness of life.

“For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection, knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin....Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord” - Romans 6:3.

More parallels to the New Testament are to be seen during Israel’s stop at Mount Sinai.