Shocking Parallels to Abortion and Gospel Hope in Exodus?

The Exodus as God’s Pattern of Salvation

The exodus is the greatest example the Old New Testament uses as the sufficiency of God's power to save his people. He did what he did physically, he does spiritually. That's the point. What I did in the exodus physically, I'm doing spiritually, because out of Egypt came my son.

And who was the son? Jesus. Amen. And even in the transfiguration, when Jesus is speaking to Moses and Elijah, he literally is talking about, in our English, it often comes across, it's rendered departure.

But the literal word is exodus. He is speaking to Moses and Elijah about the exodus that he was going to accomplish. It's like, dude, it's shot through scripture. These themes of deliverance and redemption and rescue and God bringing his people out of bondage, like we talked about last week, into a land that he is going to give them eternally.

Right? This is not a New Testament idea. This is all through the scriptures when you have eyes to see it. I just want to jump in here too. I think exodus is one of the greatest examples since you're going through it right now.

Exodus, the Gods of Egypt, and Spiritual Warfare

It's the greatest examples between the wars between the kingdoms, because it starts in Genesis 3. And then who is Moses coming to? Because Pharaoh asked him, well, what God are you representing? Exactly.

Because there's multiple gods. When Pharaoh himself would have understood himself to be an incarnate deity, an incarnate God. Right. So what does God do? He shames the rest of the gods. He utterly shames them.

With seed warfare too. Right. And he doesn't do so saying you don't exist. He acknowledges their existence and utterly shames them by using plugs to shame them. And then what does he do when he pulls them out?

He's like, all right, I just proved to you I am the supreme Elohim. I am the supreme God. Right. Therefore you will have no other gods before me. It's the first command.

Exactly.

Right. So all of this should help us in our narratives when we get to the new and all of a sudden Jesus is like, well, Satan is the God of this world. And we're like, what? Well, that shouldn't shock you.

If you're a Job and if you've read Exodus, this is not a shocking situation. And then Paul's like, hey, just so you know, as you proclaim the gospel, there are going to be other entities out there that don't like this.

Abortion, Child Sacrifice, and the Ongoing Battle Against Evil

We know that. Look, Justin, what I think is interesting, you were talking about the children being killed. Man, the evil one and that whole force of evil, they have been going after children forever. Right.

Exodus is a great example. Then they start murdering their children to Balak, the Balak or Balak in the New Testament. Yeah. Yeah. Moloch, that was it. Then you get into the New Testament. He goes after the children again, trying to kill the Messiah.

And he's still striking parallels in that and the Exodus. Yeah, absolutely. And abortion today is like the evil one has been just utterly destroyed. And then this is what Jesus says. He has come to steal our joy and our hope to destroy our faith and to kill.

And he is murdering millions of babies right now. And all of this should be for us. We learned about this. This isn't shocking. This is part of the narrative all the way back, starting in Genesis. Sorry, in Exodus.

No, you're right. There is not a whiff of synergism in Exodus six synergism, meaning us working with God, us cooperating with God for salvation. It is monergistic. There's one person working and it is the Lord.

And that is the good news that he is the savior and he does it all. And that's who he is. And he's a redeemer by nature.