Exodus 14:21–25
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We come now to one of the central, load-bearing events in all of Scripture. The deliverance of Israel at the Red Sea is not simply a remarkable historical event; it is a paradigm. It is a pattern for how God saves His people throughout all generations. This event is cited and sung and referenced by prophets and psalmists, and it is the explicit typological foundation for our baptism into Christ. If you want to understand salvation, you have to understand the Red Sea. And we must notice the kind of God we have. He does not deliver His people when it is convenient, or when the odds are merely stacked against them. He waits until deliverance is utterly impossible by any human standard. He waits until Pharaoh's chariots are thundering behind them, a terrified mob of recently freed slaves.