Introduction:
In Exodus chapter 14 we have the account of the Israelites after they had left Egypt under Moses leadership being rescued at the Red Sea by the LORD from Pharaoh and his chariots that were in hot pursuit and hell bent on completely annihilating the Israelites. From the time of the Passover through to their deliverance at the Red Sea we will see how the whole situation applies to the time of Moses, its spiritual application in relation to the salvation of both Jews and Gentiles in the Messiah, and how it applies to Israel as a nation in the last days.
The Background
Very briefly; The Israelites’ sojourn in Egypt began with the migration of Jacob and his family during a severe famine, as recorded in Genesis Chapter 46. Joseph, who had risen to a position of power in Egypt, facilitated their settlement in the land of Goshen. Initially, the Israelites were welcomed and prospered, but over time, a new Pharaoh who did not know Joseph arose and subjected them to harsh slavery (Exodus 1:8-14). The period of enslavement was marked by severe oppression, leading to the Israelites’ cry for deliverance. God raised up Moses to lead them out of Egypt, culminating in the Exodus.
We are told that when Moses told Pharaoh that God commanded him to let His people go that Pharaoh hardened his heart and would not let them go. Hence after that we are told that God hardened Pharaoh’s heart knowing full well that he would not change his mind. God was forced to deal with him and with the Egyptians that had been harassing, oppressing and denigrating the Israelites treating them as slaves.
After the LORD had sent nine plagues upon Egypt it was the tenth and final plague that killed all of the firstborn in Egypt including Pharaoh’s household. The destroying angel swept through Egypt and the whole nation cried out in the darkness of despair and anguish.
As for the Israelites they were spared on that night because of the blood of the lamb’s blood splashed on the sides and the tops of the doorframes of their houses while they sheltered under it staying inside of their homes. While darkness and death prevailed outside there were lights in the houses of the Israelites as they sheltered under the blood, eating the Passover Meal and ready to go out from Egypt.
When the destroying angel saw the blood, he passed over them and did not touch the firstborn of Israel because the lamb’s blood protected them (Exodus 12:7-13, 21-23). This of course foreshadowed and pointed to the Passover Lamb of God Himself the Messiah our Lord Jesus whose blood was shed to redeem His people from the power of sin, to deliver them the Egypt of this world and from its overlord Satan, typified by Pharaoh in Exodus. In the light of the New Testament we are told that the blood of Messiah not only atoned for our sins once and for ever as His people but also for the sins of the whole world (John 1:29) (1 John 2:2) (1 Corinthians 5:7).
It is also the power of the Messiah’s blood and though our faith in His blood shed for us that we are justified in God’ sight and saved from the wrath to come (Romans 5:9) (1 Thessalonians 1:10; 5:9).
In Exodus chapter 13 we see the consecration of the firstborn of the Israelites to serve the LORD. The Messiah our Lord Jesus is called “the firstborn among many brothers” (Romans 8:29), and “the firstborn from the dead” (Colossians 1:18). His dedication at the temple recorded in (Luke 2:22-24), along with Mary and Joseph’s redemption payment, perfectly obeyed Exodus chapter 13. Yet He Himself became the ultimate Passover Lamb (1 Corinthians 5:7), rendering further animal sacrifice obsolete (Hebrews 10:10).
New Covenant believers are now “the Assembly of the firstborn enrolled in heaven” (Hebrews 12:23), sharing the Messiah’s inheritance. The firstborn designates those who have been spiritually reborn from above deep down on the inside having their conscience purged and heart cleansed by the Messiah’s blood (Hebrews 9:14) (1 Peter 1:1-2) (1 John 1:7-9).
In the Old Testament the new spiritual birth was typified by the outward act of circumcision which accompanied the circumcision of the heart by the Spirit of God which was the distinguishing mark of all true Israelites in both testaments (Romans 2:28-29). In the New Testament we are told that outward circumcision does not count in the salvation of one’s soul but what counts is being made a new creation by the Spirit (Galatians 6:15-16) (2 Corinthians 5:17).
New covenant believers in Messiah both Jew and Gentile corporately as one body united in the Spirit belong to the Israel of God (Ephesians 2:11-22). See the study on this website “Who are the Israel of God?”
Also in chapter 13 we see the LORD already protecting His people and enabling them to circumnavigate around the country of the Philistines, who in the future would be enemies of Israel, to avoid His people from wanting to return to Egypt when faced with the hostility of the Philistines. So the LORD led them around by the desert road towards the Red Sea. The Israelites went up out of Egypt armed for battle. At the end it would not be human weapons that would demolish the Egyptians but the supernatural power of God.
On their journey to the Red Sea the presence of the LORD went ahead of them in the day time to guide them in the pillar of cloud. At night He would guide them with the pillar of fire to give them light to see their way in the darkness.
In the Bible the pillar of cloud that led them by day and the pillar of fire that led them by night represented the presence of God the Holy Spirit leading His people step by step on their journey. In the New Testament after Pentecost the Holy Spirit, also called the Spirit of Holiness, would live in every New Covenant believer to guide and to teach them how to walk in step with Him (1 Corinthians 10:1-4) (Galatians 6:16-18, 22-25).
As New Covenant blood redeemed, blood sanctified, blood washed believers it is our privilege to be led moment by moment by the Spirit as He delivers us out of the Egypt of this world towards our heavenly destination, as it is written, “For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God” (Romans 8:14).
Now with these things in view let’s look at our text in relation to the time of Moses, in relation to redemption, and in relation to Israel as a nation in the last days…
Exodus Chapter 14: Exposition
(Vs.1-4) “Then the Lord said to Moses, “Tell the Israelites to turn back and encamp near Pi Hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea. They are to encamp by the sea, directly opposite Baal Zephon. Pharaoh will think, ‘The Israelites are wandering around the land in confusion, hemmed in by the desert.’ And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and he will pursue them. But I will gain glory for myself through Pharaoh and all his army, and the Egyptians will know that I am the LORD.” So the Israelites did this.”
Our triune God always outsmarts Satan and nullifies his plans and strategies. In the Garden of Eden, where, after the fall of Adam and Eve, God pronounced sentence upon Satan declaring that one would come in the future whose heel Satan would bruise, but one who would crush Satan’s head (Genesis 3:3-15). From that time onwards Satan was on the lookout for the one who would be born into this world to bring about his total defeat.
Pharaoh and his court were deeply involved with the occult. Up to a point Pharaoh’s magicians were able to counterfeit the genuine miracles of Moses and Aaron, however, they ended up being exposed and stripped of their power by God’s power working through Moses and Aaron. Undoubtedly Satan was at work behind the scenes and especially directing and controlling Pharaoh. In fact all of the Egyptians with their many ’gods’ were steeped in the occult through their idols which were numerous which in reality was the worship of demons (Deuteronomy 32:16-17) (Psalm 106:36-37).
From the moment the Israelites left Egypt the LORD was leading them through His servant Moses, and He told Moses that He would make Pharaoh and his court think that the Israelites were just wandering around in the desert. Added to this God told Moses that He would harden the heart of Pharaoh the King of Egypt to pursue the Israelites, so that He as the one and only Triune God, would gain glory for Himself through Pharaoh and his army, and that the Egyptians steeped in demonic idolatry would see that the God of Israel was the one and only true God.
Already Satan’s ‘antenna’ was up in his twisted and warped logic to destroy the people through whom the Messiah would come. He had tried to kill all of the first born male babies in Egypt using Pharaoh to carry out his nefarious strategy to prevent the one prophesied to destroy Satan’s kingdom by killing the first born of the Israelites.
Pharaoh commanded that all Hebrew baby boys be thrown into the Nile River to control the growing population of Israelites, while allowing the girls to live. This decree was part of his strategy to oppress the Hebrew people and prevent them from becoming a threat to his rule. Behind this act of an attempted genocide of the Jews was Satan.
This wicked strategy Satan used against the Israelites would be the plan he would use down through the centuries where Israel was concerned to eradicate the Jews as a nation to stop the Messiah from being born. Satan knew that it would be a Jew that would crush his head and demolish his kingdom. At the cross the Messiah stripped Satan of his power putting him and his cohorts from hell to an open shame (Colossians 2:15).
God’s hidden mystery and wisdom, hidden from Satan and his cohorts from Hades, a wisdom which God destined for our glory as New Covenant believers before time began, was not understood by any of the rulers of this present age, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory (1 Corinthians 2:7-8).
So then in our text we are told that the people of Israel, being led by Moses who was being led by God were camped by the Red Sea. The Israelites had seen God’s power revealed in the plagues that had come upon the Egyptians and how He had sheltered them under the blood of the Passover Lamb. Now they were about to experience a spectacular deed of God’s power unmatched in anything that He had previously done. However, their relief was short lived. Let’s read on…
(Vs.5-8) “When the king of Egypt was told that the people had fled, Pharaoh and his officials changed their minds about them and said, “What have we done? We have let the Israelites go and have lost their services!” So he had his chariot made ready and took his army with him. He took six hundred of the best chariots, along with all the other chariots of Egypt, with officers over all of them. The Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh King of Egypt, so that he pursued the Israelites, who were marching out boldly.”
Pharaoh was livid when he found out that the Israelites had fled and had left Egypt. So he prepared all of his chariots to pursue them undoubtedly to wipe them out. Pharaoh, having already hardened his own heart, had it further hardened by God. The Israelites were marching out boldly as they were gathering at the Red Sea. Their emotions were high and they were basking in the fact that they had been set free from Egypt and its overlord.
In scripture Egypt is a metaphor for the world with its lures, its passions and its pleasures. Pharaoh was a type of Satan, the god of this world. The Israelites having been redeemed by the blood of the Passover Lamb foreshadowed the shed blood of the Messiah at the cross that has redeemed all who believe in Him, having delivered them from out of the Egypt of this world and its overlord Satan, and transferred them from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of God and of His marvellous light which is not of this world (1 Peter 2:9).
Moses of course is a type of the Messiah our Lord Jesus leading us out of the Egypt of this world to take us to the Promised Land which, spiritually symbolises for us, the victorious life, the Millennial Kingdom followed by the final and eternal state.
Now the Israelites were coming out of Egypt having been redeemed by the lamb’s blood, however, Pharaoh was pursuing them. When the Israelites saw the Egyptians on the horizon with their chariots thundering down upon them, shaking the very ground upon which God’s people stood, the boldness of the Israelites vanished. What the Israelites were about to see was that even if things looked like it was over for them God still had everything under control. In fact the LORD had arranged things in such a way that His people would know how powerful He was and that He would fight for them and they in turn would glorify and praise Him. Let’s continue to read…
(Vs.9-12) “The Egyptians-all Pharaoh’s horses and chariots, horsemen and troops pursued the Israelites and overtook them as they camped by the sea near Pi Hahiroth, opposite Baal Zephon. As Pharaoh approached, the Israelites looked up, and there were the Egyptians, marching after them. They were terrified and cried out to the LORD. They said to Moses, “Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you brought us to the desert to die? What have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt? Didn’t we say to you in Egypt, ‘Leave us alone; let us serve the Egyptians’? It would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the desert!”
At the sight of the Egyptian chariots their confidence in God and Moses vanished and in their thinking they thought that they would have been better staying in Egypt and started to accuse Moses of deceiving them with an empty promise of freedom. At this point serving the Egyptians would have been preferable even if it meant oppression and slavery.
From the spiritual perspective when we first get saved out of the Egypt of this world and its overlord Satan that he does not take it lying down and will launch his cohorts from Hades to get us to doubt what has happened. He will seek to persuade us that the things we see and can experience in this world are better than the things belonging to the Kingdom of God in the unseen world of God’s kingdom and the blessings that come with it that far outstrip anything this world can offer, especially when we are going through times of testing and difficulties of one sort or another.
Doubt, fear, anxiety, depression and heaviness of spirit through manifold temptations will come thick and fast and be unrelenting to get us to think that what the Egypt of this world has to offer is better than what the kingdom of God can offer. Of course it is all spiritual deception! In the case of the Israelites there is no question that Pharaoh’s intention was to completely annihilate the Israelites. Their new found faith in the LORD and in His servant Moses had suddenly vanished.
Satan has not changed his strategy where Israel is concerned today. He hates the Jews and the Christians with a warped passion and wants to destroy them from the face of the earth. This is what he is up to today. He has the unsaved people of this world in his grip and he is not concerned about them because they belong to him already. The ones who worry him are you and I who have been redeemed by the blood of the Passover Lamb, and by the power of that same atoning, cleansing, and redeeming blood have been loosed from our sins and snatched out of Satan’s grasp. We are in fact a very dire threat to his demonic kingdom on earth.
When God arranges things in our walk with Him it is not always clear why we will often find ourselves in a situation that we did not anticipate or expect to happen, and we need to have the assurance from the LORD that He still has everything under control. His Word is our sure foundation and it will say the same thing tomorrow as it does today. His Word forever is settled in heaven and while the grass withers and the flowers fade the Word of our God stands and remains unchanged forever (Psalm 119:89) (Isaiah 40: 8). The Israelites were about to see how faithful God was to His covenant promises.
(Vs.13-14) “Moses answered the people, “Do not be afraid. Stand firm (still) and you will see the deliverance the LORD will bring you today. The Egyptians you see today you will never see again. The LORD will fight for you; you need only to be still.”
Notice how Moses answered the people. He said they were not to be afraid, fear being the opposite of faith. They were to stand firm and not to bend over at the knees in fear. By standing firm in their faith they would see God bring about their deliverance even though nothing had changed in the natural. He was arranging things in such a way to teach them that what was in the unseen realm of God’s kingdom was greater by far than what was visibly seen in this world.
God is never too early or never too late but always on time! His schedule is different than ours. By standing steadfast through faith the Israelites would be delivered out of the hands of the Egyptians and would not have to go back to Egypt and into slavery to Pharaoh. The LORD would fight for them and their part was to not only stand firm or still but to also be still in their inner spirits knowing that God would honour His Word.
Now faith is not stagnant but must be acted upon, and when acted upon the LORD is well pleased and rewards it (Hebrews 11:6). As scripture says; “We walk by faith and not by sight” (2 Corinthians 5:7). As it is also written; “So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal” (2 Corinthians 4:18).
Now in our text the LORD wanted to strengthen and encourage His people to act on their faith and to start heading towards the Red Sea. Moses himself was also struggling with the weight of the unbelief coming from his Israelite brothers and sisters and at this point God tells him what to do.
(Vs.15-16) “Then the Lord said to Moses, “Why are you crying out to Me? Tell the Israelites to move on. Raise your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea to divide the water so that the Israelites can go through the sea on dry ground. I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians so that they will go in after them. And I will gain glory through Pharaoh and all his army, through his chariots and his horsemen. The Egyptians will know that I am the LORD when I gain glory through Pharaoh, his chariots and his horsemen.”
God was about to do something that would be the greatest deed of God’s power we see in the Old Testament. As Moses obeyed the LORD and in faith raised his staff over the sea the waters by the power of God would be separated in an awesome and spectacular fashion. God would make a way for the Israelites to escape the pursuing Egyptians. This would be the deliverance for the Israelites and the demise of the Egyptians. Satan would be the loser big time! And so we read what happened next…
(Vs.19-22) “Then the angel of God, who had been traveling in front of Israel’s army, withdrew and went behind them. The pillar of cloud also moved from in front and stood behind them, coming between the armies of Egypt and Israel. Throughout the night the cloud brought darkness to the one side and light to the other side; so neither went near the other all night long. Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and all that night the LORD drove the sea back with a strong east wind and turned it into dry land. The waters were divided, and the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with a wall of water on their right and on their left.”
The Angel of God, or the Angel of the LORD (with the definite article in Hebrew) also being the Angel of His presence who had been travelling ahead of the Israelite community withdrew and went behind them. The angel was the per-incarnate Messiah Himself, the one who had the power to forgive sin (Exodus 23:20-21) (Isaiah 63:9). This was the same angel that spoke to Moses out of the burning bush who identified Himself as I AM (Exodus 3:1-16).
The pillar of cloud was the presence of God Himself through the person of the Holy Spirit.
God being everywhere (omnipresent) could be in heaven and dwelling in the pillar of cloud at the same time. His presence gave light to the Israelites as He stood between the Israelites and the Egyptians hot on their heels, but darkness to the Egyptians. So it is with those who have been spiritually reborn by the indwelling Holy Spirit and saved out of the Egypt of this world by the redeeming blood of the Messiah our Lord Jesus. They have God’s light in their inner spirit man while the unsaved have spiritual darkness on the inside of them.
Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and all through the night God drove the sea back with a strong east wind turning it into dry land. Through Moses God had made a way of escape for His redeemed people.
So the waters were divided, and the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with a wall of water heaped up on their right and on their left. When God is in a situation that is impossible for man but possible with Him He has no problem dealing with it. He who created the universe could very easily divide the Red Sea. With God all things are possible and nothing is too hard for God, and what is impossible for man is possible with God” (Matthew 19:26) (Mark 9:23; 10:27) (Luke 1:37) (Genesis 18:14) (Jeremiah 32:27).
As the Israelites were escaping from the Egypt of the world as it were they were pursued by the Egyptians hell bent on their destruction, something we see happening today as the nations are turning against Israel and ultimately against the faithful Body of Messiah as well. And then we read…
(Vs.23-25) “The Egyptians pursued them, and all Pharaoh’s horses and chariots and horsemen followed them into the sea. During the last watch of the night the LORD looked down from the pillar of fire and cloud at the Egyptian army and threw it into confusion. He made the wheels of their chariots come off so that they had difficulty driving. And the Egyptians said, “Let’s get away from the Israelites! The LORD is fighting for them against Egypt.”
It was at the last watch of the long night just before the breaking of the dawn, and as the LORD looked down from the pillar of fire and cloud He threw the Egyptian army into confusion. It was at the last hour of the darkness when God moved in power to stop Satan in his tracks! The wheels of the chariots came off and the commanders and charioteers could not control them. They turned to flee recognizing that God was fighting for the Israelites against the Egyptians. The God of Israel who had been watching and exercising control over the whole situation was now acting to defend His covenant people redeemed by the blood of the Passover Lamb. The LORD was indeed fighting for Israel! The words of Moses had come true; “The LORD will fight for you!”
(Vs.26-31) “Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the sea so that the waters may flow back over the Egyptians and their chariots and horsemen.” Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and at daybreak the sea went back to its place. The Egyptians were fleeing toward it, and the LORD swept them into the sea. The water flowed back and covered the chariots and horsemen-the entire army of Pharaoh that had followed the Israelites into the sea. Not one of them survived. But the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with a wall of water on their right and on their left. That day the LORD saved Israel from the hands of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians lying dead on the shore. And when the Israelites saw the great power the LORD displayed against the Egyptians, the people feared the LORD and put their trust in Him and in Moses His servant.
Once the Israelites were safe on the other side of the sea the LORD told Moses to stretch his hand once again over the sea so that the waters might engulf the Egyptians. As the night had receded at day break the sea went back into its place drowning all of the Egyptians who were swept away in the deluge of water engulfing them. Indeed as it is written; “When the enemy shall come in, like a flood the Spirit of the LORD shall raise up a battle standard against him” (Isaiah 59:19).
It was the water that cut them off from Egypt and they were now on their way to the Promised Land. The outward act of Christian baptism by emersion accompanied by a clear conscience and a spiritually regenerated soul and spirit, cuts that believer off from the Egypt of this world and its overlord Satan (1 Peter 3:20-21).
Christian baptism spiritually speaking is a death to the old way of sinful living, a burial of one’s former lifestyle in the Egypt of this world and a resurrection to a new way of life imparted by the Holy Spirit (John 3:3) (Romans 6:1-7). In Exodus chapter 15, after their deliverance, the Israelites sang the victory song of Moses revelling in the fact that the LORD had fought for them, having redeemed them by the blood of the Passover Lamb from slavery in Egypt and subsequently delivering them from the power and the very presence of the Egyptians by drowning them all!
In the Book of Revelation we see the redeemed of all the ages singing the victory song of Moses and of the resurrected Passover Lamb their Messiah, saviour and lord! (Revelation 15:3). The Israelites being redeemed out of Egypt then typifies our deliverance as New Covenant believers out of the Egypt of this world and its overlord Satan by the redeeming blood of the Messiah our Lord Jesus, our Passover Lamb, who has been sacrificed (1 Corinthians 5:7).
Our Baptism then declares openly that we have been cut off from the Egypt of this world and all it has to offer by way of sinful pleasures and indulgence and are now living a new resurrected spiritual life that is headed for the resurrection of the body, to inherit the Millennial Messianic Kingdom and to finally be a part of the New Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband (Revelation 21:1-2). Having said these things there is also a prophetic application in this account of what happened at the Red Sea to the nation of Israel in the last days.
The Prophetic Application
When we see the nation of Israel surrounded by the darkness with their backs against the Red Sea pursued by their implacable enemy Pharaoh and the armies of Egypt hell bent on their total annihilation as a nation, it is a foreshadow of the nation of Israel in the last days when the armies of the Antichrist invade the Holy land.
The city of Jerusalem will be captured, the houses ransacked, the women raped, and half of the Jewish population in the city exiled (Zechariah 14: 1-2). It will be the Time of Jacob’s Trouble but he will be saved out of it (Jeremiah 30:4-7). After this happens the LORD will fight for His people Israel (Zechariah 14:3). Judah will also fight at Jerusalem (Zechariah 14:14). Before this happens the Jews left in Jerusalem after the partial exile from the city will have their backs against the wall.
When it looks like Israel will cease to be a nation the Messiah our Lord Jesus will return to rescue His redeemed brothers and sisters bringing with Him salvation from their enemies and from the hands of all who hate them, to show mercy to their fathers and to remember His holy covenant, the oath He swore to their Father Abraham; to rescue them from the hand of their enemies, and to enable them to serve Him without fear in holiness and righteousness before Him all their days (Luke 1:71-75).
His feet will stand once more on the Mount of Olives as Moses stood overlooking the Red Sea (Zechariah 14:4a). The surviving Jews will be saved when they see Him whom they have pierced (Zechariah 12:10-13:1). Just as the Red Sea parted its waves so that the Israelites could run to safety from the armies of the Antichrist, so when the Messiah returns and His feet touch the Mount of Olives the mountain will be split from east to west making a way of escape for the surviving Jews in Jerusalem who have believed in Him (Zechariah 14: 4b). As it is written; “The Name of the LORD is a strong tower; The righteous runs into it and is safe” (Proverbs 18:10).
Just as the Israelites were rescued from Pharaoh and his armies, likewise at the very end of the age when the antichrist and his armies are about to annihilate the Jews, these armies will fall on the mountains of Israel (Ezekiel 38:18-39:1-6). The Messiah Himself will judge these nations that have attacked and oppressed Israel (Joel 2:18-20; 3: 1-3, 12-17).
Just as the Israelites looked at the bodies of the Egyptians on the shore, so the Jews in Israel will look upon the bodies of the slain. As the LORD declares through the prophet Isaiah concerning the people of Israel…
“As the new heavens and the new earth that I make will endure before Me,” declares the LORD, “so will your name and descendants endure. From one New Moon to another and from one Sabbath to another, all mankind will come and bow down before Me,” says the LORD. And they (Saved Jews) will go out and look upon the dead bodies of those who rebelled against Me; their worm will not die, nor will their fire be quenched, and they will be loathsome to all mankind” (Isaiah 66:22-24).
The day will come when the words of Moses will become a reality for the people of Israel who have survived the Time of Jacob’s Trouble. The Messiah Himself, of whom Moses was a type, will declare to His covenant people in their darkest hour, “Do not be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the deliverance I will bring you today. The armies of the Antichrist you see today you will never see again. I myself will fight for you; you only need to be still!
Indeed in that day the redeemed Israelites accompanied by the Body of Messiah will together as one united Body in Him sing the song of Moses and of the Lamb! A song that will resound around the world in the Messianic kingdom for 1,000 years, and after the final rebellion is destroyed, the song will continue to be sung into eternity.
Indeed the redeemed of all the ages both Jew and gentile as one new man in Messiah will proclaim “Was it not You who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep, who made a road in the depths of the sea for the redeemed to cross over? So the redeemed of the LORD will return and enter Zion with singing, crowned with everlasting joy. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee.”
This is the great and glorious eternal future for the Israel of God! As God’s blood redeemed people when Satan and his cohorts from Hades attack us and tempt us and emotionally and mentally harass us, let’s remember the words that Moses spoke to the Israelites; “Stand still… Be still, for the LORD will fight for you” Selah!
