When the children of Israel were in haul bondage under Pharaoh in Egypt, God raised up a deliverer for them in the person of Moses. Ten fearful plagues fell upon the Egyptians, the last being the destruction of the firstborn of man and beast throughout the land. Israel were sheltered and preserved from the sword of the destroying angel by the blood of the paschal lamb, sprinkled upon the two side-posts and the upper door-post of their houses. Then Moses led them out of Egypt, and God wrought a miraculous deliverance for them through the Red Sea, destroying all their foes, and eventually brought them into the land, of promise.
This great deliverance is a striking type of redemption in Christ.
The believer in Jesus is sheltered by His blood, and preserved from judgment. And not only so, but also delivered by the power of God through faith in Christ and His finished work.
And as He is now delivered from all condemnation, which He voluntarily bore for us, suffering on the cross for our sins, the Just for the unjust, so we, in Him, are now and forever completely delivered also.
God “hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of His dear Son” (or, the Son of His love). (Col. 1:1313Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son: (Colossians 1:13).)
My reader, are you Satan’s slave, or Christ’s freed-man? “The truth shall make you free.” (John 8:3232And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. (John 8:32).) “If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.”