There are striking similarities between the Departure of the Hebrews out of Egypt and the resurrection of Jesus.
Hebrews knew nothing about what was going to happen during the night after the Passover.
The departure out of Egypt was a spectacular event, but the impression given that the Hebrews were leaving the country by their own will after conquering their freedom thanks to Yehoah Elohim is misleading.
The reality is quite different and is often ignored even by frequent readers of the Bible. Indeed, the Hebrews, have accomplished the sacrifice of Passover in the afternoon of the fourteenth day of the first month of the year. Then during the night following the sunset marking the beginning of the 15th day, Yehoah Elohim strikes all the kingdom of Egypt with His last but very severe plague, which is the death of all the firstborns of men and animals. Pharaoh was no exception since his eldest son, also bearing the title of Pharaoh because he was reigning with him on the throne, died also during that night.
In the meantime, all the Hebrews shut themselves up in their homes and ate the flawless lamb of Passover. Everyone is taking this meal while standing awake with his sandals on his foot and his walking stick in his hand. But none had any idea about what was going to happen.
Indeed, towards the end of the night, at the dawn of the 15th day of this first month,
It is the Egyptians who will literally expel all the Hebrews out of Egypt.
The departure of the Hebrew people out of Egypt is far from having happened as it is often represented, namely people coming out freely and at their own pace with unarmed Egyptians watching them leave. It's the exact opposite!
If you read Exodus 12, verses 37-42, you will see that the Hebrews were literally chased out of the land by the Egyptians:
“37 Then the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides children. 38 A mixed multitude went up with them also, and flocks and herds—a great deal of livestock. 39 And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they had brought out of Egypt; for it was not leavened, because they were driven out of Egypt and could not wait, nor had they prepared provisions for themselves.
40 Now the sojourn of the children of Israel who lived in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years. 41 And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years—on that very same day—it came to pass that all the armies of Yehoah went out from the land of Egypt. 42 It is a night of solemn observance to Yehoah for bringing them out of the land of Egypt. This is that night of Yehoah, a solemn observance for all the children of Israel throughout their generations.”
Moreover, as you read above, not only did the Egyptians drive them out of their land, but the Hebrews were forced to leave their homes hurriedly without wasting time!
The departure out of Egypt was not an easy one.
The departure of the Children of Israel out of Egypt was particularly exhausting because after a night during which they were staying awake, they left Ramses for Sukkoth and had to make a forced march day and night for several days to get to Etham as we can read in Exodus 13: 20-22:
" 20 So they took their journey from Succoth and camped in Etham at the edge of the wilderness. 21 And the Yehoah 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. 22 He did not take away the pillar of cloud by day or the pillar of fire by night from before the people. 22 The pillar of cloud did not withdraw from the people during the day, nor the pillar of fire during the night. "
The crossing of the Red Sea, a victory over death.
Yehoah then guides the Hebrews to Pi-Hahiroth and they are asked to establish thei camp in front of Migdol on the shore of the Red Sea.
The miraculous crossing of the Red Sea by the Hebrews is a victory over the death since it marks the dramatic disappearance of the new Pharaoh, successor of the first-born dead after Passover, and his army symbolizing the disappearance of Satan the Devil and of his destructive demons.
" But overthrew Pharaoh and his army in the Red Sea, For His mercy endures forever; " (Psalm 136: 15).
Let us open a parenthesis here to try to locate the location on the Red Sea where the crossing took place: most experts are locating it on the western part of the so-called Sinai peninsula, which is very close to the city of Ramses, which seems to contradict the forced marches of several days to reach it from Ramses. But a biblical passage in I Kings 9:26 seems to indicate that another option is the Red Sea on the eastern part of the peninsula, south of the ports of Eilat and Akaba. If the latter option is the right one, it would mean that Mount Sinai and its desert would be found rather in the northern part of Saudi Arabia! Let's close the parenthesis!
Let us jump 1500 years later, during the last Passover of Yeshuah, the flawless lamb of the believers!
Here too, extraordinary events will happen and we will find a number of similarities with the departure out of Egypt.
Yeshuah will also be hurriedly chased away
out of this world where Satan is the ruler.
Satan will incarnate in Judas and make every effort to drive Yeshuah out of his empire which is the world in which we live. Satan and this world are symbolized by the Pharaoh and Egypt of the time of the Hebrews.
Yeshuah will be hastily chased away by the religious authorities of that time who, on the contrary to all expectations, behave like a prostitute with regard to the power of the Beast still in place at that time, namely the Roman emperor. These religious authorities will indeed ignore the authority of Elohim.
This is confirmed by the following two passages in the Gospels.
1. In Mark 14: “1 After two days it was the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread. And the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take Him by trickery and put Him to death. 2 But they said, “Not during the feast, lest there be an uproar of the people.”
2. In John 19: “12 From then on Pilate sought to release Him, but the Jews cried out, saying, “If you let this Man go, you are not Caesar’s friend. Whoever makes himself a king speaks against Caesar.” 13 When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he brought Yeshuah out and sat down in the judgment seat in a place that is called The Pavement, but in Hebrew, Gabbatha. 14 Now it was the Preparation Day of the Passover, and about the sixth hour. And he said to the Jews, “Behold your King!” 15 But they cried out, “Away with Him, away with Him! Crucify Him!” Pilate said to them, “Shall I crucify your King?” The chief priests answered, “We have no king but Caesar!” 16 Then he delivered Him to them to be crucified. Then they took Yeshuah and led Him away.”
Yeshuah's crossing of the veil, in other words, of his flesh during his resurrection is also a victory over death!
In a manner comparable to the crossing of the Red Sea by the children of Israel, Yeshuah also was victorious over the death by crossing at the moment of his resurrection the veil which represents his flesh and being therefore the first to be born in the new world, this world where he is truly king. Let us read this in Hebrews 10:
" 19 Therefore, brethren, having boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Yeshuah, 20 by a new and living way which He consecrated for us, through the veil, that is, His flesh, 21 and having a High Priest over the house of Elohim.”
Indeed, during the feast of the seven days of unleavened bread, Yeshuah was experiencing an event to literally take the breath away. On the first day of the week, Yeshuah had to raise himself to the extreme north of the heaven and to offer himself without blemish to his Father. This will be very emotional moment as it will be Yehoah's first encounter with his first-born spiritual son, symbolized by the sheaf of barley that was to be shaken on the first day during the seven days of unleavened bread under the old covenant.
It is only after this offering of his body that Yeshuah will come back to earth and meet all his people to encourage them.
And it should be noted that the Children of Israel, because they constantly rebelled against their Elohim without keeping their words, were not allowed to enter the Promised Land. Unlike them, Yeshuah obeyed to his Father exemplarily and consequently could have access to the Promised Land, in this case for him the Most Holy Place. See Hebrews 9:
" 11 But Christ came as High Priest of the good things to come, with the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is, not of this creation. 12 Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with His own blood He entered the Most Holy Place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption. (Hebrews 9: 11-12)
As far as we are concerned, if we want to be part of the people of believers, Paul explains that for us, our crossing of the Red Sea is nothing else than our baptism by immersion in I Corinthians 9:
" 1Moreover, brethren, I do not want you to be unaware that all our fathers were under the cloud, all passed through the sea, 2 all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, 3 all ate the same spiritual food, 4 and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ. 5 But with most of them Elohim was not well pleased, for their bodies were scattered in the wilderness.6 Now these things became our examples, to the intent that we should not lust after evil things as they also lusted.”
Paul also insists on the close connection between this baptism and the victory over the death of Yeshuah in Romans 6:
" 3 Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Yeshuah were baptized into His death? 4 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 also should walk in newness of life.
5 For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection, 6 knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be [a]done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin. 7 For he who has died has been freed from sin. 8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, 9 knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him. 10 For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to Elohim. 11 Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to Elohim in Christ Yeshuah our Lord.
12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.”
What will be at the time
Just before the advent of the Messiah?
Above all, let us never forget this important message that our Lord gave to his own disciples when they asked him what would be the sign of his coming and the end of this world that you can read in Matthew 24:
" 36 But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but My Father only. 37 But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. 38 For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, 39 and did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be."
It reminds us how Pharaoh and the Egyptians also knew nothing until the exterminating angel suddenly killed all the firstborn in the land.
Only those who will watch and be obedient to the Lord as the Hebrews were will be ready to act in the right direction when the coming of the Yeshuah will be decided by the Father (same chapter 24 of Matthew):
" 42 Watch therefore, for you do not know what hour your Lord is coming.”
But the striking similarities between the events just before the departure out of Egypt and Yeshuah does not end there! As with the Children of Israel and Yeshuah, the believers will also be hunted or chased out of this world. They will end up having no more place in this world we live in and indeed, we should not be part of it. At least that's how Yeshuah sees his followers in John 17 :
" 14 I have given them Your word; and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. 15 I do not pray that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from the evil one. 16 They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. 17 Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth. 18 As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. 19 And for their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also may be sanctified by the truth.” 20 “I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in Me through their word; 21 that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me. 22 And the glory which You gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as We are one”
And at the time of the advent of our Lord Yeshuah, everything will happen again very quickly! (Revelation 12):
" 12 Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and you who dwell in them! Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and the sea! For the devil has come down to you, having great wrath, because he knows that he has a short time.”
Yeshuah gives an important advice and a sign in the gospel of Matthew to some of his disciples, the one who, it seems, are members of the church of Philadelphia as mentioned in Revelation 3: 10.
This important advice and sign is given in Matthew 24 and must be read carefully:
“15 “Therefore when you see the ‘abomination of desolation,’ spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place” (whoever reads, let him understand), 16 “then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. 17 Let him who is on the housetop not go down to take anything out of his house. 18 And let him who is in the field not go back to get his clothes. 19 But woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days! 20 And pray that your flight may not be in winter or on the Sabbath. 21 For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be.”
This first part of believers will agree to give up suddenly all their goods in the world to go to the Kingdom of Yeshuah.
Then, after marking the 144,000 of the tribes of Israel (Revelation 7: 1-8), the world will witness the sacrifice of the great crowd from all corners of the world who, encouraged by the two witnesses, will follow Christ's trace in sacrificing themselves to testify their attachment to their Elohim. They too will have conquered death.
"The kingdom of heaven is like a merchant looking for beautiful pearls. Having found a pearl of great price, he went to sell everything he had, and bought it! "
Read Elohim's word without any delay, put it into practice as you understand it.
Watch all the time to be ready to leave everything and run to our Lord when the signal will be given to you in one way or another