Bible students and teachers have always connected the Old and the New Testaments by using types. That is, seeing in the Old Testament a type of what really is fully revealed in the New. This began with those who wrote the New Testament. Paul saw Jesus as the new Adam. Matthew saw him as a Moses. The writer of the epistle to the Hebrews interpreted the tabernacle of the Old Testament as a type for the ministry and mission of Jesus.

When we began this preaching journey through Exodus, we talked about Exodus as a pattern of the Christian pilgrimage. Israel in bondage to Pharaoh represents the picture of us human beings in bondage to sin and evil. Israel being delivered by God out of bondage, wandering in the wilderness, and at last reaching their Promised Land is a striking picture of the sp…