Deliverance and Inheritance

When God called Abraham, He told him to leave his household and people and go to the land He will show him. (Genesis 12:1). God says in another verse: I am the Lord who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to take possession of it. (Genesis 15:7). God said something similar to the Israelites in Egypt. He said: I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. (Exodus 20:2) (Exodus 6:6). And then he said I have promised to bring you into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites- a land flowing with milk and honey. (Exodus 3:17). We can therefore see that God's plan for Man included a Deliverance and an Inheritance. 

The Deliverance

The stories in the Old Testament are types for New Testament realities. God doesn't necessarily want you to leave your household and people but he wants to deliver you from the kingdom of darkness (the world order) and bring you in his Kingdom, the kingdom of his Son (a heavenly order). (Colossians 1:13). God wants to you to be a citizen of heaven. (Philippians 3:20). He wants you think like you are from heaven, talk like you are from heaven and live like you are from heaven. (Colossians 3:1-2). God does not want you to live like the world lives because the world and its ways are messed up and it can really mess you up as well. (Romans 1:29-32) (Colossians 3:8) (Ephesians 5:3-5) (Ephesians 2:1-3)

Deliverance from Slavery and Judgement

Let me begin by shedding some light on the scriptures. Jesus Christ said that the Old Testament scriptures spoke of Him. (John 5:39) (Luke 24:27) (Luke 24:44-49). So the entire Old Testament is a Revelation of Jesus Christ. That itself is an amazing Truth. The Bible you hold in your hand is divine and was supernaturally put together to proclaim Christ to you. In this post I will talk about the story of the Israelites being delivered from Egypt but I am going to narrate it in such a way that you see Christ in the scriptures. 

Now a lot of things in a bible are types or shadows of New Testament realities. Egypt is a type for the world, the Pharaoh is satan and Israelites in slavery represent the people of the world. So when you put all this together you have the world, you have Satan and people who are in slavery to Satan. This is really what the story is all about. People need someone to deliver them from Slavery. (Ephesians 2:1-2)