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Echoes of Exodus: Tracing a Biblical Motif is unavailable, but you can change that!

Israel’s exodus from Egypt is the Bible’s enduring emblem of deliverance. It is the archetypal anvil on which the scriptural language of deliverance is shaped. More than just an epic moment, the exodus shapes the telling of Israel’s and the church’s gospel. From the blasting furnace of Egypt, imagery pours forth. In the Song of Moses Yahweh overcomes the Egyptian army, sending them plummeting to...

maintain within it their altar to the name of Yahweh and remember that they were also citizens of his yet unseen heavenly city.”56 This altar-oriented people is to be in the world but not of the world. This is not a theocracy. What is recorded has instructive importance for later generations of God’s people. It is not a theocratic political commonwealth; it is a manifesto for pursuing dual citizenship, one heavenly and the other earthly. The altar-oriented people of God, whether they find themselves
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