“once saved always saved” naiveté. Recipients of God’s salvation are expected to live a response of faithfulness, and if they don’t, the Old Testament story tells the longer tale. How does such an ancient story penetrate the present? Quite probably, whether this community was Old Testament literate or not, the longer exodus-wilderness story of salvation and destruction would, in its own right, have been received with some measure of shock. That was the point, after all. But what if the exodus Savior