S. Michael Houdmann Supporter Got Questions Ministries

The importance of the parting of the Red Sea is that this one event is the final act in God's delivering His people from slavery in Egypt. The exodus from Egypt and the parting of the red sea is th...

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Jack Gutknecht Supporter Arizona Bible College graduate and Dallas Seminary graduate

1. God miraculously defeated Pharaoh (a type of Satan) and the dreaded Egyptian army to save His people.

"For the horses of Pharaoh went with his chariots and his horsemen into the sea, and the Lord brought back the waters of the sea upon them. But the children of Israel went on dry land in the midst of the sea" (Exodus 15:19). It's interesting that in Joshua 2:10 the people of far-away Jericho were still talking about this miracle 40 years later!

2. God freed His people from slavery.

"Nevertheless He saved them for His name's sake, that He might make His mighty power known. He rebuked the Red Sea also, and it dried up; so He led them through the depths, as through the wilderness. He saved them from the hand of him who hated them, and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy" (Psalm 106:8-10; see also Deuteronomy 5:6).

3. God's deliverance of Israel was a type of Christian baptism, as God saves us from Satan and death and frees us from slavery to sin.

"Moreover, brethren, I do not want you to be unaware that all our fathers were under the cloud, all passed through the sea, all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea" (1 Corinthians 10:1-2).

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