Gigi Kammeyer

Dear Friend in Christ,

If Jesus really is the interpretive key to the entire Old Testament, just as he said he was in Luke 24: 25ff, 24ff, then that tells us that Ex 13: 3-10 is really symbolic for Christ, and God taking us out of the greater slavery from which Jesus, the true Moses, liberated us from the slavery of death and sin, and making us born again, and changing each believer from unbelief to belief, and all the experiences and treasures and truths that come from it.

What’s so important to make a choice accepting Christianity, is not the choice, but all of the benefits of salvation that come from it and after it. What the Israelites did in their liberation was fairly insignificant compared to what God did. And, it’s the same for us!

Here in the Exodus 13 passage, with the interpretive key of Christ reading back into it symbolically, as every Christian should, it is saying that it was no small thing for God to make atonement for us and to deliver his people out of their terrible slavery.  Jesus said, “Everyone who sins is a slave to sin, but “if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.” (John 8:34fff)

Here’s another symbolic point.  The rush to eat quickly and to get out of Egypt quickly, is a warning and a reminder to us personally in our practical daily lives, that we should “rush” to get out of the various and specific sins we find in our own lives. We need to think that we need to rush and fight ourselves to get out of the kinds of sins Jesus taught us so much about such as hypocrisy and performance-based, self-reliant religion, the sin of stinginess, the sin of impatience and non-forgiveness, the sin of non-trust and fear in Him practically today, the sin of lust and gluttony, the sin of pride and using our tongues in unloving ways.  God wants us to rush and make a big deal out of getting out of these things.      

In fact, what you could really take God to mean when he says remember the greater day of our atonement, is that we, the church needs to really remember the day of our greater atonement that the greater Moses secured for us, by his passion of what happened on the week of Easter, as we all just celebrated last week. So then, symbolically, we could say that what God is saying here in this passage is that we need to make Easter a really big deal in our hearts and in our lives, individually and corporately, and never forget it or the greatness of what he accomplished for us.

Let us rejoice in the liberation and the joy we have in knowing our sins are atoned for and our adoption and reconciliation now as our gentle, loving, and perfect Father.  And use all that treasure to motivate us to rush out of the various sins of our lives.

Gigi Kammeyer