Welcome to Bob Project podcast. We are tracing the theme of the Exodus way. Exodus means the way out.

And what we're discovering is that the entire Bible is about the way out of slavery. In today's

episode, we arrive at the Exodus story proper. That is, the story of Israel being rescued out of

slavery in Egypt. Now, in this story, Israel's rescued from danger two times. The first is on the

night of Passover, when disease covers the land, threatening to take life from every family.

But there's a way. Death won't enter a house that's been covered

with the lifeblood of a blamless lamb.

The way out of slavery

requires something

we're unable to give for ourselves.

God will accept

a blameless representative

who stands over a house

and look on that house

as a group of people

that are right with me

in the midst of a land that's full of people who are not right with me.

So that's the first rescue, rescue from death.

Then, as Israel leaves Egypt, Pharaoh's army comes chasing after them,

pinning them up against the chaotic sea.

The people freak out, and they're like,

you just kill us in Egypt. Like, why did you bring us out here? And Yahweh says, stand still and see the salvation of Yahweh. In the middle of the sea, a passage opens up. The way out of slavery is through what looks like certain death. So two stories of rescue. One through a night of death, the second through a sea of

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