AS Moses stood facing the Red Sea and God told him to stretch out his staff over the water, how did he know that he could trust God at that point? I want to suggest that it was in part because he’d sort of been there already before.
He was about to take the people down into the place of death, trusting that God would bring them through this watery grave and up to life on the other side. They were going to experience death and resurrection. They were going to move from slavery to freedom.
That’s what had happened to Moses personally 80 years previously. Moses was born into a slave family under the penalty of death. Pharoah had demanded that all baby boys should be thrown into the river Nile. His mother and father refused. Instead, when they could hide him no longer, they made a little basket, an ark if you like and they placed him in it. Then just as Noah was kept safe in his ark from the flood waters of death, so they placed Moses in his ark into the river Nile, the place of death, trusting that God would keep him safe. Moses goes into the place of death, to rise or be drawn up out of the water by the princess no longer a slave but a son of the king.
This was death and resurrection for Moses, just as the Israelites experienced death and resurrection through the Red Sea and it was redemption for him personally, just as the people would experience redemption corporately.
Faithroots 