We are studying simple “types” and symbols, to see how types and symbols work in prophecy. A prophecy laboratory. A story of past and future things. Not a study any secret matter, but of things well known among many Christians.

Paul talks about symbolism in history.

In fact Paul talks about ancient Israel as being baptized into Moses, as symbolic of us being baptized into Christ.

“1 Now I would not have you ignorant, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; 2 and were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea;”
1Cor 10:1-2 WEB

So this pictures Moses as being symbolic of Christ, and indeed, Moses says that Yahweh, the LORD, said the Christ will be like him.

“17 Yahweh said to me, They have well said that which they have spoken. 18 I will raise them up a prophet from among their brothers, like you; and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him.”
Deut 18:17-18 WEB

There is more to tell there, but that is the core of the matter.

By the waters of baptism we are separated
from our old life of sin in the world.

“3 Or don’t you know that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 We were buried therefore with him through baptism to death, that just like Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life. ”
Rom 6:3-4 WEB

So as the waters of baptism separate us from our old life to enter a new life, so the waters of the Red Sea separated Israel away from their old life in Egypt. Also it separated them “unto” Moses. He was their leader in a new life, a life that was lived in a wilderness, in a desert, in the rough land of the desert of Sinai, before they enter the promised land of Canaan. So if Canaan represents heaven, as was discussed in the post on “Hebrews Identifies a Type,” Then what does the Wilderness Wanderings represent?

The Christian Life as a trek through a desolate place!

Certainly the Israelites had literally been slaves in Egypt. Now they they were separated from their oppressors in Egypt by the waters of the Red Sea.

“Moses said to the people, “Don’t be afraid. Stand still, and see the salvation of Yahweh, which he will work for you today: for the Egyptians whom you have seen today, you shall never see them again.””
Ex 14:13 WEB

Similarly, if the Christian has died with Jesus in baptism, then it is that,

“7 For he who has died has been freed from sin. 8 But if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him; 9 knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no more has dominion over him!”
Rom 6:7-9

Simple but important imagery. All of which leads to the next part.

KJV is the King James Version, 1611

WEB is the World English Bible, a copyright free revision
of the original ASV American Standard Version 1901