The prophet Isaiah offers this comparison to salvation…

 And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over dryshod.

Isaiah 11:15

That verse is written in the context (ch11) of prophesies about the Messiah, Christ. Isaiah isn’t predicting that God will once again defeat Egypt and allow His people to leave the nation through the dried-up Red Sea. Instead he’s saying that God will save His people again, like He saved them before. He didn’t fail during the Exodus, and He won’t fail with Christ.

In fact there are a lot of parallels to the Egyptian Exodus and our salvation from Sin. The Bible calls these kinds of parallels “types” as they typify future events.

For example…

Pharaoh is the evil ruler keeping God’s people chained to slave labor in Egypt
Satan is the evil ruler keeping God’s people chained to sinful lives in the world

Israel is the nation of God’s people, crying to the Lord for deliverence
Humanity is the creation of God’s hands, crying to their Maker for salvation

Moses was the hero who rose up to lead the people out of bondage
Christ is the Hero Who rose up to lead the people out of sin’s slavery

It took the death of the first born of the land to soften Pharoah’s heart and allow the people to go free
It took the death of the Son of God to satisfy God’s sense of Justice and allow the world to be saved

During the Passover, the faithful were saved because they covered their homes in the blood of a pure lamb
During the Judgment, the faithful will be saved because their souls are covered in the blood of the pure Lamb of God

 

Now don’t say studying your Old Testament is a waste of time! The Books of the Old Covenant are bursting with types such as those. Read for yourself and find them!