18 Parallels Between Israelites' Exodus and Church's Exodus in Revelations

All right. I am running a little short on time, so we'll skip the congregational hymn. And we need to hand out the notes for the sermon today. We actually have an important graph, which to me is fascinating how the Bible, one of the principles of prophecy in the Bible, is called duality, in which something happens in the Old Testament, and then it is fulfilled in the New Testament as well.

And so as we begin to look at this, during the days of Unleavened Bread, we also have this duality. And so I want to go over, I just finished this morning, the graph that I'm handing out to you.

And I just find it amazing. Only God can put everything together to mesh in such a way that the Old Testament events have a dual purpose in the future. So I'd like to begin now. The title is 18 Parallels Between Israelites Exodus and the Church's Exodus in Revelation.

So again, one is physical Israel, what they went through in Egypt, and then they had the ten plagues that they went through before they were liberated.

But also in the New Testament, in the book of Revelation, we also have the parallels of how God is going to protect the church, and there will be an exodus of the church that will happen before the plagues fall on this earth.

And so let's just go over this and notice 18 parallels.

So the Days of Unleavened Bread not only picture the past, but also the present and the future.

There are 18 parallels between the books of Exodus and of Revelation.

One book deals with the exodus from Egypt. Exodus comes from the word exit or going out.

So that's when they left Egypt. And the other, in Revelation, with the church's end time exodus from this evil age.

In Revelation 18.4, I'll just mention it says here, I'll just read it because I want to get just complete accuracy of it. Revelation 18.4, things are going to get tougher and tougher.

It says, and I heard another voice from heaven saying, Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, unless you receive of her plagues.

For her sins have reached to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquity. So God's very patient, but the sins of the world are multiplying.

This is the generation which has more temptations than any other that has existed.

And similar to the time of Sodom and Gomorrah, but they didn't have all the electronic medium to invade your own home.

There it was outside, but it wasn't in your home.

And in 1 Corinthians 10, it tells us, let's go to 1 Corinthians 10, verse 1.

And notice the parallels. Again, God never does things without giving us understanding, showing how important 1 Corinthians 10, in verse 1, it says, Moreover, brethren, I do not want you to be unaware that all our fathers, this is talking about ancient Israel, were under the cloud, in other words, God was guiding them, and all passed through the sea.

All were baptized into Moses, in the cloud and in the sea, which means they went through that Red Sea, and it was kind of like a type of a baptism, because that's when they were kind of purified, and they were leaving all the sins of Egypt behind, and now God was going to take them to the Promised Land, a land that should be an example to the world that obeys God.

It says, in all eight, the spiritual food, we talked about the manna that God provided, that's one of the parallels, because one day God is going to provide for His church when the church is taken to a place.

Just like they were nourished, the church is going to be nourished.

So you're not going to need to go to a supermarket, you're not going to need to bring plain loads of food.

No, it says the woman will be provided. She will be nourished in her place.

So again, everything is repeated. Just like it was happened in Israel, it's going to happen to the church in the end times.

It says, in all drink of the same spiritual drink, God provided water, manna. Manna was this bread that had all the nutrients, including proteins and everything, that you can survive on manna.

And they did for 40 years.

He says, for they drank of that spiritual rock. So who was the rock that was guiding them?

That opened up the fountains of water? It says that followed them and that rock was Christ.

So here we see that in the manifestations in the Old Testament, when God appeared to Israel, when God appeared to Abraham, it wasn't God the Father, it was God the Word who became Jesus Christ.

He was a spokesman. He was the one that was the mediator between God the Father and these ancient Israel.

And then it goes on to say, verse 6, now these things became our examples to the intent that we should not lust after evil things as they also lasted. So Israel received all of these blessings, but they did not remain faithful.

And then it says in verse 9, again mentioning who was that God that was with them, the rock.

It says, verse 9, nor let us tempt Christ as some of them tempted and were destroyed by serpents. That's why Christ said that before Abraham existed, I am. I existed. I was there when Abraham lived.

Verse 11, now all these things happened to them as examples and they were written for our admonition.

Admonition means for our benefit upon whom the ends of the ages have come.

And so that was a prophecy for the future.

So 1 Corinthians 10, 1 through 13 tells us what happened to the Israelites.

Our examples for us. Notice Revelation.

Just as Exodus mentions oppression, just like the Israelites were oppressed by the Egyptians, so is the church oppressed by the world.

The plagues that fell upon Egypt, those were the ten plagues that God used to free Israel from Egypt.

And then we have the seven last plagues, which is to free the church and to free from all of the evil. See, the problem is we grew up in a sinful world and we think that's normal.

It isn't normal. That wasn't God's initial intention when He created Adam and Eve.

He created them to follow Him and to take of the fruit of the tree of life, which would have provided them with the Holy Spirit.

And following their way. But they were tempted. They had their...they weren't created as a perfect beings.

They were created as neutral beings. They could either choose good or bad because God doesn't want a robot, right?

It would have been a lot better if He just programmed us never to sin and it'd be perfect. But then we wouldn't really have free will. Because you have free will, then a person can choose.

Good or bad. Righteousness or wickedness. And so Exodus mentions oppression, so does revelation.

It mentions the plagues. It talks about the Israelites fleeing from Egypt.

And it mentions Egypt in Revelation as Jerusalem when it is polluted, when it is captured and degraded and defiled.

And then we have the Song of Moses mentioned in Exodus. And we have the Song of Moses in Revelation when the church finally triumphs. So let's go over these parallels that apply in a personal way. We should apply this to our life, personally, collectively as a church, and in a prophetic way. What's going to happen in the future. And this chart is the best we know at this time since God always has the last word. So this is an imperfect chart. This is made out of... this is an imperfect understanding. It's the best we know, but it is imperfect. And God will tell us. But here's what He has placed in His Word as we best understand it.

We have to be humble, and we don't know it all. But we sure know a lot more than the world knows about the truth that God has revealed to us. And we should appreciate it as it was mentioned in the first message. So let's go to the first parallel. Exodus chapter 1, 8 through 13. We're going to have one finger here in Exodus, if you have your Bible or your smartphone or whatever. Exodus 1, 8 through 13. It says, Now there arose a new king over Egypt who did not know Joseph. That meant that although Joseph did so much good for the Egyptians under that Pharaoh, and remember they had seven years of plenty and seven years of want, and basically it was Joseph that was able to save the Egyptians from starvation. But generations passed, and instead of looking favorably to the Israelites, there was this new king. And basically he said, Who is Joseph? I'm not going to respect him. He said to his people, Look, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we, because they were multiplying so much. Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, lest they multiply. And it happened in the event of war that they also joined our enemies and fight against us, and so go up out of the land. So the Egyptians were frightened because the blessings were upon the Israelites, and so they oppressed them. And this happened for basically many hundreds of years. We know they were going to be in Egypt around 400 years. And notice now, keep one finger in Exodus, and let's go to Revelation. Revelation chapter 1 begins with the oppression of God's people.

Revelation chapter 1, it says, verse 1, The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show his servants things which must shortly take place. And of course, when the Bible talks about that, it is telling every generation, because they don't know when Christ is coming back. And so all of these events have to happen for Christ to come back.

He says, And he sent and signified it by his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, to all things that he saw. Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of this prophecy and keep those things which are written in it, for the time is near.

So again, the oppression from the times of Jesus Christ in the New Testament all the way to our days, the church is under that oppression. Notice it says, verse 4, John, to the seven churches which are in Asia, grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come.

And from the seven spirits, talking about angelic beings that are sent out to see what's going on in the earth, who are before the throne. Jesus from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead and the ruler over the kings of the earth. So he's coming over, taking over this kingdom one day to him who loved us and washed us from our sins in his own blood and has made us kings and priests to his God and father. That's an undeserved blessing. In him be glory and dominion forever and ever.

Behold, he is coming in the clouds and every eye shall see him, even they who pierced him. So it's talking about the Jewish people who were the ones that asked to crucify him. Well, the Jewish people one day, they're still waiting for the first appearance of the Messiah. They don't know that Jesus Christ was the Messiah and he's coming back. So this is going to be the second appearance and they will see him and all the tribes of the earth will mourn because of him. So nobody's going to want Christ to take over.

Every nation is going to fight on his own. Every religion is going to resist because Christ is establishing his kingdom upon God's laws and people resent that. Verse 9, he says, I, John, both your brother and companion in the tribulation and kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was on the island that is called Patmos for the word of God and for the testimony of Jesus Christ. I was in the spirit on the day of the Lord's Day, which means the day of the Lord, and I heard behind me a loud voice. So he received a vision over there in the island of Patmos.

So he had been sent in exile to this small island. Cady and I got to see that place a little over a year and a half ago for the Feast of Tabernacles. We went to Greece and we stopped off, got off on the island of Patmos and up above. It's a very hilly place and they've got certain places where they had a cave as well. They thought maybe that's where John received it, but wherever it was on the island of Patmos. And he is being shown what's going to happen in the future to the church and to the world.

So just like the oppression at the time of Egypt for the Israelites. So we're talking about the period during the day of the Lord. The day of the Lord is when Christ returns, but it actually goes all the way to the coming of God the Father with a new Jerusalem. So all of this period of time is the Lord's Day. It's the Lord's time.

It starts with His intervention. It ends when all of God's plan is completed. So let's go to the second parallel, Exodus 2, 23 through 25. Now it happened in the process of time that the king of Egypt died, then the children of Israel groaned because of the bondage. And they cried out, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage. So God heard their groaning, and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God acknowledged them.

He said, now is the time to intervene. And we have in Revelation 2 and 3, these are churches that existed at the time of John, but remember, this is a prophetic book. Not just describing seven little churches, and a lot of people have visited that area, and they were just little churches. That were part of the true church, but God used this as a prophecy. And so there is a time when He mentions in Revelation chapter 3, during the time of the Philadelphia period of time, He says in verse 10, because you have kept my command to persevere, keeping God's commandments, persevering, getting the gospel out.

He says, I also will keep you from the hour of trial, which shall come upon the whole world to test those who dwell on the earth. So it's going to be a time when also God is going to acknowledge, yes, it's time. We don't know when it is. We can't set up dates. We've got different things that have to happen first, but it's certainly getting closer and closer. And so let's go to the third parallel, Exodus 3, verse 9.

God calls Moses as the liberator. So God always has somebody in mind when He stands up and needs to get a work done. It says, verse 9, You may bring my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt. But Moses said to God, who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and that I should bring the children of Israel out of Egypt? So He said, I will certainly be with you, and this shall be a sign to you that I have sent you.

When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain. So God's the one that's running things. Right now the church has had a lot of truth revealed to it. More than any other time in history, we have what they call an embarrassment of riches as far as spiritual truth goes. At the same time, it tells us He's going to raise certain leaders in the future to carry out its time to do so.

God is the one that activates. We can't do it on our own. We're not in some type of race against Satan to see how many people can be converted. No, God knows how many. He knows how to do it, and He's going to raise up. Revelation 5, let's go there. We see who is in charge here. Revelation 5 verse 6. It says, And I looked, and He's looking up what's going on in heaven, and behold, in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the midst of the elders, stood a lamb, as though it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into the earth.

I mentioned that before. Then He came and took the scroll out of the right hand of Him who sat on the throne. Now when He had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the lamb, each having a harp and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.

And they sang a new song, saying, You are worthy to take the scroll, to open its seals. For you were slain and have redeemed us to God by your blood out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation, and have made us kings and priests to our God. And we shall reign on the earth. Notice nothing about going to heaven and reigning up there.

Christ is the liberator. Let's go to Exodus 4, verse 21. Israel's twelve tribes will be protected by God. They certainly were a lot weaker than the Egyptians. They didn't have an army. And yet God is intervening. Exodus 4, verse 21. And the Lord said to Moses, When you go back to Egypt, see that you do all those wonders before Pharaoh, which I have put in your hand. But I will harden his heart, and so that he will not let the people go.

Then you shall say to Pharaoh, Thus says the Lord, Israel is my son, my firstborn. So I say to you, Let my son go, that he may serve me. But if you refuse to let him go, indeed I will kill your son, your firstborn. Talking to the Pharaoh. And it came to pass on that way at the encampment that the Lord met with him and sought to kill him.

Then, well this goes into, let's see, just to verse 23. What we see here, Israel's twelve tribes will be protected. God is going to miraculously intervene. It's not something that the church is going to have its own weapons and fight. No, it's going to be God, just like he did during the time of Egypt. Notice in Revelation 7. Revelation 7 it talks about.

And we recognize this as the God's people in the end time. It says, After these things I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth holding the four winds of the earth, that the winds should not blow on the earth, on the sea, or any tree. Because that's part of the plagues that are going to happen. Then I saw another angel ascending from the east having the seal of the living God and he cried. He cried with a loud voice to the four angels to whom it was granted to harm the earth and the sea, saying, Do not harm the earth, the sea, or the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads.

And so this is a symbol of having God's Spirit. That is the seal. And I heard the number of those who were sealed, 144,000 of all the tribes of the children of Israel, were sealed. These are people that probably will be at a time when there will be about 144,000 converted people at this time. And it says, later on it talks about a great multitude, but that's the people that get converted and go through the great tribulation. But right now we're just talking about like the 12 tribes will be protected.

And then let's go to the fifth parallel. Exodus 7, 1-5. Exodus 7, 1-5 it says, So the Lord said to Moses, See, I have made you as God to the Pharaoh, and Aaron your brother shall be your prophet. So again, it's God doing the work. Moses was reluctant. He'd been 40 years in the wilderness. He was just a pastor, a shepherd. He thought my life is basically done because I can't go back to Egypt. They're looking for me there. And so he had a very humble, and God calls people when they are humble. He says, You shall speak all that I command you, and Aaron your brother shall tell Pharaoh to send the children of Israel out of the land.

And I will harden Pharaoh's heart and multiply my signs and wonders in the land of Egypt.

So he's doing this, too. So the Egyptians will realize, look, you can change. So God doesn't do punishment just out of spite. No, it's like a spanking, a rebellious child. That either he's going to control you or you're going to control him. And so you have to apply proper discipline. If you're a parent, and God is a parent to everybody on the earth, he's going to apply the proper discipline.

Now most people have gotten away with things because God has an intervene in this way. People live and die, and they have ups and downs, but there's going to be a time when it's time of the discipline.

And so we are preparing for that.

Notice in...goes on to...this is where we are at in parallel five. The team of Moses and Aaron are the principal leaders doing miracles.

Now we're going to have people that Christ and God the Father are going to choose, just like they did Moses and Aaron. Notice in Revelation 11, verses 3 through 11. I'm not going to read all of it. You can read it later.

But he says here in verse 3, So they're going to go around the earth, and just like if they're in mourning, they're not going to have fancy dresses or any type of suits and ties. No, they're going to dress showing the world how terrible things are. Sort of like when Jonah went to Nineveh, after his experience getting swallowed by this huge fish, probably a sperm whale, which does have nasal passages where a human being could be there. But whatever it was, when he got thrown out, he really went there with a lot of seriousness. And he told them, if you don't repent 40 days from now, your kingdom is going to be destroyed. Well, this is the same way. It'd be for three and a half years. They'll be warning the world.

He says, verse 3, And I will give power to my two witnesses. Verse 4, These are the two olive trees, and remember olive oil, a symbolic of God's spirit. They're filled with God's spirit, and the two lamb stands standing before the God of the earth. And so they bring out the light of truth to the world.

And if anyone wants to harm them, fire proceeds from their mouth and devours their enemies.

And this is what happened before when Elijah, when they sent armies to arrest him, and fire killed 50 soldiers. They sent another 50 soldiers. They all got killed by this fire.

All they had to do is just, these witnesses, call out. You're coming after me? You're going to die! Boom! All incinerated in that way.

And says, if anyone wants to harm them, he must be killed in the same manner. So probably, you know, bullets will just boomerang, they'll curve and kill the person shooting them.

It's going to be some world.

It says, These have power to shut heaven, so that no rain falls in the days of their prophecy. So again, discipline, punishment, wake up world. God is doing this in His mercy.

Because there will be a lot of people who will repent at that time. And they have power over waters to turn them to blood.

So again, just drinking water is undrinkable.

It all gets corrupted.

And to strike the earth with all plagues as often as they desire.

So we see again the parallels. Moses and Aaron with the plagues and the two witnesses doing miracles in the end times. Notice number six.

Parallel number six. Exodus 7, 8-10.

It says, Then the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, When Pharaoh speaks to you, saying, Show a miracle to yourselves, then you shall say to Aaron, Take the rod, your rod, and cast it before Pharaoh, and let it become a serpent. So Moses and Aaron went into Pharaoh, and they did so just as the Lord commanded. Now again, did they have any intrinsic powers to do that? No. It's God's Spirit in them doing all of this. And Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh and before his servants, and it became a serpent, a live animal.

But Pharaoh also called the wise men and the saucers, so the magicians of Egypt, they also did in like manner with their enchantments. So they asked Satan to do certain miracles and signs. For every man threw down his rod, and they became serpents. But Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods.

So Aaron's serpent ate all of their serpents, and Pharaoh's heart grew hard, and he did not heed them as the Lord had said.

So Revelation 11, 5-6, mentions here.

I've read these, that fire proceeds from the mouth of the two witnesses.

So miracles can be done by both parts. So there's going to be a lot of confusion, because Satan is going to have a lot more power than God's going to allow. So let's go to the seventh parallel, Exodus 7.14.

So probably a red tide type of thing, where when a red tide, and this was a miracle, but we see this happening, red tide is filled with toxic microorganisms. You can't do anything about it. Of course, God is doing something miraculous, but you can see physically how that can be possible. And then in chapter 8, that's the first of the plagues, verse 22. It says, And in that day I will set apart the land of Goshun. This is in the fourth. The fourth plague does not touch the people of Israel. The first ones are just more general, that happened with the water and things like that. But now it says, And in that day I will set apart the land of Goshun, in which my people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there. In order that you may know that I am the Lord in the midst of the land, I will make a difference between my people and your people. Tomorrow this sign shall be. And so, just like in Revelation 15, verse 8, what does it say about the plagues that fall upon the earth? It says, It says, It says, The temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God and from His power, and no one was able to enter the temple till the seven plagues of the seven angels were completed. And then verse 1 of chapter 16, Then I heard a loud voice from the temple, saying to the seven angels, Go and pour out the bowls of the wrath of God on the earth. So the first went and poured out His bowl upon the earth, and the fowl and loathsome sore came upon the men who had the mark of the beast and those who worshiped the image. So again, it's protecting God's people. Either you will eventually end up with the mark of the beast, or you will have the seal of God's spirit. Those are the separators. In parallel number 8, Exodus 12 verse 21. This is what we enacted on the day of the Passover. It says Exodus 12 verse 21. It says, Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel and said to them, Pick out and take lambs for yourselves according to your families and kill the Passover lamb, and you shall take a bunch of hyssop, dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel, and the two doorposts with the blood that is in the basin. And none of you shall go out of the door of the house until morning, for the Lord will pass through to strike the Egyptians, and when he sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, the Lord will pass over the door and not allow the destroyer to come into your houses to strike them. And you shall observe this thing as an ordinance for you and your sons forever. Verse 27, you shall say, it is the Passover sacrifice of the Lord who passed over. That's where the word Passover comes from. The houses of the children of Israel and Egypt, when he struck the Egyptians and delivered our household. Now is there a parallel in Revelation for that? Yes, there is.

Notice in Revelation 11.8, Revelation 11.8, it says about two witnesses and their dead bodies will lie in the street of that great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified. So here we have Jerusalem defiled. Yes, it's going to be conquered one day. And of course, what's happening now is not building very many friendships in that whole area. It's just becoming more and more violent, dangerous. And it says that eventually Jerusalem will become like Egypt because of the beast and the false prophet setting up their headquarters in that area.

Let's go to number nine. Parallel number nine, Exodus 13, 3 through 5. It says, Then Moses said to the people, Remember this day in which you went out of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Bondage means slavery. For by strength of hand the Lord brought you out of this place. No leavened bread shall be eaten. On this day you are going out in the month of Abib. And so Israel wins through the symbol of the Lamb's blood on the doorposts. And just like the church wins by Christ the Lamb. And then parallel number nine, Exodus 13, 3 through 5. I just read it here. It says that Israel flees to a temporary place of safety.

They didn't stay in Egypt. God would take them to a place of safety, which would be the Sinai desert for 40 years. He wanted them to get to a Promised Land, but he had to test them and purify them. Notice in Revelation 12, in verse 13. This has not happened yet, but it will.

It says, now when the dragon saw, and he's talking about Satan, saw that he had been cast to the earth, because he's going to try one last time to unseat God the Father and Jesus Christ, he's going to be defeated. As you can read here, verse 8, it says, so the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old. And when he lands, he knows he's only got three and a half years to carry out the most damaged and evil he can. The dragon saw that he had been cast to the earth. He persecuted, what? The woman, the church, who gave birth to the male child. He doesn't want God's truth to be known. He wants to keep deceiving people with false religion.

But the woman, the church, was given two wings of a great eagle. Notice this has to do with flight. The woman is going to fly. It says that she might fly into the wilderness, to her place, where she's nourished for a time and times and half a time from the presence of the serpent. This is going to be the only safe place on earth.

And then, of course, Satan's going to try to cut off the people from getting to their place. Verse 15, and so I don't want to get ahead of me, but this is what the parallel nine tells us. The start of three and a half years, the church has to flee to a place of wilderness and safety. And then parallel 10, Exodus 14, 21 through 23, by God's power Israel crosses the Red Sea to safety from Egypt. You can read that on your own, because here in Revelation 12, by God's power, the persecuted church by Satan crosses into the wilderness. So it says here, so verse 15, so the serpent spewed water out of his mouth like a flood after the woman. And this symbol of water, rushing water in Revelation, as I have here of the scripture, Revelation 17, 5, it says it's symbolic of many peoples. And in the Old Testament, it talks about a flood being like an army just flowing down, almost like a river flowing down a valley. So that's how it's described, Revelation, Daniel 11, 22, it talks about that. It says that, and then the next parallel, that's the 11th, it says 14, 23 through 26, Pharaoh's army persecutes Israelites, but perishes, swallowed by water. That's in the Red Sea. And we see in Revelation 12, 16 that the beast's army under Satan is swallowed by the earth and perishes. It says, but the earth helped a woman, and the earth opened its mouth, just like a huge earthquake happens there, just opens up, swallowed up the flood, which the dragon had spewed out of his mouth. So again, just like in the Red Sea, they were swallowed up by water. This time it's going to be swallowed up by the earth, by the ground. It's going to open up. And then the next parallel, Pharaoh loses, but is unrepentant. So he's still not willing to give God the glory. He goes back by the time he gets back. Egyptian history talks about a period of just a lot of chaos in the government. And that's the time when you also have a pharaoh that changes the gods of Egypt, Akhenaten, to one god, but he uses the sun god.

Still doesn't use the god of the Bible, but something really changes the whole makeup of Egyptian mentality. And it says in verse 17, parallel number 12, that Satan is defeated but unrepentant, along with the beast and the false prophet.

It says in verse 17, the dragon was enraged with a woman, and he went to make war with the rest of her offspring, who keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ. So this is a commandment-keeping church, and it has the testimony of Christ that, yes, we are following faithfully what God tells us to do.

And nobody, no force, can change our devotion to keeping...this is one of God's commandments. In Leviticus 23, God's giving his law. He says, keep the Passover. Keep the days of unleavened bread.

And then we have the victory hymn of Moses, Exodus 15.1, the Song of Moses.

When they're on the other side of Egypt, they're in the Sinai Peninsula now, and it says, I will sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously.

God gets a credit. A man thinks, oh, I can do everything physically, and God can't stop me. God can stop whoever he wants.

And then in Revelation 15, verse 3, when the church finally wins, and Satan's armies have all been vanquished on the earth, it says, verse 3, They sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvelous are your works, Lord God Almighty, just and true are your ways.

O King of the saints, who shall not fear you, O Lord, and glorify your name, for you alone are holy, for all the nations shall come up and worship before you. For your judgments have been manifested. And so we see the parallel. Then we have the fourteenth parallel, Exodus 16, 4-6.

This is the time of Israel's trial. The forty-year period goes into, he starts revealing to them about the Sabbath day, which they had forgotten from the times of Abraham and Jacob and Isaac.

It's forty years in Revelation 13, 5 and 7. The church's time of trial, which we have already read, in Revelation 13. Let's just look at it real quickly. In verse 5, it says, talking about the beast power that will rise up, and he was given a mouth, speaking great things and blasphemies, and he was given authority to continue for forty-two months. Again, three and a half years. The fifteenth parallel, Exodus 16. Israel is nourished for forty years. And Revelation 12-14, we read that. The church is nourished for three and a half years.

The parallel number 16, Exodus 20-23, Israel at Mount Sinai received the Ten Commandments and other laws to keep.

Revelation 14-12, God's church keeps the commandments in the letter and spirit and bears a faithful witness to Christ.

Then, the last two are actually the continuation of the book of Exodus. It goes into Joshua's, the book of Joshua, where God defeats Israel's foes.

Revelation 19-19 is when Christ comes back. Let's read that real quick. Revelation 19-19. Finally, after all the things that have happened, the punishment, the discipline, now Christ comes.

And it says in Revelation 19-19, I saw the beasts, the kings of the earth, and their armies gathered together to make war against him who sat on the horse and against his army.

Of course, in verse 16 it says, and he has on his robe and on his thigh a name, King of Kings and the Lord of Lords.

And then the beast was captured, and with him the false prophet, and they were cast alive into the lake of fire, burning with brimstone.

And the rest were killed with the sword which proceeds from the mouth of him who sat on the horse.

And then finally, the 18th parallel in Joshua, which ends Israel's Exodus, God gives them the Promised Land.

Revelation 20, verse 4.

And verse 6, God gives the kingdom of God to Christ and his church through time.

Verse 4, it says, and I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was committed to them.

Then I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the witness to Jesus and for the word of God, who had not worshiped the beast or his image.

That's going to happen in the future. They're going to try to obligate you to do it.

And had not received his mark on their foreheads or on their hands.

And now you've got electronic tattoos. They're invisible, but they can be detected.

Whatever happens, they're going to have a mark.

And they lived, talking about the saints, and reign with Christ for a thousand years.

Remember, the days of Unleavened Bread ultimately look forward to the time when righteousness will reign on a new earth and were sinned.

Will exist no more. You can read 2 Peter 3, 10 through 14, talking about that kingdom that's coming.

And so these days are so meaningful to us, and why obedience is the first step to having true faith.