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There is yet more to what God does in accomplishing for us this great salvation.
Understanding the types and shadows of what the Israelites experienced will help us
to perceive that which Christ has accomplished for us. The experience of Israel was
given as a type of us, the saints of God in Christ.

I Corinthians 10:11
And all these things as types did happen to those persons, and they were
written for our admonition, to whom the end of the ages did come...
[Young’s Literal Translation]

Consider the threefold manner in which salvation is revealed through the
experience of Israel.
First comes faith. Only those who believed the testimony of Moses, that the
blood of a lamb would deliver them from the power of death, were obedient to put the
blood on their doorways. Similarly, we must believe that the blood of Christ will
deliver us from the sentence of death incurred through sin. We must take His shed
blood unto ourselves, believing that it has made atonement for our sin.
Secondly, the Israelites experienced baptism into Moses in the Red Sea.

I Corinthians 10:1-2
Moreover, brethren, I do not want you to be unaware that all our fathers were
under the cloud, all passed through the sea, all were baptized into Moses
in the cloud and in the sea...

Moses in this instance is a type of Christ.

Acts 7:37
“This is that Moses who said to the children of Israel, 'Yahweh your God will
raise up for you a Prophet like me from your brethren. Him you shall hear.'”

The prophet like unto Moses referenced here is Christ. Moses instructed the
people to place the blood of the lamb on their doorways. Similarly, Yahshua gives us
His blood that we might be passed over by death. The people were baptized into
Moses, the Law-giver, in the Red Sea. Similarly, we are to be baptized upon
confessing faith in Christ to symbolize our union with the Son of God. Consider the
richness of the following words of the apostle Paul and what they mean for those who
are baptized into Christ.

Romans 6:3-11
Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Yahshua
were baptized into His death? Therefore we were buried with Him through
baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of
the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. For if we have been