Out of Egypt: What Happens After Salvation?

Jewish people all over the world just celebrated Passover, the salvation of Israel out of bondage to slavery in Egypt. 

So now that we are saved, what do we do? Many of us go back to our regular routines, waiting for the next holiday to acknowledge God in our lives, but this is not what God intended or wants from us as His children. He wants to be included in our lives and families every day.

When God saved us out of Egypt, He didn’t leave us alone in the desert to live life without Him and to find our own way, He was with us by His Spirit and led us for 40 years into the Promised Land. He made us a nation of warriors, prophets, priests, and kings who lived our lives in His presence and guidance. This is how God still wants to be with us today, living amongst us in our daily lives and leading us by His Spirit.

During the 40 years in the desert, we learned how to follow God and He provided supernaturally for us. He gave us manna from Heaven to eat and water from a rock to drink; He gave us the Torah, the Levitical priesthood, and sacrifices that we needed to pay the price for our sins.

As a nation, we didn’t make a move without Adonai and when we did, we always got into trouble, losing wars, land and freedom and becoming enslaved to the nations around us. After a time, we would cry out to God and He would always come and save us, sending us prophets as deliverers for our situation. When we listened to God, he restored us back to His Kingdom and the land of Israel, granting us peace, and prosperity.

Imagine if right after our exodus from Egypt, the children of Israel split up into different forms of Judaism that we have today – Orthodox, Conservative, Reformed, BuJew or “Spiritual”? It would not have happened, because we would not have survived. The point of salvation and the Torah is to bring us into a relationship with God, obedience, and unity with Him by His Word and His Spirit. In Biblical times, He spoke to Israel every day, through prophets and priests but today, He wants to do this with each of us personally.

How do we do this amidst all of the religion we have been taught within Judaism?

The prophets Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Isaiah, told us how one day God would give us a New Covenant and that He would write His Torah on our hearts, (Jeremiah 31:33-34), that we would all know Him from the greatest to the least. God said that He would give us a new Spirit and a new heart, and put His Spirit in our hearts, the Ruach HaKodesh, to teach us His ways Himself, He wants to come live in our hearts by His Spirit! (Ezekiel 36:26-27)

God also said He would send the Messiah to restore us back to Him. The Messiah would be a Son, a descendant of the line of King David, born of a virgin in Israel by the power of the Ruach HaKodesh, called Immanuel meaning, God With Us (Isaiah 7:14). The Son would be rejected by most of Israel but would still give His life for our sins on Passover, the fulfillment of the sign of the lamb that we were commanded to slay for our Passover meal every year. Just as the blood of the lamb kept Israelites from experiencing the plague of death at Passover, the sacrifice of the Son would grant us all eternal life in the Kingdom of God by becoming the payment for our sins for all time (Isaiah 53). This is what all the sacrifices we made pointed to, the sacrifice of the Son who would be called the Lamb of God, who would come to take away the sins of the world! He would resurrect after three days on the feast of First Fruits, defeating death and ascend to Heaven to become King of the universe (Isaiah 9:6). The Messiah would come to save not only Israel from sin but all nations from sin and death through faith in Him (Isaiah 49:6).

These are all glorious prophecies that have been fulfilled by Yeshua, known also to us as Jesus. Israel has been taught that He was a prophet whom the Gentiles worship but the truth is that we were lied to by religious leaders of the day who were very corrupt. They knew He resurrected but kept it hidden from Israel so they could stay in power and control the nation. Many Jewish people believed in Him and became His followers but many believed the lies of the rulers and missed the Messiah. At the time Yeshua came, Israel was already so divided by religion but Yeshua came to unite us and restore us back to God and His Kingdom through faith in Him. He is the Mediator of the New Covenant the prophet Jeremiah spoke about when he said, “Behold the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah.” (Jeremiah 31:31)

When we believe that Yeshua is the Messiah and Risen King, we are saved from death and granted eternal life in God’s Kingdom. God comes to live in our hearts by His Spirit and begins to teach us His ways, just as He prophecied to Israel that He would do! We can now all have a personal relationship with God, a supernatural life where we speak to Him every day, learn to trust in Him to provide and lead us into the destinies that He sent us here for. This is a true relationship with God, through the Messiah Yeshua who loves us and gave His life for us to bring us into the New Covenant.

“For if you confess with your mouth
that Yeshua is Lord,
and believe in your heart
that God raised Him from the dead,
you will be saved.
For with the heart it is believed for righteousness,
and with the mouth it is confessed for salvation.” – Rom 10:9-10 TLV