The story of Israel's exodus from Egypt has to rank as one of the most exciting and well-known stories in the Bible.

Pharaoh's chilling plan to murder all of Israel's male children.

Moses' narrow escape down the Nile River, the burning bush, the plagues, the angel of death, and the crossing of the Red Sea.

And yet, as my guest today explains, it's also probably one of the most misunderstood

stories in the Bible.

Today I'm speaking with Ian Valancourt about why the story of the Exodus is so central

to the Old Testament as a whole, and how the story of Israel's rescue from Egypt pointed

forward to the coming of Christ in more ways than one.

Ian is an associate professor of Old Testament and Hebrew at Heritage Theological Seminary

and the author of The Dawning of Redemption, the story of the Pentateuch and the hope of the gospel from Crossway.

Let's get started.

Well, Ian, thank you so much for joining me today on the Crossfight podcast.

It's great to be here, Matt. Thanks so much for having me.

Yeah. So we're going to talk about the Exodus today, the story of the Exodus, Israel's escape from slavery in Egypt. And it's obviously

an important story that many of us who have grown up in the church would be pretty familiar

with. We know the story. It's illustrated in every children's Bible we've ever picked up.

But you argue that it's really foundational to the whole Bible in a pretty profound way,

maybe the way that we don't

always fully grasp.

Unpack that for us a little bit.

Why is the Exodus so important for all of Scripture?

Well, first of all, it's the greatest act of redemption in the entire Old Testament.

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