Israel’s deliverer Moses foreshadowed the new Moses Savior YHWH promised to Eve, someone who would lead the way out of death back to dwelling with God on His garden mountain (see Blog 42). We saw Moses’ many offices projected forward to the Messiah of the World. As a prefigure, Moses led Israel in the exodus and shepherded the nation to the mountain of God. We will investigate Yeshua’s exodus and how it relates to Him shepherding us in the Way discussed in Blog 43.

The Greek word for exodus, exodos, only occurs once in the Gospels at Yeshua’s transfiguration (Luk. 9:31), once in 2 Peter 1:15, and once in Hebrews 11:22.

28 Now it came to pass, about eight days after these sayings, that He took Peter, John, and James and went up on the mountain to pray. 29 As He prayed, the appearance of His face was altered, and His robe became white and glistening. 30 And behold, two men talked with Him, who were Moses and Elijah, 31 who appeared in glory and spoke of His exodos which He was about to accomplish at Jerusalem (Luk. 9:28-31, NKJV).

Though the Greek word exodos (Strong’s G1841) means an exit or (figuratively) death or departure¹, much more is implied within the context. Luke 9:31 cannot mean Yeshua was about to accomplish His own death, but His exiting the fleshly state to achieve His restoration to glory, His transformation to a spirit state of existence. In 2 Peter 1:15, Peter uses this exact meaning of putting off the flesh, referencing Yeshua’s transfiguration in glory while hearing the Father’s voice from heaven, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.” Hebrews 11:22 also has the resurrection to glory in view when Joseph mentioned Israel’s exodos and gave instructions concerning his bones (Gen. 50:25).

All three examples of the Greek exodos are in the context of resurrection, a departure from the world of flesh through a doorway that culminates in a resurrection to spirit life in the household of God. The Lamb of God came in the flesh so He could die, and His transfiguration upon the mountain showed Him as resurrected in glory. Since flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God, all of us must pass through the gates of death, putting off the flesh and being born from above into the spirit realm. The passage from one state to another depicts baptism, the circumcision of the heart (Col. 2:11-12). Yeshua came to baptize with the Holy Spirit (Jhn. 1:33), the same Spirit that moved upon creation’s chaotic waters (Gen. 1:2).

The Spirit is the prime mover which transforms us into that which is incorruptible. By His breathing out the Word of God, the heavens were made (Psa. 33:6) and adorned bright (shiphrah, Job 26:13). All things were made through Him, the Word (Jhn. 1:3). When Yeshua died, He gave up His spirit breath. His blood, with its spirit life, was poured out upon the ground, gifting the outflowing spirit to wash and regenerate us (Tit. 3:6). When resurrected, Yeshua breathed His Holy Spirit upon the disciples, similar to His breathing life into Adam, creating a new Israel to lead in a new exodus. In Ezekiel, the book of God’s Spirit moving in a new creation, YHWH puts His Spirit into Israel’s dry bones lying in their graves, and they live (Eze. 37:14). Like the old creation, the new creation work is accomplished by His Spirit moving until it permeates all things in a new beginning.

Our new exodus from bondage to the world’s culture of death depends upon our identity with the House of God through belonging to the firstborn Passover Lamb of God, slain for us so we might remain redeemed in the household of Light. When we eat the Lamb and drink His blood (the wine) of Passover, He is in us, and He leads us on the pathway out of corruption to glory, from the wilderness to a place prepared for us. We cannot traverse the gap between death and life in the state of flesh. We must be transformed by His Spirit into spirit, living, moving, and adapting to a way of living as God lives. He lives in the midst of us, feeding us with knowledge and understanding (Jer. 3:15). Our Shepherd is the Tree of Life in the midst of the garden, the new Torah. Yeshua’s exodus from all the parameters of our exile is the Gospel. Yeshua’s exodos is our exodus!

By definition, an exodus is the way, “the road out.” ² When Yeshua called to Lazarus in the grave, He commanded, “Lazarus, come forth!” or “Lazarus, this way out!” (John 11:43; EBC, vol. 9, p. 121). After His last Passover with His disciples, Yeshua announced His glorification of God and His departure from them for a little while. When Peter asked Him, “Lord, where are You going?” Yeshua answered him, “Where I am going you cannot follow me now, but you shall follow Me afterward” (Jhn. 13:36). He elaborated further, “And where I go you know, and the way you know” (Jhn. 14:4). Thomas immediately asked, “Lord, we do not know where You are going, and how can we know the way?” (vs. 5). Then Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me” (Jhn. 14:6). The way to the Father’s House is Yeshua, the door, the exodos, the way of living life without corruption.

Takeaway:
When by His Spirit, God made bright, “shiphrah,” the heavens, exercising power and wisdom to crush the crooked serpent, He established the exodus pattern. Moses, the prototype of the Messiah, led Israel’s exodus from Egypt to the Mountain of God. Yeshua’s conquering of sin and death opened the way to an exodus from not knowing God to life in the heavenly Jerusalem. Yeshua’s exodos from this world to the Father’s realm is our exodos when we belong to Him, purchased by His blood. Through His sacrifice and glory, we also die and are raised into the heavenly realm (but not fully yet), transformed by His Spirit to walk in the Way. In short, Yeshua’s exodus summarizes the gospel message predicted in Israel’s exodus story.

Fun Factors:
The Greek word exodos has a numeric value of 259 or 7 × 37, meaning completeness in the constant of YHWH’s titles. (At least 185 titles and appellations of YHWH are divisible by 37.)

The four transfiguration verses 28-31 of Luke 9 have a numeric value of 38,549, or 7 × 5507. Multiplying 3 × 8 × 5 × 4 × 9 = 4320, the sun radius number × 10 shows Father’s heart of love to the ten generations in completeness. Multiplying 5 × 5 × 7 = 175, the age of Abraham. The 728^th prime is 5507.

The name YHWH gave Moses at the burning bush, I AM who I AM (letter sum 543) + Moses (letter sum 345) equals 888, the Greek sum of Jesus Christ. I AM who I AM became the new Moses of a new exodus.

“Lazarus, this way out!” is 1588, 4 × 397, 397 = 78^th prime, 37^th Pythagorean prime, 19² + 6².