How does Israel’s deliverance from Egypt through Moses typify ultimate and eternal salvation through Christ?
While Israel was delivered from Egypt, Jesus (in his family) had to flee to Egypt, not to be redeemed from it, but to become the redemption, the exodus from slavery to sin, himself. His return was no conquest of the Promised Land, but a submission to servanthood to redeem his people from serving sin.
God’s decree (of calling a son out of Egypt) remained unfulfilled in the exodus of the people of Israel, but here we find another return to Egypt. God therefore accomplishes his purpose when he calls his own Son, conceived by the Holy Spirit, out of Egypt. It is now that his own, perfectly obedient Child will return from that country. In order for this to be accomplished and thereby ensuring the unmerited deliverance of sinners both in Israel and elsewhere, Jesus first had to flee to Egypt. He bears the righteous judgment over Israel. He is not permitted to live through the exodus or deliverance under Moses, he must become the exodus himself. Jesus therefore does not stand on the shoulders of his forefathers, but is actually driven out of the land of Israel under God’s direction for the sake of his forefathers. The true meaning of the opening words of the Decalogue (I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery
) is only firmly established once God the Father brings forth our King Jesus out of Egypt.1
14 And he rose and took the child and his mother by night and departed to Egypt