Title: A New Exodus

Topic: Salvation

Summary: In the first exodus, the children of Israel move together to the Holy Land. The predicted second exodus will be from a scattered population. What does this mean?

Use the reference links below to follow along in the Bible as you watch.

References:
Genesis 11:4, 8
Leviticus 26
Deuteronomy 4:25-29; 28:64
1 Kings 14:15; 22:14-17
Luke 1:51
John 16:25, 29, 31-32
Acts of the Apostles 8:1
Deuteronomy 30:1-3
Isaiah 11:11-12; 56:7-8
Jeremiah 23:1-4; 31:10-14; 32:36-37, 39, 41
Ezekiel 11:16-21; 20:33-44; 28:25-26; 34:1-22; 36:24-26
Matthew 9:36-38; 12:30
John 10:11, 15-16
James 1:1
Psalms 107:1-9

In a general sense, being "born" in the Bible represents one spiritual state producing another, usually some form of love or affection producing or "giving birth" to truth or to desires for good. This is not hard to see: If you love someone, that love naturally gives birth to ideas on how to be good to that person and make him or her happy. This is why sons and daughters in the Bible represent true ideas and desires for good. On a higher level, though, being born represents what the Writings call "regeneration," or the life-long process of putting off our natural thoughts and desires and embracing spiritual life from the Lord. This is what the Bible means when it talks about being "born again" – if we live our lives from the Lord, He will eventually take away our evil desires so that we can be "born" as angels in heaven, free of evil desires and dark thoughts. Of course, these two levels of meaning are really one: The Lord is love itself, and if we align with Him we become forms of love and truth ourselves, expressions of His love just as the desire to do something good might be the expression of your love for a friend.