by Mark Walters

Created on: May 18, 2010   Last Updated: April 29, 2012

The Second Exodus

And it came to pass after three days, that the officers went
through the host; And they commanded the people, saying, When ye see the ark of
the covenant of the LORD your God, and the priests the Levites bearing it, then
ye shall remove from your place, and go after it. Yet there shall be a space
between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure: come not near unto

it, that ye may know the way by which ye must go: for ye have not passed
this way heretofore, Joshua 3:2-4 (KJV).


When the Children of Israel made their exodus from Egypt, they were reborn as a
nation, no longer just a clan or tribe. As such, the brand new nation needed
identity. God revealed to them His name, I Am that I Am. He also gave
them the ordinance of the Passover, a reminder of their deliverance. He
destroyed their captors, opened the Red Sea, reinstituted the covenant practice
of circumcision, and did many other mighty works among them. He gave them the
law by Moses’ hand, sustained them in the wilderness with food, clothing and
shelter. These practices were completely foreign to the world around them and
new to the Israelites themselves. Not altogether willing to change, they
perished in the wilderness. When it came time to cross Jordan River, only three
of the original Israelites were alive. In a forty year trek through the desert,
they expired as God told them they would. Hence, when their children entered
the new land, they needed to be reintroduced to the covenant and the power of
God.



A new generation had been birthed in the wilderness that had no knowledge of
what God had wrought in the land of Egypt. So after Joshua took over Moses role,
God Himself parted the Jordan River to give them a taste of His power.  Then Joshua ordered the re-circumcision of
the males, read the law to them, and celebrated the Passover with them. The
next day manna stopped falling, and the Children of Israel tasted of the fruit
of the land.  Joshua met the angel of God
and accepted His leadership.  God went
before them and destroyed their enemies like a hornet. This was a second
exodus, an exodus from the desert of the world (Joshua 5:2-13).



Every new generation of believers needs to experience God afresh. The post-war
era in the United States began to herald a new breed of Spirit filled
Christian, no longer entirely an object of derision in the world, possibly
because of the changing landscape of society. However, in the sexual revolution
that started in the 1960s and went onward, many

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