{"id":4532,"date":"2024-03-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-23T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/reading-plan\/march-23\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T10:46:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T15:46:57","slug":"march-23","status":"publish","type":"reading-plan","link":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/am\/reading-plan\/march-23\/","title":{"rendered":"March 23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Insight from Luke 9<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Christ portrays his death as a baptism (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ref.ly\/Luke%2012.50;esv?t=biblia\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Luke 12:50<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">), and the New Testament authors portray the judgments of both the flood (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ref.ly\/1%20Pet%203.20%E2%80%9321;esv?t=biblia\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1 Peter 3:20\u201321<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) and the Red Sea (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ref.ly\/1%20Cor%2010.2;esv?t=biblia\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1 Corinthians 10:2<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) as baptisms. Because the initial Passover sacrifice marks Israel\u2019s birth as a nation, and because the parting of the Red Sea likely happened on the third day after this new creation, the great exodus event also may point typologically to Christ\u2019s third-day resurrection. Significantly, on the mount of Jesus\u2019s transfiguration, Moses and Elijah identified Jesus\u2019s coming work in Jerusalem as an \u201cexodus\u201d (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ref.ly\/Luke%209.30%E2%80%9331;esv?t=biblia\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Luke 9:30\u201331, ESV<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> = \u201cdeparture\u201d), thus signaling the fulfillment of the second exodus anticipated throughout the prophets (e.g., <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ref.ly\/Isa%2011.10%E2%80%9312.6;esv?t=biblia\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Isaiah 11:10\u201312:6<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">; <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ref.ly\/Jer%2023.7%E2%80%938;esv?t=biblia\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jeremiah 23:7\u20138<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">; <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ref.ly\/Zeph%203.19%E2%80%9320;esv?t=biblia\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Zephaniah 3:19\u201320<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><br style=\"font-weight: 400;\" \/><br style=\"font-weight: 400;\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"give_campaign_id":0,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_crdt_document":""},"class_list":["post-4532","reading-plan","type-reading-plan","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reading-plan\/4532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reading-plan"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/reading-plan"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}