The word Exodus is similar to Exit. It is all to do with getting out of somewhere.
The book of Exodus, the second book in the Bible, tells how the nation of Israel got out of slavery in Egypt; hence the book is called Exodus. But it is how it all happened that is fascinating, and prophetic.
The slave masters, the Egyptians, were having all sorts of difficulties as God’s plagues struck. The nation of Israel, although slaves, had an easier time of it. But the final plague would strike everyone; death!
God did offer a way out though. Kill a lamb on the evening, cook it, eat it, but mark the doorposts of their house with the lamb’s blood. The Angel of Death passing through the land would not strike any house where the lamb's blood was on display.
And that was prophetic. It was a picture, a type of what God Himself would do. God, as Jesus Christ, was the Lamb. Just as the sacrificial lamb had to be perfect so Jesus life was perfect and could be a sacrifice for all. They had to eat the sacrificial lamb; Jesus said unless you eat my flesh and drink my blood you have no life in you. And, of course accepting the Jesus as your sacrifice means that you have eternal life; the angel of death passes over you.
Just as the Jews escaped slavery through the death of the lamb and started their journey to their Promised Land so salvation through accepting the Lord Jesus Christ as the Lamb of God is only the beginning of your journey as a Christian.

Brother Richard Oliver
Eltham Message Church