So Abraham’s children are trapped in bondage to Egypt and Egypt is a picture of this world operating independently from God. Before returning back to God, we all are trapped by our desires fueled by the world around us that does not want to believe in God but prefers to follow after happiness by our own means. Egypt is a picture of a strong independent Nation that does not worship the God who created all things but rather they follow after the many God’s that they have created using their own imagination.

But our God is in heaven; He does whatever He pleases. The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of men's hands. They have mouths, but they speak not; eyes have they, but they see not; They have ears, but they hear not; noses have they, but they smell not; They have hands, but they handle not; feet have they, but they walk not; neither can they make a sound with their throats. They who make idols are like them; so are all who trust in and lean on them.

(Psalms 115:3-8 AMPC)

God wanted to reveal Himself and make Himself known to all nations by making promises to a small unknown people group named Israel. Their exodus from Egypt is a picture of what God wants each human being to go through. When Jesus said in Mark chapter one “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God has come near. Repent and believe…”He was saying “change your mind” (repent) and “trust” (believe) what I am declaring. God is trying to clarify that He exists.

He told Moses to tell Pharaoh that “I AM” sent you. God was declaring His name as “I AM,” or in other words “I exist.” Many years later Jesus identify himself as being that same “I AM” when he said before Abraham was “I AM.” Watch the context of this next video, which is set years after the Hebrew scriptures were completed, also called the Old Testament in the Christian Bible. Jesus is talking to a group of religious people who were Abraham’s decedents hundreds of years after Moses delivered the children of Israel from Slavery. Now they have been invaded by Rome and are under the oppression of Caesar. Jesus comes to them drawing from their knowledge of Genesis and Exodus, of Abraham and Moses meeting God through the burning bush. He challenges them to recognize His true identity but they get very angry with him.

Later in the book of John we will see Jesus reveal Himself as the "I AM" of Exodus and prove it by 7 signs.