Exodus
Exodus “ And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers . And I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage ; and I have remembered my covenant .” – Exodus 6:4-5 . “ And I will sow them among the people : and they shall remember me in far countries; and they shall live with their children, and turn again. I will bring them again also out of the land of Egypt , and gather them out of Assyria; and I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon; and place shall not be found for them .” – Zechariah 10:9-10 . During the time of the exile in Babylon, God is still telling the prophet Zechariah about the bondage of Egypt: not as a past event, but an ongoing one: a future one of the elect; the remnant of Judah that will be “sown among the people”. And they shall re...