Red Sea tracks to end as pit of death

Where Israel crossed the Red Sea is an opening that goes down into a place the Bible calls “the pit.” This is the “bottomless pit” from Revelation 9, where during the tribulation period an angel comes down and opens the door, letting out onto the earth demonic creatures who will inflict torture on people.

It’s at that time men will want to die but can’t. Revelation 9:6 says, “And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.”

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Exodus 15:8 tells us that as the Lord “dashed in pieces the enemy” at the Red Sea event, “the depths were congealed in the heart of the sea.” Exodus 14 says the Lord “made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.”

In Psalm 66:5-6, David writes, “Come and see the works of God: he is terrible in his doing toward the children of men.
[6] He turned the sea into dry land: they went through the flood on foot: there did we rejoice in him.”

Jordan explains, “They went through the flood on foot, but it wouldn’t have been a shock to anybody that when God opened up the sea, the ground dried up; that wouldn’t have been something God needed to say.

“He says the stuff about the dry ground and emphasizes and repeats it in Scripture, not just so you know there was a dust cloud when Israel went across, but there was something special going on in that Red Sea. He makes it hard ground. He covers up the top of that pit so Israel doesn’t fall in, and then He takes that covering away so Pharaoh (a type of the Antichrist) and his host DO fall in.

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"Isaiah 51:10 says, [10] Art thou not it which hath dried the sea, the waters of the great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over?

“In Isaiah 51:9 the plea is made by Israel to God, ‘Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon?’

“What they’re saying is, ‘Lord you’ve been dormant, you’ve left us alone; wake up and come to our aid—do what you did back there in the ancient days.’ Rahab is a locality in the land of Egypt. They cry, ‘We want you to do what you did way back there when you cut Rahab; when you wounded the dragon.’

“It’s, ‘Hey, Lord, we know you can do this! You’re the one who dried up the sea and the waters of the great deep and hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over. You just took us right over that sucker before! Come deliver us again!'

“Similarly, in Psalm 74, Asaph recounts the history of Israel by saying, ‘For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.
[13] Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.
[14] Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.’

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“When the Lord brings Israel out of Egypt, He literally goes right over that stronghold of the Adversary—the exact place where that pit opens up—and He just walks right over them.

"And then He turns around and slays Pharaoh and his army, casts them down into that pit and He wounds the head of the dragon. In other words, He was in a war there as ‘the man of war’ fighting against the dragon. The dragon, of course, is Satan.

“As Isaiah 27:1 reports, ‘In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.’

“These are Second Advent passages looking into the future to the Second Coming of Christ, but these writers are using as doctrine about the Second Coming things that happened back over there because God teaches Israel that way.

“He’ll do something and then He’ll say, ‘You see that—well this over here is going to be just like that back over there.’ He multiplies the ministry of His Word by the similitude of the prophets: ‘This thing is like that; I did it over here and I’m going to do it again over there.’

“Now when it talks about 'punishing leviathan,' he’s the guy in Job 41 that everybody calls the whale, or the elephant, or the hippopotamus, or whatever they want to call him. Some evolutionist Believers have called him a dinosaur. No, he’s not a dinosaur; he’s the 'piercing serpent,' i.e., Satan.

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“There's a fascinating thing you discover when you study these demonic activities and the activities of Satan and his army. They have an affinity for two things: water and fire. You’re seeing why the water is there. It’s almost as if when they’re in the water, they are able to hide and be concealed.

“Now, leviathan in Job 41 and in Revelation 12--what sea is he in? Well, he’s in the Red Sea in Exodus 15 and he’s in the Red Sea in Isaiah 51, but he’s also in the deep out yonder up there.

“And that brings you into that strange zone . . . You see, these are patterns developing, and just like the universe itself is patterned after the tabernacle . . . In fact, it’s called ‘the tabernacle which the Lord pitched,’ and He gives you a miniature of it in the tabernacle that He gave Moses.

“There’s also a comparison to that tabernacle where God’s going to dwell, but there’s a piece of real estate on this planet where God has determined that his house would dwell, literally, and that’s in the land of Palestine.

“So, the place, the temple where God’s going to dwell on the land, in the land of Palestine, is also going to be a comparison between the construction of the universe and that land of Palestine over there.

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“When that horse and that rider in Exodus 15, a type of the Antichrist, is cast into the sea, the ‘lake of fire’ is going to be in the bottom of the universe.

“There’s a door that goes into the tabernacle and the first thing you hit when you go into that door is that brazen altar. That’s where the fire is. The ‘lake of fire’ is down at the bottom of the universe in Revelation 20 when He does away with all that deep out there and the water beneath it, and you talk about having a hydrogen explosion! Water’s made up of H2O.

“Revelation talks about how the elements melt with fervent heat. The atomic structure of the universe just literally disintegrates when that Great White Throne comes into the universe over there in Revelation 20, and that’s why in chapter 21 He creates a new heaven and a new earth. He restores back the things that have melted away because of His wrath.

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"Psalm 69 is a psalm about the Messiah. It starts, [1] Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.
[2] I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.

“Jesus Christ is dying, but notice how He describes death. It’s sinking into the mire, where there’s no standing. It’s like quicksand. You sink down into this stuff and its deep waters and 'the floods are overflowing me.'

"Verses 14-15: [14] Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.
[15] Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.

“That’s Christ literally talking to the Father about the experience He’s having at Calvary of being pulled down into death. Who has 'the power of death'? Satan does.

"Hebrews 2:14-15 says, [14] Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;

[15] And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

“In Acts 2, Peter says it was not possible that death should hold Him. Death is reaching up and the one with 'the power of death' is reaching out there.

"The Lord says in Isaiah 50, ‘Let mine adversary come near,’ and the one who has that 'power of death' is literally coming to grip Him and to get a hold of Him and to pull Him into death and take Him over there into that pit and take Him down into it and make Him his!

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“The good news is death couldn’t hold Jesus Christ. Why? He put away sin and He appeared the second time without sin, and you know what Revelation 1 says? Christ says, ‘I’ve got the keys of death and hell.’

“Revelation says He’s going to kill them with death. How do you kill somebody with death?! I mean, when you kill them, they’re dead. Kind of overdoing it, isn’t it? It’s like that thing in Exodus about the angel of death.

“Revelation 6:8 says, [8] And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.

“That’s a frightening thought about what death is to a lost person. What that means is if you die as a lost person, some little bony-fingered, gleeful-eyed demon comes and gets you by the collar of the neck and drags you down over to that place, and that sucking sound you hear is you just being drug right down into that pit of death and delivered into hell.”