The Egyptians pursued them, and all Pharaoh's horses and chariots and horsemen followed them into the sea. The Egyptian army enters the same path through the sea that Israel walked. The identical action — following through the divided sea — produces radically different results for the two groups. The same road is life for Israel and death for Egypt. John 3:17 says God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world but to save the world through him — yet verse 18 adds that whoever does not believe stands condemned. The sea is the spatial, historical enactment of this principle: the same divine act, entered in faith, produces salvation; entered in pursuit of those God is saving, produces judgment. The Egyptian army walks into the sea on the same dry ground Israel walked and it becomes their grave.

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