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Holy Week at Mount Zion 2026 Continues with Exodus 14
In many ways, this day of the church year represents where Christians live every day. We exist between Good Friday and Easter, freed from the slavery of sin, but not yet at our final destination. Salvation has been accomplished fully by our Lord, but it has not yet been fulfilled. Our redemption is complete, and yet it is still to come; it is not yet revealed in all its glorious fullness (Rom 8:23). We live in an in-between time.
That is often a difficult place to be, walking by faith and not by sight. We are very much like the children of Israel with their back against the Sea, tempted to fear and even to grumble. We are no longer in Egypt, but we are not yet in the Promised Land. We have been rescued from the dominion of darkness; but we walk solely by faith in the kingdom of light, following Him who is the Pillar of fire and cloud. By sight, we seem to be fatally threatened by the powers of sin and Satan and the grave, hemmed in, terror on every side. But in the name of the Lord we have the victory (Ps 118:11). Moses tells the people, “Fear not, stand firm, and see the salvation of the Lord, which he will work for you today. The Lord will fight for you, and you have only to be silent” (Exodus 14:14). “Be still, and know that I am God” (Ps 46:10).
Holy Saturday is the reminder that even though we live in this in-between time, we are on the verge of the resurrection. The darkness is broken by the light of the risen Jesus, and already you can begin to see it. Even when our back is against the wall, the Sea parts, and the water becomes a wall to our right hand and to our left, and we are given a way through. In the waters of baptism we go with Christ through the depths of death and rise with Him to new life. “For if we have been united with Him in a death like His, we shall certainly be united with Him in a resurrection like His” (Romans 6:5). When Christ appears again in the clouds, with power and great glory, He will deliver you, transforming your lowly bodies so that they will be like His glorious body, by the power that enables Him to subject all things to Himself (Phil 3:21).
You can endure through this time. For it is written, “Beloved, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is” (1 Jn 3:2).
