The Exodus Is the Beginning of the Gideon Story

The exodus becomes the go to divine action by which the israelites, in their current plight, say god, do now? In fact, sem goes back further. Even in gideon's day, there was this idea that when you want god to act in the present, you ask him to act now the way they di id in the past. That's why exile and return in exodus language become so dominant in the gospels. All of this stretches al the way back to the exodus itself. And then the hope of the prophets for god to enact this exodus that will out exodus all other exoduses thee in the return of his son from the exile of death, and then our