Distur Yourself as in Ancient Times as in Generations of Old

The angel of God in the pillar of fire led the Exodus out of Egypt under Moses. In other words he's saying, like it wasn't the past, now it's going to be so again. It also hints at the idea that he had done things before that he's going to do again. Wasn't that new you who dried up the sea, the waters of the mighty deep and made of ocean depths away by which the redeemed might pass? I'm just continuing on for previously.