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Freedom from spiritual enslavers

In both the Exodus story and Jesus' resurrection there was a defeat of the spirit powers; the gods of Egypt and the prince of this world. Jesus' victory changes no geopolitical boundaries and produces no visible earthly dominion, but it is on analogy with Israel’s flight from Egypt as the ultimate redemption from oppression. One implication of this news is that the invisible powers are the truest enslavers and root source of humanity’s failure to live as image bearers (not that we bear no responsibility, but as those who are coerced, not “free agents”).…