Originally Posted by armourbearer

I found this illustration helpful once. Consider an Israelite living in the promised land. He personally did not come out of Egypt, go through the Red Sea, receive the law at Sinai, cross the Jordan, and enter the promised land. He was born into it. Yet because his being in the promised land depended upon these great redemptive events, he could say that he did come out of Egypt, cross the Red Sea etc., as positively as his forefathers. See Ps. 66:6, "He turned the sea into dry land: THEY went through the flood on foot: there did WE rejoice in him." Blessings!