God also gave Moses a message for the Israelites, telling them that He will deliver them from slavery and redeem them with “an outstretched arm and great acts of judgment” (Exodus 6:6, ESV).
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God was rightly unhappy with Pharaoh, and He tells Moses what will happen next: “But the Lord said to Moses, ‘Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh for with a strong hand he will send them out, and with a strong hand he will drive them out of his land’” (Exodus 6:1, ESV).Įssentially, God was telling Moses that, when He’s done with Pharaoh, not only will Pharaoh allow the Israelites to leave, but he will forcefully drive them out of the land of Egypt. As a punishment, Pharaoh cruelly made the slaves’ work more difficult: “Make the work harder for the people so that they keep working and pay no attention to lies” (Exodus 5:9). Pharaoh was angered by Moses and Aaron’s demand, and he accused them of trying to stop the Israelites’ labor. He isn’t going to make policy decisions based on what he sees as the whim of a couple of politically insignificant, powerless cranks. It would be a bit like two small-town pastors walking into the White House and telling a pro-choice President to end abortion now because God says so. Israel was valuable to Pharaoh because they provided slave labor for his kingdom.įrom a human perspective, it makes sense that Pharaoh would refuse to comply with these two Israelites. The story of the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt begins with the birth of Moses and his unusual upbringing in Egypt (Exodus 2) and, later, a command from God to Pharaoh, delivered to the Egyptian ruler by Moses and Aaron: “ Let my people go, that they may hold a feast to me in the wilderness” (Exodus 5:1). The way God interacts with man to bring about the exodus of the Jews from Egypt shows us something about God. The exodus from Egypt is the story of one of these times. Whatever He wills comes to pass, and sometimes the way He does things tells us something about Him.
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God is omnipotent-He possesses all power.