Dear brothers and sisters,
Loving greetings in the name of our Lord Jesus
Christ. Today let us try to understand about the great plan of
God in delivering and moving his people Israel from the hands
of pharaoh and the Egyptian bondage. God took them out to the
promise land which flows with milk and honey as He has promised
earlier as in Exo 3:17, “And I have promised to bring you
up out of your misery in Egypt into the land of the Canaanites,
Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites--a land
flowing with milk and honey.' Whatever God does for His people
they are all planned and revealed to His people well in advance.
For example, God promised his friend Abraham well in advance about
the promise land that He will give to his descendents after they
gone through a period of slavery in Egypt for four hundred years
even before the birth of Isaac as in Gen 15:13 & 14, “Then
the LORD said to him, "Know for certain that your descendants
will be strangers in a country not their own, and they will be
enslaved and mistreated four hundred years. But I will punish
the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will come
out with great possessions.”
Then God told His servant Moses also well in
advance, when he called him to bring out the people of God from
the slavery of Egypt that the Pharaoh will not allow the people
unless he see the hand of God compels him to send them out as
in Exo 3:19 & 20, “But I know that the king of Egypt
will not let you go unless a mighty hand compels him. So I will
stretch out my hand and strike the Egyptians with all the wonders
that I will perform among them. After that, he will let you go.”
As the lord has promised every thing happened to the people of
God. Pharaoh got angered with Moses and told him he should not
come before him one more time as in Exo 10:28 & 29, “Pharaoh
said to Moses, "Get out of my sight! Make sure you do not
appear before me again! The day you see my face you will die."
"Just as you say," Moses replied, "I will never
appear before you again."
We must remember this truth because this is the
pharaoh who has told to the servant of God Moses earlier that
I will not send the people as in Exo 5:2, “Pharaoh said,
"Who is the LORD, that I should obey him and let Israel go?
I do not know the LORD and I will not let Israel go." But
God dealt with that pharaoh in such a way that he himself came
in the night and forced them to leave the place Egypt as in Exo
12:31, “During the night Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron
and said, "Up! Leave my people, you and the Israelites! Go,
worship the LORD as you have requested.” Earlier he was
not willing to send them with all their flocks but now by seeing
the hand of God he changed his mind and said take all your things
and bless me also as in Exo 12:32, “Take your flocks and
herds, as you have said, and go. And also bless me." The
people who made them to work day and night ruthlessly now urged
them to go our fearing they will all die if they keep the children
of God in Egypt as in Exo 12:33, “The Egyptians urged the
people to hurry and leave the country. "For otherwise,"
they said, "we will all die!" so they have to go immediately
as the lord said earlier.
God is a God of justice. So, He made His people
to ask and get all the wealth of Egyptians for whom they worked
for four hundred years as slaves without any proper payment and
rest as in Exo 12:36, “The LORD had made the Egyptians favorably
disposed toward the people, and they gave them what they asked
for; so they plundered the Egyptians.
May the Lord help each one of us to understand
the great plans of God so that we may not murmur against Him in
our lives but will be ready to fulfill the plans of God. Amen.
Your Web-Site Pastor,
Rev.
Dr. T. Marcus Devasahayam
Web-site: www.barodabibleclub.org
e-mail: marcusbbc@yahoo.com
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