Exodus 1:15–22
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We come now to a passage that is not merely a historical account of oppression in ancient Egypt. What we are reading here is not an isolated incident of political cruelty. It is a chapter in the long war that began in the Garden, when God promised that the seed of the woman would crush the serpent's head, and the serpent would bruise his heel (Gen. From that moment on, the serpent has been at war with the seed. He is playing a role, wittingly or not, as an agent of the dragon. The people of Israel are multiplying, just as God promised Abraham they would. This exponential growth is a sign of God's covenant faithfulness. And because it is a sign of God's faithfulness, it terrifies the rulers of this world. A fruitful church, a fruitful people, is a threat to every godless regime.