Exodus 12:33–42
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We come now to the hinge point of redemptive history. They had gone down into Egypt as a large family, and they are now coming out as a great nation, an army. This is a sovereignly orchestrated, divinely commanded, military extraction. This is God serving Pharaoh and the nation of Egypt with a final eviction notice. The tenth plague has fallen, the death angel has passed over the blood-marked houses of the faithful, and a great cry has gone up from the Egyptians. The gods of Egypt have been judged and found to be nothing but dumb idols. And now, the true God, Yahweh, is bringing His people out. Our modern sensibilities, soaked as they are in egalitarianism and a therapeutic view of justice, often get squeamish at a text like this. We see a hasty departure and we imagine chaos.