Exodus 14:1–4
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We come now to a moment in redemptive history that is not merely an escape, but a carefully orchestrated, divine masterpiece of judgment and salvation. What we are about to witness is not a frantic, last minute improvisation by a cornered God. It is a divine ambush, laid with perfect wisdom and executed with absolute power. He is setting a table in the presence of Israel's enemies, and the main course is the entire Egyptian army. Our modern sensibilities, softened and sentimentalized as they are, often recoil from such passages. We like a God who is nice, a God who helps, a God who is endlessly accommodating. But the God of the Bible is not nice; He is good. He is not safe; He is a consuming fire. And His primary commitment is not to our comfort, but to His own glory.