Exodus 14:5–9
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We live in a time of political and spiritual confusion, where men in power believe themselves to be the ultimate arbiters of reality. They think that by passing laws, controlling the media, and marshaling their resources, they can defy the living God. They see the church, when it is faithful, as a threat to their totalizing ambitions. And so, they seek to control, to regulate, and ultimately to crush it. The story of Pharaoh is the story of every petty tyrant who has ever set his face against the Lord and His anointed. It is the story of secularism's high priests, who believe that man is the measure of all things. They see the departure of God's people from their service, from their tax base, from their control, as an intolerable economic and political loss. They cannot imagine a world where they are not in charge.