Exodus 2:1–10
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We live in an age that is besotted with the idea of top-down, centralized power. Our political masters, like Pharaoh before them, believe that history is shaped by decrees, by legislation, by executive orders, and by the brute force of the state. They issue their edicts from on high, fully expecting reality to comply. Pharaoh, the great god-king of Egypt, the master of the most powerful empire on earth, decreed death for the Hebrew boys. From his throne, he commanded the Nile, a god in its own right, to be the instrument of his genocidal policy. It advances through a faithful marriage, a mother's tears, a sister's watchfulness, and a baby's cry. This passage is a master class in divine providence. It is a beautiful and devastating satire on the impotence of tyranny. God will not only rescue His chosen deliverer from the tyrant's decree, He will make the tyrant pay for his upbringing.