Exodus 2:23–25
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
History does not move in a straight line, and it is certainly not, as the pagans of our day would have it, a meaningless cycle. For a great deal of that time, they had been under the boot of a tyrannical state, engaged in brutal, back-breaking slavery. And during this time, from the death of Joseph to the birth of Moses, the heavens were largely silent. There was only the sting of the taskmaster's whip and the groan of a people in bondage. We must understand that God's apparent silence is not His absence. God often allows a situation to get humanly impossible before He intervenes. First, so that no man can take credit for the deliverance. He wants to make it clear that salvation is from the Lord. Second, He does it to teach His people to cry out to Him.