Exodus 5:10–14
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
When God begins to move His people toward liberty, the devil always doubles down on slavery. We must understand this principle if we are to make any sense of the world, or of our own trials. It was a declaration of war from the court of the living God upon the fraudulent, tin-pot court of a man who thought he was a god. And whenever the kingdom of God advances, the kingdom of darkness responds with frantic, irrational, and ultimately self-defeating rage. Pharaoh's response to God's demand is a textbook case study in the anatomy of tyranny. Tyranny is not simply harsh rule; it is arbitrary rule. It is government detached from the authority and character of the Creator. A tyrant does not operate by a fixed, righteous standard. He makes up the rules as he goes along, and his fundamental goal is not productivity or order, but the crushing of the human spirit.