Exodus 5:15–21
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We have a very tidy, very sanitized view of how God's deliverance is supposed to work. We imagine that when God decides to act, the sun breaks through the clouds, the birds begin to sing, and our troubles immediately begin to recede. We think of salvation as a straight, upward line. But the Bible, in its rugged honesty, shows us that the path of deliverance is almost always down before it is up. Before the Red Sea parts, the chariots of Pharaoh are breathing down your neck. And before Israel is freed from bondage, their bondage gets significantly, brutally worse. God is not just interested in getting His people out of Egypt. He is interested in getting Egypt out of His people. And to do that, He must first expose the true nature of the tyranny they serve.