First Things
First Freedom
Beginning of Passover
Exodus 14:5-9
The Message
5-7 When
the king of Egypt was told that the people were gone, he and his
servants changed their minds. They said, “What have we done, letting
Israel, our slave labor, go free?” So he had his chariots harnessed up
and got his army together. He took six hundred of his best chariots,
with the rest of the Egyptian chariots and their drivers coming along.
8-9 God made Pharaoh king of Egypt stubborn, determined to chase the Israelites as they walked out on him without even looking back. The Egyptians gave chase and caught up with them where they had made camp by the sea—all Pharaoh’s horse-drawn chariots and their riders, all his foot soldiers there at Pi Hahiroth opposite Baal Zephon.
8-9 God made Pharaoh king of Egypt stubborn, determined to chase the Israelites as they walked out on him without even looking back. The Egyptians gave chase and caught up with them where they had made camp by the sea—all Pharaoh’s horse-drawn chariots and their riders, all his foot soldiers there at Pi Hahiroth opposite Baal Zephon.
For Reflection
Why
is it that in the middle east today, as in Biblical times, tyrant after
tyrant dominates the culture? In this case the Israelites were no more
than chattel and Pharaoh was determined to get his property back.
Today the middle east is plagued by a domination systems which are
characterized by revolving tyrants who represent one oppressive ideology
or another. Like the Israelites the people cry for help.
Pray
for
those who live under oppressive political systems. Pray for those who
are mired in poverty. Pray for God to deliver all oppressed peoples
from their suffering.
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