We officially finished the first book of the Bible together 🙌🏻 praise God for His Word to mature us into who He created us to be!
This first chapter is already hinting to us who we’ll be reading about in this book; if you aren’t already familiar with it, it’s Moses 🤍 Probably the meekest man we have as an example in all of the Bible.
Verse 12, “But the more they oppressed them, the more they multiplied and spread so that the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites.”
I always thank God for the severity of evil and its consequences that He has shown me from my youth. I know most families worship idols, fear man, trust in the cosmos, and lean on their own strength instead of the Lord’s. Children grow up in these homes never knowing the evil that they are being exposed to, they may never see its consequences, and they repeat these evils for their own children, never understanding that these ways lead to death. But, for some reason, by the grace of God, He chose to show me evil as a warning, and then taught me the way to life.
This book of the Bible also shows God’s ways of first showing us evil and letting us experience the ways of this world, so that we go running into His arms. If it wasn’t this horrible and devastating at first for the Israelites for so many years, and if it hadn’t gotten to this point and worse later on, then we wouldn’t have had the opportunity to read so much of the human condition now in our Bibles.
These people were brutally enslaved for years and we see that later in the book, instead of trusting God, they end up asking to be returned back to this slavery, where they are treated harshly and their babies are being murdered. How many people do you know that prefer the slavery of this world rather than the freedom there is with God? I can name plenty. It had to get this horrible for God to show us how evil people really are, inherently, and the severity of the human condition first, so that God could then teach us His ways of good. By doing it this way, He is also able to expose us to the fact that it is impossible for us to keep His ways due to how short we fall of the glory of God, and how much we desperately need Jesus. I can’t wait to read more with you.
“Fret not yourself because of evildoers, and be not envious of the wicked, for the evil man has no future; the lamp of the wicked will be put out.”
Proverbs 24:19-20
The seed of the enemy will always have hostility with gods children
Thank you for the wonderful job you did with elaborating the reason behind being introduced to the pure evilness in the beginning of this chapter, I was very disgusted by the Pharaohs actions.
In chapter 1 of Exodus, I was confused as to why there was so much hate with the new Pharaoh. Why did he want to cause harm to the babies why was he so fearful of the men?
“Exodus 1:16 And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the stools; if it be a son, then ye shall kill him: but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.”
I was happy to read that…