EXODUS
Lesson 9 - Chapters 10 and 11
We’re nearing the end of the strokes, or plagues, against Egypt that Abba has ordained in
order that Pharaoh will agree to release the Hebrews from their bondage. So far, nothing’s
worked. Pharaoh’s heart has become progressively intransigent in proportion to the escalating
severity of the calamities the Lord has visited upon Egypt. Some of this hardening of
Pharaoh’s heart has been Yehoveh; some has been Pharaoh’s iron will.
Even more, it has become apparent to the Egyptian people, as well as the government, that
the Hebrews are being somehow miraculously spared from all but the first 2 of this series of
disasters.
READ CHAPTER 10 all
You know, we might look at all these plagues against Egypt, the bloody water, the hail, skin
lesions, and now locusts, and see them as ancient-sounding or something we’d only find in
backward nations, and maybe even downright quaint. That is, if the Lord was doing this in our
day, in America or Europe, the plagues would be a lot zippier……they’d have a more modern
and technological source and appeal: nuclear bombs, bio-weapons, our electrical grid failing,
computer chips being neutralized, aliens attacking from outer space, etc. But, if we think about
it every one of these strokes we are reading about in Exodus would be just as devastating
today anywhere in the world as it was 3000 years ago in Egypt.
Imagine if our drinking water became polluted on a near universal scale; could we use filtration
to solve it? Probably, but at great expense and only the wealthiest nations would initially have it
available: hundreds of millions would die from little more than tainted water.
Look at what a simple storm (Hurricane Katrina) did to New Orleans and the surrounding area,
and how it bludgeoned our economy and came near to toppling our current president. Nothing
particularly high-tech about a Hurricane, is there? Just a big wind and a lot of rain.
Recall the Mt. St. Helens disaster a few years ago: the devastation it caused, the loss of life,
the cost to Washington’s economy and thousands and thousands of acres of woodlands
destroyed for decades to come. All this from a million-year-old volcano that does little more
than spew smoke and molten rock.
How about the Tsunami of but a couple of years ago: the estimated 500,000 lives it took, the
countless billions of dollars in damage it caused…….and all this from an earthquake and a
resultant wave of seawater; you can’t get much more low-tech than that.
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When we look ahead at the end-times scenarios of the Bible, and we are told of these
cataclysmic events that will eclipse all of human history, we typically want to convert the
visions of God’s prophets describing these events into high-tech and science-gone-made
experiments; so, we hear of Christian scholars and writers thinking this MUST be about a
nuclear exchange or a horrible chemical weapon unleashed. We think in terms of Star Wars
type weapons. In fact, nothing man has invented or is likely to invent has ever approached the
power of a single Thunderstorm, or a medium-sized meteor entering our atmosphere and
striking our planet.
As a result, when people look back at these horrible upheavals of nature over the last few
years, we tend to completely dismiss the hand of God, and say…..hey, this is just nature doing
its thing, don’t make it one of these wacko religious judgment pronouncements. Perhaps we
can say that it was just nature doing its thing in Egypt, and perhaps it will be nature doing its
thing at the end of days; but make no mistake, it will be at God’s command, and it will be
unstoppable, and it will NOT likely be because men made it happen as the modern global-
warming crowd thinks. As we should be learning by now, we need to discover God’s pattern in
how He deals with man; and when we see how He’s done it up to now, it certainly has not
been by means of technology advancements; the coming cataclysms are not likely to be
ordained by men.
Let me take a momentary detour, to connect some dots for those of you who have interest in
prophecy, particularly end-times prophecies. Very few Bible scholars, except for the most
liberal who view the Bible as nothing more than an example of ancient Hebrew literature and
fanciful tales, would say that the 9 plagues upon Egypt were symbolic or allegorical or
metaphorical; that is, they weren’t real, the words mean something else entirely. Mainstream
scholars take the Exodus plagues, generally, as literal, even if a few of them regard these
miracles as nothing more than natural occurrences with no more or less frequency or intensity
than is normally seen……that ONLY the wording of the Bible embellishes and exaggerates.
So, it is fascinating to me that these same scholars who take the Exodus account of the
plagues as literal, more often than not regard the Revelation accounts of the seal and bowl
judgments as symbolic and NOT literal. Most of the judgments of Revelation use the same
natural elements, only greatly amplified and much wider spread, than the Exodus account of
the plagues do. Hail, insects, darkness, boils, oceans and rivers turn blood red and the sea life
dies; these all occur in Exodus just as they do in Revelation…..and then of course there are
Revelation judgments that are not in the Exodus plagues, but still they exist and occur
naturally: earthquakes, stars exploding, and meteors coming through our atmosphere.
I only bring this up to kind of close the loop on this concept that I’m teaching you; that God’s
patterns and principles repeat all through history, and will continue until the end of time. We
see these same God-patterns in Revelation, just as they were originally established in Torah,
even with the same characteristics of how judgments are meted out. I know many of you are
interested in end-times prophecy, so be aware that when you read of these incredibly
destructive end-times phenomena in Revelation, that they are of the exact same substance
and design that we read in the Exodus account. You CAN take them literally, and SHOULD
take them literally, because these things have happened before, literally; it is God’s way to
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deal in a very consistent fashion with mankind at large, and with the world, and with His own
people.
Chapter 10 begins with yet another instruction by God to Moses to go to Pharaoh. He reminds
Moses that He has worked within Pharaoh to keep his heart hardened for a divine purpose:
that all these miracles, signs, will occur and they will be seen and remembered among the
Hebrews from generation to generation. And, that He has used Egypt for Israel’s sake.
Sometimes we have a hard time with this concept; that God would favor one above the other,
even allowing one to be destroyed, or ransomed, to save the other. In this case, it’s that the
Egyptians would pay a high price for God’s purposes……and that God would keep a man’s,
Pharaoh’s, heart hardened, to achieve His purposes. I have heard, often, from Believer and un-
believer alike, that this is just not fair of God to do such things. Well, I suppose if we actually
believe that we can sit in judgment of God, and then we can debate about His fairness. I don’t
feel I need to defend God’s decisions. His Laws and Commands are what they are, and they
are perfect, and all we need to know is what they are……not necessarily why they are. Have
you been brought up to believe that all of God’s decisions are for your best benefit? Well,
they’re not. God’s decisions are intended to achieve His purposes, to the best benefit of His
Kingdom, not our personal, individual, earthly well-being. Our happiness, comfort, success, are
all entirely secondary to God’s divine purpose of bringing in His Kingdom.
In vs. 4, Moses announces to Pharaoh that if he does not free God’s people TODAY, that
tomorrow Egypt will be hit with a plague of Locusts. And, not only will the ground be so thick
with them that the ground will seem to disappear, but what was left of the crops in the fields
from the destructive hailstorm would be eaten up by these voracious insects. Even more, these
insects will find their way into people’s homes.
We can wonder as to whether Pharaoh believed Moses or not; but his sorcerers, advisors, and
the Egyptian people in general believed! They begged Pharaoh to let Israel go, so they could
live in peace. In fact, they said in vs. 7, ‘Pharaoh, don’t you understand that Egypt is already
devastated, the battle with Yahweh is lost, and we can’t take any more’. Apparently, Aaron
and Moses left Pharaoh’s presence for a short time for Pharaoh to consider matters, but then
returned for his answer. The tide is turning. Pharaoh is getting more serious about letting Israel
go, as he says, ‘OK, go serve your God. But, who among you would go?’…..implying of
course, the more important question, who would stay. For this, however, there was no
compromise as Moses answers “our young ones, our old ones, our girls and our boys, and all
of their livestock”. In other words, not just ALL the people, but ALL of their possessions as
well.
The matter is now crystal clear to Pharaoh. His paranoia that Israel would leave permanently
has been confirmed. Why would every last Hebrew, and every last one of their livestock, need
to go for a 3 day pilgrimage? No, Pharaoh thinks, they plan on leaving forever. So, in Vs 10
and 11 Pharaoh says, no way Jose! I will allow ONLY the males among you to go…..but the
women and children and livestock must be left behind. That was his final answer, as Moses
and Aaron were being thrown out of the palace.
Of course, that wasn’t good enough for God, so He tells Moses to “stretch out his hand”…..that
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is, Moses was to order……the locusts to come. The 8th plague is set into motion, as an east
wind begins to blow, and on the flow of that wind, in come the locusts. A horde of locusts as
has never been seen before, and they devour everything in their path. Here again, we see that
God uses, as in all the previous plagues, nature itself to strike the Egyptians.
Pharaoh took one look at this and called for Moses and Aaron. He brings them in and does as
he had done earlier: confesses that he has sinned against God. But, this time, in yet another
step, Pharaoh even asks for forgiveness. But, this was not true repentance, anymore than his
belief that Yahweh exists, is trust and love. It was just the use of whatever means necessary,
even if it meant groveling, to remove this deadly plague. Death. The locusts would drive Egypt
into death… through starvation. Pharaoh finally was sensing what this was all leading up to,
and so begged for mercy. Yet, the minute Yahweh reversed the wind and sent the locusts back
eastward, and into the Great Sea the Pharaoh hardened and refused to free Israel. This time,
God is credited with doing the hardening of Pharaoh’s irredeemable heart.
And, according to the now well-established pattern, Vs 21 brings the 9th stroke…… the 3rd
plague of the 3rd set of plagues….. and therefore it is unannounced to Pharaoh or the
Egyptian people. And this stroke is the most terrible of them all, up to this point. Darkness.
Darkness that is a foreshadowing of final death, of spiritual death, of evil, which is near. A
Darkness that is not only seen, but is so thick that it is literally felt; a darkness that is far more
than merely the absence of light…….a darkness which lasted 3 days throughout Egypt, but which
did NOT happen in Goshen, as we read in vs23.
Please pay close attention to what I’m about to tell you: what God did here, He also had done
at Creation: He separated, He made a distinction, and He divided the darkness from the light.
Over the ones who held His people in servitude was darkness; over His Own people who
served Him was Light. We need to not overlook 4 little words in vs. 21: “they will feel
darkness”. The Egyptians felt the darkness, the Israelites felt the light. How does one FEEL
darkness or light? Ah, remember in our first lesson of Torah, when we studied Creation, and
we found that when God created light in Gen.1: 3, that it was different than the type of lights
used to create visual light waves, which occurred in Gen 1:14. The word used for the “light”
that would remain over Israel in Goshen, in Exodus 10 vs. 23, is the same exact word that God
used in Genesis 1:3. In Hebrew the word is “owr”, and in a nutshell it means “enlightenment”.
That is, good, as opposed to evil. The truth, as opposed to a lie. When you switch on a lamp,
you get visual light, the type of light talked about in Gen 1:14. When you hear from God, you
get spiritual light…. Enlightenment, the type of light talked about in Gen 1:3. See the difference?
Well, we talked about the light over the Hebrews, so what kind of “darkness” was over
Egyptians? Again, the same exact Hebrew word used in Genesis to describe the opposite of
“owr”, enlightenment. That word is “chosek”. And, it means darkness not like “nighttime”, but
a very negative darkness. A kind that blots out good. A kind that leads men into wrong. Evil.
The exact same wordplay at the beginning of Genesis when God creates a distinction between
God’s enlightenment, and spiritual depravity, light vs. dark, is used right here in Exodus to
describe the condition of Egypt, darkness, as opposed to the condition of Israel, enlightenment.
Yet, the account also makes it clear that VISUAL light and darkness was also involved. So, let
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us not make a metaphor out of Vs 23 where it says a man could not see his brother, nor could
he arise from his spot, or as the CJB says, People couldn’t see each other. What kind of
circumstance could cause such dense visual darkness? I mean, just being without sunlight, or
even moonlight, would not have created such a darkness as is being described here. The
Egyptians, as all other cultures, knew how to deal with nighttime; they had oil lamps, and fire
pits, and torches… all manner of way of going about their business after dark. The idea that no
one could “move from his spot”, that is, they couldn’t even see to move around, does not
reflect a typical nighttime experience. No, this was not three 24-hour periods of nighttime.
There are natural conditions that happen from time to time, which brings a type of darkness in
which the darkness actually seems to absorb the light. Being from California, I have
encountered two of these conditions: fog, and a dust storm. I have been on Highway 101
outside Santa Barbara when the fog was so dense, that one’s high beams wouldn’t penetrate
any more than 5 or 6 feet in front of the car……and I mean that in the most literal possible sense.
I’ve also been in sand storms in the desert, where the sun was blotted out at midday.
But, in Egypt, there came occasionally a brutal type of dust storm called a Chamsin. Every few
years, a combination of conditions collided that caused the air itself to become charged with
static electricity, which literally lifts and suspends super fine particles of dust in the air;
alongside the coarser particles of sand that the fierce winds normally carry. If anyone here has
spent any time in super dry climates, you know that static electricity is a normal everyday
phenomenon that one must deal with; clothing sticks to other clothing, you get shocked just
grabbing the handle of a car door, pull a wool sweater over your head in a darkened room, and
you’ll get a light show from the static discharge that occurs. These Chamsin dust storms turn
day into night. And, especially in ancient times, when doors didn’t seal, and windows were just
open holes in the wall, dust came indoors quite easily. Indoors, you can escape the winds and
the sandblast effect of the storm; but you can’t escape the thick dust clouds caused by the
electrically charged air. Indoors became dark as well. Even oil lamps didn’t help. Mobility
ended.
I suspect this is what occurred as far as the visual element of light is concerned. Otherwise, it
would be out of character with the 8 previous plagues that all involved natural elements of
nature. Of course, this Chamsin was of supernatural origin, and was several times more
ferocious than as happens by itself in nature. So fierce was it that it frightened Pharaoh and the
Egyptian people out of their wits. But, the real fright undoubtedly came in the “feeling” of the
“chosek”, the spiritual darkness, evil that covered them like a blanket. The type that makes the
hairs on the back of your neck stand on end when you can’t see anything evil or dangerous,
but you can sense it. This was a time of real horror for Egypt. But, in the same land, the
Israelites were celebrating with joy!
This 9th plague of Exodus is just like the irony of being a Believer in this present world;
darkness, “chosek”, and enlightenment “owr”, exist side-by-side. We, who are covered with
God’s light, live in the same space and breathe the same air as the majority of the world who
are under a blanket of darkness. At the same time that we can have our hearts broken and
weep for those who are in servitude to the prince of the darkness, we can and should celebrate
that God’s enlightenment is upon us and everyone who trusts Him. BTW: notice that ONLY
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Israel received light. It’s no different today. We non-Israelites by birth, through Jesus, have
been JOINED to Israel’s covenants. That, which benefits Israel, now benefits us.
So, Pharaoh sends out an urgent call for Moses; and still this foolish, rebellious king tries to
bargain with God (we’ve never tried to bargain with God, right?). After the previous stroke, he
had agreed to let only the Israelite males go to worship Yahweh. Now he says, if Moses will get
God to call off the darkness, all Israel can go, man and woman, girl and boy, young and
old…….however, their livestock must be left behind.
Moses declines the offer, and says that everything must go. Why? Because, it says in Vs26,
Yahweh has called Israel to serve Him and sacrifice to Him……..but they don’t know exactly
what this is to involve. In other words, maybe God will want ALL their livestock, maybe he
won’t want any. Maybe he’ll want Sheep, maybe cattle. They haven’t been told. So, the only
thing they can do is to take all their people and all their possessions into the desert, set them
before God, and see what it is He might demand of them. Did you catch that? Here is another
permanent God-principle that just bursts out of nowhere. We are to submit all that we have and
all that we are…..ourselves, our families, every possession…..before God, because we cannot
possibly know at any given moment what it is He will demand of us. We must go forward in
faith and trust, holding nothing back. Nothing. It is all His, and His to give or take as so pleases
Him. Yet, what is our typical response? Ok God, you can have everything but this…..or this……or
this. You can have me; just don’t take my job, my health, my wife, and my kids. Those things
that the Israelites would have left behind at Pharaoh’s orders would have remained in
servitude, so Moses HAD to refuse. Everything we leave behind, but still possess; everything
that we do not take with us to present to God, when we approach the Cross, stays in
Egypt…..stays in bondage and servitude, and is therefore not available to serve God. God has
made it clear that EVERYTHING we are and possess is to be put before Him, when we turn
our life over to Him.
Neither Moses nor Pharaoh would budge; Moses won’t leave without the livestock, and
Pharaoh won’t let Israel go with it. Pharaoh orders Moses to leave his presence, and never
come back. Because if he ever approaches Pharaoh again, Moses will be put to death.
Pharaoh has, by his own words, sealed his and his people’s fate. There will be no more
opportunities to avoid judgment. God does not strive with man forever. It ends, and we don’t
know ahead of time exactly when that day or hour is. But, when it does end, when God decides
to turn us over to our innate wickedness, all hope of redemption vanishes, forever. Scarey,
scarey thought……and terribly, terribly true.
READ CHAPTER 11 all
Judgment. What we will see in Chapters 11 and 12 is judgment. What is judgment? It’s the
time at which we receive what is due us, according to God’s system of justice. In the Bible,
judgment almost always results in a negative consequence. We all, saved and unsaved, are
going to be judged. If we’re saved, however, if we trust God by way of His son Yeshua, we will
NOT be condemned, we will not be the subjects of God’s wrath. If we are not saved, we WILL
be condemned. Pharaoh, and Egypt, had been given 9 chances of accepting God’s will, and
obeying Him. This 10th blow upon Egypt brings with it NO choices…this is not yet another
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warning, another chance for Pharaoh and Egypt to repent…..the time for warnings and choices
has passed. Egypt’s fate is now in etched in concrete. This so-called 10th plague equates to
what happens when we die, and then stand before God. Some will live forever in darkness
(remember the Hebrew word for spiritual darkness, “Chosek”?) others will live forever in
light…the Hebrew word for this light, this enlightenment, is “owr”. From this condition, whether
it is light or darkness, there will be NO change, no opportunity for change, for all eternity.
Now, the first 3 verses of chapter 11 were either spoken to Moses BEFORE or during the last
audience Moses had with Pharaoh. In other words, we saw in Chapter 10, after Pharaoh called
for Moses when God covered Egypt with “chosek”, spiritual darkness, and with visual
darkness; then when Moses refused Pharaoh’s offer for all Israel to leave with the condition of
leaving their livestock behind, Pharaoh told Moses in a fit of rage NEVER to come back again.
Well, now we find out in Ex. 11:8 that during that same conversation, Moses had raged right
back at Pharaoh. And, we see that not only did Moses refuse Pharaoh’s offer, but also Moses
told him that THAT night, about midnight, all of Egypt’s firstborn would die. That included,
according to vs.5, even the livestock. But, the Israelites would not be affected…..they or their
livestock.
Now, while I don’t blame Cecil B. DeMille for depicting that which killed the Egyptian firstborn
as a green cloud of death floating menacingly around all the streets of Egypt (I mean, he had
to show something), it does kind of give us a wrong impression. I have even heard Bible
Teachers say that it was the “angel of death” that wandered throughout all of Egypt, and killed
the Egyptian firstborn. No, it was not. It was Yahweh HIMSELF who took all those lives. How,
exactly, that occurred, we don’t know, except that it was by Almighty God’s very own hand
that the life of the firstborns was extinguished. Vs 1 says that Yahweh, not the Lord, Adonai, or
malach Adonai, or anything else…..YAHWEH says, “I will bring one more plague”. And then in
vs. 4 says “Here is what YAHWEH says, about midnight I will go out…..” and kill all the firstborn
of Egypt.
And, after this terrible judgment, God says NOW Pharaoh will release you. In fact, he is going
to drive you out of Egypt. But, before Israel leaves, they are to strip Egypt. They are to ask for
Gold and Silver from the Egyptian people. And, they’ll get all they ask for. Because vs. 3 says
that the Hebrews “found favor” in the eyes of the Egyptians, and that they saw Moses was a
very great man. Translation….. here, take anything you want, we can’t fight Moses or your God.
Just leave us. To the bulk of the Egyptian people, Moses was just a powerful sorcerer….. more
powerful than Egypt’s magicians. And, they had no more interest in testing him further.
Frankly, this was no different from the Egyptians perspective than if a robber was holding a
knife at their throat, and it was a money-or-your-life deal. And, interestingly, to this very day
that’s how the Egyptians see it….. as theft. If you or any of your friends have doubts about
whether Israel was ever in Egypt, or that there was even an Exodus (which, by the way, has
become a very popular theme in the more liberal denominations), just tell them to ask a
modern day Egyptian about it. The anger over Israel taking all that gold and silver from Egypt
has remained a bitter sore spot in the heart of the Egyptian people right up to modern
times….3400 years later.
Let us not overlook just what is at the bottom of this decision by God to crush Egypt with
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these supernatural devastations and then the plundering of their Gold and Silver: for God
reminds us, in vs.7, that this is ALL done “in order that you may know that Yahweh makes a
distinction between Egypt and Israel”. We keep hearing this over and over in the Exodus story
of the Plagues, don’t we? That God makes a distinction between Israel and Egypt. When God
keeps repeating something, it’s a sure bet we need to pay attention. So, let us not EVER think
that this setting apart of Israel from the rest of world is some minor or remote issue, or has
changed or become obsolete. Remember, from a Biblical standpoint Egypt, which is real and
tangible, also is a “type”. That is, Egypt is representative of the world at large…all those NOT
joined to Israel. To this very day, and to the end of time, God sees the world as Israel, and
everybody else. Where does that leave us, gentile believers? Thankfully, with Israel, as part of
Israel. This is one good reason to follow God’s directive to bless Israel. For when we are
blessing Israel, we are also blessing ourselves. Romans 9, 10, and 11 covers this in great
detail, but it can be somewhat summed up by Romans 11:17 where Paul says in his Olive Tree
analogy, “ But if some of the branches were broken off, and YOU (gentile believer) a wild olive
were grafted in among them and have become equal sharers in the rich root of the olive
tree…..” Israel is symbolized in Scripture as the Olive Tree. And, in Romans 11:24 “For if you
(gentiles) were cut out of what is by nature a wild olive tree and grafted, contrary to nature, into
a cultivated Olive Tree (Israel), how much more will these natural branches (those Israelites
that were cut off because of disbelief) be grafted back into their own Olive Tree”.
In other words, from God’s spiritual perspective, a gentile believer is grafted into the
covenants of Israel. And, it is those covenants that, from a spiritual aspect, makes Israel,
Israel, and separates them from everyone else. God did NOT give His covenants to gentiles.
They went ONLY to Israel. By trusting in Jesus as Lord and Messiah, however, we are grafted
into the covenants of Israel. No, I’m not saying you became a Jew when you became saved.
There are physical Jews and physical gentiles. But, by God’s reckoning, neither a physical
Jew NOR a physical gentile automatically belongs to True, Spiritual, Israel…. or, as Paul calls it,
the Israel of God. Only those Jews and gentiles who believe and trust Jesus. Again, I caution
you, I am NOT saying that a physical member of the tribe of Israel is now no longer an
Israelite. I’m saying that there is an earthly, fleshly, physical perspective on the one hand; and
there is a spiritual, heavenly perspective that God has on the other. Salvation, deliverance,
concerns ONLY the spiritual, not the physical, perspective. God did not come to save our flesh;
he came to save our eternal souls.
What we need to come away from this with for our study of Torah is that God made and
DEMONSTRATED a distinction between Israel and everyone else…here, in Exodus, it’s
between Israel and the Egyptians. This is such an important foundational principle…. Israel was
set apart…set apart to be God’s special people. When we hear the commonly used church-
word “sanctification”, it simply means to be “set apart” for God. And, this is NOT an OT
distinction that has dissolved. It remains intact in the NT as well. Jesus did NOT end this
distinction between Israel and the world…. my goodness, He, Himself, was a Jew, an Israelite,
and made a point of letting people know that. He simply provided a NEW and lasting way for
gentiles to partake of, to be grafted into Israel’s covenants, by means of His own blood. But,
do not misunderstand; even the New Covenant was not a covenant between God and gentiles;
it was a covenant with Israel. We won’t go any further with that for now, because that is all a
very long lesson in itself.
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Let’s back up for a moment. It was DURING these 3 days of darkness (chosek) that had fallen
upon Egypt that Moses pronounced to Pharaoh the coming death of the firstborn. Did you
catch that? Yet, while all Egypt was cowering under the horror of the complete absence of light
and the blanket of evil that lay over them, Israel was celebrating joyously for they were
experiencing light. They knew the time of deliverance was near. In fact, during that time of
darkness for Egypt Israel had, 4 days before Yahweh would go throughout Egypt killing all the
firstborn already selected their Passover lambs, and this according to God’s instructions. This
would become the establishment of, and the very first, Passover.
Now, let’s fast-forward about 1400 years to 30 AD. We’re in Jerusalem, and it’s Passover (in
Hebrew, Pesach). Yeshua has completed His Passover meal in the company of His 12
disciples the evening before, and now is nailed, bleeding and suffocating, on the execution
stake. But, before death takes him, the land suddenly becomes covered in thick, terrifying
darkness. Yeshua, our Passover lamb, was selected and sacrificed when all was dark, literally
and spiritually, for the world. Yet, in Heaven, great joyousness was taking place, for
deliverance was at hand. There should have been great celebration in Jerusalem, among the
Jews, as well. But, they were blinded to the truth, and could not see that Christ WAS their
deliverance; He was their Passover lamb.
Let’s fast-forward again, now 2000 years from Christ’s passion, to today. Our world is
becoming darker and darker. Spiritually, our entire planet is becoming so evil and rebellious
and is under “chosek”……spiritual darkness. It is hard to not be despondent, and feel full of
hopelessness and despair and confusion as we watch our world reeling out of control. But, as
believers, those of us set apart, sanctified for God, what should our reaction be? The same as
those Israelites in Egypt, as we’re reading about in Exodus; celebration. Though those who do
not know God are in darkness, and about to experience eternal spiritual death, we who DO
know God live in His light, and are about to experience deliverance into eternal light. The
example for how we are to live during these last days, as each day reveals new and deeper
levels of man’s wickedness and depravity, is right here in Exodus; we can and SHOULD
actually take it from God’s perspective…. Final and complete deliverance. Yet, like the
Israelites, our joy is bittersweet. Like those Israelites, we all have friends and relatives and
neighbors that made the choice to join with the world and all of its darkness. The sad fact is
that until Jesus reigns on Earth, light and darkness, death and life, will rule simultaneously.
Let’s stop here and we’ll pick up next week.
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