Exiting Egypt
“The Beginning of the End”
Exodus 11:1-10
By Dennis Lee: Chapter 11 P1
Egypt was facing an economic crisis of, shall I say, biblical proportions. The plagues have caused some real damage to the economy, from most of the livestock dieing out due to disease and the fiery hailstorm, to the crops being utterly destroyed by the hailstorm and then the locusts. There was nothing left. The devastation was catastrophic.
And then on top of all that, they were expected to give up their last remnant of economic stability, which was the freedom of their Jewish slaves. Now who would do the work? It is estimated that there were over 2 million Jews at that time. If Egypt freed the Jews, then the work force that they would need to rebuild their economy would be gone.
What I find sad is that the truth about the one and true living God was foreign to them, even after the plagues they just experienced. What happened to them is what happens to most people who don’t know the Lord, they think of themselves as superior. The Egyptians were the biggest and baddest on the block, a superior race who considered themselves more intelligent, wealthier, and more powerful than everyone else.
And so what happened is that God’s patience had now ended. Everybody must remember this one fact, that there is an end to God’s patience, or as I have said before, don’t mistake God’s longsuffering with His forever suffering.
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