Exiting Egypt Chapter 11 P2

Exiting Egypt

“The Beginning of the End”

Exodus 11:1-10

By Dennis Lee: Chapter 11 P2

And so, God had no choice but to launch one last final plague of judgment that would settle this issue once and for all in order to release the Jews from their captivity. And so this last plague is the beginning of the end for Egypt, and the end of Jewish slavery and the beginning of a new nation.

Read Ex. 11:1-10

Moses was to announce one more plague. The Hebrew word for plague that is used here means something far worse than a sorrowful event. The word means a blow or a stroke being landed. Thus, this tenth plague was to bring far more then just grief, rather it would be a blow against Egypt by God’s own hand that would cause Pharaoh to free God’s people. In fact, the blow would cause such havoc that it says that Pharaoh would literally drive Israel out of the land.

In other words, Pharaoh isn’t just going to let them go, he’s going to kick them out, toss them out on their ear, after this last great judgment that is going to come directly from the hand of God. Maybe we can say that Pharaoh is going to facilitate their departure from the land.

God then charges Moses to instruct the Jewish people to go to their neighbors, or go to those who are Egyptians, not Jewish, and ask for silver and gold. You might call this back payment for wages earned as they were forced to work as slaves.

And the Egyptians were glad to give it to them, for no other reason that to see the backside of them, but also as to what God said. The Egyptians gave because God had stirred within their hearts to favor the Jews instead of distaining them as they had for all these years. God had aroused within the Egyptians fear from the plagues that he had already sent upon then while protecting the Jews. So the Egyptians feared the Jews because the power of the Lord God was working on their behalf delivering them.