Exodus 5: 10-14: “And the taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spake to the people, saying, Thus saith Pharaoh, I will not give you straw. Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it: yet not ought of your work shall be diminished. So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble instead of straw. And the taskmasters hasted them, saying, Fulfil your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw. And the officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded, Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick both yesterday and to day, as heretofore?”
Pharaoh was so determined to show that he was more powerful than the Lord that he decided to punish the Israelis for the request that Moses made. There are many people who defy the Lord and try to show that He is unable to do what He wants to do. The major problem is that the Lords will happens whether we like it or not. Before the world was created the Lord had established a sure principle: actions always have consequences (compare Gal 6: 7, “Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.”). We may even try to make laws that separate action and consequence but we will never be able to escape the inevitability of the Lord’s Divine processes. Not only did the Lord define that basic principle, He also preplanned the way to allow sinners to come back to God, sinners who chose to ignore His gracious love. He sent His only begotten Son the be the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world. Israel suffered in the short term but Pharaoh eventually went to the place that he chose when he refused to accept that the Lord is the Lord.
(The view expressed in this blog are my own and should not be taken as inspired in any way.)
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