Exodus 5: 1, 2: “And afterward Moses and Aaron went in, and told Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Let my people go, that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness. And Pharaoh said, Who is the LORD, that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? I know not the LORD, neither will I let Israel go.”
There is a parable in Matthew 21 :28-31 where the Lord talks about a man who had two sons. He asked both of them to work in his vineyard one said “yes” and didn’t go while the other said “no” but did go. The son who said “no” but went to the vineyard did what his father asked. This is also true of Moses, he gave excuses and tried to avoid doing the job that the Lord called him to do but, eventually, he went into Pharaoh’s palace and made the request that the Lord had asked him to make. Moses obeyed the Lord because he did what the Lord told him to do. There have been so many people throughout the ages who have professed to be the Lord’s servants but they don’t do what the Lord tells them to do, they redefine the Lord’s word and then do whatever they want to do. Pharaoh knew Moses because Moses had grown up in the same household as he had but when Moses came he refused to listen to the Lord. Some people might suggest that the Lord is unjust here because Pharaoh worshipped the gods of the Egyptians and didn’t know the Lord. The apostle Paul shows that to be a lie (see Rom 1: 19-21, “Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.”) When the Lord told Moses to say that “I am hath sent me” (Ex 3: 14) He was letting Pharaoh know that the Lord is the God who made everything and Whose glory is displayed every day and every night. Pharaoh spoke about the Lord with a foolish heart and he reaped the rewards of the choice that he had made.
(The view expressed in this blog are my own and should not be taken as inspired in any way.)
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