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| Exodus 10:7-11 |
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Lesson # Exodus 10:7-11 Study Material - Exodus 10:7-11 You must be in fellowship prior to your Bible study, so that the spiritual information you receive can become a source of blessing to your soul and produce spiritual growth. Ex. 10:7-11 7 And Pharaoh's servants said to him, 'How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve the LORD their God. Do you not realize that Egypt is destroyed?' 8 So Moses and Aaron were brought back to Pharaoh, and he said to them, 'Go, serve the LORD your God! Who are the ones that are going?' 9 And Moses said, 'We shall go with our young and our old; with our sons and our daughters, with our flocks and our herds we will go, for we must hold a feast to the LORD.' 10 Then he said to them, 'Thus may the LORD be with you, if ever I let you and your little ones go! Take heed, for evil is in your mind. 11 Not so! Go now, the men among you, and serve the LORD, for that is what you desire.' So they were driven out from Pharaoh's presence. He whom God intends to destroy, is first consumed by his own arrogance, followed by loss of total self control to the point of his own self destruction. Arrogance also promotes inconsistency in ones own policy. Pharaoh here vacillates in his attitude toward the Hebrews. His counsels seem to be on their own edge. The losses to Egypt have been great thus far and now there is a huge threat of a plague of locusts that if they did materialize in the country, then the country would be devastated. So the reasoning is not to simply get rid of Moses and his people. They are nothing but a threat to Egypt, and if Egypt is poor, then the value of slaves for construction projects is diminished as well. After all there are a couple of million of them and they all have to be fed too. Pharaoh calls back Moses and Aaron, but instead of releasing al of the people, he negotiates just who will leave to worship God and who will be required to remain in Egypt. Hostages in other words. If the women and children are required to stay, then the men must return. Pharaoh suspects the Hebrews of deceptive motives. Interesting in that, that is exactly what Pharaoh is guilty of himself. And this bring us to a principle of doctrine. Evil people try to ascribe evil traits to others, that they are guilty of themselves. Pharaoh is deceitful and he accuses Moses of being the same. But Moses has never said that he would go with the men only and then return. Moses has said that they will leave, the entire nation, and go out into the desert and worship God. This was originally intended to be a three day journey, a worship service and then return. This was subsequently changed to 'leave the country altogether.' And the intentions were always made clear to Pharaoh. Pharaoh accused Moses of being unfaithful in an earlier conversation, 'What, and take these happy people away from their work?' Moses is also here accused of evil. That is, he is accused of plotting against Pharaoh, and of course Pharaoh is the one who is evil, he maintains slavery on the people when he has no right to do so, and he has never intended to release them despite the many plagues that have devastated Egypt. Pharaoh gives them a warning. They may go to worship, but men only, and then return. If they attempt to take the children, 'the little ones', then pharaoh threatens violence. Now Pharaoh is making the threats! Bullies always threaten violence, and this is the first time that Pharaoh has made such a threat. His anger or rage is apparent in this conversation. His response to Moses' comments that the entire nation was going to leave, was one of rage in its increasingly intense form. Pharaoh was getting to his wits end. He was frustrated. His authority has been challenged in public by no less than a common shepherd and a member of a race of slaves. That is certainly insulting. Furthermore, he has been embarrassed by a God whom he refuses to recognize. Plagues have occurred that he could not control, nor terminate, but had to rely again on this shepherd to stop them for him. The country was in total disarray and near bankruptcy. With no crops, then the storage houses would be drained and starvation was a very real threat until the following year. And with no slaves to work the fields, then even the next years harvest would be in question. Also, the question would arise certainly, 'would there be any seed to even plant for a crop in the first place?' So you can see the problem that Moses has presented to Pharaoh and why Pharaoh was increasingly angry. As well as the more vocal wealthy class has become. The 'servants' of Pharaoh refer not to just his administrative counselors, but to Egyptian citizens. The wealthy princes who have lost much to date, and will lose even more of their assets if this next plague comes upon them. Pharaoh threw the blame off from himself, at least in his own eyes. A politician thinks in this fashion. He gives them something that they clearly do not want, but he infers that this release is what they have requested all along. So now he has given them permission. If anything happens now, then it is not Pharaoh's fault, or so he would like others to think. Negative people want to control the situation, to call the shots, to make the decisions as it were, but they do not want to be held accountable for their role in the outcome especially if it is a bad outcome. Of course they will take credit for any good outcome. Pharaoh is in a position to exercise total control over the lives of others. With but a word he can grant freedom, impose slavery, continue life, or order execution. With such power, Pharaoh or anyone for that matter, is held to a high degree of accountability by God. Anyone who takes advantage of others when they are otherwise helpless, is an abusive person, and will incur Gods wrath sooner or later. God is patient. While demonstrating his power and authority, instilling an education for the Hebrew people and any others who become positive toward God, he is also punishing Pharaoh and his people for their arrogance and making the Hebrew peoples an extremely heavy stone wrapped around their necks. That is where Christ comes into this picture. Positive volition toward Christ brings blessings, freedoms, etc., but negative volition toward God brings the burdens of a failing creation and eternal condemnation, suffering to the extent that people will lose all, unless they change their mind regarding Christ. The eighth plague, the losses that can be seen is upon them. After this, the losses will be in the realm of the unseen and permanent. We all have opportunity to make the right decisions in life. Actually we all have many opportunities. Unfortunately too many vacillate as Pharaoh did. They call on God when it hurts, then they ignore God when the hurt goes away. Then they lose all they have, they are covered in darkness, and their life ends. Then it is too late to change. All opportunity is lost. 
Now is the time to post a prayer. End Of Lesson Study to show thyself approved (mature) unto God, a workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly dividing (studying/discerning), the Word of truth. |
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