God Has to Intervene so Peoples Know Him
5 The Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I stretch out my hand against Egypt and bring out the people of Israel from among them.”
After any disaster and/or crushing event, we often hear people ask, “Where was God?” We seem to hear this when we see something bad happen to us or in the world around us. The philosopher would say that God is either lacking in power to prevent these bad things to happen to mankind, or, He has power and is just uninterested in intervening. But, God might have another answer/reason that we see stated in the above verse. This verse is taken out of the passage where God is telling Moses to go to Pharoah (the leader of the Egyptian world), to release God’s people (Israel). Pharaoh does not want to let the people go, as he has free slave labor to build his kingdom. God wants to make a point to Pharaoh and to Egypt. God wants to let them know just Who He is. Earlier, Pharaoh had ask:
2 But Pharaoh said, “Who is the LORD, that I should obey his voice and let Israel go? I do not know the LORD, and moreover, I will not let Israel go.”
God is about to show him who He is. In fact, that is the point of all the miracles. God is going to show these Egyptians, through the disasters He brings upon their nation, just who God is. But, the Egyptians are not the only people God is speaking to. Note:
2 God spoke to Moses and said to him, “I am the LORD. 3 I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty, but by my name the LORD I did not make myself known to them. 4 I also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, the land in which they lived as sojourners. 5 Moreover, I have heard the groaning of the people of Israel whom the Egyptians hold as slaves, and I have remembered my covenant.
Not only will Egypt know God through theses disasters, so, too, will the nation of Israel. God, at times, creates disaster to show His power and His intervention in the lives of mankind.
5 I am the LORD, and there is no other,
besides me there is no God;
I equip you, though you do not know me,
6 that people may know, from the rising of the sun
and from the west, that there is none besides me;
I am the LORD, and there is no other.
7 I form light and create darkness;
I make well-being and create calamity;
I am the LORD, who does all these things.
Perhaps we would be wise to quit apologizing for God and give Him credit for the disasters. He uses them to make His name known and to causes mankind do repent and do His will.
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