I know
that it’s not the Passover season; for it’s the beginning of winter and the end
of fall. It’s almost time for Thanksgiving, and Christmas—who’s thinking about
Passover and the days of unleavened bread this early? Well, I am for a reason.
You see, the children of Israel were in Egypt since Joseph and Jacob’s family
went down there to stay for a while. 70 people from Israel’s family went down,
and they stayed in Goshen because the Pharaoh was a good king and loved Joseph,
and wanted his family to stay in the best of the land, so they did. The story
of Joseph is an interesting bible study: how he was sold into slavery and went
into prison and became the second in command of Egypt. It’s a cool story to
tell any youth about always having hope and belief in God, and most
importantly, how to forgive. Joseph was treated like crap by so many people,
and he still had the strength to forgive—how amazing a character. The Egyptians
and their king took notice of this man, and Israel grew and multiplied.
Well,
Joseph and his brothers died, and eventually a king of the land was raised up
by God to not know the good character and the lessons of Joseph. This pharaoh
saw that the children of Israel—who were about 3 million strong at the
time—were mightier than the Egyptians, so to make sure that they never escaped
or fought against the Egyptians in battle, the king ordered the Israelites to
be slaves and set taskmasters over them. The bible doesn’t go into very much
detail about how hard the treatment of the Israelites were at the time—except
when Moses and Aaron tried to convince the pharaoh to let them go and he
wouldn’t. The king made the work more difficult for Israel by not giving them
straw for bricks, and they couldn’t downgrade from their daily quota. Israel
was scattered throughout the land to find materials for bricks. That’s the only
incident recorded of how bad their slavery was. If you want to know the
harshness of slavery, America has a good history of it before the civil war. I
would recommend reading Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
One of the
things that happened during Israel’s slavery was the fact that no matter how
hard they were being treated, they always had families to come home too, and
they got comfort and love from their wives. Israel was getting more and more
children even with the bondage; this was a problem for the Egyptians. So,
Pharaoh commanded the midwives to kill the male children and leave the girls
alive, but they didn’t obey and made an excuse about why they didn’t do it. God
gave them a reward for obeying Him. But, this didn’t stop pharaoh, he told all
the Egyptians to kill the Israelite male children by throwing them in the river
to die. This was a cruel time for Israel: hard bondage, children being
murdered, and an evil king fighting against them to oppress them—all this before
Israel even knew about the Passover. They needed a deliverer, and they got one.
Moses was born at this time, and was hidden by his mother for three months.
When she couldn’t hide him anymore, she made something to make sure he floated
n the river. She did what the king wanted to do.
If you
know the story of Moses, he was found by the daughter of Pharaoh and was
adopted by her. He became great in the king’s court, yet knew about his
Israelite heritage. He rescued a Hebrew man from an Egyptian by killing the
Egyptian, but it was known by the king and he ran away to Median in Arabia
today. God chose Moses to save Israel from their bondage, and bring them to the
promise land. The movie “The Prince of Egypt” showed an animated version of
this classic story. God acknowledged Israel, and saw their worth even though
they never could see it themselves. God did the same acknowledgement to the
Black men and women in bondage before the civil war. God brought about the war
between the states because of that cruel bondage that was destroying America.
God raised up a deliverer in Abraham Lincoln to save the Union and get rid of
Slavery—which he did through the 13th amendment to the constitution.
That war killed about 600,000 to 800,000 men—which was the most of any American
war.
Why am I
telling you all this? Well, a cry for deliverance is being heard by God once
again. It’s not the bondage of slavery in America, but the blood of the unborn.
The cry of the unborn since Roe vs. Wade has come to Heaven, and like the Egyptians
in the past, we’ll have to pay a price for this—if we don’t stop it. God gave
blood to the Egyptians to drink because of the blood of the Hebrew male
children in the river that died, and it was just—how much more to us in America
for our decision to murder the unborn since 1973. The biggest issue with Brent
Kavanaugh’s nomination was the fact that he was the swing vote in the Supreme
Court to overturn Roe Vs Wade, and that angered the democrats and the left who
wanted to continue murdering babies in the name of women’s right to prochoice. This
abomination can’t go on forever, and God hears the cries of the unborn like He
heard the cries of Hebrew boys in the Nile. Will a Moses of today’s generation
rise up to face the Pharaoh’s of our modern day? We need one now.
