The Exodus

                                                                

 Exodus 12:33-42

 August 28, 2024

 

 The Exodus

The Egyptians were urgent with the people to send them out of the land in haste. For they said, “We shall all be dead.”  So, the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading bowls being bound up in their cloaks on their shoulders.  The people of Israel had also done as Moses told them, for they had asked the Egyptians for silver and gold jewelry and for clothing.  And the Lord had given the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians so that they let them have what they asked. Thus, they plundered the Egyptians.

And the people of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides women and children.  A mixed multitude also went up with them, and very much livestock, both flocks and herds.  And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough that they had brought out of Egypt, for it was not leavened, because they were thrust out of Egypt and could not wait, nor had they prepared any provisions for themselves.

The time that the people of Israel lived in Egypt was 430 years.  At the end of 430 years, on that very day, all the hosts of the Lord went out from the land of Egypt.  It was a night of watching by the Lord, to bring them out of the land of Egypt; so, this same night is a night of watching kept to the Lord by all the people of Israel throughout their generations.

 

I hope you and all the people who read this understand that it was not Moses or Aaron freeing the people; it was all God.  It was God who gave them favor in the sight of the Egyptians, to give them anything they asked for.  This question, why then do we not go to God to win the favor of our neighbors, fellow workers, and others?

 

“ A mixed multitude also went up with them.”  I wanted to know who these people were, and after searching, I came to the conclusion that no one knows..  This is what the Smith Bible dictionary had this to say: “When the Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, the first stage of the exodus from Egypt, there were with them a mixed multitude." ( Exodus 12:38; Numbers 11:4 ) They were probably the offspring of marriages contracted between the Israelites and the Egyptians; and the term may also include all those who were not of pure Israelite blood. In Exodus and Numbers, it probably denoted the miscellaneous hangers-on of the Hebrew camp, whether they were the issue of spurious marriages with Egyptians or were themselves Egyptians, or belonged to other nations.”

 

Today, our brothers and sisters in Christ in Israel are involved in a war.  Are you asking God to give them victory and favor with the neighboring countries?  You, like me, who live in the USA, are seeing a media that looks like the one in Russia and China, government-run, full of lies, and the Biden and Harris handlers are the source of those lies.  The many agencies that are lying and attacking anyone who is a SEEKER OF TRUTH.

 

One must ask if God is aware of this evil, and the answer is 100% yes.  God often allows evil people to bring judgment on His people when they go after the little gods of this world.  It has been a long time since we were subject to England, it has been a long time since WW1 and WW11, when we saved Europe from slavery, and yes, we also fought the Communists to keep some of Korea free.  And Vietnam, where we lost over 50,000 people with no will to win.  I’m very sure that if invaded, we will not see Europe coming to our defense; our only hope is God. 

From the Back Porch,

 

Bob Rice