Exodus 5: instead of listening to Moses and Aaron to let the people go and take a three day journey into the wilderness so they can worship God, the King of Egypt objects the idea. Instead Pharaoh takes immediate action and sends down orders to the slave-drivers and their underlings: “Don’t provide straw for the people for making bricks as you have been doing. Make them get their own straw. And make them produce the same number of bricks—no reduction in their daily quotas! " wow ... that's harsh. On top, he calls the people lazy and tells them to stop whining, their god-fantasies.
Exodus 6: Moses disbelievingly objects the idea that he can convince the King of Egypt to the people leave. One reason is that he feels incapable as he points out that "Look at me. I stutter. Why would Pharaoh listen to me?” So Moses looks at this situation only with physical eyes instead of believing in the invisible acts of God. But despite, God does not give up on him and assures him the following: "I am God. I will bring you out from under the cruel hard labor of Egypt. I will rescue you from slavery. I will redeem you, intervening with great acts of judgment. I’ll take you as my own people and I’ll be God to you. You’ll know that I am God, your God who brings you out from under the cruel hard labor of Egypt. I’ll bring you into the land that I promised to give Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and give it to you as your own country. I AM God.”
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Exodus 5: instead of listening to Moses and Aaron to let the people go and take a three day journey into the wilderness so they can worship God, the King of Egypt objects the idea. Instead
Pharaoh takes immediate action and sends down orders to the slave-drivers and their underlings: “Don’t provide straw for the people for making bricks as you have been doing. Make them get their own straw. And make them produce the same number of bricks—no reduction in their daily quotas! " wow ... that's harsh. On top, he calls the people lazy and tells them to stop whining, their god-fantasies.
Exodus 6: Moses disbelievingly objects the idea that he can convince the King of Egypt to the people leave. One reason is that he feels incapable as he points out that "Look at me. I stutter. Why would Pharaoh listen to me?” So Moses looks at this situation only with physical eyes instead of believing in the invisible acts of God. But despite, God does not give up on him and assures him the following: "I am God. I will bring you out from under the cruel hard labor of Egypt. I will rescue you from slavery. I will redeem you, intervening with great acts of judgment. I’ll take you as my own people and I’ll be God to you. You’ll know that I am God, your God who brings you out from under the cruel hard labor of Egypt. I’ll bring you into the land that I promised to give Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and give it to you as your own country. I AM God.”
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