Israel Sent Out

The completion of a mighty work. The children of Israel did not win their own freedom. Crying about the injustice of their slavery did not change Pharaoh’s heart. They were powerless to save themselves. Though they represented the authentic, they could not separate from the artificial.

Exhausted slaves – nothing they could have ever done would release them from this plight. Destined for generations and perhaps millennia of slavery.

God alone saved them.

Even so, they had to participate in their saving. They could have been destroyed with their slave masters. They could have chosen the artificial over the authentic.

With the sprinkled blood of a lamb, they chose.

We talk about authenticity, but virtue only matters to the extent that it gives you the freedom to do God’s will.