I used to be a high school history teacher. I enjoyed reading and narrating the independence of many countries including the French Revolution, the American Independence. Exodus tells us of a fantastic account of the independence of Israel.
The story of Moses vs. Pharoah is so fantastic that most scholars take it as fiction or mythology. At the same time, many archeologists keep finding evidence that everything written about in the the second book of the Bible was history, not fiction.
However you see it - as a parable or as history - please focus on the message: God can win your battles. This war of independence is so unique because the Hebrew people did not pick up one single weapon to fight their emperor. God orchestrated every attack, every plague.
This is a constant theme in the Old Testament. Hundreds of years after Moses, other Bible authors narrate different battles where His people did not have to fight. Just sit and watch. Of course, there are many other battles where His people actually wielded weapons and God gave them the victory just as He constantly did with David, since his first battle with the giant.
The slaves in the book of Exodus wanted freedom. Moses as their leader could have drawn up a plan. But God surprised them with the most incredible plan of attack: bloody rivers, frogs, darkness, etc.
If you are facing an impossible situation, you need to find a way to tune your mind and soul to the fact that God is on your side and beg Him to surprise you with an amazing, divine intervention that trumps any human expectations.
- Enrique Govea -
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