Day 85 - Exodus 14

By: Norman W. Berry

Narrator: Chris Genthree

• 1 min. read • grade level: 8

V.1-4 The long journey commences. The Lord told Moses exactly where to go. That’s all we believers need to realize He guides. But we need to obey.

V.5 Pharaoh quickly forgets what God had done (See Ex. 12:29-31²⁹And it came to pass, that at midnight the Lord smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle. ³⁰And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house where there was not one dead. ³¹And he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Rise up, and get you forth from among my people, both ye and the children of Israel; and go, serve the Lord, as ye have said. (Exodus 12:29‑31)).

V.9-14 Outwardly it looked as if everything was against the Israelites. Even they themselves became discouraged and afraid.

V.15 The Lord said “go forward.” It is only by putting into practice in our lives the truth of God, that the power of God will be seen by us.

V.19-20 What a tremendous miracle!

V.24-25 The Lord does what no one else could do, and even the Egyptians knew it.

V.26-28 But they were too late! Remember Genesis 6:3³And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. (Genesis 6:3).

V.29-31 What a difference for Israel saved by the Lord, their enemies all dead, the Lord Himself their confidence (Read Rom. 7:24-25; 8:1-4²⁴O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? ²⁵I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin. (Romans 7:24‑25)
¹There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. ²For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. ³For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: ⁴That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. (Romans 8:1‑4)).

Try to understand that the time between chapters 13 and 14 is like a believer today who has been redeemed by the blood of Christ, but does not have assurance that he (she) has been delivered from the power of Satan. But when they saw all the Egyptian army drowned, they knew they were delivered.

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