You have not rescued your people at all. (Exodus 5:22)Okay, let's recap some of what we've been talking about over the past few days. On Day 14 Jacob was singing, Gloom, despair and agony on me. On Day 15, he exclaimed: My son Joseph is still alive! On Day 16, Joseph told his brothers: What you intended for evil, God intended for good. Leave Genesis behind and open Exodus. Day 17: The Israelites groaned in their slavery and cried out to God. And today, with things apparently taking a turn for the worse, Moses accuses God: You have not rescued your people at all.
If we've learned anything at all, even if we were completely unfamiliar with this storyline, we should probably know that the fat lady hasn't sung yet. Sometimes God's plan may require things to get worse before they get better.
I found it interesting that God told Moses to go go Egypt and rescue his people, and after Moses took his wife and children and they were on the way there, that God then tried to kill Moses! I understand that Moses had to follow God's commandment about circumcism for his son to be under God's convenant, but you would think God would tell Moses this needed to be done before they left for Egypt. Maybe Jethro, being a priest as well as the father-in-law, would not permit it while they lived there -- and once God got Moses away from his father-in-law, then he could deal with Moses and make sure that this was done?
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