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Questions and thoughts
- Why did God harden the heart of Pharaoh?
- In verses 17 and 18, why did God gain glory through Pharaoh instead of the Israelites?
- Why did God let the Egyptians died in the sea, if everybody is the same or equal in God’s eyes? The armies were just following Pharaoh’s instructions.
- How can the God who is full of lover use His power to punish the innocent people just to gain glory for Himself?
- Every man is crated by God. If Pharaoh or men were not good, then God is not good too because they were created by the image of God too.
- How could men choose to do evil instead of good things?
- God is the creator of everything. Why did God create the evil serpent and even humans created by Him can become or can act evilly? Does this show that Go can become evil too?
- Must we believe in God in order to go to heaven and otherwise we will go hell?
- Where does the evil spirit come from?
- How did the division of sea into two happen?
Insights
- Pharaoh was not innocent from his action and treatments of the slavery of Israelites.
- God is the one who defines good and bad ever since the creation of the world in Genesis. So eating the fruit was not merely eating the fruit but it was more than that because they chose to do the bad which was already defined by God.
- God gave us freewill to decide. If not we will be like robots. If no this kind of freedom we cannot love. This is because God looks for genuine relationship with human.
- Pharaoh also hardened his own heart (Exodus 8: 15, 8: 32). This shows that Pharaoh was having freewill to decide and act.
- What we have in Exodus is this: God says at the beginning that he will harden Pharaoh's heart (Ex 4:21, 7:4-5). The hardening of Pharaoh's heart is then described in several different ways:
Pharaoh's heart became hard (Ex 7:13, 23)
Pharaoh hardened his heart (Ex 8:15, 32)
God hardened Pharaoh's heart (Ex 9:7, 10:20)
Souce of map: http://www.bible.ca/archeology/maps-bible-archeology-exodus-route.jpg
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