OUR FATHER WHO FREES HIS PEOPLE FROM BONDAGE

The book of Isaiah chapter 19 verse 4 says this;

I will hand the Egyptians over to the power of a cruel master, and a fierce king will rule over them,” declares the Lord, the Lord Almighty.

This verse reveals a tactic that the Lord used against the Egyptians who had cruelly oppressed God's people.

To establish context, the children of Israel had cried out to God about their misery as slaves in Egypt.

In response, the Lord undertook to free them from the hands of the Egyptians and He sent Moses back to Egypt to speak to the Pharaoh of Egypt.

In the ensuing struggle, plagues of varied calamities were brought upon the Egyptians to put pressure on the Egyptian power heirarchy to compell the release of the enslaved captives.

In our passage, we see a parrallel narative but overlaid on a later context that could be understood to be our current millieu.

As the oppressor attempts to encapsulate the people of God into various forms of political and social bondage, one of the Lord's responses will be to provide for the placement of a harsh and cruel leader over the ranks of those serving the opressor.

This will have the effect of causing the oppressors to lose heart as the cruelty they dispensed on other people is dispensed on them.

The faltering morale will cause the regime to descend into a chaotic blend of confusion and material disfunctionality until the edifice of political/martial power collapses and the people of God are freed from their oppression and captivity.

Amen.

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