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Exodus is the continuation of the what last happened in Genesis and serve as the background information as to why the Israelites are in Egypt. The main issue is that as generations pass and the Israelites are still blessed to multiply, the new Pharaoh has no idea who Joseph is and what he had done to help the past Pharaoh and Egypt. With this in mind, God then has Moses and his brother Aaron grant the Hebrew people the liberty the Pharaoh refuses to give them. This is where I pulled the interesting points that stood out to me and had me questioning the ‘goodness’ of God.
In chapter 4, God shows Moses the powers that he’ll give him to show the Pharaoh the power he holds. This then leads to God ‘hardening’ Pharaoh’s heart so that he wouldn’t …show more content…

He manages to see what the people of Egypt are going through each time he asks the Pharaoh to let them free. He then proceeds to question what good he’s been doing and what his real intentions are if nothing good is resulting from the plan. I think at this point Moses sees how better off they were without the help of God. God then says to Moses “Now you will see what I will do to Pharaoh: Because of my mighty hand he will let them go; because of my mighty hand he will drive them out of his country.” This to me is another instance where I see that God is using this as a justification to come. He lets the people suffer and allows the Pharaoh to do as he pleases but only to be able to have a reason to punish them. God punishes the evilness of the Pharaoh but then again he’s the one that ‘hardens’ the heart of the Pharaoh. If the pharaoh isn’t in command of his own rulings and feelings about letting the Hebrew people free then who’s to blame for the exploitation? I think this is something to look into because everything that happens to have a negative attitude about God seems to go back to how the evil the people were to begin with, almost to justify whatever they had coming. In this case I’m not too sure the Pharaoh was to blame if his only concern was his power and the further expanding of the population. If anyone should understand his fear of losing his power, it should be

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