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GOD MAGNIFIED THE NATION OF ISRAEL
MONDAY, AUGUST 2
Deuteronomy 4:25-49

Exodus 3:1-10

 

“And the LORD said, I have surely
seen the affliction of my people

which are in Egypt…”

 

GOD MAGNIFIED THE NATION OF ISRAEL
 
Moses also told Israel that the Lord took them out of the midst of another nation by His great power. When Jacob and family went to Egypt they were only seventy-five people. After four hundred years they had grown to a nation of nearly two million. This numerical increase was part of their magnification. It would have been so easy for the nation to be assimilated into Egyptian society, but God prevented this. When the Lord wanted to take them out of Egypt, they were a distinct people.
 
Moses himself was brought up in the household of the king of Egypt. The number of the children of Israel had grown and the Egyptians made them slaves because they were strangers in Egypt. The children of Israel were desirous of freedom, but they did not know what to do and where to go. At the time when Moses was born, the Egyptians had begun to worry about their number, and the king made a law to kill all the Hebrew male infants. This brought more suffering to them. As an adult, Moses fled to Midian. When he had been there for forty years, the Lord called him to return to Egypt to liberate the children of Israel from the bondage of Egypt. The whole episode of the Exodus was the work of the Lord.
 
God’s release of the children of Israel from their bondage in Egypt was their magnification. As Moses was making this speech before them, the Lord had already defeated the two kings of the Amorites and had given the Land to Israel. Moses told them that the Lord drove out the nations that were greater and mightier than they. In verse 39, Moses told them what they must learn from what the Lord had done for them: “Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that the LORD he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else.” Later the prophets also used the same expression that there is no God besides the Lord. This was often repeated because Israel was prone to be tempted to go back to idolatry.
 
THOUGHT: God spoke from heaven making Israel a special people.

PRAYER: Father, speak to us today through Thy written Word.

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