Policy Of Pharaoh

For example, we might wonder why God created mosquitos, cockroaches and rats. We need to understand that God, as our Creator, had a purpose in creating everything.

Someone asked, “Are we victims of fate or does God have a plan for our life?”

It has been said that men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them. But according to the Bible, we live our lives for a certain period of time – not a moment longer and not a moment shorter.

• All the health-foods that people eat are not going to extend their life beyond what God has determined their appointed time to die.

• All the exercise that people do will not extend the appointed time for them to die.

Ecclesiastes 3:1 tells us everything has a SEASON AND TIME. We need to consider these two important words Solomon use about life: "SEASON" and "TIME".

• The word “SEASON” originates from a Hebrew term that refers to a fixed, definite portion of time.

• The Hebrew word for “TIME” that Solomon refers to is a beginning or a starting period.

Solomon was saying that God has appointed everything that comes into our lives for a specific purpose. He knows just when to BRING THINGS INTO OUR LIVES, and He knows HOW LONG THEY SHOULD STAY IN OUR LIVES. The things we experience are not random events that float in and out of our lives. Rather, they are specific events that have been chosen by God as timely and purposeful.

• That applies to the good things as well as the bad things

• That applies to the good times as well as the bad times

One of the important lessons in life to learn is that we are not in charge of our own lives. GOD IS!

As we study the Book of Genesis, we see how God used Joseph during a severe famine to bless many people. Pharaoh himself made Joseph Governor of Egypt, and things went well with them in the land of Goshen.

At the end of Genesis, things began change for the worse. WHAT HAPPENS?

• Joseph dies and is buried. Verse 6 tells us that Joseph had died and all his brethren. Three and a half centuries have passed.

• The Pharaoh that loved Joseph and blessed him in many ways died also.

The Book of Exodus wastes no time showing us the difficulties that God’s people are facing with a new Pharaoh. As we study the Book of Exodus, we must look at it as a continuation of the Book of Genesis.

WHY DID GOD MOVE ISRAEL FROM THE PROMISED LAND TO EGYPT? Remember, God has a purpose in everything that takes place in our life.

God moved Israel into Egypt because the children of Israel were being immersed in the worldliness of their environment. They were following the lifestyle of the people who lived around them, of unbelievers, of the Canaanites. The family was surrounded by Canaanites who lived ungodly lives, and the family was young and small in number (seventy people). Tragically, they became attracted by the bright lights and the immoral and ungodly practices of their neighbors. They were adopting the Canaanite way of life. Through intermingling and intermarriage, they faced the threat of becoming a part of the Canaanite people. They could have easily lost their distinctive identity as the people of God.

Therefore, God set out to save and preserve His people in order to ful?ll His purposes for them. God did three things.

(1) God took one of the sons of Jacob and set him up as the ruler of Egypt. The son was Joseph, who ruled Egypt as second only to Pharaoh himself.

(2) God caused the entire family to move away from the worldly temptation and in?uence of the Canaanites. He used a famine to drive them down into Egypt (Genesis 41:56).

(3) God placed the family beside the Egyptians, a people who considered them an abomination, totally unacceptable; a people who would have nothing to do with them (Genesis 46:34).

Thus the chance of intermingling and intermarriage was much less. Thereby, Israel would be isolated, forced to live in the district of Goshen, forced to live by themselves and keep the godly line of descendants pure.

Note two signi?cant facts about God’s past deliverance of Israel.

(1) God had delivered Israel about four hundred years before the events of Exodus began (Genesis 15:13-14). Israel was in Egypt for about 430 years (Exodus 12:40-41).

(2) Every member of Jacob’s family went down into Egypt; seventy descendants in all.

We see . . .

I. THE PEOPLE

Look at Exodus 1:1-10 we read, “Now these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt; every man and his household came with Jacob. Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin, Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher. And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already. And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation. And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them. Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph. And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we: Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land.