So
everything is going fine, when G-d tells me to have the people encamp at Pi
Hahirot. He said to me that He was going
to harden Pharaoh’s heart and that Pharaoh would pursue us, and G-d would be
glorified through Pharaoh and the Egyptians would know He is the true G-d. So then, the people, seeing the Egyptian
chariots bearing down on them, start panicking and complaining to me to do
something. I told the people not to
fear, because after today G-d will save you and Egypt will be no more.
You know something; I got really
annoyed with G-d at that moment. He
turned the people against me; Pharaoh wasn’t going to chase after us, but He
had to go and harden his heart. And to
make things worse, G-d yelled at me to stop crying out to him, but I never did
cry out to him, I was too busy reassuring the Israelites they weren’t all going
to get killed! G-d was right, it was
time for acting instead of just crying out to Him, but he shouldn’t have blamed
the crying on me.
Then G-d told me that he was going
to harden the Egyptians’ hearts again and that I should raise my staff over the
sea to split it so that we could walk through.
However, the Egyptians were still approaching, so the angel of come came
down and saved us by separating us from our assailants. I was actually starting to like the angel
more than G-d, because it seemed like the angel was the one actually protecting
us and looking out for our needs.
I split the sea and we were
crossing when the Egyptians starting pursuing us. However, G-d actually did something direct,
which is a surprise, and he made the Egyptians confused and even took the
wheels off their chariots. Many
Egyptians wanted to turn back because they knew G-d for fighting for us. However, G-d probably wasn’t fighting
directly against these lowly Egyptians, he was probably fighting, even
symbolically, against the entire Egyptian nation for us. Just as we were struck in Israel, G-d struck
the Egyptians with the sea and they all died.
However, he killed them in such a way so that they were stirred in the
water, allowing them to recognize and glorify G-d in that moment right before
they were to drown.
And would you look at that, the
people actually glorified G-d that day when we got on the other side and they
actually believed in me!
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