But the Lord said to Moses, “Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh; for with a strong hand he will send them out, and with a strong hand he will drive them out of his land.”
2 God spoke to Moses and said to him, “I am the Lord. 3 I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty,[a] but by my name the Lord I did not make myself known to them. 4 I also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, the land in which they lived as sojourners. 5 Moreover, I have heard the groaning of the people of Israel whom the Egyptians hold as slaves, and I have remembered my covenant. 6 Say therefore to the people of Israel, ‘I am the Lord, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will deliver you from slavery to them, andI will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great acts of judgment. 7 I will take you to be my people, and I will be your God, and you shall know that I am the Lord your God, who has brought you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians. 8 I will bring you into the land that I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. I will give it to you for a possession. I am the Lord.’” 9 Moses spoke thus to the people of Israel, but they did not listen to Moses, because of their broken spirit and harsh slavery.
10 So the Lord said to Moses, 11 “Go in, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt to let the people of Israel go out of his land.” 12 But Moses said to the Lord, “Behold, the people of Israel have not listened to me. How then shall Pharaoh listen to me, for I am of uncircumcised lips?”13 But the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron and gave them a charge about the people of Israel and about Pharaoh king of Egypt: to bring the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt. Exodus 6:1-13 ESV
The mightiest being the Israelite people and Egyptians know is Pharaoh. He does not respect God, but becomes the bar for which God shall reveal the meaning of Jehovah. The patriarchs knew this name only by faith, I am that I am, but the children shall see the earthly revelation of it. Pharaoh will resist God, the Creator of all things, but God will reveal His power over all things, and the futility of human pride. The children shall be let go and see the promise land just as those who believe in Christ shall sojourn here but a little while.
After you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who called you to His eternal glory in Christ, will Himself perfect, confirm, strengthen and establish you.11To Him be dominion forever and ever. Amen.…1Peter 5:10&11
Moses is the messenger of good tidings, but under the oppression of the king, and for fear of his wrath, they no longer want the association. Since God does not carry out His plans the way we would suspect He should, and since we are creatures of the natural, we are influenced more by those things physical than the message of an all powerful God. His message is rarely met with our approval, and we at first might take some of it, and then some would try to twist and contort it to their liking. If believing translates into wealth rather than humility, then we accept. They are slaves, afraid of their earthly masters, and they just want the beatings to stop. They are also slaves, as Pharaoh and every other man born, to sin. This is the revelation from the fall, that we are born slaves, and wandering in denial. This is the message still that men love darkness rather than light, that Jesus is the light of the world, and that He came to set the captives free. We, no different than our ancestors, remain opposed and in love with our own ideals. It is easier for us to say that we are not captives by declaring that this is not sin, and embracing sin as the ideal. So now it is a sin to say that something is a sin; we are a delusional lot ever laying on more shackles and helping others to do the same.
"The slave does not remain in the house forever; the son does remain forever. 36"So if the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed. 37"I know that you are Abraham's descendants; yet you seek to kill Me, because My word has no place in you.…John 8:36&37
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