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Exodus — Through the Red Sea — Further Thought:

Join us as we study the Bible Study Guide for the third quarter of 2025 called Exodus. We are studying the lesson for week 6 called Through the Red Sea.    

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Pharaoh changes his mind quickly after the Exodus, and chases the Israelites. 

It is fascinating to explore the way it is described using collective language. Again we're challenged to ponder the ways in which we might be a bit like Pharaoh, and of course it is dramatic that the Israelites cry out in dismay so soon after the Plagues which spoke of God's power.

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Further Thought: Read Ellen G. White, "The Exodus," pp. 281-290, in Patriarchs and Prophets.

God was for the Israelites despite their little faith. He wished to teach and guide them in how to think and behave as His chosen people. God led them patiently and directed them to a location where they would encounter fewer challenges. Ellen G. White explains: "The Israelites … had little knowledge of God and little faith in Him, and they would have become terrified and disheartened. They were unarmed and unaccustomed to war, their spirits were depressed by long bondage, and they were encumbered with women and children, flocks and herds. In leading them by the way of the Red Sea, the Lord revealed Himself as a God of compassion as well as of judgment."—Ellen G. White, Patriarchs and Prophets, p. 282.

Talking about the Song of Moses, the Andrews Bible Commentary says: "The certainty of this redemptive act of God in history assures us that we have nothing to fear for the future. The last stanza focuses on future enemies who would be faced in conquest of Canaan. Because of God’s powerful ‘arm,’ they would be ‘as still as a stone’ (v. 16). When we face certain impossibilities, when we feel cornered and do not know which way to turn, we can find assurance in ‘The Song of Moses,’ for it commemorates a great event in the history of God’s people."—Andrews Bible Commentary, "Exodus" (Berrien Springs, MI: Andrews University Press, 2020), p. 214.

1. Why do we find ourselves so often in the position of the Hebrews after their incredible deliverance from Egypt, but before the challenge of the Red Sea? That is, in the face of so much evidence for God’s goodness toward us and of His power, why do we still find it so easy to show, and even express, a lack of faith?
2. Even after all that had happened, including the loss of the firstborn sons, why would Pharaoh still pursue Israel? What should this tell us about how dangerous it is for any of us to get hardened by sin (or to sin)?
3. Though we all face terrible trials at times, many of us have had (and still have) some very good days, some very good times, when nothing bad happens to us or to our loved ones. Why should we see these times as evidence of God’s grace and protection because, after all, we understand that we live in "enemy" territory? That is, why should we always remember to praise God in the good times, because we never know what calamities we have been spared from?

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