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Could Pharaoh have repented?: Lessons from Messiah and apostle Paul (Exodus 6–9)
The God that spoke to the Pharaoh of Joseph was the same God Who spoke to the Pharaoh of Moses, who we meet in the Torah reading וארא Va’era (“I appeared,” Exodus 6:2–9:35). God does not change or grow, but He expects us to grow and change for the better. When we do, He is pleased. When we don’t, He is not pleased.
God showed great favor to the “Pharaoh who knew Joseph” because this Pharaoh accepted the warnings given to him by God and by Joseph. He and his people were blessed because of his humility and wisdom.
On the other hand, the “Pharaoh who did not know Joseph” had no excuse to forget the lessons of his predecessor. The Pharaoh who Moses confronts showed a pattern of arrogance and hardheartedness for many years before Moses came along. Pharaoh could have relented and truly repented, but he did not. So he (and his people) suffered because of his arrogance and selfishness.
Similarly, the chief priests wouldn’t relent from their jealousy against Yeshua the Messiah (Jesus the Christ), yet Paul turned did turn away from his equally zealous persecution of believers.
In this study
Did God forget about His people’s suffering?Who hardened whose heart?Messiah Yeshua is accused of working miracles via demonsApostle Paul and Pharaoh of Moshe: Lessons in humilityGod of plagues or God of the ‘small voice’?
The way that God revealed Himself to Abraham, Issac and Jacob is not the same way He revealed Himself to Moses and Aharon, as recorded in the Torah reading וארא Va’era (“I appeared,” Exodus 6:2–9:35). God gave Moses and the children of Israel the laws of Torah, but He did not give the entire Torah to the patriarchs. God did not put upon the patriarchs the same duties and obligations that He placed on Moses, Aharon and the children of Israel in that generation.
The way that God revealed Himself to Pharoah through Moses was also not the same way that He had revealed Himself to the Pharaoh “who knew Joseph.”
This is what happens when people grow up. The more they grow, the more they learn and the more that is expected of them.
God chose Abraham because he was intuitively righteous, as he was only a few generation away from Noah, but after 400 years in Egypt, the children of Israel were further away from the righteous history of Noah and the Patriarchs. God had to give them a lot of instruction that He didn’t need to give the Patriarchs.
Did God forget about His people’s suffering?
“Furthermore I have heard the groaning of the sons of Israel, because the Egyptians are holding them in bondage, and I have remembered My covenant.”Exodus 6:5 NASB
God is not a man, that He forgets. When it says that God “remembered” the covenant, this simply means that God sees that the time is ripe for Him to fulfill His Promise to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and liberate the children of Israel from Egypt. God only needs a few faithful people to accomplish a great feat in history.
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By Hallel FellowshipThe God that spoke to the Pharaoh of Joseph was the same God Who spoke to the Pharaoh of Moses, who we meet in the Torah reading וארא Va’era (“I appeared,” Exodus 6:2–9:35). God does not change or grow, but He expects us to grow and change for the better. When we do, He is pleased. When we don’t, He is not pleased.
God showed great favor to the “Pharaoh who knew Joseph” because this Pharaoh accepted the warnings given to him by God and by Joseph. He and his people were blessed because of his humility and wisdom.
On the other hand, the “Pharaoh who did not know Joseph” had no excuse to forget the lessons of his predecessor. The Pharaoh who Moses confronts showed a pattern of arrogance and hardheartedness for many years before Moses came along. Pharaoh could have relented and truly repented, but he did not. So he (and his people) suffered because of his arrogance and selfishness.
Similarly, the chief priests wouldn’t relent from their jealousy against Yeshua the Messiah (Jesus the Christ), yet Paul turned did turn away from his equally zealous persecution of believers.
In this study
Did God forget about His people’s suffering?Who hardened whose heart?Messiah Yeshua is accused of working miracles via demonsApostle Paul and Pharaoh of Moshe: Lessons in humilityGod of plagues or God of the ‘small voice’?
The way that God revealed Himself to Abraham, Issac and Jacob is not the same way He revealed Himself to Moses and Aharon, as recorded in the Torah reading וארא Va’era (“I appeared,” Exodus 6:2–9:35). God gave Moses and the children of Israel the laws of Torah, but He did not give the entire Torah to the patriarchs. God did not put upon the patriarchs the same duties and obligations that He placed on Moses, Aharon and the children of Israel in that generation.
The way that God revealed Himself to Pharoah through Moses was also not the same way that He had revealed Himself to the Pharaoh “who knew Joseph.”
This is what happens when people grow up. The more they grow, the more they learn and the more that is expected of them.
God chose Abraham because he was intuitively righteous, as he was only a few generation away from Noah, but after 400 years in Egypt, the children of Israel were further away from the righteous history of Noah and the Patriarchs. God had to give them a lot of instruction that He didn’t need to give the Patriarchs.
Did God forget about His people’s suffering?
“Furthermore I have heard the groaning of the sons of Israel, because the Egyptians are holding them in bondage, and I have remembered My covenant.”Exodus 6:5 NASB
God is not a man, that He forgets. When it says that God “remembered” the covenant, this simply means that God sees that the time is ripe for Him to fulfill His Promise to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and liberate the children of Israel from Egypt. God only needs a few faithful people to accomplish a great feat in history.