The Daily D with Josiah Douglas

Pharaoh didn't just go along with the idea when Moses told him to let the Israelites go. In fact Pharaoh made it even worse for the Israelites. 

Key Verse:

Let heavier work be laid on the men that they may labor at it and pay no regard to lying words."

Exodus 5:9

Exodus 4 has one of the most bizarre and least talked about stories in the Bible. If you do ever read it, you probably come away scratching your head. Let me try and explain it to you.

Key Verse:

Then Zipporah took a flint and cut off her son's foreskin and touched Moses' feet with it and said, "Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me!"

Exodus 4:25

God told Moses He would cause the Israelites to plunder the Egyptians and take their gold and silver when they left Egypt. God make Israel one of the wealthiest nations in the world, and He wants to do the same for you!

Key Verse: 

And I will give this people favor in the sight of the Egyptians; and when you go, you shall not go empty, but each woman shall ask of her neighbor, and any woman who lives in her house, for silver and gold jewelry, and for clothing. You shall put them on your sons and on your daughters. So you shall plunder the Egyptians."

Exodus 3:21‭-‬22

We know Moses' story from the beginning to the end. But he didn't He thought he wasn't qualified to do what god told him to do. Just like Moses, you are uniquely qualified to do what God calls you to do.

Key Verse:

But Moses said to God, "Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?"

Exodus 3:11

Even though it was 80 years before God brought the Israelites out of Egypt, He heard their cry and He knew.

Key Verse:

God saw the people of Israel—and God knew.

Exodus 2:25

Pharaoh told the midwives to kill all the male babies when they were born, bu they didn't. Instead they did one of the most brave things anyone could do.

Key Verse:

But the midwives feared God and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but let the male children live.

Exodus 1:17

The more the Egyptians persecuted the Israelites, the stronger they became.

Key Verse:

But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and the more they spread abroad. And the Egyptians were in dread of the people of Israel.

Exodus 1:12

After their dad died, Joseph's brothers thought for sure Joseph would kill them for what they did to him. But that's not what happened.

Key Verse:

But Joseph said to them, "Do not fear, for am I in the place of God?

Genesis 50:19

Jacob prophesied over his son Issachar that he would voluntarily go into slavery. I think you and I should do the same.

Key Verse:

Issachar is a strong donkey, crouching between the sheepfolds. He saw that a resting place was good, and that the land was pleasant, so he bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant at forced labor.

Genesis 49:14‭-‬15

When Jacob blessed his sons he prophesied about them and their descendants, but when he blessed Judah he prophesied about Jesus.

Key Verse:

The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, until tribute comes to him; and to him shall be the obedience of the peoples.

Genesis 49:10