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the final rounds in the fight between pharaoh and god and it's a knockout first there was there was darkness. God took out the powerful Egyptian God

of the sun, raw, and the people are left in palpable darkness they can feel, and they're left to

just sit there and think about what they had done. Then the final round, the final punch, Moses is warning Pharaoh.

It's about to come.

But God hardens his heart again.

Moses is angry, though, and he has no time to waste on Pharaoh anymore.

Pharaoh never even got a chance to respond.

Moses is out of there.

So last we talked about how Moses turned passion into purpose with a simple

act of obedience. We love that guy. All right, this week, here's the setup. Now, as the curtain rises

in chapter 12, the scene shifts. We're not going to have that Egyptian background anymore and the Egyptians once prosperous

land that has morphed into a dark, decimated horror in which they are trapped with no escape.

We are changing to a different scene. To Goshen. A wash with sunlight, buzzing with activity,

as the Israelites who've been watching and whispering and I'm sure kind of

holding their breath begin to believe with hesitant hope that this is really our God. And freedom

becoming a nation is and always was his plan and promise to us. We are his people they're

thinking and he will redeem us. He has finally come.

And he, meaning God, means business. God shifts also turning his attention from Pharaoh to the Israelites.

It is time to prepare them in this next chapter to leave and become a nation of their own. It's time for 600,000 men

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