Today I read Exodus 14 where the Lord parts the Red Sea to save the Israelites. It is very hard to quantify miracles and which is the most miraculous, but in my opinion, the parting of the Red Sea ranks up there with the most miraculous of them all. I mean think about it, not only did the Red Sea have to part wide enough for over 600,000 people to walk through it in one night, but the ground they walked on also had to be dry. I don't know about you, but I've walked on ground that was recently wet before and it is cold, muddy and slows you down. But the Lord did not cause this to happen, not only did the Red Sea part, wide enough for all of Israel to walk through in one night, but they did it on truly dry ground, as dry as a desert. It's really mind boggling to think about it and how it was accomplished and there truly is no rational explanation for it. It was indeed a miracle.
The Pharaoh on the other hand, in my opinion, was an idiot. He knew better than any man alive perhaps, exactly what the power of the Lord could accomplish. And yet he allowed his 600 chariots to enter in the Red Sea behind the Israelites. I just don't know what the man was thinking honestly, did he really expect that the Lord would just stop protecting the Israelites and allow him and his men to not only catch them but kill them after all that the Lord went through to bring them out of Egypt? Or perhaps he was too angry to be thinking straight, I really don't know. Whatever the reason, Pharaoh orders his men to follow after the Israelites and they are destroyed when the Red Sea comes back together and they drown. In all of this, I can't help but feel sorry for the 600 horses, they did nothing but serve their masters and were repaid with a violent death. However, I'm sure the Lord accepted them to Himself given the circumstances, but I still feel sorry for them.
And so the Israelites are truly free from Egypt. They are completely cut off and the forces of the Egyptians has been destroyed and possibly even the Pharaoh himself, although we are not told. The Lord does everything for a purpose and we can deduce that He led the Israelites this way to save their lives and cut them off from Egypt, not only to stop the Egyptians from coming after them, but also to stifle the inevitable nay-sayers who would want to turn back and go back to Egypt. He has made it so that they have to rely on Him and His servants, Moses and Aaron for their survival. Just as we still have to look unto Him for our spiritual survival, they had to look to God for their spiritual and physical survival in order to get by. The people of Israel are truly free from physical tyranny now and I imagine it felt really great! Until tomorrow.
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