Pam Padgett ... teacher
God promised to redeem HIS people from the hands of the Egyptians,
and to bring the children of Israel into the land of Canaan ....
Exodus 6:2 And God spake unto Moses, and said
unto him, I am the Lord: 3 And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and
unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my name Jehovah was I
not known to them. 4 And I have also established my covenant with them,
to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein
they were strangers. 5 And I have also heard the groaning of the
children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage; and I have
remembered my covenant. 6 Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I
am the Lord, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the
Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem
you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments: 7 And I will
take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God: and ye shall
know that I am the Lord your God, which bringeth you out from under the
burdens of the Egyptians. 8 And I will bring you in unto the land,
concerning the which I did swear to give it to Abraham, to Isaac, and to
Jacob; and I will give it you for an heritage: I am the Lord.
After the children of Israel were led through the midst of the Red
Sea on dry land, Moses and the children of Israel sang and spoke, declaring the power and greatness of God in destroying Pharaoh and
his army...
Exodus 15:1 Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song
unto the Lord, and spake, saying, I will sing unto the Lord, for he hath
triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the
sea. 2 The Lord is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation:
he is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; my father's God, and
I will exalt him. 3 The Lord is a man of war: the Lord is his name. 4
Pharaoh's chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea: his chosen
captains also are drowned in the Red sea. 5 The depths have covered
them: they sank into the bottom as a stone. 6
Thy right hand, O Lord, is become glorious in power: thy right hand, O
Lord, hath dashed in pieces the enemy. 7 And in the greatness of thine
excellency thou hast overthrown them that rose up against thee: thou
sentest forth thy wrath, which consumed them as stubble.
They also sang of how these great works of God would
bring fear and dread on the people of lands they would would encounter as they entered, and were established in, the land God had promised to them. ...
Exodus 15:14 The people shall hear, and be afraid:
sorrow shall take hold on the inhabitants of Palestina. 15 Then the
dukes of Edom shall be amazed; the mighty men of Moab, trembling shall
take hold upon them; all the inhabitants of Canaan shall melt away. 16
Fear and dread shall fall upon them; by the greatness of thine arm they
shall be as still as a stone; till thy people pass over, O Lord, till
the people pass over, which thou hast purchased. 17 Thou shalt bring
them in, and plant them in the mountain of thine inheritance, in the
place, O Lord, which thou hast made for thee to dwell in, in the
Sanctuary, O Lord, which thy hands have established.
As God destroyed Pharaoh and his army, HE also prepared the way for HIS people to enter into the land HE had promised to them.