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ISRAEL’S MULTIPLICATION AND OPPRESSION IN EGYPT

Posted on October 20, 2022 by god

ISRAEL’S MULTIPLICATION AND OPPRESSION IN EGYPT “But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel” (EXODUS 1:12). EXODUS 1:1-22 The opening verses of our text present us … Continue reading →

Posted in Christ, God, Jesus, Jesus Christ | Tagged 1 Corinthians 10:13, 1 Samuel 19:1-5, 19, A backslider, A new king began to reign who did not know Joseph, A sinner may start with little sins, Acts 4:16-20, Acts 5:29, ACTS 7:14-17, ACTS 7:18, AFFLICTION BY TASK MASTERS, After the death of Joseph, All Israel heard the news that Saul had destroyed the Philistine garrison at Geba and that the Philistines now hated the Israelites more than ever, all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls, all their service, along with their wives and daughters, and, and all his brethren, and all that generation, And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls, and are delivered ere the midwives come in unto them, and Asher, and Benjamin, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, and easy to be entreated, and every daughter ye shall save alive, and fight against us, and have saved the men children alive, And he said, And he said unto his people, and in all manner of service in the field, and in brick, and increased abundantly, and indeed everyone who is in a privileged position in society, And it came to pass, and it come to pass, and it come to pass that, And Joseph died, and Judah, and multiplied, and Naphtali, And Pharaoh charged all his people, and said unto them, and see them upon the stools, and so get them up out of the land, And the children of Israel were fruitful, And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour, And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, and the land was filled with them, And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, and the name of the other Puah, and the people multiplied, And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, and they kept the vision of the Abrahamic covenant alive in their minds, And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, And they were grieved because of the children of Israel, and those who have house helps or the children of their relations living with them, and through the rivers, and waxed exceeding mighty, and waxed very mighty, and without hypocrisy, Are human schemes of wickedness able to upturn God's plan for His people, arrest it before it takes hold of you, As a result of the famine in Canaan, as long as we remain in obedience to God's will for our lives as children of God, as the children of Israel were fruitful and multiplied, at first, Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women, because the midwives feared God, Behold, believers are expected to be fruitful and increase abundantly both spiritually and physically, Believers who are going through tribulations should understand that the power of God is available to see them through as in the case of Daniel and the three Hebrew children, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, but accepts he/she repents and turns over his/her life to Christ, but he soon gets shameless about his/her evil deeds, but if it be a daughter, but is earthly, but only in the Lord, but saved the men children alive, But the midwives feared God, But the more they afflicted them, but thou shalt fear thy God, Christianity, church or family must see to it that they avoid all forms of oppressions, collected tribute, Come on, Dan, Dan 6:6-10, Daniel 3:17-18, Daniel disobeyed the command of Darius not to ask anything of God, DEUTERONOMY 10:22, employers, ever looking forward to the day when they will go to glory, every man and his household came with Jacob, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, Examples from the authorities should not be obeyed, EXODUS 1:1-22, EXODUS 1:1-7, Exodus 1:10, Exodus 1:12, Exodus 1:17, EXODUS 1:17-22, Exodus 1:19, Exodus 1:5-7, Exodus 1:7, Exodus 1:8-10, EXODUS 1:8-16, Exodus 3:8, fear not to go down into Egypt, Finally, First, for I am the LORD your God, for I will no more have mercy upon the house of Israel, for I will there make of thee a great nation, for Joseph was in Egypt already, for they are lively, full of mercy and good fruits, Gad, Gen 46:3, Genesis 12:2, GENESIS 15:12-14, Genesis 15:5, gentle, God, God commands believers to obey the powers that be of the country, God had earlier told Abraham that He would multiply his seed as the stars that cannot be counted, God hates oppression, God instilled fear in the heart of these women, God intervened and preserved Israel in Egypt, God of Israel, God the Father, God's promises are reliable and will certainly come to pass, God's unfailing promise is, God's word is supreme and no human authority can set it aside, Had things been easier for them in Egypt, HARD LABOUR AND RIGOROUS SERVICE IN THE FIELD, He actually motivated the Egyptians to oppress Israel, he commanded all Egyptians to throw all the Hebrew male infants into the River Nile, He dealt well with them and gave them houses, he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon, he/she will eventually be hardened in them, His promises will definitely be fulfilled regardless of the environment we find ourselves, his sons and grandsons, History of ancient Israel and Judah, holy one of israel, however, I am God, I will be with thee, if it be a son, if thou takest heed to fulfil the statutes and judgments which the Lord charged Moses with concerning Israel, in morter, INFANTICIDE, Isaiah 1:19, Isaiah 43:2, Isaiah 51:12-13, Israel, Israel and his children went down to seventy men made up of Jacob, Israel began a new era of cruel bondage and oppression in Egypt, Israel of Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries, ISRAEL'S MULTIPLICATION AND OPPRESSION IN EGYPT, ISRAEL'S PERSECUTION AND MALTREATMENT IN EGYPT, ISRAEL'S POSTERITY AND MULTIPLICATION IN EGYPT, ISRAEL'S PRESERVATION AND MIGHT IN EGYPT, Israel's Disaster Recovery Organization, israelite, Israelites, Issachar, IT GAVE THEM A NEW REVELATION OF THE MIGHT OF GOD, It is instructive that God rewarded the midwives because they feared Him, It Made The Egyptians To Realize The Futility Of Any Device Or Counsel Against God And His People, IT MADE THE ISRAELITES TO BE PHYSICALLY STRONG, IT MADE THEM EVER WILLING AND YEARNING TO LEAVE EGYPT, It reminded them that Egypt was not their resting place, it was doubtful if they would ever desire to go back to Canaan, It was this little band of insignificant immigrant that God used to raise up a mighty nation as He promised Abraham, it will always come to fulfilment, James 3: 15-17, Jeremiah 6:15, Jesu, Jesus, JESUS CHRIST, Jesus King of the Jews, JOB 5:19, Joseph and his two sons were already in Egypt, king of Israel, King Saul commanded that David should be killed but Jonathan his son refused, leaders in the church, lest they multiply, Let not sin be your ruin, let us deal wisely with them, Lev 25:17, Levi, Lord, LORD God of Israel liveth, manifold benefits as a result of their oppression, masters, masters at workplaces, Nebuchadnezzar's command that all the people in his kingdom should worship his golden image was disobeyed by the Hebrew children, neither did he know the God of Joseph, neither shall the name kindle upon thee, Nigeria, no matter how long the time, not fearing his wrath, Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, Now these are the names of the children of Israel, Numbers 23:22-23, O Israel, of which the name of the one was Shiphrah, One, parents in the family, Persecutions and tribulations also make believers to always remember that they have no continuing city here and to set their affection on things above, Pharaoh commanded the killing of all male infants born to the Israelites, Pharaoh's gradual plan to eliminate the Israelites started by dealing wisely, Pithom and Raamses, Prayer Point For Israel, Proverbs 29:25, PROVERBS 3:7, PSALM 105:23-24, PSALM 105:25, PSALM 32:7, Psalm 92:12, pure, QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW, Rather than accomplish the desire of the enemy, Religion and Spirituality, Reuben, ROMANS 8:35-39, Satan always desires to enslave people, Satan has repeatedly used different methods against God's people over the ages, saying, SECOND, sensual, Simeon, Sin has a degenerating process and effect, Slavery, starts by hiding, State the reasons for Satan's instigation of oppression over Israel in Egypt, that, that he made them houses, the affliction they went through enhanced God's purpose, The apostles disobeyed the Sanhedrin's directive not to preach or teach in Christ's name, The devil will always oppose God's people because he persecutes believers with the sole aim of making them miss their great inheritance in Christ, The Egyptians employed four methods to oppress Israel, The enemy opposes people with a great future, the entire Israelite army was summoned to join Saul at Gilgal, The fear of God and obedience to His command bring blessings while disobedience attracts a curse, The fear of God dispels the fear of men, the fortunes of the children of Israel changed in Egypt, the God of Israel, the God of thy father, the Hebrew midwives to kill the infants at birth, The Hebrew midwives were ordered to kill them as soon as they were born, The Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women, The Israelites became so great that the Egyptians confessed that they were more and mightier than we, the king said, The Lord had said, the lord would have established your kingdom over Israel forever, The men of Israel saw what a tight spot they were in, the methods employed in oppressing them, the midwives replied that, The midwives were able to confront the wrath of the king because a higher and nobler fear possessed them, the more they increased and grew in strength and might, the more they multiplied and grew, the more they were oppressed, The opening verses of our text present us with an account of Jacob and his household after they had come to settle in Egypt, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we, the reasons for oppressing Israel, The reasons for the oppression of Israel were twofold, The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree, The Scripture records that, The Scripture says, The suffering of Israel in Egypt produced positive results, Their women were to deliver quickly and they were healthier than Egyptians, then ended up with making the midwives murderers, then peaceable, then she shall live, then ye shall kill him, There are people who claim that they are applying wisdom when they perpetrate all sorts of wickedness, there will be a departure from evil, Therefore, Therefore God dealt well with the midwives, Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens, These are, these were men who allotted work, They feared the Israelites, they join also unto our enemies, They learnt that God is able to preserve His people in spite of difficulties and oppositions from men, They planned to keep them in perpetual slavery, they shall not overflow thee, they used to build treasure cities for Pharaoh, they wanted to prevent them from growing to a point where they could get freedom and leave Egypt, they wanted to stop them from multiplying and consequently weaken them, they were denied freedom in every area, They were forcefully engaged in brick making and burning which, they were used to cultivate and maintain farms without payments, This was a fulfilment of the promise to Abraham that He would multiply his seed exceedingly and make of him a great nation, This wisdom descendeth not from above, This wonderful increase was according to the promise made unto their fathers, thou shalt be burned, though the performance of God's promises is sometimes delayed, THREE, Three important elements are recognizable as we look at the oppression of Israel in Egypt, Through Israel's affliction in Egypt, through rigorous labor, TWO, Uncategorized, United States, VIGOROUS AND LIVELY, was with rigour, We also observe that the midwives disobeyed the order of Pharaoh, we have to obey God rather than men, we learn from the oppression of Israel not to oppress one another, We learn important lessons from this growth of Israel, we learnt that the growth and increase of God's people are not a product of favorable or unfavorable circumstances, We must shun the fear of man because it ensnares, We see the hand of God in all these events which resulted in the frustration of the plans of the Egyptians, What a great lesson for contemporary Christians, What are the four methods that the Egyptians employed to oppress Israel, What are the gains in obeying God as the midwives did, What are the positive outcomes of believer’s tribulations today, What can believers learn from the growth of the growth of the Israelites, What they called dealing wisely was wickedness in the sight of God, When are believers to obey or disobey those in the position of authority, When that failed, When the king commanded Shiphrah and Puah, When the king queried them, when there falleth out any war, When thou passest through the waters, when thou walkest through the fire, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, Whenever there is a genuine fear of God, Where their command or order conflicts with God's words, wherein they made them serve, which came into Egypt, which knew not Joseph, whipped and abused the Israelites, Why have ye done this thing, With the arrival of a new king which knew not Joseph, without partiality, Ye shall not therefore oppress one another, yet they were not willing to let them leave their land, Zebulun | Leave a comment