Exodus
11 – Israel Collects Their Wages
When
we trust in the Lord, it means the difference between light and darkness and
life and death. God made this difference, and His people must maintain it. God
has been longsuffering and forgiving, but He must make Pharaoh understand that
it is time for Israel to leave Egypt. The
Israelites had served for years as slaves and had never received any payment
for their labor. Now they were going to
get their money. They were literally to
go to their neighbors and ask for their back wages. The Lord gave the Israelites favor in the
eyes of the Egyptians, and they were glad to pay the children of Israel their
just payment.
Now
the firstborn of both man and beast belonged to the gods of Egypt. The Lord God will claim the first fruits of
the Egyptian gods. He is going to show
that there is a difference between the children of Israel and the
Egyptians. The difference did not lie in
the fact that one race was Jew and the other Gentile. The difference lay in the blood of the lamb
put upon the doorpost. Each home
protected by the blood would not be touched by the death angel. This was the beginning of the oldest
religious holiday of the Jews, the Passover Feast. The Passover is one of the most eloquent
portraits of the Lord Jesus Christ found in the Old Testament.
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Vernon McGee Commentary and Nelson’s Quick Reference Commentary.
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