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Once more we
hear the proverbial warning to not go to Egypt for help. The undercurrent is still there. Egypt is mankind. They are not God. Their help is temporal. Their help will eventually fail.
There is
more to it than this, though. Remember
that Egypt was the oppressor. Egypt is
the nation out of which God rescued His people.
Egypt was the people against whom the Hebrews originally cried! When the Hebrew people beg for help from
Egypt, they are turning back to their old oppressors instead of turning to God! When the Hebrew people turn to Egypt and ask
for military aid, they are choosing to seek salvation from the oppressor and
not from the true life-giver.
The Lord is
quite offended by this prospect. When
the Lord strikes out against His people with the Assyrians, the Egyptians will
get caught up in the judgment. God will
need to put the Egyptians in their place so that the Hebrew people will
understand that their salvation comes solely from God and not anyone else.
What is the
lesson in this? When we need help, turn
to God. God may use other people to help
us, and that’s okay. But we should
always make sure that we understand that our help is coming from God and He
deserves the credit. When we need
salvation – temporal or eternal – it comes from God.
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