Deliverance and the Desert

Forgetting and remembering and, finally, liberation

God’s people thrive in Egypt for 400 years, until their fruitfulness and thriving become a threat to the power of the state and Pharaoh subjects the Israelites to slavery. Through this long period of suffering, the people forget God.

But God never forgets.

Through a series of plagues, he demonstrates his power and reintroduces himself to the people of Is…