Victory Comes in the Morning
( From Pastor Jason’s message on April 10, 2022) For the Israelites, Egypt had been a place of deliverance! It was where Joseph’s family came to survive the famine. The Bible tells us that Pharaoh rejoiced at their arrival and gave them the best of the land in Goshen. Life was GOOD! But, over time, things began to change, as we see in the Book of Exodus, chapter 1 (NLT): 8 Eventually, a new king came to power in Egypt who knew nothing about Joseph or what he had done. 9 He said to his people, “Look, the people of Israel now outnumber us and are stronger than we are. 10 We must make a plan to keep them from growing even more. If we don’t, and if war breaks out, they will join our enemies and fight against us. Then they will escape from the country.” 11 So the Egyptians made the Israelites their slaves. They appointed brutal slave drivers over them, hoping to wear them down with crushing labor. They forced them to build the cities of Pithom and Rameses as supply centers for the king.