August 26, 2025 Morning Devotional

Morning Devotion: Read Exodus - The Edge the Red Sea

Exodus 14:1  And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 2  Speak unto the children of Israel, that they turn and encamp before Pihahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, over against Baalzephon: before it shall ye encamp by the sea. 3  For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in. 4  And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, that he shall follow after them; and I will be honoured upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host; that the Egyptians may know that I am the LORD. And they did so. 5  And it was told the king of Egypt that the people fled: and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was turned against the people, and they said, Why have we done this, that we have let Israel go from serving us? 6  And he made ready his chariot, and took his people with him: 7  And he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, and captains over every one of them. 8  And the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued after the children of Israel: and the children of Israel went out with an high hand. 9  But the Egyptians pursued after them, all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, and his horsemen, and his army, and overtook them encamping by the sea, beside Pihahiroth, before Baalzephon.

When will you learn to let it go?

Pharaoh had lost nearly everything up to this point. His economic infrastructure was gone. Nearly all of his cattle and grain supplies were destroyed. All of his religious beliefs were challenged and all his false worship systems were brought to naught. His own first born child and the first born of every family in Egypt was slain and no doubt many were already burying their dead. There was a great cry in Egypt for all the loss.

With no economy left and hope through their religions gone, their children destroyed, you would think the Pharaoh would say “enough”. After all they thrust the children of Israel out of their country and made them leave with haste and for fear.

But God, but God, knew Pharaoh’s heart and God knew what He was going to do with Pharaoh. Once again God would harden Pharaoh’s heart.

The one thing left, the one thing that needed to be destroyed, was Pharaoh’s army. With an army you can recover what was lost. With a good army one can invade, conquer, plunder and take spoils of another.

We will see that God hardens Pharaoh’s heart to drive him to sacrifice his army (his last bit of power) to the will of God.

Do you realize, in the end times, times of which we now live, God will destroy the one world economy; God will destroy the one world religion, and God will destroy the armies of the world.

God will destroy by natural disasters, by His word and by fire. Read Ezekiel thirty eight and thirty nine and read Revelation fourteen through nineteen. And read Revelation twenty verses one through ten.

Isaiah 40:15  Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.

Psalm 75:7  But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another. 8  For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them.

Pharaoh would soon learn this lesson, but, for him, it would be too late.

What is your relationship with God? Pharaoh admitted he was a sinner, and even asked Moses to pray for him. Yet, Pharaoh never came to the point where he submitted to God.

How may people know they need the Lord and never really turn to Him?

The choice is still yours,

Pastor Cook