출애굽기 Chapter 14

Translation: ESV

10

When Pharaoh drew near, the people of Israel lifted up their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians were marching after them, and they feared greatly. And the people of Israel cried out to the LORD.

Key Message

Crying out to God in desperate situations is the correct response of faith, and human impossibility is the very space for God's possibility.

▸The Red Sea ahead, the Egyptian army behind—a situation of complete human despair.

The Red Sea ahead, the Egyptian army behind—a situation of complete human despair. Israel 'crying out to the LORD' is the correct response of faith even in this hopelessness. Yet in verses 11-12 they also grumble against Moses, showing the human complexity of fear drawing out both faith and complaint simultaneously.

Related Verses

Then they cried to the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them from their distress.
13

And Moses said to the people, 'Fear not, stand firm, and see the salvation of the LORD, which he will work for you today. For the Egyptians whom you see today, you shall never see again.'

Key Message

Faith is sometimes 'standing firm' to see what God will do—trusting in God's salvation rather than one's own strength.

▸The command to 'stand firm' is paradoxical.

14

The LORD will fight for you, and you have only to be silent.

Key Message

Trust that God fights for us is the basis for overcoming fear, and this trust enables both stillness and bold advance simultaneously.

▸'The LORD will fight for you, and you have only to be silent' is the core of Israel's theology of holy war.

21

Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the LORD drove the sea back by a strong east wind all night and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.

Key Message

God does not abolish nature but works as its sovereign ruler, and miracles are accomplished through the combination of God's power and natural means.

▸The miracle of the Red Sea parting occurs.

27

So Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its normal course when the morning appeared. And as the Egyptians fled into it, the LORD threw the Egyptians into the midst of the sea.

Key Message

The reversal where the instrument of salvation becomes the instrument of judgment is completed at dawn, and God's promises are fulfilled in their appointed time.

▸The same sea that saved Israel swallows the Egyptian army.

31

Israel saw the great power that the LORD used against the Egyptians, so the people feared the LORD, and they believed in the LORD and in his servant Moses.

Key Message

Directly experiencing God's saving history generates reverence and faith, and this faith matures through ongoing training in faithfulness.

▸The final result of the Red Sea event is Israel's 'fear' and 'faith.