Tues.’s Devo -The Battle is the Lord’s

Read: Ex. 13-15
God explained to Moses that they were not to eat unleavened bread for seven days and then hold a feast. The leaven stands for sin and Satan’s doctrine. Their bread was to be God’s Word and righteousness. This is a picture of our lives as Christians. Once we are saved then we are to live righteously by every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God. We are to pass down to the next generation everything that God does for us. Every first born was to be redeemed with a lamb. What a picture! Our first born nature has to be redeemed by the Lamb of God. God slew the first born of the Egyptians because they were evil but he redeems the first born of his children!
They took the bones of Joseph and emptied Joseph’s tomb. Jesus was laid in the tomb of Joseph of Armathea and he emptied it also when he rose from the grave.
God led them out in a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night. He was shade from the sun in the daytime and warmth and light in the night. Psalms 91 says that we are hid under the shadow of the Almighty - our shade during the day. We are covered with the blood of Jesus and nothing can penetrate that. God illumines our darkness during our night seasons when we feel lost and confused.
They were commanded to camp before Baal-hahiroth which means the “mouth of wrath”, between Migdol which means “a tower” and the sea, over against Baal-zephon which means “the destroyer”. In other words they were given an exact position they were to take against the enemy. They were taking a position of strength (the tower) between the wrath of God and the power of the Devil. The battle would be played out in the sea. The sea is the sea of humanity and God and Satan’s battle field is the earth. We are the objects of Satan’s wrath and the power of the Lord against him. This is why we need to be able to see and understand what is going on so we will know how to respond and fight.
There was no way the devil was going to let the Israelites escape if he could help it. He raised up these tired, beaten down, ravaged Egyptians to stop the children of Israel from reaching their destiny. Satan will do anything within his power to stop us from succeeding, All we need is faith to stand and obey what God says and God will do the fighting and delivering.
Lord, may we sing Moses’s song over our enemy.