Exodus 2-14

2:24
The Egyptians began dealing "shrewdly" with the Israelites before Moses was born. Yet it was only when Moses is grown up that the Lord remembered Its covenant with the people of Israel. It is not just that the Lord would wait through years of human suffering before honoring a covenant, nor is it possible that God, with presence and knowledge absolute, would have to "remember" something.
3:22
In commanding the Israelites to despoil the Egyptians, is God saying that two wrongs make a right? Is it credible to propose that God could be capable of commanding that a wrong, any wrong, be committed? Could God be capable of the kind of prevarication necessary to say that the end justifies the means?
4:21 - 14:17
The implications here are staggering. The Lord "hardened" Pharoah's heart, so he would refuse to let the Israelites go. The Lord told Moses that this was to increase the glory of the Lord, by creating happenings that would proclaim Its greatness throughout the world. Time and again, when Pharoah seemed willing to let the Israelites go, the Lord "hardened" his heart, so the Lord could then be "forced" to heap greater and greater sufferings upon the Egyptians. A minor point here is that these actions seem far more devious and manipulative than one could possibly credit to any kind of just being. Monumental suffering and death, in the name of holy self-aggrandizement? "Dig My ass, you little pissants...now watch Me crap a rainbow"? Of larger import, is what these verses say about free will. It cannot be said that Pharoah was using his free will; indeed, the opposite seems true. I'm not asserting or denying free will...intuitively, we seem free, yet unfree will might also "feel" free. But if Pharoah, and all the soldiers of Egypt, did not have free will, how could anyone ever know whether our decisions are our own, or simply the unsolicited intervention of "God"? The whole paradigm of salvation would crumble, for how can there be spiritual accountability without free will?? Perhaps i write these words entirely against my own will. The power of christ compels me!