Chosen punishment

 

Powerful point

Pharaoh decreed the death of the  children born to the Israelites......He chose his punishment. He thought that by decreeing their demise he was maintaining control. Ultimately he spoke what would be the punishment that would free the children of Israel.  Yet another thing to consider that in order to be free from their captivity the Israelites had to obey the words of The Most High over the decree's of Pharaoh. When they put the blood over their doorposts that night they were sending a message that they were going to be obedient and stand out even if it ment persecution. How far are you willing to go to show the world that you stand for The Most High and His laws above anything the governments of this world decree?

Exodus Chapter 1:15 And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah:16 And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the stools; if it be a son, then ye shall kill him: but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.17 But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive.

Jasher 69:5-9 Then Pharaoh commanded in those days that a proclamation should be issued throughout Egypt to the children of Israel, saying, No man shall diminish any thing of his daily labor.And the man who shall be found deficient in his labor which he performs daily, whether in mortar or in bricks, then his youngest son shall be put in their place.And the labor of Egypt strengthened upon the children of Israel in those days, and behold if one brick was deficient in any man's daily labor, the Egyptians took his youngest boy by force from his mother, and put him into the building in the place of the brick which his father had left wanting.And the men of Egypt did so to all the children of Israel day by day, all the days for a long period.But the tribe of Levi did not at that time work with the Israelites their brethren, from the beginning, for the children of Levi knew the cunning of the Egyptians which they exercised at first toward the Israelites.

From The movie Prince of Egypt

 Jubilees [Chapter 47:1-3And in the seventh week, in the seventh year, in the forty-seventh jubilee, thy father went forth [2303 A.M.] from the land of Canaan, and thou wast born in the fourth week, in the sixth year thereof, in the [2330 A.M.] forty-eighth jubilee; this was the time of tribulation on the children of Israel.And Pharaoh, king of Egypt, issued a command regarding them that they should cast all their male children which were born into the river.And they cast them in for seven months until the day that thou wast born 

Jasher 80:37-42At that time died many of the people of Israel who had rebelled against the Lord and who would not hearken to Moses and Aaron, and believed not in them that God had sent them.And who had said, We will not go forth from Egypt lest we perish with hunger in a desolate wilderness, and who would not hearken to the voice of Moses.And the Lord plagued them in the three days of darkness, and the Israelites buried them in those days, without the Egyptians knowing of them or rejoicing over them.And the darkness was very great in Egypt for three days, and any person who was standing when the darkness came, remained standing in his place, and he that was sitting remained sitting, and he that was lying continued lying in the same state, and he that was walking remained sitting upon the ground in the same spot; and this thing happened to all the Egyptians, until the darkness had passed away.And the days of darkness passed away, and the Lord sent Moses and Aaron to the children of Israel, saying, Celebrate your feast and make your Passover, for behold I come in the midst of the night amongst all the Egyptians, and I will smite all their first born, from the first born of a man to the first born of a beast, and when I see your Passover, I will pass over you.And the children of Israel did according to all that the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron, thus did they in that night. Exodus 12,Jubilees 49