Moses vs the Pharaoh and his priests is the battle between all spiritually enlightened men and the powerful or overarching beliefs of the time.
All of us are born into society – and today’s society, though religious like the Egyptians, though educated in the mastery of the physical sciences like the Egyptians, is spiritually unenlightened.
Moses recognizes the enslavement of the people. Even as a prince, he recognizes that he too is a slave to the machine, the society that is Egypt. All are enslaved by it, worshipping its power.
Moses flees Egypt, because he can no longer reconcile his place in the world with his knowledge. He sees things as others cannot.
In the desert he is humbled. There, he is not great in terms of power, technology or hierarchy, but he is free, and he subjugates no one.
When he encounters God, and it is revealed what God truly is, and Moses perceives his own true identity, he knows that he must return to Egypt, return to humanity/society and free them.
Not only must a prophet convince the Egyptians who rule to let the enslaved go, but he also must convince the enslaved that they are enslaved. Shortly after taking the Hebrews out of Egypt, they beg to return.
The truth of it is that the powerful Egyptians and the lowly Hebrews are both enslaved by a system and way of thinking that has detached them from the true God, the real source of life.
The God of Moses, the true God, requires nothing of man but his nature.
Egypt is powerful. When Moses arrives, the priests can match his wonders, because their knowledge of science is great.
The true wonders of God are not only miraculous signs and wonders, or disasters – the true freedom that Moses brings is a changing of the heart. This is why the powerful signs and wonders don’t change Pharaoh. Pharaoh releases the people only when a personal calamity affects his heart, his soul.
Perhaps it is anger that causes Pharaoh to free the people, or perhaps it is a moment of compassion. The premise set by the earlier miracles is that freedom for the Hebrews will come by result of Pharaoh’s change of heart. It stands to reason then, that the death of his son softened his heart.
The wonders of God are constant, and surround us. Our materialist scientists and philosophers are the new priests of Egypt. Many might explain nature, recreate natural phenomena, but the denial of the spirit of man, and denial of god’s power in nature leads to enslavement. God is seen in the miraculous world, only after a softening of the heart. It is the softening of the heart, and recognition of God in all nature and all humanity that will set the people free; liberating us from the shackles of a false worldview, a system of subjugation, and a hierarchy of selfishness and arrogance.
Moses had all the power…. He found God while alone and powerless in the desert. With no power at all, but what was his own self, he was freed by knowing God.
Only by witnessing and knowing the truth could Moses free others.
We are still trapped like the Hebrews by a hierarchy and worldview that is based on subjugation and control, both of nature and man. Our sciences, our governments, and our economies do not take God into account. They do not seek harmony with nature. They seek to enslave nature – even the foolish among the religious think of their duty as stewards as a duty to subjugate and take advantage of God’s creatures and garden.
Harmony is the way – Power in Harmony, Beauty in Harmony, Wisdom in Harmony.
It is not war and natural miracles that are needed to free mankind. It is a change of heart, a softening toward harmony that is needed.
To try and explain the curses against Egypt by natural means is to act exactly as the priests of Egypt – Of course God used natural means to perform the curses! (The Egyptians fully understood the natural processes.) God is Nature! God lives inside the nature. To not see God in the natural occurrences is the hard-heartedness of the priests.
Sadly, now, we still do not see God in nature, and we will continue to destroy nature, and heap catastrophe upon ourselves until our hearts are softened toward the God of Nature.
It seems like Pharaoh, we will not recognize our need to acknowledge God until our own children die because of our ignorance and refusal to find Harmony with God… Harmony with Nature.