Let My People Go: The Spirit of Pharaoh in the 1st Century & Beyond

I want to submit to you that the Sons of Pharaoh is a spiritual lineage still alive today. And it will ultimately become the Antichrist movement that captures the attention of this fallen world. The Exodus story is not a story that is old and far off, disconnected from our lives, but it's personal and close to each and every one of us. It helps us on our journey to the promised land, our promised land, being Yeshua himself, to be with Jesus, reunited with our father. See, we each have an Egypt to escape. We each have have plagues in this world to navigate. We each have to wrestle with our own hearts. And we each have a promise revealed to us in the Exodus story. First, I would like to start off with where all of it really began, with Pharaoh giving an order to kill the babies in Egypt. Israel's babies are thrown into the rivers, and as that happens, Moses is taken by his mother and floated down the river. Of course, Moses ends up in the household of Pharaoh and becomes a prince of Egypt and later is elevated and being called out by God to become the one who sets the Israelites free from the slaveries, the bitter slaveries that they've been in for many years in Egypt. But similarly, in the first century, the story of Jesus starts all in the same way, when Herod put out the edict to have the children killed. And God came to warn Mary and Joseph to flee to Egypt. And so they did so that Yeshua's life may be spared. And of course, as the prophecy goes, Yeshua returns from Egypt and becomes the one who sets the captives free in Israel. See, today, nothing much has changed. It's still all about going after the children. Satan is trying today to kill the babies spiritually by at a young age, going after their thoughts, their ideas, how they perceive the world, to corrupt their hearts so that they are drawn away from God and walk away from God. And is that not what we are seeing, but what we do see in these amazing biblical stories is that in these acts of how God preserved these children, whether it's Yeshua who becomes the Messiah or whether it is Moses who becomes the one who God uses to set Israel free, it is through the preservation of these children that freedom has come. And in the same way, I want to submit today that God desires to preserve the children, that he is calling children, he's calling parents to protect their children so that when Pharaoh comes or when Herod comes, that the children is floated down the river into safety or taken to Egypt out of the way so that they can come back when they are grown up. One day to be mightily used to set the captives free. See Yeshua spoke in Luke 4:18 and he said, the Spirit of the Lord is upon me because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recover covering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed. And is that not exactly what God is calling us to? To walk as Yeshua walked in that manner, to continue to be a light to the nations by the empowerment of his Spirit that is baptizing us. But now also consider this amazing grace of God that has brought us this because many of us may think of these things for us or our children and won how can God use me? Why would God save a man like me or a woman like me? And this is where God comes to Israel and explains exactly how that is in Exodus 6:2 and it says and God spake unto Moses and said to him, I am the Lord and I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty. But by my name Jehovah or Yahweh, was I not known to them. And I have also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage wherein they were strangers. And I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel whom the Egyptians keep in bondage. And I have remembered my covenant. Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am Yahweh and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm and with great judgments. And I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God. And you will know that I am the Lord your God, which brings you out from under the burden of the Egyptians. And I will bring you into the land concerning the which I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, to Jacob, and I will give it you for heritage. I am the Lord. I mean just consider the immense weight of what God has just said. He is saying, look, I came to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and they did not even know my name name they did not know me by Yod. Hey vav hey. The name that he has now revealed to Moses and Israel and all of us here today. And even when Abram, Isaac and Jacob didn't know his name and weren't perfect in knowing and obeying his law, and weren't perfect in how to love and who were had their Own deep wounds and issues. And even if you know the stories, great unbelief in God at times. Does any of this sound familiar? Because I kind of connect with a lot of this. How great and beautiful are his laws, but still I find myself fall short. Oh, how beautiful is the love of Yeshua and how he loved his enemies. But still, sometimes I find myself falling short. Or how hard life is and how many wounds life can give us and how I may even struggle. Maybe you're someone. You're like, I don't even know what name is his anymore. Everyone calls him another name. And yet God came for Abraham, for Isaac, for Jacob, and for all of Israel when they were in bondage, when they themselves did not deserve it. Out of their great faith and out of what they had to offer. God. No, rather out of his mercies, because he remembered his covenants and his promises. He came for them. And in the same way, he comes for you. Not because of how much faith you have, although that would be wonderful. Or not necessarily how much laws you've kept, although that is good. And not because you're a perfect person who's never been wounded and who's never sinned. On the contrary, because you have fallen short of his glory. He has come for you. Yeshua came to die because of the fact that you, by your own merits, are not worthy. But then you might ask, well, if Jesus took my disease, why am I still sick? And if Jesus took addiction, why am I still in bondage? Why in this life do I still feel like I am enslaved in Egypt? I have heavy burdens that are upon me. But see, like Israel, you have a journey to the Promised land. Israel were freed eventually by Moses, and they were taken into this journey called the Exodus journey. They had an initial salvation from Egypt, but then a refinement in the wilderness. Even though they left Egypt, Egypt hadn't left them. They still had to get free from many of the things that they had picked up while living in Egypt among pagans. And so the same with us. We live in this fallen world. We have our initial salvation where God comes and he rips us from the clutches of Pharaoh and He sets us free. But then we still have things along the way that he is refining us in, things that we need to repent from, what we need to discover that is still there and wrong things we may not even recognize we're doing. And in that journey to the promised land, through this wilderness that at times is tiresome and difficult, we become changed more and more into the image of Yeshua. And we inherit more and more freedom until we reach the very moment of being face to face with him, where it says that we will have no more disease. We will all be healed. He will wipe away every tear, but we have to be patient with the process. See, Israel's problem, however, was that they didn't want to leave Egypt. And many of us have this problem, too. I mean, maybe we left Egypt and then we said, jesus, I want to follow you. Get me out of here. But then we still have these remnants of Egypt in our heart, and we really don't want to give it up when we have bondage. Just like Israel, who were enslaved to do hard labor to their taskmaster Pharaoh, there's a part of them that hated the bondage and they wanted to be free. But there's another part of them that loved the bondage and wanted to stay. They had a divided mind. The flesh wanted to go one way and the spirit wanted to go another way. In fact, in the first century, when Jesus came on the scene and looked upon Jerusalem, Yeshua said the very same thing. In Matthew 23:37, he said, O Jerusalem. Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it. How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing. Yeshua is saying, I want to save your children from this world. Like God saved Moses out of that world he was in. And as God saved Yeshua from the clutches of Herod, now Yeshua says, I want to save your children as well, but you are not willing. And Moses also repeats the same. In Exodus 6, 9, he says, it says, moses spoke unto the children of Israel, but they hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit and for cruel bondage. Sometimes people are so hurt by the bondage that they are in that they are scared of intervention. They'll think things like, well, at least my bondage is familiar. It's like I'm doing this. I'm in this bondage. It's something I don't really want, but it's familiar. It's something I've grown accustomed to. It's now a part of who I am. Have you ever heard that we were born this way? Is what the world loves to say. This fear of what it means to be free, the fear of the change that it will have to bring to my life? Or what about the thought of, well, what will Egypt do to me? What will Pharaoh do to me if I were to leave Egypt? The fear of the Consequences that freedom brings. Yeshua warned us well of these, saying that the world will hate you because of me, that they will persecute us because we have left the world. We have left our Egypt. Or what about the thought that people have of, well, how will I survive without my taskmaster feeding me this fear of hunger? Israel complained often, let us rather go back to Egypt, where the melons and the leeks were, where all the nice food was. We were enslaved, but at least Pharaoh took care of us. But see, all of these fears are there because of a lack of faith. Yeshua says regarding this fear of hunger to us all that he is the new food. He said in John 6:35, I am the bread of life, and if you come to me, you will not hunger. And if you believe in me, you will not thirst. And regarding the fear of what will happen if I left this world, Yeshua says, don't fear the world, but fear God. Do not fear those who kill the body. After that, they have nothing more they can do. But I will warn you whom to fear. Fear him who, after he has killed, has authority to cast into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him. And then he says, why, even the hairs on your head are numbered. Fear not. You are more value than many sparrows. Yeshua is telling us that our Father has the authority to actually cause great harm, even to our very souls. But he loves us, he cares for us, he has our hairs numbered. And therefore we do not have to worry because of his mercy that sets us free even from this Egypt. And then, as for the last fear we mentioned, the fear of change. God must be your constant. See, we're afraid of this. But this world is up and down, up and down. It is not constant. It is full of change and fear and worry and doubt. But yet God is constant, the one you can always trust in, the one who will never leave or forsake. And he doesn't change. That's why the psalmist wrote in Psalm 31:3, for you are my rock and my fortress, and for your name's sake you lead me and guide me. So stop putting it off. Stop doubting whether you should leave Egypt. Today is the day God will be with you. He is so much more precious. He fulfills you so much more, and he gives you true freedom. Moses was a special man, and that's why God picked him. And I want you to recognize why. It was because Moses recognized his own uncircumcision. We read in Exodus 6:10, and the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, go in Speak unto Pharaoh, king of Egypt, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land. And Moses spoke before the Lord, saying, behold, the children of Israel have not hearkened unto me. How then shall Pharaoh hear me? Who am I, of uncircumcised lips? Moses makes a good point. He's telling God, why would you try and use me to do these righteous deeds of speaking to Pharaoh and speaking to Israel and setting them free, when I myself have done unrighteousness? For Moses recognized that he is a murderer. See Moses, self awareness of being unworthy of being used is what qualified him. Because it forced him to recognize that I am not being chosen based on what I have done. See, God needs humility. God needs you to recognize it is not because you're such a great guy or such a great girl that I am picking and I'm using you. No, it is because what I have done, dying for you, cleansing you, setting you free, and by my spirit that indwells you and empowers you and can work through you, that I want to use you. Because the more that you recognize how God needs to do it, the less you're going to depend on your own speech, depend on your own thoughts, and depend on your own actions. You're going to rather depend on his spirit, who becomes your actions and your thoughts and your speech, if you absolutely lean and rely on him. See, God does the work, not Moses. Exodus 7:5. And the Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh when I stretch forth my hand upon Egypt and bring out the children of Israel from among them. God is making it clear that I am the one who sets them free. You are but my servant, and that's the same for all of us. We are sent out as Moses with a commission to set the captives free, to call them out of Egypt, to confront Pharaoh, and to say, let my people go is what the Lord says. But see one of the markers of man. Who's been most powerfully used by God? Or those who recognized their own uncircumcision like Moses did? It is these who God exalted and circumcised in heart by the Holy Spirit. Do you lean on your own strength, your own understanding, your own power? Or do you recognize I am a man with unclean lips? Oh God, I need you to do any that I can do nothing unless you do it through me. This is the contrast. You see Moses with this knowledge of his own lack that's at the forefront. His focus is looking inside. He has humility. He is pouring out his heart and saying, I'm not worthy. But he trusts that God can use him nonetheless. And then on the other hand, you have Pharaoh, who has all this knowledge about his gods that he thinks and that's at the forefront as he comes and has the showdown against Moses and Aaron with his snake and Moses, Aaron's snakes, and you know, the Moses, and Aaron's snake eats Pharaoh's snake. And then we have Pharaoh, sorcerers, they're trying to imitate all the plagues. Because for Pharaoh, it's all about showing his superiority through his spiritual ascent. His focus is external. It's all on who I am, what I can be. It's exalting and boasting in himself and his own spiritualities. And he is blinded by this pride because he refuses to look internally and recognize how he himself is in bondage and he himself needs to turn from wickedness. You know, all this sounds awfully familiar when you think about even the first century, because when Yeshua was on the scene and he had his own mission of setting captives free like Moses, did we see that the opponents of Yeshua, these who were called the Pharisees, certain of them, stood up against the Christ. To them, it was also all about their knowledge. Their knowledge about God and what they thought they knew about God was at the forefront of everything for them. Their focus again was external. It was all about how great and superior they can look to everyone else. They had a blinding pride to the wickedness that was even in their own hearts as well. That is why they always focus their energy on trying to win arguments with Yeshua. See, so many want to exalt themselves by boasting in their knowledge. Look at what I know up here, they try and say. But as for what is hidden in here, in their hearts, that's a big secret. See, you'll entertain some of the other religious who has just the same secrets and wickedness as you, but you will not fool God. And that is why in a day like this, God is calling for true repentance. Because this idea that one who knows of God or who knows of spiritual things, or who even may think, I know of God's truth and his Holy Spirit. And then you think because of that, you know God. That is one of the oldest deceptions that have plagued humanity. From the beginning, religious men have thought themselves safe from the judgment of God merely because they know of religious things. And the world has been shocked when the religious have been found out to be hiding wicked things. How often is the world shocked at the next headline of some priest or spiritual leader who's been abusing or molesting or other unspeakable acts. It can be easy to deceive ourselves by distracting ourselves to pursue greater knowledge and debate with other people constantly. Not that there's anything wrong with pursuing knowledge or or debates. But when it becomes that at the cost of cleaning our own house and ensuring that we are repentant, then we are doing exactly what the Pharisees have done. And then a character like Pharaoh to us is seen like a polar opposite or a pagan. Very different. But Pharaoh did the exact same thing. And it is the issue of being of the line of Pharaoh spiritually. See, I'm going to draw some parallels for you so you understand what I am talking about. Because this snake that was on the forehead of Pharaoh is still at work today amongst those who even today think and call themselves religious. Pharaoh enslaved Israel with a bitter slavery, putting burdens on their shoulders. And yet Yeshua said to those certain Pharisees, you put burdens on the shoulders of men that you yourself are not even willing to lift with your finger. They were doing the same thing Pharaoh was doing in a spiritual way. We also see Pharaoh is known as the persecutor of Israel, forbidding Israel to go out to celebrate feasts unto God. But yet, is that not exactly what the Pharisees also did? They became persecutors of the true Israel, who were the followers of the Messiah. In fact, does those words not ring on all of our ears of how Yeshua confronted Paul with the words of soul? Saul, why are you persecuting me before Paul repented? Or what about when Pharaoh is wearing his hat with his snake on his forehead and Yeshua comes to those certain Pharisees and tells them, you are a brood of vipers, calling them as being the sons the brood vipers, the sons of Pharaoh. They were like Pharaoh seas in their day, spiritually putting Israel in bondage. See, why am I saying all of this? Because if we today, armed with the spirit and with the truth of God, continue to turn a blind eye to our own wickedness and the uncircumcisions of our own lives, are we not just like Pharaoh? And are we not just as those Pharisees? Are we not causing the very plagues that Yeshua came to end? When we ignore the call to repent, we in fact create our own Egypt over which we rule. We set ourselves up as the Pharaoh of our own lives. And where there is a Pharaoh, there is bondage. Pharaoh in Egypt was both Pharaoh and slave of Egypt, a slave to the snake that is on his forehead. He thought he was the ruler, but he was just. He was just serving the snake. He was just serving the wrong side entirely. And is that not where the mark of the beast is? Is when we ultimately, instead of having the law of God written on our hearts, being changed, repenting of our dead works, following him with all we have. That is the mark of God to be his, to have the testimony of Yeshua and to obey him. But then when you have the snake, it's when you follow after your own ideas, or so you think, which are really the snake's ideas. When you put yourself in slavery, but you call it freedom. See, this world, they say, be free, be free, do whatever you want. That is freedom. No, that is true slavery. Because whenever you do not submit yourself to the law of God, you bring in slaveries because there is a consequence to evil deeds. See, some of us are like Pharaoh, both a Pharaoh and a slave of our own Egypt. So the question is, are you the Pharaoh of your life or is God the God of your life? Do you trust in yourself like the Pharisees in the first century who thought all their knowledge is going to redeem them and all their debates is going to obscure the fact that they are hypocrites and have wickedness and evil deeds? Or are you going to be one who pushes all things aside to ensure that you are right before God, before you start pointing the finger at others and before you try and become superior, climbing some spiritual ladder up and trying to put burdens then on the shoulders of others. See, this is who you can be. You can be as Paul who was in bondage and he was then struck with a plague of darkness, just like how God struck Egypt with that darkness. In the same way Paul was struck with a plague of darkness where he went blind. But Paul repented immediately thereafter. And God exalted him from that place and used him mightily. See, when a plague hits your life, repent immediately. Do not wait to see what the tenth plague will hold. See, God's mercy is enough for us. And his mercy is even there when things go wrong sometimes, because sometimes he's warning us, sometimes we're on the wrong track and he needs to get us back on track. And so when something happens, repent, turn back to him, recognize the uncircumcision, be humble like Moses was, and do not be as Pharaoh. For Pharaoh, he saw more of God's majesty than perhaps many of us ever will. He saw in the skies. He Saw it in the plagues. He saw it even at the moment of his very death. The power and majesty of God as an ocean was split. But he still refused to repent to his own death. And in the same way, there were certain Pharisees in the first century. They saw all of the miracles by the Spirit of God in Yeshua in his day, and they still refused to repent until they died. And when you die in that state, thinking you're a religious man, even though the whore of Israel may have thought, well, you've got the front row seat at the feast. You must be good yet then they stand before God and it's everything but good. I don't want you to have that. I don't want you to be reading your Bible every night, yet still go to hell. You say, how is that possible? It is because you can deceive yourself with knowledge, thinking you've got knowledge, and that's what's going to save you. It will not. It will not save you. Repentance and faith and humility is what he calls. He calls us to lay all things down and follow Him. That means you can't live the way you did before. You can't just be a religious man. You need to be a disciple of Yeshua. The Pharisees all were religious, but they weren't his disciples. And because they did not know him, the Father will say, depart from me. I do not know you. The reason that we become workers of lawlessness is because we do not know the One who never had any lawlessness. And to truly know him does not just come by knowing about Him. It comes by knowing him, by spending that time with him, on our knees, in repentance and in humility, and in loving him and our neighbor as ourself. Because the one who says, I love God, but who hates his neighbor, how can you say that you love God whom you do not see, while you hate your neighbor, whom you do see right before you? God has called us in this time and in this year to turn over a new page for all of those who mock him by acting religious. They will be brought to an end. And this is your warning? This is my warning. This is what the Spirit is saying. Let's be serious about the call to be his disciple, to pick up a cross. And let's end the pretension among us by not allowing it to prosper any longer, by asking God to give us discernment and to judge by the fruits ourselves first and foremostly. Father, I ask that you would help us, O Lord, to be a people who recognize our uncircumcision and turn and repent. Father, help us to be a people who do not just distract ourselves with lofty debates, but who look internally as Moses did, seeking the spirit of God to change him. Father, I ask that you, in this day and age, would come and change us all. Give us your humility, Yeshua. Give us your love for one another and for God. Father, please draw near to us. Please save us from our Egypt, our bondage, our pharaohs. And we repent where we have tried to sit up as a Pharaoh in our lives. We repent where we have hoped to put others in bondage. Forgive us where we have placed burdens on the shoulders of others that we ourselves have not been willing to carry out. Pray all this in the name of Yeshua. Amen. Thank you for joining me this day. A special thank you to all of our partners who've made this teaching and every other teaching this month possible. I'm excited to be back with you guys. Guys. And we're going to be ramping up the videos as the Father permits. And we can't wait to see you in the next one. Shalom.

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