50 GOD DELIVERING HIS PEOPLE.

 

Lord had slain the first-born in every family, even unto
the king’s home.

Now the wicked king began to fear Goa, and told
the children of Israel to go, and go in haste, lest some
worse plague should come upon them. The lamb that
was killed, and the blood sprinkled on the doorposts, was
a type of the dear Savior, whose blood has been shed to
save US.

Whosoever has been cleansed by that blood, the de-
stroying angel will pass over, when God shall judge the
world. As the king had told the people to go, Moses had
them make ready in haste, and start out of Egypt a very
great company.

[know you will think it strange, children, when I tell
you that this wicked king, after all the judgments God
had sent upon him, gathered together a great army, and
followed after them. They had been his slaves so long:
he hated to give them up. He came up close behind them
at the Red Sea, and the poor Israelites thought, now we
are sure to be swallowed up. But God told Moses to |
reach his rod out over the waters, and the waters parted
and stood up like a wall on either side. Then Moses said
to the people, “Go forward,” and they walked right through
the sea on dry ground.

The Egyptians thought they could do the same thing,
but when in the middle of the sea, God caused the waters
to roll back to their place again, and Pharaoh, with all his
hosts, were drowned. So God delivered his people.