Passover is one of the most significant religious events celebrated by Jews all over the world.
It is a remembrance that the destroyer, an angel of death sent by Yawheh, passed over the Hebrew houses and did slay the first-born child of every Egyptian because Pharaoh refused to let the people go, though he should have anticipated this horrible, impending 10th plague.
After the slaughter of the first-born of about every Egyptian family, the grief-stricken Pharaoh finally agreed to let the people go.
There are two lessons that I take away from this Chapter. First, God sends us signals and warnings of punishment when are especially wicked, and will not make any attempt to get better, so drastic punishment may fall upon the stiff-necked evildoers of the land, while the good-doers are spared.
The second message that I take away from the Passover story is that God desires and knows that his people can only flourish and be good, really flourish and really express their faith as a way of life, if they live in freedom to worship God as they chose.
Slavery, tyranny, totalitarianism, and huge government, though secular, have been the most murderous regimes the world has ever seen. Whether radical, federal evil is self-referencing as secular or theocratic, it would not much matter.
If we want benevolent faiths going forward to flourish, we must arrange that people must live in a democracy or preferably a republic. Only a free people can be a godly people so tyrannical government is not only intolerable and insufferable but it is a stifling repressor of God ‘s people living free and worshiping God as they will, so the people have a moral obligation to rebel and jail or executes despots.
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