Pharaoh's chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea; his chosen captains also are drowned in the Red Sea (Exodus 15:4, KJV).
This famous image of liberation readily becomes symbolic of all triumph of order and good over evil and chaos. The old spiritual has it exactly right:
Oh Mary, don't you weep don't you mourn
Oh Mary, don't you weep, don't you mourn.
Pharaoh's army got drownded,
Oh Mary don't you weep.
'Mary' could be Mary of Bethany imploring Jesus to raise her brother Lazarus from the dead, or Jesus’ mother at the foot of the cross, being reassured that the unimaginably awful scene before her is not the end of history. Pharaoh's army got drownded - and the meaning of Good Friday is known only on Easter Day.
Out of darkness comes the light.
ReplyDeleteAfter the rain there will always come sunshine!
Ok, so it may take a long time to get here, but it will arrive eventually. Matthew 6:33!
In passing Remember: those poor Israelites had suffered a lot, for a long time, and they did not have a Bible to find out the final outcome. We are lucky to know that God is, after all, on our side!Amazingly both yours and mine!