Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph.
EXODUS 1:8
History shows us that the achievements of men live on, though their memory fades. Today in Britain we could say that today's rulers know not John Knox, John Wesley or Smith Wigglesworth.
More than this, we could say that they have no wish to know those spiritual giants used by God to forge our society.
Egypt's greatness was enhanced by the work of Joseph as under-ruler to the Pharaoh of his day. However, after the passing of time the contribution of Joseph was no longer honoured and his kinsmen Israelites no longer valued.
By this time in Egypt's history, Israel was perceived as a threat to the integrity of the nation. If the powerful Israelite faction were to join forces with an external enemy, it could be the ruin of the proud Egyptians.
Today in Britain the vast constituency of ordinary, decent, law-abiding citizens is perceived as a threat by successive governments. The morality and innate sense of fairness among ordinary Britons is despised by the social engineers who infest our political, media and cultural institutions. The Christian faith is continually under attack by those who "know better" and wish to impose their superior ideas upon us.
Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.
EXODUS 1:11
What was the Egyptian response to the threat of having God's people in their midst? They set them to building and maintaining treasure cities. This parallels today's society where people are pressured to join the rat race and live as indentured slaves, serving the bankers.
We are all tasked with serving the banker. The entire political philosophy of this present government is to pay the banker his due. Even governments are slaves to the bankers in the 21st century.
It is not the destiny of God's people to serve mammon. Yet that is what the spirit of this age demands. God wants His people free to serve Him but the adversary wants us to serve mammon and build his treasure cities.
And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour;
And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.
EXODUS 1:13,14
The service of mammon is hard bondage. The system constantly looks for ways to make things harder and harder - stealth taxes, inflation, manipulation of interest rates, changing rules and regulations etc.
The word "rigour" here means harshness. It is a harsh life serving Leviathan.
And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah:
And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the stools; if it be a son, then ye shall kill him: but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.
But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive.
EXODUS 1:15-17
Here we see that the spirit of Pharaoh is the spirit of abortion. The enemy knows when God is seeking to do something in the earth. God always sends deliverance and it is normally a man. So infanticide is a favourite tool of both satan and his world order when God seeks to birth a deliverer into the earth.
Nowadays, this is not gender-specific because we live in a New Covenant era. We should not be surprised that abortion is so prevalent in our Western societies when we are believing God for a mighty endtime revival. The evil one knows that this generation could be his last hurrah so is doing everything he can to abort it. Literally.
This also explains why the tampering with the Law of Succession in respect to our royal house. The despiser has heard the prophetic message of the shepherd king coming to Albion's throne and is seeking to thwart it. Yet God's purpose will not be altered. The best efforts of Pharoah did not prevent the birthing of sons to Israelite homes - indeed his own palaces were to be "invaded" by the very deliverer he sought to destroy.
No amount of cunning or violence can prevent the plans and purposes of YHWH from coming to fruition. This is why it is so vital in this day to both pray and proclaim these plans and purposes into manifestation.
Today, just as in days of old, our God wants to break us free from the house of bondage and throw Rahab down in the sea.
It will happen - so press in to it, child of God.
Yours is the generation that will see the harlot overthrown.
