Exodus 9:1-28 - "14For this time I will send all my plagues on you yourself, and on your servants and your people, so that you may know that there is none like me in all the earth. 15For by now I could have put out my hand and struck you and your people with pestilence, and you would have been cut off from the earth. 16 But for this purpose I have raised you up, to show you my power, so that my name may be proclaimed in all the earth." God is making a huge claim here. Not only is He saying that Pharaoh and the other gods of Egypt are no match for Him, He's also taking responsibility for Egypt's might. In short, God is not just "the god of Israel", but the God of the the whole earth. Egypt has been made strong for God's purposes, He is behind it all.
Hebrews 2:1-18 - "that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil, 15and deliver all those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong slavery." The resurrection that is ours through faith, is not just something off in the distant future. That hope means that we are no longer subject to lifelong slavery. Even now, our lives are meaningful because of the resurrection of Jesus, that is ours through faith.
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