Exodus 5:1, 22 Moses ... said to Pharaoh, "Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, 'Let my people go, that they may hold a feast to me in the wilderness.'"
...Then Moses turned to the Lord and said, "O Lord, why have you done evil to this people? Why did you ever send me?
With unprecedented courage, the formerly timid messenger, Moses, armed with his first knowledge of I AM, meets the enslaver of God's chosen people and demands freedom. But the Divine mandate meets disdain and ridicule, and Israel is thrown into harder labor. The Pharaoh has responded to God; how will the enslaved respond? How will Moses? And in God's hard, dark providences, how do we?