Remember and Remember and Remember
Exodus 12:1-13; 13:1-8 (content warning about infant death and infanticide) Once again as we arrive at this week’s scripture lesson, we have catapulted past lots of action in the big story of God. Last week, we left Joseph in a seat of power and privilege as a trusted official in Pharoah’s court at the end of the book of Genesis. We have skipped over the ominous opening of the book of Exodus. There rose a king in Egypt who did not know Joseph. Joseph and his brothers died, and eventually, a generation came to power in Egypt that no longer knew or remembered or revered what Joseph had done for the Egyptians in the past. Joseph had been forgotten. The work it took to survive catastrophic famine had been forgotten. It happens. Time erases things. The Israelites (the descendants of Joseph and his brothers) were now enslaved by a new Pharoah. The Israelites are many and they are the builders of the great economic engine that is the land of Egypt, land controlled by Ph