The Egyptians will know that I am the Lord when I gain glory through Pharaoh, his chariots and his horsemen. The knowledge formula that has accompanied every plague — the Egyptians will know that I am the Lord — reaches its final and fullest fulfillment at the sea. The knowledge that has been resisted through ten plagues will be forced at the crossing. But the timing of the knowing is significant: the Egyptians will know as the waters close over them. This is knowledge received too late to be saving. John 8:28 records Jesus saying: when you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he. The knowledge of God's identity arrives at the cross, as at the sea, with finality. The Lord is known through the cross as He was known through the sea — definitively, irreversibly, at the moment when the power of the enemy is broken.

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