Pharaoh will think, the Israelites are wandering around the land in confusion, hemmed in by the desert. God reveals His strategy: He is arranging a scenario that will appear to Pharaoh as an opportunity for recapture. Israel's seemingly confused wandering will trigger Pharaoh's pursuit. God is using Pharaoh's predictable logic against him — the same hardening dynamic that operated through the plagues is now operating through the geography of the Exodus. Pharaoh will read the situation as Israel's strategic failure; it is actually God's strategic setup. 1 Corinthians 3:19 says the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God's sight — Pharaoh's military intelligence, reading the terrain correctly by every human measure, will be proven comprehensively wrong by what the God of Israel is about to do at the sea.

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