God answers Moses' lament immediately: now you will see what I will do to Pharaoh. Because of my mighty hand he will let them go; because of my mighty hand he will drive them out of his country. The response is not explanation but promise — not why things got worse but what is about to happen because they did. The mighty hand that will compel Pharaoh is the same hand God stretched out in Exodus 3:20. Where Moses saw failure, God sees preparation. The worsening of conditions was not a mistake; it was the deepening of the crisis that will make the deliverance undeniable. Romans 8:18 says the present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed. Moses cannot yet see what God sees — that the refusal of Pharaoh is being used to build the stage on which God's greatest act will be performed. He will not let them go; then he will drive them out. The momentum of the Exodus is already irreversible.

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