"Try not to gracefully the individuals with any more straw for making blocks. Let them get it themselves! In any case, don't lessen their creation portions by a solitary block. They clearly need more to do. On the off chance that they did, they wouldn't discuss going into the wild to offer penances to their God."
— Exodus 5:7-8
Nelson Mandela, in his book Long Walk to Freedom, expounded on his years as a detainee on Robben Island, South Africa. Every morning the detainees were walked into the patio wearing light shirts and shorts—no clothing or socks—where they were needed to pound rocks the size of volleyballs into rock. The primary week, they were requested to fill a goliath slip half full. The second week it must be seventy five percent full, and the third week totally full. The assignment at last got incomprehensible. They were being driven purposefully to the limit. Yet, rather than breaking, the detainees chose to organize a go-moderate strike. In spite of desperate dangers from the superintendents, the strike proceeded until the superintendents had to yield.
Pharaoh's detainees, the Israelites, were pushed to the limit, as well. They were needed to create a standard of blocks every day. Crude materials, including hacked straw, were given. At that point Moses and Aaron showed up before Pharaoh and stated, "This is the thing that the Lord, the God of Israel, says: 'Let my kin go, for they should go out into the wild to hold a strict celebration in my honor' " (Exod. 5:1). Pharaoh countered that he didn't have the foggiest idea about the God of Israel and could see no motivation behind why individuals should quit working so as to revere him! To show his dismay, Pharaoh requested, "Don't gracefully the individuals with any more straw for making blocks. Let them get it themselves! However, don't decrease their creation quantity by a solitary block" (5:7-8). Pharaoh's detainees, in any case, challenged not stage a go-moderate strike. In contrast to the South African detainees, the Hebrews were as liable to be murdered as to be kicked. So their sufferings essentially expanded. On the off chance that they griped, they were whipped into accommodation.
The Israelites reprimanded Moses and Aaron for adding to their torment: "May the Lord judge you for getting us into this horrible circumstance" (5:21). In any case, Moses realized that he and Aaron were complying with God's requests, so he grumbled to God: "Why have you abused your own kin like this, Lord? For what reason did you send me?" (5:22). By all accounts, everyone's grumblings appear to be very sensible. However in the background, God was grinding away. He was making way for Pharaoh to gain proficiency with a significant exercise about God's sovereign lordship! It was not going to be simple; many individuals planned to get injured.
In the battle among great and wickedness, it regularly appears to be that malevolent is winning and that great individuals are enduring the worst part of the battle unjustifiably. In any case, recall, Mandela was inevitably delivered and turned into the leader of South Africa, and the offspring of Israel went free and set out toward the Promised Land. The Pharaoh who requested blocks portrayed without straw turned as a man of straw himself.
Regardless of how hard the battle, we can be sure that, at long last, God wins!