The Passover story is about God delivering Israel from the slavery of Egypt. But some aspects of this incredible story are often missed, because we don’t consider God’s actions from the perspective of the Egyptian cultural context.
God says that one of the purposes of the Passover, is to “bring judgment on the gods of the Egyptians”. So what did the Egyptians believe about their gods? And in a strange twist, could the plagues of Passover, actually be an act of God’s mercy on Egypt?
