For our people to ever want to be done with Egypt (i.e., the statist society), they will first have to be able to make a distinction between Egypt and the Kingdom of God. For now, they believe Egypt is a “free country” and that she is God’s perfect will on earth, His plan for social organization. How much harder is it to get men to walk away from Babylon when they walked into thinking she represents “freedom” rather than the slavery that we’re, in fact, living under?

Reviewing the Song of Moses amidst our political enslavement, the distinctions that men have yet to understand are pretty well-drawn.

If we see that Moses is rejoicing in God smashing statist armies for him as he flees their attempt to keep them in slavery, rather than praising them as most do today, we should see that we are still in Egypt and should not be able to keep thinking that “freedom” comes from statist Egyptian systems.

Moses’s song shows clearly that it is Pharaohs and their militaries (which many Americans have thought was their “savior”) that are the enemy of freedom, not the protectors of “liberty” they thought it was and not deserving of such praises as “God bless our troops” as we hear from millions of foolish people.

Moses was not celebrating the triumph of one of Pharaoh’s plunderers that men have been trained to worship in our Egyptian society, but rather the escape from Egypt’s plunders with God on his side.

If we understood even the Song of Moses, we could never trust in State militaries anymore, and we would instead trust in God to have our back against our enemies, not political plunder systems and foreign alliances (e.g., NATO).

“I will sing to the LORD, for He is highly exalted. The horse and rider He has thrown into the sea. The LORD is my strength and my song, and He has become my salvation. He is my God, and I will praise Him, my father’s God, and I will exalt Him” (Exodus 15:1-2).

We could remember our God, who takes care of the statist problem for us, such that we fear not living freely and breaking out of Egyptian bondage.

“The LORD is a warrior, the LORD is His name. Pharaoh’s chariots and army He has cast into the sea; the finest of his officers are drowned in the Red Sea. The depths have covered them; they sank there like a stone” (Exodus 15:3-5).

Most men today would be mad at God for destroying their beloved military and its officers, who they regard as the “heroes” of liberty, law, and order, because they love Pharaoh’s alleged strength more than they love God. Notwithstanding the illegitimate conflation of “God and country” that is prevalent in the “United States,” where people believe they can bless state servants and soldiers in the name of God, there is perhaps no greater demonstration of one’s lack of faith in God than in the belief that States and their agents are needed for protection.

If we looked at Moses, we would see that we should be in awe at the power of God to smash the enemy State, not as men have been today, in awe over the powers of Pharaoh’s military.

“Your right hand, O LORD, is majestic in power; Your right hand, O LORD, has shattered the enemy. You overthrew Your adversaries by Your great majesty. You unleashed Your burning wrath; it consumed them like stubble. At the blast of Your nostrils the waters piled up; like a wall the currents stood firm; the depths congealed in the heart of the sea” (Exodus 15:6-8).

We would see that plunderers are indeed after us (they call themselves “the government”) and may threaten us, but that if we trust in God (instead of statism) to smash them, we will be fine.

“The enemy declared, ‘I will pursue, I will overtake. I will divide the spoils; I will gorge myself on them. I will draw my sword; my hand will destroy them.’ But You blew with Your breath, and the sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters” (Exodus 15:9-10).

We would see that we should trust in God to bring us liberty, not state militaries.

“Who among the gods is like You, O LORD? Who is like You—majestic in holiness, revered with praises, performing wonders? You stretched out Your right hand, and the earth swallowed them up. With loving devotion You will lead the people You have redeemed; with Your strength You will guide them to Your holy dwelling” (Exodus 15:11-13).

We would trust in God to establish us, not States.

“You will bring them in and plant them on the mountain of Your inheritance—the place, O LORD, You have prepared for Your dwelling, the sanctuary, O Lord, Your hands have established” (Exodus 15:17).

If men truly knew the Lord, they would never be singing songs to the State, as they do today in the belief that the State is the savior of mankind. Rather, they would sing praises to the Lord for the work He does upon these illegitimate systems of men.

Only when we change our mindset away from praising statism, which is the idolatry that has brought men into slavery for so long, and toward praising God as the true liberator, can we begin to break out of the Egyptian bondage we have gotten ourselves into and that we even deserve.