Exodus 14:15: And the Lord said to Moses, why do you cry to Me? Tell the children of Israel to go forward.
vs.19: 20 And the angel of God who went before the camp of Israel, moved and went behind them and the pillar of cloud went from before them and stood behind them. So it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel. Thus it was a coud and darkenss to the one and it gave light by night to the other, so that the one did not come near the other all that night.
After 430 years of bondage and oppression, the children Isreal finally secured their freedom. On their way to the promise land, Pharaoh mobilized his chariots and weapons of war to pursue hard after them. Right before Moses and the children of Israel was the Red Sea and behind them was a battalion of one of the most skilled military force in the world at the time. Not knowing what to do, Moses cried out to the Lord and Exodus 14:15-25 tells us that, Gods first instruction to Moses was to - GO FORWARD. As soon as Moses moved forward with the people and there was a very clear seperation between the people and the egyptian army, the angel of the Lord that was before them relocated and took a position between the egyptian army and Gods people.
Dear friends, Angels are deployed to protect you and keep you from the destructive intention of the enemy but before the angels can take a clear position against your enemy, you must go forward. Angels cannot take a clear position when there is mixture. Until Lot was forced out of sodom, Angels could not execute judgement in Sodom. Until you are separated, until there is a clear demarcation, a very clear gap between you and Babylon, between your desires and the appeals of sodom and Egypt, Angels cannot be deployed to take a very clear position that would favour you.
You must first go forward in your walk of faith, in your prayer life, in your conviction to live for God, in your passion for service to God, you must first go forward regardless of the pursuit of Egypt and when there is a clear separation between you and the world, Angels will take a position in your favour and to the disadvantage of the enemy. GO FORWARD!
