11:1 God has one final plague to deliver to Egypt. He informs Moses that afterward, the children of Israel will be released. In fact, Pharaoh will be so emphatic about the release that he will drive them out. Ironic, right? Once so committed to keeping the slaves, Pharaoh will come to be desperate for their departure from him. That is the nature of God's work: the impossible becomes not only possible but likely and easy.
11:2-3 Through these plagues, the children of Israel have gone from neglected and tortured slaves to celebrities. They are received with honor and respect by the people of Egypt and even Pharaoh's servants. Whatever they request of their neighbors they receive. God has made his presence known.
God made this promise to Moses: the children of Israel would be released and released with everything that was plundered from them over years of slavery. His promises are fulfilled with precision. In preparation for departure, the children of Israel procure and abundance of provisions and materials.
11:4-6 The events of Moses' life were brought about by a corrupt Pharaoh's order that every male child of Israel be killed. The same fate now awaits the Egyptians. The difference between Pharaoh's order and God's is this: God is the creator of all souls. He does not harm. Therefore we can deduce that any child's soul taken from the Egyptians would be gathered by God (maybe souls were not even placed into those bodies).
Pharaoh's son will die just as God's son will die. That is not punishment or vengeance. That is God's way of showing the cost, the brutal price of evil. He highlights how unnecessary evil is. Nothing is worth the price of a soul and sometimes it takes losing the soul you most care about to realize that. Pharaoh will undergo this lesson by losing his son and so will God... the only difference is that one deserves it and the other does not. One come to realize... and one already knows. God feels the sharp edge of evil's cut even though He does not deserve it.
11:7 Not a single individual of the children of Israel will be harmed. God exhibits to humanity that His children, those with compassion and faith in their souls, are always protected. They welcome his love and protection and therefore they receive it. Our compassion, faith and trust is our landing pad. The landing pad on which we receive blessings from God.
11:8 Pharaoh is infuriated. The children of Israel are not just released...they're forced out of Egypt. Once they thought they would never be able to leave and now they have multiple escorts. God bursts the barriers and our blessings pour out as rushing waters, carrying us into new lands.
11:9-10 Yet God can foresee future events: there is a kink in Pharaoh's release and God needs to iron it out before the children of Israel leave.
