Exodus Chp. 1-12

Why might God hardened the pharaoh’s heart instead of doing the opposite, so Moses could have gotten out of Egypt much faster, and easier?

We have to admit that if God was helping Moses leave Egypt along with the Children of Israel, it would have been much more helpful if he hadn’t hardened the Pharaoh’s heart each time more, each time he said no, no matter how much plagues had occurred and how much they’d damaged Egypt.

Why didn’t God facilitate things instead of making them more complex? Why didn’t he ever went and personally, to talk to the Pharaoh about letting the Israelites go? This contradicts the God-only-helping-Moses theory, can is indirectly shown in the books, everytime he tells Moses what plague to prepare next, everytime he is telling Moses to convince the Pharaoh of letting them go.

We could say, though, that God didn’t do this “hardening the Pharaoh’s heart” to0 contradict the Israelites, he might have meant for them—along with Moses—to challenge themselves. For Moses and Aaron to realize how hard was it convincing someone of Liberty, to understand how massive was this thing they were going to do, how hard was it to make it happen.

Or if he hated the Egyptians so much for establishing slavery, perhaps he wanted them to suffer more plagues and damages. So he made the Pharaoh stubborn, this way he could suffer the loss of more people and the devastation.

The plagues might have represented some kind of vision to the future, given by God, to the Egyptians; for them to realize how hard is was going to be to survive and work and build all they wanted—without slaves.

It might have been because of God’s hardening, but perhaps the Pharaoh himself was somewhat stubborn, and no matter how devastated might his kingdom have ended, he still said no, probably because he didn’t want to admit defeat—or be nice towards the people who were his slaves.

Lastly, it is easy to see that God has dominance over both Moses, and Pharaoh, he is controlling them both. As if it were some kind of two-on-two board game, where God himself was the only player. There is no one to compete with, so he decided what he shall do with each “side”. He is telling Moses to convince the Pharaoh, yet he is telling the Pharaoh to ignore Moses.