But had God lost all care for His people that He should leave them to destruction? Would He not warn them of their danger and deliver them from their enemies? God had no delight in the discomfiture of His people. It was He Himself who had directed Moses to encamp by the Red Sea, and He had further informed him: “Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in. And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, that he shall follow after them; and I will be honored upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host; that the Egyptians may know that I am the Lord.” {4T 22.1}

(22) Det var ham selv som havde påbudt Moses at slå lejr ved det Røde Hav og han havde yderligere sagt til ham: »Farao vil da tænke om israelitterne, at de er faret vild i landet og at ørkenen har sluttet dem inde; og jeg vil forhærde Faraos hjerte, så han sætter efter dem og jeg vil forherlige mig på Farao og hele hans krigsmagt og ægypterne skal kende, at jeg er Herren!«