But the midwives feared God, and did not do as the king of Egypt had commanded them, but let the boys live.While the new Pharaoh may not have known about Joseph, it is clear that the people still know about God, either through what Joseph did, or through the contemporary people. I wonder which it was, if not both.
Not to delve too deeply into modern politics, but there is an interesting warning here about what happens when the people remember and honor God, but the leaders do not. In an E&E class I took a couple years ago, it was said that the new Pharaoh was because Egypt had been invaded and conquered, so the line was broken. The new rulers hadn't suffered through the great famine, and certainly held no loyalty to the right-hand man of one of their vanquished leaders a few generations back. Still, there was obviously some reason still for the people to remember God, so the Hebrews of the time must have been doing something right. Given this is before the Law, we don't even know what that something might have been, besides telling the stories of their forefathers. I wish that were all it took today for people to remember and honor God.
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