The pattern is something like this: God stirs a heart to be free from a particular slavery (the slavery to greed, fear, legalistic religion, etc. etc.). Then God does the obviously logical thing and antagonizes the captor enforcing that slavery; I mean He really really pisses the captor off so that things get much much worse for the captive (that would be you and I). If you want a mental picture of this, just imagine God winging bucket upon bucket of manure at an active high-powered wind turbine.
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