Exodus 4:22-23

Also the fact that when God brought Israel out of Egypt, He made them His sons and daughters, His children. He said, "You are My son." That is in Exodus 4:22-23. He tells Pharaoh to let My son go out of Egypt. He is my firstborn.

So what it is talking about is that when God made the covenant with the Israelites, He made them His Family. And so they took on the surname, if you will, of Elohim. So He could very easily, without any problem, call them gods because they were part of God's Family. And He said, "You should have known this. By covenant I made you holy. By covenant I separated you out and made you a distinct people on this earth because I loved you," He says in Deuteronomy 7. And so He did all these things and exalted them above the peoples of the earth. He says, because you have done this poor job of judging My people (verse 7), you shall die like men. He says, because what you have done by doing all this poor judgment, by ignoring His law, you have basically repudiated the covenant. And in doing so, you are no longer in that exalted position. So you are going to die just like regular men.

Exodus 4:21-23

The Bible uses a large variety of metaphors, imagery, similes, types, parables, allegories, and analogies as teaching tools. They are used either to hide or cloud a meaning, or sometimes to make them clear—so that there is understanding with God's people either way. Here, in Exodus 4:21, Israel is seen as a cohesive body—as a single human son. In other places, Israel is portrayed as a virginal woman, married to God—and, in other places, as a harlot, who is still legally married but in reality having departed from the marriage in terms of the performance of her duties.