Once the darkness lifted, Pharaoh went back to trying to bargain with God. (Exodus 10:24-29) But, God is not to be bargained with. But Pharaoh believed he was on equal footing with God. He was worshipped in Egypt as a god. Pharaoh was considered to be a god, the son of Ra, the supreme god. But he was only human, just as God was trying to show him. It still hasn’t dawned on him that God was greater and more powerful than any god he worshipped. But soon, he would learn that God was more powerful than life itself.
Month: October 2024
TURN ON THE LIGHTS
The land of Egypt has been stripped bare. The locusts have eaten everything that had been left from the death of the livestock and the hail. But still Pharaoh would not let go of his gods and would not let the Israelites go. His pride in his personal deity and his belief in the gods of Egypt overruled what he had seen and heard. Again and again, God demonstrated the ineffectiveness of the Egyptian gods and goddesses. They had no power. God proved that He alone had control of creation, from the smallest insect to the life and death. Now God was going to prove that He was greater that the most worshipped god in Egypt, Ra.
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HAIL AND MORE BUGS
We have worked our way through six plagues. The only indication of time frame that we have is that seven days passed after God struck the Nile. I have read that some scholars think the time from the Nile turning to blood to the deaths of the first born was 40 days. God is kind of partial to 40 days, so who knows. At any rate, time waits for no man. Pharaoh was just a man, and he was running out of time. One of these days, Pharaoh will let the Israelites go, he just doesn’t realize it yet.
