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Speaker 1: Life Audio The Bible Study Podcast, Episode nine sixty nine. Today,

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Speaker 1: The Bible Study Podcast continues the study of the book

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Speaker 1: of Exodus as we start chapter seven. Welcome to the

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Speaker 1: Bible Study Podcast. I'm your host, Kristensen. We're going to

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Speaker 1: continue on with chapter seven and we start to get

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Speaker 1: into some plagues. But first a word from this sponsor

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Speaker 1: but some do anyway. Chapter seven Exodus. Then the Lord

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Speaker 1: said to Moses, see, I have made you like God

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Speaker 1: to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron will be your prophet.

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Speaker 1: You are to say everything I command you, and your

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Speaker 1: brother Arin is to tell Pharaoh to let the Israelites

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Speaker 1: go out of his country. But I will harden Pharaoh's heart,

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Speaker 1: and though I multiply my signs and wonders in Egypt,

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Speaker 1: he will not listen to you. Then I will lay

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Speaker 1: my hand on Egypt, and with mighty acts of judgment,

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Speaker 1: I will bring out my divisions. My people, the Israelites

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Speaker 1: and the Egyptians will know that I am the Lord

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Speaker 1: when I stretch out my hand against Egypt and bring

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Speaker 1: the Israelites out of it. Moses and Aaron did just

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Speaker 1: as the Lord commanded them. Moses was eighty years old

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Speaker 1: and erin eighty three when they spoke to Pharaoh. This

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Speaker 1: mention that Moses was an old man. Remember he left

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Speaker 1: Egypt as a young man, and yet he spent something

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Speaker 1: like sixty years in the wilderness as a shepherd. So

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Speaker 1: Moses and Aaron are sent to Pharaoh to tell this

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Speaker 1: Pharaoh's not going to listen, and yet they're doing it anyway.

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Speaker 1: Can you imagine if your boss came to you and said,

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Speaker 1: to pay any attention, but I'd like you to do

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Speaker 1: scary in this case, because you're talking to someone who

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Speaker 1: Moses and Aaron, when Pharaoh says to you perform a miracle,

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Speaker 1: Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and did just as

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Speaker 1: Pharaoh then summoned wise men and sorcerers, and the Egyptian

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Speaker 1: Each one threw down his staff and it became a snake.

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Speaker 1: But Aaron's staff swallowed up their staffs. Yet Pharaoh's heart

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Speaker 1: Although it's interesting their staffs get eaten. That their snakes

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Speaker 1: We're starting the plague of frogs. It starts in chapter

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Speaker 1: seven and continues on into chapter eight The Plague of frogs.

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Speaker 1: Seven days passed after the Lord struck the Nile. Then

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Speaker 1: the Lord said to Moses, go to Pharaoh and say

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Speaker 1: they also made frogs come up on the land of Egypt.

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Speaker 1: we still have some trouble with that today, and hopefully

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Speaker 1: we're not seeing large plagues that God is using to

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Speaker 1: may just not want to do what God wants us

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Speaker 1: the flies. Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said,

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Speaker 1: Moses said that would not be right. The sacrifices we

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Speaker 1: does not act deceitfully again by not letting the people

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Speaker 1: then to renig on it later on, and that's what

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Speaker 1: Pharaoh does. It is something many of us have done

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Speaker 1: we're going to end this episode of the Bible Study Podcast.

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Speaker 1: If you have any questions, send an email to Chris

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