Speaker 1: Previously on the chosen people.
Speaker 2: I will harden Pharaoh's heart. I will show him signs
Speaker 2: of my power through you. Wonders shall descend upon him
Speaker 2: like fiery arrows.
Speaker 1: The onlookers gasped as the clear blue green currents of
Speaker 1: the Nile began to darken. The color shifted deepened, turning
Speaker 1: from blue to a murky red.
Speaker 3: Relent rameses.
Speaker 4: Rue of relent.
Speaker 5: Your people will feel my heel being further into their throats.
Speaker 5: What my people lose and resesources will be taken from Gaushian.
Speaker 1: Suddenly the frogs came, hundreds, then thousands, then tens of thousands.
Speaker 1: They surged from the water like a living tide, their
Speaker 1: croaks deafening, their bodies, leaping and scrambling over each other
Speaker 1: in their mad rush to the shore.
Speaker 5: Fine, I shall allow your people to go offer sacrifices
Speaker 5: in the wilderness.
Speaker 6: Just make these madness.
Speaker 1: And he withdrew his promise, refusing to let the Hebrews go.
Speaker 2: Tell erin to stretch out his staff and strike the
Speaker 2: dust of the ground throughout the land of Egypt. The
Speaker 2: dust will be cold Nerts.
Speaker 1: In one fell swoop he struck the earth. The dust
Speaker 1: rose in great clouds, twisting and writhing in the air,
Speaker 1: before transforming into a swarm of gnats. They descended upon Egypt,
Speaker 1: covering man and beast alike. The buzzing was incessant, filling
Speaker 1: the air with an endless drone that drowned out all thought.
Speaker 1: The fields lay empty, the workers driven mad by the swarm,
Speaker 1: and even the mighty Pharaoh find no refuge from the
Speaker 1: gnats that plagued his land.
Speaker 2: I will crush you beneath the heel of Egypt.
Speaker 7: He is nothing but that dog, an insect calling at
Speaker 7: my friend.
Speaker 1: The following day, the flies came. Dense swarms poured into
Speaker 1: Pharaoh's palace, darkening the air. They're buzzing a near deafening roar.
Speaker 5: Very well, I will let you go into the wilderness.
Speaker 3: Now, pray for me at once. Pray for the flies
Speaker 3: to cease. As soon as I leave, I shall.
Speaker 7: How can I trust it you will act deceitfully. How
Speaker 7: can we trust it you won't go back on your word?
Speaker 1: The God of Israel would not relent. The plagues were
Speaker 1: far from over.
Speaker 8: Pharaoh was the last god left to fall. Shalloh, my
Speaker 8: friends from here in the holy land of Israel, i'mya
Speaker 8: l Exstein with the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews.
Speaker 8: Welcome to the Chosen People. Let's begin today's stories inspired
Speaker 8: by Exodus nine and ten. The land of Egypt was
Speaker 8: coming apart at the seams, unraveling with each passing day.
Speaker 8: Livestock drop dead in the fields, Boils covered the skin
Speaker 8: of the Mighty and the loli alike. Hail, fire and
Speaker 8: locusts fell from the sky, turning a once proud nation
Speaker 8: into a wasteland. But Pharaoh's heart, hardest stone still would
Speaker 8: not bend. As plague after plague swept through Egypt. The
Speaker 8: gods Pharaoh worshiped were torn down one by one, revealed
Speaker 8: to be powerless in the face of the True Creator.
Speaker 8: How far will Pharaoh fall before he sees the truth?
Speaker 8: Will we find out? Even as we find Moses, Aaron
Speaker 8: and the people of Israel awaiting their freedom. While God's
Speaker 8: judgment consumes Egypt like wildfire, will Pharaoh let them go?
Speaker 1: Egypt was rotting from the inside out. The corpses of frogs, gnats,
Speaker 1: and flies clogged the streets, decaying under the relentless sun.
Speaker 1: The once bountiful fields lay desolate, still wheeling from the
Speaker 1: curse of blood that had turned the life giving Nile
Speaker 1: into a river of death. The stink of rot and
Speaker 1: disease hung heavy in the air, like a fog that
Speaker 1: refused to lift. Pharaoh stood upon the balcony of his palace,
Speaker 1: his grip tight on the stone, railing, knuckles white with rage,
Speaker 1: His eyes sunken and bloodshed from sleepless nights, gazed out
Speaker 1: toward the land of Goshen, where the Hebrew slaves dwelt
Speaker 1: in peace, untouched by the plagues ravaging the rest of Egypt.
Speaker 1: His heart twisted with fury, for he knew this was
Speaker 1: no accident. The sound of footsteps echoed behind him, accompanied
Speaker 1: by the soft clatter of wooden staffs against the stone floor.
Speaker 1: He didn't need to turn to know who it was. Moses.
Speaker 9: I do not need a profit to tell what your
Speaker 9: next words will be.
Speaker 6: You want me to let your people go.
Speaker 3: The Lord demands it refused to let them go.
Speaker 7: The hand of the Lord will fall with a severe
Speaker 7: plague upon your livestock. The horses, donkeys, camels, and flocks
Speaker 7: will die. He'll spare the livestock in Goshen.
Speaker 3: Has proved to you that this.
Speaker 7: Is no coincidence. For random currents. The God of Israel
Speaker 7: is doing this to you because.
Speaker 1: Of waring got Pharaoh remained silent for a long moment,
Speaker 1: his eyes fixed on the horizon, the shadows beneath. His
Speaker 1: cold gaze deepened, but his voice, when it came, was calm,
Speaker 1: almost thoughtful.
Speaker 6: I will admit that I underestimated you, Moses. You left
Speaker 6: this land as my sister's household pet, but you returned
Speaker 6: from the desert as a god.
Speaker 7: You still don't understand who you're dealing.
Speaker 9: With, Rameses, it is you who doesn't understand, Moses. I
Speaker 9: have experienced defeat in battle before, but in the end
Speaker 9: I always when these small feats will be blotted out
Speaker 9: in history, replaced with the glorious stories of my victory
Speaker 9: over the god of slaves.
Speaker 1: Moses, his heart heavy, turned to leave, but before he
Speaker 1: stepped through the doorway, he paused, looking back at Pharaoh,
Speaker 1: hunched over the balcony, consumed by bitterness.
Speaker 7: None of this isn't pleasures. I I did consider you
Speaker 7: like a brother. Once tomorrow the Lord will bring more judgment.
Speaker 1: With those words, Moses left, the broken, came to his solitude.
Speaker 1: Death came swiftly like a thief, in the night. By dawn,
Speaker 1: the breath of life had been stripped from the fields
Speaker 1: of Egypt. The horses lay dead in the dirt, their
Speaker 1: once sprout forms crumpled and lifeless. The camels, donkeys, and
Speaker 1: cattles all fell where they stood, their bodies becoming part
Speaker 1: of the blighted landscape. The people cried out to Hathor,
Speaker 1: the goddess of cattle, that their prayers were met with silence.
Speaker 1: No offerings could stay the hand of the Lord, and
Speaker 1: no plea could reverse his judgment. Once rich with the
Speaker 1: hum of life, Egypt became a land of rotting carcasses,
Speaker 1: a graveyard of bones and broken hopes. But Pharaoh did
Speaker 1: not call for Moses. He did not plead for mercy
Speaker 1: or lift a finger to comfort his people. He sat
Speaker 1: alone in his throne room, stewing in his rage, his
Speaker 1: heart as hardened as the stone surrounding him by the fire.
Speaker 1: That evening, Moses, Aaron, and Miriam sat in uneasy silence,
Speaker 1: their faces drawn with the weight of what was still
Speaker 1: to come. Each plague seemed to sink Pharaoh deeper into madness,
Speaker 1: but still he refused to bend. Miriam's eyes lingered on
Speaker 1: her brother searching his face for answers.
Speaker 4: What's our endgame here, Moses? What if Pharaoh breaks the
Speaker 4: wrong way? What if he decides to kill us all instead?
Speaker 10: Pharaoh is stubborn, but he is no fool. He knows
Speaker 10: the Lord's power. If he kills us, he invites even
Speaker 10: more wrath upon himself.
Speaker 3: In Egypt, I.
Speaker 4: Wouldn't be so sure, Aerin. There have been pharaoh's that
Speaker 4: bury their servants alive in the grave with them. He
Speaker 4: may have enough spite in himself to invite that wrath
Speaker 4: if it means he can get back at the Lord.
Speaker 1: Moses stared into the fire, his face unreadable. He knew
Speaker 1: Ramses better than any of them. He had seen the
Speaker 1: fire in his eyes, the way his pride had grown
Speaker 1: to consume him. It surprised Moses how much control Pharaoh
Speaker 1: had maintained so far, but deep down he knew that
Speaker 1: Rameses was nearing the edge. There would be no relenting
Speaker 1: until Ramses reached his ultimate breaking point.
Speaker 4: It feels like the Lord is playing with Pharaoh. Why
Speaker 4: doesn't he just strike him down and be done with it?
Speaker 4: Why prolong this suffering? What am I missing?
Speaker 7: The Lord isn't just at war with Pharaoh Miriam, he's
Speaker 7: going to battle against the gods of Egypt.
Speaker 4: What do you mean?
Speaker 7: Happi, the god of the Nile, bled out before our eyes. Aket,
Speaker 7: the frog goddess, left the rotten the streets. GiB, the
Speaker 7: god of the Earth, turned to dust and swarmed us
Speaker 7: with gnats. Capri, the god of life, swarmed against his
Speaker 7: own people as floy and now Hathor, the goddess of livestock,
Speaker 7: watches as her herds lie dead in the fields. The
Speaker 7: Lord is striking down the gods of Egypt one by one.
Speaker 10: Then what would the Lord do when only one god
Speaker 10: is left standing?
Speaker 4: Which god are you talking about?
Speaker 1: Moses looked at his sister through the flickering flames, his
Speaker 1: eyes intense, filled with a terrible understanding Pharaoh. The next day,
Speaker 1: Moses and Aaron stood before Pharaoh once more, this time
Speaker 1: in the palace courtyard. Flames from the kiln flickered in
Speaker 1: the dimming light, casting shadows on the faces of the
Speaker 1: dancers and courtiers gathered for an evening of entertainment. But
Speaker 1: when they saw Moses, the music faltered and all eyes
Speaker 1: turned to him in silence. He had become a harbinger
Speaker 1: of death. Death in their eyes, a symbol of the
Speaker 1: wrath that had plagued them. Pharaoh, reclining near the fire,
Speaker 1: sneered at the sight of him.
Speaker 5: Oh, hear, Moses, give me a moment of peace of
Speaker 5: what I have to waited.
Speaker 6: You are more whining from you and your people.
Speaker 1: Moses did not reply in silence. He stepped toward the kiln.
Speaker 1: The guards moved to stop him, but hesitated, fear flickering
Speaker 1: in their eyes. Even they dared not touch him. Now
Speaker 1: Moses reached into the kiln, his hands closing around a
Speaker 1: handful of soot. He turned to Pharaoh, his face expressionless,
Speaker 1: and opened his fist.
Speaker 3: Behold the power of the Lord.
Speaker 1: The soot drifted into the air, swirling and twisting in
Speaker 1: the wind like a living thing. The air thickened, the
Speaker 1: heat rising as the ash spread throughout the courtyard. At
Speaker 1: first there was silence, then the sound of groans, low
Speaker 1: and pain. The air was scorching in. The ash that
Speaker 1: had seemed so harmless now burned like fire against the skin.
Speaker 1: Boils erupted on the bodies of those gathered, oozing and festering.
Speaker 1: As cries of terror filled the courtyard. The priests writhed
Speaker 1: and lagonly, their skin blistering and peeling. Pharaoh's servants screamed,
Speaker 1: clutching at their saws, while Pharaoh himself stood origin and trembling,
Speaker 1: refusing to show his pain.
Speaker 5: Never mind, do something about this, saucer. Pree to isis,
Speaker 5: make an offering to her so that we may be healed.
Speaker 1: The priest flailed and writhed alongside the others. He fell
Speaker 1: to his knees, screaming in pain.
Speaker 10: Beyond our power, Lord Pharaoh.
Speaker 1: Pharaoh stood with trembling legs and pointed to Moses.
Speaker 5: Yet out of here.
Speaker 1: They departed, leaving Ramses and his entire household in agony.
Speaker 1: When Moses and Aaron entered Pharaoh's halls again, the air
Speaker 1: was thick with the sound of whimpering servants and groaning nobles.
Speaker 1: The palace, once a symbol of power, now reeked of
Speaker 1: sickness and misery. They found Pharaoh slumped over his throne,
Speaker 1: his face pale and slick, with sweat boils covering his
Speaker 1: once proud body. Behind him, the statues of Egypt's gods loomed.
Speaker 1: They too seemed to have lost their power, near stone
Speaker 1: relics of a kingdom that was crumbling. Moses's heart ached
Speaker 1: with sorrow. He had never won to this. Pharaoh's suffering
Speaker 1: brought him no joy, only a bitter sense of loss.
Speaker 1: The man before him, once a brother in all but blood,
Speaker 1: had become something twisted and broken.
Speaker 3: Rameses, let them go.
Speaker 2: My answer remains the same.
Speaker 3: I thought you'd say that.
Speaker 7: Here from the Lord, let my people go, so that
Speaker 7: they might worship me. This time I will send all
Speaker 7: my plagues on you and your servants and all the
Speaker 7: people within your borders. You will know that there was
Speaker 7: no one like me and all the earth, and that.
Speaker 3: Is no one like me and all of the earth.
Speaker 7: Hear these words from the Lord Pharaoh. I could have
Speaker 7: struck you and your people down by now. I could
Speaker 7: have wiped you off the earth. But I have kept
Speaker 7: you up for this purpose, so that my name may
Speaker 7: be proclaimed in all the earth. You are still exalting
Speaker 7: yourself against my people. But behold, this time tomorrow hale
Speaker 7: shall fall, a thrashing shall descend upon Egypt like never before.
Speaker 7: Flee to shelter. Tell your people to flee if you
Speaker 7: hold them.
Speaker 6: Dear Ah, How very noble of your God to give
Speaker 6: me a warning before he attacks my people.
Speaker 7: He is not without mercy, Pharaoh, Turn from your stubbornness,
Speaker 7: and you shall see.
Speaker 1: Pharaoh waved him away. But as Moses and Aaron left
Speaker 1: the palace, the servants whispered. The words spread quickly Hale
Speaker 1: was coming, and those suns scoffed at the warning others
Speaker 1: to get to heart, rushing to hide their families and
Speaker 1: animals from the storm. But Pharaoh, defiant to the end,
Speaker 1: stood on his balcony. As the sky darkened. She raised
Speaker 1: his arms to the heavens, his voice trembling with rage.
Speaker 9: Come at me, Come and light me down. If you
Speaker 9: dare loots, God is said the sky.
Speaker 5: Here the words of Beryl, and stave of this attack.
Speaker 1: On the other side of the city, Moses stood staff
Speaker 1: in hand. He turned his head up ear, attentive to
Speaker 1: the voice of the Lord speaking through the thunder.
Speaker 2: Follow shall lo by lay, stretch out your herd towards heaven.
Speaker 1: Moses stretched out his staff toward heaven. The charcoal storm
Speaker 1: clouds above began to radiate with blue and orange ewes
Speaker 1: with each clap of thunder, and the clouds litter with
Speaker 1: terrifying mass. Pharaoh's eye as widened as he saw the
Speaker 1: hands of gold. It wasn't just how it fell from
Speaker 1: the sky. Lightning pierced the darkness and mold, Flaming wings
Speaker 1: of fire and ice the size of cattle. Fire and
Speaker 1: ice cascaded from the sky in an onslaught of destruction.
Speaker 1: Immense power and unbridled destruction came upon Egypt. Trees splintered
Speaker 1: into thousands of pieces, and forests were set ablaze, Buildings
Speaker 1: and monuments to Pharaoh's greatness and crumpled. Those who hadn't
Speaker 1: heeded God f and kran in Aura. Yet in the
Speaker 1: land of Gsha a pain and stood under a cloudless sky.
Speaker 1: The safe set about and waitsingly for deliverance. As their
Speaker 1: God went to war for their freedom. Moses and Aaron
Speaker 1: were called into the courts of Pharaoh. They were escorted
Speaker 1: by guards, passing pillars and statues that had been shattered
Speaker 1: by judgment. The palace was a relic of its former glory.
Speaker 1: Pharaoh leaned against one of the walls, sitting with his
Speaker 1: knees close to his chest. Moses felt his heart tighten
Speaker 1: with compassion. Aaron leaned over to him and whispered.
Speaker 10: Don't fall for his tricks again. Moses, won't let our
Speaker 10: people walk free. He's proven their time and time again.
Speaker 10: I know, I know he will say the words, but
Speaker 10: he will not do it.
Speaker 3: Don't fall for his tricks.
Speaker 1: The men approached the trembling and broken king. He looked
Speaker 1: up at them, black tears streaking down his painted eyes.
Speaker 6: I have sin against he, your God, I and my
Speaker 6: people who are wrong. A little plead with him on
Speaker 6: my behalf. Ask him to cease the thunder, and in hail,
Speaker 6: I will let you all go.
Speaker 1: Moses was silent for a long while, discerning Pharaoh's gaze.
Speaker 11: You hear me, I will let them go out. Just
Speaker 11: make this stop, I heard you, Rameses. I will stretch
Speaker 11: out my hand and ask the Lord to stop.
Speaker 3: It will cease. This is only so you know who.
Speaker 7: Is in charge of heaven and earth. The skies and
Speaker 7: the land do not belong to you. They belong to him.
Speaker 7: He knows you won't cease. You beg now, but when
Speaker 7: the skies close, you will.
Speaker 3: Go right back to your ways.
Speaker 1: Ramses dipped his head low. Aaron looked at Moses, then
Speaker 1: at Rameses. He saw the war both of them had
Speaker 1: within their hearts. Ramses was losing his sense of control
Speaker 1: and divinity. Moses was grappling with the loss of the
Speaker 1: kingdom he was raised in. Aaron took his brother by
Speaker 1: the arm and led him out of Pharaoh's palace. Ramses
Speaker 1: remained on the floor, alone in the darkness. Moses was right.
Speaker 1: He didn't relent. He wouldn't. The next time Moses and
Speaker 1: Aaron stood in Pharaoh's court, the air was heavy with tension.
Speaker 1: Servants and officials trembled, their eyes filled with fear as
Speaker 1: they watched the broken king, still defiant despite the suffering
Speaker 1: that had befallen his kingdom. Aaron's voice cut through the silence,
Speaker 1: sharp and unwavering.
Speaker 10: How long will you refuse to humble yourself? Even your
Speaker 10: servants are trembling and begging for you to relent, cease
Speaker 10: this madness and let our people.
Speaker 7: Oh, a plague is coming, unlike anything your fathers or
Speaker 7: grandfathers have ever seen. Ramses, who will you take with you?
Speaker 6: Surely I can't part with.
Speaker 3: All my slaves. This is not a negotiation. All of
Speaker 3: them are to be freed, young and old.
Speaker 6: Here I stand ready to reason with you. You Hebrew
Speaker 6: dogs are insolent to think you can reject my offer.
Speaker 6: Go leave and see what happens, I will strike you
Speaker 6: down like the pack of animals you are.
Speaker 1: As Moses and Aaron left the court, Pharaoh's fury boiled over.
Speaker 1: He steamed outside, the air around him, hot and depressive.
Speaker 1: A strange wind blew from the east, howling through the
Speaker 1: streets like a wounded beast. He looked to the sky,
Speaker 1: expecting to see storm clouds, for what he saw was
Speaker 1: far worse. Dark mass, swirling and shifting filled the heavens. Locusts,
Speaker 1: millions upon millions of them, descending upon Egypt like a
Speaker 1: plague from the very pits of owl. They swarmed over
Speaker 1: the land, devouring everything in their path. The crops that
Speaker 1: had begun to recover from the hay were consumed in minutes.
Speaker 1: The trees were stripped bare, and even the fabric of
Speaker 1: tents and clothing disappeared under the relentless onslaught of the locusts.
Speaker 1: Pharaohs skurned at his servants, ordering them to gather what
Speaker 1: food they could, but it was too late. In Egypt
Speaker 1: had been laid bare. There was nothing left. In mere hours,
Speaker 1: Injured was reduced to a wasteland. The people wept in
Speaker 1: the streets, of their children, huddling in fear, their stomachs empty,
Speaker 1: fairer their once mighty god. King fell to his knees,
Speaker 1: begging for mercy, but the Lord would not be swayed.
Speaker 1: He knew Pharaoh's heart, and he knew that the time
Speaker 1: was drawn near for the final blow. Three days of
Speaker 1: darkness fell upon Egypt, thick and suffocating, as if the
Speaker 1: very light of the world had been extinguished. Ra the
Speaker 1: god of the Sun, was defeated. The people of Egypt
Speaker 1: were left in darkness, lost and terrified, and Pharaoh sat
Speaker 1: alone in the pitch black, simmering in his hatred, his
Speaker 1: pride refusing to bend. He wanted vengeance, wanted blood, but
Speaker 1: he would not have the chance. The Lord would strike
Speaker 1: him down soon enough, for Pharaoh was the last god
Speaker 1: left to fall.
Speaker 8: What a heroing scene we've just witnessed. God's power has
Speaker 8: been on full display, ripping through the might of Egypt,
Speaker 8: tearing down Pharaoh's illusion of control. The gods of Egypt silent,
Speaker 8: helpless as their land crumbles. Yet the most striking part
Speaker 8: of this story isn't its sheer devastation that it brought
Speaker 8: on Egypt. It's the unrelenting, stubbornness of Pharaoh he was
Speaker 8: so consumed by pride, by his lust for power, that
Speaker 8: he couldn't see the destruction that he was inviting upon
Speaker 8: his people and himself. And it's hard not to feel
Speaker 8: the weight of Moses's burden facing off against a man
Speaker 8: who was once like a brother to him. There's no
Speaker 8: joy in this confrontation for Moses, only sorrow, only loss,
Speaker 8: And through it all we are left asking what will
Speaker 8: it take for Pharaoh to relent? And still the plagues continue,
Speaker 8: and we ask why didn't God strike Pharaoh down at
Speaker 8: the first sign of rebellion? Why did he allow the
Speaker 8: plagues to escalate one after another as the suffering deepened.
Speaker 8: What is the point of all of these plagues. Let's
Speaker 8: look to Jewish tradition to learn more. Verse twenty four
Speaker 8: tells us that quote hail fell and lightning flashed back
Speaker 8: and forth end quote. Our tradition teaches that within each
Speaker 8: hailstone was fire, and so you had fire and water.
Speaker 8: In science, they are natural quote enemies end quote. But
Speaker 8: in this case they went against their nature and they
Speaker 8: actually cooperated in order to serve God. What this teaches
Speaker 8: us is that in the service of God, there are
Speaker 8: no natural enemies. It's just the opposite. In fact, in
Speaker 8: the service of God, we can be brought together. Service
Speaker 8: of God actually erases hatred. A line of thought in
Speaker 8: Jewish tradition explains the plague of darkness in a very
Speaker 8: interesting way. As we read in the beginning of the Torah,
Speaker 8: God's first creative act was to bring light into the world.
Speaker 8: And until that moment in Egypt, the sun and the
Speaker 8: moon gave light regularly according to only divine command. But
Speaker 8: now suddenly God overturns nature itself in order to punish
Speaker 8: the Egyptians. The plagues represent nothing less than the dismantling
Speaker 8: of creation itself. Do you understand that it's so deep.
Speaker 8: When God created the world, he created order, the sun
Speaker 8: will rise, the sun will set, and the moon will
Speaker 8: give light from the sun. And now in Egypt, what
Speaker 8: He did through these plagues was to show he's in
Speaker 8: charge of nature itself, and he can dismantle creation if
Speaker 8: he wants. I often think of this beautiful explanation when
Speaker 8: our tiny little country of Israel is threatened by so
Speaker 8: many countries who wish to destroy us. Country is a
Speaker 8: lot bigger than us, countries with a lot more people
Speaker 8: and weapons than us. By natural law, many more enemies
Speaker 8: against the fewer people here in Israel should see our
Speaker 8: enemies succeeding. But just as God temporarily dismantled the laws
Speaker 8: of nature in Egypt, laws of his own creation, in
Speaker 8: order to free the chosen people from slavery, we see
Speaker 8: that he's done that time and time again. He changes
Speaker 8: nature in order to save his people, and he continues
Speaker 8: to do that for Israel. But these plagues weren't just
Speaker 8: aimed at Pharaoh. And when the Nile turned to blood,
Speaker 8: it wasn't just a tragic environmental disaster. It was an
Speaker 8: attack on the god of the Nile, who was believed
Speaker 8: to control the river's life giving waters. By turning the
Speaker 8: Nile to blood, God was demonstrated. God was demonstrated that
Speaker 8: only he held real power over the water. When the
Speaker 8: frogs came, it was a strike against the Egyptian frog
Speaker 8: goddess associated with fertility. And when the livestock died, it
Speaker 8: wasn't just economic ruin. It was a direct blow to
Speaker 8: the goddess meant to protect the cattle. But this leaves
Speaker 8: us with a little bit of a deeper question. Why
Speaker 8: did our God care about the gods of Egypt, because
Speaker 8: you see, this wasn't just about Egypt.
Speaker 4: This was about.
Speaker 8: Declaring God's truth to the entire world. As God says
Speaker 8: through Moses in verse sixteen, quote, I have raised you
Speaker 8: up for this very purpose, that I might show you
Speaker 8: my power and that my name might be proclaimed in
Speaker 8: all the earth end quote in Jewish tradition, to shuva,
Speaker 8: which is the Hebrew word for repentance, is always available. Here.
Speaker 8: God gives Pharaoh a chance, not just one, but many.
Speaker 8: Not because God is indifferent, but because he cares, because
Speaker 8: he longs for Pharaoh's heart to soften, for him to repent,
Speaker 8: and for him to free God's chosen people from slavery.
Speaker 8: But as we all know, Pharaoh's heart grows harder with
Speaker 8: each judgment, refusing to turn back to the one who
Speaker 8: could still forgive him. Pharaoh had placed himself in the
Speaker 8: position of a god. He believed himself to be divine.
Speaker 8: But as the plagues struck down the gods of Egypt
Speaker 8: one by one, there was only one person left standing,
Speaker 8: and that was Pharaoh. And so soon we'll come to
Speaker 8: the final battle God versus Pharaoh.
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