Exodus 9:1-35<\/p>\n
In chapter 9 we see plagues five, six and seven.\u00a0 The fifth plague was against the domestic animals of Egypt; while the Hebrews’ livestock was spared.\u00a0 The Egyptians worshiped many animals, and the bull god was very popular as was the cow goddess of fertility.\u00a0 This bull god worship profoundly affected the Israelites and we will see them return to this idol worship when they thought Moses was lost on Mount Sinai while meeting with God and, again, in 1 Kings 12:26-30.<\/p>\n
Clearly, we can see from this fifth plague that the animal gods of Egypt could not save the Egyptian livestock.\u00a0 The death of these domestic animals now moved the plagues from irritation to seriously affecting the people’s livelihood.\u00a0 But Pharaoh’s heart was unyielding and he would not let the Hebrews leave.<\/p>\n
The sixth plague advanced from affliction of animals to the affliction of people.\u00a0 When Moses threw soot from a furnace into the air, it became dust that caused boils to break out on the Egyptians.\u00a0 It is very interesting to know that the Egyptian priests would sprinkle the ashes from idol sacrifices into the air above the worshippers.\u00a0 When the ashes fell on the people, they counted it a blessing.\u00a0 NOW – ashes were bringing a curse.\u00a0 These boils defied the Egyptian priests.\u00a0 The boils on their bodies prevented them from even standing before Moses and they could definitely not offer deity sacrifices for the Egyptians and sprinkle ashes. \u00a0And the idol ‘healing’ gods of the Egyptians were powerless as well.\u00a0 WOW – the one true GOD continued to reveal the uselessness and fallaciousness of Egypt’s idols\u00a0 Yet, Pharaoh refused to release the Israelites.<\/p>\n
The seventh plague of thunder,\u00a0 hail and lighting was the first of four directed against the Egyptian gods and goddesses of the sky.\u00a0 It does not hail in Egypt and there is very little rain.\u00a0 The Bible says this storm was the worst in all the land of Egypt since it had become a nation.\u00a0 But, it did not hail in Goshen, where the Israelites were.\u00a0 The hail stuck down everything in the fields – people, animals that had been acquired since the 5th plague and plant and tree growth.<\/p>\n
It seems that some of Pharaoh’s officials began to fear the Word of the Lord and hurried to put the slaves and animals inside before the storm.\u00a0 Even Pharaoh seemed to grasp this and admitted he and the people had sinned and that the LORD was right.\u00a0 But after Moses left Pharaoh and the Lord stopped the plague, Pharaoh did not let the Hebrews go.<\/p>\n
Pharaoh and the most of the Egyptian people refused to believe in the one true God.\u00a0 We too, have false gods to fight today.\u00a0 When we ask Jesus to be the Lord of our life and our Savior from any thought, word or deed that is contrary to His will, we come to know Him.\u00a0 We find Him all-powerful, all-wise and full of goodness and grace.\u00a0 He gives us the strength and desire to fight the idols that tempt us in our life.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0—- Mary Mauderer<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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