If we learn to obey God’s soft voice, He won’t raise His voice. But He’ll shout if He has to! Pharaoh had someone check and, sure enough, there wasn’t one Israeli cow dead. God was making His point! “But the heart of Pharaoh became hard, and he did not let the people go” (Ex 9:7). […]
Read More… from October 14, 2021 — The Sixth Plague: A Body Blow
Slowly, God is loosening the king’s clutching fingers from the things that would doom his soul. Pharaoh tries another ploy with Moses: “I will let you go,…only you shall not go very far away” (Ex 8:28). Doesn’t this sound like the devil? You don’t want to be too different, do you? But if you’re close […]
The plagues are now focusing on Pharaoh. The magicians quit. The flies even know better! Three significant changes occur during the execution of this next plague. First, with the retiring of the court magicians, Aaron moves to a secondary position. From now on, the showdown is between Pharaoh and Moses. Moses is to intercept the […]
Read More… from October 12, 2021 — Flies Won’t Fly In Goshen
See how God marshals all His forces to free His people; even lice can argue the case for Him! The frogs that covered Egypt’s landscape did not go gentle into that good night. “They gathered them together in heaps, and the land stank” (Ex 8:14). Now, without warning, without a gentlemanly visit of Moses to […]
Read More… from October 11, 2021 — The Lice Speak To Pharaoh
Imagine all the frogs in your hometown deciding they would prefer your home over theirs. Slowly the Nile returned to normal, but God was not finished. Another deity worshiped was Heqet, an Egyptian goddess of fertility, who grotesquely had the body of a woman but the head of a frog. When my wife and I […]
Jesus’ first miracle of grace was turning water to wine; Moses’ first miracle? Water to blood! Pharaoh had just seen the miraculous display he had asked for. God had proven Himself superior to Egypt’s gods. Now what? “Pharaoh’s heart grew hard, and he did not heed them, as the Lord had said” (Ex 7:13). So […]
Demonic influences—astrology, tarot cards, ouija boards, etc.—are definitely OFF LIMITS. As Moses regroups after Pharaoh’s refusal to let the people go, and the Israelites are discouraged after their increased workload, the Spirit of God thinks it’s a good time to rehearse the long list of worthies who appealed to the king. As Winston Churchill said […]
Read More… from October 6, 2021 — Cosmic War On The Palace Floor