Exiting Egypt Chapter 9B P2

Exiting Egypt

“Seventh Plaque – Fire and Hail”

Exodus 9:13-35

By Dennis Lee: Chapter 9B P2

Read Ex. 9:13-35

Again we note that God is long-suffering towards the Egyptians, wishing for Pharaoh and the people to repent from serving false gods and enslaving the Jewish people, God’s people. We see this as once again God tells Moses to go out and declare God’s word to Him.

Now, there is a message here for us. Sometimes, after weeks and years of dealing with abusive situations we just want to have God wipe out the other person or those people who are being abusive, but here we see that God wants us to be just as long-suffering towards them as He is long-suffering, continually extending His hand of grace for them to turn back to Him and to quit their abuse.

Now, I am not advocating doing nothing if you are in abusive situation or know of such abusive situations, but with caring for the situation, we need to be extending to them God’s hand of forgiveness if they repent and turn.

Now, this time God tells Moses to add a second point, a terrifying point, and that is that if Pharaoh doesn’t repent and turn, he and Egypt was going to be marked for terrible destruction. And the full force of God’s judgments was going to fall upon him and his people.

Now, the Lord here declares that He has no equals, that there is none like Him in all the earth, and again we go back to our original statement, that God is the only God, and that all the other gods are false.

Up to this point God has launched plague after plague, and each were against a particular god or set of gods that the Egyptians served. And this seventh one is no different. The gods that were defeated by this plague were Iris, the Egyptian god of the water, Siris, the Egyptian god of fire and lighting, and Shu, the Egyptian god of the atmosphere. None of these guys or gals could provide the Egyptians with protection, but the Lord God of the Hebrews provided protection for the Jews in the land of Goshen.

What this revels is that the Lord is sovereign and omnipotent and is in control, not only over the heavens and the earth, but of animal and human life and death. God controls the nations, governments, rulers and people of the earth. The prophet Daniel said,

He changes the times and the seasons; He removes kings and raises up kings; He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have understanding (Dan. 2:21 NKJV)