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The plague of frogs.
The first plague has passed.The plague of the Nile turning to blood.
We aren’t told how the plague of blood ended.
We are told that:
And now you will begin to see a pattern emerging in these plagues.
We will try and cover 2-3 plagues at a time until we get the nation of Israel out of Egypt.
With the first plague Moses will meet Pharoah at the waters edge of the Nile and give him the warning.
With the second plague, Moses will go to Pharaoh, presumably at his palace and tell him to let the people go, and with the third plague, it will just happen no warning given.
Look at verse 1.
The Lord is fighting for his people.
Let’s just take a moment to appreciate the fact that God does this.
God goes after his people, and in doing so he goes after the enemy that takes them captive.
But he doesn’t do this so that Israel can just be free from the Egyptians.
He is rescuing his people for the specific reason that he desires worship from them.
Same way he works today.
Then God warns with the plague.
Literally I will plague you with frogs.
Why do we call them plagues?
Plague means to strike.
The Lord is literally striking the Egyptians with plagues.
Interestingly enough, with both of these two first plagues, the Lord does something with idols of the Egyptians.
They worshipped the Nile and in ancient Egypt they believed frogs were a sign of good fortune for them.
If the frogs were croaking, then the land around Egypt was being watered by the Nile and things were fertile.
So they had rules against even killing the frogs.
These first two plagues then, turned those things which they worshipped into curses.
This is what happens with all idolatry.
What one worships will eventually become what blesses them or curses them.
And it happens.
The Egyptian Pharaoh refuses to listen.
He hardens his heart, and God brings the pain.
Exodus 8:
Now, to be honest, Pharaoh was likely exempt from any real personal turmoil from the first plague by the very nature of his position.
He had plenty of servants and they could go and fetch him some water, but this one was different.
Pharaoh, like everyone else would experience the dread of this plague.
This is no ordinary amount of frogs.
“covered the land” is literally the same word used for clothe.
God clothed Egypt in frogs.
Pharaoh gets tired of this pretty quickly.
His magicians again can bring more frogs, but they cannot reverse the curse.
So Pharoah calls Moses
Listen to Pharoah here.
Entreat the Lord.
The LORD.
Here is some recognition at least HE CANT control and the GOD is in control.
Listen to what Moses says verse 9.
Moses’s confidence is growing.
Not only will he pray, but he will allow Pharaoh to specify what day to pray on.
This shows something to Pharaoh.
Pharaoh will know when he specified the frogs leave and he will know that Moses’s prayer worked at that time.
Not sure why he does this.
It really makes no sense at all.
One more night of frogs.
Certainly he could have said immediately, but he says tomorrow.
Moses: “As you wish.
May you know that there is no one like the Lord.”
The LORD answers the prayer, and the frogs died out of the houses the courts and the field.
but the plague was not over.
The smell is still there.
But then theres verse 15
How many times have we seen this?
Entreat the Lord for me, and as soon as the hard times are gone, the hard heart returns.
As a result, The Lord will plague them again.
No warning this time.
Even the magicians realize at this point that they have no match for the gnats.
So there's this fly, and a gnat lands on its back.
The fly says, "Is that a gnat on my back?"
The gnat says, "Gnat at all."
The fly says, "That's the worst pun I've ever heard."
The gnat goes, "What do you expect?
I just made it up on the fly!"
Basically this word can be any type of two wing biting insect.
Gnat, mosquitos, lice.
annoying.
But Pharaoh hardened his heart.
What do we learn about God?
What do we learn about man?
Ex 8:16-
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